Organic light-emitting diode, organic light-emitting diode substrate, and method of manufacturing same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9276238-B2
Application number	US-201314136444-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 20, 2013
Priority date	Dec 28, 2012
Publication date	Mar 1, 2016
Grant date	Mar 1, 2016

Abstract

An organic light-emitting diode manufactured from an organic light-emitting diode substrate in which a concave-convex structure is provided in at least a part of the surface, in which the concave-convex structure is capable of obtaining an atomic force microscope (AFM) image in which a plurality of dots is dispersed when observed by an AFM. A histogram is created by measuring a diameter (nm) of each of the plurality of dots present in a randomly selected region having an area of 25 μm 2 on the atomic force microscope image, resulting in a plurality of peaks including one main peak and one or more sub-peaks, and the chromaticity of light emitted from the organic light-emitting diode is in a range of (x, y)=(0.28 to 0.50, 0.29 to 0.45) in a CIE standard colorimetric system.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An organic light-emitting diode comprising an organic light-emitting diode substrate in which a concave-convex structure is provided in at least a part of a surface, wherein the concave-convex structure is capable of obtaining an atomic force microscope image in which a plurality of dots are dispersed when observed by an atomic force microscope,
wherein the concave-convex structure of the organic light-emitting diode substrate is defined by the configuration of a histogram created by a process comprising:
measuring a diameter of each of the plurality of dots present in a randomly selected region having an area of 25 μm 2 on the atomic force microscope image;
obtaining a frequency distribution from a number of dots having a diameter corresponding to each of sections obtained by partitioning a diameter range for each 20 nm;
calculating a total area of dots, which are present in each of the sections from the frequency distribution; and
creating the histogram in which the total area is shown in a Y-axis and the diameter of the dot is shown in an X-axis, the histogram has a plurality of peaks,
wherein the plurality of peaks comprise one main peak in which a total area of dots corresponding to a corresponding peak has a maximum value, and one or more sub-peaks in which the total area is 10% or more of the maximum value, and wherein
the chromaticity of light emitted from the organic light-emitting diode is in a range of chromaticity coordinates (x, y)=(0.28 to 0.50, 0.29 to 0.45) in a CIE standard colorimetric system.

2. The organic light-emitting diode according to claim 1 , wherein among diameters of the respective main peak and sub-peaks, when a maximum diameter is set as A and a minimum diameter is set as B, 1.2B≦A≦4B; 100 nm≦A≦500 nm; and 30 nm≦B≦300 nm.

3. An organic light-emitting diode substrate in which a concave-convex structure is provided in at least a part of a surface, wherein the concave-convex structure is capable of obtaining an atomic force microscope image in which a plurality of dots are dispersed when observed by an atomic force microscope,
wherein the concave-convex structure of the organic light-emitting diode substrate is defined by the configuration of a histogram created by a process comprising:
measuring a diameter of each of the plurality of dots present in a randomly selected region having an area of 25 μm 2 on the atomic force microscope image;
obtaining a frequency distribution from a number of dots having a diameter corresponding to each of sections obtained by partitioning a diameter range for each 20 nm;
calculating a total area of dots, which are present in each of the sections from the frequency distribution; and
creating the histogram in which the total area is shown in a Y-axis and the diameter of the dot is shown in an X-axis, the histogram has a plurality of peaks,
wherein the plurality of peaks comprise one main peak in which a total area of dots corresponding to a corresponding peak has a maximum value, and one or more sub-peaks in which the total area is 10% or more of the maximum value.

4. A method of manufacturing an organic light-emitting diode substrate according to claim 3 , the method comprising:
obtaining a particle mixture in which a particle size distribution has a plurality of peaks;
disposing a particle single layer film formed from the particle mixture on at least a part of the surface of the substrate; and
dry-etching the substrate by using the particle single layer film as an etching mask to form a concave-convex structure in at least a part of a surface of the substrate.

5. The method of manufacturing an organic light-emitting diode substrate according to claim 4 , wherein among particle sizes of the respective main peak and sub-peaks, when a maximum particle size is set as a and a minimum particle size is set as b, 1.2b≦a≦4b; 100 nm≦a≦500 nm; and 30 nm≦b≦300 nm.

6. An organic light-emitting diode, comprising the organic light-emitting diode substrate manufactured according to the method of claim 5 .

7. An organic light-emitting diode, comprising the organic light-emitting diode substrate manufactured according to the method of claim 4 .

8. A method of manufacturing an organic light-emitting diode substrate according to claim 3 , the method comprising:
obtaining a particle mixture in which a particle size distribution has a plurality of peaks;
disposing a particle single layer film formed from the particle mixture on at least a part of the surface of a base material;
dry-etching the base material by using the particle single layer film as an etching mask to form a concave-convex structure in at least a part of the surface of the base material; and
transferring the concave-convex structure or a concave-convex structure which is formed by transferring the concave-convex structure onto another base material onto at least a part of the surface of the substrate.

9. The method of manufacturing an organic light-emitting diode substrate according to claim 8 , wherein among particle sizes of the respective main peak and sub-peaks, when a maximum particle size is set as a and a minimum particle size is set as b, 1.2b≦a≦4b; 100 nm≦a≦500 nm; and 30 nm≦b≦300 nm.

10. An organic light-emitting diode, comprising the organic light-emitting diode substrate manufactured according to the method of claim 9 .

11. An organic light-emitting diode, comprising the organic light-emitting diode substrate manufactured according to the method of claim 8 .

Assignees

• Oji Holdings Corp

Inventors

• Shinotsuka Kei
• Okamoto Takayuki
• Kawamukai Etsuko
• Yamamura Norio

Classifications

• H10K71/00

  Manufacture or treatment specially adapted for the organic devices covered by this subclass · CPC title

• H10K77/10 Primary

  Substrates, e.g. flexible substrates · CPC title

• H01L51/56 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• Y02E10/549

  Organic PV cells · CPC title

• H01L51/5268

  Electricity · mapped topic