Organic electroluminescence display device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10910443-B2
Application number	US-201715642376-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 6, 2017
Priority date	Jul 18, 2016
Publication date	Feb 2, 2021
Grant date	Feb 2, 2021

Abstract

An organic electroluminescence display device includes a first electrode, a first light emitter on the first electrode, the first light emitter including a first light emitting layer, a first charge generation layer disposed on the first light emitter, a second light emitter on the first charge generation layer, the second light emitter including a second light emitting layer, and a second electrode on the second light emitter. The first light emitter includes a first electron injection enhancing layer on the first light emitting layer. The second light emitter includes an electron injection suppressing layer on the second light emitting layer, the electron injection suppressing layer having electron mobility less than that of the first electron injection enhancing layer.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An organic electroluminescence display device, comprising:
a first electrode;
a first light emitter on the first electrode, the first light emitter including a first light emitting layer;
a first charge generation layer disposed on the first light emitter;
a second light emitter on the first charge generation layer, the second light emitter including a second light emitting layer; and
a second electrode on the second light emitter,
wherein the first light emitter includes a first electron injection enhancing layer on the first light emitting layer,
the second light emitter includes an electron injection suppressing layer on the second light emitting layer, the electron injection suppressing layer having electron mobility less than that of the first electron injection enhancing layer, and
wherein:
each of the first electron injection enhancing layer and the electron injection suppressing layer includes Liq, LiF, Li 2 O, CsF, BaF, BaO, Al 2 O 3 , NaCl, RbCl, or RbI, and an electron transport material,
a ratio of the Liq, LiF, Li 2 O, CsF, BaF, BaO, Al 2 O 3 , NaCl, RbCl, and RbI to the electron transport material of the first electron injection enhancing layer is about 5:5 to about 7:3, and
a ratio of the Liq, LiF, Li 2 O, CsF, BaF, BaO, Al 2 O 3 , NaCl, RbCl, or RbI to the electron transport material of the electron injection suppressing layer is about 4:6 to about 2:8.

2. The organic electroluminescence display device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein:
the electron transport material includes an N-containing heterocyclic compound,
the N-containing heterocyclic compound contained in the electron injection suppressing layer includes one ring formation nitrogen atom, and
the N-containing heterocyclic compound contained in the first electron injection enhancing layer includes three ring formation nitrogen atoms.

3. The organic electroluminescence display device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein each of the first electron injection enhancing layer and the electron injection suppressing layer includes Liq and the electron transport material.

4. The organic electroluminescence display device as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising:
a second charge generation layer between the first charge generation layer and the second light emitter; and
a third light emitter between the first charge generation layer and the second charge generation layer and comprising a third light emitting layer,
wherein the third light emitter is on the third light emitting layer and includes a second electron injection enhancing layer having electron mobility greater than that of the electron injection suppressing layer.

5. The organic electroluminescence display device as claimed in claim 4 , wherein:
the second electron injection enhancing layer includes Liq, LiF, Li 2 O, CsF, BaF, BaO, Al 2 O 3 , NaCl, RbCl, or RbI, and an electron transport material,
a ratio of Liq, LiF, Li 2 O, CsF, BaF, BaO, Al 2 O 3 , NaCl, RbCl, or RbI to the electron transport material of the second electron injection enhancing layer is about 5:5 to about 7:3.

6. The organic electroluminescence display device as claimed in claim 4 , wherein the electron transport material includes an N-containing heterocyclic compound including three ring formation nitrogen atoms.

7. The organic electroluminescence display device as claimed in claim 4 , wherein:
two light emitting layers of the first, second, and third light emitting layers include blue light emitting layers that emit blue light, and
a remaining one of the first, second, and third light emitting layers includes a light emitting layer that emits white light by being mixed with the blue light.

8. The organic electroluminescence display device as claimed in claim 7 , wherein:
the second light emitting layer and the third light emitting layer include the blue light emitting layers that emit the blue light, and
the first light emitting layer includes the light emitting layer that emits the white light by being mixed with the blue light.

9. The organic electroluminescence display device as claimed in claim 4 , wherein:
two light emitting layers of the first, second, and third light emitting layers include blue light emitting layers that emit blue light, and
a remaining one of the first, second, and third light emitting layers includes a yellow light emitting layer that emits yellow light.

10. The organic electroluminescence display device as claimed in claim 4 , wherein:
two light emitting layers of the first, second, and third light emitting layers include blue light emitting layers that emit blue light, and
a remaining one of first, second, and third light emitting layers includes a first sub light emitting layer and a second sub light emitting layer,
one of the first and second sub light emitting layers includes a red light emitting layer that emits red light, and
another one of the first and second sub light emitting layers includes a green light emitting layer that emits green light.

11. The organic electroluminescence display device as claimed in claim 4 , further including a color filter spaced apart from the second electrode.

12. The organic electroluminescence display device as claimed in claim 4 , wherein each of the first, second, and third light emitting layers includes a blue light emitting layer that emits blue light.

13. The organic electroluminescence display device as claimed in claim 12 , wherein:
the first light emitting layer emits a first blue light having a first wavelength band,
the second light emitting layer emits a second blue light having a second wavelength band, and
the third light emitting layer emits a third blue light having a third wavelength band.

14. The organic electroluminescence display device as claimed in claim 13 , wherein peak wavelengths of the first, second, and third wavelength bands are different from each other.

15. The organic electroluminescence display device as claimed in claim 12 , further including a color conversion layer spaced apart from the second electrode.

16. The organic electroluminescence display device as claimed in claim 15 , wherein the color conversion layer includes:
a resin layer; and
a color conversion material contained in the resin layer,
the color conversion material including at least one of an inorganic phosphor, an organic phosphor, a quantum dot, and an organic dye.

17. The organic electroluminescence display device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein:
the first electrode includes a reflective electrode or a transflective electrode, and
the second electrode includes a transmissive electrode.

18. The organic electroluminescence display device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the electron transport material includes an N-containing heterocyclic compound.

19. The organic electroluminescence display device as claimed in claim 18 , wherein a number of ring formation nitrogen atoms of the N-containing heterocyclic compound contained in the electron injection suppressing layer is less than a number of ring formation nitrogen atoms of the N-containing heterocyclic compound contained in the first electron injection enhancing layer.

Assignees

• Samsung Display Co Ltd

Inventors

• Oh Ilsoo
• Jeon Pyungeun
• Han Myungsuk

Classifications

• H10K59/10

  OLED displays · CPC title

• H10K50/181

  Electron blocking layers · CPC title

• H10K50/19

  Tandem OLEDs · CPC title

• H10K59/877

  comprising scattering means · CPC title

• H10K59/351

  comprising more than three subpixels, e.g. red-green-blue-white [RGBW] · CPC title