Translucent substrate, organic LED element and method of manufacturing translucent substrate

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10501369-B2
Application number	US-201514933156-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 5, 2015
Priority date	May 9, 2013
Publication date	Dec 10, 2019
Grant date	Dec 10, 2019

Abstract

A translucent substrate includes a glass substrate containing at least one element selected from a group consisting of Bi, Ti and Sn; a coating layer formed on the glass substrate; and a transparent conductive film formed on the coating layer, wherein the coating layer is deposited by a dry depositing method.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A translucent substrate comprising:
a glass substrate comprising at least one element selected from the group consisting of Bi, Ti and Sn;
a coating layer formed on the glass substrate; and
a transparent conductive film formed on the coating layer, wherein the transparent conductive film comprises a film selected from the group consisting of an ITO film, a SnO 2 film, a gallium zinc oxide (GZO) film, an indium zinc oxide (IZO) film, an Al doped ZnO film, a Ta doped SnO 2 film, and a Ti doped In 2 O 3 film,
wherein the coating layer is deposited by a dry depositing method,
wherein the degree of oxidation of the transparent conductive film is higher at a side near to the glass substrate than at a side far from the glass substrate,
wherein the coating layer comprises oxide, nitrogen oxide or nitride, containing one or more elements selected from Si, Al, Ti, Nb, Zr, Sn, Ta and W,
wherein a difference between a refraction index of the coating layer and a refraction index of the glass substrate, to light whose wavelength is 550 nm, is greater than or equal to minus 0.15, and less than or equal to plus 0.15,
wherein a filling ratio of the coating layer is greater than or equal to 85%, the filling ratio being calculated by dividing the highest density in the coating layer which is measured using an X-ray reflectometer, by a theoretical density calculated from the composition of the coating layer, and multiplying by 100.

2. The translucent substrate according to claim 1 , wherein the degree of oxidation of the transparent conductive film continuously or discontinuously decreases from a side near to the glass substrate to a side far from the glass substrate.

3. The translucent substrate according to claim 1 , wherein the thickness of the transparent conductive film is 2 nm to 500 nm.

4. The translucent substrate according to claim 1 ,
wherein the transparent conductive film is configured with at least two layers of films including a first transparent conductive layer at a side near to the glass substrate and a second transparent conductive layer at a side far from the glass substrate, and
wherein the degree of oxidation of the first transparent conductive layer is higher than that of the second transparent conductive layer.

5. The translucent substrate according to claim 1 , wherein the resistivity of the transparent conductive film is less than 2.38×10 −4 Ωcm.

6. The translucent substrate according to claim 1 , wherein an attenuation coefficient of the transparent conductive film is less than or equal to 0.0086.

7. An organic LED element comprising a glass substrate, a first electrode layer, an organic light emitting layer and a second electrode layer in this order, comprising:
the translucent substrate according to claim 1 .

8. The translucent substrate according to claim 1 , wherein a ratio R (vol %·cm 2 /W) of oxygen partial pressure P O2 (vol %) of sputtering gas with respect to plasma power density P d (W/cm 2 ) upon depositing the transparent conductive film is greater than or equal to 1.03 for a side near the glass substrate and less than or equal to 1.03 for a side far from the glass substrate.

9. A translucent substrate comprising:
a glass substrate;
a scattering layer formed on the glass substrate and comprising at least one element selected from the group consisting of Bi, Ti and Sn;
a coating layer formed on the scattering layer; and
a transparent conductive film formed on the coating layer, wherein the transparent conductive film comprises a film selected from the group consisting of an ITO film, a SnO 2 film, a gallium zinc oxide (GZO) film, an indium zinc oxide (IZO) film, an Al doped ZnO film, a Ta doped SnO 2 film, and a Ti doped In 2 O 3 film,
wherein the coating layer is deposited by a dry depositing method,
wherein the degree of oxidation of the transparent conductive film is higher at a side near to the glass substrate than at a side far from the glass substrate,
wherein the coating layer comprises oxide, nitrogen oxide or nitride, containing one or more elements selected from Si, Al, Ti, Nb, Zr, Sn, Ta and W,
wherein a difference between a refraction index of the coating layer and a refraction index of the scattering layer, to light whose wavelength is 550 nm, is greater than or equal to minus 0.15, and less than or equal to plus 0.15,
wherein a filling ratio of the coating layer is greater than or equal to 85%, the filling ratio being calculated by dividing the highest density in the coating layer which is measured using an X-ray reflectometer, by a theoretical density calculated from the composition of the coating layer, and multiplying by 100.

10. A method of manufacturing the translucent substrate according to claim 9 , the method comprising:
providing the scattering layer comprising at least one element selected from the group consisting of Bi, Ti and Sn, and further comprising a base material comprising glass and a plurality of scattering substances dispersed in the base material, on the glass substrate;
depositing the coating layer by a dry depositing method on the scattering layer; and
depositing the transparent conductive film on the coating layer, thereby forming the translucent substrate.

11. The translucent substrate according to claim 9 , wherein a ratio R (vol %·cm 2 /W) of oxygen partial pressure P O2 (vol %) of sputtering gas with respect to plasma power density P d (W/cm 2 ) upon depositing the transparent conductive film is greater than or equal to 1.03 for a side near the glass substrate and less than or equal to 1.03 for a side far from the glass substrate.

12. A method of manufacturing the translucent substrate according to claim 1 , the method comprising:
preparing the glass substrate comprising at least one element selected from the group consisting of Bi, Ti and Sn;
depositing the coating layer by a dry depositing method on the glass substrate; and
depositing the transparent conductive film on the coating layer, thereby forming the translucent substrate.

13. The method of manufacturing the translucent substrate according to claim 12 , wherein in the depositing of the transparent conductive film, the transparent conductive film is deposited such that the degree of oxidation continuously or discontinuously decreases from a side near to the glass substrate to a side far from the glass substrate.

14. The method of manufacturing the translucent substrate according to claim 12 , wherein in the depositing of the transparent conductive film, the thickness of the transparent conductive film is 2 nm to 500 nm.

15. The method of manufacturing the translucent substrate according to claim 12 , wherein the depositing of the transparent conductive film comprises:
(i) depositing a first transparent conductive layer, and thereafter,
(ii) depositing a second transparent conductive layer on the first transparent conductive layer,
wherein the first transparent conductive layer is deposited such that its degree of oxidation becomes higher than that of the second transparent conductive layer.

16. The method of manufacturing the translucent substrate according to claim 12 , wherein the resistivity of the transparent conductive film is less than 2.38×10 −4 Ωcm.

17. The method of manufacturing the translucent substrate according to claim 12 , wherein an attenuation coefficient of the transparent conductive film is less than or equal to 0.0086.

Assignees

• Agc Inc

Inventors

• Mashimo Takahiro
• Kihara Naoto
• Maeshige Kazunobu
• Fujiwara Teruo
• Kishi Masahiro
• Nakamura Nobuhiro
• Isobe Mamoru

Classifications

• C03C17/3417

  all coatings being oxide coatings · CPC title

• Y02E10/549

  Organic PV cells · CPC title

• C03C2217/94

  Transparent conductive oxide layers [TCO] being part of a multilayer coating · CPC title

• C03C2218/155

  by reactive sputtering · CPC title

• C03C2217/948

  Layers comprising indium tin oxide [ITO] · CPC title