Patents by Inventor Jae-Bon Koo

Jae-Bon Koo has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20090130788
    Abstract: A top-emitting organic light-emitting device can prevent a voltage drop by electrically coupling a cathode bus line to a cathode electrode. A method for fabricating the same is also disclosed. The flat panel display device comprises an insulating substrate having a pixel region and a non-pixel region, a first electrode arranged in the pixel region. a second electrode arranged in the pixel region and the non-pixel region, an organic emission layer and a charge transporting layer formed between the first electrode and the second electrode of the pixel region, and an electrode line formed in the pixel region and the non-pixel region. The electrode line and the second electrode are electrically and directly coupled to each other in the non-pixel region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2009
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Applicant: SAMSUNG MOBILE DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jae-Bon KOO, Ul-Ho Lee
  • Patent number: 7532184
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a flat panel display capable of improving a white balance by using offset lengths or doping concentrations of offset regions between multi gates of driving transistors in R, G, and B unit pixels. The flat panel display comprises a plurality of pixels, where each of the pixels includes R, G and B unit pixels to embody red (R), green (G) and blue (B) colors, respectively, and each of the unit pixels including a transistor with multi gates. Transistors of at least two unit pixels of the R, G, and B unit pixels have offset regions with different geometric structures between the multi gates from one another. An offset region of a transistor for driving a light-emitting device having the highest luminous efficiency among the transistors of the R, G, and B unit pixels, is formed to have a longer offset length or a lower doping concentration, than those of offset regions of transistors for driving light-emitting devices having relative lower luminous efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2009
    Assignee: Samsung Mobile Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae-Bon Koo, Sang-Il Park, Ul-Ho Lee, Jin-Soo Kim, Jin-Woung Jung, Chang-Gyu Lee
  • Patent number: 7507990
    Abstract: An organic thin film transistor comprising an organic semiconductor layer that does not cause a coffee stain effect and can prevent an imperfect contact with source and drain electrodes, and a flat panel display apparatus comprising the organic thin film transistor are provided. The organic thin film transistor comprises a gate electrode; source and drain electrodes insulated from the gate electrode; and an organic semiconductor layer insulated from the gate electrode and contacts the source and drain electrodes, wherein the organic semiconductor layer has a circular shape when viewed through a substrate on which the organic thin film transistor is formed, and an edge portion of at least one of the source and drain electrodes contacting the organic semiconductor layer having a curved shape that is concave toward the organic semiconductor layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2009
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Min-Chul Suh, Jae-Bon Koo
  • Patent number: 7507609
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescent display and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The organic electroluminescent display includes a substrate, at least a thin-film transistor, which is formed on the substrate, at least an insulation layer, which cover the thin-film transistor, first electrodes, which are formed in a predetermined pattern on a top surface of the insulation layer and to which a voltage is selectively applied through the thin-film transistor, bus electrodes, which are insulated from the first electrodes, a planarization layer, which is an insulation layer and has openings exposing the first electrodes and the bus electrodes, organic layers, which are formed on a top surface of the first electrodes, and second electrodes, which are formed on a top surface of the organic layer and a top surface of the planarization layer and are electrically connected to the bus electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2009
    Assignee: Samsung Mobile Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae-Bon Koo, Sang-Il Park
  • Publication number: 20090072225
    Abstract: Provided is a flat panel display device having an organic TFT and a manufacturing method thereof. The flat panel display device includes a first organic TFT having a first organic semiconductor active layer, and a second organic TFT having a second organic semiconductor active layer. At this point, the particle size of the organic semiconductor crystal of the first organic semiconductor active layer is greater than that of the organic semiconductor crystal of the second organic semiconductor active layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2008
    Publication date: March 19, 2009
    Applicant: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Jae-Bon KOO, Seung-Youl Kang, Kyung-Soo Suh
  • Publication number: 20090072226
    Abstract: Provided is a display device having an organic TFT. The display device includes the organic TFT on a substrate, a passivation layer covering the organic TFT, and a bank layer on the passivation layer. At this point, at least one of the passivation layer and the bank layer is formed of a material blocking light incident from a portion on the substrate to the organic TFT.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2008
    Publication date: March 19, 2009
    Applicant: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Jae-Bon Koo, Seung-Youl Kang, Kyung-Soo Suh
  • Patent number: 7504659
    Abstract: A thin film transistor including a stop layer is disclosed. In one embodiment, the thin film transistor includes a substrate, a gate electrode formed on the substrate, a source electrode and a drain electrode insulated from the gate electrode, a semiconductor layer insulated from the gate electrode and having: a channel region which is electrically connected to the source electrode and the drain electrode, and a groove for separating at least the channel region from adjacent thin film transistors, and a stop layer formed below the semiconductor layer. According to one embodiment of the invention, a semiconductor layer can be easily patterned without using a dry or wet etching technique such as photolithography.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2009
    Assignee: Samsung Mobile Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tack Ahn, Min-Chul Suh, Jae-Bon Koo
  • Patent number: 7498605
    Abstract: An organic light emitting device that improves contrast by forming a gate wiring and a data wiring of a black matrix with a concentration gradient between a conductive material of high transmittance and a conductive material of high reflectivity. The organic light emitting device according to the present invention comprises a gate wiring and a data wiring formed on an insulating substrate, a pixel portion formed by the gate wiring and the data wiring, and a pixel arranged in the pixel portion, wherein at least one of the gate wiring and the data wiring is formed of a conductive light-absorbing material. At least one of the wirings is formed of a light-absorbing material with the concentration gradient between the conductive material of the high transmittance and the conductive material of the high reflectivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2009
    Assignee: Samsung Mobile Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae-Bon Koo, Ji-Yong Park
  • Patent number: 7492096
    Abstract: A top-emitting organic light-emitting device can prevent a voltage drop by electrically coupling a cathode bus line to a cathode electrode. A method for fabricating the same is also disclosed. The flat panel display device comprises an insulating substrate having a pixel region and a non-pixel region, a first electrode arranged in the pixel region a second electrode arranged in the pixel region and the non-pixel region, an organic emission layer and a charge transporting layer formed between the first electrode and the second electrode of the pixel region, and an electrode line formed in the pixel region and the non-pixel region. The electrode line and the second electrode are electrically and directly coupled to each other in the non-pixel region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2009
    Assignee: Samsung Mobile Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae-Bon Koo, Ul-Ho Lee
  • Publication number: 20090033231
    Abstract: A high-speed flat panel display having a long lifetime. Thin film transistors in a pixel portion having a plurality of pixels are contacted differently from thin film transistors in driving circuit portions for driving the pixels, thereby enhancing luminance uniformity and reducing power consumption. The thin film transistors each have a channel region and a body contact region for applying a predetermined voltage to the channel region. At least one thin film transistor in the pixel portion is a source-body contact thin film transistor having the body contact region connected to one of source and drain electrodes so that the predetermined voltage can be provided to the channel region. Each thin film transistor in the driving circuit portion is a gate-body contact thin film transistor having the body contact region connected to the gate electrode so that a predetermined voltage can be provided to the channel region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2008
    Publication date: February 5, 2009
    Inventors: Jae-Bon Koo, Byoung-Deog Choi
  • Patent number: 7485576
    Abstract: A method of forming a conductive pattern in which the conductive pattern can be easily formed at a low temperature without a photolithography process by forming the conductive pattern using a laser ablation method and an inkjet method, an organic thin film transistor manufactured using the method, and a method of manufacturing the organic thin film transistor. The method of forming a conductive pattern in a flat panel display device includes preparing a base member, forming a groove having the same shape as the conductive pattern in the base member, and forming the conductive pattern by applying a conductive material into the groove. The base member has one of a structure including a plastic substrate having the groove and a structure including a substrate and an insulating layer which is arranged on the substrate and which has the groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2009
    Assignees: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd., Samsung SDI Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Min-Chul Suh, Jae-Bon Koo, Taek Ahn, Hye-Dong Kim, Fischer Joerg, Werner Humbs
  • Patent number: 7485507
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an organic thin film transistor (OTFT), a method of fabricating the OTFT, and an organic electroluminescent display that has the OTFTs. The invention prevents surface damage of an organic semiconductor layer and reduces an off-current. The OTFT includes a substrate, a source electrode and a drain electrode formed on the substrate, and a semiconductor layer formed on the substrate that has a channel layer disposed over and between the source electrode and drain electrode. In addition, the OTFT includes a gate insulating layer formed on the semiconductor layer, a separation pattern formed through the semiconductor layer and the gate insulating layer to separate the channel layer, and a gate electrode formed on the gate insulating layer over the channel layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2009
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Taek Ahn, Jae-Bon Koo, Min-Chul Suh
  • Publication number: 20090028005
    Abstract: Provided is a wristwatch-type mobile device. The wristwatch-type mobile device includes a wristwatch device, a mobile device, and an I/O device. The I/O device is selectively used as one of an output device of the wristwatch device and an I/O device of the mobile device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2008
    Publication date: January 29, 2009
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: In-Kyu YOU, Jae-Bon KOO, Seung-Youl KANG, Kyoung-Ik CHO, Kyung-Soo SUH, Jin-Ho LEE
  • Patent number: 7470931
    Abstract: A thin film transistor, and a flat panel display with the same, including a gate electrode, source and drain electrodes, an organic semiconductor layer, and a gate insulating layer. A first capacitance is a capacitance at a first point where the organic semiconductor layer, an electrode, and the gate insulating layer contact one another, a second capacitance is a capacitance at a second point where the organic semiconductor layer contacts the gate insulating layer, a third capacitance is a capacitance at a third point where the electrode contacts the gate insulating layer, and a fourth capacitance is a capacitance at a fourth point where the organic semiconductor layer contacts the electrode. The first capacitance is greater than one of the second capacitance, the third capacitance, and the fourth capacitance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2008
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae-Bon Koo, Min-Chul Suh, Yeon-Gon Mo
  • Patent number: 7450100
    Abstract: A high-speed flat panel display having a long lifetime. Thin film transistors in a pixel portion having a plurality of pixels are contacted differently from thin film transistors in driving circuit portions for driving the pixels, thereby enhancing luminance uniformity and reducing power consumption. The thin film transistors each have a channel region and a body contact region for applying a predetermined voltage to the channel region. At least one thin film transistor in the pixel portion is a source-body contact thin film transistor having the body contact region connected to one of source and drain electrodes so that the predetermined voltage can be provided to the channel region. Each thin film transistor in the driving circuit portion is a gate-body contact thin film transistor having the body contact region connected to the gate electrode so that a predetermined voltage can be provided to the channel region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2008
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae-Bon Koo, Byoung-Deog Choi
  • Patent number: 7442594
    Abstract: Disclosed is a flat panel display capable of improving a white balance by making channel regions of transistors of R, G, and B unit pixels with different current mobilities. The flat panel display includes a plurality of pixels, each of the pixels including R, G and B unit pixels to embody red (R), green (G), and blue (B) colors, respectively, and each of the unit pixels including at least one transistor. Channel layers of the transistors of at least two unit pixels among the R, G, and B unit pixels have different current mobilities from one another. The R, G, B unit pixels includes transistors and the transistor of at least one unit pixel among the R, G, and B unit pixels includes the channel layer made of silicon layers of different film qualities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2008
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae-Bon Koo, Ji-Yong Park, Sang-Il Park, Deuk-Jong Kim, Ul-Ho Lee, Jin-Soo Kim, Jin-Woung Jung, Chang-Gyu Lee
  • Patent number: 7442960
    Abstract: A thin film transistor (TFT) including a semiconductor film that may be simply patterned, a method of manufacturing the TFT, a flat panel display (FPD) including the TFT, and a method of manufacturing the FPD. The TFT includes a gate electrode, source and drain electrodes electrically insulated from the gate electrode, and a semiconductor film electrically insulated from the gate electrode and including source and drain regions coupled to the source and drain electrodes, respectively, and a channel region coupling the source and drain regions. The semiconductor film has a groove that isolates the channel region from an adjacent TFT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2008
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Min-Chul Suh, Nam-Choul Yang, Jae-Bon Koo, Tae-Min Kang, Hye-dong Kim
  • Patent number: 7431626
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescent display has: anode electrodes of R, G and B unit pixels formed separate from each other on a substrate; organic thin-film layers of the R, G and B unit pixels formed on the anode electrodes; and a cathode electrode formed over an entire surface of the substrate. The anode electrode of at least one unit pixel, among the R, G and B unit pixels, has a thickness different from anode electrodes of the other unit pixels. The anode electrode of each of the unit pixels comprises a first film having a high reflectivity and a second film for adjusting a work function. The second film of at least one unit pixel, among the unit pixels, has a thickness different from the second films of the other unit pixels. The second film of the R unit pixel is thicker than the second films of the other unit pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2008
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kwan-Hee Lee, Seoung-Yoon Ryu, Hun-Jung Lee, Sang-Il Park, Jae-Bon Koo
  • Publication number: 20080220683
    Abstract: An organic light emitting diode (OLED) is capable of improving light efficiency per pixel unit by forming a cathode electrode to cover an anode electrode, thereby focusing light emitted from a luminescent layer per pixel unit. The OLED comprises: a second insulating film formed on a substrate including a TFT with source/drain electrodes formed on a first insulating film; a lower electrode formed on the second insulating film and connected to one of the source/drain electrodes; a third insulating film having an opening for exposing a portion of the lower electrode; a luminescent layer formed on the lower electrode inside the opening; a groove formed to surround the luminescent layer; and an upper electrode formed on the substrate including the groove so that the upper electrode surrounds the luminescent layer. The upper electrode functions as a reflection layer for reflecting total light while light emitted from the luminescent layer is being pulled out through the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2008
    Publication date: September 11, 2008
    Inventors: Jae-Bon Koo, Jin-Woo Park
  • Patent number: 7417252
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a high-speed flat panel display with a long lifetime, wherein thin film transistors in a pixel array portion in which a plurality of pixels are arranged and a driving circuit portion for driving the pixels of the pixel array portion, have different resistance values than each other or have different geometric structures than each other. The flat panel display comprises a pixel array portion where a plurality of pixels are arranged, and a driving circuit portion for driving the pixels of the pixel array portion. The thin film transistors in the pixel array portion and the driving circuit portion have different resistance values in their gate regions or drain regions than each other, or have different geometric structures than each other. One of the thin film transistors in the pixel array portion and the thin film transistors in the driving circuit has zigzag shape in its gate region or drain region or has an offset region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2008
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae-Bon Koo, Ji-Yong Park, Sang-Il Park, Ki-Yong Lee, Ul-Ho Lee