ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT DEVICE, FABRICATION PROCESS OF ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND FABRICATION PROCESS OF DISPLAY DEVICE

• US 20090066237A1
• Filed: 09/09/2008
• Published: 03/12/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 09/12/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Yoshinaga, Tadahiko, Kijima, Yasunori, Kambe, Emiko, Yamada, Hirokazu, Kashiwabara, Mitsuhiro
• Application Number:
  US12/207,115
• Publication Number:
  US 20090066237A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 313/504
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 33/26 characterised by the composition or arrangement of the conductive material used as an electrode
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 2102/3026 Top emission
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 50/17 Carrier injection layers
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 50/818 Reflective anodes, e.g. ITO combined with thick metallic layers
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 50/852 comprising a resonant cavity structure, e.g. Bragg reflector pair
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 59/122 Pixel-defining structures or layers, e.g. banks
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 85/6572 comprising only nitrogen in the heteroaromatic polycondensed ring system, e.g. phenanthroline or carbazole

Abstract

An organic electroluminescent device is provided with a substrate, and a lower electrode, a luminescence function layer including an organic light-emitting layer, and an upper electrode stacked in this order on the substrate to emit light, which has been generated in said organic light-emitting layer, out of said upper electrode. The lower electrode includes a reflective material layer comprised essentially of metal, an oxide film provided on a surface of said reflective material layer, and a thin metal film provided over the oxide film.

Claims

1. An organic electroluminescent device comprising a substrate, a lower electrode, a luminescence function layer including an organic light-emitting layer, and an upper electrode stacked in this order to emit light, which has been generated in said organic light-emitting layer, out of said upper electrode, wherein

said lower electrode includes a reflective material layer comprised essentially of metal, an oxide film provided on a surface of said reflective material layer, and a thin metal film provided over said oxide film.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein

said light generated in said organic light-emitting layer is emitted out of said upper electrode after resonated between said lower electrode and said upper electrode.

3. The device of claim 1, wherein

said reflective material layer in said lower electrode is used as an anode,

said luminescence function layer has a hole injection layer at said lower electrode side, and

said hole injection layer includes a material represented by the following formula (1):

wherein R¹ to R⁶ each independently represent a hydrogen atom, or a substituent selected from a halogen atom, a hydroxyl group, an amino group, an arylamino group, a substituted or unsubstituted carbonyl group having not greater than 20 carbon atoms, a substituted or unsubstituted carbonyl ester group having not greater than 20 carbon atoms, a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group having not greater than 20 carbon atoms, a substituted or unsubstituted alkenyl group having not greater than 20 carbon atoms, a substituted or unsubstituted alkoxyl group having not greater than 20 carbon atoms, a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group having not greater than 30 carbon atoms, a substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic group having not greater than 30 carbon atoms, a nitrile group, a nitro group, a cyano group, or silyl group;

adjacent R^m (m;

1 to

     6) may be fused together to form ring structures together with the associated carbon atoms of the corresponding 6-membered rings, respectively; and

X¹ to X⁶ each independently represent a carbon or nitrogen atom.

4. The device of claim 1 comprising

an insulating film provided over said substrate such that said insulating film covers said lower electrode at peripheral edges thereof.

5. A fabrication process of an organic electroluminescent device, comprising:

a first step of forming a reflective material layer in a predetermined pattern comprised essentially of metal on a substrate;

a second step of forming a thin metal film and a luminescence function layer in this order on said reflective material layer in an inert atmosphere; and

a third step of forming an upper electrode on said luminescence function layer.

6. The process of claim 5 further comprising

between said first step and said second step, a step of forming an insulating film in a pattern that a insulating film covers said reflective material layer at peripheral edges thereof.

7. A display device provided with a plurality of organic electroluminescent devices arrayed on a substrate and each comprising a lower electrode, a luminescence function layer including an organic light-emitting layer, and an upper electrode stacked in this order to emit light generated in said organic light-emitting layer, out of said upper electrode, wherein

said lower electrode includes a reflective material layer comprised essentially of metal, an oxide film provided on a surface of said reflective material layer, and a thin metal film provided over said oxide film.

8. The device of claim 7 comprising

insulating films provided over said substrate such that said insulating films cover the corresponding lower electrodes in said plurality of organic electroluminescent devices at peripheral edges of said corresponding lower electrodes.

9. A fabrication process of a display device, comprising:

a first step of forming a plurality of reflective material layers in a predetermined pattern comprised essentially of metal on a substrate;

a second step of forming thin metal films and luminescence function layers in this order on the respective reflective material layers in an inert atmosphere; and

a third step of forming upper electrodes on the respective luminescence function layers.

10. The process of claim 9 further comprising

between said first step and said second step, a step of forming insulating films in a pattern so that said insulating films cover the respective reflective material layers at peripheral edges thereof.