IP Library Granted Patent US 8,040,045
Granted Patent B2
US 8,040,045 · App. 11/995,349 · Granted Oct 18, 2011

Electroluminescent light source

Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
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Patent No.
US 8,040,045
App. No.
11/995,349
Granted
Oct 18, 2011
Kind
B2
Abstract

An organic electroluminescent light source has at least one substrate and layers that are arranged on the substrate. The layers include electrodes of which at least one electrode is transparent and one acts as an anode and one as a cathode, and at least one organic electroluminescent layer that is arranged between the electrodes. The organic electroluminescent layer has regions that emit blue light and/or green light, and at least one phosphor layer that is arranged in the beam path of the light leaving the organic electroluminescent light source and that partly covers the electroluminescent layer.

Claims (18)

1. An organic electroluminescent light source having at least one substrate and a plurality of layers arranged on the substrate, said plurality of layers comprising:

at least two electrodes of which at least one electrode is transparent and one acts as an anode and one as a cathode;

at least one organic electroluminescent layer that is arranged between the electrodes, the at least one organic electroluminescent layer having a plurality of regions that emit either blue light or green light, wherein the plurality of regions include a first region that emits the blue light and a second region that emits the green light; and

at least one phosphor layer that is arranged in the beam path of the light leaving the organic electroluminescent light source and that partly covers the at least one organic electroluminescent layer, wherein the at least one phosphor layer at least partly covers the second region of the at least one organic electroluminescent layer that emits the green light without covering the first region for receiving the green light and not receiving the blue light.

2. The organic electroluminescent light source as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the second region that emits the green light of the at least one organic electroluminescent layer contains transition-metal ions having an atomic number Z >50.

3. The organic electroluminescent light source as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the second region that emits the green light of the at least one organic electroluminescent layer comprises phosphor particles including iridium III.

4. The organic electroluminescent light source as claimed in claim 3 , wherein a mean diameter of the phosphor particles is >200 nm and <20 μm.

5. The organic electroluminescent light source of claim 3 , wherein the at least one phosphor layer does not cover the first region of the organic electroluminescent layer that emits the blue light.

6. The organic electroluminescent light source as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the at least one phosphor layer comprises phosphors composed of at least one of the materials: (Ca 1-x Sr x )S:Eu ; (Ba 1-x Sr x ) 2 Si 5-y Al y N 8-z O z :Eu ; ((Ba 1-x Ca x ) 2 Si 5-y Al y N 8-z O z :Eu or Ca 1-u Sr u AlSiN3:Eu where 0≦x≦1, 0≦y≦5, 0≦z≦8, 0≦u≦0.1.

7. The organic electroluminescent light source as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the organic electroluminescent light source is divided into separately addressable elements.

8. The organic electroluminescent light source as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the first region and the second region of the organic electroluminescent light source can be separately driven.

9. The organic electroluminescent light source as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the second region is divided into at least two regions that can be separately driven and the at least one phosphor layer includes two layers that cover the at least two regions, wherein the two layers differ in their thickness and/or in phosphor material used.

10. The organic electroluminescent light source as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the correlated color temperature can be varied by electrical driving.

11. The organic electroluminescent light source as claimed in claim 1 , wherein items of information can be represented and varied by electrical driving.

12. The organic electroluminescent light source as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the first region is covered with a refractive structure to improve the coupling of light out of the substrate.

13. The organic electroluminescent light source as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the first region is covered with a layer of scattering particles comprising oxides or sulfides.

14. An illumination unit, wherein the illumination unit includes at least one organic electroluminescent light source as claimed in claim 1 .

15. The organic electroluminescent light source of claim 1 , wherein the second region comprises bis(2-phenylpyridine)iridium(III)acetylacetonate [(ppy)2IR(acac)].

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 22, 2016
From: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N V
To: OLEDWORKS GMBH
Reel/Frame 037560/0193 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 11, 2008
From: BECHTEL, HANS-HELMUT; BUSSELT, WOLFGANG; SCHMIDT, PETER; MEYER, JOERG; BOERNER, HERBERT FRIEDRICH; GRABOWSKI, STEFAN PETER
To: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N V
Reel/Frame 020352/0856 →
Priority Claims (1)
EP 05106448 · Jul 14, 2005 · regional
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20080191615A1 · Aug 14, 2008