Organic light emitting diode display and manufacturing method thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10276833-B2
Application number	US-201213467968-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 9, 2012
Priority date	Aug 25, 2011
Publication date	Apr 30, 2019
Grant date	Apr 30, 2019

Abstract

An OLED display includes: a first pixel including a first pixel electrode of a pixel electrode, a second pixel including a second pixel electrode of the pixel electrode, and a third pixel including a third pixel electrode of the pixel electrode; a resonance assistance layer on the first pixel electrode; an organic emission layer including a first organic emission layer on the resonance assistance layer and the second pixel electrode, a second organic emission layer on the first organic emission layer, and a third organic emission layer on the third pixel electrode; a common electrode on the organic emission layer; and a color mixture preventing layer on the common electrode and configured to absorb overlapped light in an overlapped wavelength region of a wavelength region of first light emitted by the first organic emission layer and a wavelength region of second light emitted by the second organic emission layer.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display comprising:
a substrate;
a first pixel comprising a first pixel electrode of a pixel electrode, a second pixel comprising a second pixel electrode of the pixel electrode, and a third pixel comprising a third pixel electrode of the pixel electrode, the pixel electrode comprising a reflective electrode on the substrate and a transparent electrode on the reflective electrode;
a resonance assistance layer on the first pixel electrode;
an organic emission layer comprising:
a first organic emission layer on the resonance assistance layer and the second pixel electrode;
a second organic emission layer on the first organic emission layer; and
a third organic emission layer on the third pixel electrode;

a transflective common electrode on the organic emission layer;
a color mixture preventing layer on the transflective common electrode, the color mixture preventing layer being configured to uniformly absorb overlapped light corresponding to an overlapped wavelength region of a wavelength region of first light emitted by the first organic emission layer and a wavelength region of second light emitted by the second organic emission layer while uniformly transmitting non-overlapped light corresponding to wavelength regions other than the overlapped wavelength region; and
a polarization film on the color mixture preventing layer,
wherein the color mixture preventing layer comprises only a single distinct layer formed by mixing an adhesive of the polarization film and an absorber for absorbing the overlapped light while transmitting the non-overlapped light.

2. The OLED display of claim 1 , wherein the overlapped wavelength region comprises 560 nm to 590 nm.

3. The OLED display of claim 1 , wherein the first organic emission layer and the second organic emission layer have a same pattern.

4. The OLED display of claim 1 , wherein a distance between the reflective electrode and the transflective common electrode is different between the first pixel and the second pixel.

5. The OLED display of claim 4 , wherein the distance between the reflective electrode and the transflective common electrode becomes shorter in an order of the first pixel, the second pixel, and the third pixel.

6. The OLED display of claim 5 , wherein the first pixel comprises a red pixel, the second pixel comprises a green pixel, and the third pixel comprises a blue pixel.

7. The OLED display of claim 4 , wherein the transparent electrode comprises crystalline transparent conductive oxide (TCO) and the resonance assistance layer comprises amorphous TCO.

8. The OLED display of claim 1 , further comprising an encapsulation layer between the transflective common electrode and the color mixture preventing layer, the encapsulation layer comprising an organic film and an inorganic film that are alternately stacked, wherein the color mixture preventing layer directly contacts the encapsulation layer.

9. A method for manufacturing an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display, comprising:
forming a first pixel electrode for a first pixel, a second pixel electrode for a second pixel, and a third pixel electrode for a third pixel by:
forming a reflective electrode on a substrate;
forming a transparent electrode on the reflective electrode to form a pixel electrode; and
patterning the pixel electrode to form the first pixel electrode, the second pixel electrode, and the third pixel electrode;

forming a resonance assistance layer on the first pixel electrode;
forming a first organic emission layer on the resonance assistance layer and the second pixel electrode;
forming a second organic emission layer on the first organic emission layer;
forming a third organic emission layer on the third pixel electrode;
forming a transflective common electrode on the second organic emission layer and the third organic emission layer;
forming a color mixture preventing layer on the transflective common electrode, the color mixture preventing layer for uniformly absorbing overlapped light corresponding to an overlapped wavelength region of a wavelength region of first light emitted by the first organic emission layer and a wavelength region of second light emitted by the second organic emission layer while uniformly transmitting non-overlapped light corresponding to wavelength regions other than the overlapped wavelength region, the forming of the color mixture preventing layer comprising:
mixing an adhesive of a polarization film and an absorber for absorbing the overlapped light while transmitting the non-overlapped light; and
forming the color mixture preventing layer as only a single distinct layer of the mixed adhesive and absorber on the transflective common electrode; and
forming the polarization film on the color mixture preventing layer.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the overlapped wavelength region comprises 560 nm to 590 nm.

11. The method of claim 9 , wherein
the forming of the first organic emission layer comprises using a first mask, and
the forming of the second organic emission layer comprises using the first mask to produce a same pattern as the first organic emission layer.

12. The method of claim 9 , wherein the first pixel comprises a red pixel, the second pixel comprises a green pixel, and the third pixel comprises a blue pixel.

Assignees

• Lee Sung Soo
• Song Ok Keun
• Park Chan Young
• Lee Yong Han
• Samsung Display Co Ltd

Inventors

• Lee Sung-Soo
• Song Ok-Keun
• Park Chan-Young
• Lee Yong-Han

Classifications

• H01L51/5281

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01L27/3211

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01L51/5265 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H10K59/1201

  Manufacture or treatment · CPC title

• H10K71/00

  Manufacture or treatment specially adapted for the organic devices covered by this subclass · CPC title