Organic light emitting diode display
View Patent ↗An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display including a substrate main body; a thin film transistor on the substrate main body; and an organic light emitting diode including a transparent electrode connected with the thin film transistor and being capable of injecting electrons, an organic emission layer on the transparent electrode, and a reflective electrode on the organic emission layer and being capable of injecting holes, wherein the organic emission layer includes an electron injection unit on the transparent electrode, the electron injection unit including an electron injection metal layer, an electron injection layer, and an electron injection dipole layer, and a light emitting unit on the electron injection unit.
1. An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display, comprising:
a substrate main body;
a thin film transistor on the substrate main body; and
an organic light emitting diode including a transparent electrode connected with the thin film transistor and being capable of injecting electrons, an organic emission layer on the transparent electrode, and a reflective electrode on the organic emission layer and being capable of injecting holes,
wherein the organic emission layer includes:
an electron injection unit on the transparent electrode, the electron injection unit including an electron injection metal layer on the transparent electrode, an electron injection layer, and an electron injection dipole layer,
a light emitting unit on the electron injection unit,
a hole injection unit between the light emitting unit and the reflective electrode, the hole injection unit including a hole injection dipole layer on the light emitting unit and a hole injection layer on the hole injection dipole layer, and
a hole transport layer between the hole injection unit and the light emitting unit,
wherein the electron injection layer is between the electron injection metal layer and the electron injection dipole layer, and
wherein the hole injection dipole layer is between the hole injection layer and the hole transport layer.
2. The OLED display as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the thin film transistor is an N-type thin film transistor.
3. The OLED display as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the thin film transistor is an amorphous silicon thin film transistor.
4. The OLED display as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the transparent electrode has a work function greater than about 4.5 eV.
5. The OLED display as claimed in claim 4 , wherein the transparent electrode includes at least one of indium tin oxide (ITO), indium zinc oxide (IZO), zinc indium tin oxide (ZITO), gallium indium tin oxide (GITO), indium oxide (In 2 O 3 ), zinc oxide (ZnO), gallium indium zinc oxide (GIZO), gallium zinc oxide (GZO), fluorine tin oxide (FTO), and aluminum-doped zinc oxide (AZO).
6. The OLED display as claimed in claim 4 , wherein the reflective electrode has a work function lower than about 4.5 eV.
7. The OLED display as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the electron injection metal layer has a work function lower than about 4.5 eV.
8. The OLED display as claimed in claim 1 , wherein at least one of the reflective electrode and the electron injection metal layer includes at least one of silver (Ag), lithium (Li), magnesium (Mg), calcium (Ca), zinc (Zn), and aluminum (Al).
9. The OLED display as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the electron injection dipole layer includes at least one of fullerene (C 60 ), fluorinated copper-phthalocyanine (F 16 CuPc), tetracyanoquinodimethane (TCNQ), 11,11,12,12-tetracyano-1,4-naphthaquinodimethane (TCNNQ), perylene tetracarboxylic diimide (PTCDI), 1,4;5,8-naphthalene-tetracarboxylic diimide (NTCDI), and 1,4,5,8-naphthalene-tetracarboxylic-dianhydride (NTCDA).
10. The OLED display as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising an electron transport layer between the electron injection unit and the light emitting unit.
11. The OLED display as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the hole injection dipole layer includes at least one of fullerene (C 60 ), fluorinated copper-phthalocyanine (F 16 CuPc), tetracyanoquinodimethane (TCNQ), 11,11,12,12-tetracyano-1,4-naphthaquinodimethane (TCNNQ), perylene tetracarboxylic diimide (PTCDI), 4;5,8-naphthalene-tetracarboxylic diimide (NTCDI 1), and 1,4,5,8-naphthalene-tetracarboxylic-dianhydride (NTCDA).
12. The OLED display as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the hole injection dipole layer includes a metal oxidation layer having a dipole characteristic.
13. The OLED display as claimed in claim 12 , wherein the metal oxidation layer having the dipole characteristic includes at least one of molybdenum oxide, tungsten oxide, vanadium oxide, rhenium oxide, and ruthenium oxide.
14. The OLED display as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the electron injection dipole layer includes at least one of fluorinated copper-phthalocyanine (F 16 CuPc), tetracyanoquinodimethane (TCNQ), 11,11,12,12-tetracyano-1,4-naphthaquinodimethane (TCNNQ), perylene tetracarboxylic diimide (PTCDI), 1,4;5,8-naphthalene-tetracarboxylic diimide (NTCDI), and 1,4,5,8-naphthalene-tetracarboxylic-dianhydride (NTCDA).
15. The OLED display as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the hole injection dipole layer includes at least one of fullerene (C 60 ), fluorinated copper-phthalocyanine (F 16 CuPc), tetracyanoquinodimethane (TCNQ), 11,11,12,12-tetracyano-1,4-naphthaquinodimethane (TCNNQ), perylene tetracarboxylic diimide (PTCDI), and 4;5,8-naphthalene-tetracarboxylic diimide (NTCDI 1).
16. The OLED display as claimed in claim 12 , wherein the metal oxidation layer having the dipole characteristic includes at least one of tungsten oxide, rhenium oxide, and ruthenium oxide.