IP Library Granted Patent US 12704668
Granted Patent B2
US 12704668 · App. 18/335,017 · Granted Aug 11, 2026

Display element and display apparatus

Inventors: Yoshihiro Ohashi (Tokyo, JP); Yutaka Yoshimasa (Kanagawa, JP)
Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
G02B5/223H10H20/841H10H20/8512H10H20/8514H10H20/855H10K59/878H10K59/879H10W90/00H10K59/877H10K59/8792
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Patent No.
US 12704668
App. No.
18/335,017
Granted
Aug 11, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

A display element includes a sub-pixel region including a wavelength conversion layer that converts a wavelength of excitation light, and further includes a low refractive index layer provided in a region between a wavelength conversion portion and an optical member.

Claims (40)

1 . A display element comprising:

a light source portion that emits excitation light;

a wavelength conversion portion that converts the excitation light to light with a wavelength longer than a wavelength of the excitation light;

an excitation light reflective layer that reflects the excitation light having penetrated through the wavelength conversion portion; and

an optical member that transmits light converted by the wavelength conversion portion, in this order, wherein

the wavelength conversion portion includes a first wavelength conversion layer that converts the excitation light to first wavelength converted light with a wavelength longer than the wavelength of the excitation light, and a second wavelength conversion layer that converts the excitation light to second wavelength converted light with a wavelength longer than the wavelength of the first wavelength converted light,

the display element is a component of a pixel that includes a green sub-pixel region including the first wavelength conversion layer, a red sub-pixel region including the second wavelength conversion layer, and a blue sub-pixel region not including the first wavelength conversion layer or the second wavelength conversion layer,

the display element further comprises a low refractive index layer provided in a region between the wavelength conversion portion and the optical member,

a surface of the low refractive index layer adjacent to the wavelength conversion portion is an interface at which the low refractive index layer is in contact with a region having a higher refractive index than the low refractive index layer,

the excitation light is blue light,

the blue sub-pixel region has a resin portion containing light scattering particles that scatter the blue light, and

an all-angle mean transmittance of the excitation light reflective layer for the blue light is lower than or equal to 32%.

2 . The display element according to claim 1 , wherein the excitation light reflective layer is a dielectric multilayer film.

3 . The display element according to claim 2 , wherein the dielectric multilayer film includes a laminated body in which a layer containing TiO 2 and a layer containing SiO 2 are alternately laminated.

4 . The display element according to claim 1 , wherein the all-angle mean transmittance of the excitation light reflective layer for the blue light is lower than or equal to 20%.

5 . The display element according to claim 1 , wherein

the excitation light reflective layer is provided one by one for each of the red sub-pixel region and the green sub-pixel region, and

an all-angle mean transmittance of the excitation light reflective layer for the blue light, provided for the red sub-pixel region, is lower than or equal to 15%.

6 . The display element according to claim 1 , wherein

the excitation light reflective layer is provided one by one for each of the red sub-pixel region and the green sub-pixel region, and

an all-angle mean transmittance of the excitation light reflective layer for the blue light, provided for the red sub-pixel region, is lower than or equal to 7%.

7 . The display element according to claim 1 , wherein the refractive index of the low refractive index layer is higher than or equal to 1.10 and lower than or equal to 1.30.

8 . The display element

according to claim 1 , wherein the refractive index of the low refractive index layer is higher than or equal to 1.10 and lower than or equal to 1.15.

9 . The display element according to claim 1 , wherein a thickness of the low refractive index layer is greater than or equal to 200 nm.

10 . The display element according to claim 1 , wherein a thickness of the low refractive index layer is less than or equal to one-half a thickness of the wavelength conversion portion.

11 . The display element according to claim 1 , wherein a thickness of the low refractive index layer is less than or equal to 2 μm.

12 . The display element according to claim 1 , wherein the low refractive index layer contains fumed silica particles.

13 . The display element according to claim 1 , wherein a voidage of the low refractive index layer is higher than or equal to 60.0% and lower than or equal to 95.0%.

14 . The display element according to claim 1 , wherein the low refractive index layer is formed by an inkjet method.

15 . The display element according to claim 1 , wherein the first wavelength conversion layer and the second wavelength conversion layer contain quantum dots.

16 . The display element according to claim 1 , wherein a thickness of each of the first wavelength conversion layer and the second wavelength conversion layer is greater than or equal to 6 μm and less than or equal to 10 μm.

17 . The display element according to claim 1 , further comprising

a partition wall provided between any adjacent two of the green sub-pixel region, the red sub-pixel region, and the blue sub-pixel region, wherein

a surface of the low refractive index layer adjacent to the wavelength conversion portion is located closer to the wavelength conversion portion than to a top surface of the partition wall adjacent to the optical member.

18 . The display element according to claim 1 , wherein the optical member includes a microlens.

19 . The display element according to claim 1 , wherein

the excitation light is ultraviolet light,

the wavelength conversion portion includes a third wavelength conversion layer that converts the excitation light to third wavelength converted light with a wavelength longer than the wavelength of the excitation light and shorter than the wavelength of the first wavelength converted light, and

the blue sub-pixel region includes the third wavelength conversion layer.