Provided are optical devices and systems fabricated, at least in part, via printing-based assembly and integration of device components. In specific embodiments the present invention provides light emitting systems, light collecting systems, light sensing systems and photovoltaic systems comprising printable semiconductor elements, including large area, high performance macroelectronic devices. Optical systems of the present invention comprise semiconductor elements assembled, organized and/or integrated with other device components via printing techniques that exhibit performance characteristics and functionality comparable to single crystalline semiconductor based devices fabricated using conventional high temperature processing methods. Optical systems of the present invention have device geometries and configurations, such as form factors, component densities, and component positions, accessed by printing that provide a range of useful device functionalities. Optical systems of the present invention include devices and device arrays exhibiting a range of useful physical and mechanical properties including flexibility, shapeability, conformability and stretchablity.

Provided are optical devices and systems fabricated, at least in part, via printing-based assembly and integration of device components. In specific embodiments the present invention provides light emitting systems, light collecting systems, light sensing systems and photovoltaic systems comprising printable semiconductor elements, including large area, high performance macroelectronic devices. Optical systems of the present invention comprise semiconductor elements assembled, organized and/or integrated with other device components via printing techniques that exhibit performance characteristics and functionality comparable to single crystalline semiconductor based devices fabricated using conventional high temperature processing methods. Optical systems of the present invention have device geometries and configurations, such as form factors, component densities, and component positions, accessed by printing that provide a range of useful device functionalities. Optical systems of the present invention include devices and device arrays exhibiting a range of useful physical and mechanical properties including flexibility, shapeability, conformability and stretchablity.

Provided are optical devices and systems fabricated, at least in part, via printing-based assembly and integration of device components. In specific embodiments the present invention provides light emitting systems, light collecting systems, light sensing systems and photovoltaic systems comprising printable semiconductor elements, including large area, high performance macroelectronic devices. Optical systems of the present invention comprise semiconductor elements assembled, organized and/or integrated with other device components via printing techniques that exhibit performance characteristics and functionality comparable to single crystalline semiconductor based devices fabricated using conventional high temperature processing methods. Optical systems of the present invention have device geometries and configurations, such as form factors, component densities, and component positions, accessed by printing that provide a range of useful device functionalities. Optical systems of the present invention include devices and device arrays exhibiting a range of useful physical and mechanical properties including flexibility, shapeability, conformability and stretchablity.

A high-performance TFT substrate for a flat panel display includes a substrate, a first conductive layer on the substrate, a semiconductor layer positioned on the first conductive layer, and a second conductive layer positioned on the semiconductor layer. The first conductive layer defines a gate electrode. The second conductive layer defines a source electrode and a drain electrode spaced apart from the source electrode. The second conductive layer includes a first layer on the semiconductor layer and a second layer positioned on the first layer. The first layer can be made of metal oxide. The second layer can be made of aluminum or aluminum alloy.

A method of manufacturing a polysilicon (poly-Si) layer, a method of manufacturing an organic light-emitting display apparatus using the method, and an organic light-emitting display apparatus manufactured by using the method. The method includes forming an amorphous silicon (a-Si) layer on a substrate having first and second areas, thermally treating the a-Si layer to partially crystallize the a-Si layer into a partially crystallized Si layer, removing a thermal oxide layer through a thermal treatment, selectively irradiating the first areas with laser beams to crystallize the partially crystallized Si layer.

The present invention provides a method for manufacturing an LTPS TFT substrate structure and a structure of an LTPS TFT substrate. The method for manufacturing the LTPS TFT substrate structure according to the present invention provides patterns of a thermally conductive electrical-insulation layer that are of the same size and regularly distributed under a buffer layer of a driving TFT area to absorb heat in a subsequent excimer laser annealing process so as to speed up the cooling rate of amorphous silicon to form crystal nuclei that gradually grow up in the annealing process. Since the thermally conductive electrical-insulation layer is made up of regularly distributed and size-consistent patterns, crystal grains of a polycrystalline silicon layer located in the driving TFT area show improved consistency and homogeneity and the grain sizes are relatively large to ensure the consistency of electrical property of the driving TFT. The structure of the LTPS TFT substrate structure according to the present invention includes patterns of a thermally conductive electrical-insulation layer that are regularly distributed under a buffer layer of a driving TFT area and have the same size, so that crystal grains of a polycrystalline silicon layer located in the driving TFT area show improved consistency and homogeneity and the grain sizes are relatively large and thus, the electrical property of the driving TFT is consistent.

An indirect bandgap thin film semiconductor circuit can be combined with a compound semiconductor LED such as to provide an active matrix LED array that can have high luminous capabilities such as for a light projector application. In another example, a highly efficient optical detector is achievable through the combination of indirect and direct bandgap semiconductors. Applications can include display technologies, light detection, MEMS, chemical sensors, or piezoelectric systems. An LED array can provide structured illumination, such as for a light and pattern source for projection displays, such as without requiring spatial light modulation (SLM). An example can combine light from separate monolithic light projector chips, such as providing different component colors. An example can provide full color from a single monolithic light projector chip, such as including selectively deposited phosphors, such as to contribute individual component colors to an overall color of a pixel.

A method of manufacturing a thin film transistor substrate includes forming an amorphous silicon layer on a substrate, the substrate having a rectangular shape, and irradiating the amorphous silicon layer with a laser beam at a random pitch, such that the amorphous silicon layer is crystallizes into a polycrystalline silicon layer, wherein the laser beam has a major axis and a minor axis, the major axis being non-parallel with respect to sides of the substrate.

The present disclosure relates to an array substrate, a method for manufacturing the array substrate and a display panel. The array substrate includes: a substrate; a poly-silicon thin film disposed on the substrate and including grains arranged along a first direction and a second direction, wherein grain boundaries of the grains extend along the first direction and the second direction; and a plurality of thin film transistors each including a channel formed by the poly-silicon thin film, wherein the channel includes a plurality of intersecting channel portions, each of which extends along a direction that neither perpendicular to nor parallel with the first or second direction.

The present disclosure relates to a new generation of laser-crystallization approaches that can crystallize Si films for large displays at drastically increased effective crystallization rates. The particular scheme presented in this aspect of the disclosure is referred to as the advanced excimer-laser annealing (AELA) method, and it can be readily configured for manufacturing large OLED TVs using various available and proven technical components. As in ELA, it is mostly a partial-/near-complete-melting-regime-based crystallization approach that can, however, eventually achieve greater than one order of magnitude increase in the effective rate of crystallization than that of the conventional ELA technique utilizing the same laser source.