OLED ARRAY SUBSTRATE, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF, DISPLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY DEVICE

• US 20160254494A1
• Filed: 04/17/2015
• Published: 09/01/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/31/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: ZHANG, Can
• Granted Patent: US 9,728,749 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 50/85 Arrangements for extracting light from the devices
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 50/852 comprising a resonant cavity structure, e.g. Bragg reflector pair
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 50/86 Arrangements for improving contrast, e.g. preventing reflection of ambient light
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 59/1201 Manufacture or treatment
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 71/00 Manufacture or treatment specially adapted for the organic devices covered by this subclass
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 71/164 using vacuum deposition
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 71/166 using selective deposition, e.g. using a mask

Abstract

The present invention provides an OLED array substrate, a manufacturing method thereof, an OLED display panel and an OLED display device. The OLED array substrate comprises a substrate and a plurality of pixel units provided thereon, each pixel unit comprising a TFT, and a first electrode, an organic light-emitting layer, a second electrode and an optical coupling layer sequentially arranged on the TFT, wherein the optical coupling layer comprises a bottom contacting with the second electrode and an arched top protruding towards a light-exiting direction. By forming the optical coupling layer of each pixel unit on the OLED array substrate to be the arched top optical coupling layer, the OLED array substrate, the manufacturing method thereof, the OLED display panel and the OLED display device of the present invention attenuates total reflection of light inside the optical coupling layer, thereby improving light extraction efficiency.

Claims

1. An OLED array substrate, comprising a substrate and a plurality of pixel units provided on the substrate, each pixel unit comprising a thin film transistor, and a first electrode, an organic light-emitting layer, a second electrode and an optical coupling layer that are sequentially arranged on the thin film transistor, wherein,

the optical coupling layer comprises a bottom contacting with the second electrode and an arched top protruding towards a light-exiting direction.

2. The OLED array substrate according to claim 1, wherein the optical coupling layer has a thickness of λ

/4n, wherein, λ

is wavelength of light emitted by the organic light-emitting layer, and n is refractive index of the optical coupling layer.

3. The OLED array substrate according to claim 1, wherein the first electrode serves as an anode, and the second electrode serves as a cathode.

4. The OLED array substrate according to claim 1, wherein parts of the optical coupling layers corresponding to the pixel units having different colors have different thicknesses.

5. A manufacturing method of an OLED array substrate, comprising a step of:

forming, by way of evaporation, an arched top optical coupling layer on a substrate on which a first electrode, an organic light-emitting layer and a second electrode are formed, by using a mask.

6. The manufacturing method of an OLED array substrate according to claim 5, wherein the mask has a thickness in the range of 100 nm to 200 nm.

7. The manufacturing method of an OLED array substrate according to claim 5, wherein the mask has a plurality of openings corresponding to a plurality of pixel units, wherein each opening is configured to allow evaporating material to pass therethrough to form the arched top optical coupling layer on the corresponding pixel unit;

and

length and width of each opening are 20-50 nm larger than those of the corresponding pixel unit, respectively.

8. The manufacturing method of an OLED array substrate according to claim 5, wherein the arched top optical coupling layer have a thickness of λ

/4n, wherein, λ

is wavelength of light emitted by an organic light-emitting layer, and n is refractive index of the arched top optical coupling layer.

9. The manufacturing method of an OLED array substrate according to claim 5, wherein the same mask is used for manufacturing the arched top optical coupling layers corresponding to the pixel units having different colors.

10. The manufacturing method of an OLED array substrate according to claim 5, wherein a mask corresponding to the pixel units having a color is used for manufacturing the arched top optical coupling layers corresponding to the pixel units having the color.

11. (canceled)

13. The OLED display device according to claim 11, wherein the optical coupling layer has a thickness of λ

/4n, wherein, λ

is wavelength of light emitted by the organic light-emitting layer, and n is refractive index of the optical coupling layer.

14. The OLED display device according to claim 11, wherein the first electrode serves as an anode, and the second electrode serves as a cathode.

15. The OLED display device according to claim 11, wherein parts of the optical coupling layers corresponding to the pixel units having different colors have different thicknesses.

12. An OLED display device, comprising an OLED display panel, which comprises an OLED array substrate, wherein the OLED array substrate comprises a substrate and a plurality of pixel units provided on the substrate, each pixel unit comprising a thin film transistor, and a first electrode, an organic light-emitting layer, a second electrode and an optical coupling layer that are sequentially arranged on the thin film transistor, wherein,

the optical coupling layer comprises a bottom contacting with the second electrode and an arched top protruding towards a light-exiting direction.