Organic light-emitting diode displays

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10535840-B2
Application number	US-201816167391-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 22, 2018
Priority date	Jan 26, 2018
Publication date	Jan 14, 2020
Grant date	Jan 14, 2020

Abstract

A display may have an array of pixels. Each pixel may have a light-emitting diode such as an organic light-emitting diode. The organic light-emitting diodes may each have a reflective electrode such as a metal anode and a partially reflective electrode such as a metal cathode. Emissive material may be formed between the electrodes. The electrodes of each organic light-emitting diode may form an optical cavity. A wrinkled layer may be formed over the optical cavity to reduce sensitivity to process variations associated with forming encapsulation structures for the display. The wrinkled layer may include annealed organic layers. The organic layers may wrinkle during an annealing process at an annealing temperature. The annealed organic layers may include a first organic layer with a glass transition temperature below the annealing temperature and a second organic layer with a glass transition temperature above the annealing temperature.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A display, comprising:
a substrate;
organic light-emitting diodes on the substrate, wherein each organic light-emitting diode has an optical cavity formed from first and second electrodes and has emissive material interposed between the first and second electrodes;
a wrinkled layer that includes a first layer of a first organic material and a second layer of a second organic material, wherein the wrinkled layer has a randomly-oriented pattern; and
encapsulation structures, wherein in each organic light-emitting diode the first electrode is interposed between the emissive material and the substrate, the second electrode is partially reflective and is interposed between the wrinkled layer and the emissive material, and the wrinkled layer is interposed between the second electrode and the encapsulation structures.

2. The display defined in claim 1 wherein the first organic material and the second organic material have different glass transition temperatures.

3. The display defined in claim 1 wherein in each organic light-emitting diode the first layer is interposed between the second layer and the second electrode of that organic light-emitting diode, wherein the first organic material has a first glass transition temperature, and wherein the second organic material has a second glass transition temperature that is larger than the first glass transition temperature.

4. The display defined in claim 1 wherein the encapsulation structures comprise a glass layer.

5. The display defined in claim 4 wherein the glass layer is separated from the wrinkled layer by an air gap.

6. The display defined in claim 4 further comprising a polymer layer that separates the glass layer from the wrinkled layer.

7. The display defined in claim 1 wherein the encapsulation structures include at least one thin-film encapsulation layer.

8. The display defined in claim 1 wherein the encapsulation structures comprise:
a first thin-film inorganic layer on the wrinkled layer;
a second thin-film inorganic layer; and
a polymer layer interposed between the first and second thin-film inorganic layers.

9. The display defined in claim 1 wherein the organic light-emitting diodes each have a maximum lateral dimension, wherein the wrinkled layer has wrinkles characterized by a period, and wherein the maximum lateral dimension divided by the period is 3-30.

10. The display defined in claim 1 wherein the wrinkled layer has wrinkles characterized by a period of 0.05 microns to 5 microns.

11. The display defined in claim 10 wherein the first organic material has a first glass transition temperature and the second organic material has a second glass transition temperature that is greater than the first glass transition temperature.

12. The display defined in claim 10 wherein the wrinkled layer is an organic annealed layer formed from the first organic material, which has a glass transition temperature below an annealing temperature, and formed from the second organic material, which has a glass transition temperature above the annealing temperature.

13. The display defined in claim 12 wherein the first organic material is interposed between the second organic material and the second electrode of each light-emitting diode.

14. A light-emitting diode device, comprising:
an optical cavity formed from a reflective electrode, a partially reflective electrode, and emissive material interposed between the reflective electrode and the partially reflective electrode; and
a wrinkled layer on the partially reflective electrode that includes a first organic layer with a first glass transition temperature and a second organic layer with a second glass transition temperature that is greater than the first glass transition temperature, wherein the partially reflective layer is interposed between the first organic layer and the emissive material.

15. The light-emitting diode device defined in claim 14 further comprising encapsulation structures on the wrinkled layer that include first and second inorganic passivation layers and an organic layer interposed between the first and second inorganic passivation layers.

16. A display, comprising:
a substrate;
organic light-emitting diodes on the substrate, wherein each organic light-emitting diode has an optical cavity formed from a reflective electrode and a partially reflective electrode and has emissive material interposed between the reflective electrode and the partially reflective electrode;
a wrinkled layer having a first organic layer with a first glass transition temperature covered with a second organic layer having a glass transition temperature that is higher than the first glass transition temperature; and
encapsulation structures that encapsulate the wrinkled layer and the organic light-emitting diodes.

17. The display defined in claim 1 wherein the wrinkled layer forms cavities having a plurality of cavity lengths.

Assignees

• Apple Inc

Inventors

• Chen Chieh-Wei
• Cho Ting-Yi

Classifications

• H01L51/5206

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01L27/124

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01L27/323

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01L27/3246

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01L51/5256 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic