IP Library Granted Patent US 8,729,570
Granted Patent B2
US 8,729,570 · App. 13/053,900 · Granted May 20, 2014

Mask frame assembly for thin film deposition, organic light-emitting display device using the same, and method of manufacturing the organic light-emitting display device

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Patent No.
US 8,729,570
App. No.
13/053,900
Granted
May 20, 2014
Kind
B2
Abstract

A mask frame assembly for thin film deposition, an organic light-emitting display device using the same, and a method of manufacturing the organic light-emitting display device. The organic light-emitting display device includes a first electrode and a second electrode patterned on a substrate to face each other, and a plurality of organic layers formed between the first and second electrodes. The plurality of organic layers include at least a plurality of stripe-shaped organic layers and a plurality of discontinuous dot-shaped organic layers.

Claims (19)

1. An organic light-emitting display device, comprising:

a first electrode and a second electrode formed on a substrate and facing each other; and

a plurality of organic layers formed between the first and second electrodes, the plurality of organic layers comprising:

a plurality of stripe-shaped first organic light-emitting layers continuously extending from a first terminal portion of the substrate to a second and opposite terminal portion of the substrate along a first direction;

a plurality of stripe-shaped second organic light-emitting layers continuously extending from a third terminal portion of the substrate to a fourth and opposite terminal portion of the substrate along a second direction and crossing the first organic layers; and

a plurality of discontinuous dot-shaped organic light-emitting layers discontinuously formed from the third terminal portion of the substrate to the fourth terminal portion of the substrate along a direction parallel to the second direction, each discontinuous dot-shaped organic light-emitting layer arranged in a space surrounded by two immediately adjacent stripe-shaped first organic light-emitting layers and by two immediately adjacent stripe-shaped second organic light-emitting layers and constituting one pixel together with one of the immediately adjacent stripe-shaped first organic light-emitting layers and one of the immediately adjacent stripe-shaped second organic light-emitting layers.

2. The organic light-emitting display device of claim 1 , wherein each discontinuous dot-shaped organic light-emitting layer is spaced-apart from at least one of the stripe-shaped first and second organic light-emitting layers that are immediately adjacent to the respective discontinuous dot-shaped organic light-emitting layer.

3. The organic light-emitting display device of claim 1 , wherein surface areas of the organic light-emitting layers are established to be inversely proportional to light-emission efficiencies of materials for forming the organic light-emitting layers.

4. The organic light-emitting display device of claim 1 , wherein, among the plurality of organic light-emitting layers, a surface area of an emission region of an organic light-emitting layer formed of material having a relatively low light-emission efficiency is greater than a surface area of an emission region of another organic light-emitting layer formed of material having a relatively high light-emission efficiency.

5. The organic light-emitting display device of claim 4 , each one of a surface area of an emission region of each one of the stripe-shaped first organic light-emitting layers and a surface area of an emission region of each one of the dot-shaped organic light-emitting layers, being greater than a surface area of an emission region of each one of the stripe-shaped second organic light-emitting layers, wherein one stripe-shaped first organic light-emitting layer, one dot-shaped organic light-emitting layer, and one stripe-shaped second organic light-emitting layer together constitute one pixel.

6. A method of manufacturing an organic light-emitting display device, the method comprising:

forming stripe-shaped first organic light-emitting layers continuously extending from a first terminal portion of a substrate to a second and opposite terminal portion of the substrate along a first direction;

forming stripe-shaped second organic light-emitting layers continuously extending from a third terminal portion of the substrate to a fourth and opposite terminal portion of the substrate along a second direction, the stripe-shaped second organic light-emitting layers crossing the stripe-shaped first organic light-emitting layers; and

forming dot-shaped third organic light-emitting layers discontinuously formed from the third terminal portion of the substrate to the fourth terminal portion of the substrate along a direction parallel to the second direction, each discontinuous dot-shaped third organic light-emitting layer arranged in a space surrounded by two immediately adjacent stripe-shaped first organic light-emitting layers and by two immediately adjacent stripe-shaped second organic light-emitting layers and constituting one pixel together with one of the immediately adjacent stripe-shaped first organic light-emitting layers and one of the immediately adjacent stripe-shaped second organic light-emitting layers.

7. The method of claim 6 , wherein each discontinuous dot-shaped third organic light-emitting layer extends between two of the stripe-shaped first organic light-emitting layers that are immediately adjacent to the respective discontinuous dot-shaped third organic light-emitting layer.

8. The method of claim 6 , wherein each discontinuous dot-shaped third organic light-emitting layer is formed spaced-apart from at least one of the stripe-shaped first and second organic light-emitting layers that are immediately adjacent to the respective discontinuous dot-shaped third organic light-emitting layer.

9. The method of claim 6 , wherein surface areas of the organic layers light-emitting are established to be inversely proportional to light-emission efficiencies of materials for forming the organic light-emitting layers.

10. The method of claim 6 , wherein, among the organic light-emitting layers, a surface area of an emission region of an organic layer formed of material having a relatively low light-emission efficiency is greater than a surface area of an emission region of another organic layer formed of material having a relatively high light-emission efficiency.

11. The method of claim 10 , each one of a surface area of an emission region of each one of the stripe-shaped first organic light-emitting layers and a surface area of an emission region of each one of the dot-shaped organic light-emitting layer, being greater than a surface area of an emission region of each one of the stripe-shaped second organic light-emitting layers, wherein one stripe-shaped first organic light-emitting layer, one dot-shaped organic light-emitting layer, and one stripe-shaped second organic light-emitting layer together constitute one pixel.

Assignments (2)
MERGER Recorded Sep 21, 2012
From: SAMSUNG MOBILE DISPLAY CO., LTD.
To: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 029241/0599 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 15, 2011
From: LEE, KANG-IL; PARK, JAE-SEOK; CHO, YOUNG-GEUN
To: SAMSUNG MOBILE DISPLAY CO., LTD. A CORPORATION CHARTERED IN AND EXISTING UNDER THE LAW OF THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA
Reel/Frame 026209/0151 →