Back-emitting OLED device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9236582-B2
Application number	US-201214369362-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 28, 2012
Priority date	Dec 30, 2011
Publication date	Jan 12, 2016
Grant date	Jan 12, 2016

Abstract

An OLED device includes an anode, which is transparent, anode of a sheet resistance R1, a cathode of sheet resistance R2, the ratio r=R2/R1 ranging from 0.1 to 5, a first anode contact and a second anode contact, spaced from and facing the first anode contact, and a first cathode electrical contact, which is: arranged above the active zone, offset from the first anode contact and from the second anode contact, at every point of the contact surface.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An organic light-emitting diode device, comprising:
a transparent substrate with a first main face comprising a stack comprising in this order, starting from said first main face:
a lower electrode forming an anode, which is transparent, the anode having a sheet resistance R1,
an organic light-emitting system above the anode,
an upper electrode forming a cathode, arranged above the organic light-emitting system, comprising an electroconducting layer, the cathode having a sheet resistance R2, the ratio r=R2/R1 ranging from 0.1 to 5, the anode, the organic light-emitting system and the cathode defining an active common zone,

a first anode contact,
a second anode contact, spaced from and facing the first anode contact, the first and second anode contacts forming two opposite sides of a first region of the anode, the first region being further delimited by a first free edge of the active common zone and by a second free edge of the active common zone opposite from the first free edge,
a first cathode electrical contact, which is:
arranged above the active common zone, partially covering a region of the cathode above the first region,
of a contact surface smaller than a surface area of the active common zone and than a surface area of the first region,
offset from the first anode contact and from the second anode contact, at every point of the contact surface, and

above the organic light-emitting system, away from the first main face, a reflector covering the active common zone,
wherein, for each point B1 of the first anode contact, on defining a distance D1 between said point B1 and a point C1 of the contact surface which is closest to said point B1, and on defining a distance L1 between said point B1 and a point X1 of the second anode contact, passing through C1 then the following criteria are defined:
if 0.1≦r<1.75, then 10%<D1/L1<50%,
if 1.75≦r<2.5, then 10%<D1/L1<45%,
if 2.5≦r<3, then 10%<D1/L1<40%,
if 3≦r≦5, then 10%<D1/L1<35%,

and wherein, for each point B2 of the second anode contact, on defining a distance D2 between said point B2 and a point C2 of the contact surface which is closest to said point B2, and on defining a distance L2 between said point B2 and a point X2 of the first anode contact, passing through C2 then the following criteria are defined:
if 0.1≦r<1.75, then 10%<D2/L2<50%,
if 1.75≦r<2.5, then 10%<D2/L2<45%,
if 2.5≦r<3, then 10%<D2/L2<40%,
if 3≦r≦5, then 10%<D2/L2<35%.

2. The organic light-emitting diode device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the contact surface extends from a center of the first region to the first and second anode contacts.

3. The organic light-emitting diode device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the contact surface is a solid surface, or a grid-like surface.

4. The organic light-emitting diode device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the first cathode electrical contact is centered with respect to the first anode contact and to the second anode contact.

5. The organic light-emitting diode device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the first cathode electrical contact has a surface homothetic to the surface of the first region and/or to the surface of the active common zone.

6. The organic light-emitting diode device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein
if 0.1≦r<1.75, then 20%≦D1/L1≦50% and 20%≦D2/L2≦50%,
if 1.75≦r<2.5, then 20%≦D1/L1≦40% and 20%≦D2/L2≦40%,
if 2.5≦r<3, then 20%≦D1/L1≦35% and 20%≦D2/L2≦35%,
if 3≦r≦5, then 15%≦D1/L1≦25% and 15%≦D2/L2≦25%.

7. The organic light-emitting diode device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the first anode contact is along a first edge of the active common zone, and optionally the second anode contact is along a second edge of the active common zone opposite from the first edge.

8. The organic light-emitting diode device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the first anode contact is substantially rectilinear and defined by a first mid-plane and the second anode contact is substantially rectilinear and defined by a second mid-plane, and an angle α between the first and second mid-planes is less than 45°.

9. The organic light-emitting diode device as claimed in claim 1 , comprising one or more resistive anode electrical contacts, arranged in the first region and wherein the ratio r ranging from 0.1 to 5 is replaced with a ratio r′=R2/R′1 ranging from 0.1 to 5 in which R′1 is the equivalent sheet resistance of the assembly of the anode and the one or more resistive anode electrical contacts in the first region.

10. The organic light-emitting diode device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the cathode is transparent or semi-reflecting, wherein the reflector comprises a reflecting covering element above the cathode away from the first main face, the covering element being separated from the cathode by an electrical insulating element and wherein the first cathode electrical contact, adjacent to the electrical insulating element, forms part of the reflector and is in contact or electrically coupled with the reflecting covering element.

11. The organic light-emitting diode device as claimed in claim 10 , wherein the first cathode electrical contact is based on the same material as the reflecting covering element, and the first cathode electrical contact and the covering element are formed by a continuous layer on the electrical insulating element.

12. The organic light-emitting diode device as claimed in claim 11 , wherein the continuous layer is based on the same material as the cathode.

13. The organic light-emitting diode device as claimed in claim 12 , wherein the cathode comprises a layer based on aluminum and the first cathode electrical contact comprises a layer based on aluminum.

14. The organic light-emitting diode device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the reflector comprises a Bragg mirror, adjacent to the first cathode electrical contact, and the first cathode electrical contact forms part of the reflector.

Assignees

• Saint Gobain

Inventors

• Chery Vincent
• Lienhart Fabien
• Sauvinet Vincent

Classifications

• H10K50/88

  Terminals, e.g. bond pads · CPC title

• H10K50/856

  comprising reflective means · CPC title

• H10K50/822

  characterised by their shape · CPC title

• H10K50/814 Primary

  combined with auxiliary electrodes, e.g. ITO layer combined with metal lines · CPC title

• H01L51/5225 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic