ORGANIC ELECTRO LUMINESCENCE DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME

• US 20120187386A1
• Filed: 01/12/2012
• Published: 07/26/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 01/20/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Matsumi, Tatsuya
• Application Number:
  US13/348,762
• Publication Number:
  US 20120187386A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 257/40
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 2102/351 Thickness
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 50/11 characterised by the electroluminescent [EL] layers
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 50/15 Hole transporting layers

Abstract

Disclosed herein is an organic electro luminescence display device including: on a substrate, a plurality of lower electrodes provided correspondingly in number to organic electro luminescence elements for a plurality of color light emissions; an organic layer provided on the lower electrodes and including a plurality of hole injection/transport layers having at least one of hole injection and hole transport characteristics, a plurality of organic light-emitting layers; and a plurality of electron injection/transport layers having at least one of electron injection and electron transport characteristics, and an upper electrode formed on the organic layer. The hole injection/transport layer, the organic light-emitting layer and the electron injection/transport layer are classified into an individual layer and a common layer. A thickness of the common layer is larger than a thickness of the individual layer.

Claims

1. An organic electro luminescence display device comprising:

on a substrate, a plurality of lower electrodes provided correspondingly in number to organic electro luminescence elements for a plurality of color light emissions;

an organic layer provided on the lower electrodes and including a plurality of hole injection/transport layers having at least one of hole injection and hole transport characteristics, a plurality of organic light-emitting layers; and

a plurality of electron injection/transport layers having at least one of electron injection and electron transport characteristics, and an upper electrode formed on said organic layer,

wherein said hole injection/transport layer, said organic light-emitting layer and said electron injection/transport layer are classified into an individual layer formed for each of said organic electro luminescence elements for the respective color light emissions and a common layer formed on the entire surface of said organic electro luminescence elements of the respective color light emissions, and

a thickness of said common layer is larger than a thickness of said individual layer.

2. The organic electro luminescence display device according to claim 1,

wherein said respective organic electro luminescence elements include a blue first organic electro luminescence element and a second organic electro luminescence element for other color.

3. The organic electro luminescence display device according to claim 2,

wherein said organic layer includes a hole injection/transport layer provided on each of said first organic electro luminescence element and said second organic electro luminescence element, a second organic light-emitting layer formed on the hole injection/transport layer for said second organic electro luminescence element, a blue first organic light-emitting layer provided over an entire surface of said second organic light-emitting layer and the hole injection/transport layer for said first organic electro luminescence element, and an electron injection/transport layer formed on said first organic light-emitting layer and having at least one of electron injection and electron transport characteristics.

4. The organic electro luminescence display device according to claim 2,

wherein said organic layer comprises said hole injection/transport layer provided on each of said first organic electro luminescence element and said second organic electro luminescence element, a first organic light-emitting layer and a second organic light-emitting layer formed on said hole injection/transport layer for each of said first organic electro luminescence element and said second organic electro luminescence element, and an electron injection/transport layer formed on said first organic light-emitting layer and said second organic light-emitting layer and having at least one of electron injection and electron transport characteristics.

5. The organic electro luminescence display device according to claim 1,

wherein said individual layer is formed by a coating method.

6. The organic electro luminescence display device according to claim 1,

wherein said common layer is formed by a vacuum deposition method.

7. The organic electro luminescence display device according to claim 1,

wherein said organic layer has a thickness of 150 nm to 500 nm.

8. The organic electro luminescence display device according to claim 1,

wherein said common layer has a thickness of 100 nm to 250 nm.

9. The organic electro luminescence display device according to claim 1,

wherein said a thickness (Dw) of said common layer and a thickness (De) of said individual layer has a relation represented by the following mathematical formula

Dw>

De×

0.1.

10. The organic electro luminescence display device according to claim 1,

wherein said electron injection/transport layer is made of a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic compound represented by the formula (1)

11. The organic electro luminescence display device according to claim 1,

wherein said electron injection/transport layer is made of a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic compound represented by the formula (2)

12. The organic electro luminescence display device according to claim 1,

wherein said electron injection/transport layer is made of a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic compound represented by the formula (3)

13. The organic electro luminescence display device according to claim 2,

wherein said second organic electro luminescence element for other color includes at least one of a red organic electro luminescence element, a green organic electro luminescence element and a yellow organic electro luminescence element.

14. A method for manufacturing an organic electro luminescence display device comprising:

forming, on a substrate, a lower electrode for each of first organic electro luminescence elements for blue light emission and second organic electro luminescence elements for other light emission;

forming a hole injection/transport layer having at least one of hole injection and hole transport characteristics on the lower electrode for each of the first organic electro luminescence elements and the second organic electro luminescence elements according to a coating method;

forming a second organic light-emitting layer for other light emission on the hole injection/transport layer for the second organic electro luminescence element according to a coating method;

forming a first organic light-emitting layer for blue light emission over an entire surface of said second organic light-emitting layer and said hole injection/transport layer for said first organic electro luminescence element according to a vacuum deposition method;

forming an electron injection/transport layer having at least one of electron injection and electron transport characteristics on said first organic light-emitting layer and said second organic light-emitting layer according to a vacuum deposition method; and

forming an upper electrode over an entire surface of said electron injection/transport layer.

15. The method according to claim 14,

wherein said coating method is an inkjet method, a nozzle coating method, a spin coating method, an offset method, a flexo method or a relief method.

16. A method for manufacturing an organic electro luminescence display device comprising:

forming, on a substrate, a plurality of lower electrodes for a corresponding plurality of organic electro luminescence elements;

forming a plurality of hole injection/transport layers having at least one of hole injection and hole transport characteristics on the lower electrodes with respect to each of the organic electro luminescence elements according to a coating method;

forming a plurality of organic light-emitting layers on the hole injection/transport layers with respect to each of the organic electro luminescence elements according to a coating method;

forming an electron injection/transport layer having at least one electron injection and electron transport characteristics over an entire surface of the plurality of organic light-emitting layers according to a vapor deposition method; and

forming an upper electrode over an entire surface of the electron injection/electron transport layer.

17. The method according to claim 16,

wherein said coating method is an inkjet method, a nozzle coating method, a spin coating method, an offset method, a flexo method or a relief method.