Tandem organic light emitting device and method for assembling the same

• US 8,304,988 B2
• Filed: 12/03/2008
• Issued: 11/06/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/03/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: InnoLux Corporation
• Original Assignee: TPO Displays Corporation (InnoLux Corporation)
• Inventors: Lin, Yu-Ting, Hsu, Hsiang-Lun
• Primary Examiner(s): Mai, Anh
• Assistant Examiner(s): QUARTERMAN, KEVIN J
• Application Number:
  US12/327,462
• Publication Number:
  US 20090140645A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,434 Days
• Field of Search: 313498-512
• US Class Current: 313/506
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 2102/103 comprising indium oxides, e.g. ITO
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 50/17 Carrier injection layers
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 50/171 Electron injection layers
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 50/19 Tandem OLEDs
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 85/324 comprising aluminium, e.g. Alq3

Abstract

The present invention relates to a tandem organic light emitting device, which reduces the driving voltage by using a non-doping material having both the electron transporting and hole transporting abilities to act, respectively, as an electron transporting layer and a hole transporting layer that are in contact with the connecting layer. The tandem organic light emitting device does not have to double its driving voltage as a result of the increasing of the number of the emitting element contained therein. However, the brightness and the current efficiency of the device of the present invention will be higher than the theoretical fold value calculated in accordance with the number of emitting element contained in the device.

Claims

1. A tandem organic light emitting device, consisting:

(a) an anode;

(b) a cathode;

(c) at least two organic light emitting diode units placed between said anode and said cathode, wherein said organic light emitting diode unit contains the following layers sequentially;

a hole injection layer, a hole transporting layer, an organic light emitting layer, an electron transporting layer and an electron injection layer; and

(d) at least one connecting layer, wherein each connecting layer is placed between said organic light emitting diode units and contacts with said hole injection layer of one of said organic light emitting diode units and said electron injection layer of the other one of said organic light emitting diode units directly;

wherein the material of said hole injection layer and said electron injection layer is a non-doping material having both electron and hole transporting abilities; and

each of said connecting layer consists of aluminum or silver.

2. The tandem organic light emitting device according to claim 1, wherein the driving voltage of said tandem organic light emitting device is smaller than N folds of that of said organic light emitting diode unit, and N is the number of organic light emitting diode unit contained therein.

3. The tandem organic light emitting device according to claim 1, wherein said non-doping material has current flowing when positive or negative voltage is applied.

4. The tandem organic light emitting device according to claim 1, wherein the material of said hole injection layer is a p-type dopant.

5. The tandem organic light emitting device according to claim 4, wherein p-type dopant comprises 2,3,5,6-tetrafluoro-7,7,8,8-tetracyanoquinodimethane (F4-TCNQ) and derivatives thereof, lithium fluoride (LiF), silicon dioxide (SiO2), Teflon, 4,4′

,4″

-TRIS-N-naphthy-N-phenylamino-triphenylamine (TNATA), 4,4′

,4″

-tris(3-methylphenylphenylamino)triphenylamine (m-TDATA) or metal chlorides.

6. The tandem organic light emitting device according to claim 1, wherein said electron injection layer is a n-type dopant.

7. The tandem organic light emitting device according to claim 6, wherein n-type dopant comprises alkaline metals or compounds thereof, alkaline-earth metals, EEI-101 made by OLED-T company or compounds or mixtures thereof.

8. The tandem organic light emitting device according to claim 1, wherein the thickness of said connecting layer is 1 to 200 Å

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9. The tandem organic light emitting device according to claim 8, wherein the thickness of said connecting layer is 10 to 100 Å

.

10. The tandem organic light emitting device according to claim 9, wherein the thickness of said connecting layer is 15 to 50 Å

.

11. The tandem organic light emitting device according to claim 1, wherein said connecting layer is formed by evaporation.

12. A image display system, comprising:

a tandem organic light emitting device according to claim 1; and

an input unit, coupling with said tandem organic light emitting device, and controlling the tandem organic light emitting device to display image by the input signal from the input unit.

13. The image display system according to claim 12, being a PDA, a cellular phone, a digital camera, a television, a GPS, a car monitor, a aircraft monitor, a digital photo frame, a laptop, a desktop computer or a portable DVD player.

14. A illumination device, comprising:

a tandem organic light emitting device according to claim 1; and

an input unit, coupling with said tandem organic light emitting device and controlling the tandem organic light emitting device to illuminate by the input signal from the input unit.