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Granted Patent B2
US 11,127,778 · App. 16/488,505 · Granted Sep 21, 2021

Light emitting transducer

Inventors: Jens William Larsen (Dronninglund, DK); Hans-Erik Kiil (Sønderborg, DK)
H01L27/156H01L27/3248H01L2227/323H01L2251/5338
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Patent No.
US 11,127,778
App. No.
16/488,505
Granted
Sep 21, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

A light emitting transducer including a flexible sheet having a bottom side and a top side, the flexible sheet including a substrate that is stretchable and compressible, the substrate having a bottom substrate surface at the bottom side, and a top substrate surface facing towards the top side, the top substrate surface comprising a surface pattern of a plurality of raised and depressed micro-scale surface portions which extend in at least one direction; a light emitting diode layer above the substrate and conforming in shape to the top substrate surface, the light emitting diode layer corresponding with the surface pattern of the top substrate surface, wherein the light emitting diode layer has a bottom diode surface facing towards the bottom side, and a top diode surface facing towards the top side, a bottom electrode on the bottom diode surface, and a top electrode on the top diode surface.

Claims (23)

1. A light emitting transducer comprising:

a flexible sheet having a bottom side and a top side, the flexible sheet including:

a silicone substrate that is stretchable and compressible, the substrate having a bottom substrate surface at the bottom side, and a top substrate surface facing towards the top side, the top substrate surface comprising a surface pattern of a plurality of raised and depressed micro-scale surface portions which extend in at least one direction;

a light emitting diode layer above the substrate and conforming in shape to the top substrate surface, the light emitting diode layer corresponding with the surface pattern of the top substrate surface, wherein the light emitting diode layer has a bottom diode surface facing towards the bottom side, and a top diode surface facing towards the top side,

a bottom electrode on the bottom diode surface; and

a top electrode on the top diode surface;

wherein the top substrate surface is plasma-treated for forming SiOx.

2. The light emitting transducer according to claim 1 , wherein the light emitting diode layer comprises one or more organic diodes, or one or more inorganic semiconductor diodes, or one or more polymer diodes, or one or more quantum dots.

3. The light emitting transducer according to claim 1 , further comprising a TFT-array having a plurality of interconnected thin-film transistors, the thin-film transistors corresponding with respective diodes at the light emitting diode layer.

4. The light emitting transducer according to claim 1 , further comprising a bottom smoothing layer between the substrate and the bottom electrode, and wherein the bottom smoothing layer comprises SiO x .

5. The light emitting transducer according to claim 1 , wherein the light emitting transducer is a top emitter configured to emit light in an opposite direction relative to the silicone substrate.

6. The light emitting transducer according to claim 1 , wherein the plurality of raised and depressed micro-scale surface portions define parallel wave fronts in one or two directions.

7. The light emitting transducer according to claim 1 , wherein the light emitting transducer is a bottom emitter configured to emit light through the silicone substrate.

8. The light emitting transducer according to claim 1 , wherein the plurality of raised and depressed micro-scale surface portions extend in two directions.

9. The light emitting transducer according to claim 1 , wherein the light emitting diode layer comprises a plurality of diodes.

10. The light emitting transducer according to claim 1 , wherein the top electrode is transparent.

11. The light emitting transducer according to claim 1 , further comprising a bottom encapsulating layer below the bottom electrode and above the substrate.

12. The light emitting transducer according to claim 11 , wherein the bottom encapsulating layer comprises a nitride-based layer or an oxide-based layer or an oxi-nitride based layer.

13. The light emitting transducer according to claim 1 , further comprising a top encapsulating layer above the top electrode.

14. The light emitting transducer according to claim 13 , wherein the top encapsulating layer comprises a nitride-based layer or an oxide-based layer or oxi-nitride based layer.

15. The light emitting transducer according to claim 1 , wherein the top electrode comprises a conductive polymer.

16. The light emitting transducer according to claim 15 , wherein the top electrode comprises a metallic electrode between the conductive polymer and the light emitting diode layer.

17. The light emitting transducer according to claim 15 , wherein the top electrode has a planar top electrode surface.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 19, 2019
From: LARSEN, JENS WILLIAM; KIIL, HANS-ERIK
To: FLEXUCELL APS
Reel/Frame 050429/0981 →
Priority Claims (1)
DK PA 2017 70143 · Feb 24, 2017 · national
Continuity (1)
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