Broadband light emitting device with grating-structured electrode

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-RE49016-E
Application number	US-201416199607-A
Country	US
Kind code	E1
Filing date	Nov 11, 2014
Priority date	Nov 11, 2013
Publication date	Apr 5, 2022
Grant date	Apr 5, 2022

Abstract

A light emitting device includes a substrate layer, a first electrode layer, a light emitting layer, and a patterned second electrode layer. The patterned second electrode layer includes a periodic grating structure having a grating period λg less than or equal to 200 nm and the patterned second electrode layer and the light emitting layer are separated by at most 100 nm.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A light emitting device comprising:
a substrate layer; a first electrode layer; a light emitting layer that emits light in the visible spectrum; and a patterned second electrode layer comprising a periodic grating structure having a grating period λ g less than or equal to 200 nm, and wherein the patterned second electrode layer and the light emitting layer are separated by at most 100 nm.

2. The light emitting device of claim 1 , wherein the periodic grating structure of the patterned second electrode layer comprises a plurality of trapezoidal protrusions.

3. The light emitting device of claim 2 , wherein each one of the plurality of trapezoidal protrusions comprises:
a top portion having a length L t ; a bottom portion having a length L b ; and a height h, wherein:
h is greater than or equal to 30 nm and less than or equal to 70 nm;
L t /λ g is greater than or equal to 0 and less than or equal to 0.4; and
L b /λ g is greater than 0.5 and less than 1.

4. The light emitting device of claim 3 , wherein:
λ g is less than 120 nm, h is greater than or equal to 40 nm and less than or equal to 60 nm, L t /λ g is greater than or equal to 0 and less than or equal to 0.2, and L b /λ g is greater than or equal to 0.6 and less than or equal to 0.8.

5. The light emitting device of claim 1 , wherein the grating structure comprises periodicity in two dimensions.

6. The light emitting device of claim 5 , wherein the grating structure is arranged in a square lattice structure.

7. The light emitting device of claim 5 , wherein the grating structure is arranged in a hexagonal lattice structure.

8. The light emitting device of claim 1 , wherein the grating structure comprises periodicity in only one dimension.

9. The light emitting device of claim 1 , wherein the periodic structure of the patterned second electrode layer comprises a plurality of conical protrusions.

10. The light emitting device of claim 1 , wherein the periodic structure of the patterned second electrode layer comprises a plurality of circular protrusions.

11. The light emitting device of claim 1 , wherein the periodic structure of the patterned second electrode layer comprises a plurality of rectangular protrusions.

12. The light emitting device of claim 1 , wherein the periodic structure of the patterned second electrode layer comprises a plurality of square protrusions.

13. The light emitting device of claim 1 , wherein the light emitting layer comprises a red light emitting layer, a green light emitting layer, and a blue light emitting layer.

14. A light emitting device comprising:
a substrate layer;
a first electrode layer;
a broadband light emitting layer configured to emit broadband light having a discrete spectral power distribution comprising a plurality of emission peaks at a plurality of emission wavelengths;
a patterned second electrode layer comprising an optimized periodic grating structure,
wherein a plasmonic loss spectrum of the light emitting device due to the patterned second electrode comprises a plurality of plasmonic loss peaks at a plurality of wavelengths, and
wherein the plurality of emission peaks are at different wavelengths from the plurality of wavelengths of the plurality of plasmonic loss peaks.

15. The light emitting device of claim 14 , wherein the plurality of emission wavelengths are within a range of 430 nm to 700 nm.

16. The light emitting device of claim 14 , wherein the plurality of emission wavelengths comprises a red wavelength, a green wavelength, and a blue wavelength.

17. A light emitting device comprising:
a substrate layer; a first electrode layer; a light emitting layer that emits light in the visible spectrum; and a patterned second electrode layer comprising a periodic grating structure having a grating period λ g less than or equal to 200 nm, wherein the patterned second electrode layer and the light emitting layer are separated by at most 100 nm, and the periodic grating structure of the patterned second electrode layer comprises a plurality of trapezoidal protrusions, wherein each one of the plurality of trapezoidal protrusions comprises:
a top portion having a length L t ;
a bottom portion having a length L b ; and
a height h, wherein:
h is greater than or equal to 30 nm and less than or equal to 70 nm;
L t /λ g is greater than or equal to 0 and less than or equal to 0.4; and
L b /λ g is greater than 0.5 and less than 1.

18. The light emitting device of claim 17, wherein:
λ g is less than 120 nm, h is greater than or equal to 40 nm and less than or equal to 60 nm, L t /λ g is greater than or equal to 0 and less than or equal to 0.2, and L b /λ g is greater than or equal to 0.6 and less than or equal to 0.8.

Assignees

• Konica Minolta Business Solutions Usa Inc
• Univ Leland Stanford Junior

Inventors

• Wang Leiming
• Brongersma Mark
• Esfandyarpour Majid
• Amano Jun

Classifications

• H10K50/858

  comprising refractive means, e.g. lenses · CPC title

• H10K50/822

  characterised by their shape · CPC title

• H10K50/16 Primary

  Electron transporting layers · CPC title

• H10H20/882

  Scattering means (H10H20/82 takes precedence) · CPC title

• H10H20/835

  Reflective materials · CPC title