WO2018134957A1 - 表示装置及び表示装置基板 - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a display device and a display device substrate.
- Aluminum wiring is often used as such conductive wiring.
- the aluminum wiring is a low resistance wiring, and practical reliability can be obtained by the passivation of aluminum.
- hillocks are formed on the surface of the aluminum wiring due to thermal history in the manufacturing process of functional devices including aluminum wiring, long-term use and storage Protrusions), and reliability such as poor insulation is likely to occur.
- High purity aluminum has an electrical resistivity of 2.7 ⁇ cm.
- an aluminum alloy to which a small amount of a metal such as Nd (neodymium) or Ta (tantalum) is added has been used in order to solve the above-described problem of occurrence of hillocks.
- the increase rates of the electrical resistivity of the aluminum alloy due to the addition of Nd and Ta are 3.7 ⁇ cm / at% and 8.6 ⁇ cm / at%, respectively.
- the electrical resistivity of the obtained aluminum alloy is calculated to be 6.4 ⁇ cm and deteriorates.
- the target electrical resistivity of the aluminum alloy wiring is 6 ⁇ cm or less.
- copper alloy wiring is known as the conductive wiring described above.
- the copper alloy wiring is superior to the aluminum alloy wiring in terms of alkali resistance, and has excellent characteristics in terms of chemical resistance.
- high-purity copper has an electrical resistivity of 1.7 ⁇ cm, and is expected as a conductive wiring instead of an aluminum alloy wiring.
- copper wiring tends to diffuse into the members and materials connected to the copper wiring, leading to a decrease in reliability, and the amount of copper oxide formed over time without passivating the surface of the copper wiring. Has increasing drawbacks.
- the film thickness of the copper oxide formed on the surface of the copper wiring is increased, the surface resistance is increased, causing a problem in electrical mounting.
- the formation of copper oxide is not preferable because it affects not only the increase in surface resistance but also the variation in threshold voltage (Vth) of the thin film transistor due to the variation in contact resistance.
- a pretreatment such as chelate cleaning is required to remove copper oxide formed on the surface of the wiring.
- Patent Document 1 a metal wiring having a copper layer sandwiched between oxide layers containing indium and zinc has been provided (see, for example, Patent Document 1).
- the content of zinc oxide is 10% by weight or more and less than 35% by weight.
- zinc oxide (ZnO), indium oxide (InO), and the like are described.
- Patent Document 1 does not disclose such a problem. Furthermore, Patent Document 1 does not disclose any problem of copper migration or diffusion.
- Patent Document 2 and Patent Document 3 a configuration in which a copper alloy is in direct contact with a glass substrate or a semiconductor layer of a thin film transistor is employed, and copper diffuses into a copper base layer (glass substrate or semiconductor layer). There is a problem that cannot be completely suppressed.
- Patent Document 2 and Patent Document 3 do not disclose a solution to a problem by a three-layer structure in which a copper alloy layer is sandwiched between conductive metal oxides.
- the conductive wiring formed of the copper alloy may be peeled off from the substrate in the manufacturing process.
- the conductive wiring formed by the wet etching process may be partially peeled off (broken or broken of the conductive wiring) due to electrostatic breakdown in subsequent processes such as a cleaning process, a semiconductor patterning process, and a developing process. May occur.
- the line width of the conductive wiring is reduced, the conductive wiring is more easily peeled off.
- Patent Document 1 and Patent Document 2 discloses a capacitive touch sensing technique.
- the present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and provides a display device that can prevent copper diffusion and copper migration from occurring and can improve reliability in electrical mounting.
- the present invention provides a display device and a display device substrate that are capable of stable touch sensing, have high touch sensing sensitivity, and provide good responsiveness.
- the display device includes a first substrate, a functional device, a conductive wiring, and a driving device that drives the functional device in accordance with an electrical signal applied to the conductive wiring. And a second substrate disposed opposite to the first substrate, wherein the conductive wiring has a copper alloy layer sandwiched between the first conductive metal oxide layer and the second conductive metal oxide layer.
- the copper alloy layer includes a first element that is solid-solved in copper, a copper and a second element that has a lower electronegativity than the first element, and the first element and the first element.
- the two elements are elements having an electrical resistivity increase rate of 1 ⁇ cm / at% or less when added to copper, and the electrical resistivity of the copper alloy layer is in the range of 1.9 ⁇ cm to 6 ⁇ cm.
- the first substrate having the first conductive wiring, the functional device, the second conductive wiring, and the electric signal applied to the second conductive wiring
- a second substrate disposed opposite to the first substrate, wherein each of the first conductive wiring and the second conductive wiring is a first conductive metal oxide.
- the copper alloy layer is composed of three layers sandwiched by a physical layer and a second conductive metal oxide layer, and the copper alloy layer includes a first element that is solid-solved in copper, copper, and the first element.
- a second element having a smaller electronegativity wherein the first element and the second element are elements having an electrical resistivity increase rate of 1 ⁇ cm / at% or less when added to copper, and the copper alloy layer
- the electrical resistivity is in the range of 1.9 ⁇ cm to 6 ⁇ cm.
- the third substrate is provided on the first substrate or the second substrate and extends in a direction orthogonal to the direction in which the first conductive wiring extends in a plan view.
- the third conductive line includes a first conductive line.
- the copper alloy layer is composed of three layers sandwiched between a metal oxide layer and a second conductive metal oxide layer, and the copper alloy layer includes a first element that dissolves in copper, copper, and the first A second element having an electronegativity lower than that of one element, and the first element and the second element are elements having an electrical resistivity increase rate of 1 ⁇ cm / at% or less when added to copper,
- the electrical resistivity of the alloy layer may be in the range of 1.9 ⁇ cm to 6 ⁇ cm.
- the first element may be zinc and the second element may be calcium.
- the first conductive metal oxide layer and the second conductive metal oxide layer contain indium oxide as a main conductive metal oxide.
- the driving device is a thin film transistor that has a channel layer that is in contact with a gate insulating layer and is formed of an oxide semiconductor and drives the functional device.
- the driving device may be provided on a surface of the second substrate facing the first substrate.
- the driving device may include a gate electrode provided on a gate insulating layer, and the gate electrode may constitute a part of the conductive wiring.
- the driving device may include a gate electrode provided on a gate insulating layer, and the gate electrode may constitute a part of the second conductive wiring.
- the oxide semiconductor is composed of indium oxide (In 2 O 3 ), gallium oxide (Ga 2 O 3 ), and zinc oxide (ZnO). 1 or more types selected from more, and may contain at least one of antimony oxide (Sb 2 O 3 ) and bismuth oxide (Bi 2 O 3 ).
- the gate insulating layer may be an oxide containing cerium oxide or an oxynitride containing cerium oxide.
- the functional device is an organic electroluminescence layer
- the organic electroluminescence layer is a surface of the second substrate facing the first substrate. May be provided.
- the functional device is a light-emitting diode layer, and the light-emitting diode layer is provided on a surface of the second substrate facing the first substrate. Also good.
- the functional device may be a liquid crystal layer, and the liquid crystal layer may be disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. .
- a display device substrate comprising: a substrate body; a black matrix provided on the substrate body; and a first touch sensing wiring provided at a position corresponding to the black matrix in plan view
- the first touch sensing wiring is composed of three layers in which a copper alloy layer is sandwiched between a first conductive metal oxide layer and a second conductive metal oxide layer, and the copper alloy
- the layer includes a first element that is solid-solved in copper, and a copper and a second element having an electronegativity smaller than that of the first element, and the first element and the second element are electric when added to copper.
- the resistivity increase rate is an element having a resistance of 1 ⁇ cm / at% or less, and the electrical resistivity of the copper alloy layer is in the range of 1.9 ⁇ cm to 6 ⁇ cm.
- the insulating layer covering the first touch sensing wiring, and a plan view, extending in a direction orthogonal to the direction in which the first touch sensing wiring extends,
- a second touch sensing wiring provided on the insulating layer at a position corresponding to the black matrix, wherein the second touch sensing wiring includes a first conductive metal oxide layer and a second conductive metal oxide.
- the copper alloy layer is composed of three layers in which a copper alloy layer is sandwiched by a physical layer.
- the copper alloy layer includes a first element that is solid-solved in copper, and a second element that has a lower electronegativity than copper and the first element.
- the first element and the second element are elements having an electrical resistivity increase rate of 1 ⁇ cm / at% or less when added to copper, and the electrical resistivity of the copper alloy layer is 1.9 ⁇ cm To 6 ⁇ cm It may be.
- the use of a copper alloy as a constituent material for conductive wiring and touch sensing wiring enables stable touch sensing, high touch sensing sensitivity, and good responsiveness display.
- An apparatus and a display device substrate can be provided.
- FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view partially showing the display device according to the first embodiment of the present invention, and is a cross-sectional view taken along the line B-B ′ shown in FIG. 2. It is sectional drawing which shows partially the display apparatus which concerns on 1st Embodiment of this invention, and is an expanded sectional view which expands and shows a common electrode.
- FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view partially showing the display device according to the first embodiment of the present invention, and is a cross-sectional view taken along the line C-C ′ shown in FIG. 2.
- FIG. 3B is a cross-sectional view partially showing the display device substrate constituting the display device according to the first embodiment of the present invention, and is an enlarged cross-sectional view showing the touch sensing wiring (first conductive wiring) shown in FIG. 3A in an enlarged manner. .
- the touch sensing wiring functions as a touch drive electrode and the common electrode functions as a touch detection electrode
- an electric field is generated between the touch sensing wiring and the common electrode. It is a schematic cross section which shows the produced
- FIG. 3 is a schematic cross-sectional view illustrating the display device according to the first embodiment of the present invention, and is a cross-sectional view illustrating a change in the generation state of the electric field when a pointer such as a finger contacts or approaches the surface on the viewer side of the display device substrate. It is. It is sectional drawing which shows partially the display apparatus which concerns on 2nd Embodiment of this invention. It is a fragmentary sectional view which shows partially the array substrate which comprises the display apparatus which concerns on 2nd Embodiment of this invention. It is sectional drawing which shows partially the display apparatus which concerns on 3rd Embodiment of this invention.
- FIG. 11 is a plan view partially showing an array substrate constituting a display device according to a third embodiment of the present invention, and is a view taken along line D-D ′ shown in FIG. 10.
- FIG. 13 is a partial cross-sectional view of a display device according to a third embodiment of the present invention, taken along line E-E ′ shown in FIG. 12.
- a display device includes a functional device and a drive device that drives the functional device in accordance with an electrical signal applied to the conductive wiring.
- the functional device includes a control unit that controls touch sensing, a display element that performs a display function in a display device, a mechanical element component, an input element such as a capacitance sensor and an optical sensor, an actuator, and a storage element Etc.
- a liquid crystal Liquid Crystal
- a light emitting diode LED: Light Emitting Diode
- an organic EL OLED: Organic Light Emitting Diode
- an EMS Electro Mechanical System
- MEMS Micro Electro Element
- MEMS IM Micro Electro Element
- MEMS Electro Micro System
- MEMS Electro Micro System
- MEMS Micro Electro Element
- RFID Radio Frequency Identification
- Examples of drive devices include active elements such as thin film transistors and thin film diodes. Thin film transistors and diodes are called drive devices because they have a function of driving the functional devices by electrical signals from a control system circuit including conductive wiring.
- the driving device is a thin film transistor that has a channel layer that is in contact with the gate insulating layer and is formed of an oxide semiconductor, and that drives the functional device. In the present invention, driving the functional device with the driving device is not limited. In the following description, a thin film transistor may be referred to as an active element.
- Examples of the substrate that can be used as the first substrate or the second substrate according to the embodiment of the present invention include a glass substrate, a quartz substrate, a sapphire substrate, a ceramic substrate, a semiconductor substrate such as silicon, silicon carbide, and silicon germanium, or A plastic substrate or the like can be applied.
- a reflective display device can be formed using a transparent substrate such as a glass substrate as the first substrate and a silicon substrate or the like as the second substrate.
- the present invention can also be applied to a large display device in which light emitting elements such as micro LEDs are arranged in a matrix, and a small display device for a projector or a head mounting display.
- ordinal numbers such as “first” and “second” used for the first substrate, the second substrate, the first conductive wiring, the second conductive wiring, the third conductive wiring, etc., are used to avoid confusion between components.
- the number is not limited.
- the first conductive wiring, the second conductive wiring, and the third conductive wiring may be simply referred to as conductive wiring in the following description.
- the first conductive metal oxide layer and the second conductive metal oxide layer may be simply referred to as a conductive metal oxide layer.
- the display device according to the embodiment of the present invention can have a capacitive touch sensing function.
- the conductive wiring such as the first conductive wiring and the third conductive wiring can be used as a detection wiring or a driving wiring for touch sensing.
- conductive wiring, electrodes, and signals related to touch sensing may be simply referred to as touch wiring, touch drive wiring, touch detection wiring, touch electrode, and touch drive signal.
- a voltage applied to the touch sensing wiring for driving the touch sensing is called a touch driving voltage
- a voltage applied between the common electrode and the pixel electrode for driving the liquid crystal layer which is a display function layer is called a liquid crystal driving voltage.
- a voltage for driving the organic EL layer is referred to as an organic EL driving voltage.
- the conductive wiring connected to the common electrode may be referred to as common wiring.
- the display device DSP1 uses an in-cell method.
- the “in-cell method” means a liquid crystal display device in which a touch sensing function is built in the liquid crystal display device or a liquid crystal display device in which the touch sensing function is integrated with the liquid crystal display device.
- a polarizing film is bonded to the outer surface of each of the display device substrate and the array substrate.
- the in-cell type liquid crystal display device is located between any two polarizing films facing each other and is touch-sensing at any part constituting the liquid crystal display device in the thickness direction.
- a liquid crystal display device having a function is located between any two polarizing films facing each other and is touch-sensing at any part constituting the liquid crystal display device in the thickness direction.
- FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a display device DSP1 according to the first embodiment of the present invention.
- the display device DSP1 according to the present embodiment includes a display unit 110 and a control unit 120 for controlling the display unit 110 and the touch sensing function.
- the control unit 120 has a known configuration, and includes a video signal control unit 121 (first control unit), a touch sensing control unit 122 (second control unit), and a system control unit 123 (third control unit). I have.
- the video signal control unit 121 sets the common electrode 17 (described later) provided on the array substrate 200 to a constant potential, and the gate wiring 10 (described later, scanning line) and the source wiring 31 (described later, provided) provided on the array substrate 200. Signal to the signal line).
- the video signal controller 121 applies a display liquid crystal driving voltage between the common electrode 17 and the pixel electrode 20 (described later), whereby a fringe electric field is generated on the array substrate 200, and liquid crystal molecules are generated along the fringe electric field. Rotates and the liquid crystal layer 300 is driven. As a result, an image is displayed on the array substrate 200.
- a rectangular wave video signal is individually applied to each of the plurality of pixel electrodes 20 via a source wiring (signal line). Further, the rectangular wave may be a positive or negative DC rectangular wave or an AC rectangular wave.
- the video signal control unit 121 sends such a video signal to the source wiring.
- the touch sensing control unit 122 applies a touch sensing drive voltage to the touch sensing wiring 3 (first conductive wiring), and changes in capacitance generated between the touch sensing wiring 3 and the common electrode 17 (second conductive wiring). Is detected and touch sensing is performed.
- the system control unit 123 can control the video signal control unit 121 and the touch sensing control unit 122 to perform liquid crystal driving and capacitance change detection alternately, that is, in a time division manner. Further, the system control unit 123 may have a function of driving the liquid crystal at a frequency different from the liquid crystal drive frequency and the touch sensing drive frequency or at different voltages. In the system control unit 123 having such a function, for example, a frequency of noise from the external environment picked up by the display device DSP1 is detected, and a touch sensing driving frequency different from the noise frequency is selected. Thereby, the influence of noise can be reduced. Further, in such a system control unit 123, a touch sensing driving frequency can be selected in accordance with the scanning speed of a pointer such as a finger or a pen.
- the common electrode 17 has a function of driving a liquid crystal by applying a liquid crystal driving voltage for display between the common electrode 17 and the pixel electrode 20, and the touch sensing wiring 3. It also has a touch sensing function for detecting a change in capacitance generated between the common electrode 17 and the common electrode 17. Since the touch sensing wiring according to the embodiment of the present invention can be formed of a metal layer having good conductivity, the touch sensitivity can be improved by reducing the resistance value of the touch sensing wiring (described later).
- control unit 120 has a function of performing touch sensing drive by the touch sensing wiring 3 and the common electrode 17 in at least one of the stable period of the video display and the black display stable period after the video display. It is preferable to have.
- the liquid crystal display device according to the present embodiment can include a display device substrate according to an embodiment described later.
- the “plan view” described below means a plane viewed from the direction in which the observer observes the display surface of the liquid crystal display device (plane of the display device substrate).
- the shape of the display part of the liquid crystal display device according to the embodiment of the present invention, the shape of the pixel opening that defines the pixel, and the number of pixels constituting the liquid crystal display device are not limited.
- the direction of the short side of the pixel opening is defined as the X direction
- the direction of the long side is defined as the Y direction
- the thickness of the transparent substrate The vertical direction is defined as the Z direction
- the liquid crystal display device may be configured by switching between the X direction and the Y direction defined as described above.
- an alignment film that imparts initial alignment to the liquid crystal layer 300, an optical film such as a polarizing film and a retardation film, a protective cover glass, and the like are omitted.
- a polarizing film is attached to each of the front and back surfaces of the display device DSP1 so that the optical axis is crossed Nicol.
- an FFS liquid crystal driving method (Fringe Field Switching) is adopted.
- liquid crystal molecules constituting the liquid crystal layer 300 are driven by an electric field generated between the common electrode 17 and the pixel electrode 20, particularly, an electric field generated at an electrode end called a fringe.
- the present invention does not limit the FFS liquid crystal driving method.
- a vertically aligned liquid crystal layer may be employed.
- FIG. 2 is a plan view partially showing the array substrate 200 constituting the display device DSP1 according to the first embodiment of the present invention, and is a plan view seen from the observer side.
- the display device substrate facing the array substrate is not shown.
- the display device DSP1 includes a plurality of source lines 31, a plurality of gate lines 10, and a plurality of common lines 30 (conductive lines, second conductive lines) on the array substrate 200.
- Each of the source wirings 31 is formed to have a linear pattern extending in the Y direction (first direction).
- Each of the gate wiring 10 and each of the common wiring 30 is formed to have a linear pattern extending in the X direction (second direction). That is, the source line 31 is orthogonal to the gate line 10 and the common line 30.
- the common wiring 30 extends in the X direction so as to cross the plurality of pixel openings.
- the plurality of pixel openings are regions defined on the transparent substrate 22.
- the plurality of pixel openings are partitioned in a matrix form by a plurality of source lines 31 and a plurality of gate lines 10.
- the first direction and the second direction only need to be substantially orthogonal, and the first direction and the second direction can be interchanged.
- the “extended line” in the first direction means that each pixel shape may be, for example, a shape bent in a dog leg pattern or a parallelogram shape. This means that the pixel array is a matrix arranged in the first direction.
- the meaning of “extended line” in the second direction is the same. As a whole of the pixel array, the first direction and the second direction are orthogonal to each other.
- the display device DSP1 includes a plurality of pixel electrodes 20 arranged in a matrix, and a plurality of active elements 28 (thin film transistors) provided so as to correspond to the pixel electrodes 20 and connected to the pixel electrodes 20. Is provided.
- the pixel electrode 20 is provided in each of the plurality of pixel openings.
- an active element 28 is connected to each of the plurality of pixel electrodes 20. In the example shown in FIG. 2, the active element 28 is provided at the position of the upper right end of the pixel electrode 20.
- the active element 28 is connected to the channel layer 27 via the source electrode 24 (described later), the channel layer 27 (described later), the drain electrode 26 (described later), and the insulating layer 13 (described later) connected to the source wiring 31. And a gate electrode 25 arranged to face each other.
- the gate electrode 25 of the active element 28 constitutes a part of the gate wiring 10 (conductive wiring, second conductive wiring) and is connected to the gate wiring 10.
- the display device DSP1 includes a plurality of pixels, and one pixel electrode 20 forms one pixel.
- a voltage positive voltage
- a region where liquid crystal driving is performed by the pixel electrode 20 may be referred to as a pixel, a pixel opening, or a pixel region.
- This pixel is an area partitioned by the source wiring 31 and the gate wiring 10 in plan view.
- the display device DSP1 includes a common electrode 17 at a position facing the pixel electrode 20 in the Z direction.
- a common electrode 17 having two stripe patterns is provided for one pixel electrode 20.
- the common electrode 17 is provided in each of the plurality of pixel openings.
- the common electrode 17 extends in the Y direction and is parallel to the longitudinal direction of the pixel electrode 20.
- the length EL of the common electrode 17 in the Y direction is larger than the length of the pixel electrode 20 in the Y direction.
- the common electrode 17 is electrically connected to the common wiring 30 through a through hole 20S and a contact hole H described later. As shown in FIG. 2, the contact hole H is located at the center in the longitudinal direction of the conductive pattern (electrode portion 17 ⁇ / b> A, stripe pattern) of the common electrode 17.
- the number of common electrodes 17 and the number of contact holes in one pixel can be adjusted by, for example, the pixel width (pixel size).
- the width W17A of the common electrode 17 is, for example, about 3 ⁇ m.
- the pitch P17A (distance) between the adjacent common electrodes 17 is, for example, about 4 ⁇ m.
- the common electrodes 17 are spaced apart from each other at a pitch P17A in the X direction.
- the common electrode 17 having two stripe patterns is provided for one pixel electrode 20, but the present invention is not limited to this configuration.
- the number of the common electrodes 17 may be one or more, or three or more.
- the width W17A and the pitch P17A of the common electrode 17 can be appropriately changed according to the pixel size and the design.
- FIG. 3A is a sectional view partially showing the display device DSP1 according to the first embodiment of the present invention, and is a sectional view taken along the line BB ′ shown in FIG.
- FIG. 3B is a sectional view partially showing the display device DSP1 according to the first embodiment of the present invention, and is an enlarged sectional view in which the common electrode is enlarged.
- FIG. 4 is a sectional view partially showing the display device DSP1 according to the first embodiment of the present invention, and is a sectional view taken along the line CC ′ shown in FIG.
- FIG. 3A shows the distance W1 between the touch sensing wiring 3 and the common electrode 17.
- the distance W1 is a distance in the Z direction in a space including the transparent resin layer 16, the color filter 51 (RGB), the alignment film (not shown), and the liquid crystal layer 300.
- This space does not include active elements, source lines, and pixel electrodes.
- this space indicated by the distance W1 is referred to as a touch sensing space.
- Noise generated from noise sources such as active elements and source wirings is generally emitted in a three-dimensional radial pattern. For this reason, the magnitude of the noise is 1/3 of the distance W1 (the larger the distance, the smaller the influence of the noise). Therefore, as shown in FIG. 3A, the touch sensing space does not include noise sources such as active elements and source wirings, so that touch sensing accuracy can be improved.
- FIG. 3A shows a distance W2 between the touch sensing wiring 3 and the source wiring 31.
- FIG. As indicated by the distance W2, the touch sensing wiring 3 and the source wiring 31 are greatly separated.
- the common electrode 17 and the source line 31 do not overlap in plan view, the parasitic capacitance caused by the source line 31 is extremely small.
- the common electrode 17 provided at a position closest to the touch sensing space has a shape of a small piece for each pixel in the longitudinal direction of the pixel. For this reason, compared with the case where the common electrode extended in a linear shape so as to straddle a plurality of pixels is provided, the common electrode 17 according to the present embodiment can reduce the parasitic capacitance.
- the display device DSP1 is sandwiched between the display device substrate 100 (first substrate and counter substrate), the array substrate 200 (second substrate) bonded so as to face the display device substrate 100, and the display device substrate 100 and the array substrate 200.
- Liquid crystal layer 300 (functional device).
- the backlight unit BU that supplies the light L to the display device DSP1 is provided on the back surface of the array substrate 200 constituting the display device DSP1 (the surface opposite to the transparent substrate surface of the array substrate 200 on which the liquid crystal layer 300 is disposed). Is provided. Note that the backlight unit BU may be provided on the side surface of the display device DSP1.
- a reflection plate, a light guide plate, a light diffusion plate, or the like that reflects the light emitted from the backlight unit BU toward the inside of the display device DSP1 is provided on the back surface of the transparent substrate 22 of the array substrate 200.
- An LED can be used as the light source of the backlight unit BU.
- the display device substrate 100 includes a transparent substrate 21 (substrate body), a touch sensing wiring 3 provided on the transparent substrate 21, a color filter 51 (RGB) formed so as to cover the touch sensing wiring 3, and a color filter. And a transparent resin layer 16 (insulating layer) formed so as to cover 51.
- the touch sensing wiring 3 functions as a touch driving electrode (touch driving wiring).
- detection of touch sensing is performed by detecting a change in capacitance between the touch sensing wiring 3 and the common electrode 17.
- the touch sensing wiring 3 has a black layer 8 and a metal laminated structure provided above the black layer 8. In plan view, the touch sensing wiring 3 is provided at a position corresponding to a black matrix (black layer) provided on the transparent substrate 21.
- the touch sensing wiring 3 has a three-layer laminated structure. Further, a black layer or a light absorption layer may be further laminated on the surface (liquid crystal layer side) of the first conductive metal oxide layer 6. There may be a portion having the same line width between the touch sensing wiring 3 and the black layer 8 in plan view.
- the touch sensing wiring 3 has a configuration in which a copper alloy layer 5 is sandwiched between a first conductive metal oxide layer 6 and a second conductive metal oxide layer 4.
- a wiring structure can be applied not only to the touch sensing wiring 3 but also to various wirings formed on the array substrate 200.
- the first conductive metal oxide layer 6 and the second conductive metal oxide layer also in the gate wiring 10, the source wiring 31, the common wiring 30, and the like corresponding to the conductive wiring or the second conductive wiring of the present invention.
- a wiring structure in which the copper alloy layer 5 is sandwiched by 4 can be applied. Below, the copper alloy layer 5 is demonstrated concretely.
- the copper alloy layer 5 includes a first element that dissolves in copper, and a second element that has a lower electronegativity than the first element.
- the first element and the second element are elements having an electrical resistivity increase rate of 1 ⁇ cm / at% or less when added to copper.
- the electrical resistivity of the copper alloy layer is in the range of 1.9 ⁇ cm to 6 ⁇ cm.
- the first element is zinc and the second element is calcium.
- the copper alloy layer 5 uses a copper alloy in which calcium is 2 at%, zinc is 0.5 at%, and the balance is copper.
- the electrical resistivity of the copper alloy layer 5 is 2.6 ⁇ cm.
- the electrical resistivity of the copper alloy layer 5 may vary around ⁇ 30% depending on the film forming method of the copper alloy layer 5 and annealing conditions.
- the copper alloy layer is oxidized (forms CuO and copper oxide) by heat treatment during film formation, and further by heat treatment after film formation. Resistance value gets worse.
- the grain of the copper alloy becomes too large as copper oxide is formed. For this reason, a coarse grain boundary (crystal grain boundary) with a gap is formed, the surface of the copper alloy layer becomes rough, and the resistance value may be deteriorated.
- the electrical resistivity is often improved by heat treatment (annealing).
- the surface oxidation of the copper alloy layer 5 is suppressed by covering the copper alloy layer 5 with the conductive metal oxide.
- the grain of the copper alloy layer 5 is not excessively coarsened due to the restriction (anchoring) by the conductive metal oxide layer formed on the front surface and the back surface of the copper alloy layer 5. Does not become rough.
- the crystal grains (grains) are difficult to increase, and the carrier due to the grain boundary Scattering (deterioration of electrical resistivity) can be suppressed.
- the touch sensing wiring 3 at the interface between the copper alloy layer 5 and the first conductive metal oxide layer 6 and between the copper alloy layer 5 and the second conductive metal oxide layer 4.
- Calcium oxide on the interface, particularly on the side surface 9 of the copper alloy layer 5 (the interface between the colored layer R and the copper alloy layer 5 of the color filter 51, the interface between the colored layer G of the color filter 51 and the copper alloy layer 5). Is formed. Since the calcium oxide is formed on the surface of the copper alloy layer 5, the diffusion of copper is suppressed, which contributes to the improvement of reliability.
- the copper alloy layer containing a large amount of oxygen may cause voids in the copper alloy layer due to the presence of water or alkali, for example, and may reduce the reliability of the copper alloy layer.
- the three layers of the first conductive metal oxide layer, the copper alloy layer, and the second conductive metal oxide layer are continuously formed at a substrate temperature of, for example, room temperature (25 ° C.) to less than 200 ° C.
- a subsequent step after forming the pattern of the channel layer for example, low temperature annealing at 200 ° C. to 350 ° C. is performed. As a result, it is possible to improve electrical characteristics including electrical resistivity.
- the oxide semiconductor contains one or more selected from the group consisting of indium oxide, gallium oxide, and zinc oxide, for example. Further, the oxide semiconductor contains either antimony oxide or bismuth oxide. Such an oxide semiconductor can be crystallized and stabilized in semiconductor properties by low temperature annealing at 200 ° C. to 350 ° C. as described above. Such a low-temperature process improves compatibility with resin substrates such as color filters based on organic resins and organic pigments, and polyimide resins and aramid resins.
- an insulating inorganic film such as silicon oxynitride, acrylic resin, polyimide, etc., except for terminal portions and contact holes used for electrical mounting. It is desirable to cover the touch sensing wiring 3 with a protective layer made of an organic resin such as a resin.
- a two-layered conductive wiring structure may be employed via an insulating layer such as an acrylic resin, a polyimide resin, or an aramid resin. In such a conductive wiring structure, each of the upper wiring and the lower wiring can be electrically connected through, for example, a contact hole.
- the copper alloy layer according to the embodiment of the present invention is a Cu—Ca alloy-based alloy.
- calcium hardly dissolves in copper.
- a sputtering target that is a starting material of a copper alloy layer, it is easily dispersed in the sputtering target as a precipitate such as Cu 5 Ca.
- a precipitate such as Cu 5 Ca.
- calcium is hardly dissolved in copper.
- Cu 5 Ca and CaO formed at the surface of the copper alloy or at the interface between the conductive metal oxide and the copper alloy during heat treatment suppress copper diffusion and contribute to improving the reliability of the copper wiring.
- calcium and zinc which are additive elements added to the copper alloy, are not used for improving the adhesion of the copper alloy thin film to the transparent substrate or the color filter.
- zinc By adding zinc to the copper alloy, zinc is dissolved in copper, and the movement of copper is suppressed by substituting zinc at the lattice position in the copper grain, thereby mainly preventing migration of copper.
- calcium By adding calcium to the copper alloy, it is possible to prevent diffusion of copper mainly due to formation of precipitates such as CaO and Cu 5 Ca.
- the conductive metal oxide layer sandwiching the copper alloy layer is improved adhesion to the copper alloy thin film, improved ohmic contact in electrical mounting, improved scratch resistance, prevention of copper migration, It has functions such as improvement of reliability due to a laminated structure of a copper alloy layer and a conductive metal oxide layer.
- a conductive wiring having a three-layer structure in which a copper alloy layer is sandwiched between conductive metal oxide layers according to an embodiment of the present invention as a conductive wiring of a semiconductor element such as a thin film transistor or a thin film diode.
- a substantially practical contact can be obtained in the electrical connection between the semiconductor element and the conductive wiring through the contact hole.
- an alloy element such as calcium or zinc is added, diffusion of copper to the oxide semiconductor or the silicon semiconductor can be prevented and high reliability can be obtained.
- element in the embodiment of the present invention is used in a broad sense including “metal element” and “semimetal”.
- solubility of metal elements as a solid can be estimated from their atomic radii, the ratio e / a (electron concentration) of the total number e of valence electrons to the total number of atoms a, or chemical affinity.
- the possibility of solid solution can be determined from the binary phase diagram between elements.
- the element that is solid-solved with copper according to the embodiment of the present invention is, for example, in a temperature range of ⁇ (minus) 40 ° C. to + (plus) 80 ° C., which is a use range of an in-vehicle electronic device. In other words, it is an element that takes substitutional solid solution.
- the amount of element (or a plurality of types) added to copper may be in a range where the electrical resistivity (synonymous with specific resistance) of the copper alloy does not exceed 6 ⁇ cm.
- the matrix base material is copper
- metals having a wide solid solution region with respect to copper are gold (Au), nickel (Ni), zinc (Zn), gallium (Ga), palladium (Pd), manganese ( Mn) can be exemplified.
- Aluminum (Al) is not wide, but has a solid solution region for copper.
- an alloy having hillock resistance for example, an aluminum alloy to which 1 at% of Nd is added is known.
- the specific resistance of such an aluminum alloy is 6.4 ⁇ cm.
- the copper alloy layer according to the embodiment of the present invention has electrical characteristics (small specific resistance) that can be replaced with a conductive wiring made of an aluminum alloy. That is, the upper limit of the electrical resistivity of the copper alloy layer according to the embodiment of the present invention is 6 ⁇ cm.
- a conductive wiring including a copper alloy having a resistivity higher than 6 ⁇ cm can be used for a use in which signal delay or rounding due to the resistance of the conductive wiring including the copper alloy layer is allowed.
- Elements added to copper having a high electrical conductivity equivalent to silver increase the electrical resistivity by alloying.
- the electrical resistivity of pure copper is about 1.7 ⁇ cm.
- the pure copper demonstrated by embodiment of this invention contains a trace amount inevitable impurity.
- Elements with low electrical resistivity are palladium (Pd), magnesium (Mg), beryllium (Be), gold (Au), calcium (Ca), cadmium (Cd), zinc (Zn), silver (Ag). When these elements are added at 1 at% with respect to pure copper, the increase in electrical resistivity is approximately 1 ⁇ cm or less.
- the increase in electrical resistivity of calcium (Ca), cadmium (Cd), zinc (Zn), and silver (Ag) is 0.3 ⁇ cm / at% or less, it is preferably used as an alloy element. In consideration of economy and environmental load, it is preferable to use zinc and calcium as alloy elements. Zinc and calcium can each be added as alloying elements to copper up to 4 at%.
- the addition amount of calcium may be increased, the addition amount of zinc may be decreased, or the addition amounts of zinc and calcium may be increased or decreased.
- the effects resulting from the addition of zinc and calcium to copper significant effects can be obtained at an addition amount of 0.2 at% or more.
- the electrical resistivity of a copper alloy to which zinc and calcium are added in total of 0.4 at% with respect to pure copper is about 1.9 ⁇ cm. Therefore, the lower limit of the electrical resistivity of the copper alloy layer according to the embodiment of the present invention is 1.9 ⁇ cm.
- the addition amount is at least less than 5 at%.
- Zinc has a solid solution region of at least 30 at% with respect to copper at a temperature of 100 ° C. or lower. Zinc has a solid solution with copper and has the effect of suppressing copper movement in copper grains (crystal grains) and suppressing copper diffusion.
- Electronegativity is a relative measure of the strength with which atoms (elements) attract electrons. Elements with a smaller value tend to be cations.
- the electronegativity of copper is 1.9.
- the electronegativity of oxygen is 3.5.
- Elements having a low electronegativity include alkaline earth elements, titanium group elements, chromium group elements, and the like. Although the electronegativity of alkali elements is small, the diffusion of copper is increased when alkali elements and moisture are present near copper. For this reason, alkali elements such as sodium and potassium cannot be used as copper alloy elements.
- Calcium electronegativity is as low as 1.0.
- calcium is used as an alloying element for copper, calcium is oxidized prior to copper during heat treatment or the like to form calcium oxide, and copper diffusion can be suppressed.
- calcium oxide is selectively applied to the exposed surface of the copper alloy layer that is not covered with the conductive metal oxide layer or to the interface between the copper alloy layer and the conductive metal oxide layer. Can be formed.
- the formation of calcium oxide on the exposed surface of the copper alloy layer not covered with the conductive metal oxide layer contributes to suppression of copper diffusion and improvement of reliability.
- the conductivity of the conductive wiring and the copper alloy layer according to the embodiment of the present invention is improved by annealing such as heat treatment.
- the electronegativity described above is indicated by the value of Pauling's electronegativity.
- the second element is oxidized prior to copper and the first element to form an oxide by a heat treatment step of the conductive wiring.
- the “first element” may have an electronegativity smaller than that of copper.
- the “second element” may have a solid solution region in copper.
- the element with the lower electronegativity is selected from the two or more elements. “Second element”.
- the conductive wiring according to the embodiment of the present invention has a three-layer configuration in which the copper alloy layer is sandwiched between the first conductive metal oxide layer and the second conductive metal oxide layer.
- the effect of suppressing the diffusion of copper to the constituent material of the display device is obtained by the oxide, and the reliability of the conductive wiring is improved.
- the conductive metal oxide forms a surface layer of the conductive wiring. For this reason, it is possible to obtain ohmic contact by electrical connection (mounting).
- the copper alloy layer includes a first element that has a solid solution region in copper and can be replaced with copper in a copper grain, and a second element having a lower electronegativity than copper. Including. As a result, copper diffusion and migration that degrade the electrical characteristics of the drive device can be prevented. Furthermore, the embodiment of the present invention has a configuration in which the copper alloy layer is sandwiched between conductive metal oxide layers. With this configuration, it is possible to provide a copper wiring having high practicality and high reliability.
- the first conductive metal oxide layer 6 and the second conductive metal oxide layer 4 sandwich the copper alloy layer 5.
- the first conductive metal oxide layer 6 and the second conductive metal oxide layer 4 contain indium oxide as a main conductive metal oxide, and from the group consisting of antimony oxide, zinc oxide, and gallium oxide. It is an electroconductive metal oxide containing one or more selected. For example, regarding each composition of the 1st conductive metal oxide layer 6 and the 2nd conductive metal oxide layer 4, it is the ratio of the element which does not count oxygen, antimony 4at%, gallium 4at%, and the remainder are indium.
- Antimony oxide is important as a metal oxide of a conductive metal oxide layer sandwiching a copper or copper alloy layer.
- Antimony has a small solid solution region with copper as a metal element, and suppresses diffusion of copper into the conductive metal oxide.
- Each of the first conductive metal oxide layer 6 and the second conductive metal oxide layer 4 preferably contains at least antimony oxide in addition to indium oxide.
- the first conductive metal oxide layer, the copper alloy layer, and the second conductive metal oxide layer constituting the conductive wiring according to the embodiment of the present invention are simply formed by using a vacuum film forming method such as sputtering. Can be membrane.
- the first conductive metal oxide layer, the copper alloy layer, and the second conductive metal oxide layer are preferably formed continuously while maintaining a vacuum atmosphere.
- the film thicknesses of the first conductive metal oxide layer and the second conductive metal oxide layer may be different.
- the second conductive metal oxide layer 4 formed at a position near the transparent substrate 21 of the display device substrate 100 (first substrate) has a thickness of 25 nm, and is formed at a position away from the transparent substrate 21.
- the film thickness of the one conductive metal oxide layer 6 may be 45 nm.
- the film thickness range of the copper alloy layer can be 200 nm to 400 nm.
- the present invention does not define the film thickness of each of the layers constituting the conductive wiring described above.
- Examples of the method for forming the conductive metal oxide layer according to the embodiment of the present invention include the sputtering film forming method as described above, and the conductive metal oxide layer can be easily formed.
- a sputtering target is used as a film forming material.
- titanium oxide (TiO 2 ), zirconium oxide (ZrO 2 ), tin oxide (SnO 2 ) are used for increasing the density, densifying the crystal of the target base material, and improving the conductivity of the target. Etc. can be added in small amounts.
- three layers of the first conductive metal oxide layer / copper alloy layer / second conductive metal oxide layer are formed by a known photolithography technique.
- Terminal portions for electrical mounting, routing, contact holes, and the like may be formed in the conductive wiring.
- An electrically floating pattern may be formed as necessary.
- the plurality of first conductive lines and the plurality of second conductive lines can be driven and detected by being thinned out at the time of touch sensing. By thinning out the number of drives, the touch response time can be shortened, or the power consumption related to touch drive can be reduced.
- the black layer 8 functions as a black matrix of the display device DSP1.
- the black layer is made of, for example, a colored resin in which a black color material is dispersed. Copper oxides and copper alloy oxides cannot obtain sufficient black or low reflectance, but the visible light reflectance at the interface between the black layer and the substrate such as glass according to this embodiment is almost the same. It is suppressed to 3% or less, and high visibility is obtained.
- carbon As the black color material, carbon, carbon nanotubes, or a mixture of a plurality of organic pigments can be used.
- carbon is used at a ratio of 51% by mass or more with respect to the total amount of the color material, that is, as the main color material.
- an organic pigment such as blue or red can be added to the black color material.
- the reproducibility of the black layer can be improved by adjusting the concentration of carbon contained in the photosensitive black coating liquid as a starting material (lowering the carbon concentration).
- the range of the carbon concentration in this embodiment is set in the range of 4 to 50% by mass with respect to the total solid content including the resin, the curing agent, and the pigment.
- the carbon concentration may exceed 50% by mass.
- the suitability of the coating film tends to decrease.
- the carbon concentration is set to less than 4% by mass, sufficient black color cannot be obtained, and reflected light generated in the underlying metal layer located under the black layer is greatly recognized, thereby reducing visibility. there were.
- a black layer may be formed using a mixture of a plurality of organic pigments as a black color adjustment. Considering the refractive index (about 1.5) of the base material such as glass or transparent resin, the reflectance of the black layer is such that the reflectance at the interface between the black layer and the base material is 3% or less. Is set. In this case, it is desirable to adjust the content and type of the black color material, the resin used for the color material, and the film thickness.
- the reflectance at the interface between the black layer having a refractive index of approximately 1.5 and the black layer is set to 3% or less in the visible wavelength range. And low reflectivity can be realized.
- the reflectance of the black layer shall be 3% or less in consideration of the necessity of preventing the reflected light caused by the light emitted from the backlight unit BU from being reflected again and the improvement of the visibility of the observer. Is desirable.
- the refractive index of the acrylic resin used for the color filter and the liquid crystal material is approximately in the range of 1.5 to 1.7.
- a structure in which the color filter 51 is provided is used, but a structure in which the color filter 51 is omitted, for example, the touch sensing wiring 3 provided on the transparent substrate 21 and Alternatively, a structure including a transparent resin layer 16 formed so as to cover the touch sensing wiring 3 may be used.
- a liquid crystal display device using a display device substrate that does not include the color filter 51 each LED of red light emission, green light emission, and blue light emission is provided in a backlight unit, and color display is performed by a field sequential method.
- the layer configuration of the touch sensing wiring 3 provided on the transparent substrate 21 shown in FIG. 3A is the layer configuration of the common wiring 30 (conductive wiring) formed on the array substrate 200 described later and the gate electrode 25 (gate wiring 10). It can be the same as the layer structure.
- the array substrate 200 includes a transparent substrate 22 (second transparent substrate), a fourth insulating layer 14 formed so as to cover the surface of the transparent substrate 22, and a fourth insulating layer 14.
- the pixel electrode 20 formed, the first insulating layer 11 formed on the second insulating layer 12 so as to cover the pixel electrode 20, and the common electrode 17 are provided.
- Materials for forming the first insulating layer 11, the second insulating layer 12, the third insulating layer 13, and the fourth insulating layer 14 include silicon oxide, silicon oxynitride, aluminum oxide, aluminum oxynitride, cerium oxide, and hafnium oxide. Alternatively, a mixed material containing such a material is employed. Alternatively, a polyimide resin, an acrylic resin, a benzocyclobutene resin, or a low dielectric constant material (low-k material) may be used for a part of these insulating layers. Moreover, as a structure of such insulating layers 11, 12, 13, and 14, a layer structure composed of a single layer may be employed, or a multilayer structure in which a plurality of layers are stacked may be employed. Such insulating layers 11, 12, 13, and 14 can be formed by using a film forming apparatus such as plasma CVD or sputtering.
- a film forming apparatus such as plasma CVD or sputtering.
- the source wiring 31 is disposed between the third insulating layer 13 and the fourth insulating layer 14.
- a multi-layered conductive layer can be adopted.
- the structure of the source electrode 24 and the drain electrode 26 a three-layer structure such as titanium / aluminum alloy / titanium or molybdenum / aluminum alloy / molybdenum is adopted.
- the aluminum alloy is an aluminum-neodymium alloy.
- a conductive wiring in which a copper alloy layer is sandwiched between conductive metal oxide layers may be employed for the source electrode 24, the drain electrode 26, and the source wiring 31.
- a material for forming the common wiring 30 the same material as that of the copper alloy layer 5 described above is employed.
- the structure of the common wiring 30 is the same as that of the copper alloy layer 5 described above.
- the pixel electrode 20 is provided in each of the plurality of pixel openings, and is connected to an active element (described later) that is a TFT. Since the active elements are arranged in a matrix on the array substrate 200, the pixel electrodes 20 are similarly arranged on the array substrate 200 in a matrix.
- the pixel electrode 20 is formed of a transparent conductive film such as ITO (Indium Tin Oxide).
- the channel layer or semiconductor layer constituting the active element may be formed of a polysilicon semiconductor or an oxide semiconductor.
- the layer configuration of the channel layer or the semiconductor layer constituting the active element may be a stacked configuration in which a polysilicon semiconductor and an oxide semiconductor are stacked.
- An element formed of two types of semiconductors for example, an active element including a channel layer that is a polysilicon semiconductor and an active element including a channel layer that is an oxide semiconductor are formed on the same surface of the array substrate. There may be.
- a configuration may be employed in which a TFT array formed of an oxide semiconductor is laminated in two layers on a polysilicon semiconductor TFT array via an insulating layer.
- the TFT formed of an oxide semiconductor has a function of supplying a signal (selecting a TFT element) to the TFT formed of a polysilicon semiconductor
- a TFT formed of a polysilicon semiconductor has a function of driving the display function layer.
- FIG. 3B shows the main part of the pixels constituting the array substrate 200, and shows the structure of one common electrode 17 in one pixel.
- the structure of the common electrode 17 shown in FIG. 3B is also applied to all the pixels on the array substrate 200.
- the second insulating layer 12 is provided below the first insulating layer 11, is formed on the common wiring 30, and has a through hole 12H that forms a part of a contact hole H described later.
- the first insulating layer 11 is provided below the common electrode 17 (electrode part 17A), is formed on the pixel electrode 20, and has a through hole 11H that forms a part of a contact hole H described later. Have.
- the position (center position) of the through hole 12H matches the position (center position) of the through hole 11H.
- the diameter (width in the X direction) of the through hole 11H is gradually reduced in the direction (Z direction) from the upper surface 11T of the first insulating layer 11 toward the common wiring 30.
- the diameter (width in the X direction) of the through hole 12H is gradually reduced in the direction (Z direction) from the upper surface 12T of the second insulating layer 12 toward the common wiring 30.
- the through hole 11H and the through hole 12H have a continuous inner wall and form a contact hole H.
- the contact hole H has a tapered shape.
- the pixel electrode 20 is formed under the first insulating layer 11 and has a through hole 20S.
- the through hole 20S is an opening where no transparent conductive film exists.
- the through hole 20S is provided at a position corresponding to the contact hole H.
- each pixel is provided with two contact holes H, that is, a left contact hole LH (H, first contact hole) and a right contact hole RH (H, second contact hole).
- Through holes 20S are provided at positions corresponding to the respective contact holes H.
- the left contact hole LH and the right contact hole RH may be simply referred to as contact holes H.
- the through hole 20S corresponds to an inner region of the inner wall 20K provided in the pixel electrode 20.
- the diameter D20S of the through hole 20S is larger than the diameter of the contact hole H.
- the through hole 11H (a part of the contact hole H) is provided inside the through hole 20S.
- the through hole 20S is filled with the first insulating layer 11, and the through hole 11H is formed so as to penetrate the filling portion 11F of the first insulating layer 11 filling the inner wall of the through hole 20S.
- a through hole 12H (a part of the contact hole H) is formed so as to be continuous with the through hole 11H also at a position below the through hole 20S.
- the number of through holes 20S formed in the pixel electrode 20 is the same as the number of contact holes H, and is formed at the same position in plan view.
- the diameter D20S of the through hole 20S is 3 ⁇ m to 6 ⁇ m, for example.
- the diameter of the through hole 20 ⁇ / b> S may be larger than the width W ⁇ b> 17 ⁇ / b> A of the common electrode 17.
- the common electrode 17 includes an electrode portion 17A (conductive portion) and a conductive connection portion 17B.
- the electrode portion 17A is formed on the upper surface 11T of the first insulating layer 11, and is disposed so as to overlap with the through hole 20S of the pixel electrode 20 when viewed from the Z direction.
- the electrode portion 17 ⁇ / b> A is provided on the surface of the array substrate 200 closest to the liquid crystal layer 300. Specifically, an alignment film is formed between the liquid crystal layer 300 and the array substrate 200, and the first insulating layer 11 is provided under the alignment film.
- the width W17A of the electrode portion 17A is, for example, about 3 ⁇ m, is larger than the upper end of the conductive connection portion 17B (connection portion between the electrode portion 17A and the conductive connection portion 17B), and has a diameter D20S (for example, 2 ⁇ m) of the through hole 20S. You may form larger. Alternatively, the diameter D20S of the through hole 20S may be larger than the width W17A of the electrode portion 17A. The diameter D20S of the through hole 20S can be set to 4 ⁇ m, for example.
- the wall portion 17K of the electrode portion 17A is the same as the inner wall 20K of the pixel electrode 20. It protrudes from the position.
- the conductive connection portion 17B is provided inside the contact hole H (through holes 11H and 12H), and is electrically connected to the common wiring 30 through the contact hole H.
- a film forming process and a patterning process are performed on the first insulating layer 11, so that the electrode portion 17A and the conductive connection portion 17B are formed.
- the common electrode 17 is formed of a transparent conductive film such as ITO.
- the first insulating layer 11 is disposed between the electrode portion 17 ⁇ / b> A and the pixel electrode 20, and the second insulating layer 12 is disposed between the common wiring 30 and the pixel electrode 20.
- the common electrode 17 and the common wiring 30 are electrically connected to each other, and the potential of the common wiring 30 and the potential of the common electrode 17 are the same.
- the potential of the common wiring 30 can be changed when liquid crystal driving and touch sensing driving (detection of change in capacitance) are performed alternately, that is, in a time division manner. Further, the frequency of the signal applied to the common wiring 30 (or the common electrode 17) is changed when liquid crystal driving and touch sensing driving (detection of change in capacitance) are performed alternately, that is, in time division. be able to. Further, during liquid crystal driving and frame inversion driving, the polarity of the potential of the common wiring 30 (or common electrode 17) is switched between positive polarity and negative polarity for each frame, for example, ⁇ 2.5 V liquid crystal driving. The liquid crystal can be driven by voltage.
- the potential of the common electrode 17 may be constant (constant potential).
- the “constant potential” in this case is, for example, the potential of the common electrode 17 that is grounded through a high resistance to the housing of the liquid crystal display device, and is ⁇ 2.5 V or the like used for the frame inversion driving. Does not mean constant potential. This is a constant potential fixed at approximately 0 V (zero volt) within a voltage range equal to or lower than the threshold voltage Vth of the liquid crystal. In other words, the “constant potential” may be a constant potential offset from the intermediate value of the liquid crystal driving voltage as long as it is within the range of Vth.
- the “high resistance” is a resistance value that can be selected from the range of 500 megaohms to 50 teraohms. As such a resistance value, typically, 500 gigaohm to 5 teraohm can be adopted.
- the common wiring 30 is grounded through a high resistance of 1 teraohm, for example, and can be set to a constant potential of about 0 V (zero volt).
- the common electrode 17 connected to the common wiring 30 also has a constant potential of about 0 V (zero volts), and the accumulated capacitance can be reset.
- the potential of the common electrode 17 is a constant potential
- the touch drive voltage is applied to the touch sensing wiring during touch sensing.
- liquid crystal driving and touch driving need not be time-division driven.
- an oxide semiconductor such as IGZO is used as a material for forming a channel layer of an active element (thin film transistor) of a liquid crystal display device
- the above-mentioned high A resistance lower than 1 teraohm may be used as the resistance.
- the gate wiring and the source wiring may be grounded through the high resistance. In this case, pixel burn-in can be prevented.
- the high resistance can be adjusted for the purpose of adjusting the time constant related to touch sensing.
- an oxide semiconductor may be simply referred to as IGZO.
- a thin film transistor in which an oxide semiconductor called IGZO or the like is used for a channel layer has extremely little leakage current and has a memory property. In other words, since a thin film transistor including a channel layer formed using an oxide semiconductor can hold a video signal, complicated signal rewriting is unnecessary.
- a thin film transistor including a channel layer formed using an oxide semiconductor has extremely good compatibility with touch sensing.
- a thin film transistor using an oxide semiconductor as a channel layer can be used for low frequency driving of liquid crystal.
- the liquid crystal drive frequency is a low frequency drive of 0.1 Hz to 30 Hz, display without flicker (flicker) is possible.
- Low-frequency driving of functional devices contributes to greatly reducing power consumption.
- dot inversion driving at a low frequency of the liquid crystal layer and touch sensing driving different from the low frequency highly accurate touch sensing can be performed.
- the second conductive wiring may be at least a source wiring for sending a video signal to the thin film transistor or a gate wiring for sending a gate signal.
- the thin film transistor may be referred to as an active element.
- FIG. 4 shows an example of a thin film transistor (TFT) having a top gate structure.
- the active element 28 includes a channel layer 27, a drain electrode 26 connected to one end of the channel layer 27 (first end, the left end of the channel layer 27 in FIG. 4), and the other end (second end, FIG. 4 and a gate electrode 25 disposed to face the channel layer 27 with the third insulating layer 13 interposed therebetween.
- FIG. 4 shows a structure in which the channel layer 27, the drain electrode 26, and the source electrode 24 constituting the active element 28 are formed on the fourth insulating layer 14, but the present invention is limited to such a structure. Not.
- the active element 28 may be formed directly on the transparent substrate 22 without providing the fourth insulating layer 14. Video signals are supplied to the source wiring 31 at a high frequency, and noise is easily generated from the source wiring 31.
- the top gate structure has an advantage that the source wiring 31 that is also a noise generation source can be moved away from the touch sensing space described above.
- the present invention is not limited to a thin film transistor having a top gate structure, and a thin film transistor having a bottom gate structure may be applied.
- the source electrode 24 and the drain electrode 26 shown in FIG. 4 are formed of conductive layers having the same structure in the same process.
- a three-layer structure of titanium / aluminum alloy / titanium is adopted as the structure of the source electrode 24 and the drain electrode 26.
- the aluminum alloy is an aluminum-neodymium alloy.
- the third insulating layer 13 located below the gate electrode 25 may be an insulating layer having the same width as the gate electrode 25. In this case, for example, dry etching using the gate electrode 25 as a mask is performed, and the third insulating layer 13 around the gate electrode 25 is removed. As a result, an insulating layer having the same width as the gate electrode 25 can be formed.
- a technique for processing an insulating layer by dry etching using the gate electrode 25 as a mask is generally called self-alignment.
- the gate electrode 25 is formed in a three-layer configuration (conductive wiring) of the first conductive metal oxide layer / copper alloy layer / second conductive metal oxide layer in the same process as the gate wiring 10.
- an oxide semiconductor called IGZO can be used as the material of the channel layer 27, for example.
- an oxide semiconductor containing two or more metal oxides of gallium, indium, zinc, tin, aluminum, germanium, antimony, bismuth, and cerium can be used.
- an oxide semiconductor containing indium oxide, gallium oxide, and zinc oxide is used.
- the material of the channel layer 27 formed of an oxide semiconductor may be any of single crystal, polycrystal, microcrystal, a mixture of microcrystal and amorphous, or amorphous.
- the thickness of the oxide semiconductor can be in the range of 2 nm to 50 nm.
- the channel layer 27 may be formed of a polysilicon semiconductor.
- An oxide semiconductor or a polysilicon semiconductor can be used, for example, in the configuration of a complementary transistor having a p / n junction, or can be used in the configuration of a single channel transistor having only an n-type junction.
- a stacked structure of the oxide semiconductor for example, a stacked structure in which an n-type oxide semiconductor and an n-type oxide semiconductor having different electrical characteristics from the n-type oxide semiconductor are stacked may be employed.
- the n-type oxide semiconductor to be stacked may include a plurality of layers. In the stacked n-type oxide semiconductor, the band gap of the underlying n-type semiconductor can be different from the band gap of the n-type semiconductor located in the upper layer.
- the microcrystal refers to a microcrystalline oxide semiconductor film obtained by heat-treating an amorphous oxide semiconductor formed with a sputtering apparatus in a range of 180 ° C. to 450 ° C., for example.
- it refers to a microcrystalline oxide semiconductor film formed with the substrate temperature at the time of film formation set to around 200 ° C.
- the microcrystalline oxide semiconductor film is an oxide semiconductor film in which crystal grains of at least about 1 nm to about 3 nm or larger than 3 nm can be observed by an observation method such as TEM.
- An oxide semiconductor can achieve improved carrier mobility and improved reliability by changing from amorphous to crystalline.
- the melting point as an oxide of indium oxide or gallium oxide is high.
- Antimony oxide and bismuth oxide have melting points of 1000 ° C. or lower, and oxides have low melting points.
- the crystallization temperature of the composite oxide can be lowered due to the effect of antimony oxide having a low melting point.
- an oxide semiconductor that can be easily crystallized from an amorphous state to a microcrystalline state can be provided.
- an n-type oxide semiconductor may be stacked on an n-type polysilicon semiconductor.
- a method for obtaining a stacked structure using the polysilicon semiconductor as an underlayer it is preferable to form an oxide semiconductor by sputtering or the like while maintaining a vacuum state after the polysilicon crystallization step by laser annealing.
- a complex oxide rich in zinc oxide can be used because it is required to be easily soluble in wet etching in a later step.
- an oxide semiconductor layer may not be stacked only on the polysilicon channel layer (for example, removed by wet etching).
- Zn (zinc) can be replaced with Sb (antimony) or Bi (bismuth).
- one thin film transistor (active element) having an n-type oxide semiconductor channel layer and one thin film transistor (active element) having an n-type silicon semiconductor channel layer are provided in the same pixel, and each channel layer of the thin film transistor It is also possible to drive a display functional layer such as a liquid crystal layer or an OLED so as to make use of the above characteristics.
- a display functional layer such as a liquid crystal layer or an OLED
- an n-type polysilicon thin film transistor is adopted as a drive transistor for applying a voltage (current) to the display function layer
- an n-type oxidation transistor is used as a switching transistor for sending a signal to the polysilicon thin film transistor.
- a thin film semiconductor thin film transistor can be employed.
- each of the drain electrode 26 and the source electrode 24 can be adopted for each of the drain electrode 26 and the source electrode 24 (source wiring 31).
- a multilayer conductive layer can be used for the drain electrode 26 and the source electrode 24.
- an electrode structure in which aluminum, copper, or an alloy layer thereof is sandwiched between molybdenum, titanium, tantalum, tungsten, a conductive metal oxide layer, or the like can be employed.
- the drain electrode 26 and the source electrode 24 may be formed first, and the channel layer 27 may be formed so as to be stacked on these two electrodes.
- the structure of the transistor may be a multi-gate structure such as a double gate structure.
- the transistor structure in the array substrate may be a dual gate structure in which electrodes are arranged above and below the channel layer.
- the mobility and electron concentration of the semiconductor layer or channel layer may be adjusted in the thickness direction.
- the semiconductor layer or the channel layer may have a stacked structure in which different oxide semiconductors are stacked.
- the channel length of the transistor determined by the minimum distance between the source electrode and the drain electrode can be 10 nm to 10 ⁇ m, for example, 20 nm to 0.5 ⁇ m.
- the third insulating layer 13 functions as a gate insulating layer.
- insulating layer materials include hafnium silicate (HfSiOx), silicon oxide, aluminum oxide, silicon nitride, silicon oxynitride, aluminum oxynitride, zirconium oxide, gallium oxide, zinc oxide, hafnium oxide, cerium oxide, lanthanum oxide, Or the insulating layer etc. which were obtained by mixing these materials are employ
- Cerium oxide has a high dielectric constant and a strong bond between cerium and oxygen atoms. For this reason, it is preferable that the gate insulating layer be a composite oxide containing cerium oxide.
- Cerium oxide has an oxidizing power.
- the gate insulating layer is, for example, an oxide containing cerium oxide or an oxynitride containing cerium oxide.
- Cerium oxide can store and release oxygen. Therefore, a structure in which an oxide semiconductor and cerium oxide are in contact with each other can supply oxygen from the cerium oxide to the oxide semiconductor, avoid oxygen vacancies in the oxide semiconductor, and provide a stable oxide semiconductor (channel layer). Can be realized. In the configuration in which a nitride such as SiN is used for the gate insulating layer, the above action does not appear.
- the material of the gate insulating layer may include a lanthanoid metal silicate represented by cerium silicate (CeSiOx). Alternatively, lanthanum cerium composite oxide, lanthanum cerium silicate, and cerium oxynitride may be included.
- the structure using nitride for the gate insulating layer does not exhibit the above-described action.
- the material of the gate insulating layer may include a lanthanoid metal silicate represented by cerium silicate (CeSiOx).
- the structure of the third insulating layer 13 may be a single layer film, a mixed film, or a multilayer film.
- the mixed film or multilayer film can be formed of a material selected from the above insulating film materials.
- the film thickness of the third insulating layer 13 is a film thickness that can be selected from a range of 2 nm to 300 nm, for example.
- the interface of the third insulating layer 13 in contact with the channel layer 27 can be formed in a state where a large amount of oxygen is contained (film formation atmosphere).
- a gate insulating layer containing cerium oxide can be formed in an introduced gas containing oxygen after forming an oxide semiconductor.
- the surface of the oxide semiconductor located under the gate insulating layer can be oxidized, and the degree of oxidation of the surface can be adjusted.
- a thin film transistor having a bottom gate structure since the step of forming a gate insulating layer is performed before the step of an oxide semiconductor, it is slightly difficult to adjust the degree of oxidation of the surface of the oxide semiconductor.
- oxidation of the surface of the oxide semiconductor can be promoted more than in the bottom gate structure, and oxygen vacancies in the oxide semiconductor are less likely to occur.
- the plurality of insulating layers including the first insulating layer 11, the second insulating layer 12, the third insulating layer 13, and the insulating layer (fourth insulating layer 14) underlying the oxide semiconductor are formed using an inorganic insulating material or an organic insulating material. Can be formed.
- silicon oxide, silicon oxynitride, and aluminum oxide can be used.
- a structure of the insulating layer a single layer or a plurality of layers including the above materials can be used. A configuration in which a plurality of layers formed of different insulating materials are stacked may be employed.
- an acrylic resin, a polyimide resin, a benzocyclobutene resin, a polyamide resin, or the like may be used for some of the insulating layers.
- a low dielectric constant material (low-k material) can also be used.
- the gate electrode 25 is disposed via the third insulating layer 13.
- the gate electrode 25 (gate wiring 10) can be formed in the same process using the same material as the common electrode 17 and the common wiring 30 so as to have the same layer structure. Further, the gate electrode 25 may be formed using the same material as the drain electrode 26 and the source electrode 24 described above so as to have the same layer structure.
- the surface of the metal layer exposed at the end of the gate electrode 25 can be covered with a complex oxide containing indium.
- the entire gate electrode 25 may be covered with a nitride such as silicon nitride or molybdenum nitride so as to include the end (cross section) of the gate electrode 25.
- a nitride such as silicon nitride or molybdenum nitride so as to include the end (cross section) of the gate electrode 25.
- an insulating film having the same composition as the gate insulating layer described above may be stacked with a thickness greater than 50 nm.
- the third insulating layer 13 positioned immediately above the channel layer 27 of the active element 28 is subjected to dry etching or the like, so that the thickness of the third insulating layer 13 is increased. Can also be made thinner. Oxide semiconductors having different electrical properties may be further inserted at the interface of the gate electrode 25 in contact with the third insulating layer 13.
- the third insulating layer 13 may be formed of an insulating metal oxide layer containing at least cerium oxide or gallium oxide.
- a light shielding film may be formed below the channel layer 27.
- a refractory metal such as molybdenum, tungsten, titanium, or chromium can be used.
- the gate wiring 10 is electrically linked to the active element 28. Specifically, the gate electrode 25 connected to the gate wiring 10 and the channel layer 27 of the active element 28 face each other with the third insulating layer 13 interposed therebetween. Switching driving is performed in the active element 28 in accordance with the scanning signal supplied from the video signal control unit 121 to the gate electrode 25.
- the third insulating layer 13 has a function as a gate insulating layer located between the gate electrode 25 and the channel layer 27, and requires an appropriate film thickness considering the switching characteristics of the active element 28. Is done.
- the third insulation positioned immediately above the channel layer 27 while keeping the film thickness of the third insulation layer 13 between the common wiring 30 and the source wiring 31 large. By reducing the thickness of the layer 13, noise caused by the video signal supplied to the source wiring can be prevented from entering the common wiring 30, and desired switching characteristics can be realized in the active element 28. Can do.
- a light shielding film may be formed below the channel layer 27.
- a refractory metal such as molybdenum, tungsten, titanium, or chromium can be used.
- the gate wiring 10 is electrically linked to the active element 28. Specifically, the gate electrode 25 connected to the gate wiring 10 and the channel layer 27 of the active element 28 face each other with the third insulating layer 13 interposed therebetween. Switching driving is performed in the active element 28 in accordance with the scanning signal supplied from the video signal control unit 121 to the gate electrode 25.
- a voltage as a video signal is applied to the source wiring 31 from the video signal control unit 121.
- a video signal having a positive or negative voltage of ⁇ 2.5 V to ⁇ 5 V is applied to the source wiring 31.
- the voltage applied to the common electrode 17 can be, for example, a range of ⁇ 2.5 V that changes every frame inversion.
- the potential of the common electrode 17 may be a constant potential in a range from the liquid crystal driving threshold value Vth to 0V. When this common electrode is applied to constant potential driving described later, it is desirable to use an oxide semiconductor for the channel layer 27.
- the channel layer composed of an oxide semiconductor has a high electrical withstand voltage, and a transistor using an oxide semiconductor applies a high drive voltage exceeding the range of ⁇ 5 V to the electrode portion 17A, thereby speeding up the response of the liquid crystal. It is possible to Various driving methods such as frame inversion driving, column inversion (vertical line) inversion driving, horizontal line inversion driving, and dot inversion driving can be applied to the liquid crystal driving.
- a metal element or a metalloid element in a range of 0.1 at% or more and 4 at% or less can be added to copper.
- the effect that copper migration can be suppressed is obtained by adding an element to copper.
- elements that can be arranged at the lattice positions of copper by substituting a part of copper atoms in the crystal (grain) of the copper layer, and copper atoms in the vicinity of the crystal grain boundary of copper deposited at the crystal grain boundary of the copper layer It is preferable to add to copper together with an element that suppresses the movement of.
- the copper atom in order to suppress the movement of the copper atom, it is preferable to add an element heavier than the copper atom (having a larger atomic weight) to the copper. In addition, it is preferable to select an additive element in which the conductivity of copper is less likely to decrease with an addition amount within a range of 0.1 at% to 4 at% with respect to copper. Furthermore, in consideration of vacuum film formation such as sputtering, an element whose film formation rate such as sputtering is close to copper is preferable. As described above, the technique of adding an element to copper can also be applied when copper is replaced with silver or aluminum. In other words, a silver alloy or an aluminum alloy may be used instead of the copper alloy.
- Adding an element that can be placed in the copper lattice position to replace a part of the copper atoms in the crystal (grain) of the copper layer means that, in other words, a metal or metalloid that forms a solid solution with copper near room temperature. It is to be added to copper.
- the metal that easily forms a solid solution with copper include manganese, nickel, zinc, palladium, gallium, and gold (Au).
- Adding an element to copper that precipitates at the grain boundary of the copper layer and suppresses the movement of copper atoms in the vicinity of the copper grain boundary means, in other words, a metal or metalloid that does not form a solid solution with copper near room temperature. Is to add.
- metals and metalloids that do not form a solid solution with copper or that do not easily form a solid solution with copper.
- refractory metals such as titanium, zirconium, molybdenum, and tungsten, and elements called semimetals such as silicon, germanium, antimony, and bismuth can be used.
- Copper has a problem in reliability from the viewpoint of migration. Reliability can be supplemented by adding the above metals and metalloids to copper. The effect of suppressing migration can be obtained by adding the above metal or metalloid to copper at 0.1 at% or more. However, in the case where the above metal or metalloid is added in excess of 4 at% with respect to copper, the copper conductivity is significantly deteriorated, and the merit of selecting copper or a copper alloy cannot be obtained.
- a composite oxide (mixed oxide) selected from two or more of indium oxide, tin oxide, zinc oxide, and antimony oxide can be employed. Further, a small amount of titanium oxide, zirconium oxide, aluminum oxide, magnesium oxide, and germanium oxide may be added to this composite oxide.
- a composite oxide of indium oxide and tin oxide is generally used as a low resistance transparent conductive film called ITO.
- the etching rate in wet etching can be adjusted by adjusting the mixing ratio of zinc oxide and tin oxide.
- the etching rate of the complex oxide and the etching rate of the copper alloy layer can be adjusted,
- the pattern widths of these three layers can be made substantially equal.
- a transistor having a top gate structure is employed as the active element 28, a transistor having a top gate structure is employed.
- a transistor having a bottom gate structure may be employed.
- the position of the source wiring 31 in the Z direction may be separated from the touch sensing wiring 3. it can.
- the source wiring can be separated from the space where the electrostatic capacitance is generated between the touch sensing wiring 3 and the common electrode 17.
- the physical space between the touch sensing wiring 3 and the common electrode 17 does not include the source wiring 31 and the pixel electrode 20.
- a physical space between the touch sensing wiring 3 and the common electrode 17 may be referred to as a touch sensing space.
- Touch sensing drive 6 and 7 show a structure when the touch sensing wiring 3 functions as a touch drive electrode and the common electrode 17 functions as a touch detection electrode in the display device DSP1 according to the first embodiment of the present invention. ing. The following description is made based on the structure shown in FIGS. As described above, the roles of the touch drive electrode and the touch detection electrode can be interchanged.
- FIG. 6 is a schematic cross-sectional view illustrating a state where an electric field is generated between the touch sensing wiring and the common electrode.
- FIG. 7 illustrates a state in which a pointer such as a finger contacts the surface of the display device substrate 100 on the viewer side. It is sectional drawing which shows the change of the production
- the touch sensing wiring 3 and the common electrode 17 face each other in an oblique direction inclined with respect to the thickness direction of the liquid crystal layer 300. For this reason, it is possible to easily improve the contrast of the detection signal with respect to a change in the state in which the oblique electric field is generated, and to increase the S / N ratio of touch sensing (S / N ratio improvement effect) is obtained. Further, in such an arrangement in which the touch sensing wiring 3 and the common electrode 17 face each other in an oblique direction, since the overlapping portion where the touch sensing wiring 3 and the common electrode 17 overlap in a plan view is not formed, the parasitic capacitance is greatly reduced. be able to.
- the common electrode 17 functions as a detection electrode and has a length EL.
- the common electrode 17 and the touch sensing wiring 3 functioning as a drive electrode and the common electrode 17 which is parallel in plan view and has a length EL can ensure a sufficient and uniform capacitance.
- FIG. 6 schematically shows a capacitance generation state when the touch sensing wiring 3 functions as a touch drive electrode and the common electrode 17 functions as a touch detection electrode.
- the touch sensing wiring 3 is supplied with a pulsed write signal at a predetermined frequency.
- the supply of the writing signal may be performed by time division between liquid crystal driving and touch driving.
- the electrostatic capacitance indicated by the electric force lines 33 (arrows) is maintained between the grounded common electrode 17 and the touch sensing wiring 3 by the write signal.
- the plurality of touch sensing wires 3 extend in the first direction (for example, the Y direction) and are arranged in the second direction (for example, the X direction).
- the plurality of common wirings 30 are positioned below the pixel electrodes 20 inside the array substrate 200 in the Z direction, extend in the second direction (for example, the X direction), and extend in the first direction (for example, for example) In the Y direction).
- the common electrode 17 is electrically connected to the common wiring 30, and a change in capacitance between the common electrode 17 and the touch sensing wiring 3 is used for detecting the presence or absence of touch.
- a rectangular wave pulse signal is applied between the touch sensing wiring 3 and the common electrode 17 at a frequency of, for example, 500 Hz or more and 500 KHz or less.
- the common electrode 17 as the detection electrode maintains a constant output waveform by the application of the pulse signal.
- the distance to the display surface of the pointer such as a finger can be measured by the time from the proximity of the pointer to contact (usually several hundred ⁇ sec or more and several msec or less), the number of output pulses counted within that time, and the like.
- Stable touch detection can be performed by taking the integral value of the touch detection signal.
- All of the touch sensing wiring 3 and the common wiring 30 may not be used for touch sensing. Thinning driving may be performed. Next, a case where the touch sensing wiring 3 is driven to be thinned will be described. First, all the touch sensing wires 3 are divided into a plurality of groups. The number of groups is less than the number of all touch sensing wires 3. Assume that the number of wires constituting one group is, for example, six. Here, out of all the wirings (the number of wirings is six), for example, two wirings are selected (the number smaller than the number of all the wirings, two ⁇ 6).
- touch sensing is performed using two selected wirings, and the potentials of the remaining four wirings are set to floating potentials. Since the display device DSP1 has a plurality of groups, touch sensing can be performed for each group in which the wiring function is defined as described above. Similarly, thinning driving may be performed on the common wiring 30 as well.
- a pointer used for touching is a finger and a pen is different in the area and capacity of a pointer that is in contact with or close to the pointer. The number of wires to be thinned out can be adjusted by such a large pointer.
- a pointer with a thin tip such as a pen or a needle tip can reduce the number of thinned wires and use a high-density touch sensing wiring matrix. Even during fingerprint authentication, a high-density touch sensing wiring matrix can be used.
- the number of wires used for scanning or detection is reduced, so that the touch sensing speed can be increased.
- the number of wirings constituting one group is six.
- one group is formed with the number of wirings of 10 or more, and two wirings selected in one group are connected. It may be used for touch sensing. That is, the number of thinned-out wirings (the number of wirings having a floating potential) is increased, thereby reducing the density of selected wirings used for touch sensing (the density of selected wirings with respect to the total number of wirings).
- By performing detection it contributes to reduction of power consumption and improvement of touch detection accuracy.
- the source wiring 31 and the gate wiring 10 can be grounded or opened (floating) to reduce parasitic capacitance caused by these wirings.
- Touch sensing drive and liquid crystal drive can be performed in a time-sharing manner.
- the frequency of touch driving may be adjusted according to the required speed of touch input.
- the touch drive frequency can be higher than the liquid crystal drive frequency.
- the timing at which a pointer such as a finger contacts or approaches the surface of the display device substrate 100 on the viewer side is irregular and short, so that the touch drive frequency is preferably high.
- the touch drive frequency different from the liquid crystal drive frequency there are several methods for making the touch drive frequency different from the liquid crystal drive frequency.
- the backlight may be turned off during black display (off), and touch sensing may be performed during this black display period (a period that does not affect liquid crystal display).
- various touch drive frequencies can be selected. Even when a liquid crystal having negative dielectric anisotropy is used, it is easy to select a touch drive frequency different from the liquid crystal drive frequency.
- the electric lines of force 33 generated from the touch sensing wiring 3 toward the common electrode 17 act in an oblique direction or a thickness direction of the liquid crystal layer 300, but have different negative dielectric constants.
- liquid crystal having directionality If liquid crystal having directionality is used, the liquid crystal molecules do not rise in the direction of the electric force lines 33, so that the influence on the display quality is reduced. Furthermore, when the wiring resistance of the touch sensing wiring 3 or the common wiring 30 is lowered and the touch driving voltage is lowered as the resistance decreases, a touch driving frequency different from the liquid crystal driving frequency can be easily set. By using a metal or alloy having good conductivity such as copper or silver for the metal layer constituting the touch sensing wiring 3 or the common wiring 30, a low wiring resistance can be obtained.
- a display device that performs 3D (stereoscopic video) display
- a plurality of video signals (for example, for the right eye) are displayed in order to display a three-dimensional front image or a deep image in addition to a normal two-dimensional image display.
- the liquid crystal driving frequency for example, high-speed driving such as 240 Hz or 480 Hz and many video signals are required.
- the merit obtained by making the touch drive frequency different from the liquid crystal drive frequency is great.
- high-speed and high-accuracy touch sensing is possible in a 3D display game device. This embodiment is particularly useful for a display with a high touch input frequency such as a finger of a game machine or an automatic teller machine.
- the liquid crystal drive frequency is 60 Hz or a drive frequency that is an integral multiple of this frequency.
- the touch sensing part is affected by noise associated with the liquid crystal driving frequency.
- a normal household power supply is an AC power supply of 50 Hz or 60 Hz, and the touch sensing part easily picks up noise generated from an electric device that operates with such an external power supply. Therefore, by adopting a frequency different from the frequency of 50 Hz or 60 Hz or a frequency slightly shifted from an integer multiple of these frequencies as the frequency of touch driving, the influence of noise generated from liquid crystal driving or external electronic devices can be reduced. It can be greatly reduced.
- the application timing of the touch sensing drive signal may be shifted from the application timing of the liquid crystal drive signal on the time axis.
- the shift amount may be a slight amount, for example, a shift amount of ⁇ 3% to ⁇ 17% from the noise frequency.
- interference with noise frequencies can be reduced.
- a different frequency that does not interfere with the liquid crystal driving frequency and the power supply frequency can be selected as the frequency of the touch driving, for example, from the range of 500 Hz to 500 KHz.
- the influence of noise such as coupling noise in column inversion drive can be reduced.
- the power consumption in the touch sensing can be reduced by detecting the touch position by the thinning drive as described above, instead of supplying the drive voltage to all of the touch sensing wires 3.
- wiring that is not used for touch sensing may be switched to a detection electrode or a driving electrode by a switching element to perform high-definition touch sensing.
- the wiring having the floating pattern can be switched so as to be electrically connected to the ground (grounded to the housing).
- the signal wiring of an active element such as a TFT may be temporarily grounded to a ground (a housing or the like) when a touch sensing signal is detected.
- touch sensing wiring that requires time to reset the capacitance detected by touch sensing control that is, touch sensing wiring having a large time constant (product of capacitance and resistance) in touch sensing, for example, touches on odd rows
- the sensing wiring and the touch sensing wiring in the even-numbered rows may be alternately used for sensing to perform driving with the time constant adjusted.
- a plurality of touch sensing wirings may be grouped for driving and detection. The grouping of the plurality of touch sensing wires may not be line sequential but may be a collective detection method called a self detection method for each group. Parallel driving may be performed in units of groups. Alternatively, in order to cancel noise such as parasitic capacitance, a difference detection method that takes a difference between detection signals of touch sensing wirings close to or adjacent to each other may be employed.
- the first embodiment described above it is possible to prevent the occurrence of copper diffusion and copper migration, and the reliability in electrical mounting can be improved.
- the above-described copper alloy as a constituent material of the conductive wiring and touch sensing wiring, stable touch sensing is possible, high touch sensing sensitivity, and good responsiveness can be obtained.
- the display device DSP1 having a high S / N ratio, a high resolution, and a high-speed touch input.
- a thin film transistor including an oxide semiconductor as a channel layer a display device DSP1 having low power consumption, less flicker, and a touch sensing function can be realized.
- a structure provided with a color filter 51 is used.
- the color filter may be omitted.
- the structure in which the color filter 51 is omitted may be, for example, a structure including the touch sensing wiring 3 provided on the transparent substrate 21 and the transparent resin layer 16 formed so as to cover the touch sensing wiring 3.
- each LED of red light emission, green light emission, and blue light emission is provided in the backlight unit, and color display is performed by a field sequential method.
- the layer configuration of the touch sensing wiring 3 provided on the transparent substrate 21 shown in FIG. 3A is the layer configuration of the common wiring 30 (conductive wiring) formed on the array substrate 200 and the layer configuration of the gate electrode 25 (gate wiring 10). Can be adopted.
- a black layer 8 or an antireflection film can be formed at the interface between the transparent substrate 21 of the display device substrate 100 (first substrate) and the touch sensing wiring 3.
- the black layer 8 can be formed, for example, by dispersing carbon, carbon nanotubes, carbon nanohorns, or a mixture of a plurality of organic pigments in a resin. Also in this case, the same effect as the above-described embodiment can be obtained.
- the present invention can also be applied to a display device that does not have a touch sensing function.
- a structure in which the touch sensing wiring 3 is removed from the display device DSP1 shown in FIG. 3A is employed.
- a structure in which conductive wiring is not provided on the first substrate but conductive wiring is provided on the array substrate 200 which is the second substrate is employed.
- FIG. 8 is a sectional view partially showing a display device DSP2 according to the second embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 9 is a cross-sectional view partially showing an array substrate 500 according to the second embodiment of the present invention.
- an organic EL layer is employed as a functional device, and a thin film transistor (active element) is employed as a drive device.
- the thin film transistor has a channel layer 58 made of an oxide semiconductor.
- a display device substrate 400 (first substrate) constituting the display device DSP2 of the second embodiment includes a transparent substrate 44 (substrate body) having a first surface MF and a second surface MS opposite to the first surface MF. ).
- a first touch sensing wiring 3 conductive wiring, first conductive wiring
- a second touch sensing wiring 2 conductive wiring, third conductive wiring
- the second touch sensing wiring 2 is located between the first touch sensing wiring 3 and the array substrate 500 (second substrate).
- the second touch sensing wiring 2 and the first surface MF are covered with a second transparent resin layer 105.
- An insulating layer I (touch wiring insulating layer) is provided between the first touch sensing wiring 3 and the second touch sensing wiring 2 so as to cover the first touch sensing wiring 3. And the second touch sensing wiring 2 are electrically insulated from each other by the insulating layer I.
- the first transparent resin layer 108 and the second transparent resin layer 105 are bonded together.
- a display device including an array substrate 500 including a light emitting layer 92 that is an organic EL, a first touch sensing wiring 3 and a second touch sensing wiring 2 through a first transparent resin layer 108 having low moisture permeability.
- the substrate 400 is bonded. That is, the light emitting layer 92 (functional device) is provided on the surface of the array substrate 500 facing the display device substrate 400.
- the first touch sensing wiring 3 of the second embodiment corresponds to the touch sensing wiring 3 of the first embodiment and has the same configuration as that of the first embodiment, that is, a black layer and a black layer. It has a metal laminate structure provided on top. In plan view, the first touch sensing wiring 3 is provided at a position corresponding to a black matrix (black layer) provided on the transparent substrate 44.
- the first touch sensing wiring 3 has a configuration in which a copper alloy layer 5 is sandwiched between a first conductive metal oxide layer 6 and a second conductive metal oxide layer 4.
- the second touch sensing wiring 2 extends in a direction orthogonal to the direction in which the first touch sensing wiring 3 extends.
- the second touch sensing wiring 2 is provided on the insulating layer I.
- the second touch sensing wiring 2 has the same configuration as the touch sensing wiring 3 of the first embodiment, that is, has a black layer and a metal laminate structure provided on the black layer.
- the second touch sensing wiring 2 is provided at a position corresponding to a black matrix (black layer) provided on the insulating layer I.
- the second touch sensing wiring 2 has a configuration in which a copper alloy layer 5 is sandwiched between a first conductive metal oxide layer 6 and a second conductive metal oxide layer 4.
- the first touch sensing wiring 3 and the second touch sensing wiring 2 are connected to the touch sensing control unit 122, and the touch sensing control unit 122 is interposed between the first touch sensing wiring 3 and the second touch sensing wiring 2. It detects the change in capacitance that occurs and performs touch sensing.
- Each of the plurality of first touch sensing wires 3 extending in the X direction and the plurality of second touch sensing wires 2 extending in the Y direction are electrically independent.
- the first touch sensing wiring 3 and the second touch sensing wiring 2 are orthogonal to each other in plan view.
- the first touch sensing wiring 3 can be used as a touch detection electrode
- the second touch sensing wiring 2 can be used as a touch drive electrode.
- the touch sensing control unit 122 uses the capacitance C2 between the first touch sensing wiring 3 and the second touch sensing wiring 2 at the intersection of the first touch sensing wiring 3 and the second touch sensing wiring 2 as a touch signal. Detect changes. Further, the role of the first touch sensing wiring 3 and the role of the second touch sensing wiring 2 may be interchanged. Specifically, the first touch sensing wiring 3 may be used as a touch drive electrode, and the second touch sensing wiring 2 may be used as a touch detection electrode.
- each of the first touch sensing wiring 3 and the second touch sensing wiring 2 the same structure as the cross-sectional structure shown in FIG. 5 described in the first embodiment can be adopted.
- the first touch sensing wiring 3 and the second touch sensing wiring 2 orthogonal to the grid also serve as a black matrix for improving display contrast.
- the substrate 45 of the array substrate 500 need not be a transparent substrate.
- a substrate applicable to the array substrate 500 a glass substrate, a ceramic substrate, a quartz substrate, a sapphire substrate, silicon, silicon carbide, silicon germanium, or the like can be used.
- a semiconductor substrate, a plastic substrate, etc. are mentioned.
- a planarizing layer 96 formed on the layer 12 is sequentially stacked on the substrate 45.
- a contact hole 93 is formed in the planarizing layer 96 at a position corresponding to the drain electrode 56 of the active element 68.
- a bank 94 is formed on the planarization layer 96 at a position corresponding to the channel layer 58. In a region between the banks 94 adjacent to each other in a cross-sectional view, that is, in a region surrounded by the banks 94 in a plan view, the upper surface of the planarization layer 96, the inside of the contact hole 93, and the drain electrode 56 are covered.
- a lower electrode 88 (pixel electrode) is formed on the substrate. Note that the lower electrode 88 may not be formed on the upper surface of the bank 94.
- a hole injection layer 91 is formed so as to cover the lower electrode 88, the bank 94, and the planarization layer 96.
- a light emitting layer 92, an upper electrode 87, and a sealing layer 109 are sequentially stacked.
- the lower electrode 88 has a configuration in which a silver or silver alloy layer is sandwiched between conductive metal oxide layers.
- an organic resin such as an acrylic resin, a polyimide resin, or a novolac phenol resin can be used.
- the bank 94 may be further laminated with an inorganic material such as silicon oxide or silicon oxynitride.
- an acrylic resin, a polyimide resin, a benzocyclobutene resin, a polyamide resin, or the like may be used.
- a low dielectric constant material (low-k material) can also be used.
- any of the planarization layer 96, the sealing layer 109, or the substrate 45 may have a light scattering function. Alternatively, a light scattering layer may be formed above the substrate 45.
- reference numeral 290 indicates a light emitting region composed of the lower electrode 88, the hole injection layer 91, the light emitting layer 92, and the upper electrode 87.
- the array substrate 500 includes a light emitting layer 92 (organic EL layer) that is a functional device.
- a light emitting layer 92 organic EL layer
- the light emitting layer 92 when an electric field is applied between a pair of electrodes, holes injected from an anode (for example, a lower electrode) and electrons injected from a cathode (for example, an upper electrode, a pixel electrode) are recombined. It is a display functional layer that is excited and emits light.
- the light emitting layer 92 contains at least a material having a light emitting property (light emitting material), and preferably contains a material having an electron transporting property.
- the light emitting layer 92 is a layer formed between the anode and the cathode.
- the hole injection layer 91 is formed on the lower electrode 88 (anode)
- the hole injection layer 91 and the upper electrode 87 are formed.
- the light emitting layer 92 is formed between the two.
- a hole transport layer is formed on the anode
- the light emitting layer 92 is formed between the hole transport layer and the cathode.
- the roles of the upper electrode 87 and the lower electrode 88 can be interchanged.
- the film thickness of the light emitting layer 92 is arbitrary as long as the effects of the present invention are not significantly impaired. However, it is preferable that the film thickness is large in that a defect is hardly generated in the film. On the other hand, when the film thickness is small, the drive voltage is low, which is preferable. For this reason, the film thickness of the light emitting layer 92 is preferably 3 nm or more, more preferably 5 nm or more, and on the other hand, it is usually preferably 200 nm or less, and more preferably 100 nm or less.
- the material of the light-emitting layer 92 is not particularly limited as long as it emits light at a desired emission wavelength and does not impair the effects of the present invention, and a known light-emitting material can be applied.
- the light emitting material may be a fluorescent light emitting material or a phosphorescent light emitting material, but a material having good light emission efficiency is preferred, and a phosphorescent light emitting material is preferred from the viewpoint of internal quantum efficiency.
- Examples of the light emitting material that gives blue light emission include naphthalene, perylene, pyrene, anthracene, coumarin, chrysene, p-bis (2-phenylethenyl) benzene, and derivatives thereof.
- Examples of the light emitting material that gives green light emission include quinacridone derivatives, coumarin derivatives, aluminum complexes such as Al (C 9 H 6 NO) 3, and the like.
- Examples of the light-emitting material that gives red light emission include DCM (4- (dicyanometyrene) -2-methyl-6- (p-dimethylaminostyryl) -4H-pyran) compounds, benzopyran derivatives, rhodamine derivatives, benzothioxanthene derivatives, aza Examples include benzothioxanthene.
- the configuration of the organic EL layer constituting the light emitting layer 92 and the light emitting material are not limited to the above materials.
- the light emitting layer 92 is formed on the hole injection layer 91 and is driven by a driving voltage applied between the upper electrode 87 and the lower electrode 88.
- the lower electrode 88 has a three-layer structure in which the reflective layer is sandwiched between the conductive metal oxide layers.
- an electron injection layer, an electron transport layer, a hole transport layer, or the like may be inserted between the upper electrode 87 and the lower electrode 88.
- a refractory metal oxide such as tungsten oxide or molybdenum oxide can be used.
- a silver alloy, aluminum alloy, or the like having a high light reflectance can be applied.
- conductive metal oxides such as ITO do not have good adhesion to aluminum.
- the interface such as the electrode or the contact hole is made of ITO and an aluminum alloy, poor electrical connection is likely to occur.
- Silver or a silver alloy has good adhesion to a conductive metal oxide such as ITO, and a conductive metal oxide such as ITO tends to obtain an ohmic contact.
- FIG. 9 shows a structure of a thin film transistor (TFT) employing a top gate structure as an example of the active element 68.
- TFT thin film transistor
- the gate electrode 95 is electrically linked with the gate wiring (conductive wiring, second conductive wiring), and drives the active element 68.
- the first touch sensing wiring 3 conductive wiring, first conductive wiring
- the second touch sensing wiring 2 conductive wiring, third conductive wiring
- the gate wiring conductive wiring, second conductive wiring.
- the material composition of the conductive wiring is the same as that of the first embodiment in the second embodiment.
- an organic EL light emitting layer is used as a functional device.
- a micro LED can be used instead of the organic EL light emitting layer.
- Vth threshold voltage
- a transistor using a polysilicon semiconductor as a channel layer of a thin film transistor has a large variation in Vth of the transistor, and is not suitable for driving an organic EL light emitting layer or a micro LED which requires high driving voltage and uniformity.
- a thin film transistor including a channel layer formed using an oxide semiconductor has a small variation in Vth and is suitable for driving an organic EL light emitting layer or a micro LED.
- Driving an organic EL or LED using a thin film transistor including a channel layer formed of an oxide semiconductor is preferable to driving using a thin film transistor including a channel layer formed of a polysilicon semiconductor.
- oxide semiconductors called IGZO are collectively formed by vacuum film formation such as sputtering. After the oxide semiconductor is formed, heat treatment after forming a pattern such as a TFT is also performed in a lump. For this reason, variation in electrical characteristics (for example, Vth) related to the channel layer is extremely small. In order to suppress variations in luminance when driving an organic EL or LED, it is necessary to suppress variations in Vth of the thin film transistor within a small range.
- the thin film transistor used in the display device including the organic EL or LED is preferably a thin film transistor including a channel layer formed of an oxide semiconductor.
- a thin film transistor including a channel layer formed using an oxide semiconductor has very little leakage current, stability after input of a scanning signal or a video signal is high.
- a thin film transistor including a channel layer formed of a polysilicon semiconductor has a leakage current larger by two digits or more than an oxide semiconductor transistor. It is preferable that this leakage current is small because it leads to highly accurate touch sensing.
- an oxide semiconductor called IGZO can be used as the material of the channel layer 58.
- the oxide semiconductor material constituting the channel layer 58 includes a metal oxide containing at least one selected from the group consisting of gallium, indium, zinc, tin, aluminum, germanium, and cerium, antimony, and bismuth. The material containing the metal oxide containing at least any one of them can be used.
- an oxide semiconductor containing indium oxide, gallium oxide, antimony oxide, or the like is used for the channel layer.
- the material of the channel layer 58 formed using an oxide semiconductor may be any of single crystal, polycrystal, microcrystal, a mixture of microcrystal and amorphous, or amorphous.
- a plurality of oxide semiconductors having different carrier mobilities in the thickness direction of the channel layer may be formed.
- the thickness of the oxide semiconductor can be in the range of 2 nm to 50 nm.
- the channel layer 58 may be formed of a polysilicon semiconductor.
- a structure in which two thin film transistors are stacked may be employed.
- a thin film transistor including a channel layer formed of a polysilicon semiconductor may be used as a thin film transistor located in a lower layer.
- a thin film transistor including a channel layer formed using an oxide semiconductor is used as a thin film transistor positioned in an upper layer.
- the thin film transistors are arranged in a matrix in a plan view.
- high mobility is obtained by the polysilicon semiconductor, and low leakage current can be realized by the oxide semiconductor. That is, both the merit of the polysilicon semiconductor and the merit of the oxide semiconductor can be utilized together.
- a thin film transistor may be formed on each of the display device substrate 400 and the array substrate 500 on a surface where the display device substrate 400 and the array substrate 500 face each other.
- each thin film transistor can include a channel layer formed of an oxide semiconductor.
- An oxide semiconductor or a polysilicon semiconductor can be used, for example, in the configuration of a complementary transistor having a p / n junction, or can be used in the configuration of a single channel transistor having only an n-type junction.
- a stacked structure of oxide semiconductors for example, a stacked structure in which an n-type oxide semiconductor and an n-type oxide semiconductor having different electrical characteristics from the n-type oxide semiconductor may be used.
- the n-type oxide semiconductor to be stacked may include a plurality of layers. In the stacked n-type oxide semiconductor, the band gap of the underlying n-type semiconductor can be different from the band gap of the n-type semiconductor located in the upper layer.
- a configuration in which the upper surface of the channel layer is covered with a different oxide semiconductor may be adopted.
- a multilayer structure in which a plurality of oxide semiconductors having different carrier mobility and carrier concentration are stacked may be employed.
- a stacked structure in which a microcrystalline (close to amorphous) oxide semiconductor is stacked over a crystalline n-type oxide semiconductor may be employed.
- the microcrystal refers to a microcrystalline oxide semiconductor film obtained by heat-treating an amorphous oxide semiconductor formed with a sputtering apparatus in a range of 200 ° C. to 450 ° C., for example.
- microcrystalline oxide semiconductor film formed with the substrate temperature at the time of film formation set to around 200 ° C.
- the microcrystalline oxide semiconductor film is an oxide semiconductor film in which crystal grains of at least about 1 nm to about 3 nm or larger than 3 nm can be observed by an observation method such as TEM.
- An oxide semiconductor can be improved in carrier mobility and reliability by being changed from amorphous to crystalline.
- the melting point as an oxide of indium oxide or gallium oxide is high.
- Antimony oxide (Sb 2 O 3 ) and bismuth oxide (Bi 2 O 3 ) have a melting point of 1000 ° C. or lower, and the oxide has a low melting point.
- the effect of antimony oxide having a low melting point causes crystallization of the composite oxide.
- the temperature can be lowered.
- an oxide semiconductor that can be easily crystallized from an amorphous state to a microcrystalline state can be provided.
- An oxide semiconductor can improve carrier mobility by increasing its crystallinity.
- the oxide semiconductor according to the embodiment of the present invention is formed at a substrate temperature of room temperature (for example, 25 ° C.) to less than 200 ° C., and is formed in a subsequent process after pattern formation of the channel layer. Electrical properties can be improved by low-temperature annealing at °C. Annealing together with the second conductive wiring after the formation of the thin film transistor is simple from the viewpoint of omitting the process.
- the oxide semiconductor and the conductive wiring according to the embodiment of the present invention have extremely strong adhesion to a base layer (insulating layer such as silicon oxide) and a glass substrate.
- a complex oxide rich in zinc oxide, gallium oxide, or antimony oxide can be used.
- a complex oxide rich in zinc oxide, gallium oxide, or antimony oxide can be used.
- a complex oxide rich in zinc oxide, gallium oxide, or antimony oxide can be used.
- a complex oxide rich in zinc oxide, gallium oxide, or antimony oxide can be used as an atomic ratio of metal elements of a metal oxide target used for sputtering (atomic ratio not counting oxygen).
- Sb can be replaced with, for example, Zn (zinc) or Bi (bismuth).
- IAGO a composite oxide of indium oxide, antimony oxide, and gallium oxide may be referred to as IAGO.
- the In content may be further increased.
- Sn may be added to the above complex oxide.
- a composite oxide including a quaternary composition including In 2 O 3 , Ga 2 O 3 , Sb 2 O 3 , and SnO 2 is obtained, or In 2 O 3 , Sb 2 O 3 , and A composite oxide containing a ternary composition containing SnO 2 is obtained, and the carrier concentration can be adjusted.
- SnO 2 having a different valence from In 2 O 3 , Ga 2 O 3 , Sb 2 O 3 , and Bi 2 O 3 serves as a carrier dopant.
- composition of the composite oxide is not limited to the above composition.
- sputtering film formation is performed using a target obtained by adding tin oxide to a ternary metal oxide containing indium oxide, gallium oxide, and antimony oxide.
- a composite oxide with an improved carrier concentration can be formed.
- by performing sputtering film formation using a target obtained by adding tin oxide to a ternary metal oxide of indium oxide, gallium oxide, and bismuth oxide a composite oxide with improved carrier concentration is obtained.
- a film can be formed.
- the carrier concentration and carrier mobility the film formation conditions of the composite oxide (oxygen gas used for the introduced gas, substrate temperature, film formation rate, etc.), the annealing conditions after film formation, and the composition of the composite oxide
- a desired carrier concentration and carrier mobility can be obtained.
- increasing the composition ratio of indium oxide tends to improve carrier mobility.
- crystallization of the composite oxide can be promoted by an annealing process in which heat treatment is performed under a temperature condition of 200 ° C. to 700 ° C., and carrier mobility of the composite oxide can be improved.
- a thin film transistor (active element) having a channel layer formed of an n-type oxide semiconductor and a thin film transistor (active element) having a channel layer formed of an n-type silicon semiconductor are disposed one by one in the same pixel,
- a light emitting layer such as an LED or an organic EL (OLED) can be driven so as to make use of the characteristics of each channel layer of the thin film transistor.
- an n-type polysilicon thin film transistor is adopted as a driving transistor for applying a voltage (current) to the light emitting layer, and a switching transistor for sending a signal to the polysilicone thin film transistor
- An n-type oxide semiconductor thin film transistor can be employed.
- a display device DSP2 including a light emitting layer composed of an organic EL element can be realized.
- the configuration in which the light emitting layer 92 is formed on the array substrate 500 (second substrate) as the driving device has been described.
- the drive device may be formed not only on the array substrate 500 but also on the display device substrate 400 (first substrate).
- a drive device may be formed on each of the display device substrate 400 and the array substrate 500, and the display device substrate 400 and the array substrate 500 may be bonded so that the surfaces on which the drive devices are formed face each other.
- the second conductive wiring for supplying the electric signal applied to the driving device formed on the two substrates can be formed on each of the two substrates.
- a touch driving voltage can be applied to the touch wiring which is a conductive wiring by the driving device formed on the display device substrate 400.
- the driving device can be a thin film transistor including a channel layer formed of an oxide semiconductor. Also in this case, the same effect as the above-described embodiment can be obtained.
- the light emitting layer 92 may be an inorganic light emitting diode layer.
- the light emitting layer 92 may have a structure in which inorganic LED chips are arranged in a matrix. In this case, minute LED chips each emitting red light, green light, and blue light may be mounted on the array substrate 500. As a method of mounting the LED chip on the array substrate 500, mounting by face-down may be performed. That is, the light emitting diode layer (functional device) is provided on the surface of the array substrate 500 facing the display device substrate 400.
- the light emitting layer 92 is composed of inorganic LEDs
- a blue light emitting diode or a blue-violet light emitting diode is disposed on the array substrate 500 (substrate 45) as the light emitting layer 92.
- a green phosphor is laminated on the green pixel, and a red phosphor is laminated on the red light emitting pixel.
- an inorganic LED can be easily formed on the array substrate 500.
- green light emission and red light emission can be obtained from each of the green phosphor and the red phosphor by excitation with blue light generated from the blue-violet light emitting diode.
- an ultraviolet light emitting diode may be disposed on the array substrate 500 (substrate 45) as the light emitting layer 92.
- a blue phosphor is laminated on the blue pixel
- a green phosphor is laminated on the green pixel
- a red phosphor is laminated on the red pixel.
- an inorganic LED can be easily formed on the array substrate 500.
- a green pixel, a red pixel, or a blue pixel can be formed by a simple method such as a printing method. For these pixels, it is desirable to adjust the size of the pixels from the viewpoint of the light emission efficiency and color balance of each color.
- a change in capacitance generated between the first touch sensing wiring 3 (first conductive wiring) and the second touch sensing wiring 2 (third conductive wiring) is detected to perform touch sensing.
- One of the first touch sensing wiring 3 and the second touch sensing wiring 2 can be used for an RFID (IC card or the like) reader, for example.
- the frequency of touch drive is several KHz, the frequency used for RFID is 13.56 MHz, and the frequency is different.
- the display device DSP ⁇ b> 2 may be provided with a changeover switch from a touch drive frequency to an RFID frequency.
- the display device DSP2 can be used as an RFID reader by switching the drive frequency of the conductive wiring in a time-sharing manner.
- the display device DSP2 according to the embodiment of the present invention can be applied to an electronic payment system or a short-range communication system.
- the changeover switch may be a part of an image displayed on the display screen of the display device DSP2.
- the function of the RFID reader can be incorporated into the display device DSP2 by adjusting the film thickness, line width, pattern shape, etc. of the conductive wiring.
- the pattern shape means adjusting an antenna shape such as a monopole, a dipole, or a loop in accordance with the frequency to be used.
- a fourth conductive wiring, a fifth conductive wiring, or the like may be formed through a high dielectric constant insulating layer below the conductive wiring in a cross-sectional view.
- an impedance matching circuit (resonance frequency adjustment) driven by a driving device may be formed on the array substrate 500, and an electrical connection with an antenna provided on the display device substrate 400 may be performed.
- the frequency used for the RFID may be a higher frequency such as VHF or UHF.
- FIG. 10 is a sectional view partially showing a display device DSP3 according to the third embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 11 is a cross-sectional view partially showing the display device substrate 600 constituting the display device DSP3 according to the third embodiment of the present invention, and enlarges the touch sensing wiring (first conductive wiring) indicated by the symbol P. It is an expanded sectional view shown.
- FIG. 10 is a sectional view partially showing a display device DSP3 according to the third embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 11 is a cross-sectional view partially showing the display device substrate 600 constituting the display device DSP3 according to the third embodiment of the present invention, and enlarges the touch sensing wiring (first conductive wiring) indicated by the symbol P. It is an expanded sectional view shown.
- FIG. 10 is a sectional view partially showing a display device DSP3 according to the third embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 11 is a cross-sectional view partially showing the display device substrate 600 constituting the display device DSP3
- FIG. 12 is a plan view partially showing the array substrate 700 constituting the display device according to the third embodiment of the present invention, and is a view along the line DD ′ shown in FIG.
- FIG. 13 is a sectional view partially showing a display device according to the third embodiment of the present invention, and is a view along the line EE ′ shown in FIG.
- the functional device is a liquid crystal layer
- the driving device is a thin film transistor (active element).
- the display device DSP3 includes a display device substrate 600 (first substrate), an array substrate 700 (second substrate), a display device substrate 600, and an array substrate 700. And a liquid crystal layer 800 disposed between the two.
- the display device substrate 600 includes a transparent substrate 65 (substrate body) and a first touch sensing wiring 611 disposed on the transparent substrate 65.
- the array substrate 700 includes a transparent substrate 62, a second touch sensing wiring 774 (conductive wiring, third conductive wiring), and a source wiring 66 (conductive wiring, second conductive wiring).
- the display device substrate 600 and the array substrate 700 are bonded to each other with a liquid crystal layer 800 interposed therebetween.
- the display device substrate 600 includes a first light absorption layer 604 and a second light absorption layer 605 that sandwich the first touch sensing wiring 611 (conductive wiring, first conductive wiring). Yes.
- the first light absorption layer 604 is provided to improve the visibility when an observer observes the display surface of the display device DSP3.
- the second light absorption layer 605 suppresses re-reflected light generated from a backlight unit (not shown) or reflected light propagating through the display unit 110 from being incident on the opening of the thin film transistor. It is formed to reduce Note that the color filter 51 (RGB) may be omitted from the display device substrate 600.
- RGB color filter 51
- the first touch sensing wiring 611 and the second touch sensing wiring 774 are orthogonal in a plan view, and can be used as a detection wiring or a driving wiring in touch sensing.
- the second touch sensing wiring 774 is parallel to the gate wiring 75 in plan view, and the source wiring 66 serves as a source wiring that is a video signal line.
- the liquid crystal layer 800 is a horizontally aligned liquid crystal, and is driven by a fringe electric field generated between the pixel electrode 71 and the common electrode 72 on the array substrate 700.
- FIG. 10 illustration of optical films such as an alignment film and a polarizing plate is omitted.
- FIG. 13 the change in the capacitance C3 between the first touch sensing wiring 611 (shown by a broken line) located in the back of the page and the second touch sensing wiring 774 on the insulating layer 723 disposed on the array substrate 700. Touch sensing is performed by detecting.
- the first touch sensing wiring 611 and the second touch sensing wiring 774 are orthogonal to each other in a plan view viewed from the observer.
- the pixel electrode 71 extends in the X-axis direction and is arranged for each pixel. As shown in FIG. 13, the pixel electrode 71 is provided on the insulating layer 723 and disposed on the surface of the array substrate 700 facing the liquid crystal layer 800.
- a thin film transistor 73 (active element) that applies a liquid crystal driving voltage to the pixel electrode 71 via an insulating layer 721 is disposed on the array substrate 700.
- the thin film transistor 73 includes a gate electrode 76, a source electrode 77, a drain electrode 78, and a channel layer 79.
- the gate electrode 76 is electrically linked to the gate wiring 75.
- the source electrode 77 is electrically linked to the source wiring 66.
- the second touch sensing wiring 774 extending in the Y direction is parallel to the gate wiring 75 and is disposed at a position overlapping in plan view.
- the first touch sensing wiring 611 that extends in the X direction orthogonal to the Y direction is parallel to the source wiring 66 that is the second conductive wiring, and is disposed at a position overlapping in plan view.
- the copper alloy layer 5 is sandwiched between the first conductive metal oxide layer 6 and the second conductive metal oxide layer 4. It has a configuration.
- the copper alloy layer 5 uses a copper alloy of 3 at% calcium, 0.6 at% zinc, and the balance being copper.
- the electrical resistivity of the copper alloy layer 5 is about 3 ⁇ cm. Note that the electrical resistivity of the copper alloy layer 5 may vary by around ⁇ 30% depending on the method of forming the copper alloy layer 5 and the annealing conditions. In a configuration in which the copper alloy layer 5 is sandwiched between the first conductive metal oxide layer 6 and the second conductive metal oxide layer 4, the electrical resistivity is often improved by heat treatment (annealing).
- the ratio of elements that do not count oxygen is 4 at% zinc, 4 at% antimony, and the balance is indium. It is. As described above, if the amount of zinc added exceeds 10 at%, the alkali resistance of the conductive metal oxide layer decreases, so the amount of zinc added is preferably less than 10 at%.
- the upper limit of the total amount of zinc, gallium and antimony added is 15 at%.
- the lower limit of the total amount of zinc, gallium and antimony added is 0.2 at%.
- this addition amount is less than 0.2 at%, indium oxide composite oxide grains tend to abnormally grow easily in heat treatment such as annealing the conductive metal oxide layer, and the unstable conductive metal oxide layer It is easy to become.
- the gate insulating layer was formed of cerium oxide.
- the source wiring 66 is the second conductive wiring. Similar to the first and second embodiments, the second conductive wiring has a configuration in which a copper alloy layer is sandwiched between a first conductive metal oxide layer and a second conductive metal oxide layer.
- the source electrode 77 and the drain electrode 78 are formed with the same configuration and material as the conductive wiring in the same process of forming the source wiring 66.
- the conductive wiring in this embodiment plays a role of sending a video signal to the thin film transistor.
- two gate wirings per pixel may be used as scanning signal lines (gate wirings).
- reverse polarity data is written to the odd-numbered scanning signal lines and the even-numbered scanning signal lines.
- data of opposite polarity may be written in the odd-numbered column and even-numbered column of adjacent pixels, respectively, and data of opposite polarity to the previous display period may be written in the next display period (see, for example, 7-181927).
- the number of active elements (TFTs) per pixel may be one or more in any method.
- the liquid crystal driving technique described above can be applied to the present invention.
- the display device according to the above-described embodiment can be applied in various ways.
- Electronic devices to which the display device according to the above-described embodiments can be applied include mobile phones, portable game devices, portable information terminals, personal computers, electronic books, video cameras, digital still cameras, head mounted displays, navigation systems, sound Examples include playback devices (car audio, digital audio player, etc.), copiers, facsimiles, printers, printer multifunction devices, vending machines, automatic teller machines (ATMs), personal authentication devices, optical communication devices, and the like.
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NdやTaの添加によるアルミニウム合金の電気抵抗率の増加率は、各々、3.7μΩcm/at%、8.6μΩcm/at%である。換言すれば、Ndをアルミニウムに1at%添加することで、得られるアルミニウム合金の電気抵抗率は、計算上、6.4μΩcmとなり、悪化する。一般的に、アルミニウム合金配線の目標の電気抵抗率は、6μΩcm以下とされている。
また、本発明は、安定したタッチセンシングが可能であり、タッチセンシング感度の高く、良好な応答性が得られる表示装置及び表示装置基板を提供する。
以下の説明において、同一又は実質的に同一の機能及び構成要素には、同一の符号を付し、その説明を省略又は簡略化し、或いは、必要な場合のみ説明を行う。各図においては、各構成要素を図面上で認識し得る程度の大きさとするため、各構成要素の寸法及び比率を実際のものとは適宜に異ならせてある。また、必要に応じて、図示が難しい要素、例えば、表示装置を構成する絶縁層、バッファ層、半導体のチャネル層を形成する複数層の構成、また、導電層を形成する複数層の構成等の図示が省略されている。
本発明の実施形態に係る機能デバイスとしては、タッチセンシングを制御する制御部、表示装置における表示機能を行う表示素子、機械要素部品、静電容量センサや光センサ等の入力素子、アクチュエータ、記憶素子等が挙げられる。具体的に、液晶(Liquid Crystal)、発光ダイオード(LED: Light Emitting Diode)、有機EL(OLED: Organic Light Emitting Diode)、EMS(Electro Mechanical System)素子、MEMS(Micro Electro Mechanical System)素子、IMOD(Interferometric Modulation )素子、RFID(Radio Frequency Identification)素子等が挙げられる。
例えば、第1基板としてガラス基板等の可視域透明な基板を用い、第2基板としてシリコン基板等を用いて反射型の表示装置を構成することができる。
マイクロLED等の発光素子をマトリクス状に配列させた大型表示装置や、プロジェクターやヘッドマウンティングディスプレイ用の小型表示装置にも、本発明を適用できる。
(表示装置DSP1の機能構成)
以下、本発明の第1実施形態に係る表示装置DSP1を、図1から図7を参照しながら説明する。
以下に述べる各実施形態においては、特徴的な部分について説明し、例えば、通常の液晶表示装置に用いられている構成要素と本実施形態に係る表示装置との差異がない部分については説明を省略する。
本発明の実施形態に係る表示装置DSP1において、機能デバイスは液晶層であり、駆動デバイスは薄膜トランジスタ(アクティブ素子)である。
制御部120は、公知の構成を有し、映像信号制御部121(第一制御部)と、タッチセンシング制御部122(第二制御部)と、システム制御部123(第三制御部)とを備えている。
このような機能を有するシステム制御部123においては、例えば、表示装置DSP1が拾ってしまう外部環境からのノイズの周波数を検知し、ノイズ周波数とは異なるタッチセンシング駆動周波数を選択する。これによって、ノイズの影響を軽減することができる。また、このようなシステム制御部123においては、指やペン等のポインタの走査速度に合わせたタッチセンシング駆動周波数を選定することもできる。
本実施形態に係る液晶表示装置は、後述する実施形態に係る表示装置基板を具備することができる。また、以下に記載する「平面視」とは、観察者が液晶表示装置の表示面(表示装置用基板の平面)を観察する方向から見た平面を意味する。本発明の実施形態に係る液晶表示装置の表示部の形状、又は画素を規定する画素開口部の形状、液晶表示装置を構成する画素数は限定されない。ただし、以下に詳述する実施形態では、平面視、画素開口部の短辺の方向をX方向と規定し、長辺の方向(長手方向)をY方向と規定し、更に、透明基板の厚さ方向をZ方向と規定し、液晶表示装置を説明する。以下の実施形態において、上記のように規定されたX方向とY方向を切り換えて、液晶表示装置を構成してもよい。
また、第1方向に「延線」は、個々の画素形状が、例えば、くの字(dog leg pattern)に屈曲した形状であってもよいこと、あるいは、平行四辺形状でもよいことを意味しており、画素配列として第1の方向に並んでいるマトリクスであることを意味する。第2方向に「延線」の意味も同様である。画素配列の全体として、第1方向と第2方向は直交する。
X方向において、共通電極17の幅W17Aは、例えば、約3μmである。互いに隣接する共通電極17の間のピッチP17A(距離)は、例えば、約4μmである。具体的には、一つの画素上だけでなく、互いに隣接する画素間においても、X方向にてピッチP17Aで、共通電極17が互いに離間している。
図2に示す例では、一つの画素電極20に対して2つのストライプパターンを有する共通電極17が設けられているが、本発明は、この構成を限定しない。画素電極20の大きさに応じて、共通電極17の本数は、1本以上さらには3本以上であってもよい。この場合、共通電極17の幅W17A及びピッチP17Aは、画素サイズ等や設計に応じて適宜変更可能である。
図4は、本発明の第1実施形態に係る表示装置DSP1を部分的に示す断面図であり、図2に示すC-C’線に沿う断面図である。
表示装置DSP1に内部に光Lを供給するバックライトユニットBUは、表示装置DSP1を構成するアレイ基板200の裏面(液晶層300が配置されるアレイ基板200の透明基板の面とは反対面)に設けられている。なお、バックライトユニットBUは、表示装置DSP1の側面に設けてもよい。この場合、例えば、バックライトユニットBUから出射された光を表示装置DSP1に内部に向けて反射させる反射板、導光板、或いは、光拡散板等がアレイ基板200の透明基板22の裏面に設けられる。バックライトユニットBUの光源には、LEDを用いることができる。
表示装置基板100は、透明基板21(基板本体)と、透明基板21上に設けられたタッチセンシング配線3と、タッチセンシング配線3を覆うように形成されたカラーフィルタ51(RGB)と、カラーフィルタ51を覆うように形成された透明樹脂層16(絶縁層)とを備えている。
図5に示すように、タッチセンシング配線3は、第1導電性金属酸化物層6と第2導電性金属酸化物層4とによって銅合金層5が挟持された構成を有する。
このような配線構造は、タッチセンシング配線3だけでなく、アレイ基板200上に形成された各種配線にも適用することができる。具体的に、本発明の導電配線又は第2導電配線に対応するゲート配線10、ソース配線31、コモン配線30等においても、第1導電性金属酸化物層6と第2導電性金属酸化物層4とによって銅合金層5が挟持された配線構造を適用することができる。
以下に、銅合金層5について具体的に説明する。
具体的に、銅合金層5の組成に関し、銅合金層5は、カルシウム2at%、亜鉛0.5at%、残部が銅である銅合金を用いている。銅合金層5の電気抵抗率は、2.6μΩcmである。
そこで、第1導電性金属酸化物層と銅合金層と第2導電性金属酸化物層の3層を、例えば、室温(25℃)から200℃未満の基板温度で連続成膜を行う。更に、チャネル層のパターンを形成した後における後工程で、例えば、200℃~350℃の低温アニーリングを施す。これにより、電気抵抗率を含む電気特性改善が可能である。
亜鉛を銅合金に添加することによって、銅に亜鉛が固溶し、銅のグレインにおける格子位置に亜鉛を置換させて銅の動きが抑えられ、主として、銅のマイグレーションを防止することができる。
カルシウムを銅合金に添加することによって、主として、CaOやCu5Ca等の析出物が形成されることによる銅の拡散を防止することができる。
電気抵抗率の小さい元素(銅の合金元素)は、パラジウム(Pd)、マグネシウム(Mg)、ベリリウム(Be)、金(Au)、カルシウム(Ca)、カドミウム(Cd)、亜鉛(Zn)、銀(Ag)が挙げられる。これら元素は、純銅に対し1at%添加したときに電気抵抗率の増加が、ほぼ1μΩcm以下となる。カルシウム(Ca)、カドミウム(Cd)、亜鉛(Zn)、銀(Ag)の電気抵抗率の増加は、0.3μΩcm/at%以下であるので、合金元素として用いることが好ましい。経済性及び環境負荷を考慮すると、亜鉛及びカルシウムを合金元素として用いることが好ましい。亜鉛及びカルシウムは、各々、4at%まで、銅への合金元素として添加することができる。
純粋な銅に対して亜鉛及びカルシウムを合計0.4at%添加された銅合金の電気抵抗率は、約1.9μΩcmとなる。従って、本発明の実施形態に係る銅合金層の電気抵抗率の下限は、1.9μΩcmとなる。なお、カルシウム(Ca)、カドミウム(Cd)、亜鉛(Zn)、銀(Ag)を合金元素として用いた場合において、銅に対する添加量が5at%を超えてくると、銅合金の電気抵抗率が顕著に増加するので、少なくとも5at%未満の添加量であることが好ましい。
本発明の実施形態においては、銅合金層は、銅に固溶域を有しかつ銅のグレインの中で銅と置換できる第1元素、及び、銅よりも電気陰性度の小さい第2元素を含む。これによって、駆動デバイスの電気特性を低下させる銅の拡散やマイグレーションを防ぐことができる。更に、本発明の実施形態は、上記銅合金層が導電性金属酸化物層で挟持された構成を有する。この構成によって、実用性が高く、高い信頼性を有する銅配線を提供することができる。
第1導電性金属酸化物層6及び第2導電性金属酸化物層4は、銅合金層5を挟持する。
第1導電性金属酸化物層6及び第2導電性金属酸化物層4は、主たる導電性金属酸化物として酸化インジウムを含有するとともに、酸化アンチモン、酸化亜鉛、及び酸化ガリウムから構成される群より選択される1種以上を含有する導電性金属酸化物である。
例えば、第1導電性金属酸化物層6及び第2導電性金属酸化物層4の各々の組成に関し、酸素をカウントしない元素の割合で、アンチモン4at%、ガリウム4at%、残部がインジウムである。
アンチモン酸化物は、銅や銅合金層を挟持する導電性金属酸化物層の金属酸化物として重要である。アンチモンは、金属元素として銅との固溶域が小さく、銅の導電性金属酸化物中への拡散を抑制する。第1導電性金属酸化物層6及び第2導電性金属酸化物層4の各々は、インジウム酸化物に加え、少なくともアンチモン酸化物を含むことが好ましい。
第1導電性金属酸化物層、銅合金層、第2導電性金属酸化物層は、真空雰囲気を維持したまま連続して成膜することが好ましい。第1導電性金属酸化物層と第2導電性金属酸化物層の膜厚は異なってもよい。例えば、表示装置基板100(第1基板)の透明基板21に近い位置に形成された第2導電性金属酸化物層4の膜厚を25nmとし、透明基板21から離れた位置に形成された第1導電性金属酸化物層6の膜厚を45nmとしてもよい。銅合金層の膜厚の膜厚範囲は、200nmから400nmとすることができる。ただし、本発明は、上述した導電配線を構成する層の各々の膜厚を規定しない。
黒色層8は、表示装置DSP1のブラックマトリクスとして機能する。黒色層は、例えば、黒色の色材を分散させた着色樹脂で構成されている。銅の酸化物や銅合金の酸化物は、十分な黒色や低い反射率を得られないが、本実施形態に係る黒色層とガラス等の基板との間の界面における可視光の反射率はほぼ3%以下に抑えられ、高い視認性が得られる。
また、タッチセンシング配線3上に、光吸収性を有する金属酸化物を形成することで、タッチセンシング配線3に用いられる銅合金層5による光反射を抑制することができる。
カラーフィルタ51を含まない表示装置基板を用いる液晶表示装置においては、赤色発光、緑色発光、及び青色発光の各々のLEDをバックライトユニットに設け、フィールドシーケンシャルの手法でカラー表示を行う。図3Aに示す透明基板21上に設けられたタッチセンシング配線3の層構成は、後述するアレイ基板200に形成されるコモン配線30(導電配線)の層構成やゲート電極25(ゲート配線10)の層構成と同じにすることができる。
図3A及び図3Bに示すように、アレイ基板200は、透明基板22(第2透明基板)と、透明基板22の表面を覆うように形成された第4絶縁層14と、第4絶縁層14上に形成されたソース配線31と、ソース配線31を覆うように第4絶縁層14上に形成された第3絶縁層13と、第3絶縁層13上に形成されたゲート配線10と、第3絶縁層13上に形成されたコモン配線30と、ゲート配線10及びコモン配線30を覆うように第3絶縁層13上に形成された第2絶縁層12と、第2絶縁層12上に形成された画素電極20と、画素電極20を覆うように第2絶縁層12上に形成された第1絶縁層11と、共通電極17を備えている。
コモン配線30の形成材料としては、上述した銅合金層5と同じ材料が採用される。また、同様に、コモン配線30の構造としては、上述した銅合金層5と同じ構造が採用される。
図3Bを参照し、共通電極17の構造と、共通電極17の周辺に位置するアレイ基板200の構成部材とを説明する。特に、コモン配線30、共通電極17、画素電極20、第1絶縁層11、及び第2絶縁層12で構成される積層構造について具体的に説明する。図3Bは、アレイ基板200を構成する画素の要部を示しており、一つの画素における、一つの共通電極17の構造を示している。図3Bに示す共通電極17の構造は、アレイ基板200における全ての画素においても適用されている。
図2に示す例では、各画素に2つのコンタクトホールH、即ち、左側コンタクトホールLH(H、第1コンタクトホール)及び右側コンタクトホールRH(H、第2コンタクトホール)が設けられており、2つのコンタクトホールHの各々に対応する位置にスルーホール20Sが設けられている。
以下の説明では、左側コンタクトホールLH及び右側コンタクトホールRHを、単に、コンタクトホールHと称することがある。
電極部17Aは、第1絶縁層11の上面11Tに形成されており、Z方向から見て、画素電極20のスルーホール20Sと重なるように配置されている。電極部17Aは、液晶層300に最も近いアレイ基板200の面に設けられている。具体的には、液晶層300とアレイ基板200との間には配向膜が形成されており、この配向膜の下に第1絶縁層11が設けられている。
電極部17Aの幅W17Aは、例えば、約3μmであり、導電接続部17Bの上端(電極部17Aと導電接続部17Bとの接続部)よりも大きく、スルーホール20Sの直径D20S(例えば、2μm)よりも大きく形成してもよい。あるいは、電極部17Aの幅W17Aよりも、スルーホール20Sの直径D20Sが大きくてもよい。スルーホール20Sの直径D20Sを、例えば、4μmとすることもできる。電極部17Aの中心(Z方向に平行な電極部17Aの中心線)から電極部17Aの外側に向けた方向(X方向)において、電極部17Aの壁部17Kは、画素電極20の内壁20Kの位置よりも突出している。
導電接続部17Bは、コンタクトホールH(貫通孔11H、12H)の内部に設けられており、コンタクトホールHを通じて、コモン配線30に電気的に接続されている。
第1絶縁層11及び第2絶縁層12に上述したコンタクトホールが形成されている状態で、第1絶縁層11上に成膜工程及びパターニング工程を施すことで、電極部17A及び導電接続部17Bは、一体的に形成されている。共通電極17は、画素電極20と同様に、ITO等の透明導電膜で形成されている。
後述する黒表示時に、上記高抵抗を介してゲート配線やソース配線を接地してもよい。この場合、画素の焼きつきを防ぐことができる。
また、タッチセンシングに関わる時定数を調整する目的で上記高抵抗を調整することができる。IGZO等の酸化物半導体をアクティブ素子のチャネル層に用いる表示装置では、タッチセンシング制御における、上記の種々の工夫が可能となる。以下の記載において、酸化物半導体を単にIGZOと呼称することがある。
次に、図4を参照して、画素電極20に接続されているアクティブ素子28の構造について説明する。
図4は、トップゲート構造を有する薄膜トランジスタ(TFT)の一例を示す。
アクティブ素子28は、チャネル層27と、チャネル層27の一端(第一端、図4におけるチャネル層27の左端)に接続されたドレイン電極26と、チャネル層27の他端(第二端、図4におけるチャネル層27の右端)に接続されたソース電極24と、第3絶縁層13を介してチャネル層27に対向配置されたゲート電極25とを備える。図4は、アクティブ素子28を構成するチャネル層27、ドレイン電極26、及びソース電極24が第4絶縁層14上に形成されている構造を示しているが、本発明はこのような構造に限定されない。第4絶縁層14を設けずに、透明基板22上にアクティブ素子28を直接形成してもよい。
ソース配線31には高い頻度で映像信号が供給され、ソース配線31からノイズが発生し易い。トップゲート構造においては、ノイズ発生源でもあるソース配線31を、前述したタッチセンシング空間から遠ざけることができるメリットがある。
また、本発明は、トップゲート構造を有する薄膜トランジスタを限定しておらず、ボトムゲート構造を有する薄膜トランジスタを適用してもよい。
ゲート電極25の下部に位置する第3絶縁層13は、ゲート電極25と同じ幅を有する絶縁層であってもよい。この場合、例えば、ゲート電極25をマスクとして用いたドライエッチングを行い、ゲート電極25の周囲の第3絶縁層13を除去する。これによって、ゲート電極25と同じ幅を有する絶縁層を形成することができる。ゲート電極25をマスクとして用いて絶縁層をドライエッチングにて加工する技術は、一般に自己整合と呼称される。
ゲート電極25及び第3絶縁層13が同じ幅を有するように形成することで、寄生容量を低減できる。ゲート電極25は、ゲート配線10と同じ工程で、第1導電性金属酸化物層/銅合金層/第2導電性金属酸化物層の3層構成(導電配線)で形成されている。
第3絶縁層13と接触するゲート電極25の界面に、電気的性質の異なる酸化物半導体を更に挿入してもよい。あるいは、第3絶縁層13を酸化セリウムや酸化ガリウムを少なくとも含む絶縁性の金属酸化物層で形成してもよい。
ゲート配線10は、アクティブ素子28と電気的に連携されている。具体的に、ゲート配線10に接続されているゲート電極25とアクティブ素子28のチャネル層27とは、第3絶縁層13を介して対向している。映像信号制御部121からゲート電極25に供給される走査信号に応じてアクティブ素子28においてスイッチング駆動が行われる。
また、チャネル層27の下部には、遮光膜を形成してもよい。遮光膜の材料としては、モリブデン、タングステン、チタン、クロム等の高融点金属を用いることができる。
銅は、マイグレーションの観点で信頼性面に問題がある。上記の金属や半金属を銅に添加することで信頼性面を補うことができる。銅に対し上記金属や半金属を0.1at%以上添加することでマイグレーションを抑制する効果が得られる。しかし、銅に対し上記金属や半金属を4at%を超えて添加する場合では、銅の導電率の悪化が著しくなり、銅或いは銅合金を選定するメリットが得られない。
図6及び図7は、本発明の第1実施形態に係る表示装置DSP1において、タッチセンシング配線3がタッチ駆動電極として機能し、かつ、共通電極17がタッチ検出電極として機能した場合の構造を示している。
図6及び図7に示す構造に基づいて、以下の説明を行う。
なお、上述したように、タッチ駆動電極とタッチ検出電極の役割を入れ替えることができる。
図6及び図7においては、タッチセンシング配線3と共通電極17を用いたタッチセンシング技術を説明する。図6及び図7は、タッチセンシング駆動を分かり易く説明するため、アレイ基板200を構成する第1絶縁層11及び共通電極17と、表示装置基板100とを示しており、その他の構成は、省略している。
本発明の実施形態に係る表示装置DSP1においては、図2、図3A、及び図3Bに示すように、共通電極17は、検出電極として機能し、長さELを有する。この共通電極17は、駆動電極として機能するタッチセンシング配線3と、平面視、平行であり、長さELを有する共通電極17により、静電容量を十分かつ均一に確保することができる。
図6及び図7に示されるように、タッチセンシング配線3と共通電極17との間には、液晶駆動に関わる電極や配線は設けられていない。更に、図4に示されるようにソース配線31が、タッチセンシング配線3及び共通電極17(タッチ駆動配線及びタッチ検出配線)から離れている。このため、液晶駆動に関わるノイズを拾いにくい構造が実現されている。
タッチに用いられるポインタが、指である場合とペンである場合とは、接触あるいは近接するポインタの面積や容量が異なる。こうしたポインタの大ききによって、間引く配線の本数を調整できる。ペンや針先など先端が細いポインタでは、配線の間引き本数を減らして高密度のタッチセンシング配線のマトリクスを用いることができる。指紋認証時も高密度のタッチセンシング配線のマトリクスを用いることができる。
また、負の誘電率異方性を有する液晶を用いる場合でも、液晶駆動周波数とは異なるタッチ駆動周波数を選択し易い。換言すれば、図6及び図7に示すようにタッチセンシング配線3から共通電極17に向けて生じる電気力線33は、液晶層300の斜め方向或いは厚み方向に作用するが、負の誘電率異方性を有する液晶を用いれば、この電気力線33の方向に液晶分子が立ち上がらないため、表示品質に対する影響が少なくなる。
さらには、タッチセンシング配線3やコモン配線30の配線抵抗を下げて、抵抗の低下に伴ってタッチ駆動電圧を下げる場合も、液晶駆動周波数とは異なるタッチ駆動周波数を容易に設定できる。タッチセンシング配線3やコモン配線30を構成する金属層に銅や銀等の導電率の良好な金属、合金を用いることで、低い配線抵抗が得られる。
また、タッチセンシング駆動において、駆動電圧を、タッチセンシング配線3の全てに供給するのでなく、上述したように間引き駆動によってタッチ位置検出を行うことで、タッチセンシングでの消費電力を低減できる。
図3Aに示す表示装置DSP1において、カラーフィルタ51が設けられた構造が用いられている。本実施形態では、カラーフィルタが省略されてもよい。カラーフィルタ51が省略された構造では、例えば、透明基板21上に設けられたタッチセンシング配線3と、タッチセンシング配線3を覆うように形成された透明樹脂層16とを備えた構造としてもよい。
図3Aに示す表示装置DSP1において、表示装置基板100(第1基板)の透明基板21とタッチセンシング配線3との界面に、黒色層8や反射防止膜を形成することができる。黒色層8は、例えば、樹脂にカーボン、カーボンナノチューブ、カーボンナノホーン、或いは、複数の有機顔料の混合物を分散して形成できる。この場合も、上述した実施形態と同様の効果が得られる。
また、本発明は、タッチセンシング機能を有していない表示装置にも適用可能である。この場合、図3Aに示す表示装置DSP1からタッチセンシング配線3が除かれた構造が採用される。換言すると、第1基板には導電配線を設けず、第2基板であるアレイ基板200に導電配線が設けられた構造が採用される。
以下、図面を参照しながら本発明の第2実施形態について説明する。
第2実施形態においては、第1実施形態と同一部材には同一符号を付して、その説明は省略または簡略化する。
図8は、本発明の第2実施形態に係る表示装置DSP2を部分的に示す断面図である。図9は、本発明の第2実施形態に係るアレイ基板500を部分的に示す断面図である。
第1タッチセンシング配線3と第2タッチセンシング配線2との間には、第1タッチセンシング配線3を覆うように絶縁層I(タッチ配線絶縁層)が設けられており、第1タッチセンシング配線3と第2タッチセンシング配線2とは、絶縁層Iによって互いに電気的に絶縁されている。
図8に示す構造では、第1透明樹脂層108と第2透明樹脂層105とが貼り合わされている。具体的に、透湿性の低い第1透明樹脂層108を介して、有機ELである発光層92を備えるアレイ基板500と、第1タッチセンシング配線3及び第2タッチセンシング配線2を具備する表示装置基板400と、が貼り合わされている。即ち、発光層92(機能デバイス)は、表示装置基板400と対向する前記アレイ基板500の面に設けられている。
X方向に延在する複数の第1タッチセンシング配線3及びY方向に延在する複数の第2タッチセンシング配線2の各々は電気的に独立している。第1タッチセンシング配線3と第2タッチセンシング配線2は、平面視、直交している。例えば、第1タッチセンシング配線3をタッチ検出電極として用い、第2タッチセンシング配線2をタッチ駆動電極として用いることができる。タッチセンシング制御部122は、タッチ信号として、第1タッチセンシング配線3と第2タッチセンシング配線2との交点における、第1タッチセンシング配線3と第2タッチセンシング配線2との間の静電容量C2の変化を検出する。
また、第1タッチセンシング配線3の役割と第2タッチセンシング配線2の役割とを入れ替えてもよい。具体的に、第1タッチセンシング配線3をタッチ駆動電極として用い、第2タッチセンシング配線2をタッチ検出電極として用いてもよい。
次に、表示装置DSP2を構成するアレイ基板500の構造について説明する。
アレイ基板500の基板45としては、透明基板を用いる必要はなく、例えば、アレイ基板500に適用可能な基板として、ガラス基板、セラミック基板、石英基板、サファイア基板、シリコン、炭化シリコンやシリコンゲルマニウムなどの半導体基板、あるいはプラスチック基板等が挙げられる。
アレイ基板500においては、第4絶縁層14、第4絶縁層14上に形成されたアクティブ素子68、第4絶縁層14及びアクティブ素子68を覆うように形成された第3絶縁層13、アクティブ素子68のチャネル層58に対向するように第3絶縁層13上に形成されたゲート電極95、第3絶縁層13及びゲート電極95を覆うように形成された第2絶縁層12、及び第2絶縁層12上に形成された平坦化層96が、基板45上に、順に積層されている。
更に、下部電極88、バンク94、及び平坦化層96を覆うようにホール注入層91が形成されている。ホール注入層91上には、順に、発光層92、上部電極87、及び封止層109が積層されている。
下部電極88は、後述するように、銀あるいは銀合金層が導電性金属酸化物層によって挟持された構成を有する。
平坦化層96の材料としては、アクリル樹脂、ポリイミド樹脂、ベンゾシクロブテン樹脂、ポリアミド樹脂等を用いてもよい。低誘電率材料(low-k材料)を用いることもできる。
なお、視認性向上のため、平坦化層96や封止層109、あるいは、基板45のいずれかが、光散乱の機能を有してもよい。あるいは、基板45の上方に光散乱層を形成してもよい。
なお、図8において、符号290は、下部電極88、ホール注入層91、発光層92、及び上部電極87で構成された発光領域を示している。
図9に示すように、アレイ基板500は、機能デバイスである発光層92(有機EL層)を含む。発光層92は、一対の電極間に電界が与えられた時に、陽極(例えば、下部電極)から注入されるホールと、陰極(例えば、上部電極、画素電極)から注入される電子が再結合することにより励起され、発光する表示機能層である。
発光層92は、少なくとも、発光の性質を有する材料(発光材料)を含有するとともに、好ましくは、電子輸送性を有する材料とを含有する。発光層92は、陽極と陰極の間に形成される層であり、下部電極88(陽極)の上にホール注入層91が形成されている場合は、ホール注入層91と上部電極87(陰極)との間に発光層92が形成される。また、陽極の上にホール輸送層が形成されている場合は、ホール輸送層と陰極との間に発光層92が形成される。上部電極87と下部電極88の役割は入れ替えることができる。
青色発光を与える発光材料としては、例えば、ナフタレン、ペリレン、ピレン、アントラセン、クマリン、クリセン、p-ビス(2-フェニルエテニル)ベンゼン及びそれらの誘導体等が挙げられる。緑色発光を与える発光材料としては、例えば、キナクリドン誘導体、クマリン誘導体、Al(C9H6NO)3等のアルミニウム錯体等が挙げられる。
赤色発光を与える発光材料としては、例えば、DCM(4-(dicyanomethylene)-2-methyl-6-(p-dimethylaminostyryl)-4H-pyran)系化合物、ベンゾピラン誘導体、ローダミン誘導体、ベンゾチオキサンテン誘導体、アザベンゾチオキサンテン等が挙げられる。
上記の発光層92を構成する有機EL層の構成や発光材料等は、上記材料に限られない。
下部電極88は、反射層を導電性金属酸化物層とで挟持する3層構造を有する。なお、上部電極87と下部電極88の間に、発光層92のほかに電子注入層、電子輸送層、ホール輸送層などを挿入してもよい。
ホール注入層91には、酸化タングステンや酸化モリブデン等の高融点金属酸化物を用いることができる。反射層には、光の反射率が高い銀合金、アルミニウム合金等が適用できる。なお、ITO等の導電性金属酸化物は、アルミニウムとの密着性が良くない。電極やコンタクトホール等の界面が、例えば、ITOとアルミニウム合金の場合は電気的接続不良を生じ易い。銀や銀合金は、ITO等の導電性金属酸化物との密着性が良好で、かつ、ITO等の導電性金属酸化物はオーミックコンタクトを得やすい。
次に、図9を参照して、表示装置DSP2において下部電極88(画素電極)に接続されているアクティブ素子68の構造について説明する。
図9は、アクティブ素子68の一例として、トップゲート構造が採用された薄膜トランジスタ(TFT)の構造を示している。なお、図9においては、説明を簡略にするため、表示装置基板400と封止層109を省略している。
例えば、IGZOと称される酸化物半導体は、スパッタリングなどの真空成膜で一括して形成される。酸化物半導体が成膜された後においては、TFT等のパターン形成後の熱処理も一括して行われる。このため、チャネル層に関わる電気的特性(例えば、Vth)のばらつきが極めて少ない。有機ELやLEDの駆動はその輝度のばらつきを抑えるため、前記薄膜トランジスタのVthのばらつきを小さい範囲に抑える必要がある。
もう一つの例として、表示装置基板400とアレイ基板500とが向かい合う面に、表示装置基板400及びアレイ基板500の各々に薄膜トランジスタを形成してもよい。この場合、各薄膜トランジスタは、酸化物半導体で形成されたチャネル層を備えることができる。
例えば、上記の複合酸化物にさらにSnを添加してもよい。この場合、In2O3、Ga2O3、Sb2O3、及びSnO2を含む4元系の組成を含む複合酸化物が得られ、あるいは、In2O3、Sb2O3、及びSnO2を含む3元系の組成を含む複合酸化物が得られ、キャリア濃度を調整することが可能となる。In2O3、Ga2O3、Sb2O3、Bi2O3と価数の異なるSnO2は、キャリアドーパントの役割を果たす。
例えば、酸化インジウム、酸化ガリウム、及び酸化アンチモンを含む3元系金属酸化物に酸化錫を加えて得られたターゲットを用いてスパッタリング成膜を行う。これにより、キャリア濃度が向上した複合酸化物を成膜することができる。同様に、例えば、酸化インジウム、酸化ガリウム、酸化ビスマスの3元系金属酸化物に酸化錫を加えて得られたターゲットを用いてスパッタリング成膜を行うことで、キャリア濃度が向上した複合酸化物を成膜することができる。
上記第2実施形態においては、駆動デバイスとして、発光層92がアレイ基板500(第2基板)に形成された構成について説明した。駆動デバイスは、アレイ基板500に形成されているだけでなく、表示装置基板400(第1基板)にも形成されてもよい。この場合、表示装置基板400及びアレイ基板500の各々に駆動デバイスを形成し、駆動デバイスが形成された面が向かい合うように、表示装置基板400及びアレイ基板500を貼り合わせてもよい。このように2つの基板に形成された駆動デバイスに印加される電気信号を供給する第2導電配線は、2つの基板の各々に形成することができる。表示装置基板400上に形成された駆動デバイスにより、導電配線であるタッチ配線にタッチ駆動電圧を印加することができる。駆動デバイスは、酸化物半導体で形成されたチャネル層を備える薄膜トランジスタとすることができる。この場合も、上述した実施形態と同様の効果が得られる。
なお、上記実施形態では、発光層92として有機エレクトロルミネセンス層(有機EL)を採用した構造を説明した。発光層92は、無機の発光ダイオード層であってもよい。また、発光層92は、無機のLEDチップがマトリクス状に配列された構造を有してもよい。この場合、赤色発光、緑色発光、青色発光の各々微小なLEDチップをアレイ基板500上にマウントしてもよい。LEDチップをアレイ基板500に実装する方法としては、フェースダウンによる実装を行ってもよい。即ち、発光ダイオード層(機能デバイス)は、表示装置基板400と対向する前記アレイ基板500の面に設けられている。
上述した実施形態においては、第1タッチセンシング配線3(第1導電配線)と第2タッチセンシング配線2(第3導電配線)との間に生じる静電容量の変化を検出し、タッチセンシングを行っている。第1タッチセンシング配線3及び第2タッチセンシング配線2のうち一方の導電配線を、例えば、RFID(ICカードなど)のリーダーにも用いることができる。
以下、図面を参照しながら本発明の第3実施形態について説明する。
第3実施形態においては、第1実施形態及び第2実施形態と同一部材には同一符号を付して、その説明は省略または簡略化する。
図10は、本発明の第3実施形態に係る表示装置DSP3を部分的に示す断面図である。図11は、本発明の第3実施形態に係る表示装置DSP3を構成する表示装置基板600を部分的に示す断面図であり、符号Pで示されたタッチセンシング配線(第1導電配線)を拡大して示す拡大断面図である。図12は、本発明の第3実施形態に係る表示装置を構成するアレイ基板700を部分的に示す平面図であり、図10に示すD-D’線に沿う図である。図13は、本発明の第3実施形態に係る表示装置を部分的に示す断面図であり、図12に示すE-E’線に沿う図である。
図10~図12に示すように、第3実施形態に係る表示装置DSP3は、表示装置基板600(第1基板)と、アレイ基板700(第2基板)と、表示装置基板600とアレイ基板700との間に配置された液晶層800とを有している。
表示装置基板600は、透明基板65(基板本体)と、透明基板65上に配置された第1タッチセンシング配線611とを備える。アレイ基板700は、透明基板62と、第2タッチセンシング配線774(導電配線、第3導電配線)と、ソース配線66(導電配線、第2導電配線)とを備える。表示装置基板600及びアレイ基板700は、液晶層800を介して貼り合わされている。
図13において、紙面奥に位置する第1タッチセンシング配線611(破線で示す)と、アレイ基板700に配設される絶縁層723上の第2タッチセンシング配線774と間における静電容量C3の変化を検知することでタッチセンシングが行われる。第1タッチセンシング配線611と第2タッチセンシング配線774とは、観察者から見た平面視において直交している。
アレイ基板700上には、絶縁層721を介して画素電極71に液晶駆動電圧を印加する薄膜トランジスタ73(アクティブ素子)が配設される。薄膜トランジスタ73は、ゲート電極76、ソース電極77、ドレイン電極78、及びチャネル層79を具備する。ゲート電極76は、ゲート配線75と電気的に連携されている。ソース電極77は、ソース配線66と電気的に連携されている。
第1タッチセンシング配線611、ソース配線66、及び第2タッチセンシング配線774の各々は、銅合金層5が第1導電性金属酸化物層6と第2導電性金属酸化物層4によって挟持された構成を有する。
亜鉛とガリウムとアンチモンとを合計した添加量の下限は、0.2at%である。この添加量が0.2at%未満である場合、導電性金属酸化物層をアニール処理する等の熱処理において、酸化インジウム複合酸化物のグレインが異常成長しやすく、不安定な導電性金属酸化物層となりやすい。
第3実施形態の薄膜トランジスタが備えるチャネル層を形成する酸化物半導体に関し、金属元素の原子比(酸素をカウントしない原子比)は、In:Ga:Sb=1:1:1とした。酸化物半導体における酸化アンチモンは、酸化亜鉛に置き換えることができる。ゲート絶縁層は、酸化セリウムで形成した。
第3実施形態では、ソース配線66が第2導電配線である。第2導電配線は、第1実施形態や第2実施形態と同じく、第1導電性金属酸化物層と第2導電性金属酸化物層とによって銅合金層が挟持された構成である。ソース電極77、ドレイン電極78は、ソース配線66を形成する同じ工程にて、上記導電配線と同じ構成・材料で形成される。当実施形態での導電配線は、映像信号を前記薄膜トランジスタに送る役目を担う。
上述した液晶駆動方法を本発明に適用する場合、いずれの方法においても、一画素あたりのアクティブ素子(TFT)の個数は、1以上、複数であってもよい。本発明には、上記の液晶駆動技術を適用することができる。
3、611 第1タッチセンシング配線(導電配線、第1導電配線)
4 第2導電性金属酸化物層
5 銅合金層
6 第1導電性金属酸化物層
8 黒色層
9 側面
10、75 ゲート配線
11 第1絶縁層(絶縁層)
12 第2絶縁層(絶縁層)
13 第3絶縁層(絶縁層)
14 第4絶縁層(絶縁層)
16 透明樹脂層
17、72 共通電極
17A 電極部
17B 導電接続部
17K 壁部
20 画素電極
20K 内壁
20S スルーホール
21、22、44、62、65 透明基板
24、77 ソース電極
25、76、95 ゲート電極
26、56、78 ドレイン電極
27 チャネル層
28、68 アクティブ素子
30 コモン配線
31、66 ソース配線
45 基板
51 カラーフィルタ
58 チャネル層
71 画素電極
73 薄膜トランジスタ
79 チャネル層
87 上部電極
88 下部電極
91 ホール注入層
92 発光層
93 コンタクトホール
94 バンク
96 平坦化層
100、400、600 表示装置基板
105 第2透明樹脂層
108 第1透明樹脂層
109 封止層
110 表示部
120 制御部
121 映像信号制御部
122 タッチセンシング制御部
123 システム制御部
200、500、700 アレイ基板
300、800 液晶層
604 第1光吸収層
605 第2光吸収層
721 絶縁層
723 絶縁層
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- 表示装置であって、
第1基板と、
機能デバイスと、
導電配線と、前記導電配線に印加される電気信号に応じて前記機能デバイスを駆動する駆動デバイスとを有し、前記第1基板に対向配置された第2基板と、
を備え、
前記導電配線は、第1導電性金属酸化物層と第2導電性金属酸化物層とによって銅合金層が挟持された3層で構成されており、
前記銅合金層は、銅に固溶する第1元素と、銅及び前記第1元素より電気陰性度が小さい第2元素とを含み、
前記第1元素及び前記第2元素は、銅に添加する場合の電気抵抗率上昇率が1μΩcm/at%以下の元素であり、
前記銅合金層の電気抵抗率は、1.9μΩcmから6μΩcmの範囲内にある
表示装置。 - 表示装置であって、
第1導電配線を有する第1基板と、
機能デバイスと、
第2導電配線と、前記第2導電配線に印加される電気信号に応じて前記機能デバイスを駆動する駆動デバイスとを有し、前記第1基板に対向配置された第2基板と、
を備え、
前記第1導電配線及び前記第2導電配線の各々は、第1導電性金属酸化物層と第2導電性金属酸化物層とによって銅合金層が挟持された3層で構成されており、
前記銅合金層は、銅に固溶する第1元素と、銅及び前記第1元素より電気陰性度が小さい第2元素とを含み、
前記第1元素及び前記第2元素は、銅に添加する場合の電気抵抗率上昇率が1μΩcm/at%以下の元素であり、
前記銅合金層の電気抵抗率は、1.9μΩcmから6μΩcmの範囲内にある
表示装置。 - 前記第1基板又は前記第2基板に設けられ、平面視、前記第1導電配線が延在する方向に対して直交する方向に延在する第3導電配線と、
前記第1導電配線と前記第3導電配線との間の静電容量の変化を検知してタッチセンシングを行う制御部と、
を備え、
前記第3導電配線は、第1導電性金属酸化物層と第2導電性金属酸化物層とによって銅合金層が挟持された3層で構成されており、
前記銅合金層は、銅に固溶する第1元素と、銅及び前記第1元素より電気陰性度が小さい第2元素とを含み、
前記第1元素及び前記第2元素は、銅に添加する場合の電気抵抗率上昇率が1μΩcm/at%以下の元素であり、
前記銅合金層の電気抵抗率は、1.9μΩcmから6μΩcmの範囲内にある
請求項2に記載の表示装置。 - 前記第1元素は亜鉛であり、前記第2元素はカルシウムである
請求項1から請求項3のいずれか一項に記載の表示装置。 - 前記第1導電性金属酸化物層及び前記第2導電性金属酸化物層は、
主たる導電性金属酸化物として酸化インジウムを含有するとともに、酸化アンチモン、酸化亜鉛、及び酸化ガリウムから構成される群より選択される1種以上を含有する導電性金属酸化物である
請求項1から請求項4のいずれか一項に記載の表示装置。 - 前記駆動デバイスは、ゲート絶縁層と接触しかつ酸化物半導体で構成されたチャネル層を有するとともに、前記機能デバイスを駆動する薄膜トランジスタであり、
前記駆動デバイスは、前記第1基板と対向する前記第2基板の面に設けられている
請求項1又は請求項2に記載の表示装置。 - 前記駆動デバイスは、ゲート絶縁層上に設けられたゲート電極を備え、
前記ゲート電極は、前記導電配線の一部を構成する
請求項1に記載の表示装置。 - 前記駆動デバイスは、ゲート絶縁層上に設けられたゲート電極を備え、
前記ゲート電極は、前記第2導電配線の一部を構成する
請求項2に記載の表示装置。 - 前記酸化物半導体は、
酸化インジウム、酸化ガリウム、酸化亜鉛から構成される群より選択される1種以上を含有し、少なくとも、酸化アンチモン、酸化ビスマスのうちいずれかを含む
請求項6に記載の表示装置。 - 前記ゲート絶縁層は、酸化セリウムを含む酸化物、あるいは、酸化セリウムを含む酸窒化物である
請求項6に記載の表示装置。 - 前記機能デバイスは、有機エレクトロルミネセンス層であり、
前記有機エレクトロルミネセンス層は、前記第1基板と対向する前記第2基板の面に設けられている
請求項6に記載の表示装置。 - 前記機能デバイスは、発光ダイオード層であり、
前記発光ダイオード層は、前記第1基板と対向する前記第2基板の面に設けられている
請求項6に記載の表示装置。 - 前記機能デバイスは、液晶層であり、
前記液晶層は、前記第1基板と前記第2基板との間に配設される、
請求項6に記載の表示装置。 - 表示装置基板であって、
基板本体と、
前記基板本体上に設けられたブラックマトリクスと、
平面視、前記ブラックマトリクスに対応する位置に設けられた第1タッチセンシング配線と、
を備え、
前記第1タッチセンシング配線は、第1導電性金属酸化物層と第2導電性金属酸化物層とによって銅合金層が挟持された3層で構成されており、
前記銅合金層は、銅に固溶する第1元素と、銅及び前記第1元素より電気陰性度が小さい第2元素とを含み、
前記第1元素及び前記第2元素は、銅に添加する場合の電気抵抗率上昇率が1μΩcm/at%以下の元素であり、
前記銅合金層の電気抵抗率は、1.9μΩcmから6μΩcmの範囲内にある
表示装置基板。 - 前記第1タッチセンシング配線を覆う絶縁層と、
平面視、前記第1タッチセンシング配線が延在する方向に対して直交する方向に延在し、前記ブラックマトリクスに対応する位置にて前記絶縁層上に設けられた第2タッチセンシング配線と、
を備え、
前記第2タッチセンシング配線は、第1導電性金属酸化物層と第2導電性金属酸化物層とによって銅合金層が挟持された3層で構成されており、
前記銅合金層は、銅に固溶する第1元素と、銅及び前記第1元素より電気陰性度が小さい第2元素とを含み、
前記第1元素及び前記第2元素は、銅に添加する場合の電気抵抗率上昇率が1μΩcm/at%以下の元素であり、
前記銅合金層の電気抵抗率は、1.9μΩcmから6μΩcmの範囲内にある
請求項14に記載の表示装置基板。
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