Substrate of emitting device and emitting device using the same
View Patent ↗Provided is a substrate for a light-emitting device having good light emitting efficiency and light-emitting device using the substrate. A light transparent substrate 10 is layered with a first layer 30 having a refractive index higher than that of the light transparent substrate 10 and a second layer 40 having a refractive index lower than that of the first layer. The refractive index of the first layer 30 is set to be 1.35 times as high as that of the second layer 40 . With this layer structure, in an emitting layer of the light-emitting device, a wave front of a spherical wave form exited from a point light source in the front direction is converted into that of a plane wave form, and exited outside the substrate at a high efficiency.
1. A substrate for a light-emitting device, comprising:
a transparent substrate; and
an optical control portion provided directly on the transparent substrate,
wherein the optical control portion comprises:
a first layer provided directly on the transparent substrate;
a second layer provided directly on the first layer, the second layer having a refractive index less than that of the first layer; and
a light coloring layer on the second layer, the light coloring layer having a refractive index higher than that of the second layer.
2. The substrate as claimed in claim 1 , wherein a following expression is satisfied:
n1≧1.3n2
where n1 is the refractive index of the first layer, and n2 is the refractive index of the second layer.
3. The substrate as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising an electrode layer on the optical control layer, and the refractive index of the second layer is less than that of the electrode layer.
4. The substrate as claimed in claim 3 , wherein the refractive index of the first layer is greater than that of the electrode layer.
5. The substrate as claimed in claim 1 , wherein, when the light-emitting device having a peak wavelength of emission is mounted on the substrate for the light-emitting device, a following expression is satisfied:
n1d1≧λ/2
where n1 is the refractive index of the first layer, and d1 is the thickness of the first layer.
6. The substrate as claimed in claim 1 , wherein, when the light-emitting device having a peak wavelength of emission is mounted on the substrate for the light-emitting device, a following expression is satisfied:
n2d2λ/2
where n2 is the refractive index of the second layer, and d2 is the thickness of the second layer.
7. The substrate as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the transparent substrate is provided with a driving circuit for the light-emitting device.
8. A light-emitting device, comprising:
a transparent substrate;
an optical control portion provided directly on the transparent substrate to convert incident light of a spherical wave into light of a plane wave form and to induce the converted light to the transparent substrate;
an electrode layer provided on the optical control portion; and
an emitting layer provided on the electrode layer,
wherein the optical control portion comprises:
a first layer provided directly on the transparent substrate;
a second layer provided directly on the first layer, the second layer having a refractive index less than that of the first layer; and
a light coloring layer on the second layer, the light coloring layer having a refractive index higher than that of the second layer.
9. The light-emitting device as claimed in claim 8 , wherein a following expression is satisfied:
n1≧1.3n2
where n1 is the refractive index of the first layer, and n2 is the refractive index of the second layer.
10. The light-emitting device as claimed in claim 8 , wherein the refractive index of the second layer is less than that of the electrode layer.
11. The light-emitting device as claimed in claim 10 , wherein the refractive index of the first layer is more than that of the electrode layer.
12. The light-emitting device as claimed in claim 8 , wherein a following expression is satisfied:
n1d1≧λ/2
where λ is the peak wavelength of emission of the emitting layer, n1 is the refractive index of the first layer, and d1 is the thickness of the first layer.
13. The light-emitting device as claimed in claim 8 , wherein a following expression is satisfied:
n2d2≧λ/2
where λ is the peak wavelength of emission of the emitting layer, n2 is the refractive index of the second layer, and d2 is the thickness of the second layer.
14. The light-emitting device as claimed in claim 8 , wherein the transparent substrate is provided with a color conversion filter.
15. The light-emitting device as claimed in claim 8 , wherein the transparent substrate is provided with a color filter.
16. The light-emitting device as claimed in claim 8 , wherein the emission from the emitting layer is monochromatic light.
17. The light-emitting device as claimed in claim 16 , wherein the monochromatic light is blue light.
18. The light-emitting device as claimed in claim 8 , wherein the light-emitting device is an organic electroluminescence device.