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US 7,595,586 · App. 11/289,076 · Granted Sep 29, 2009

Organic electroluminescent display device

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Patent No.
US 7,595,586
App. No.
11/289,076
Granted
Sep 29, 2009
Kind
B2
Abstract

An organic electroluminescent display device and a method of producing the same are provided. The organic electroluminescent display device includes: a substrate; and an organic electroluminescent unit formed on a surface of the substrate and including a first electrode, an organic layer and a second electrode sequentially deposited on the substrate, in which the organic electroluminescent display device includes a diffraction grating layer having low refractive gratings and high refractive gratings alternately formed parallel to the substrate, and a high refractive layer formed on the diffraction grating layer interposed between the substrate and the first electrode. According to the organic electroluminescent display device, the light coupling efficiency can be increased due to minimized voids and unevenness generated in the formation of a diffraction grating layer, optical losses due to a first electrode can be prevented due to a high refractive layer interposed between the diffraction grating layer and the first electrode to focus light distribution on the high refractive layer, and the light coupling efficiency can be maximized due to increased light distribution in the diffraction grating layer.

Claims (23)

1. An organic electroluminescent display device comprising:

a substrate;

an organic electroluminescent unit comprising a first electrode, an organic layer and a second electrode;

a diffraction grating layer comprising low refractive gratings and high refractive gratings, wherein the low refractive gratings are solid, and

a high refractive layer contacting the diffraction grating layer and interposed between the substrate and the first electrode, wherein the high refractive layer has a refractive index higher than a refractive index of the low refractive gratings.

2. The organic electroluminescent display device of claim 1 , wherein the low refractive gratings and the high refractive gratings are alternately arranged.

3. The organic electroluminescent display device of claim 1 , wherein the refractive index of the high refractive layer is greater that that of the first electrode.

4. The organic electroluminescent display device of claim 1 , wherein an absorption coefficient of the high refractive layer is less than that of the first electrode.

5. The organic electroluminescent display device of claim 1 , wherein a refractive index of the high refractive gratings is greater than that of the low refractive gratings and that of the high refractive layer.

6. The organic electroluminescent display device of claim 1 , wherein a refractive index of the high refractive gratings is greater than that of the low refractive gratings and less than that of the high refractive layer.

7. The organic electroluminescent display device of claim 1 , wherein a thickness of the diffraction grating layer is in the range of 10 nm to 10 μm.

8. The organic electroluminescent display device of claim 1 , wherein a thickness of the high refractive layer is in the range of 10 nm to 5 μm.

9. The organic electroluminescent display device of claim 1 , wherein the low refractive gratings are repeated at intervals of 10 nm to 1 μm.

10. The organic electroluminescent display device of claim 1 , wherein a width of each of the low refractive gratings is in the range of 1 nm to 900 nm.

11. The organic electroluminescent display device of claim 1 , wherein the refractive index of the low refractive gratings is 1.4 or less.

12. The organic electroluminescent display device of claim 1 , wherein a refractive index of the high refractive gratings is 1.8 to 2.2.

13. The organic electroluminescent display device of claim 1 , wherein the refractive index of the high refractive layer is 1.8 to 2.2.

14. The organic electroluminescent display device of claim 1 , wherein the low refractive gratings comprise a material selected from the group consisting of silicate and porous silica.

15. The organic electroluminescent display device of claim 1 , wherein the high refractive gratings comprise a material selected from the group consisting of silicon nitrides, TiO 2 , Ta 2 O 5 and Nb 2 O 5 .

16. The organic electroluminescent display device of claim 1 , wherein the high refractive layer comprises TiO 2 sol, which can be spin coated.

17. The organic electroluminescent display device of claim 1 , wherein the first electrode comprises one of ITO and IZO.

18. The organic electroluminescent display device of claim 1 , wherein the substrate comprises a material selected from the group consisting of glass and plastics.

19. The organic electroluminescent display device of claim 1 , wherein the high refractive layer contacts the first electrode.

Assignments (1)
MERGER Recorded Aug 31, 2012
From: SAMSUNG MOBILE DISPLAY CO., LTD.
To: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
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