Organic light-emitting display panel and organic light-emitting display device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10497895-B2
Application number	US-201815886956-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 2, 2018
Priority date	Aug 29, 2017
Publication date	Dec 3, 2019
Grant date	Dec 3, 2019

Abstract

An organic light-emitting display panel including: an array substrate, an organic light-emitting element placed on the array substrate and comprising light-emitting pixels, and an encapsulation layer placed on a side of the organic light-emitting element away from the array substrate; the encapsulation layer comprises a first inorganic encapsulation layer having a thickness 10 nm˜100 nm, a first interlayer bonding layer, and a first organic encapsulation layer along a direction away from the array substrate; refractive indexes of the first inorganic encapsulation layer, the first interlayer bonding layer, and the first organic encapsulation layer are n1, n2 and n3, respectively; the refractive index n2 decreases in gradient along a direction from the first inorganic encapsulation layer toward the first organic encapsulation layer, maximum and minimum refractive indexes of the first interlayer bonding layer are n21 and n22, respectively; n21>n1, n22<n3.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An organic light-emitting display panel, comprising:
an array substrate;
an organic light-emitting element placed on the array substrate and comprising a plurality of light-emitting pixels; and
an encapsulation layer placed on a side of the organic light-emitting element away from the array substrate, wherein the encapsulation layer comprises, along a direction away from the array substrate, a first inorganic encapsulation layer, a first interlayer bonding layer and a first organic encapsulation layer;
wherein a refractive index of the first inorganic encapsulation layer is n 1 , a refractive index of the first interlayer bonding layer is n 2 , a refractive index of the first organic encapsulation layer is n 3 , wherein the refractive index n 2 of the first interlayer bonding layer decreases in gradient along a direction from the first inorganic encapsulation layer toward the first organic encapsulation layer, a maximum refractive index of the first interlayer bonding layer is n 21 , a minimum refractive index of the first interlayer bonding layer is n 22 , wherein n 21 >n 1 , n 22 <n 3 , and
wherein the first inorganic encapsulation layer has a thickness of 10 nm-100 nm,
wherein the first interlayer bonding layer comprises silicon oxynitride, and an oxygen concentration of the silicon oxynitride in the first interlayer bonding layer increases in gradient along the direction from the first inorganic encapsulation layer toward the first organic encapsulation layer;
wherein the first interlayer bonding layer comprises a plurality of island-shaped first interlayer bonding sub-layers; and
wherein the organic light-emitting display panel further comprises a second interlayer bonding layer, wherein a groove is defined in a side of the first organic encapsulation layer away from the organic light-emitting element, and the second interlayer bonding layer is filled in the groove.

2. The organic light-emitting display panel according to claim 1 , wherein the first inorganic encapsulation layer comprises a material selected from a group consisting of metal oxide, non-metal oxide, nitride, oxynitride and combinations thereof.

3. The organic light-emitting display panel according to claim 2 , wherein the metal oxide comprises aluminum oxide, titanium oxide or any combination thereof, and the nitride comprises silicon nitride.

4. The organic light-emitting display panel according to claim 1 , wherein shapes of the island-shaped first interlayer bonding sub-layers when viewed from top comprise quadrangles, circles, triangles, polygons or any combination thereof.

5. The organic light-emitting display panel according to claim 1 , wherein adjacent island-shaped first interlayer bonding sub-layers are spaced from one another.

6. The organic light-emitting display panel according to claim 1 , wherein the island-shaped first interlayer bonding sub-layers are placed corresponding to the light-emitting pixels, and projections of the light-emitting pixels on the array substrate are located in projections of the island-shaped first interlayer bonding sub-layers on the array substrate.

7. The organic light-emitting display panel according to claim 1 , wherein a projection of the groove on the array substrate does not overlap with projections of the island-shaped first interlayer bonding sub-layers on the array substrate.

8. The organic light-emitting display panel according to claim 1 , wherein the second interlayer bonding layer is filled in the groove and covers the first organic encapsulation layer.

9. The organic light-emitting display panel according to claim 1 , further comprising a second inorganic encapsulation layer covering the first organic encapsulation layer.

10. The organic light-emitting display panel according to claim 9 , wherein the second interlayer bonding layer is placed between the second inorganic encapsulation layer and the first organic encapsulation layer.

11. The organic light-emitting display panel according to claim 1 , wherein a refractive index of the second interlayer bonding layer is n 4 , and wherein n 4 >n 3 .

12. The organic light-emitting display panel according to claim 1 , wherein the second interlayer bonding layer comprises silicon oxynitride, an oxygen concentration of the silicon oxynitride in the second interlayer bonding layer increases in gradient along a direction from the first inorganic encapsulation layer toward the second interlayer bonding layer.

13. The organic light-emitting display panel according to claim 12 , wherein a refractive index of the second interlayer bonding layer decreases in gradient along a direction from the first inorganic encapsulation layer toward the first organic encapsulation layer, a maximum refractive index of the second interlayer bonding layer is n 41 , a minimum refractive index of the second interlayer bonding layer is n 42 , and wherein n 41 >n 3 .

14. The organic light-emitting display panel according to claim 1 , wherein the light-emitting pixels comprise a red light-emitting pixel, a green light-emitting pixel and a blue light-emitting pixel, a refractive index of the first interlayer bonding layer corresponding to the red light-emitting pixel is n 5 , a refractive index of the first interlayer bonding layer corresponding to the green light-emitting pixel is n 6 , a refractive index of the first interlayer bonding layer corresponding to the blue light-emitting pixel is n 7 , and wherein n 5 ≥n 6 >n 7 .

15. The organic light-emitting display panel according to claim 14 , wherein the island-shaped first interlayer bonding sub-layers are placed corresponding to the light-emitting pixels, a refractive index of the island-shaped first interlayer bonding sub-layers corresponding to the red light-emitting pixels is n 5 , a refractive index of the island-shaped first interlayer bonding sub-layers corresponding to the green light-emitting pixel is n 6 , a refractive index of the island-shaped first interlayer bonding sub-layers corresponding to the blue light-emitting pixel is n 7 .

16. An organic light-emitting display device, comprising an organic light-emitting display panel, the organic light-emitting display panel comprising:
an array substrate;
an organic light-emitting element placed on the array substrate and comprising a plurality of light-emitting pixels; and
an encapsulation layer placed on a side of the organic light-emitting element away from the array substrate, wherein the encapsulation layer comprises, along a direction away from the array substrate, a first inorganic encapsulation layer, a first interlayer bonding layer and a first organic encapsulation layer;
wherein a refractive index of the first inorganic encapsulation layer is n 1 , a refractive index of the first interlayer bonding layer is n 2 , a refractive index of the first organic encapsulation layer is n 3 , wherein the refractive index n 2 of the first interlayer bonding layer decreases in gradient along a direction from the first inorganic encapsulation layer toward the first organic encapsulation layer, a maximum refractive index of the first interlayer bonding layer is n 21 , a minimum refractive index of the first interlayer bonding layer is n 22 , wherein n 21 >n 1 , n 22 <n 3 , and
wherein the first inorganic encapsulation layer has a thickness of 10 nm-100 nm;
wherein the first interlayer bonding layer comprises silicon oxynitride, and an oxygen concentration of the silicon oxynitride in the first interlayer bonding layer increases in gradient along the direction from the first inorganic encapsulation layer toward the first organic encap

Assignees

• Shanghai Tianma Am Oled Co Ltd

Inventors

• Jia longchang
• Su Congyi
• Li Zhenying

Classifications

• H01L51/5221

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01L27/3211

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01L51/5237 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01L51/5206

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01L27/3241

  Electricity · mapped topic