Organic Light-Emitting Component

• US 20170025478A1
• Filed: 03/17/2015
• Published: 01/26/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 03/18/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: OSRAM OLED GMBH (Ams-Osram AG)
• Original Assignee: OSRAM OLED GMBH (Ams-Osram AG)
• Inventors: Wehlus, Thomas, Diez, Carola, Lang, Erwin, Riegel, Nina, Riedel, Daniel
• Application Number:
  US15/125,058
• Publication Number:
  US 20170025478A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 50/805 Electrodes
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 50/844 Encapsulations
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 50/852 comprising a resonant cavity structure, e.g. Bragg reflector pair
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 59/32 Stacked devices having two or more layers, each emitting at different wavelengths
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 59/38 comprising colour filters or colour changing media [CCM]

Abstract

An organic light-emitting component is disclosed. The organic light emitting component includes a substrate and at least one layer sequence arranged on the substrate and suitable for generating electromagnetic radiation. The at least one layer sequence may include at least one first electrode area arranged on the substrate, at least one second electrode area arranged on the first electrode area, a basic color unit arranged between the first electrode area and the second electrode area and a plurality of color units arranged between the basic color unit and the first or second electrode area, wherein the plurality of color units are arranged laterally offset to one another, and wherein the basic color unit and each of the plurality of color units respectively comprises at least one organic light-emitting layer.

Claims

1-14. -14. (canceled)

15. An organic light-emitting component comprising:

a substrate; and

at least one layer sequence arranged on the substrate and suitable for generating electromagnetic radiation, the at least one layer sequence comprising;

at least one first electrode area arranged on the substrate;

at least one second electrode area arranged on the first electrode area;

a basic color unit arranged between the first electrode area and the second electrode area; and

a plurality of color units arranged between the basic color unit and the first or second electrode area, wherein the plurality of color units is arranged laterally offset to one another, and wherein the basic color unit and each of the plurality of color units respectively comprises at least one organic light-emitting layer.

16. The component according to claim 15, wherein the organic light-emitting layer of the basic color unit is designed to generate an electromagnetic radiation of a first wavelength range and each of the organic light-emitting layers of the plurality of color units is designed to generate electromagnetic radiation of a wavelength range that is respectively different from the first wavelength range.

17. The component according to claim 15, wherein the organic light-emitting layers of the plurality of color units are designed to generate electromagnetic radiation of wavelength ranges that are different from one another.

18. The component according to claim 15, wherein wavelength ranges assigned to the basic color unit and to the plurality of color units do not overlap with one another.

19. The component according to claim 15, wherein the plurality of color units has different heights.

20. The component according to claim 15, wherein the organic light-emitting layers of the plurality of color units are arranged in different planes, respectively.

21. The component according to claim 15, wherein at least one charge-producing layer is arranged between the plurality of color units and the basic color unit.

22. The component according to claim 15, wherein the first electrode area or the second electrode area is designed to be reflective.

23. The component according to claim 15, wherein the first electrode area, the second electrode area and the basic color unit each have an area of greater than or equal to one square millimeter.

24. The component according to claim 15, wherein a distance of two neighboring color units from one another is less than 1 mm.

25. The component according to claim 15, wherein the color units are designed in a strip and are arranged parallel to one another.

26. The component according to claim 15, wherein the color units are arranged in a two-dimensional, right-angled or hexagonal grid.

27. The component according to claim 15, further comprising at least one additional basic color unit, wherein the at least one addition basic color unit is arranged between the plurality of color units and the basic color unit, and wherein the at least one additional basic color unit comprises at least one organic light-emitting layer.

28. The component according to claim 15, wherein the plurality of color units is arranged between the basic color unit and at least one covering color unit, which comprises at least one organic light-emitting layer.

29. An organic light-emitting component comprising:

a substrate, and

at least one layer sequence arranged on the substrate and suitable for generating electromagnetic radiation, the at least one layer sequence comprising;

at least one first electrode area arranged on the substrate;

at least one second electrode area arranged on the first electrode area;

a basic color unit arranged between the first electrode area and the second electrode area; and

a plurality of color units arranged between the basic color unit and the first or second electrode area,

wherein the plurality of color units is arranged laterally offset to one another,

wherein the basic color unit and each of the plurality of color units respectively comprise at least one organic light-emitting layer, and

wherein a height of a highest color unit and a height of a least high color unit are different from one another by at least 5 nm.

30. An organic light-emitting component comprising:

a substrate; and

at least one layer sequence arranged on the substrate and suitable for generating electromagnetic radiation, the at least one layer sequence comprising;

at least one first electrode area arranged on the substrate;

at least one second electrode area arranged on the first electrode area;

a basic color unit arranged between the first electrode area and the second electrode area; and

a plurality of color units arranged between the basic color unit and the first or second electrode area,

wherein the plurality of color units is arranged laterally offset to one another,

wherein the basic color unit and each of the plurality of color units respectively comprise at least one organic light-emitting layer,

wherein the plurality of color units has different heights, and

wherein the organic light-emitting layers of the plurality of color units are arranged in different planes, respectively.