Organic electroluminescent display element, finder screen display device, finder and optical device

• US 6,468,676 B1
• Filed: 02/01/2000
• Issued: 10/22/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 02/01/1999
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Konica Minolta Inc.
• Original Assignee: Minolta Corporation Limited (Konica Minolta Inc.)
• Inventors: Hisamitsu, Akihito, Furukawa, Keiichi, Ueda, Hideaki, Kitahora, Takeshi, Terasaka, Yoshihisa
• Primary Examiner(s): Kelly, Cynthia H.
• Assistant Examiner(s): XU, LING X
• Application Number:
  US09/495,299
• Time in Patent Office: 994 Days
• Field of Search: 428/690, 428/917, 428/704, 428/213, 428/209, 313/504, 313/505, 257/40, 257/103
• US Class Current: 428/690
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 50/171 Electron injection layers
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 50/18 Carrier blocking layers
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 50/82 Cathodes
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 59/17 Passive-matrix OLED displays
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 71/166 using selective deposition, e.g. using a mask
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/24917 including metal layer
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/2495 Thickness [relative or absolute]
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/26 Web or sheet containing structurally defined element or component, the element or component having a specified physical dimension

Abstract

An organic electroluminescent display element has at least a positive electrode, an organic luminescent film, an electron injection layer and a negative electrode. Each of the positive and negative electrodes is formed of a transparent conductive film, the electron injection layer is formed of a thin transparent film made of a halogenide of an alkali metal or an alkaline earth metal, or an organic metal complex containing an alkali metal or an alkaline earth metal as a metal, and the organic metal complex is at least one complex selected from the group consisting of acetylacetonate complexes, α-nitroso-β-naphthol complexes, salicylaldoxime complexes, cupferron complexes, benzoinoxime complexes, bipyridine complexes, phenanthroline complexes, crown complexes, proline complexes and benzoylacetone complexes.

Claims

1. An organic electroluminescent display element comprising:

a positive electrode, an organic luminescent film, an electron injection layer and a negative electrode;

wherein each of said positive and negative electrodes, the organic luminescent film, and the electron injection layer is transparent so that a portion of said element has a visible light transmittance of 70% or more, and said electron injection layer is made of an organic metal salt containing an alkali metal or an alkaline earth metal as a metal, or an organic metal complex containing an alkali metal or an alkaline earth metal as a metal, said organic metal complex being at least a complex selected from the group consisting of acetylacetonate complexes, α

-nitroso-β

-naphthol complexes, salicylaldoxime complexes, cupferron complexes, benzoinoxime complexes, bipyridine complexes, phenanthroline complexes, crown complexes, proline complexes and benzoylacetone complexes.

2. The organic electroluminescent display element according to claim 1, wherein said negative electrode is formed of a thin metal film containing metal having work function of 4 eV or less.

3. The organic electroluminescent display element according to claim 1, wherein a thickness of a portion between said positive and negative electrode is in a range form 20 nm to 200 nm.

4. The organic electroluminescent display element according to claim 1, wherein a luminescent layer in said organic luminescent film is doped with fluorescent dye.

5. The organic electroluminescent display element according to claim 1, wherein said positive and negative electrodes are connected to a power source by corresponding leads so that the display element is driven as a matrix.

6. An organic electroluminescent display element according to claim 1, wherein the electron injection layer has a thickness of 0.1 to 20 nm.

7. An organic electroluminescent display element according to claim 1, further comprising an electron transporting layer which is disposed between the electron injection layer and the organic luminescent film and comprises a film made of a material different from a material of the electron injection layer.

8. An organic electroluminescent display element comprising:

a positive electrode, an organic luminescent film, an electron injection layer and a negative electrode;

wherein said negative electrode is a thin film made of a metal having a thickness of 1 to 10 nm and said electron injection layer is made of an organic metal salt containing an alkali metal or an alkaline earth metal as a metal, or an organic metal complex containing an alkali metal or an alkaline earth metal as a metal, said organic metal complex comprising at least one complex selected from the group consisting of acetylacetonate complexes, α

-nitroso-β

-naphthol complexes, salicylaldoxime complexes, cupferron complexes, benzoinoxime complexes, bipyridine complexes, phenanthroline complexes, crown complexes, proline complexes and benzoylacetone complexes.

9. The organic electroluminescent display element of claim 8, wherein the metal of the negative electrode is at least one metal selected from the group consisting of aluminum, indium, magnesium, calcium, titanium and manganese.

10. The organic electroluminescent display element of claim 9, further comprising a coating layer formed on the negative electrode, said coating layer having a thickness of 10 to 500 nm and comprising tin oxide, indium oxide, antimony oxide, zinc oxide, zirconium oxide or indium tin oxide.

11. An organic electroluminescent display element comprising:

a positive electrode, an organic luminescent film, an electron injection layer and a negative electrode;

wherein the electron injection layer and the negative electrode are configured so that the organic luminescent film emits light through the electron injection layer and the negative electrode, and

wherein said electron injection layer is made of an organic metal salt containing an alkali metal or an alkaline earth metal as a metal, or an organic metal complex containing an alkali metal or an alkaline earth metal as a metal, said organic metal complex being at least a complex selected from the group consisting of acetylacetonate complexes, α

-nitroso-β

-naphthol complexes, salicylaldoxime complexes, cupferron complexes, benzoinoxime complexes, bipyridine complexes, phenanthroline complexes, crown complexes, proline complexes and benzoylacetone complexes.

12. The organic electroluminescent display element of claim 11, wherein said negative electrode is a thin film made of a metal having a thickness of 1 to 10 nm.

13. The organic electroluminescent display element of claim 12, wherein the metal of the negative electrode is at least one metal selected from the group consisting of aluminum, indium, magnesium, calcium, titanium and manganese.