ORGANIC EL DISPLAY AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF

• US 20090001881A1
• Filed: 06/25/2008
• Published: 01/01/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/28/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: UDC Ireland Limited (Universal Display Corporation)
• Original Assignee: UDC Ireland Limited (Universal Display Corporation)
• Inventors: NAKAYAMA, Masaya
• Application Number:
  US12/146,254
• Publication Number:
  US 20090001881A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 313/504
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 59/123 Connection of the pixel electrodes to the thin film transistors [TFT]

Abstract

The present invention provides an organic electroluminescence display having an organic electroluminescence element including, on a substrate, at least a lower electrode, an organic layer including at least a light-emitting layer, and an upper electrode in this order, and on the upper electrode, a thin film field effect transistor which includes at least a gate electrode, a gate insulating layer, an active layer, a source electrode and a drain electrode and drives the organic electroluminescence element, wherein the active layer includes an oxide semiconductor; and a manufacturing method thereof.

Claims

1. An organic EL display comprising:

an organic EL element comprising at least a lower electrode, an organic layer comprising at least a light-emitting layer, and an upper electrode, in this order, on a substrate; and

a thin film field effect transistor that is formed on the upper electrode and drives the organic EL element, the thin film field effect transistor comprising at least a gate electrode, a gate insulating layer, an active layer, a source electrode and a drain electrode, wherein the active layer contains an oxide semiconductor.

2. The organic EL display according to claim 1, wherein a protective insulating layer is disposed between the upper electrode and the thin film field effect transistor, and the upper electrode and at least one of the source electrode or the drain electrode are electrically connected through a contact hole formed in the protective insulating layer.

3. The organic EL display according to claim 1, wherein the lower electrode is a light transmitting electrode.

4. The organic EL display according to claim 3, wherein the upper electrode is a light reflective electrode.

5. The organic EL display according to claim 1, wherein the lower electrode is an anode, and the upper electrode is a cathode.

6. The organic EL display according to claim 5, wherein a polarity of the thin film field effect transistor is an N-type.

7. The organic EL display according to claim 1, wherein the oxide semiconductor of the active layer is an amorphous oxide semiconductor.

8. The organic EL display according to claim 1, wherein an electric resistance layer containing an oxide semiconductor is disposed between the active layer and at least one of the source electrode or the drain electrode.

9. The organic EL display according to claim 8, wherein the active layer is in contact with the gate insulating layer, and the electric resistance layer is in contact with at least one of the source electrode or the drain electrode.

10. The organic EL display according to claim 9, wherein the electric resistance layer is thicker than the active layer.

11. The organic EL display according to claim 8, wherein an electric conductivity changes continuously between the electric resistance layer and the active layer.

12. The organic EL display according to claim 8, wherein an oxygen concentration of the active layer is lower than an oxygen concentration of the electric resistance layer.

13. The organic EL display according to claim 8, wherein the oxide semiconductor of the active layer and the electric resistance layer is at least one material selected from the group consisting of In, Ga, and Zn, or a composite oxide thereof.

14. The organic EL display according to claim 13, wherein the oxide semiconductor contains In and Zn, and a composition ratio between Zn and In in the electric resistance layer (represented by a ratio of Zn to In, Zn/In) is larger than a composition ratio Zn/In in the active layer.

15. The organic EL display according to claim 8, wherein the active layer has an electric conductivity of 10⁻

4 Scm<sup>−

1</sup> or more, and less than 10² Scm<sup>−

1</sup>.

16. The organic EL display according to claim 15, wherein the active layer has an electric conductivity of 10⁻

1 Scm<sup>−

1</sup> or more, and less than 10² Scm<sup>−

1</sup>.

17. The organic EL display according to claim 8, wherein a ratio of an electric conductivity of the active layer to an electric conductivity of the electric resistance layer (electric conductivity of active layer/electric conductivity of electric resistance layer) is from 10¹ to 10¹⁰.

18. The organic EL display according to claim 17, wherein the ratio of the electric conductivity of the active layer to the electric conductivity of the electric resistance layer (electric conductivity of active layer/electric conductivity of electric resistance layer) is from 10² to 10⁸.

19. The organic EL display according to claim 1, wherein the substrate is a flexible resin substrate.

20. A method of manufacturing an organic EL display comprising:

an organic EL element comprising on a substrate at least a lower electrode, an organic layer comprising at least a light-emitting layer, and an upper electrode, in this order; and

a thin film field effect transistor that is formed on the upper electrode and drives the organic EL element, the thin film field effect transistor comprising at least a gate electrode, a gate insulating layer, an active layer, a source electrode and a drain electrode, wherein the active layer contains an oxide semiconductor,

wherein the method comprises forming the organic EL element and forming the thin film field effect transistor successively on the substrate.