EL device

• US 6,891,329 B2
• Filed: 12/08/2000
• Issued: 05/10/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 04/08/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: iFire IP Corporation
• Original Assignee: Westaim Corporation
• Inventors: Takayama, Suguru, Nomura, Takeshi, Takeishi, Taku, Nagano, Katsuto
• Primary Examiner(s): Glick, Edward J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Yun, Jurie
• Application Number:
  US09/731,866
• Publication Number:
  US 20010015619A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,614 Days
• Field of Search: 313/503, 313/506, 313/509, 428/690, 428/917
• US Class Current: 313/509
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 33/02 Details
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 33/12 Light sources with substantially two-dimensional radiating surfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 33/22 characterised by the chemical or physical composition or the arrangement of auxiliary dielectric or reflective layers
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 33/26 characterised by the composition or arrangement of the conductive material used as an electrode
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 428/917 Electroluminescent

Abstract

The EL device of the present invention has a structure in which a first electrode, a first insulator layer, an electroluminescence-producing light emitting layer, a second insulator layer, and a second electrode layer are successively stacked on an electrical insulating substrate. At least one of the first insulator layer and the second insulator layer has as a main component barium titanate and in addition 0.1 to 3 mole % magnesium oxide, 0.05 to 1.0 mole % manganese oxide, no more than 1 mole % yttrium oxide, 2 to 12 mole % of barium oxide and calcium oxide, and 2-12 mole % silicon oxide.

Claims

1. An EL device comprising a first electrode, a first insulator layer, a thin film inorganic light emitting layer, a second insulator layer and a second electrode layer successively stacked on an electrical insulating substrate, wherein:

at least one of said first insulator layer and said second insulator layer comprises barium titanate, magnesium oxide, manganese oxide, at least one oxide selected from barium oxide and calcium oxide, silicon oxide, and optionally yttrium oxide,

wherein the amount of magnesium oxide, manganese oxide, yttrium oxide, barium oxide, calcium oxide and silicon oxide with respect to 100 moles of barium titanate is;

MgO;

 

0.1 to 3 moles,MnO;

0.05 to 1.0 mole,Y₂O₃;

 

 

1 mole or less,BaO + CaO;

 

 

2 to 12 moles, andSiO₂;

 

 

2 to 12 moles.

2. The EL device according to claim 1, wherein said electrical insulating substrate and said first insulator layer are each formed of a ceramic material.

3. The EL device according to claim 1 or 2, wherein BaO, GaO and SiO₂ are present in at least one of the first and second insulator layers in the form of (Ba_xCa₁₋

xO)_y.SiO₂ where 0.3≦

x≦

0.7 and 0.95≦

y≦

1.05 and in an amount of 1 to 10% by weight with respect to the sum of the weights of BaTiO₃, MgO, MnO and Y₂O₃.

4. The EL device according to claim 2, wherein said first electrode comprises one or two or more of Ni, Ag, Au, Pd, Pt, Cu, W, Fe, and Co or any one of Ag—

Pd, Ni—

Mn, Ni—

Cr, Ni—

Co and Ni—

Al alloys.

5. The EL device according to claim 3, wherein said first electrode comprises one or two or more of Ni, Ag, Au, Pd, Pt, Cu, W, Fe, and Co or any one of Ag—

Pd, Ni—

Mn, Ni—

Cr, Ni—

Co and Ni—

Al alloys.

6. The EL device of claim 1, wherein the light emitting layer comprises at least one material selected from the group consisting of ZuS, Mn/CdSSe, ZnS:

TbOF, ZnS;

Tb, SrS;

Ce, (SrS;

Ce/ZnS)_n, CaGa₂S₄;

Ce, and SrS;

Ce/ZnS;

Mn.

7. The EL device of claim 1, wherein the light emitting layer has a thickness of 100 to 1000 nm.

8. The EL device of claim 1, wherein the second electrode comprises at least one material selected from the group consisting of tin-doped indium oxide, zinc-doped indium oxide, indium oxide, tin oxide, and zinc oxide.

9. The EL device of claim 1, wherein the amount of MgO relative to 100 moles of barium titanate is 0.5 to 1.5 moles.

10. The EL device of claim 1, wherein the amount of MnO relative to 100 moles of barium titanate is 0.2 to 0.4 moles.

11. The EL device of claim 1, wherein the ratio (BaO+CaO)/SiO₂ is in the range of 0.9 to 1.1.

12. The EL device of claim 1, wherein the amount of yttrium oxide is in the range of 0.1 to 1 moles relative to 100 moles of barium titanate.

13. The EL device of claim 1, wherein the first insulator layer has an average crystal grain diameter of 0.2 to 0.7 μ

m.

14. The EL device of claim 1, wherein the first electrode comprises a material selected from the group consisting of Ag, Pd, and Ag—

Pd alloys.

15. The EL device of claim 1, wherein the substrate comprises Al₂O₃ and optionally one or more oxides selected from the group consisting of SiO₂, MgO, and CaO.