Organic light emitting display apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9806276-B2
Application number	US-201615189739-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 22, 2016
Priority date	Sep 18, 2015
Publication date	Oct 31, 2017
Grant date	Oct 31, 2017

Abstract

Disclosed is an organic light emitting display (OLED) apparatus with improved efficiency and lifespan, wherein the OLED apparatus includes an anode, a cathode, and a light-emitting unit disposed in-between, wherein the light-emitting unit includes a first emission layer, and a first hole transporting layer having first and second materials, wherein the first material has a higher hole mobility than that of the second material so as to improve a transfer of holes from the first hole transporting layer to the first emission layer, and the second material has a higher triplet energy level than that of the first material so as to reduce a transfer of electrons from the first emission layer to the first hole transporting layer.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An organic light emitting display (OLED) apparatus comprising,
an anode and a cathode; and
a light-emitting unit between the anode and the cathode,
wherein the light-emitting unit includes a first emission layer and a first hole transporting layer,
wherein the first hole transporting layer has first material and second material,
wherein the first material has a higher hole mobility than that of the second material so as to improve a transfer of holes from the first hole transporting layer to the first emission layer, and the second material has a higher triplet energy level than that of the first material so as to reduce a transfer of electrons from the first emission layer to the first hole transporting layer.

2. The OLED apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein a HOMO (highest occupied molecular orbitals) level of the second material is lower than a HOMO level of the first material so as to minimize an accumulation of the holes on the interface of the first hole transporting layer.

3. The OLED apparatus according to claim 2 , further comprising an additional hole transporting layer between the first emission layer and the first hole transporting layer.

4. The OLED apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein the first hole transporting layer is a single layer.

5. The OLED apparatus according to claim 4 , wherein, when a total weight of the first material and the second material is 100 wt %, the first material is within a range from 50 wt % to 90 wt %, and the second material is within a range from 10 wt % to 50 wt %.

6. The OLED apparatus according to claim 5 , wherein a thickness of the first hole transporting layer is within a range from 70 nm to 150 nm so as to optimize a micro-cavity effect of light emitted from the first emission layer due to a distance between the anode and the cathode.

7. The OLED apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein the first hole transporting layer includes a mixed layer having the first material and the second material, and at least one non-mixed layer having only one of the first material and the second material.

8. The OLED apparatus according to claim 7 ,
wherein the non-mixed layer includes a first non-mixed layer having the first material, and a second non-mixed layer having the second material, and
wherein the first non-mixed layer is disposed closer to the anode than the second non-mixed layer so as to help a transfer of the hole to the first emission layer, and the second non-mixed layer is disposed closer to the first emission layer than the first nonmixed layer so as to prevent a transfer of the electron from the first emission layer.

9. The OLED apparatus according to claim 8 ,
Wherein when a total weight of the first material and the second material included in the mixed layer is 100 wt %,
the first material is within a range from 50 wt % to 90 wt %, and
the second material is within a range from 10 wt % to 50 wt %.

10. The OLED apparatus according to claim 8 , wherein a thickness of the first nonmixed layer or a thickness of the second non-mixed layer is equal to 40% or less than 40% in comparison to a thickness of the mixed layer.

11. The OLED apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein a hole mobility of the first material is equal to 1×10-4 cm 2 /Vs or higher than 1×10-4 cm 2 /Vs.

12. The OLED apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein a triplet energy level of the second material is within a range from −2.7 eV to −2.6 eV, and a HOMO level of the second material is within a range from −5.2 eV to −4.7 eV.

13. The OLED apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein a peak wavelength of the light emitted from the first emission layer is within a range from 440 nm to 480 nm.

14. The OLED apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein the light-emitting unit for emitting a white light includes:
a first stack including the first emission layer and the first hole transporting layer;
a second stack including a second emission layer on the first stack; and
a third stack including a third emission layer on the second stack,
wherein a peak wavelength of the light emitted from the first emission layer and the third emission layer is within a range from 440 nm to 480 nm, and
a peak wavelength of the light emitted from the second emission layer is within a range from 540 nm to 580 nm.

15. An organic light emitting display (OLED) apparatus comprising,
an anode, a cathode, and at least one emission layer between the anode and the cathode, and at least one hole transporting layer between the anode and the cathode,
wherein the at least one hole transporting layer has a mixed structure including two different materials,
wherein the at least one hole transporting layer has the mixed structure including a first material having a higher hole mobility than that of a second material, and the second material having a higher triplet energy level than that of the first material.

16. The OLED apparatus according to claim 15 , wherein a HOMO level of the second material is lower than a HOMO level of the first material.

17. The OLED apparatus according to claim 16 , wherein, when a total weight of the first material and the second material included in the at least one hole transporting layer is 100 wt %,
the first material is within a range from 50 wt % to 90 wt %, and
the second material is within a range from 10 wt % to 50 wt %.

18. The OLED apparatus according to claim 16 , wherein the hole mobility of the first material is equal to 1×10-4 cm 2 /Vs or higher than 1×10-4 cm 2 /Vs.

19. The OLED apparatus according to claim 16 , wherein the triplet energy level of the second material is within a range from −2.7 eV to −2.6 eV, and the HOMO level of the second material is within a range from 5.2 eV to −4.7 eV.

Assignees

• Lg Display Co Ltd

Inventors

• Kam Younseok
• Han Chang Wook
• Choi Hongseok
• Ahn Soyeon
• Kim Taeshick
• Lee Mingyu

Classifications

• H01L51/504 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01L2251/558

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01L51/5056

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01L51/5064

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01L2251/552

  Electricity · mapped topic