Light-emitting substrate, photovoltaic cell, display device, lighting device, electronic device, organic light-emitting diode, and method of manufacturing light-emitting substrate

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9698204-B2
Application number	US-201415101440-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 5, 2014
Priority date	Dec 6, 2013
Publication date	Jul 4, 2017
Grant date	Jul 4, 2017

Abstract

A CCM substrate ( 1 ) includes as a light-emitting layer on a substrate ( 11 ) a red conversion layer ( 142 ), a green conversion layer ( 152 ), and a light scattering layer ( 162 ); a bank ( 13 ) which stands on the substrate ( 11 ), and partitions the light-emitting layer; and a light-transmission suppressing layer ( 10 ) which is formed on at least a portion of a side surface ( 13 a ) of the bank ( 13 ) which is a surface facing the light-emitting layer, and suppresses light transmission between the light-emitting layers (the red conversion layer ( 142 ), the green conversion layer ( 152 ), and the light scattering layer ( 162 )) with the bank ( 13 ) interposed therebetween by causing the light to be reflected or scattered, in which the light-transmission suppressing layer ( 10 ) is comprising metal or metal salt, and the bank ( 13 ) has a group, an ion, or a molecule for immobilizing the metal or metal ion.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A light-emitting substrate comprising:
light-emitting layers on a substrate;
a bank on the substrate that partitions the light-emitting layers; and
a light-transmission suppressing layer on at least a portion of a surface of the bank which faces the light-emitting layers, and suppresses light transmission between the light-emitting layers by causing light to be reflected or scattered, wherein
the light-transmission suppressing layer includes a metal or a metal ion forming salt, and
the bank includes a group, an ion, or a molecule that immobilizes the metal or the metal ion forming salt, and
the metal is defined by a process causing the bank to contact a liquid including the metal or the metal ion forming salt.

2. The light-emitting substrate according to claim 1 , wherein the light-emitting layers emit light by being excited by incident light that is incident from outside.

3. The light-emitting substrate according to claim 2 , wherein the bank includes a region of which a width becomes larger in accordance with an increase of a height from a surface of the substrate, in a cross-section in a direction orthogonal to a surface facing the light-emitting layers.

4. The light-emitting substrate according to claim 1 , wherein a region, in which a density of the metal or the metal ion forming salt in the light-transmission suppressing layer gradually increases closer to a surface facing the light-emitting layers, is included inside the bank.

5. The light-emitting substrate according to claim 1 , wherein
the bank includes a plurality of regions of which a width becomes larger in accordance with an increase in a height from a surface of the substrate in a cross-section in a direction orthogonal to a surface facing the light-emitting layers, and
in the plurality of regions, a value of the width of each region becomes smaller farther from the surface of the substrate.

6. The light-emitting substrate according to claim 1 , wherein
the bank includes a plurality of regions of which a width becomes larger in accordance with an increase in a height from a surface of the substrate in a cross-section in a direction orthogonal to a surface facing the light-emitting layers, and one or more regions of which the width becomes smaller in accordance with the increase of the height from the surface of the substrate, and
in the plurality of regions of which the width becomes larger, a maximum value of the width of each region becomes smaller farther from the surface of the substrate.

7. The light-emitting substrate according to claim 1 , wherein the light-emitting layers are between at least two electrodes, and emit light by injection of holes and electrons from the electrodes.

8. The light-emitting substrate according to claim 1 , wherein the light-transmission suppressing layer includes silver or a silver salt, and the bank includes a carboxyl group or an anion.

9. The light-emitting substrate according to claim 1 , wherein the bank includes a resin and titanium oxide that is a photocatalyst.

10. The light-emitting substrate according to claim 1 , wherein
the light-transmission suppressing layer includes silver or gold, and
the bank includes the molecule that immobilizes the metal or the metal ion forming salt, and the molecule includes a mercapto group.

11. The light-emitting substrate according to claim 1 , wherein the bank includes a metal plating catalyst that generates a metal from the metal ion forming salt.

12. The light-emitting substrate according to claim 1 , wherein the bank includes a conductive component.

13. The light-emitting substrate according to claim 1 , wherein
the light-transmission suppressing layer includes a water-insoluble metal salt, and
the bank includes a carboxyl group or an anion.

14. A photovoltaic cell, a display device, a lighting device, or an electronic device comprising the light-emitting substrate according to claim 1 .

15. An organic light-emitting diode device comprising the light-emitting substrate according to claim 2 .

16. A method of manufacturing the light-emitting substrate according to claim 1 , the method comprising:
forming the bank including the group, the ion, or the molecule that immobilizes the metal or the metal ion containing salt on the substrate; and
causing the bank to contact with the liquid including the metal or the metal ion forming salt.

17. The method of manufacturing the light-emitting substrate according to claim 16 , the method further comprising:
reducing the silver ion on the bank in such a manner that the bank is irradiated with light after the process of causing the bank including a carboxyl group to contact with the liquid including the silver ion.

Assignees

• Sharp Kk

Inventors

• Kamura Masakazu
• Ueki Shun
• Iwata Akiko
• IGAMI Yuka
• Zhang Bai
• Aomori Shigeru
• Matsukiyo Hidetsugu

Classifications

• Y02E10/52

  PV systems with concentrators · CPC title

• Y02E10/549

  Organic PV cells · CPC title

• H01L2251/5361

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01L51/5271

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01L27/322

  Electricity · mapped topic