Organic EL display

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9240435-B2
Application number	US-201013376476-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 18, 2010
Priority date	Jun 11, 2009
Publication date	Jan 19, 2016
Grant date	Jan 19, 2016

Abstract

Disclosed is a coated type organic EL display wherein the light extraction efficiencies of all organic light-emitting elements are improved even when the organic light-emitting elements have different organic light-emitting layers for respective emission colors. Specifically disclosed is an organic EL display which comprises a substrate, a red organic light-emitting element (R), a green organic light-emitting element (G), and a blue organic light-emitting element (B), said organic light-emitting elements being arranged on the substrate. Each of the organic light-emitting elements has a pixel electrode that is a reflective electrode, a functional layer that is formed on the pixel electrode by coating, an organic light-emitting layer that is arranged on the functional layer, a counter electrode that is a transparent electrode arranged on the organic light-emitting layer, and a tapered bank that defines the functional layer formed by coating. The amounts of the functional layers formed by coating are different among the element (R), the element (G) and the element (B), and the tapered angles of the banks defining the functional layers are different among the element (R), the element (G) and the element (B).

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An organic EL display comprising: a substrate;
an organic light emitting element R which is arranged on a surface of a substrate and is configured to emit red light;
an organic light emitting element G which is arranged on the surface of the substrate and is configured to emit green light; and
an organic light emitting element B which is arranged on the surface of the substrate and is configured to emit blue light, wherein:
each of the organic light emitting elements includes a pixel electrode which is a reflective electrode, a function layer which is formed by coating on the pixel electrode, an organic light emitting layer which is arranged on the function layer, a counter electrode which is a transparent electrode and is arranged on the organic light emitting layer and a bank of a tapered shape which defines the function layer formed by coating, the functional layer and the organic light emitting layer being stacked between the pixel electrode and the counter electrode;
a volume of the function layer formed by coating differs among the element R, the element G and the element B, wherein
the function layer formed by coating is an electronic block layer, a hole transport layer, or a hole injection layer, the function layer included in each of the element R, the element G and the element B is made of the same functional material, and
a volume of the functional material of the element B is larger than a volume of the functional material of the element G, and the volume of the functional material of the element G is larger than a volume of the functional material of the element R, and
a taper angle of a tapered surface of the bank that defines the element B is larger than a taper angle of the tapered surface of the bank that defines the element G, and the taper angle of the tapered surface of the bank that defines the element G is larger than the taper angle of the tapered surface of the bank that defines the element R,
the taper angle of the tapered surface of the bank that defines the element B is formed between a plane parallel to a plane of the surface of the substrate and the tapered surface of the bank that defines the element B, the taper angle of the tapered surface of the bank that defines the element G is formed between the plane parallel to the plane of the surface of the substrate and the tapered surface of the bank that defines the element G, and the taper angle of the tapered surface of the bank that defines the element R is formed between the plane parallel to the plane of the surface of the substrate and the tapered surface of the bank that defines the element R.

2. An organic EL display comprising: a substrate;
an organic light emitting element R which is arranged on a surface of a substrate and is configured to emit red light;
an organic light emitting element G which is arranged on the surface of the substrate and is configured to emit green light; and
an organic light emitting element B which is arranged on the surface of the substrate and is configured to emit blue light, wherein:
each of the organic light emitting elements includes a pixel electrode which is a transparent electrode, an organic light emitting layer which is arranged on the pixel electrode, a function layer which is formed by coating on the organic light emitting layer, a counter electrode which is a reflective electrode and is arranged on the function layer and a bank of a tapered shape which defines the function layer formed by coating, the functional layer and the organic light emitting layer being stacked between the pixel electrode and the counter electrode;
a volume of the function layer formed by coating differs among the element R, the element G and the element B, wherein
the function layer formed by coating is an electronic transport layer or a transparent conductive film, the function layer included in each of the element R, the element G and the element B is made of the same functional material, and
a volume of the functional material of the element B is larger than a volume of the functional material of the element G, and the volume of the functional material of the element G is larger than a volume of the functional material of the element R, and
a taper angle of the tapered surface of the bank that defines the element B is larger than a taper angle of the tapered surface of the bank that defines the element G, and the taper angle of the tapered surface of the bank that defines the element G is larger than the taper angle of the tapered surface of the bank that defines the element R,
the taper angle of the tapered surface of the bank that defines the element B is formed between a plane parallel to a plane of the surface of the substrate and the tapered surface of the bank that defines the element B, the taper angle of the tapered surface of the bank that defines the element G is formed between the plane parallel to the plane of the surface of the substrate and the tapered surface of the bank that defines the element G, and the taper angle of the tapered surface of the bank that defines the element R is formed between the plane parallel to the plane of the surface of the substrate and the tapered surface of the bank that defines the element R.

Assignees

• Yoshida Hidehiro
• Okumoto Kenji
• Ejima Tsuneyuki
• Nakatani Shuhei
• Joled Inc

Inventors

• Yoshida Hidehiro
• Okumoto Kenji
• Ejima Tsuneyuki
• Nakatani Shuhei

Classifications

• H10K59/878

  comprising reflective means · CPC title

• H10K59/875

  Arrangements for extracting light from the devices · CPC title

• H01L27/3283

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01L2251/558

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01L2251/5315

  Electricity · mapped topic