Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to provide an array substrate, a display panel and a manufacturing method of the array substrate, which solve the technical problem of low haze of an under-screen camera area, thereby improving the contrast of the under-screen camera area and enhancing the picture display effect of the under-screen camera area.
In order to solve the above problems, the present invention provides an array substrate, which is provided with a display area and a camera area under a screen, and the array substrate includes a substrate, a driving circuit layer, a planarization layer, a common electrode layer, an insulating layer, and a pixel electrode layer, which are sequentially stacked from bottom to top. Specifically, the driving circuit layer is arranged on the substrate; the flat layer is arranged on the driving circuit layer; the flat layer is provided with a groove in the camera area under the screen; the common electrode layer is arranged on the flat layer; the insulating layer is arranged on the common electrode layer; the pixel electrode layer is arranged on the insulating layer.
Further, the distribution range of the grooves is the same as that of the under-screen camera area.
Further, the depth of the groove is equal to the thickness of the flat layer.
Further, the depth of recess is 1um-2 um.
The invention also provides a manufacturing method of the array substrate, which comprises the following steps:
providing a substrate, wherein the substrate is provided with a display area and a camera area under a screen;
manufacturing a driving circuit layer on the substrate;
manufacturing a flat layer on the driving circuit layer, and manufacturing a groove on the flat layer in the under-screen camera area;
manufacturing a common electrode layer on the flat layer;
manufacturing an insulating layer on the common electrode layer; and
and manufacturing a pixel electrode layer on the insulating layer.
Further, the step of manufacturing the groove is to form the groove on the flat layer in the under-screen camera area by etching; the distribution range of the grooves is the same as that of the under-screen camera area.
Further, the depth of the groove is equal to the thickness of the flat layer; the depth of the groove is 1um-2 um.
The invention further provides a display panel comprising the array substrate.
Furthermore, the display panel also comprises a liquid crystal layer and a color film substrate, wherein the liquid crystal layer is arranged on the array substrate; the thickness of the liquid crystal layer in the area of the under-screen camera is 4um-5 um; the color film substrate is arranged on the liquid crystal layer and opposite to the array substrate.
Further, in the under-screen camera area, the distance between the pixel electrode layer and the color film substrate is 4um-5 um.
The invention has the beneficial effects that the groove is manufactured on the flat layer of the under-screen camera area, so that the thickness of the liquid crystal layer of the display panel in the under-screen camera area at the position corresponding to the groove is increased, the thickness of the liquid crystal layer is increased from about three micrometers to about five micrometers, the optical path of light passing through the liquid crystal layer is increased, the light scattering effect is improved, the haze of the liquid crystal layer is further increased, the technical problem of low haze of the under-screen camera area is solved, the contrast of the under-screen camera area is improved, and the picture display effect of the under-screen camera area is enhanced.
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In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application, the drawings used in the description of the embodiments will be briefly introduced below. It is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the application, and that for a person skilled in the art, other drawings can be derived from them without inventive effort.
FIG. 1 is a schematic plan view illustrating a display panel according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view of the display panel of FIG. 1 at A-A;
fig. 3 is a schematic structural diagram of an array substrate according to an embodiment of the invention;
fig. 4 is a flowchart illustrating a method for manufacturing an array substrate according to an embodiment of the invention.
The components in the figure are identified as follows:
1. a substrate, 2, a driving circuit layer, 3, a flat layer, 4, a common electrode layer,
5. an insulating layer 6, a pixel electrode layer 10, an array substrate 11, a display region,
12. an under-screen camera area 20, a liquid crystal layer 30, a color film substrate 31, a groove,
40. camera sensor, 100, display panel.
Detailed Description
The following description of the various embodiments refers to the accompanying drawings that illustrate specific embodiments in which the invention may be practiced. The directional terms mentioned in the present invention, such as [ upper ], [ lower ], [ front ], [ rear ], [ left ], [ right ], [ inner ], [ outer ], [ side ], are only referring to the directions of the attached drawings. Accordingly, the directional terms used are used for explanation and understanding of the present invention, and are not used for limiting the present invention. In the drawings, elements having similar structures are denoted by the same reference numerals.
In the drawings, the thickness of layers and regions are exaggerated for clarity. For example, the thicknesses and sizes of elements in the drawings are arbitrarily shown for convenience of description, and thus, the described technical scope is not limited by the drawings.
In the present invention, unless otherwise expressly stated or limited, the terms "mounted," "connected," "secured," and the like are to be construed broadly and can, for example, be fixedly connected, detachably connected, or integrally formed; can be mechanically or electrically connected; either directly or indirectly through intervening media, either internally or in any other relationship. The specific meanings of the above terms in the present invention can be understood by those skilled in the art according to specific situations.
Referring to fig. 1, a display panel 100 is provided in a first embodiment of the present invention, and includes a display area 11 and an off-screen camera area 12. The display area 11 is a conventional display area 111, the under-screen camera area 12 is a transparent display area, and a camera hole 121 is formed in the middle of the under-screen camera area 12.
Referring to fig. 2, which is a cross-sectional view of the display panel 100 at a-a in fig. 1, the display panel 100 includes an array substrate 10, a liquid crystal layer 20, and a color film substrate 30. The liquid crystal layer 20 is arranged on the array substrate 10; the thickness of the liquid crystal layer 20 in the under-screen camera area 12 is 4um to 5um, preferably 5 um; the color film substrate 30 is disposed on the liquid crystal layer 20 and opposite to the array substrate 10.
The liquid crystal layer 20 in the display region 11 uses a conventional liquid crystal; the liquid crystal layer 20 in the under-screen camera area 12 uses scattering liquid crystal, and when light passes through the liquid crystal layer 20, the light is scattered by the liquid crystal layer 20, and the transmitted light is reduced, so that the under-screen camera area 12 is in a scattering fog state. The thickness of the liquid crystal layer 20 in the display area 11 is about three micrometers, and if the structure of the array substrate 10 in the under-screen camera area 12 is not changed, the thickness of the under-screen camera area 12 is also about three micrometers, which makes it difficult to increase the haze. Haze is an important parameter for measuring the transparency characteristic of transparent or semitransparent materials, and generally, the larger the optical path, the more obvious the effect of scattering light by liquid crystal, and the better the haze effect. In order to increase the haze effect of the liquid crystal layer 20 in the scattering state in the under-screen camera area 12, the grooves 31 are arranged to increase the optical path length to increase the scattering degree, so as to increase the haze effect, thereby improving the contrast of the under-screen camera area 12 and enhancing the image display effect of the under-screen camera area 12.
Referring to fig. 2, in the present embodiment, the display panel 100 further includes a camera sensor 40, and the camera sensor 40 is disposed corresponding to the off-screen camera area 12. When the camera sensor 40 is turned off, the under-screen camera area 12 is used for displaying pictures, so that full-screen display is realized; when the camera sensor 40 is turned on, the under-screen camera area 12 is in a transparent display mode, so that a camera shooting function is realized.
The display panel 100 of the present invention is suitable for various occasions and can be combined with various devices and structures, and the display panel 100 may be a mobile terminal, such as a mobile phone, an intelligent wearable device, or a fixed terminal (PC), or other devices with a display function, such as a tablet PC, a television, a display window, etc. It is to be understood that the display panel 100 of the present invention is provided with other devices, structures, etc. not shown in this specification in order to realize functions.
Referring to fig. 3, the array substrate 10 includes a substrate 1, a driving circuit layer 2, a planarization layer 3, a common electrode layer 4, an insulating layer 5, and a pixel electrode layer 6, which are sequentially stacked from bottom to top. Specifically, the driving circuit layer 2 is provided on the substrate 1; the flat layer 3 is arranged on the driving circuit layer 2; the flat layer 3 is provided with a groove 31 in the under-screen camera area 12; the common electrode layer 4 is arranged on the flat layer 3; the insulating layer 5 is arranged on the common electrode layer 4; the pixel electrode layer 6 is disposed on the insulating layer 5.
In this embodiment, the groove 31 is formed in the flat layer 3 located in the under-screen camera area 12, so that the thickness of the liquid crystal layer of the display panel formed by the array substrate 10 in the under-screen camera area 12 is increased from about three micrometers to about five micrometers, the optical path of light passing through the liquid crystal layer is increased, and the light scattering effect is improved; haze is an important parameter for measuring the transparent characteristic of a transparent or semitransparent material, and generally, the larger the optical path is, the more obvious the effect of scattering light by liquid crystal is, and the better the haze effect is; in the embodiment, the optical path of the light passing through the liquid crystal layer is increased, so that the haze of the liquid crystal layer is increased, and the technical problem that the haze of the under-screen camera area 12 is low is solved, so that the contrast of the under-screen camera area 12 is improved, and the picture display effect of the under-screen camera area 12 is enhanced.
In this embodiment, the distribution range of the grooves 31 is the same as the distribution range of the under-screen camera area 12. Namely, the groove 31 is a groove in the lower camera area 12, which is obtained by removing the whole of the planarization layer 3, compared with the whole of the array substrate 10, so that the thickness of the lower camera area 12 can be reduced to the maximum extent compared with the thickness of the display area 11, and thus the thickness of the liquid crystal layer of the display panel formed by the array substrate 10 in the lower camera area 12 is increased.
In this embodiment, the depth of the groove 31 is equal to the thickness of the planarization layer 3. This enables the flat layer 3 to be removed entirely from the flat layer 3 in the under-screen camera area 12.
In this embodiment, the depth of the groove 31 is 1um-2 um. Typically the thickness of the flat layer 3 is 1um-2um and the depth of the recess 31 is dimensioned such that the entire flat layer 3 is removed in the under-screen camera area 12. Certainly if the thickness of flat layer 3 is greater than 3um, the depth dimension of recess 31 makes recess 31 can not run through flat layer 3, and structural strength can be higher relatively like this, and structural stability is better, non-deformable.
It can be understood that, in the under-screen camera area 12 of the display panel 100, the distance between the pixel electrode layer 6 and the color film substrate 30 is 4um to 5 um. Therefore, the groove 31 is formed in the flat layer 3 of the under-screen camera area 12, the thickness of the liquid crystal layer 20 of the under-screen camera area 12 is increased at the position corresponding to the groove 31, the thickness of the liquid crystal layer 20 is increased from about three micrometers to about five micrometers, the optical path of light passing through the liquid crystal layer 20 is increased, the scattering effect of the light is improved, the haze of the liquid crystal layer 20 is increased, and the contrast of the under-screen camera area 12 is improved.
Referring to fig. 4, the present invention further provides a method for manufacturing an array substrate 10, including the following steps:
s1, providing a substrate 1, wherein the substrate 1 is provided with a display area 11 and an under-screen camera area 12;
s2, manufacturing a driving circuit layer 2 on the substrate 1;
s3, forming a flat layer 3 on the driving circuit layer 2, and forming a groove 31 on the flat layer 3 in the under-screen camera area 12;
s4, manufacturing a common electrode layer 4 on the flat layer 3;
s5, manufacturing an insulating layer 5 on the common electrode layer 4; and
and S6, manufacturing a pixel electrode layer 6 on the insulating layer 5.
In this embodiment, the step of manufacturing the groove 31 is to form the groove 31 on the flat layer 3 in the under-screen camera area 12 by etching; the distribution range of the grooves 31 is the same as that of the under-screen camera area 12. Namely, the groove 31 is a groove in the lower camera area 12, which is obtained by removing the whole of the planarization layer 3, compared with the whole of the array substrate 10, so that the thickness of the lower camera area 12 can be reduced to the maximum extent compared with the thickness of the display area 11, and thus the thickness of the liquid crystal layer of the display panel formed by the array substrate 10 in the lower camera area 12 is increased.
In this embodiment, the depth of the groove 31 is equal to the thickness of the flat layer 3; the depth of the groove 31 is 1um-2 um. Typically the thickness of the flat layer 3 is 1um-2um and the depth of the recess 31 is dimensioned such that the entire flat layer 3 is removed in the under-screen camera area 12. Certainly if the thickness of flat layer 3 is greater than 3um, the depth dimension of recess 31 makes recess 31 can not run through flat layer 3, and structural strength can be higher relatively like this, and structural stability is better, non-deformable.
The invention has the beneficial effects that the groove 31 is formed in the flat layer 3 of the under-screen camera area 12, so that the thickness of the liquid crystal layer 20 of the display panel 100 in the under-screen camera area 12 at the position corresponding to the groove 31 is increased, the thickness of the liquid crystal layer 20 is increased from about three micrometers to about five micrometers, the optical path of light passing through the liquid crystal layer 20 is increased, the light scattering effect is improved, the haze of the liquid crystal layer 20 is increased, the technical problem of low haze of the under-screen camera area 12 is solved, the contrast of the under-screen camera area 12 is improved, and the picture display effect of the under-screen camera area 12 is enhanced.
The foregoing is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and it should be noted that, for those skilled in the art, various modifications and decorations can be made without departing from the principle of the present invention, and these modifications and decorations should also be regarded as the protection scope of the present invention.