OPTICAL FILM AND ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DISPLAY DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME

• US 20130328479A1
• Filed: 03/11/2013
• Published: 12/12/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/12/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Display Company Limited (Samsung Group)
• Original Assignee: Samsung Display Company Limited (Samsung Group)
• Inventors: Jung, Woo-Suk, Park, Soon-Ryong, Park, Hye-Jung, Baek, Seok-Gi, Kim, Tae-Eun
• Granted Patent: US 9,223,065 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 313/504
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 1/10 Optical coatings produced by application to, or surface treatment of, optical elements G02B1/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 27/0006 with means to keep optical surfaces clean, e.g. by preventing or removing dirt, stains, contamination, condensation G02B1/18 takes precedence; cleaning in general B08B
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 5/0278 used in transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 33/12 Light sources with substantially two-dimensional radiating surfaces

Abstract

Provided is an organic light-emitting display device. The organic light-emitting display device includes a display substrate having a base substrate and an organic layer disposed on the base substrate, an optical layer disposed on the display substrate and having a phase-delay film and a polarizing layer disposed on the phase-delay film, and several diffusion modules disposed between the display substrate and the optical layer and disposed separately from each other.

Claims

1. An organic light-emitting display device, comprising:

a display substrate comprising a base substrate and an organic layer disposed on the base substrate;

an optical layer disposed on the display substrate, the optical layer comprising a phase-delay film and a polarizing layer disposed on the phase-delay film; and

a plurality of diffusion modules disposed between the display substrate and the optical layer, the plurality of diffusion modules disposed separately and spaced apart from each other.

2. The display device of claim 1, wherein each of the plurality of diffusion modules comprises a matrix and a plurality of diffusion particles distributed within the matrix, and a refractive index of the diffusion particles is different from that of the matrix.

3. The display device of claim 2, wherein the diffusion particles have a diameter of 100 to 3000 nm.

4. The display device of claim 1, wherein the diffusion modules have a width of 30 μ

m or less.

5. The display device of claim 1, wherein the display substrate comprises an encapsulation film disposed on the organic layer to encapsulate the organic layer, and the encapsulation film comprises one or more organic films and one or more inorganic films.

6. The display device of claim 1, wherein the diffusion modules are attached to a bottom surface of the optical layer.

7. The display device of claim 6, wherein an area of the bottom surface of the optical layer which overlaps the diffusion modules is one fifth or less of an area of the entire bottom surface of the optical layer.

8. The display device of claim 6, further comprising an adhesive film attached to the bottom surface of the optical layer, with the diffusion modules attached to the bottom surface of the optical layer by the adhesive film.

9. The display device of claim 1, wherein the diffusion modules are attached to a top surface of the display substrate.

10. The display device of claim 9, wherein an area of regions of the top surface of the display substrate to which the diffusion modules are attached is one fifth or less of an area of the entire top surface of the display substrate.

11. The display device of claim 9, further comprising an adhesive film attached to the top surface of the display substrate, with the diffusion modules attached to the top surface of the display substrate by the adhesive film.

12. The display device of claim 1, further comprising an adhesive layer disposed between the display substrate and the optical layer.

13. The display device of claim 1, wherein the display substrate comprises a light-emitting region and a non-light-emitting region, and the diffusion modules are disposed on the light-emitting region.

14. The display device of claim 13, wherein an area of the light-emitting region overlapped by the diffusion modules is one fifth or less of an area of the light-emitting region.

15. An organic light-emitting display device, comprising:

a display substrate comprising a base substrate and an organic layer disposed on the base substrate;

an optical layer disposed on the display substrate, the optical layer comprising a phase-delay film and a polarizing layer disposed on the phase-delay film; and

an adhesive layer disposed between the display substrate and the optical layer, the adhesive layer comprising a plurality of diffusion particles, the adhesive layer comprising;

a diffusion region having a higher density of the diffusion particles; and

a transmission region having a lower density of the diffusion particles.

16. The display device of claim 15, wherein the phase-delay film delays a phase of incident light by one quarter of a wavelength of the incident light.

17. The display device of claim 15, wherein a size of the diffusion particles is 100 to 3000 nm.

18. The display device of claim 15, wherein the display substrate comprises a light-emitting region and a non-light-emitting region, and the diffusion region overlaps the light-emitting region.

19. An optical film, comprising:

a polarizer;

a phase-delay film disposed under the polarizer; and

a plurality of diffusion modules disposed under the phase-delay film and disposed separately and spaced apart from each other, and each diffusion module comprising a plurality of diffusion particles.

20. The optical film of claim 19, further comprising an adhesive film disposed on a bottom surface of the phase-delay film, with the diffusion modules attached to the phase-delay film by the adhesive film.