Organic light emitting diode display device and method of fabricating the same

• US 9,305,979 B2
• Filed: 08/22/2013
• Issued: 04/05/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/27/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Baek, Heume-Il, Lee, Ji-Heun
• Primary Examiner(s): MENZ, LAURA MARY
• Application Number:
  US13/973,275
• Publication Number:
  US 20140183464A1
• Time in Patent Office: 957 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 50/818 Reflective anodes, e.g. ITO combined with thick metallic layers
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 50/826 Multilayers, e.g. opaque multilayers
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 59/12 Active-matrix OLED [AMOLED] displays
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 59/1201 Manufacture or treatment
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 59/351 comprising more than three subpixels, e.g. red-green-blue-white [RGBW]
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 59/80518 Reflective anodes, e.g. ITO combined with thick metallic layers

Abstract

An OLED display device includes a substrate; pixel regions defined by gate and data lines, each pixel region including red, green, first blue and second blue sub-pixels; a TFT in each pixel region; a first electrode connected to the thin film transistor; an insulating layer exposing the first electrode; hole injecting and hole transporting layers stacked on the first electrode; red, green and blue emitting layer on the hole transporting layer, the red and green emitting layers respectively being in the red and green sub-pixels, and the blue emitting layer being in the first and second blue sub-pixels; electron transporting and electron injecting layers stacked on the red, green and blue emitting layers; and a second electrode on the insulating layer and the electron injecting layer, wherein the first electrode in the second blue sub-pixel has a multi-layered structure of the first electrode layer and at least one metal layer.

Claims

1. An organic light emitting diode display device, comprising:

a substrate;

a plurality of pixel regions defined by a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines formed on the substrate, each pixel region including red, green, first blue and second blue sub-pixels;

a thin film transistor in each pixel region;

a first electrode electrically connected to a drain electrode of each of the thin film transistors;

an insulating layer exposing the first electrode;

a hole injecting layer and a hole transporting layer sequentially stacked on the first electrode;

red, green and blue emitting layers on the hole transporting layer, the red emitting layer being in the red sub-pixel, the green emitting layer being in the green sub-pixel, and the blue emitting layer being in the first and second blue sub-pixels;

an electron transporting layer and an electron injecting layer sequentially stacked on the red, green, and blue emitting layers; and

a second electrode on the insulating layer and the electron injecting layer,

wherein the first electrode in the second blue sub-pixel has a multi-layered structure of the first electrode layer and at least one metal layer; and

wherein the first electrode in the first blue sub-pixel has a single-layered structure of the first electrode layer.

2. The device according to claim 1, wherein the first blue sub-pixel displays a light-blue color, and the second blue sub-pixel displays a deep-blue color.

3. The device according to claim 1, wherein the multi-layered structure is a double-layered structure of the first electrode layer and a first metal layer under the first electrode layer, and the first metal layer includes Ag or Ag alloy, and wherein the first electrode layer includes ITO or IZO or other transparent conductive materials.

4. The device according to claim 1, wherein the multi-layered structure is a triple-layered structure of the first electrode layer, a first metal layer on the first electrode layer and a second metal layer on the first metal layer, and each of the first electrode layer and the second metal layer includes ITO or IZO or other transparent conductive materials, and wherein the first metal layer includes Ag or Ag alloy.

5. The device according to claim 3, wherein the first electrode layer has a thickness more than 0 angstrom and less than about 300 angstroms, and the first metal layer has a thickness of about 100 to 200 angstroms.

6. The device according to claim 4, wherein the first electrode layer has a thickness more than 0 angstrom and less than about 300 angstroms, and the first metal layer has a thickness of about 100 to 200 angstroms, and wherein the second metal layer has a thickness more than 0 angstrom and less than about 100 angstroms.

7. The device according to claim 1, wherein the blue emitting layer in the first and second blue sub-pixels includes the same blue phosphorescent organic material.

8. The device according to claim 1, wherein the second electrode includes Al.

20. The device according to claim 1, wherein the first electrode in the red sub-pixel and the green sub-pixel also has a single-layered structure of the first electrode layer;

and

wherein the at least one metal layer is not present in the red sub-pixel, the green sub-pixel, and the first blue sub-pixel.

9. A substrate for an organic light emitting diode display device, comprising:

a substrate;

a plurality of pixel regions defined by a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines formed on the substrate, each pixel region including red, green, first blue, and second blue sub-pixels;

a thin film transistor in each pixel region;

a first electrode electrically connected to a drain electrode of the thin film transistor;

an insulating layer exposing the first electrode;

a hole injecting layer and a hole transporting layer sequentially stacked on the first electrode;

red, green, and blue emitting layers on the hole transporting layer, the red emitting layer being in the red sub-pixel, the green emitting layer being in the green sub-pixel, and the blue emitting layer being in the first and second blue sub-pixels;

an electron transporting layer and an electron injecting layer sequentially stacked on the red, green, and blue emitting layers; and

a second electrode on the insulating layer and the electron injecting layer,

wherein the first electrode in the second blue sub-pixel has a multi-layered structure of the first electrode layer and at least one metal layer; and

wherein the first electrode in the first blue sub-pixel has a single-layered structure of the first electrode layer.

10. The substrate according to claim 9, wherein the multi-layered structure is a double-layered structure of the first electrode layer and a first metal layer under the first electrode layer, or a triple-layered structure of the first electrode layer, a first metal layer on the first electrode layer and a second metal layer on the first metal layer.

11. The substrate according to claim 9, wherein the blue emitting layer in the first and second blue sub-pixels includes the same blue phosphorescent organic material.

21. The substrate according to claim 9, wherein the first electrode in the red sub-pixel and the green sub-pixel also has a single-layered structure of the first electrode layer;

and

wherein the at least one metal layer is not present in the red sub-pixel, the green sub-pixel, and the first blue sub-pixel.

12. A method of fabricating an organic light emitting diode display device, comprising:

providing a substrate;

forming, on the substrate, a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines to define a plurality of pixel regions, each pixel region including red, green, first blue, and second blue sub-pixels;

forming a thin film transistor in each pixel region;

forming a first electrode electrically connected to a drain electrode of the thin film transistor in each pixel region;

forming an insulating layer exposing the first electrode;

sequentially forming a hole injecting layer and a hole transporting layer stacked on the first electrode;

forming red, green, and blue emitting layers on the hole transporting layer, the red emitting layer being in the red sub-pixel, the green emitting layer being in the green sub-pixel, and the blue emitting layer being in the first and second blue sub-pixels;

sequentially forming an electron transporting layer and an electron injecting layer sequentially stacked on the red, green, and blue emitting layers; and

forming a second electrode on the insulating layer and the electron injecting layer,

wherein the first electrode in the second blue sub-pixel has a multi-layered structure of the first electrode layer and at least one metal layer; and

wherein the first electrode in the first blue sub-pixel has a single-layered structure of the first electrode layer.

13. The method according claim 12, wherein the first blue sub-pixel displays a light-blue color, and the second blue sub-pixel displays a deep-blue color.

14. The method according claim 12, wherein the multi-layered structure is a double-layered structure of the first electrode layer and a first metal layer under the first electrode layer, and the first metal layer includes Ag or Ag alloy, and wherein the first electrode layer includes ITO or IZO or other transparent conductive materials.

15. The method according claim 12, wherein the multi-layered structure is a triple-layered structure of the first electrode layer, a first metal layer on the first electrode layer and a second metal layer on the first metal layer, and each of the first electrode layer and the second metal layer includes ITO or IZO or other transparent conductive materials, and wherein the first metal layer includes Ag or Ag alloy.

16. The method according claim 14, wherein the first electrode layer has a thickness more than 0 angstrom and less than about 300 angstroms, and the first metal layer has a thickness of about 100 to 200 angstroms.

17. The method according claim 15, wherein the first electrode layer has a thickness more than 0 angstrom and less than about 300 angstroms, and the first metal layer has a thickness of about 100 to 200 angstroms, and wherein the second metal layer has a thickness more than 0 angstrom and less than about 100 angstroms.

18. The method according claim 12, wherein the blue emitting layer in the first and second blue sub-pixels includes the same blue phosphorescent organic material.

19. The method according claim 12, wherein the second electrode includes Al.

22. The method according claim 12, wherein the first electrode in the red sub-pixel and the green sub-pixel also has a single-layered structure of the first electrode layer;

and

wherein the at least one metal layer is not present in the red sub-pixel, the green sub-pixel, and the first blue sub-pixel.