ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT DISPLAY DEVICE AND PATTERNING METHOD

• US 20100073268A1
• Filed: 04/03/2008
• Published: 03/25/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 04/05/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: UDC Ireland Limited (Universal Display Corporation)
• Original Assignee: UDC Ireland Limited (Universal Display Corporation)
• Inventors: Matsunaga, Atsushi, Tanaka, Atsushi, Nakayama, Masaya
• Application Number:
  US12/594,541
• Publication Number:
  US 20100073268A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/76
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 29/7869 having a semiconductor body comprising an oxide semiconductor material, e.g. zinc oxide, copper aluminium oxide, cadmium stannate
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 33/10 Apparatus or processes specially adapted to the manufacture of electroluminescent light sources
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 33/22 characterised by the chemical or physical composition or the arrangement of auxiliary dielectric or reflective layers
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 2102/311 Flexible OLED
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 59/1213 the pixel elements being TFTs
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 71/18 using non-liquid printing techniques, e.g. thermal transfer printing from a donor sheet
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 85/324 comprising aluminium, e.g. Alq3
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 85/346 comprising platinum

Abstract

An organic electroluminescent display device includes a driving TFT and pixels which are formed by organic electroluminescent elements and provided in a pattern on a substrate of the TFT. The driving TFT includes at least a substrate, a gate electrode, a gate insulating film, an active layer, a source electrode, and a drain electrode; the driving TFT further includes a resistive layer between the active layer and at least one of the source electrode and the drain electrode; and the pixels are formed in a pattern by a laser transfer method. A patterning method by a laser transfer method for producing the fine pixels is also provided.

Claims

1. An organic electroluminescent display device comprising at least a driving thin film transistor and pixels which are formed by organic electroluminescent elements and are provided in a pattern on a substrate of the TFT,

wherein the driving TFT includes at least a substrate, a gate electrode, a gate insulating film, an active layer, a source electrode, and a drain electrode;

the driving TFT further includes a resistive layer between the active layer and at least one of the source electrode and the drain electrode; and

the pixels are formed in a pattern by a laser transfer method.

2. The organic electroluminescent display device according to claim 1, wherein the resistive layer has a lower electrical conductivity than that of the active layer.

3. The organic electroluminescent display device according to claim 1, wherein the active layer is in contact with the gate insulating film, and the resistive layer is in contact with at least one of the source electrode and the drain electrode.

4. The organic electroluminescent display device according to claim 1, wherein the thickness of the resistive layer is greater than the thickness of the active layer.

5. The organic electroluminescent display device according to claim 1, wherein electrical conductivity continuously varies between the resistive layer and the active layer.

6. The organic electroluminescent display device according to claim 1, wherein the active layer and the resistive layer include oxide semiconductors, which may be the same or different.

7. The organic electroluminescent display device according to claim 6, wherein the oxide semiconductor is an amorphous oxide semiconductor.

8. The organic electroluminescent display device according to claim 6, wherein the oxygen concentration in the active layer is lower than the oxygen concentration in the resistive layer.

9. The organic electroluminescent display device according to claim 6, wherein the oxide semiconductor is at least one oxide selected from the group consisting of In, Ga, and Zn, or a composite oxide thereof.

10. The organic electroluminescent display device according to claim 9, wherein the oxide semiconductor includes In and Zn, and the composition ratio of Zn to In in the resistive layer is higher than that in the active layer.

11. The organic electroluminescent display device according to claim 1, wherein the electrical conductivity of the active layer is 10⁻

4Scm<sup>−

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

1</sup>.

12. The organic electroluminescent display device according to claim 1, wherein the ratio of the electrical conductivity of the active layer to the electrical conductivity of the resistive layer is from 10² to 10⁸.

13. The organic electroluminescent display device according to claim 1, wherein the substrate is a flexible resin substrate.

14. The organic electroluminescent display device according to claim 1, wherein the pixels have a definition of 200 ppi or more.

15. An organic electroluminescent display device patterning method of patterning pixels formed by organic electroluminescent elements on a substrate of a driving transistor, the method comprising:

forming a donor sheet containing at least a layer that absorbs an electromagnetic wave and converts it to heat, and forming a transfer layer containing an organic electroluminescent material on the donor sheet;

bringing the transfer layer side of the donor sheet into contact with a pixel-forming surface of the substrate; and

selectively irradiating the donor sheet with a laser so as to thermally melt the transfer layer and so as to transfer the organic electroluminescent material onto the substrate,

wherein the driving TFT includes at least a substrate, a gate electrode, a gate insulating film, an active layer, a source electrode, and a drain electrode;

the driving TFT further includes a resistive layer between the active layer and at least one of the source electrode and the drain electrode.

16. The organic electroluminescent display device patterning method according to claim 15, wherein the pixels have a definition of 200 ppi or more.