Organic light emitting diode display
View Patent ↗An OLED display for improving white light emitting efficiency and simplifying a manufacturing process includes a plurality of pixels, each of the pixels having a transistor unit, a color filter unit and an organic light emitting device unit. The transistor unit converts signals from the outside into driving signals for driving an organic light emitting device unit. The organic light emitting device unit is composed of blue, red and green emission layers each having different areas. By passing white light through a color filer, the OLED display can realize full color.
1. An organic light emitting diode display comprising:
a first electrode;
a second electrode;
a plurality of organic emission layers disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode; and
a color filter layer which passes light emitted from the plurality of organic emission layers when a voltage is applied to at least one of the first and second electrodes,
wherein the plurality of organic emission layers are sequentially stacked and each have a different surface area.
2. The organic light emitting diode display of claim 1 , wherein each of the organic emission layers emits one of red, green and blue light.
3. The organic light emitting diode display of claim 2 ,
wherein the organic emission layers include red, green and blue emission layers, and
wherein the blue emission layer has a wider area than those of the red and green emission layers.
4. The organic light emitting diode of claim 2 ,
wherein the organic emission layers include a first emission layer adjacent to the first electrode, and second and third emission layers separated from the first electrode, and
wherein the first emission layer has a wider area than those of the second and third emission layers.
5. The organic light emitting diode display of claim 2 ,
wherein the organic emission layers include a first emission layer adjacent to the second electrode, and second and third emission layers separated from the second electrode, and
wherein the first emission layer has a wider area than those of the second and third emission layers.
6. The organic light emitting diode display of claim 2 , wherein at least one edge of each of the plurality of organic emission layers is aligned with each other,
wherein the edge is defined as the side of the organic emission layer which is perpendicular to the plane of the substrate on which the layer is formed.
7. The organic light emitting diode display of claim 2 , wherein a center of each of the plurality of organic emission layers is aligned with each other.
8. The organic light emitting diode display of claim 2 , wherein the color filter layer is overlapped with the plurality of organic emission layers.
9. The organic light emitting diode display of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of organic emission layers includes a red emission layer intermediate a blue emission layer and a green emission layer.
10. An organic light emitting diode display comprising:
a gate electrode which provides gate signals;
a data electrode which provides data signals;
a power source electrode which provides power source signals;
a switching transistor and a driving transistor operated in response to signals provided from the gate electrode, the data electrode, and the power source electrode;
a first electrode electrically connected to the driving transistor;
a second electrode disposed opposite the first electrode;
first, second and third emission layers disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode to be overlapped with each other; and
a color filter overlapped with the first, second and third emission layers,
wherein the first, second and third emission layers each have different emission surface areas.
11. The organic light emitting diode display of claim 10 , wherein the first, second and third emission layers are formed by deposition using a plurality of shadow masks each having different opening areas.
12. The organic light emitting diode display of claim 10 , wherein the second emission layer is a red emission layer intermediate blue and green emission layers corresponding to the first and third emission layers, respectively.