Polymer compound and organic light-emitting display device having thin-film encapsulation structure including the polymer compound

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9718909-B2
Application number	US-201514690176-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 17, 2015
Priority date	Apr 18, 2014
Publication date	Aug 1, 2017
Grant date	Aug 1, 2017

Abstract

A polymer compound has a repeating unit represented by Formula 1 and an organic light-emitting display device including the polymer compound.

wherein R 1 , R 2 , R 3 , R 4 , R 5 , R 6 , R 7 , R 8 , p, a, b, and c are the same as described in the detailed description section of the present specification.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A polymer compound having a repeating unit represented by Formula 1:

wherein in Formula 1,
R 1 is a liner, branched, or cyclic C 1 -C 12 alkyl group,
R 2 , R 3 , and R 4 are each independently a hydrogen atom or a linear or branched C 1 -C 6 alkyl group,
R 5 and R 6 are each independently a hydrogen atom or a linear or branched C 1 -C 20 alkyl group,
R 7 is a hydrogen atom or a linear, branched or cyclic C 1 -C 12 alkyl group or C 6 -C 12 aryl group,
R 8 is a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, and
p is an integer from 0 to 12, and a, b and c are each a molar ratio, and satisfy the condition of a+b+c=1, wherein 0.5≦a≦0.9, 0.05≦b≦0.2, and 0.05≦c≦0.3.

2. The polymer compound of claim 1 , wherein
two or more of the polymer compounds are cross-linked, sharing any one or each of R 1 and R 7 .

3. The polymer compound of claim 1 , wherein
three or more of the polymer compounds are cross-linked, sharing R 7 that is a branched alkyl group.

4. The polymer compound of claim 3 , wherein
from among the polymer compounds that are cross-linked, two or more polymer compounds are additionally cross-linked, sharing R 1 .

5. The polymer compound of claim 1 , wherein
the polymer compound has a weight average molecular weight of about 1,000 to about 100,000.

6. The polymer compound of claim 1 , wherein
the repeating unit is represented by Formula 2:

wherein R 1 and R 7 are each independently a linear or branched C 1 -C 12 alkyl group.

7. The polymer compound of claim 6 , wherein
two or more of the polymer compounds are cross-linked, sharing any one or each of R 1 and R 7 .

8. The polymer compound of claim 6 , wherein
three or more of the polymer compounds are cross-linked, sharing R 7 that is a branched alkyl group.

9. The polymer compound of claim 8 , wherein
from among the polymer compounds that are cross-linked, two or more polymer compounds are additionally cross-linked, sharing R 1 .

10. The polymer compound of claim 6 , wherein
the polymer compound has a weight average molecular weight of about 1,000 to about 100,000.

11. The polymer compound of claim 1 , wherein
the repeating unit is represented by Formula 3:

wherein a plurality of I are each independently an integer from 1 to 9.

12. The polymer compound of claim 2 , wherein
the repeating unit is represented by Formula 4:

wherein, a plurality of m are each independently an integer from 1 to 12.

13. The polymer compound of claim 4 , wherein
the repeating unit is partially or entirely represented by Formula 5:

in which a plurality of n are each independently an integer from 1 to 12.

14. An organic light-emitting display device, comprising
a substrate;
an organic light-emitting device on the substrate; and
an encapsulation layer on the organic light-emitting device, the encapsulation layer comprising an inorganic layer and an organic layer which are alternately stacked, wherein
the organic layer comprises the polymer compound as claimed in claim 1 .

15. The organic light-emitting display device of claim 14 , wherein the encapsulation layer comprises a lower most layer and an upper most layer, which are each an inorganic layer.

16. The organic light-emitting display device of claim 14 , wherein the inorganic layer has a thickness of about 500 nm to about 10 μm.

17. The organic light-emitting display device of claim 14 , wherein the organic layer has a thickness of about 1 μm to about 10 μm.

18. The organic light-emitting display device of claim 14 , wherein the inorganic layer comprises at least one selected from silicon oxide, silicon nitride, silicon oxynitride, aluminium oxynitride, magnesium oxide, aluminium oxide, aluminium nitride, titanium oxide, titanium nitride, tantalum oxide, tantalum nitride, hafnium oxide, hafnium nitride, zirconium oxide, zirconium nitride, cerium oxide, cerium nitride, tin oxide, and tin nitride.

19. The organic light-emitting display device of claim 14 , wherein the organic light-emitting device comprises a first electrode, a second electrode, and an organic emissive layer between the first electrode and the second electrode.

20. The organic light-emitting display device of claim 19 , wherein the organic light-emitting device further comprises at least one layer selected from a hole injection layer, a hole transport layer, an electron injection layer, and an electron transport layer, wherein the at least one layer is between the first electrode and the second electrode.

Assignees

• Samsung Display Co Ltd

Inventors

• Han Ouck

Classifications

• C08F220/62

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  Esters · CPC title

• C08F2222/1026

  Chemistry & Metallurgy · mapped topic

• H01L51/5253

  Electricity · mapped topic

• C08F220/18

  with acrylic or methacrylic acids · CPC title