Method for producing an organic light-emitting diode, and organic light-emitting diode

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10177331-B2
Application number	US-201515118086-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 10, 2015
Priority date	Feb 11, 2014
Publication date	Jan 8, 2019
Grant date	Jan 8, 2019

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for producing an organic light-emitting diode ( 1 ) comprising the following steps: providing a carrier ( 3 ) for the organic light-emitting diode ( 1 ), applying a solution (S) comprising a plurality of different emitter materials (E) to the carrier ( 1 ), wherein said emitter materials (E) are each formed by a certain type of organic molecule and have electrical charges that differ from each other, applying an electrical field (F), so that the solution is located in the electrical field (F), and drying the solution (S) into a plurality of emitter layers ( 20 ) in an organic layer stack ( 2 ), while the electrical field is applied, so that the emitter materials (E) are accommodated separately from each other, each in a certain emitter layer ( 20 ) of the organic stack ( 2 ).

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. Method for producing an organic light-emitting diode comprising the steps:
providing a carrier for the organic light-emitting diode,
applying a solution (S) comprising a plurality of different emitter materials (E) to the carrier, wherein said emitter materials (E) are each formed by a certain type of organic molecules and have electrical charges that differ from each other,
applying an electrical field (F), so that the solution (S) is located in the electrical field (F), and
drying the solution (S) into a plurality of emitter layers in an organic layer stack, while the electrical field (F) is applied, so that the emitter materials (E) are accommodated separately from each other, each in a certain emitter layer of the organic stack.

2. Method according to claim 1 ,
in which the solution (S) comprises an organic matrix material (M), the emitter materials (E) and counter ions (C) for at least one of the emitter materials (E) as well as a solvent (L), wherein all emitter layers of the organic light-emitting diode are generated from the precisely one solution (S).

3. Method according to claim 2 ,
in which the solvent (L) is an aryl-alkyl-ether or an alicyclic diether.

4. Method according to claim 2 ,
in which the ion mobilities of the counter ions (C) and of the associated emitter materials (E) deviate from each other by a maximum of 25% during drying.

5. Method according to claim 2 ,
in which the counter ions (C) are at least partially formed by PF 6 − .

6. Method according to claim 1 ,
in which at least one of the emitter materials (E) is a metal complex of the formula [(L CH ) x MX y ] n− or [(L CH ) x MX y ] n+ ,
wherein M is a metallic ion from the group Mo, Ru, Rh, Pd, Ag, W, Re, Os, Ir, Pt, Cu, Au and lanthanides,
wherein L CH is in each case an independent bidentate chelating ligand,
wherein X is in each case an independent single negatively charged monodentate ligand from the group Cl, Br, I, CN, SCN and/or OCN is, and
wherein n, x and y are integers with 1≤x≤3, 0≤y≤6 and 1≤n≤4.

7. Method according to claim 1 ,
in which at least one of the emitter materials (E) is a metal complex compound, which comprises at least one metallic central atom (M) and at least one ligand coordinated by the metallic central atom M, which is a bidentate ligand with at least one aromatic unit, wherein an imidazolinium unit is bound to the or to one of the aromatic units via a spacer, so that a charged complex results, which binds an anion:

wherein M is selected from the group Mo, Ru, Rh, Pd, Ag, W, Re, Os, Ir, Pt, Cu, Au and lanthanides,
wherein the anion is freely selectable,
wherein the ligands

 are formed independently of each other analogous to the imidazolinium substituted ligands “Ax-Spacer-Imidazol” or are selected from cyclo metallizing ligands,
wherein Ax, Ax′ is a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic or heteroaromatic, which is capable of bond relations to the metallic central atom M,
wherein a bond of the metallic central atom to a carbon or nitrogen of the Ax and of the Ax′ is represented by a solid line,
wherein a bond of the metallic central atom to either a carbene carbon or a nitrogen or phosphor coordinated by a free pair of electrons is represented by a dashed line,
wherein
a) aliphatic chains such as —(CH 2 ) n — wherein n=1 to 20,
b) fluorinated alkyl chains with 1 to 12 carbon atoms in the chain,
c) unsaturated alkyl chains with 1 to 20 carbon atoms and conjugated or non-conjugated double bonds,
d) unsaturated alkyl chains with 1 to 20 carbon atoms and conjugated or non-conjugated triple bonds, also in conjunction with aromatics,
e) a polyethylene glycol, polyethylene diamine, polyester, polyurethane or polyvinylidene phenyl chain,
f) chains containing aromatics, or
g) mixed variants of a to f,
are used as spacers,
R 1 , R 2 , R + are selected independently of each other from the following group: H, branched alkyl radicals, unbranched alkyl radicals, condensed alkyl radicals, cyclic alkyl radicals, fully or partially substituted unbranched, branched, condensed and/or cyclic alkyl radicals, alkoxy groups, amines, amides, esters, ethers, carbonates, aromatics, fully or partially substituted aromatics, heteroaromatics, condensed aromatics, fully or partially substituted condensed aromatics, heterocycles, fully or partially substituted heterocycles, condensed heterocycles, halogens, pseudohalogens, condensed alkyl radicals or fully or partially substituted alkyl radicals.

8. Method according to claim 1 ,
in which at least one of the emitter materials (E) is selected from the group:

wherein R, X are selected independently of each other from the following group: H, branched alkyl radicals, unbranched alkyl radicals, condensed alkyl radicals, cyclic alkyl radicals, fully or partially substituted unbranched, branched, condensed and/or cyclic alkyl radicals, alkoxy groups, amines, amides, esters, ethers, carbonates, aromatics, fully or partially substituted aromatics, heteroaromatics, condensed aromatics, fully or partially substituted condensed aromatics, heterocycles, fully or partially substituted heterocycles, condensed heterocycles, halogens, pseudohalogen, condensed alkyl radicals or fully or partially substituted alkyl radicals,
wherein the charged residue groups —PBu 3 + can be replaced independently of each other by other charged residue groups, such as —NR 3 + , —SO 3 − , P(R) 3 + , —COO − , —P(OR) 4 2− , and
wherein Ir as well as Os can be replaced by Mo, Ru, Rh, Pd, Ag, W, Re, Pt, Cu, Au and lanthanides.

9. Method according to claim 1 ,
in which the solution (S) comprises an emitter material (E) for generating a blue light, an emitter material for generating a green light and an emitter material for generating a red light.

10. Method according to claim 1 ,
in which the solution (S) is applied with a layer thickness of between 2 μm and 50 μm inclusively,
wherein dissolved components in the solution (S) make up a mass fraction of between 0.1% and 3% inclusively of the total solution (S).

11. Method according to claim 1 ,
in which an electrical field strength of the electrical field (F) equals between 50 V/mm and 500 V/mm inclusively during drying,
wherein the electrical field (F) is a static electrical field.

Assignees

• Osram Oled Gmbh

Inventors

• Scharner Silke
• Diez Carola
• Pentlehner Dominik
• Niedermeier Ulrich

Classifications

• H01L51/56

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01L2251/5346

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01L51/504 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01L51/5032

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01L51/0003

  Electricity · mapped topic