IP Library Granted Patent US 9,153,791
Granted Patent B2
US 9,153,791 · App. 13/978,601 · Granted Oct 6, 2015

Organic EL display panel

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Patent No.
US 9,153,791
App. No.
13/978,601
Granted
Oct 6, 2015
Kind
B2
Abstract

An organic EL display panel offering improved luminance includes: a substrate; pixel electrodes arranged in rows and columns; an insulating film coating the confronting edges of pixel electrodes adjacent in a column direction; banks each elongated in the column direction over a gap between pixel electrodes adjacent in the row direction; a hole transport layer in a gap between the banks; an organic light-emitting layer over the hole transport layer; and a common electrode over the organic light-emitting layer. Light is emitted from a first light-emitting portion and second light-emitting portions of the light-emitting layer. The first light-emitting portion is a portion above the pixel electrodes excluding where the insulating film is disposed. The second light-emitting portions are portions above both the pixel electrodes and the insulating film.

Claims (23)

1. An organic EL display panel comprising:

a substrate;

a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged in rows and columns over the substrate;

an insulating film elongated in a row direction over the pixel electrodes, the insulating film having a portion recessed to coat edges of pixel electrodes adjacent in a column direction, the edges facing each other in the column direction;

a plurality of banks each elongated in the column direction over a region corresponding to a gap between pixel electrodes adjacent in the row direction;

a hole transport layer disposed above the pixel electrodes, and entirely above an upper surface of the insulating film in a gap between the banks;

an organic light-emitting layer disposed over the hole transport layer in the gap between the banks; and

a common electrode disposed over the organic light-emitting layer, wherein

a dielectric constant of the insulating film is at least 3.8,

the insulating film measures at least 10nm and at most 75nm in the thickness,

a hole mobility of the hole transport layer is at least 10 3 times and at most 10 5 times a hole mobility of the organic light-emitting layer, and

light is emitted from a first light-emitting portion and a second light-emitting portion of the light-emitting layer,

the first light-emitting portion being above the pixel electrodes excluding where the insulating film is disposed, and

the second light-emitting portion, with respect to a vertical direction, being above and vertically aligned with both the pixel electrodes and the insulating film, and

wherein a cross-sectional shape of each of the light emitting layer, the pixel electrodes, and the hole transport layer conforms to and to and extends across a width of a cross-sectional shape of a contact hole formed in an interlayer insulating film of the substrate so as to define a cavity above the contact hole.

2. The organic EL display panel according to claim 1 , wherein

the insulating film contains at least one selected from a group consisting of silicon oxide, silicon nitride and silicon oxynitride.

3. The organic EL display panel according to claim 1 , wherein

an amount of light emitted from the second light-emitting portion is at least 1/10 of an amount of light emitted from the first light-emitting portion.

4. The organic EL display panel according to claim 1 ,

wherein the second light-emitting portion is thinner than the first light-emitting portion.

5. The organic EL display panel according to claim 1 ,

wherein the insulating film contains at least one selected from a group consisting of hafnium silicon oxide and hafnium aluminum oxynitride.

Assignments (6)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 18, 2025
From: JDI DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT G.K.
To: MAGNOLIA BLUE CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 072039/0656 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 31, 2024
From: JOLED, INC.
To: JDI DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT G.K.
Reel/Frame 066382/0619 →
CORRECTION BY AFFIDAVIT FILED AGAINST REEL/FRAME 063396/0671 Recorded Jun 12, 2023
From: JOLED, INC.
To: JOLED, INC.
Reel/Frame 064067/0723 →
SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Apr 20, 2023
From: JOLED, INC.
To: INCJ, LTD.
Reel/Frame 063396/0671 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 12, 2015
From: PANASONIC CORPORATION
To: JOLED INC
Reel/Frame 035187/0483 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 30, 2013
From: AKAMATSU, KAORI; NENDAI, KENICHI; NISHIYAMA, SEIJI; MIZUSAKI, NAOKO
To: PANASONIC CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 031114/0718 →