Low image sticking OLED display

• US 8,957,579 B2
• Filed: 09/14/2012
• Issued: 02/17/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/14/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Universal Display Corporation
• Original Assignee: Universal Display Corporation
• Inventors: Weaver, Michael Stuart, Hack, Michael, Brown, Julia J., Premutico, Mauro
• Primary Examiner(s): Hollweg, Thomas A
• Application Number:
  US13/618,423
• Publication Number:
  US 20140077688A1
• Time in Patent Office: 886 Days
• Field of Search: 313/504, 313/506, 313/512
• US Class Current: 313/504
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 2101/10 Triplet emission
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 2101/30 Highest occupied molecular orbital [HOMO], lowest unoccupied molecular orbital [LUMO] or Fermi energy values
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 2101/40 Interrelation of parameters between multiple constituent active layers or sublayers, e.g. HOMO values in adjacent layers
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 2101/90 Multiple hosts in the emissive layer
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 50/11 characterised by the electroluminescent [EL] layers
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 59/32 Stacked devices having two or more layers, each emitting at different wavelengths
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 59/351 comprising more than three subpixels, e.g. red-green-blue-white [RGBW]
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 59/352 the areas of the RGB subpixels being different

Abstract

Devices and fabrication methods thereof are provided which reduce image sticking and/or improve lifetime and performance of blue emissive devices. Each device may include non-common transport layers between emissive devices, one or more optical capping layers, light and deep blue emissive devices, a mixed host emissive layer, a high T1 transport layer, and/or a stacked blue device in conjunction with single emissive layer red and/or green devices. The provided structures may be used individually, in combination, or as a group in a single device.

Claims

1. A device comprising:

a plurality of OLEDs;

a first capping layer disposed over a first portion of the plurality of OLEDs, including a first OLED, and coupled to the first portion of the plurality of OLEDs, and a second capping layer disposed over a second portion of the plurality of OLEDs and optically coupled to the second portion of the plurality of OLEDs, but not optically coupled to the first plurality of OLEDs;

wherein;

the first OLED of the plurality of OLEDs is a blue OLED that has a first peak emission wavelength, and comprises a first transport layer, and a second OLED of the plurality of OLEDs has a second peak emission wavelength different from the first peak emission wavelength and comprises a second transport layer, wherein the first transport layer is a non-common layer among the first and second OLEDs, and the second transport layer is a non-common layer among the first and second OLEDs;

the blue OLED comprises a plurality of emissive layers, at least a first of the plurality of emissive layers comprising a first host material, a second host material, and an emissive material, wherein the HOMO of the second host material is between the HOMO of the first host material and the HOMO of the emissive material and the LUMO of the second host material is between the LUMO of the first host material and the LUMO of the emissive material;

the blue OLED comprises a transport layer disposed adjacent to the first emissive layer, wherein the transport layer comprises a material having a first triplet state having a higher energy level than a first triplet state of the emissive material; and

at least one of the plurality of OLEDs comprises an OLED of a different color than the blue OLED and comprises a single emissive layer.

2. A device as recited in claim 1, wherein the device comprises an organic light emitting display capable of being driven at about 500 cd/m² with a luminance decay of not more than about 3% after 20,000 hours of operation.

3. A device as recited in claim 1, wherein the device comprises a plurality of individually-addressable sub-pixels, at least one of said sub-pixels comprising a phosphorescent emissive material.

4. A display as recited in claim 3, wherein at least a second sub-pixel comprises a phosphorescent emissive material.

5. A device as recited in claim 3, wherein the phosphorescent emissive material emits light having a peak wavelength in the range of 400-500 nm.

6. A device as recited in claim 1, wherein:

a third OLED of the plurality of OLEDs has a red peak emission wavelength,

a fourth OLED of the plurality OLEDs has a green peak emission wavelength, and

a fifth OLED of the plurality of OLEDs has a light blue peak emission wavelength or a deep blue peak emission wavelength, and

wherein the difference in peak wavelengths emitted by the fifth OLED and the first OLED is at least 4 mn.

7. A device as recited in claim 6, wherein each of the first OLED, the third OLED, the fourth OLED, and the fifth OLED has substantially the same surface area.

8. A device as recited in claim 6, wherein the first OLED has a larger surface area than each of the third OLED and the fourth OLED.

9. A device as recited in claim 1, wherein the plurality of OLEDs further comprises a third portion of OLEDs different from the first and second portions, said device further comprising a third capping layer disposed over the third portion of the plurality of OLEDs and optically coupled to at least the third plurality of OLEDs.

10. A device as recited in claim 9, wherein the third portion of the plurality of OLEDs comprises a plurality of red OLEDs, a plurality of blue OLEDs, and a plurality of green OLEDs, wherein the second capping layer is not optically coupled to the plurality of blue OLEDs or to the plurality of green OLEDs, and wherein the third capping layer is not optically coupled to the plurality of red OLEDs or to the plurality of blue OLEDs.

11. A device as recited in claim 9, wherein the third capping layer is not optically coupled to the first portion of the plurality of OLEDs.

12. A device as recited in claim 9, wherein the third capping layer is not optically coupled to the second portion of the plurality of OLEDs.

13. A device as recited in claim 1, wherein:

the first capping layer has a total optical path that is constant over the first portion of the plurality of OLEDs;

the second capping layer has a total optical path that is constant over the second portion of the plurality of OLEDs; and

the first total optical path is different from the second total optical path.

14. A device as recited in claim 1, wherein the HOMO of the first host material is within about 0.2-0.4 eV of the HOMO of the emissive material.

15. A device as recited in claim 1, wherein the LUMO of the second host material is within about 0.2-0.4 eV of the LUMO of the emissive material.

16. A device as recited in claim 1, wherein the HOMO of the first host material is within about 0.2-0.4 eV of the HOMO of the emissive material.

17. A device as recited in claim 1, wherein the LUMO of the second host material is within about 0.2-0.4 eV of the LUMO of the emissive material.

18. A device as recited in claim 1, wherein the emissive material has a peak emission wavelength in the range 470-500 nm.

19. A device as recited in claim 1, wherein the emissive material has a peak emission wavelength in the range 400-470 nm.

20. A device as recited in claim 1, wherein the first host material has a first triplet state having a higher energy level than a first triplet state of the emissive material.

21. A device as recited in claim 20, wherein the HOMO of the first host material is less than the HOMO of the emissive material.

22. A device as recited in claim 1, wherein the second host material has a first triplet state having a higher energy level than a first triplet state of the emissive material.

23. A device as recited in claim 22, wherein the LUMO of the second host material is greater than the LUMO of the emissive material.

24. A device as recited in claim 1, wherein the first triple state of the material in the first transport layer is at least 2.6 eV.

25. A device as recited in claim 1, wherein the first triplet state of the material in the first transport layer is at least 2.8 eV.

26. A device as recited in claim 1, wherein the second OLED of the plurality of OLEDs comprises a red OLED having a red peak emission wavelength, the red OLED comprising a single emissive layer.

27. A device as recited in claim 26, wherein the red OLED and the blue OLED share at least one common layer.

28. A device as recited in claim 1, wherein the second OLED comprises a green OLED having a green peak emission wavelength, the green OLED comprising a single emissive layer.

29. A device as recited in claim 28, wherein the green OLED and the blue OLED share at least one common layer.