Lighting device, method for producing a lighting device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9960381-B2
Application number	US-201515310469-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 20, 2015
Priority date	May 12, 2014
Publication date	May 1, 2018
Grant date	May 1, 2018

Abstract

A lighting device may include a substrate having a carrier, a first electrical busbar, a second electrical busbar, and an optically functional structure on or above the carrier, wherein the optically functional structure is formed laterally between the first and the second electrical busbar, and a first electrode electrically coupled to the first electrical busbar and/or the second electrical busbar, on or above the carrier, and an organic functional layer structure on or above the first electrode, wherein the organic functional layer structure is formed for converting an electric current into an electromagnetic radiation, and a second electrode on or above the organic functional layer structure. The optically functional structure is formed in such a way that the beam path of the electromagnetic radiation which passes through the substrate and/or the spectrum of the electromagnetic radiation passing through the substrate are/is variable by means of the optically functional structure.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A lighting device, comprising:
a substrate having a carrier,
a first electrical busbar on or above the carrier;
a second electrical busbar on or above the carrier; and
an electrically conducting and optically functional structure on or above the carrier, wherein the electrically conducting and optically functional structure is formed laterally between the first electrical busbar and the second electrical busbar; and

a first electrode, which is electrically coupled to the first electrical busbar and/or the second electrical busbar, on or above the carrier; and
an organic functional layer structure on or above the first electrode, wherein the organic functional layer structure is formed for converting an electric current into an electromagnetic radiation; and
a second electrode on or above the organic functional layer structure;
wherein the electrically conducting and optically functional structure is formed in such a way that the beam path of the electromagnetic radiation which passes through the substrate and/or the spectrum of the electromagnetic radiation passing through the substrate are/is variable by means of the electrically conducting and optically functional structure,
wherein the electrically conducting and optically functional structure comprises electrically conducting particles in a matrix, and
wherein the electrically conducting particles are formed such that they are non-scattering with respect to visible light and are distributed in the matrix in such a way that the optically functional structure in the visible wavelength range of the electromagnetic radiation has a layer-thickness-averaged refractive index difference relative to the carrier which is greater than 0.05.

2. The lighting device as claimed in claim 1 ,
wherein the first electrical busbar and/or the second electrical busbar are/is formed in such a way that they/it have/has a ratio of height to width of greater than 1 to 10.

3. The lighting device as claimed in claim 1 ,
wherein the electrically conducting particles comprise or are formed from a material that at least partly absorbs the electromagnetic radiation.

4. The lighting device as claimed in claim 1 ,
wherein the electrically conducting and optically functional structure comprises at least one first layer and one second layer, wherein the first layer and the second layer are formed identically or differently.

5. The lighting device as claimed in claim 1 ,
wherein the electrically conducting and optically functional structure is formed in such a way that the electrically conducting and optically functional structure overfills the first electrical busbar and/or the second electrical busbar in such a way that the overfilled part forms a substantially smooth surface at least in the region of the overfilled busbar.

Assignees

• Osram Oled Gmbh

Inventors

• Wehlus Thomas
• Riedel Daniel
• Riegel Nina
• Scharner Silke
• Rosenberger Johannes
• Fleissner Arne

Classifications

• H01L51/5275

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01L51/5212 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01L27/3202

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01L51/5237

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01L51/56

  Electricity · mapped topic