Organic light-emitting display apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9806289-B2
Application number	US-201615144848-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 3, 2016
Priority date	Aug 13, 2015
Publication date	Oct 31, 2017
Grant date	Oct 31, 2017

Abstract

An organic light-emitting display apparatus, including a substrate; a first electrode on the substrate; a second electrode on the first electrode; a first organic emissive layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, the first organic emissive layer to emit a first light; a second organic emissive layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, the second organic emissive layer to emit a second light having a different color from the first light; an auxiliary layer on the second electrode, the auxiliary layer having a refractive index equal to or higher than about 2.2; and a charging layer on the auxiliary layer.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An organic light-emitting display apparatus, comprising:
a substrate;
a first electrode on the substrate;
a second electrode on the first electrode;
a first organic emissive layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, the first organic emissive layer to emit a first light;
a second organic emissive layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, the second organic emissive layer to emit a second light having a different color from the first light;
an auxiliary layer on the second electrode, the auxiliary layer having a refractive index equal to or higher than about 2.2; and
a charging layer on the auxiliary layer.

2. The organic light-emitting display apparatus as claimed in claim 1 , wherein a thickness of the auxiliary layer is about 280 Å to about 400 Å.

3. The organic light-emitting display apparatus as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the auxiliary layer includes a transmissive or semi-transmissive material.

4. The organic light-emitting display apparatus as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the auxiliary layer includes copper iodide.

5. The organic light-emitting display apparatus as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the second electrode has a silver content of about 50% or more.

6. The organic light-emitting display apparatus as claimed in claim 5 , wherein a thickness of the second electrode is less than or equal to about 100 Å.

7. The organic light-emitting display apparatus as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising an encapsulation substrate on the charging layer, wherein the encapsulation substrate covers the first electrode, the first organic emissive layer, the second organic emissive layer, the auxiliary layer, and the charging layer.

8. The organic light-emitting display apparatus as claimed in claim 7 , further comprising a polarizer on the encapsulation substrate, wherein the polarizer performs circular polarization on an incident light.

9. The organic light-emitting display apparatus as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the first light and the second light are mixed to generate a white light.

10. The organic light-emitting display apparatus as claimed in claim 9 , wherein the first light is a blue light and the second light includes a red light and a green light.

11. The organic light-emitting display apparatus as claimed in claim 10 , wherein average reflectivity of red, green, and blue from a bottom surface of the second electrode, a contact surface between the second electrode and the auxiliary layer, and a top surface of the auxiliary layer is less than or equal to about 15%.

12. The organic light-emitting display apparatus as claimed in claim 11 , wherein reflectivity of the blue from the bottom surface of the second electrode, the contact surface between the second electrode and the auxiliary layer, and the top surface of the auxiliary layer is higher than reflectivity of each of the red and the green from the bottom surface of the second electrode, the contact surface between the second electrode and the auxiliary layer, and the top surface of the auxiliary layer.

13. The organic light-emitting display apparatus as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the first light is a blue light and the second light is a yellow light.

14. The organic light-emitting display apparatus as claimed in claim 1 , wherein:
the first electrode is an anode and the second electrode is a cathode, and
a portion of the first light and a portion of the second light pass through the second electrode.

15. The organic light-emitting display apparatus as claimed in claim 1 , wherein:
a distance between the first electrode and the second electrode is a resonance distance of the first light, and
a distance between the first electrode and the second electrode is different from a resonance distance of the second light.

16. The organic light-emitting display apparatus as claimed in claim 15 , wherein the distance between the first electrode and the second electrode is about 3000 Å to about 5000 Å.

17. The organic light-emitting display apparatus as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising a charge generation layer between the first and second organic emissive layers.

18. The organic light-emitting display apparatus as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising a third organic emissive layer to emit a third light having a different color from the first light and the second light.

19. An organic light-emitting display apparatus, comprising:
a substrate;
a first electrode on the substrate;
a second electrode on the first electrode;
a first organic emissive layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, the first organic emissive layer to emit a first light;
a second organic emissive layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, the second organic emissive layer to emit a second light having a different color from the first light;
an auxiliary layer on the second electrode, the auxiliary layer having a refractive index equal to or higher then about 2.2, the auxiliary layer having a thickness of about 280 Å to about 400 Å;
an encapsulation substrate on the auxiliary layer, the encapsulation substrate covering the first organic emissive layer, the second organic emissive layer, and the auxiliary layer; and
a charging layer between the auxiliary layer and the encapsulation substrate, the charging layer being in contact with the auxiliary layer and the encapsulation substrate.

20. The organic light-emitting display apparatus as claimed in claim 19 , wherein:
the second electrode has a silver content of about 50% or more, and
a thickness of the second electrode is less than or equal to about 100 Å.

Assignees

• Samsung Display Co Ltd

Inventors

• Yim Sanghoon
• Kim Dongchan
• Kim Wonjong
• Kim Eungdo
• Seo Dongkyu
• Song Okkeun
• Lee Jihye
• Im Dahea
• Cho Yoonhyeung
• Han Wonsuk

Classifications

• H01L51/5237

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01L51/5275

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01L29/4908

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01L51/5253 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01L27/3244

  Electricity · mapped topic