Organic light emitting device and manufacturing method thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9536931-B2
Application number	US-201213614826-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 13, 2012
Priority date	Jan 19, 2012
Publication date	Jan 3, 2017
Grant date	Jan 3, 2017

Abstract

An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display with an improved light efficiency and a method of manufacturing the OLED display are disclosed. The OLED display includes a substrate, an insulation layer on the substrate and having concave portions, first electrodes on the insulation layer, pixel defining layers (PDLs) on the insulation layer and configured to define the first electrodes into pixels, organic light emitting layers on the first electrodes as defined by the pixels, and a second electrode on the organic light emitting layers. Each of the concave portions includes a bottom surface and inclined parts. Each of the first electrodes is on the bottom surface and the inclined parts of one of the concave portions. Embossings are on a part of a surface of the PDLs.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display, comprising:
a substrate;
an insulation layer on the substrate and having concave portions;
first electrodes on the insulation layer;
pixel defining layers (PDLs) on the insulation layer and configured to define the first electrodes into pixels, the first electrodes being separated by first boundary surfaces between the insulation layer and the PDLs;
organic light emitting layers on the first electrodes as defined by the pixels; and
a second electrode on the organic light emitting layers,
wherein
each of the concave portions includes a bottom surface and inclined parts,
each of the first electrodes is on the bottom surface and the inclined parts of one of the concave portions,
the organic light emitting layers include extended portions extending away from the first electrode and disposed between the PDLs and the second electrode, the extended portions being separated by second boundary surfaces between the PDLs and the second electrode,
the PDLs have embossings at third boundary surfaces between the PDLs and the extended portions of the organic light emitting layers,
the first boundary surfaces face the second boundary surfaces, and
the second boundary surfaces have a curved shape where they overlap the first boundary surfaces.

2. The OLED display as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising a semiconductor device on the substrate and electrically connected to one of the first electrodes.

3. The OLED display as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the semiconductor device is a thin film transistor (TFT).

4. The OLED display as claimed in claim 1 , wherein side parts of the first electrodes are on the inclined parts of the concave portions.

5. The OLED display as claimed in claim 4 , wherein the side parts of the first electrodes have a same angle of inclination as that of the inclined parts of the concave portions.

6. The OLED display as claimed in claim 4 , wherein the side parts of the first electrodes are covered by the PDLs.

7. The OLED display as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the PDLs cover the inclined parts of the concave portions.

8. The OLED display as claimed in claim 7 , wherein the embossings of the PDLs correspond to the inclined parts of the concave portions.

9. The OLED display as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the extended portions of the organic light emitting layers are on side parts of the PDLs adjacent to the first electrodes.

10. The OLED display as claimed in claim 9 , wherein the embossings of the PDLs correspond to the side parts of the PDLs.

11. The OLED display as claimed in claim 10 , wherein the extended portions of the organic light emitting layers on the side parts of the PDLs have same embossings as those of the PDLs.

12. The OLED display as claimed in claim 11 , wherein the second electrode has the same embossings as those of the organic light emitting layers.

13. The OLED display as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the insulation layer further comprises a first insulation layer having a flat surface and second insulation layers having the inclined parts.

14. The OLED display as claimed in claim 13 , wherein the concave portions are formed by the first insulation layer and the second insulation layers, the first insulation layer providing the bottom surface of the concave portions.

15. The OLED display as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the embossings of the PDLs are formed by a method selected from the group consisting of a rubbing process, a sand blast process, and a mask process.

16. The OLED display as claimed in claim 1 , wherein an interval between the embossings is between 10 nm and 1000 nm.

17. The OLED display as claimed in claim 1 , wherein a depth of the embossings is between 1 nm and 100 nm.

18. The OLED display as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising a first auxiliary light emitting layer between the first electrodes and the organic light emitting layers.

19. The OLED display as claimed in claim 18 , wherein the first auxiliary light emitting layer comprises at least one of a hole injection layer or a hole transfer layer.

20. The OLED display as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising a second auxiliary light emitting layer between the organic light emitting layers and the second electrode.

21. The OLED display as claimed in claim 20 , wherein the second auxiliary light emitting layer comprises at least one of an electron injection layer or an electron transfer layer.

22. The OLED display as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the organic light emitting layers have embossings at surfaces of the light emitting layers contacting the second electrode.

Assignees

• Kim Il-Nam
• Park Won-Sang
• Kim Min-Woo
• Kim Jae-Kyoung
• Choi Hae-Yun
• Samsung Display Co Ltd

Inventors

• Kim Il-Nam
• Park Won-Sang
• Kim Min-Woo
• Kim Jae-Kyoung
• Choi Hae-Yun

Classifications

• H10K71/00

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

• H10K59/1201

  Manufacture or treatment · CPC title

• H10K50/16

  Electron transporting layers · CPC title

• H10K50/15

  Hole transporting layers · CPC title

• H10K50/17

  Carrier injection layers · CPC title