Organic light emitting diode display panel, manufacturing method thereof and mask plate

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9818970-B2
Application number	US-201414436382-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 2, 2014
Priority date	Jun 17, 2014
Publication date	Nov 14, 2017
Grant date	Nov 14, 2017

Abstract

The present disclosure provides an OLED display panel, a manufacturing method thereof and a mask plate. The OLED display panel includes an emitting layer and a cathode located at a light-exiting side of the emitting layer. The cathode is provided with gaps. Light emitted from the emitting layer may directly transmit through positions corresponding to the gaps, and then the cathode may have a decreased absorption and reflection against light emitted from the emitting layer as comparing with a cathode formed as a whole layer in the related art, thereby improving the light extracting rate of the OLED display panel, weakening the micro-cavity effect and solving the problem that the display color of the OLED display panel changes with different viewing angles.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display panel, comprising an emitting layer and a cathode located at a light-exiting side of the emitting layer; wherein the emitting layer comprises a plurality of subpixels, and the cathode is provided with gaps for improving transmittance of light emitted from the emitting layer, the cathode comprises at least two cathode units arranged at intervals, the cathode unit comprises a plurality of subpixel-coverage portions and a narrowing portion for connecting adjacent subpixel-coverage portions, each of the subpixel-coverage portions corresponds to one or more of the subpixels, and the narrowing portion has a width smaller than a width of the subpixel-coverage portions.

2. The OLED display panel according to claim 1 , wherein the gaps are defined between the cathode units.

3. The OLED display panel according to claim 2 , wherein the cathode units each are of a bar-like shape.

4. The OLED display panel according to claim 2 , wherein all the cathode units are connected as a whole by a connection line located outside a display region.

5. The OLED display panel according to claim 2 , wherein the plurality of subpixels is arranged at intervals along a line direction of the display panel; the at least two cathode units are arranged at intervals along the line direction of the display panel; and each of the cathode units corresponds to at least one column of the subpixels.

6. The OLED display panel according to claim 2 , wherein the plurality of subpixels is arranged at intervals along a line direction of the display panel; the cathode units are arranged at intervals along a column direction of the display panel; and each of the cathode units corresponds to at least one line of the subpixels.

7. The OLED display panel according to claim 2 , wherein the gaps between the cathode units correspond to gaps between the subpixels; and the gaps between the cathode units each have a width smaller than or equal to a width of the gaps between the corresponding subpixels.

8. The OLED display panel according to claim 7 , wherein the plurality of subpixels is arranged at intervals along a line direction of the display panel; the cathode units are arranged at intervals along a column direction of the display panel; and each of the cathode units corresponds to at least one line of the subpixels.

9. The OLED display panel according to claim 7 , wherein the plurality of subpixels is arranged at intervals along a line direction of the display panel; the at least two cathode units are arranged at intervals along the line direction of the display panel; and each of the cathode units corresponds to at least one column of the subpixels.

10. A mask plate for manufacturing a cathode of the organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display panel according to claim 1 , comprising a transmitting area and a shielding area; wherein when the mask plate is used with negative photoresist, a pattern of the transmitting area corresponds to a pattern of cathode units of the cathode, and a pattern of the shielding area corresponds to a pattern of gaps between the cathode units; when the mask plate is used with positive photoresist, a pattern of the shielding area corresponds to a pattern of the cathode units of the cathode, and a pattern of the transmitting area corresponds to a pattern of the gaps between the cathode units.

11. A method for manufacturing an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display panel, comprising a step of manufacturing a cathode by using a mask plate,
wherein the OLED display panel comprise an emitting layer and a cathode located at a light-exiting side of the emitting layer; wherein the emitting layer comprises a plurality of subpixels, and the cathode is provided with gaps for improving transmittance of light emitted from the emitting layer;
the mask plate comprises a transmitting area and a shielding area; wherein when the mask plate is used with negative photoresist, a pattern of the transmitting area corresponds to a pattern of cathode units of the cathode, and a pattern of the shielding area corresponds to a pattern of gaps between the cathode units; when the mask plate is used with positive photoresist, a pattern of the shielding area corresponds to a pattern of the cathode units of the cathode, and a pattern of the transmitting area corresponds to a pattern of the gaps between the cathode units;
wherein the step comprises:
placing a cathode material in an evaporation source within a vacuum chamber;
arranging the mask plate at one side of a substrate close to the evaporation source; and
evaporating the cathode material by the evaporation source so that the cathode material is gasified and escaped from the evaporation source, reaches a surface of the substrate to be plated and is condensed to form the cathode.

Assignees

• Boe Technology Group Co Ltd
• Ordos Yuansheng Optoelectronics Co Ltd

Inventors

• Wu Haidong

Classifications

• H01L51/5265

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01L51/56

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01L51/5225 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01L51/5262

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01L51/0014

  Electricity · mapped topic