Organic EL display panel with banks containing fluorine resin and manufacturing method thereof

• US 7,781,963 B2
• Filed: 05/21/2008
• Issued: 08/24/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 05/31/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: JDI Design and Development GK
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Kitamura, Yoshiro, Nagai, Hisao, Yoshida, Hidehiro, Nakatani, Shuhei
• Primary Examiner(s): Roy; Sikha
• Application Number:
  US12/305,796
• Publication Number:
  US 20090272999A1
• Time in Patent Office: 825 Days
• Field of Search: 313/506, 445/24
• US Class Current: 313/506
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 10/466 Lateral bottom-gate IGFETs comprising only a single gate
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 50/14 Carrier transporting layers
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 59/122 Pixel-defining structures or layers, e.g. banks
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 59/173 comprising banks or shadow masks
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 71/12 using liquid deposition, e.g. spin coating
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 85/1135 Polyethylene dioxythiophene [PEDOT]; Derivatives thereof

Abstract

An organic EL display panel having a functional layer with a uniform film thickness is provided. The organic EL display panel of the present invention contains an anode electrode set on a substrate; line-state banks set on the substrate on which the anode electrode is set and defining a line-state region; a hole transport layers arranged in matrix state on the substrate, the hole transport layer being set in the line-state region; a line-state interlayer set in the line-state region; a line-state organic EL layer set in the line-state region; and a cathode electrode provided on the organic EL layer, and the bank contains a fluorine resin.

Claims

1. An organic EL display panel comprising:

a substrate;

an anode electrode set on the substrate line-state banks defining a line-state region and comprising a fluorine resin set on the substrate;

hole transport layers arranged in matrix state on the substrate, the hole transport layers being set in the line-state region;

a line-state interlayer set in the line-state region;

a line-state organic EL layer set in the line-state region; and

a cathode electrode provided on the organic EL layer;

wherein the line-state banks contain a fluorine resin;

a fluorine concentration of the fluorine resin gradually changes along a thickness direction of the line-state banks; and

the fluorine concentration at a top of each of the line-state banks is higher than the fluorine concentration at a bottom surface thereof.

2. The organic EL display panel according to claim 1 further comprising an insulating inorganic film, wherein

a material of the hole transport layers comprises polyethylenedioxythiophene;

and the insulating inorganic film protrudes from the line-state banks into the line-state region and is in contact with bottom surfaces of the hole transport layers.

3. The organic EL display panel according to claim 1, further comprising an insulating inorganic film, wherein

a material of the hole transport layers comprises tungsten oxide (WO_x), molybdenum oxide (MoO_x), vanadium oxide (VO_x) or a combination of them;

and

the insulating inorganic film protrudes from the line-state banks into the line-state region and is in contact with a bottom surface of the line-state interlayer.

4. The organic EL display panel according to claim 1 further comprising second banks defining two or more pixel regions in the line-state region, wherein

a material of the hole transport layers comprises polyethylenedioxythiophene;

the pixel regions define the hole transport layers;

the second banks each have a groove connecting the pixel regions with each other; and

heights of the second banks from the substrate are smaller than heights of the line-state banks from the substrate.

5. The organic EL display panel according to claim 1 further comprising second banks defining two or more pixel regions in the line-state region, wherein

a material of the hole transport layers comprises tungsten oxide (WO_x), molybdenum oxide (MoO_x), vanadium oxide (VO_x) or a combination of them;

the pixel regions define the line-state interlayer and the organic EL layer;

the second banks each have a groove connecting the pixel regions with each other; and

heights of the second banks from the substrate are smaller than heights of the line-state banks from the substrate.

6. The organic EL display panel according to claim 1, wherein the fluorine concentration at the top of each of the line-state banks is 5 to 10 atom % and the fluorine concentration at the bottom surface thereof is 0 to 3 atom %.

7. The organic EL display panel according to claim 1, wherein the line-state banks are in a forward tapered shape.

8. A manufacturing method of an organic EL display panel comprising:

forming an anode electrode on a substrate;

forming line-state banks comprising a fluorine resin and defining a line-state region on the substrate so as to expose the anode electrode;

forming matrix-state hole transport layers on the substrate, a material of the hole transport layers comprising polyethylenedioxythiophene;

forming a line-state interlayer in the line-state region;

applying an ink comprising an organic EL material and a solvent to the line-state region with ink-jet, dispenser, nozzle coating, intaglio printing or letterpress printing to form a line-state organic EL layer in the line-state region; and

forming a cathode electrode on the organic EL layer, wherein a fluorine concentration of the fluorine resin gradually changes along a thickness direction of the line-state banks; and

the fluorine concentration at a top of each of the line-state banks is higher than the fluorine concentration at a bottom surface thereof.

9. The manufacturing method according to claim 8, wherein forming the line-state banks comprising the fluorine resin on the substrate comprises:

forming a film of a photosensitive resin composition comprising the fluorine resin on the substrate;

exposing and developing the film of the photosensitive resin composition comprising the fluorine resin to expose the anode electrode partly or completely; and

baking the developed film of the photosensitive resin composition comprising the fluorine resin.

10. The manufacturing method according to claim 8 further comprising washing the exposed anode electrode with ozone water.

11. The manufacturing method according to claim 8 further comprising forming second banks defining two or more pixel regions in the line-state region, wherein

the second banks each have a groove connecting the pixel regions with each other;

heights of the second banks from the substrate are smaller than heights of the line-state banks from the substrate; and

forming the matrix-state hole transport layers comprises applying a solution comprising polyethyelenedioxythiophene to the pixel regions.

12. The manufacturing method according to claim 8 further comprising forming self assembly monolayers defining two or more pixel regions in the line-state region, wherein

forming the matrix-state hole transport layers comprises applying a solution comprising polyethyelenedioxythiophene to the pixel regions.

13. A manufacturing method of an organic EL display panel comprising:

forming an anode electrode on a substrate;

forming matrix-state hole transport layers on the substrate, a material of the hole transport layers comprising tungsten oxide (WO_x), molybdenum oxide (MoO_x), vanadium oxide (VO_x) or a combination of them;

forming line-state banks comprising a fluorine resin and defining a line-state region on the substrate so as to expose the hole transport layers;

forming a line-state interlayer in the line-state region;

applying an ink comprising an organic EL material and a solvent to the line-state region with ink-jet, dispenser, nozzle coating, intaglio printing or letterpress printing to form a line-state organic EL layer in the line-state region; and

forming a cathode electrode on the organic EL layer, wherein a fluorine concentration of the fluorine resin gradually changes along a thickness direction of the line-state banks; and

the fluorine concentration at a top of each of the line-state banks is higher than the fluorine concentration at a bottom surface thereof.

14. The manufacturing method according to claim 13, wherein forming the line-state banks comprising the fluorine resin on the substrate comprises:

forming a film of a photosensitive resin composition comprising the fluorine resin on the substrate;

exposing and developing the film of the photosensitive resin composition comprising the fluorine resin to expose the hole transport layers partly or completely; and

baking the developed film of the photosensitive resin composition comprising the fluorine resin.

15. The manufacturing method according to claim 13 further comprising washing the exposed hole transport layers with ozone water.

16. The manufacturing method according to claim 13 further comprising forming second banks defining two or more pixel regions in the line-state region, wherein

the second banks each have a groove connecting the pixel regions with each other;

heights of the second banks from the substrate are smaller than heights of the line-state banks from the substrate;

forming the line-state interlayer comprises applying a solution comprising a material of the line-state interlayer to the pixel regions; and

forming the organic EL layer comprises applying an ink comprising an organic EL material and a solvent to the pixel regions.

17. The manufacturing method according to claim 13 further comprising the step of forming self assembly monolayers defining two or more pixel regions in the line-state region, wherein

forming the line-state interlayer comprises applying a solution comprising a material of the line-state interlayer to the pixel regions, and

forming the organic EL layer comprises applying an ink comprising an organic EL material and a solvent to the pixel regions.

18. An organic EL element comprising a substrate, an anode electrode formed on the substrate, an organic EL layer formed on the anode electrode, and a bank defining a region of the organic EL layer, wherein

the bank comprises a fluorine resin and a fluorine concentration gradually changes along a thickness direction of the bank, and the fluorine concentration at a top of the bank is higher than the fluorine concentration at a bottom surface of the bank.

19. The organic EL element according to claim 18, wherein the fluorine concentration at the top of the bank is 5 to 10 atom % and the fluorine concentration at the bottom surface of the bank is 0 to 3 atom %.