Array substrate and curved surface liquid crystal display
Technical Field
The invention relates to the technical field of display, in particular to an array substrate and a curved liquid crystal display.
Background
Liquid Crystal Displays (LCDs) have many advantages such as thin body, power saving, no radiation, and the like, and are widely used. Such as: liquid crystal televisions, mobile phones, Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs), digital cameras, computer screens, notebook computer screens, or the like, are dominant in the field of flat panel displays.
Generally, a liquid crystal display device includes a housing, a liquid crystal panel disposed in the housing, and a Backlight module (Backlight module) disposed in the housing. The Liquid Crystal panel is mainly composed of an Array Substrate (thin film transistor Array Substrate), a Color film Substrate (Color filter Substrate, CFSubstrate) and a Liquid Crystal Layer (Liquid Crystal Layer) arranged between the two substrates, and the Liquid Crystal panel has the working principle that the rotation of Liquid Crystal molecules of the Liquid Crystal Layer is controlled by applying driving voltages to a pixel electrode of the TFT Substrate and a common electrode of the CF Substrate, and light rays of the backlight module are refracted out to generate pictures.
In recent years, with the development of liquid crystal display technology, Curved (Curved) liquid crystal displays have been gradually introduced by various manufacturers, and are preferred by users because they have better viewing experience than general liquid crystal displays. In a conventional flat panel display, a Black Matrix (BM) is used for shading, but the BM is located on a color filter substrate, when the display is bent, a problem of misalignment between an upper substrate and a lower substrate may occur, which may cause light leakage, and various display defects may occur in a normal panel in a planar state in a curved state. In order to solve the problem, in the curved display, a technology of Data Line BM Less (DBS) over Data lines is increasingly adopted, in which routing lines of Indium Tin Oxide (ITO) are covered over the Data lines, the Data lines are shielded by the ITO routing lines, and an array substrate common voltage is provided to the ITO routing lines, so that when the panel normally operates, the potential of the ITO routing lines is always equal to the array substrate common voltage, and thus liquid crystal molecules corresponding to the positions of the ITO routing lines are kept in a non-deflection state, and a purpose of shielding light is achieved.
However, as shown in fig. 1, fig. 1 is an equivalent circuit diagram of a conventional array substrate using DBS technology, where the array substrate includes: the display panel comprises a plurality of sub-pixels arranged in an array, wherein each sub-pixel comprises a switch thin film transistor T1, a pixel electrode P, an array substrate common electrode line Acom and a shading electrode, the grid electrode of the switch thin film transistor T1 is connected with a scanning line Gate, the source electrode of the switch thin film transistor T1 is connected with a Data line Data, the drain electrode of the switch thin film transistor is electrically connected with the pixel electrode P, the shading electrode is electrically connected with the array substrate common electrode line Acom, the overlapped part of the pixel electrode P and the array substrate common electrode line Acom forms a storage capacitor Cst, the overlapped part of the Data line Data and the shading electrode forms an interference capacitor Cdc, and at the moment, when the display panel displays, the voltage change on the Data line Data can influence the array substrate common voltage Acom through the interference capacitor Cdc to cause the adverse phenomena of horizontal crosstalk (H-.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to provide an array substrate, which can prevent horizontal crosstalk and improve the display quality of a panel on the premise of adopting a DBS (direct structuring) technology.
The invention also aims to provide a curved-surface liquid crystal display, which can prevent horizontal crosstalk and improve the display quality of a panel on the premise of adopting the DBS technology.
In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides an array substrate, including: the pixel structure comprises a substrate, a first metal layer arranged on the substrate, a first insulating layer arranged on the substrate and the first metal layer, a second metal layer arranged on the first insulating layer, a second insulating layer arranged on the second metal layer and a pixel electrode layer arranged on the second insulating layer;
the first metal layer comprises a plurality of scanning lines arranged in parallel at intervals and a common electrode line spaced from the scanning lines, and the second metal layer comprises: the pixel electrode layer comprises a plurality of data lines arranged in parallel at intervals, a plurality of scanning lines and a plurality of data lines are intersected with each other to define a plurality of pixel units arranged in an array, and the pixel electrode layer comprises: the pixel units are respectively and correspondingly arranged on the pixel electrodes and the shading electrodes are respectively and correspondingly arranged above the data lines and used for shading the data lines;
and each shading electrode is insulated and spaced from the first metal layer, the second metal layer and the pixel electrode.
Still be equipped with a plurality of drive TFT that the array was arranged on the substrate base plate, each drive TFT all includes: the grid electrode is positioned on the first metal layer, the active layer is positioned on the first insulating layer and above the grid electrode, and the source electrode and the drain electrode are positioned on the second metal layer and are in contact with two ends of the active layer.
Each driving TFT corresponds to one pixel unit, the grid electrode of each row of driving TFTs is correspondingly and electrically connected with one scanning line, the source electrode of each row of driving TFTs is correspondingly and electrically connected with one data line, and the drain electrode of each driving TFT is correspondingly and electrically connected with the pixel electrode of the corresponding pixel unit.
And a storage capacitor is formed at the part of each pixel electrode overlapped with the common electrode wire.
The material of the first insulating layer and the second insulating layer is one or a combination of silicon oxide and silicon nitride.
The material of the first metal layer and the second metal layer is one or a combination of more of molybdenum, aluminum and titanium.
The pixel electrode layer is made of ITO.
The invention also provides a curved-surface liquid crystal display which comprises the array substrate.
The invention has the beneficial effects that: the invention provides an array substrate, which is characterized in that a shading electrode is arranged above a data line, the shading electrode is utilized to control liquid crystals corresponding to the position of the data line to keep a non-deflection state, so that a shading effect is realized, and meanwhile, the shading electrode is insulated and spaced from a first metal layer, a second metal layer and a pixel electrode, namely, the shading electrode is in a vacant state. The invention also provides a curved-surface liquid crystal display which can prevent horizontal crosstalk and improve the display quality of a panel on the premise of adopting the DBS technology.
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For a better understanding of the nature and technical aspects of the present invention, reference should be made to the following detailed description of the invention, taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, which are provided for purposes of illustration and description and are not intended to limit the invention.
In the drawings, there is shown in the drawings,
fig. 1 is an equivalent circuit diagram of a conventional array substrate using DBS technology;
fig. 2 is a top view structural diagram of the array substrate of the present invention;
FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view taken along line A-A of FIG. 2;
FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view taken along line B-B of FIG. 2;
fig. 5 is an equivalent circuit diagram of the array substrate of the present invention.
Detailed Description
To further illustrate the technical means and effects of the present invention, the following detailed description is given with reference to the preferred embodiments of the present invention and the accompanying drawings.
Referring to fig. 2, the present invention provides an array substrate, including: the liquid crystal display panel comprises a substrate base plate 1, a first metal layer 2 arranged on the substrate base plate 1, a first insulating layer 3 arranged on the substrate base plate 1 and the first metal layer 2, a second metal layer 4 arranged on the first insulating layer 3, a second insulating layer 5 arranged on the second metal layer 4, and a pixel electrode layer 6 arranged on the second insulating layer 5.
Specifically, the first metal layer 2 includes a plurality of scan lines 21 arranged in parallel at intervals and a common electrode line 22 spaced from the scan lines 21, and the second metal layer 4 includes: a plurality of data lines 41 arranged in parallel at intervals, the plurality of scan lines 21 and the plurality of data lines 41 cross each other to define a plurality of pixel units 7 arranged in an array, the pixel electrode layer 6 includes: a plurality of pixel electrodes 61 respectively corresponding to the plurality of pixel units 7 and a plurality of light-shielding electrodes 62 respectively corresponding to the plurality of data lines 41 and shielding the data lines 41; each of the light-shielding electrodes 62 is insulated and spaced from the first metal layer 2, the second metal layer 4, and the pixel electrode 61.
Specifically, the substrate 1 is a transparent substrate, preferably a glass substrate, and the material of the first insulating layer 3 and the second insulating layer 5 is one or a combination of silicon oxide (SiOx) and silicon nitride (SiNx). The material of the first metal layer 2 and the second metal layer 4 is one or a combination of molybdenum, aluminum, titanium and the like. Preferably, the material of the pixel electrode layer 6 is ITO.
Specifically, as shown in fig. 2, 4 and 5, the substrate base board 1 is further provided with a plurality of driving TFTs T10 arranged in an array, and each driving TFT T10 includes: the gate electrode 23 is located on the first metal layer 2, the active layer 31 is located on the first insulating layer 3 above the corresponding gate electrode 23, and the source electrode 42 and the drain electrode 43 are located on the second metal layer 4 and contact both ends of the active layer 31.
Specifically, the driving TFT T10 may be a thin film transistor of various types such as an oxide semiconductor thin film transistor or a low temperature polysilicon thin film transistor.
Specifically, as shown in fig. 2 and 5, each driving TFT T10 corresponds to one pixel unit 7, the gate of each row driving TFT T10 corresponds to one scanning line 21, the source 42 of each column driving TFT T10 corresponds to one data line 41, and the drain of each driving TFT T10 corresponds to the pixel electrode 61 of the corresponding pixel unit 7.
In addition, a storage capacitor C10 is formed at the overlapping part of each pixel electrode 61 and the array substrate common electrode line 22.
It should be noted that, referring to fig. 1 and fig. 5, in the array substrate of the present invention, the light-shielding electrode 62 is in a Floating state and is not electrically connected to any other conducting wire, that is, the capacitor C20 formed by the overlapping portion of the light-shielding electrode 62 and the data line 41 is not connected to the common electrode line 22 any more, and since the capacitor C20 is not electrically connected to the common electrode line 22 any more, the voltage change of the data line 41 cannot affect the common voltage of the array substrate through the capacitor C20, so that the horizontal crosstalk can be prevented, and the display quality can be improved.
It should be noted that although the light-shielding electrode 62 is in the empty state, it still suffers from the influence of the electric field in the panel, and the voltage on the light-shielding electrode 62 still has a voltage equal to the common voltage of the array substrate, which can be realized by adjusting the electric field distribution in the panel, especially by adjusting the voltage levels of the common voltage of the array substrate and the common voltage (CF-com) of the color filter substrate, so that the light-shielding electrode 62 in the empty state still has the light-shielding effect.
In addition, since the light-shielding electrode 62 of the present invention is disposed above the data line 41 and shields the data line 41, it can also shield electric field interference between the data line 41 and the pixel electrode 61, and between the data line 41 and the common electrode on the color filter substrate, thereby avoiding poor display.
Based on the array substrate, the invention also provides a curved-surface liquid crystal display, which comprises the array substrate, can prevent light leakage by using the DBS technology, can prevent the horizontal crosstalk problem caused by the DBS technology, and has high display quality and strong product competitiveness.
In summary, the present invention provides an array substrate, in which a light-shielding electrode is disposed above a data line, and the light-shielding electrode is used to control liquid crystals corresponding to the position of the data line to maintain a non-deflection state, so as to achieve a light-shielding effect, and the light-shielding electrode is insulated from the first metal layer, the second metal layer, and the pixel electrode, i.e., the light-shielding electrode is in a vacant state. The invention also provides a curved-surface liquid crystal display which can prevent horizontal crosstalk and improve the display quality of a panel on the premise of adopting the DBS technology.
As described above, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that other various changes and modifications may be made based on the technical solution and concept of the present invention, and all such changes and modifications are intended to fall within the scope of the appended claims.