Encapsulant film

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9923169-B2
Application number	US-201414899518-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 19, 2014
Priority date	Jun 19, 2013
Publication date	Mar 20, 2018
Grant date	Mar 20, 2018

Abstract

There are provided a film and an organic electronic device. The present application may provide a film that may be provided for an evaluation method in which reliability of an encapsulant film is simply and easily evaluated only by measuring a haze immediately before the encapsulant film is used, thereby a failure of a product is determined and reliability may be predicted.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An encapsulant film comprising a base resin and a moisture absorbent, and satisfying General Equation 1 to General Equation 3:
D=k/Hz   [General Equation 1]

D=−α×Hz+β   [General Equation 2]

Hz≥ 30%  [General Equation 3]

wherein Hz represents a haze value (%) of the film that is measured using a haze meter within one hour from a time point at which the film is taken out of a water-resistant sealed envelope under conditions of a relative humidity of 50% at 25° C., D represents a water penetration distance (mm) of the film that is measured after the film of which a haze is measured is laminated between two glass substrates and maintained under conditions of a temperature of 85° C. and a relative humidity of 85% for 0 to 1500 hours, and k is a value equal to or greater than one,
wherein α is 0.01 or more, and β is 1.0 or more and is greater than D,
wherein the moisture absorbent is included in an amount of 20 to 200 parts by weight with respect to 100 parts by weight of the base resin,
wherein the haze value of the film decreases due to a change in a refractive index of the moisture absorbent caused by the hydration reaction of the moisture absorbent with water,
wherein the film is a multi-layer film comprising a first layer which contacts with an organic electronic element and a second layer that does not contact with the organic electronic element, and
wherein the first layer includes 0 to 20% of the moisture absorbent and the second layer includes 80 to 100% of the moisture absorbent with respect to a mass of the total moisture absorbent in the film.

2. The encapsulant film of claim 1 , wherein the film is in a solid or semi-solid state at room temperature.

3. The encapsulant film of claim 1 , wherein the film has a viscosity of 10 6 poise or more at room temperature.

4. The encapsulant film of claim 1 , wherein α water vapor transmission rate of a film having a thickness of 100 μm measured in a relative humidity of 100% at 100° C. in a thickness direction of the film is 50 g/m 2 ·day or less.

5. The encapsulant film of claim 1 , wherein the base resin is a styrene-based resin, a polyolefin-based resin, a polyoxyalkylene-based resin, a polyester-based resin, a polyvinylchloride-based resin, a polycarbonate-based resin, a polyphenylene-sulfide-based resin, mixtures of hydrocarbons, a polyamide-based resin, an acrylate-based resin, an epoxy-based resin, a silicone-based resin, a fluorine-based resin, or mixtures thereof.

6. The encapsulant film of claim 5 , wherein the base resin is a copolymer of olefin-based compounds having a carbon-carbon double bond.

7. The encapsulant film of claim 5 , wherein the base resin is the epoxy-based resin.

8. The encapsulant film of claim 7 , wherein the epoxy-based resin includes a cyclic structure in its molecular structure.

9. The encapsulant film of claim 7 , wherein the epoxy-based resin is a silane-modified epoxy resin.

10. The encapsulant film of claim 5 , wherein the first layer and the second layer include either of the polyolefin-based resin or the epoxy-based resin.

11. The encapsulant film of claim 1 , wherein the moisture absorbent is a water reactive adsorbent, a physical adsorbent, or mixtures thereof.

12. The encapsulant film of claim 11 , wherein the water reactive adsorbent is alumina, a metal oxide, a metal salt, or phosphorus pentoxide, and the physical adsorbent is silica, zeolite, titania, zirconia, or montmorillonite.

13. The encapsulant film of claim 11 , wherein the water reactive adsorbent is at least one selected from the group consisting of P 2 O 5 , Li 2 O, Na 2 O, BaO, CaO, MgO, Li 2 SO 4 , Na 2 SO 4 , CaSO 4 , MgSO 4 , CoSO 4 , Ga 2 (SO 4 ) 3 , Ti(SO 4 ) 2 , NiSO 4 , CaCl 2 , MgCl 2 , SrCl 2 , YCl 3 , CuCl 2 , CsF, TaF 5 , NbF 5 , LiBr, CaBr 2 , CeBr 3 , SeBr 4 , VBr 3 , MgBr 2 , BaI 2 , MgI 2 , Ba(ClO 4 ) 2 , and Mg(ClO 4 ) 2 .

14. The encapsulant film of claim 1 , wherein the film satisfies General Equation 4:
Hz=−me −φhr(n g /n-1) 2   [General Equation 4]

where, in General Equation 4,
Hz is the same as defined in claim 1 ,
m represents a value greater than 0,
Φ represents a content of the moisture absorbent with respect to the base resin,
h represents a thickness of the film,
r represents an average particle diameter of the moisture absorbent,
n g represents a refractive index of the moisture absorbent, and
n represents a refractive index of the base resin.

15. An organic electronic device, comprising,
a substrate;
an organic electronic element formed on the substrate; and
an encapsulant film encapsulating the organic electronic element according to claim 1 ,
wherein the film adheres to an entire surface of the organic electronic element.

Assignees

• Lg Chemical Ltd

Inventors

• Yoo Hyun Jee
• Lee Seung Min
• Cho Yoon Gyung
• Bae Kyung Yul
• Shim Jung Sup
• Chang Suk Ky
• Kim Hyun Suk
• Moon Jung Ok
• Choi Ban Seok
• Yang Se Woo

Classifications

• C08K3/10

  Metal compounds · CPC title

• G01N21/958

  Inspecting transparent materials {or objects, e.g. windscreens (for conveyed flat sheet or rod G01N21/896)} · CPC title

• C08L2203/206

  use in coating or encapsulating of electronic parts · CPC title

• C08K3/36

  Silica · CPC title

• C08K3/22

  of metals · CPC title