Organic light-emitting device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016005990-A1
Application number	US-201414584105-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Dec 29, 2014
Priority date	Jul 2, 2014
Publication date	Jan 7, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

An organic light-emitting device comprises a first electrode, a second electrode, and an organic light-emitting layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, and comprising at least a host material, a first dopant for emitting light of a first color and a second dopant for emitting light of a second color, which is different from the first color. The organic light-emitting layer is divided into a first region adjacent to the first electrode, a second region adjacent to the second electrode, and a third region between the first region and the second region. Only the second dopant is provided in at least one of the first region and the second region.

First claim

1 . An organic light-emitting device, comprising:
a first electrode; a second electrode; and an organic light-emitting layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, the organic light-emitting layer comprising at least a host material, a first dopant for a first color and a second dopant for a second color different from the first color, wherein the organic light-emitting layer comprises a first region and a second region and a third region between the first region and the second region, the first region being interposed between the first electrode and the third region, the second region being interposed between the third region and the second electrode; wherein the first region does not comprise the first dopant, and the third region comprises both the first and second dopants.

2 . The organic light-emitting device of claim 1 , wherein the second region does not comprise the first dopant.

3 . The organic light-emitting device of claim 2 , wherein the first dopant is present in an amount of about 0.3 wt % to about 15 wt % in the organic light-emitting layer.

4 . The organic light-emitting device of claim 2 , wherein the second dopant is provided in each of the first region, the second region and the third region.

5 . The organic light-emitting device of claim 1 , wherein the second region comprises the first dopant.

6 . The organic light-emitting device of claim 2 , wherein the first dopant is provided only in the third region within the organic light-emitting layer.

7 . The organic light-emitting device of claim 1 , wherein each of the first region and the second region does not comprise the first dopant.

8 . The organic light-emitting device of claim 7 , wherein each of the first region and the second region comprises the second dopant.

9 . (canceled)

10 . The organic light-emitting device of claim 1 , wherein the second dopant is present in an amount of about 3 wt % to about 10 wt % in the organic light-emitting layer.

11 . The organic light-emitting device of claim 1 , wherein the first color is red and the second color is green.

12 . (canceled)

13 . The organic light-emitting device of claim 1 , wherein the organic light-emitting layer is further configured to receive holes and electrons to generate excitons, and wherein the number of excitons in the organic light-emitting layer gradually increases or decreases from a first edge of the first organic light-emitting layer facing the first electrode to a second edge of the first organic light-emitting layer facing the second electrode.

14 . The organic light-emitting device of claim 1 , further comprising:
an additional organic light-emitting layer disposed between the organic light-emitting layer and the first electrode or between the organic light-emitting layer and the second electrode; and a charge generation layer (CGL) disposed between the organic light-emitting layer and the additional organic light-emitting layer.

15 . The organic light-emitting device of claim 14 , wherein the device is configured such that light emitted from the first organic light-emitting layer and light emitted from the second organic light-emitting layer are to be mixed for white light.

16 . An organic light-emitting device, comprising:
a first electrode; a second electrode; a first organic light-emitting layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, the first organic light-emitting layer comprising a first dopant for a first color and a second dopant for a second color different from the first color; a second organic light-emitting layer disposed between the first organic light-emitting layer and the first electrode, the second organic light-emitting layer comprising a third dopant for a third color different from the first color and the second color; and a charge generation layer (CGL) disposed between the first organic light-emitting layer and the second light-emitting layer, wherein the first organic light-emitting layer comprises a first region, a second region and a third region interposed between the first and second regions, wherein the first region does not comprise the first dopant, and the third region that comprises both the first and second dopants.

17 . The organic light-emitting device of claim 16 , wherein the first region is interposed between the third region and the CGL.

18 . The organic light-emitting device of claim 17 , wherein the second dopant is present in an amount of about 0.3 wt % to about 15 wt % in the first organic light-emitting layer.

19 . The organic light-emitting device of claim 17 , wherein each of the first region and the second region comprises the second dopant and does not comprise the first dopant.

20 . The organic light-emitting device of claim 16 , wherein the first color is red, the second color is green and the third color is blue.

21 . The organic light-emitting device of claim 1 , wherein an exciton profile of the third region is smaller than an exciton profile of the first region.

Assignees

• Samsung Display Co Ltd

Inventors

• Lee Sung Soo
• Koo Young Mo
• Song Ok Keun
• Jeon Woo Sik

Classifications

• H01L2251/5384

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01L51/5088

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01L51/5024 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01L51/5221

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01L2251/5346

  Electricity · mapped topic