ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME

• US 20110309739A1
• Filed: 03/08/2011
• Published: 12/22/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 06/16/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Display Company Limited (Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Samsung Mobile Display Company Limited (Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.)
• Inventors: Song, Hyung-Jun, Hwang, Kyu-Hwan, Lee, Chang-Ho, Ko, Hee-Joo, Yoon, Seok-Gyu, Oh, Il-Soo, Cho, Se-Jin, Yun, Jin-Young, Lee, Jong-Hyuk, Kim, Yong-Tak, Kim, Won-Jong
• Granted Patent: US 8,415,874 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 313/504
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 50/17 Carrier injection layers
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 50/171 Electron injection layers
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 71/00 Manufacture or treatment specially adapted for the organic devices covered by this subclass
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 71/16 using physical vapour deposition [PVD], e.g. vacuum deposition or sputtering
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 85/30 Coordination compounds

Abstract

An organic light-emitting device including: a substrate; a first electrode disposed on the substrate; a second electrode disposed on the substrate and comprising silver (Ag); an emission layer between the first electrode and the second electrode; an electron injection layer between the emission layer and the second electrode and comprising a mixture of an alkali metal-containing compound and a first metal; and a capping layer disposed on the second electrode.

Claims

1. An organic light-emitting device comprising:

a substrate;

a first electrode disposed on the substrate;

a second electrode disposed on the substrate and comprising silver (Ag);

an emission layer between the first electrode and the second electrode;

an electron injection layer between the emission layer and the second electrode and comprising a mixture of an alkali metal-containing compound and a first metal; and

a capping layer disposed on the second electrode.

2. The organic light-emitting device of claim 1, wherein the alkali metal-containing compound comprises at least one material selected from the group consisting of LiF, LiQ, CsF, NaF, NaQ, and Li₂O.

3. The organic light-emitting device of claim 1, wherein the first metal comprises at least one metal selected from the group consisting of ytterbium (Yb), terbium (Tb), holmium (Ho), samarium (Sm), europium (Eu), praseodymium (Pr), cerium (Ce), aluminum (Al), and magnesium (Mg).

4. The organic light-emitting device of claim 1, wherein a weight ratio of the alkali metal-containing compound and the first metal is from about 1:

9 to about 9;

1.

5. The organic light-emitting device of claim 1, wherein the alkali metal-containing compound comprises LiQ, the first metal comprises Yb, and the weight ratio of LiQ to Yb is about 1:

1.

6. The organic light-emitting device of claim 1, wherein the electron injection layer has a thickness of about 0.1 to about 30 nm.

7. The organic light-emitting device of claim 1, wherein the second electrode further comprises at least one second metal selected from the group consisting of aluminum (Al), platinum (Pt), ytterbium (Yb), neodymium (Nd), and magnesium (Mg), and the amount of the second metal is from about 0.01 to about 20 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of Ag.

8. The organic light-emitting device of claim 1, wherein the second electrode has a thickness of about 1 nm to about 30 nm.

9. The organic light-emitting device of claim 1, wherein the capping layer comprises an organic material, an inorganic material, or a mixture thereof.

10. The organic light-emitting device of claim 1, wherein the capping layer has a refractive index of about 1.2 to about 5.0.

11. The organic light-emitting device of claim 1, wherein the capping layer comprises an inorganic material, and the inorganic material comprises at least one selected from the group consisting of ITO, IZO, SiO₂, SiNx, Y₂O₃, WO₃, MoO₃, and Al₂O₃.

12. The organic light-emitting device of claim 1, wherein the capping layer comprises an organic material, and the organic material comprises at least one selected from the group consisting of triamine derivatives, arylene diamine derivatives, tris(8-quinolinorato)aluminum (Alq3), and 4,4′

-biscarbazolylbiphenyl (CBP).

13. The organic light-emitting device of claim 1, wherein the capping layer has a thickness of about 1 nm to about 200 nm.

14. The organic light-emitting device of claim 1, further comprising a hole injection layer, a hole transport layer, or a hole injection and transport layer between the first electrode and the emission layer.

15. The organic light-emitting device of claim 1, wherein the electron injection layer comprises a mixture of LiQ and Yb in a weight ratio of about 1:

1, the second electrode comprises silver (Ag), and the capping layer comprises a triamine derivative.

16. The organic light-emitting device of claim 1, wherein the electron injection layer comprises a mixture of LiQ and Yb in a weight ratio of about 1:

1, the second electrode comprises a mixture of Ag and Yb in a weight ratio of about 17;

3, and the capping layer comprises a triamine derivative.

17. The organic light-emitting device of claim 1, wherein the electron injection layer comprises a mixture of LiF and Yb in a weight ratio of about 1:

1, the second electrode comprises silver (Ag), and the capping layer comprises a triamine derivative.

18. The organic light-emitting device of claim 1, wherein the electron injection layer comprises a mixture of LiF and Yb in a weight ratio of about 1:

1, the second electrode comprises a mixture of Ag and Yb in a weight ratio of about 17;

3, and the capping layer comprises a triamine derivative.

19. A bottom-emission organic light-emitting device comprising:

a substrate;

a first electrode disposed on the substrate;

a second electrode disposed on the substrate and comprising silver (Ag);

an emission layer between the first electrode and the second electrode;

an electron injection layer between the emission layer and the second electrode and comprising a mixture of an alkali metal-containing compound and a first metal; and

a capping layer disposed on a surface of the second electrode opposite to the emission layer.

20. The bottom-emission organic light-emitting device of claim 19, wherein the second electrode has a thickness of about 1 nm to about 200 nm.

21. A method of manufacturing an organic light-emitting device, the method comprising:

preparing a substrate;

forming a first electrode on the substrate;

forming a hole injection and transport layer on the first electrode;

forming an emission layer on the hole injection and transport layer;

forming an electron injection layer comprising a mixture of an alkali metal-containing compound and a first metal on the emission layer;

forming a second electrode including silver (Ag) on the electron injection layer; and

forming a capping layer on the second electrode.

22. The method of claim 21, wherein the forming of the electron injection layer comprises co-depositing the alkali metal-containing compound and the first metal on the emission layer;

or depositing the mixture of the alkali metal-containing compound and the first metal on the emission layer, wherein the depositing is performed by thermal deposition, vacuum deposition, chemical vapor deposition (CVD), sputtering, spin-coating, or spin-casting.