Disclosure of Invention
The application relates to a micro LED bulk transfer device and a transfer method thereof, which are used for solving the problems of low efficiency and yield of the micro LED bulk transfer device and the micro LED bulk transfer method of a micro light-emitting diode in the prior art.
In order to solve the above problems, the technical solution provided by the present application is as follows:
the application provides a pair of micro LED huge transfer device, micro LED huge transfer device includes: the device comprises an illumination module, a transfer module, a cleaning module and a drying module;
the illumination module is arranged on the uppermost surface of the whole device, and a mask plate is arranged in the illumination module;
the transfer module is arranged below the illumination module, and comprises: the micro LED transfer printing device comprises a sapphire substrate, micro LED chips, a conveyor belt and a carrier plate, wherein the micro LED chips to be transferred are arranged right opposite to openings of a mask plate;
the cleaning module includes: a conveyor belt, a cleaning solution and a cleaning spray head;
the drying module includes: a conveyor belt and a drying source.
In some embodiments of the present application, the conveyor belt is composed of a stretch-resistant substrate and an adhesive layer disposed on one side of the stretch-resistant substrate, and the adhesive layer is disposed on one side of the micro LED chip.
In some embodiments of the present application, the reticle has a plurality of openings disposed thereon.
In some embodiments of the present application, the micro LED bulk transfer device further comprises at least two rollers, and the rollers drive the conveyor belt to move.
In some embodiments of the present application, the conveyor belt in the transfer module is a first conveyor belt, the conveyor belt in the cleaning module is a second conveyor belt, the conveyor belt in the drying module is a third conveyor belt, the first conveyor belt is driven by a first roller and a second roller, the second conveyor belt is driven by a second roller and a third roller, and the third conveyor belt is driven by a third roller and a fourth roller.
In some embodiments of the present application, the first roller, the second roller, the third roller, and the fourth roller are made of the same material; the second roller wheel and the third roller wheel are equal in radius, and the axle centers of the second roller wheel and the third roller wheel are located on the same horizontal line.
In some embodiments of the present application, the illumination module employs a solid state laser having a certain preset laser wavelength.
In some embodiments of the present application, the preset laser wavelength length of the solid-state laser is: 266 nm.
In some embodiments of the present application, the cleaning solution is a hydrochloric acid solution.
The application also provides a micro LED huge transfer method, which adopts the micro LED huge transfer device, and the method comprises the following steps:
s10, irradiating the sapphire substrate by a solid laser through the mask plate;
s20, sticking the peeled micro LED chips on a conveyor belt, and conveying the micro LED chips to a cleaning module by the conveyor belt;
s30, the cleaning spray head sprays cleaning solution to clean the micro LED chips in the cleaning module, Ga and Ga oxides on the micro LED chips are washed off, and then the micro LED chips are conveyed to the drying module;
and S40, drying the micro LED chips in the drying module by using a drying source.
Compared with the prior art, the micro LED huge transfer device and the transfer method thereof have the advantages that:
1. the application provides a micro LED huge transfer device includes: the device comprises an illumination module, a transfer module, a cleaning module and a drying module, wherein the illumination module is arranged on the uppermost surface of the whole device, and a mask plate is arranged in the illumination module; the transfer module is arranged below the illumination module, and comprises: the micro LED transfer printing device comprises a sapphire substrate, micro LED chips, a conveyor belt and a carrier plate, wherein the micro LED chips to be transferred are arranged right opposite to openings of a mask plate; the cleaning module includes: a conveyor belt, a cleaning solution and a cleaning spray head; the drying module includes: a conveying and drying source; when the micro LED chips are required to be transferred, the opening of the mask plate is right opposite to the micro LED chips to be transferred, and a plurality of micro LED chips can be transferred at one time, so that huge transfer of the micro LED chips is realized, and the transfer efficiency of the micro LED is improved;
2. the application provides a micro LED huge amount transfer device, the conveyer belt is in by stretch-proofing base plate and setting the viscose layer of stretch-proofing substrate one side is constituteed, because be provided with the viscose layer on the conveyer belt, can directly with micro LED chip bonds on the conveyer belt, has guaranteed that micro LED chip is stable glues and is in carry out subsequent washing and drying on the conveyer belt, reduced with the number of times of micro LED chip contact has improved the yield that micro LED huge amount shifted.
Detailed Description
The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present application. It is to be understood that the embodiments described are only a few embodiments of the present application and not all embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present application.
In the description of the present application, it is to be understood that the terms "center," "longitudinal," "lateral," "length," "width," "thickness," "upper," "lower," "front," "rear," "left," "right," "vertical," "horizontal," "top," "bottom," "inner," "outer," "clockwise," "counterclockwise," and the like are used in the orientations and positional relationships indicated in the drawings for convenience in describing the present application and for simplicity in description, and are not intended to indicate or imply that the referenced devices or elements must have a particular orientation, be constructed in a particular orientation, and be operated in a particular manner, and are not to be construed as limiting the present application. Furthermore, the terms "first", "second" and "first" are used for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance or implicitly indicating the number of technical features indicated. Thus, features defined as "first", "second", may explicitly or implicitly include one or more of the described features. In the description of the present application, "a plurality" means two or more unless specifically limited otherwise.
The application provides a micro LED mass transfer device and a transfer method thereof, and particularly refers to fig. 1-5.
Because the existing Micro LEDs are applied to a large-size display panel, the sapphire substrate or GaAs substrate of the LEDs needs to be removed, and because the integration level of the Micro LEDs is high, the utilization rate of the Micro LEDs is low due to the excessively dense arrangement of the Micro LEDs, and waste is caused, the Micro LEDs need to be transferred to a driving circuit board which is arranged sparsely through massive transfer in practical use, and because the volumes of the Micro LEDs are small, the efficiency and the yield of the existing massive selective transfer device and method are low. Therefore, the present application provides a macro transfer apparatus and method for micro LED to solve the above problems.
Referring to fig. 1, a schematic structural diagram of a micro LED bulk transfer device provided in the present application is shown, where the micro LED bulk transfer device includes: the device comprises an illumination module 1, a transfer module 2, a cleaning module 3 and a drying module 4;
the illumination module 1 is arranged on the uppermost surface of the whole device, and a mask 12 is arranged in the illumination module 1; during illumination, laser is irradiated onto the sapphire substrate 21 through the opening of the mask 12 to decompose the GaN buffer layer 212 in the sapphire substrate 21 into Ga and nitrogen N2, so that the micro LED chips 22 are separated from the sapphire substrate 211, and the micro LED chips 22 can fall off the conveyor belt 24;
the transfer module 2 is arranged below the illumination module 1, and the transfer module 2 comprises: the mask comprises a sapphire substrate 21, micro LED chips 22, a conveyor belt 24 and a carrier plate 25, wherein the micro LED chips 22 to be transferred are arranged right opposite to the opening of the mask 12; the mask plate 12 is provided with a plurality of openings, the openings of the mask plate 12 are opposite to the micro LED chips 22 to be transferred, and after laser irradiation, the micro LED chips 22 to be transferred can directly fall off the conveyor belt 24, so that the micro LED chips 22 are transferred;
the cleaning module 3 includes: a conveyor belt 33, a cleaning solution 32, and a cleaning head 31; in the laser irradiation process, there may be a portion of the area of the micro LED chip 22 where the Ga metal in the GaN buffer layer 212 remains and does not fall off, or reacts with water and oxygen in the air to become gallium oxide, which may affect the light emitting effect of the micro LED chip 22, so after the micro LED chip 22 is transferred, the gallium metal and its oxide remaining on the micro LED chip 22 need to be cleaned to reduce the effect of gallium and its oxide on the light emitting efficiency of the micro LED chip 22;
the drying module 4 includes: the conveying belt 42 and the drying source 41 are used for cleaning the micro LED chips 22 after cleaning, so that the cleaning solution in the cleaning module 3 is prevented from remaining on the micro LED chips 22, and the micro LED chips 22 are prevented from being excessively corroded to affect the yield of the micro LED chips 22.
Further, referring to fig. 2, the sapphire substrate 21 includes: the micro LED chip 22 comprises an N electrode 2211, an N type GaN2212, an N type limiting layer 2213, an MQWs multi-quantum light-emitting layer 2214, a P type limiting layer 2215, a P type GaN2216 and a P electrode 2217; the micro LED chips 22 can be classified into: red micro LED chip 221, green micro LED chip 222 and blue micro LED chip 223, red light is sent out to red micro LED chip 221, green micro LED chip 222 sends the green glow, blue micro LED chip 223 sends the blue light.
Referring to fig. 4, in some embodiments of the present application, the conveyor belt 24 is composed of a stretch-resistant substrate 241 and an adhesive layer 242 disposed on one side of the stretch-resistant substrate, wherein the stretch-resistant substrate 241 is flexible and stretch-resistant; viscose layer 242 is just right micro LED chip 22 one side sets up, works as like after 22 times laser irradiation of micro LED chip drop, can directly drop on the conveyer belt 24, need not artificial intervention and can the steady transportation, just micro LED chip 22's surface also can not receive the extrusion, has improved micro LED chip 22's yield.
In some embodiments of this application, be provided with a plurality of openings on the mask 12, every the opening size and the shape of the opening part of mask 12 and every micro LED chip 22's size and shape are the same, a plurality of the opening of mask promptly illumination can shine a plurality of micro LED chips 22 that wait to shift promptly realize a plurality ofly promptly micro LED chip 22's transfer. Referring to fig. 3, a top view of the conveyor belt to which the transferred micro LED chips 22 are adhered is shown, and the conveyor belt is adhered with a plurality of red micro LED chips 221, a plurality of green micro LED chips 222, and a plurality of blue micro LED chips 223.
In some embodiments of the present application, the micro LED bulk transfer device further comprises at least two rollers, and the rollers drive the conveyor belt to move.
Further, the conveyor belt in the transfer module 2 is a first conveyor belt 24, the conveyor belt in the cleaning module 3 is a second conveyor belt 33, the conveyor belt in the drying module 4 is a third conveyor belt 42, the first conveyor belt 24 is driven by a first roller 23 and a second roller 34, the second conveyor belt 33 is driven by a second roller 34 and a third roller 35, and the third conveyor belt 42 is driven by a third roller 35 and a fourth roller 43. The first conveyor belt 24, the second conveyor belt 33 and the third conveyor belt 42 are made of the same material, have the same width and have the same shape, that is, are one section of the same conveyor belt, and are output from the first roller 23 to the fourth roller 43 during each conveying, so as to complete the transfer, cleaning and drying of the micro LED chips 22.
Further, the first roller 23, the second roller 34, the third roller 35 and the fourth roller 43 are made of the same material and are cylindrical; because second roller 34 with third roller 35 is located cleaning module 3, for guaranteeing micro LED chip 22 is when wasing, cleaning solution with be close to sapphire substrate one side micro LED chip 22's surface carries out abundant reaction, thoroughly washs to remain in micro LED chip 22 is close to the gallium metal and the oxide of sapphire substrate side surface will second roller 34 with third roller 35's radius sets up equally, just second roller 34 with the axle center of third roller 35 is located same water flat line, makes micro LED chip 22 can follow the horizontal direction even running on second conveyer belt 33.
In some embodiments of the present application, the illumination module employs a solid laser 11 having a certain preset laser wavelength; further, the preset laser wavelength length of the solid laser 11 is: 266nm, that is, when the solid state laser 11 is irradiated with light, the solid state laser 11 stably emits a laser beam having a wavelength of 266nm to irradiate the sapphire substrate, so that the GaN buffer layer on the sapphire substrate is decomposed, and the micro LED chip 22 and the sapphire substrate are peeled off.
In some embodiments of the present application, the cleaning solution is a hydrochloric acid solution, that is, the hydrochloric acid solution reacts with gallium metal and its oxide, so that the gallium metal and its oxide on the surface of the micro LED chip 22 are corroded away.
Referring to fig. 5, the present application further provides a micro LED bulk transfer method, which uses the micro LED bulk transfer apparatus, and the method includes the following steps:
s10, irradiating the sapphire substrate by a solid laser through the mask plate; the micro LED chips to be transferred are right opposite to the openings of the mask plate, and the laser can be used for independently stripping the micro LED chips 22 to be transferred, so that the cost is saved, and the transfer efficiency is also improved;
s20, sticking the peeled micro LED chips on a conveyor belt, and conveying the micro LED chips to a cleaning module by the conveyor belt; after the micro LED chips are irradiated by laser for a period of time, the GaN buffer layer above the micro LED chips to be transferred is decomposed into Ga and nitrogen under the irradiation of the laser, the micro LED chips cannot be adhered to the sapphire substrate, the micro LED chips fall off the conveyer belt, and the micro LED chips are immediately adhered to the conveyer belt due to the adhesive layer arranged on the conveyer belt and are transported to the next module along with the conveyer belt;
s30, the cleaning spray head sprays cleaning solution to clean the micro LED chips in the cleaning module, Ga and Ga oxides on the micro LED chips are washed off, and then the micro LED chips are conveyed to the drying module; corroding gallium metal and gallium oxide remaining on the surface of the micro LED chip with hydrochloric acid solution to prevent the gallium metal and gallium oxide from influencing the luminous efficiency of the micro LED chip;
s40, drying the micro LED chips in the drying module by using a drying source, preventing hydrochloric acid solution from remaining on the surfaces of the micro LED chips, and avoiding excessive corrosion of the micro LED chips by the hydrochloric acid solution, thereby influencing the yield of the micro LED chips.
Therefore, the micro LED huge transfer device and the transfer method thereof have the beneficial effects that: first, the present application provides a micro LED bulk transfer device, including: the device comprises an illumination module, a transfer module, a cleaning module and a drying module, wherein the illumination module is arranged on the uppermost surface of the whole device, and a mask plate is arranged in the illumination module; the transfer module is arranged below the illumination module, and comprises: the micro LED transfer printing device comprises a sapphire substrate, micro LED chips, a conveyor belt and a carrier plate, wherein the micro LED chips to be transferred are arranged right opposite to openings of a mask plate; the cleaning module includes: a conveyor belt, a cleaning solution and a cleaning spray head; the drying module includes: a conveying and drying source; when the micro LED chips are required to be transferred, the opening of the mask plate is right opposite to the micro LED chips to be transferred, and a plurality of micro LED chips can be transferred at one time, so that huge transfer of the micro LED chips is realized, and the transfer efficiency of the micro LED is improved; secondly, the huge transfer device of micro LED that this application provided, the conveyer belt is in by stretch-proofing base plate and setting the viscose layer of stretch-proofing substrate one side is constituteed, because be provided with the viscose layer on the conveyer belt, can directly with the micro LED chip bonds on the conveyer belt, has guaranteed that the micro LED chip is stable to be glued carry out subsequent washing and drying on the conveyer belt, reduced with the number of times of micro LED chip contact has improved the yield that the huge transfer of micro LED.
The micro LED bulk transfer device and the transfer method thereof provided by the embodiment of the present application are described in detail above, a specific example is applied in the description to explain the principle and the implementation manner of the present application, and the description of the embodiment is only used to help understanding the technical scheme and the core idea of the present application; those of ordinary skill in the art will understand that: the technical solutions described in the foregoing embodiments may still be modified, or some technical features may be equivalently replaced; such modifications or substitutions do not depart from the spirit and scope of the present disclosure as defined by the appended claims.