Organic electro-luminescence display element, finder screen display device, finder and optical device

• US 6,809,473 B2
• Filed: 05/03/2002
• Issued: 10/26/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 02/01/1999
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Konica Minolta Inc.
• Original Assignee: Minolta Corporation Limited (Konica Minolta Inc.)
• Inventors: Kitahora, Takeshi, Hisamitsu, Akihito, Furukawa, Keiichi, Ueda, Hideaki, Terasaka, Yoshihisa
• Primary Examiner(s): Patel, Ashok
• Assistant Examiner(s): Santiago, Mariceli
• Application Number:
  US10/137,396
• Publication Number:
  US 20020127431A1
• Time in Patent Office: 907 Days
• Field of Search: 313/504, 313/506, 313/509, 313/512, 313/503, 313/505, 428/690, 315/169.3, 345/76, 345/55
• US Class Current: 313/504
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 50/171 Electron injection layers
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 50/18 Carrier blocking layers
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 50/82 Cathodes
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 59/17 Passive-matrix OLED displays
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 71/166 using selective deposition, e.g. using a mask
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/24917 including metal layer
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/2495 Thickness [relative or absolute]
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/26 Web or sheet containing structurally defined element or component, the element or component having a specified physical dimension

Abstract

An organic electro-luminescence display element comprising at least a positive electrode, an organic luminescent film and a negative electrode, wherein the positive electrode is formed of an electrically conductive film having transparency, the negative electrode is formed of a metal film containing metal having a low work function, and the negative electrode is connected to a power supply lead portion made of a transparent and conductive film.

Claims

1. An organic electroluminescent display element, comprising a positive electrode, an organic luminescent film and a negative electrode,

wherein said positive electrode is formed of an electrically conductive indium tin oxide film having transparency, said negative electrode is formed of an opaque metal film containing metal having a low work function, said negative electrode is connected to a power supply lead portion made of a transparent and conductive film, and a portion around said negative electrode has transparency.

2. The organic electroluminescent display element according to claim 1,

wherein a portion, directly contributing to light emission, of said negative electrode is made of a metal film containing magnesium or lithium.

3. The organic electroluminescent display element according to claim 1,

wherein said organic luminescent film includes a hole transport-related layer disposed on the positive electrode side and an organic luminescent layer disposed on the negative electrode side, and said power supply lead portion connected to said negative electrode is formed of a transparent and conductive compound film.

4. The organic electroluminescent display element according to claim 3,

wherein said hole transport-related layer is one selected from the group consisting of a hole injection layer, a hole transport layer, a combination of a hole injection layer and a hole transport layer, and a hole injection/transport layer.

5. The organic electroluminescent display element according to claim 1,

wherein a power supply lead portion to be connected to said positive electrode are formed of a patterned ITO film on a transparent substrate.

6. The organic electroluminescent display element according to claim 1,

wherein a thickness of a portion between said positive and negative electrodes is in a range from 20 nm to 200 nm.

7. The organic electroluminescent display element according to claim 1,

wherein a line forming said negative electrode has a width of 1 mm or less.

8. The organic electroluminescent display element according to claim 1,

wherein a luminescent layer in said organic luminescent film is doped with a fluorescent dye.

9. The organic electroluminescent display element according to claim 1,

wherein said organic luminescent film includes an electron transport-related layer, a luminescent layer and a hole transport-related layer arranged in this order from said negative electrode side to said positive electrode side.

10. The organic electroluminescent display element according to claim 9,

wherein said electron transport-related layer is one selected from the group consisting of an electron injection layer, an electron transport layer, a combination of an electron injection layer and an electron transport layer, and an electron injection/transport layer, and

said hole transport-related layer is one selected from the group consisting of a hole injection layer, a hole transport layer, a combination of a hole injection layer and a hole transport layer, and a hole injection/transport layer.

11. The organic electroluminescent display element according to claim 1,

wherein said organic electroluminescent display element is sealed between two glass substrates.

12. The organic electroluminescent display element according to claim 1,

wherein an area occupied by a light emitting portion in said organic luminescent film is {fraction (1/10)} or less of a whole view region of the element.

13. The organic electroluminescent display element according to claim 1,

wherein said positive and negative electrodes are arranged to perform simple matrix driving of the display element.