COLOR ELECTRO-LUMINESCENT DISPLAY WITH IMPROVED EFFICIENCY
First Claim
1. A full-color electroluminescent display with improved efficiency and increased color gamut, comprising:
- a. substantially complementary yellow and blue light-emitting elements, the chromaticity coordinates of which define the endpoints of a line that intersects a Planckian locus within the interval 0.175<
=u′
<
=0.225 within the Commission Internationale de l'"'"'Eclairage (CIE) 1976 u′
v′
chromaticity space;
b. a green light-emitting element of spectrum having a dominant wavelength between 500 nm and 540 nm and a full width, half maximum spectral bandwidth of 50 nm or less; and
c. a red light-emitting element.
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Abstract
A full-color electroluminescent display with improved efficiency and increased color gamut that includes substantially complementary yellow and blue light-emitting elements, the chromaticity coordinates of which define the endpoints of a line that intersects a Planckian locus within the interval 0.175<=u′<=0.225 within the Commission Internationale de l'"'"'Eclairage (CIE) 1976 u′v′ chromaticity space. Also included in the display is a green light-emitting element of spectrum having a dominant wavelength between 500 nm and 540 nm and a full width, half maximum spectral bandwidth of 50 nm or less; and a red light-emitting element.
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17 Claims
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1. A full-color electroluminescent display with improved efficiency and increased color gamut, comprising:
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a. substantially complementary yellow and blue light-emitting elements, the chromaticity coordinates of which define the endpoints of a line that intersects a Planckian locus within the interval 0.175<
=u′
<
=0.225 within the Commission Internationale de l'"'"'Eclairage (CIE) 1976 u′
v′
chromaticity space;b. a green light-emitting element of spectrum having a dominant wavelength between 500 nm and 540 nm and a full width, half maximum spectral bandwidth of 50 nm or less; and c. a red light-emitting element. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A method of making a color electroluminescent display device, comprising the steps of:
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a. forming a first electrode over a substrate; b. selecting at least two different electroluminescent materials that provide substantially complementary yellow and blue light emission, having chromaticity coordinates that define endpoints of a line that intersects a Planckian locus within the interval 0.175<
=u′
<
=0.225 within CIE 1976 u′
v′
chromaticity space;c. selecting a green electroluminescent material having a dominant wavelength between 500 nm and 540 nm and a full width, half maximum spectral bandwidth of 50 nm or less; d. selecting a red electroluminescent material; e. forming a light-emitting layer over the first electrode, wherein the light-emitting layer is formed as a patterned array of the yellow, blue, green, and red electroluminescent materials; and f. forming a second electrode over the light-emitting layer, wherein at least one of the first or second electrodes are patterned, and are aligned to the patterned array of the yellow, blue, green, and red electroluminescent materials to form light-emitting elements. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A color electroluminescent display system having at least four differently colored light-emitting elements, comprising:
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a. substantially complementary yellow and blue light-emitting elements having chromaticity coordinates that define endpoints of a line that intersects a Planckian locus within the interval 0.175<
=u′
<
=0.225 within the Commission Internationale de l'"'"'Eclairage (CIE) 1976 u′
v′
chromaticity space,;b. a green light-emitting element of spectrum having a dominant wavelength between 500 nm and 540 nm and a full width, half maximum spectral bandwidth of 50 nm or less; c. a red light-emitting element; and d. a controller that is electrically connected to the light-emitting elements and that selectively applies a drive signal to the light-emitting elements to preferentially apply the yellow and blue light-emitting elements when forming near-neutral colors to improve the luminous efficiency of the display while maintaining a large color gamut.
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