SERIES
Display Backplane Process
How the semiconductor behind the screen is made. Polyimide substrates, thermal treatment, excimer laser crystallization, doping through interconnects — the process that builds one OLED backplane, in order, across 20 episodes.
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#01
Display Backplane Process #01 — The Semiconductor Behind Your Screen
26.08.16
#02
Display Backplane Process #02 — PI (1): Building a Flexible Substrate on Glass — Material and Stack
26.08.23
#03
Display Backplane Process #03 — PI (2): Coat, Dry, Bake — Process and Equipment
26.08.28
#04
Display Backplane Process #04 — Thermal (1): Why Hydrogen Must Leave Before the Laser
26.09.03
#05
Display Backplane Process #05 — Thermal (2): From Furnace to RTA, the Equipment Triangle
26.09.04
#06
Display Backplane Process #06 — ELA (1): The Nanosecond Magic, From Amorphous to Polycrystalline
26.09.04
#07
Display Backplane Process #07 — ELA (2): 308nm UV, the Line Beam, and Mura
26.09.04
#08
Display Backplane Process #08 — Doping: Engraving Polarity into Silicon
26.09.07
#09
Display Backplane Process #09 — Deposition (1): Vacuum and Plasma, the Stage for Every Film
26.09.12
#10
Display Backplane Process #10 — Deposition (2): Sputtering, Moving Metal by Impact
26.09.14
#11
Display Backplane Process #11 — Deposition (3): PECVD, Insulating Films Made by Plasma
26.09.17
#12
Display Backplane Process #12 — Photo (1): Drawing Circuits Like Taking a Photograph
26.09.19
#13
Display Backplane Process #13 — Photo (2): Exposure Tools and Mask Technology
26.09.19
#14
Display Backplane Process #14 — Etching (1): Core Concepts and Four Parameters
26.09.21
#15
Display Backplane Process #15 — Etching (2): Dry Etching with Plasma
26.09.28
#16
Display Backplane Process #16 — Etching (3): Wet Etching, Undercut, Galvanic Corrosion, BOE
26.10.02
#17
Display Backplane Process #17 — Strip: Removing the Resist That Has Done Its Job
26.10.02
#18
Display Backplane Process #18 — Cleaning (1): Why Particles Won't Let Go
26.10.06
#19
Display Backplane Process #19 — Cleaning (2): HF, Ozone, Alkali, and the RCA Clean
26.10.14
#20
Display Backplane Process #20 — Cleaning (3): Physical Cleaning, Ultrapure Water, and Closing the Series
26.10.14