Display Apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2025311581-A1
Application number	US-202519086371-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Mar 21, 2025
Priority date	Mar 29, 2024
Publication date	Oct 2, 2025
Grant date	—

Abstract

A highly reliable display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes a pixel including a first subpixel and a second subpixel. The area of the first subpixel is smaller than the area of the second subpixel. The first subpixel includes a first tandem light-emitting device. The second subpixel includes a second tandem light-emitting device. Light-emitting layers included in the first light-emitting device each include an emission center substance, a first organic compound including a π-electron deficient heteroaromatic ring, and a second organic compound including a π-electron rich heteroaromatic ring or an aromatic amine skeleton. At least one of the first organic compound and the second organic compound includes deuterium. Light-emitting layers included in the second light-emitting device emit light with a hue different from a hue of light emitted from the light-emitting layers included in the first light-emitting device.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A display apparatus comprising:
a pixel comprising a first subpixel and a second subpixel, wherein an area of the first subpixel is smaller than an area of the second subpixel, wherein the first subpixel comprises a first light-emitting device, wherein the second subpixel comprises a second light-emitting device, wherein the first light-emitting device comprises a first electrode, a second electrode, a first intermediate layer, a first light-emitting layer, and a second light-emitting layer, wherein the first intermediate layer is positioned between the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein the first light-emitting layer is positioned between the first electrode and the first intermediate layer, wherein the second light-emitting layer is positioned between the first intermediate layer and the second electrode, wherein the first light-emitting layer comprises a first emission center substance, a first organic compound, and a second organic compound, wherein the second light-emitting layer comprises a second emission center substance, a third organic compound, and a fourth organic compound, wherein the first organic compound and the third organic compound each comprise a π-electron deficient heteroaromatic ring, wherein the second organic compound and the fourth organic compound each comprise a π-electron rich heteroaromatic ring or an aromatic amine skeleton, wherein at least one of the first organic compound, the second organic compound, the third organic compound, and the fourth organic compound comprises deuterium, wherein a difference between a maximum peak wavelength of an emission spectrum of the first emission center substance and a maximum peak wavelength of an emission spectrum of the second emission center substance is less than or equal to 30 nm, wherein the second light-emitting device comprises a third electrode, a fourth electrode, a second intermediate layer, a third light-emitting layer, and a fourth light-emitting layer, wherein the second intermediate layer is positioned between the third electrode and the fourth electrode, wherein the third light-emitting layer is positioned between the third electrode and the second intermediate layer, wherein the fourth light-emitting layer is positioned between the second intermediate layer and the fourth electrode, and wherein the third light-emitting layer and the fourth light-emitting layer emit light with a hue different from a hue of light emitted from the first light-emitting layer and a hue of light emitted from the second light-emitting layer.

2 . The display apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the third light-emitting layer comprises a third emission center substance, a fifth organic compound, and a sixth organic compound, wherein the fourth light-emitting layer comprises a fourth emission center substance, a seventh organic compound, and an eighth organic compound, wherein the fifth organic compound and the seventh organic compound each comprise a π-electron deficient heteroaromatic ring, wherein the sixth organic compound and the eighth organic compound each comprise a π-electron rich heteroaromatic ring or an aromatic amine skeleton, and wherein a difference between a maximum peak wavelength of an emission spectrum of the third emission center substance and a maximum peak wavelength of an emission spectrum of the fourth emission center substance is less than or equal to 30 nm.

3 . The display apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein a combination of the first organic compound and the second organic compound forms a first exciplex, and wherein a combination of the third organic compound and the fourth organic compound forms a second exciplex.

4 . The display apparatus according to claim 3 ,
wherein a difference between a lowest triplet excited level of the first organic compound and a lowest triplet excited level of the second organic compound is less than or equal to 0.30 eV, and wherein a difference between a lowest triplet excited level of the third organic compound and a lowest triplet excited level of the fourth organic compound is less than or equal to 0.30 eV.

5 . The display apparatus according to claim 3 ,
wherein an emission edge on a shorter wavelength side of the first exciplex is positioned at a shorter wavelength than an absorption edge on a longer wavelength side of the first emission center substance, and wherein an emission edge on a shorter wavelength side of the second exciplex is positioned at a shorter wavelength than an absorption edge on a longer wavelength side of the second emission center substance.

6 . The display apparatus according to claim 3 ,
wherein an energy of an emission spectrum peak of the first exciplex is higher than an energy of an emission spectrum peak of the first emission center substance, wherein a difference between the energy of the emission spectrum peak of the first exciplex and the energy of the emission spectrum peak of the first emission center substance is less than or equal to 0.35 eV, wherein an energy of an emission spectrum peak of the second exciplex is higher than an energy of an emission spectrum peak of the second emission center substance, and wherein a difference between the energy of the emission spectrum peak of the second exciplex and the energy of the emission spectrum peak of the second emission center substance is less than or equal to 0.35 eV.

7 . The display apparatus according to claim 2 ,
wherein a combination of the fifth organic compound and the sixth organic compound forms a third exciplex, and wherein a combination of the seventh organic compound and the eighth organic compound forms a fourth exciplex.

8 . The display apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein at least one of the first intermediate layer and the second intermediate layer comprises a mixed layer comprising an eleventh organic compound and one of lithium and a lithium compound, and wherein the eleventh organic compound comprises a phenanthroline skeleton.

9 . The display apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the first light-emitting device comprises a first electron-transport layer between the first light-emitting layer and the first intermediate layer, and a second electron-transport layer between the second light-emitting layer and the second electrode, wherein the second light-emitting device comprises a third electron-transport layer between the third light-emitting layer and the second intermediate layer, and a fourth electron-transport layer between the fourth light-emitting layer and the fourth electrode, wherein at least one of the second electron-transport layer and the fourth electron-transport layer comprises a twelfth organic compound, and wherein the twelfth organic compound comprises a triazine skeleton.

10 . A display apparatus comprising:
a pixel comprising a first subpixel, a second subpixel, and a third subpixel, wherein an area of the first subpixel and an area of the second subpixel are each smaller than an area of the third subpixel, wherein the first subpixel comprises a first light-emitting device, wherein the second subpixel comprises a second light-emitting device, wherein the third subpixel comprises a third light-emitting device, wherein the first light-emitting device comprises a first electrode, a second electrode, a first intermediate layer, a first light-emitting layer, and a second light-emitting layer, wherein the first intermediate layer is positioned between the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein the first light-emitting layer is positioned between the first electrode and the first intermediate layer, wherein the second light-e

Assignees

• Semiconductor Energy Lab

Inventors

• Seo Satoshi
• Ohsawa Nobuharu
• Seo Hiromi
• Kido Hiromitsu
• Hayashi Yuki

Classifications

• H10K59/352

  the areas of the RGB subpixels being different · CPC title

• H10K50/19 Primary

  Tandem OLEDs · CPC title

• H10K59/86

  Series electrical configurations of multiple OLEDs · CPC title

• H10K59/12 Primary

  Active-matrix OLED [AMOLED] displays · CPC title

• H10K2101/10

  Triplet emission · CPC title