Antireflective OLED construction

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9773847-B2
Application number	US-201414895046-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 4, 2014
Priority date	Jun 6, 2013
Publication date	Sep 26, 2017
Grant date	Sep 26, 2017

Abstract

The disclosure relates to emissive displays and, in particular, to emissive displays that include a top surface ( 111 ) that has a diffusely reflective inactive surface ( 116 ) adjacent a diffusely reflective emissive surface ( 114 ). The emissive display further includes a polarization selective antireflection film component ( 120 ) that includes a linear absorbing polarizer ( 126 ), a reflective polarizer ( 124 ), and a quarter-wave retarder ( 122 ), and is positioned separated from the top surface. The disclosure also relates to issues arising from these antireflection film components, such as brightness efficiency loss and image degradation such as pixel blur. The enhanced antireflection stack performs well in commercial OLED displays, with a 20% or greater brightness gain, a 30% or greater ambient light reflectance gain and no visually apparent image degradation.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A display element, comprising:
an organic light emitting diode (OLED) having a top surface comprising a diffusely reflective emissive region and an adjacent diffusely reflective inactive region; and
an antireflection stack adjacent the top surface, comprising:
an absorptive polarizer disposed adjacent the top surface;
a reflective polarizer disposed between the top surface and the absorptive polarizer, wherein the reflective polarizer is in contact with the absorptive polarizer, and wherein the reflective polarizer is selected from polymeric multilayer optical films and continuous/disperse phase polarizers, and wherein the fast axis of each polarizer is in alignment;
a retarder disposed between the top surface and the reflective polarizer, the fast axis of the retarder aligned at an angle to the fast axis of the polarizers; and

a diffuse element between the retarder and the reflective polarizer.

2. The display element of claim 1 , wherein the diffusely reflective emissive region has a first diffuse reflectance that is greater than a second diffuse reflectance of the diffusely reflective inactive region.

3. The display element of claim 1 , wherein the diffusely reflective emissive region and the adjacent diffusely reflective inactive region are each substantially polarization preserving diffuse reflectors.

4. The display element of claim 1 , wherein the retarder is a quarter-wave retarder having a retarder fast axis aligned at a 45 degree angle to the absorptive polarizer fast axis.

5. The display element of claim 1 , wherein the diffusely reflective emissive region and the adjacent diffusely reflective inactive region are each characterized by an angular distribution of reflectance having a half-width greater than approximately 10 degrees.

6. The display element of claim 1 , wherein the diffusely reflective emissive region and the adjacent diffusely reflective inactive region are each characterized by an angular distribution of reflectance having a half-width greater than approximately 5 degrees.

7. The display element of claim 1 , wherein the diffusely reflective emissive region and the adjacent diffusely reflective inactive region are each characterized by an angular distribution of reflectance having a half-width greater than approximately 3 degrees.

8. The display element of claim 1 , wherein the first and second diffuse reflectance are each characterized by a specular reflectance component between about 20 percent and about 80 percent of the total reflectance.

9. The display element of claim 1 , wherein the first and second diffuse reflectance are each characterized by a diffuse reflectance component greater than about 20 percent of the total reflectance.

10. The display element of claim 1 , wherein the first and second diffuse reflectance are each characterized by a diffuse reflectance component greater than about 30 percent of the total reflectance.

11. The display element of claim 1 , wherein an emissive gain is greater than about 1.1 when compared to the OLED without the antireflection stack.

12. The display element of claim 1 , wherein a separation distance between the top surface of the OLED and the retarder is greater than about 10 microns.

13. The display element of claim 1 , wherein a separation distance between the top surface of the OLED and the retarder is greater than about 50 microns.

14. The display element of claim 1 , wherein a separation distance between the top surface of the OLED and the retarder is greater than about 100 microns.

15. The display element of claim 1 , wherein for a luminous emission from the diffusely reflective emissive region, a secondary image luminous intensity comprises less than about 50 percent of a primary image luminous intensity.

16. The display element of claim 1 , wherein for a luminous emission from the diffusely reflective emissive region, a secondary image luminous intensity comprises less than about 30 percent of a primary image luminous intensity.

17. The display element of claim 1 , wherein for a luminous emission from the diffusely reflective emissive region, a secondary image luminous intensity comprises less than about 20 percent of a primary image luminous intensity.

18. The display element of claim 1 , having an emissive gain greater than 1.1, a blur peak less than about 0.1, and a reflective gain less than about 3.0.

19. A display element, comprising:
an organic light emitting diode (OLED) having a top surface comprising a diffusely reflective emissive region and an adjacent diffusely reflective inactive region;
an antireflection stack adjacent the top surface, comprising:
an absorptive polarizer disposed adjacent the top surface;
a reflective polarizer disposed between the top surface and the absorptive polarizer, wherein the reflective polarizer is in contact with the absorptive polarizer, and wherein the reflective polarizer is selected from polymeric multilayer optical films and continuous/disperse phase polarizers, the fast axis of each polarizer in alignment, and the reflective polarizer being spaced a separation distance of greater than 10 microns from the top surface; and
a retarder disposed between the top surface and the reflective polarizer, a retarder fast axis aligned at an angle to the fast axis of the polarizers; and

a diffuse element between the retarder and the reflective polarizer.

20. The display element of claim 19 , wherein the diffusely reflective emissive region has a first diffuse reflectance that is greater than a second diffuse reflectance of the diffusely reflective inactive region.

21. The display element of claim 19 , wherein the diffusely reflective emissive region and the adjacent diffusely reflective inactive region are each substantially polarization preserving diffuse reflectors.

22. The display element of claim 19 , wherein the retarder is a quarter-wave retarder having a retarder fast axis aligned at a 45 degree angle to the absorptive polarizer fast axis.

23. The display element of claim 19 , wherein the diffusely reflective emissive region and the adjacent diffusely reflective inactive region are each characterized by an angular distribution of reflectance having a half-width greater than approximately 10 degrees.

24. The display element of claim 19 , wherein the diffusely reflective emissive region and the adjacent diffusely reflective inactive region are each characterized by an angular distribution of reflectance having a half-width greater than approximately 5 degrees.

25. The display element of claim 19 , wherein the diffusely reflective emissive region and the adjacent diffusely reflective inactive region are each characterized by an angular distribution of reflectance having a half-width greater than approximately 3 degrees.

26. The display element of claim 19 , wherein the first and second diffuse reflectance are each characterized by a specular reflectance component between about 20 percent and about 80 percent of the total reflectance.

27. The display element of claim 19 , wherein the first and second diffuse reflectance are each characterized by a diffuse reflectance component greater than about 20 percent of the total reflectance.

28. The display element of claim 19 , wherein the first and second diffuse reflectance are each characterized by a diffuse reflectance component greater than about 30 percent of the total r

Assignees

• 3M Innovative Properties Co

Inventors

• Epstein Kenneth A
• Haag Adam D
• Lee Seong Taek
• Lamansky Sergey

Classifications

• H01L51/5271

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01L51/5268

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01L51/5281

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01L51/5284

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01L27/3244 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic