ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DISPLAY APPARATUS

• US 20150137082A1
• Filed: 03/17/2014
• Published: 05/21/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 11/19/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Display Company Limited (Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Samsung Display Company Limited (Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.)
• Inventors: Kim, Jae-Kyoung, Kim, Gee-Bum, Park, Won-Sang
• Granted Patent: US 9,202,848 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 257/40
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 2102/3026 Top emission
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 2102/351 Thickness
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 50/805 Electrodes
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 50/818 Reflective anodes, e.g. ITO combined with thick metallic layers
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 50/844 Encapsulations
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 50/85 Arrangements for extracting light from the devices
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 50/852 comprising a resonant cavity structure, e.g. Bragg reflector pair
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 59/35 comprising red-green-blue [RGB] subpixels
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 59/80518 Reflective anodes, e.g. ITO combined with thick metallic layers
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 59/873 Encapsulations
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 59/876 comprising a resonant cavity structure, e.g. Bragg reflector pair

Abstract

Provided is an organic light-emitting display apparatus, including a substrate, a first pixel electrode, a second pixel electrode, and a third pixel electrode, disposed on the substrate separated from one another, a red emission layer disposed corresponding to the first pixel electrode, a green emission layer disposed corresponding to the second pixel electrode, and a blue emission layer disposed corresponding to the third pixel electrode, an opposite electrode disposed over the red, green, and blue emission layers facing the first to third pixel electrodes, a first capping layer disposed on the opposite electrode corresponding to the first and second pixel electrodes, and a second capping layer disposed on the first capping layer corresponding to the first and second pixel electrodes and disposed on the opposite electrode to correspond to the third pixel electrode.

Claims

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

a substrate;

a first pixel electrode for red light, a second pixel electrode for green light, and a third pixel electrode for blue light, disposed on the substrate separated from one another;

a red emission layer disposed corresponding to the first pixel electrode, a green emission layer disposed corresponding to the second pixel electrode, and a blue emission layer disposed corresponding to the third pixel electrode;

an opposite electrode disposed over the red emission layer, the green emission layer, and the blue emission layer facing the first pixel electrode, the second pixel electrode, and the third pixel electrode;

a first capping layer disposed on the opposite electrode corresponding to the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode; and

a second capping layer disposed on the first capping layer corresponding to the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode, and disposed on the opposite electrode corresponding to the third pixel electrode.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein

a first distance between a surface of a part of the opposite electrode facing the first pixel electrode and a surface of the first pixel electrode facing the opposite electrode corresponds to an nth resonance distance of light emitted by the red emission layer,

a second distance between a surface of a part of the opposite electrode facing the second pixel electrode and a surface of the second pixel electrode facing the opposite electrode corresponds to an nth resonance distance of light emitted by the green emission layer,

a third distance between a surface of a part of the opposite electrode facing the third pixel electrode and a surface of the third pixel electrode facing the opposite electrode corresponds to an mth resonance distance of light emitted by the blue emission layer, and

n is a natural number and m is a natural number greater than n.

3. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein n=1 and m=2.

4. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein the first distance is from about 600 Å

to about 800 Å

, the second distance is from about 500 Å

to about 700 Å

, and the third distance is from about 1850 Å

to about 1950 Å

.

5. The apparatus of claim 2, further comprising:

a common layer disposed on each of the first pixel electrode, the second pixel electrode, and the third pixel electrode;

a red auxiliary layer disposed on the common layer to correspond to the first pixel electrode; and

a green auxiliary layer disposed on the common layer to correspond to the second pixel electrode.

6. The apparatus of claim 5, wherein the red auxiliary layer is thicker than the green auxiliary layer.

7. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the blue emission layer is thicker than the red emission layer and the green emission layer.

8. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein

a thickness of a part of the first capping layer corresponding to the first pixel electrode is identical to a thickness of a part of the first capping layer corresponding to the second pixel electrode, and

a thickness of the second capping layer corresponding to the first pixel electrode is identical to a thickness of the second capping layer corresponding to the second pixel electrode.

9. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein a part of the second capping layer corresponding to the third pixel electrode is thicker than a part of the second capping layer corresponding to the first pixel electrode.

10. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein a thickness of the part of the second capping layer corresponding to the third pixel electrode, is identical to a sum of the thickness of the part of the first capping layer corresponding to the first pixel electrode, and the thickness of the part of second capping layer corresponding to the first pixel electrode.

11. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein a refractive index of the second capping layer is greater than a refractive index of the first capping layer.

12. An organic light-emitting display apparatus, comprising:

a substrate;

a first sub-pixel configured to emit a first color light, a second sub-pixel configured to emit a second color light, and a third sub-pixel configured to emit a third color light disposed on the substrate;

a first pixel electrode disposed in the first sub-pixel, a second pixel electrode disposed in the second sub-pixel, and a third pixel electrode disposed in the third sub-pixel;

a first emission layer disposed on the first pixel electrode, a second emission layer disposed on the second pixel electrode, and a third emission layer disposed on the third pixel electrode;

an opposite electrode disposed on the first emission layer, the second emission layer, and the third emission layer;

a first capping layer disposed on the opposite electrode and in the first sub-pixel and the second sub-pixel but not the third sub-pixel; and

a second capping layer disposed on the first capping layer and in the first sub-pixel, the second sub-pixel, and the third sub-pixel.

13. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein a thickness of the first capping layer in the first sub-pixel equals a thickness of the first capping layer in the second sub-pixel, a thickness of the second capping layer in the first sub-pixel equals a thickness of the second capping layer in the second sub-pixel, and a thickness of the second capping layer in the third sub-pixel exceeds the thickness of the second capping layer in the first sub-pixel.

14. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein the thickness of the second capping layer in the third sub-pixel equals a sum of the thickness of the first capping layer in the first sub-pixel and the thickness of the second capping layer in the first sub-pixel.

15. The apparatus of claim 12, further comprising an auxiliary layer disposed in the first sub-pixel and the second sub-pixel but not the third sub-pixel.

16. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein a thickness of the auxiliary layer in the first sub-pixel exceeds a thickness of the auxiliary layer in the second sub-pixel.

17. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein the auxiliary layer in the first sub-pixel is disposed between the first pixel electrode and the first emission layer, and the auxiliary layer in the second sub-pixel is disposed between the second pixel electrode and the second emission layer.

18. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the opposite electrode has the same thickness in the first sub-pixel, the second sub-pixel, and the third sub-pixel, and a thickness of the third emission layer exceeds a thickness of the first emission layer and a thickness of the second emission layer.

19. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein a refractive index of the second capping layer is greater than a refractive index of the first capping layer.