IP Library Patent Application 12195785
Patent Application
App. No. 12/195,785

ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT DISPLAY DEVICE HAVING SCATTERING MEMBER

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App. No.
12/195,785
Abstract

An organic electroluminescent display device includes: a substrate; a lower electrode; an organic electroluminescent layer; and an upper electrode, in this order, wherein the organic electroluminescent display device further comprises a scattering member on or above the upper electrode.

Claims (57)

1 . An organic electroluminescent display device, comprising:

a substrate;

a lower electrode;

an organic electroluminescent layer; and

an upper electrodes in this order,

wherein the organic electroluminescent display device further comprises a scattering member on or above the upper electrode.

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

wherein the scattering member is a light diffusing film.

3 . The organic electroluminescent display device according to claim 2 ,

wherein the light diffusing film contains:

a transparent substrate film; and

a light diffusing layer that contains:

a transparent resin composition; and

a light scattering particle, the light scattering particle having a refractive index different from a refractive index of the transparent resin composition,

wherein the refractive index of the transparent resin composition contained in the light diffusing layer is 1.6 or more.

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

wherein the transparent resin composition of the light diffusing layer contains at least one kind of an inorganic fine particle selected from the group consisting of ZrO 2 , TiO 2 , SnO 2 and ZnO.

5 . The organic electroluminescent display device according to claim 3 ,

wherein the refractive index of the light scattering particle contained in the light diffusing layer is 1.55 or less.

6 . The organic electroluminescent display device according to claim 3 ,

wherein an average diameter of the light scattering particle contained in the light diffusing layer is from 0.1 to 2.0 μ.

7 . The organic electroluminescent display device according to claim 2 ,

wherein the light diffusing film contains:

a transparent substrate film; and

a light diffusing layer that contains:

a transparent resin composition; and

at least one kind of fine particle selected from the group consisting of ZrO 2 , TiO 2 , SnO 2 and ZnO contained in the transparent resin composition, the at least one kind of fine particle having an average particle diameter of 50 to 300 nm.

8 . The organic electroluminescent display device according to claim 3 ,

wherein the light diffusing film further contains a low refractive index layer between the transparent substrate film and the light diffusing layer.

9 . The organic electroluminescent display device according to claim 8 ,

wherein a refractive index of the low refractive index layer is 1.45 or less.

10 . The organic electroluminescent display device according to claim 8 ,

wherein the low refractive index layer contains a hollow silica.

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

wherein the scattering member is a color filter.

12 . The organic electroluminescent display device according to claim 11 ,

wherein the color filter is obtained by curing a curable composition containing a colorant and a light scattering particle.

13 . The organic electroluminescent display device according to claim 12 ,

wherein a refractive index of the curable composition at the curing is 1.6 or more.

14 . The organic electroluminescent display device according to claim 12 ,

wherein the curable composition contains at least one kind of an inorganic fine particle selected from the group consisting of ZrO 2 , TiO 2 , SnO 2 and ZnO.

15 . The organic electroluminescent display device according to claim 12 ,

wherein a refractive index of the light scattering particle is 1.55 or less.

16 . The organic electroluminescent display device according to claim 12 ,

wherein an average diameter of the light scattering particle is from 0.1 to 2.0 μm.

17 . The organic electroluminescent display device according to claim 12 ,

wherein the light scattering particle is at least one kind of fine particle selected from the group consisting of ZrO 2 , TiO 2 , SnO 2 and ZnO having an average particle diameter of 50 to 300 nm.

18 . The organic electroluminescent display device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the scattering member is laminated directly on the upper electrode.

19 . The organic electroluminescent display device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the scattering member is laminated on the upper electrode through a barrier layer and laminated directly on the barrier layer.

20 . The organic electroluminescent display device according to claim 2 ,

wherein the light diffusing film is laminated on the upper electrode or a barrier layer provided on the upper electrode through an adhesion layer.

21 . The organic electroluminescent display device according to claim 20 ,

wherein a refractive index of the adhesion layer is 1.6 or more.

22 . The organic electroluminescent display device according to claim 20 ,

wherein the adhesion layer contains at least one kind of an inorganic fine particle selected from the group consisting of ZrO 2 , TiO 2 , SnO 2 and ZnO.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 1, 2012
From: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
To: UDC IRELAND LIMITED
Reel/Frame 028889/0759 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 21, 2008
From: SANETO, RYUJI; YANAI, YUJIRO; SAITOH, YUKITO
To: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 021424/0249 →