Organic light-emitting display apparatus having pixel electrodes with varying flatness

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12185559-B2
Application number	US-202117450612-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 12, 2021
Priority date	Feb 9, 2021
Publication date	Dec 31, 2024
Grant date	Dec 31, 2024

Abstract

An organic light-emitting display apparatus includes: a first pixel electrode; a second pixel electrode spaced apart from the first pixel electrode and comprising a top surface that is flatter than a top surface of the first pixel electrode; a first color emission layer on the first pixel electrode; and a second color emission layer on the second pixel electrode and configured to emit light having a wavelength longer than a wavelength of light emitted by the first color emission layer.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An organic light-emitting display apparatus comprising:
a first pixel electrode;
a second pixel electrode over a wiring and spaced apart from the first pixel electrode and comprising a top surface that is flatter than a top surface of the first pixel electrode;
a first color emission layer on the first pixel electrode; and
a second color emission layer, having a thickness greater than a thickness of the first color emission layer, on the second pixel electrode and configured to emit light having a wavelength longer than a wavelength of light emitted by the first color emission layer, and the thickness of the second color emission layer over the wiring is less than the thickness of the second color emission layer away from the wiring.

2. The organic light-emitting display apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the wavelength of light emitted by the first color emission layer belongs to a wavelength band ranging from 450 nanometers (nm) to 495 nm.

3. The organic light-emitting display apparatus of claim 2 , wherein the wavelength of light emitted by the second color emission layer belongs to a wavelength band ranging from 495 nm to 570 nm.

4. The organic light-emitting display apparatus of claim 1 , wherein a root mean square (RMS) of a stepped portion of the top surface of the first pixel electrode ranges from 14 nanometers (nm) to 33 nm.

5. The organic light-emitting display apparatus of claim 4 , wherein the wavelength of light emitted by the first color emission layer belongs to a wavelength band ranging from 450 nm to 495 nm.

6. The organic light-emitting display apparatus of claim 5 , wherein the wavelength of light emitted by the second color emission layer belongs to a wavelength band ranging from 495 nm to 570 nm.

7. The organic light-emitting display apparatus of claim 4 , wherein an RMS of a stepped portion of the top surface of the second pixel electrode ranges from 11 nm to 22 nm.

8. The organic light-emitting display apparatus of claim 1 , further comprising:
a third pixel electrode spaced apart from the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode and comprising a top surface that is flatter than a top surface of the second pixel electrode; and
a third color emission layer on the third pixel electrode and configured to emit light having a wavelength longer than the wavelength of light emitted by the second color emission layer.

9. The organic light-emitting display apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the wavelength of light emitted by the first color emission layer belongs to a wavelength band ranging from 450 nm to 495 nm.

10. The organic light-emitting display apparatus of claim 9 , wherein the wavelength of the light emitted by the second color emission layer belongs to a wavelength band ranging from 495 nm to 570 nm.

11. The organic light-emitting display apparatus of claim 10 , wherein the wavelength of light emitted by the third color emission layer belongs to a wavelength band ranging from 630 nm to 750 nm.

12. The organic light-emitting display apparatus of claim 8 , wherein a root mean squared (RMS) of a stepped portion of the top surface of the first pixel electrode ranges from 14 nm to 33 nm.

13. The organic light-emitting display apparatus of claim 12 , wherein an RMS of a stepped portion of the top surface of the second pixel electrode ranges from 11 nm to 22 nm.

14. The organic light-emitting display apparatus of claim 13 , wherein an RMS of a stepped portion of the top surface of the third pixel electrode ranges from 2 nm to 11 nm.

Assignees

• Samsung Display Co Ltd

Inventors

• Park Hyunsuk
• Kishimoto Katsushi

Classifications

• H10K59/12

  Active-matrix OLED [AMOLED] displays · CPC title

• H10K59/80515

  characterised by their shape · CPC title

• H10K50/125 Primary

  specially adapted for multicolour light emission, e.g. for emitting white light · CPC title

• H10K59/35 Primary

  comprising red-green-blue [RGB] subpixels · CPC title

• H10K59/124

  Insulating layers formed between TFT elements and OLED elements · CPC title