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Granted Patent B2
US 10,741,619 · App. 15/289,538 · Granted Aug 11, 2020

Light-emitting device and display device

Inventors: Satoshi Seo (Kanagawa, JP); Toshiki Sasaki (Kanagawa, JP); Nobuharu Ohsawa (Kanagawa, JP); Takahiro Ushikubo (Kanagawa, JP); Shunpei Yamazaki (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
H01L27/322H01L51/504H01L51/5215H01L51/5218H01L51/5221H01L51/5234H01L51/5265H01L51/5278H01L2251/558
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Patent No.
US 10,741,619
App. No.
15/289,538
Granted
Aug 11, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

A technique of manufacturing a display device with high productivity is provided. In addition, a high-definition display device with high color purity is provided. By adjusting the optical path length between an electrode having a reflective property and a light-emitting layer by the central wavelength of a wavelength range of light passing through a color filter layer, the high-definition display device with high color purity is provided without performing selective deposition of light-emitting layers. In a light-emitting element, a plurality of light-emitting layers emitting light of different colors are stacked. The closer the light-emitting layer is to the electrode having a reflective property, the longer the wavelength of light emitted from the light-emitting layer is.

Claims (46)

1. A light-emitting device, comprising a plurality of pixels on a substrate, wherein each pixel comprises:

a first pixel comprising:

a transistor;

a first light-emitting element further away from the substrate than the transistor and driven by the transistor, the first light-emitting element sequentially comprising a first electrode, a light-emitting layer, and a second electrode having a light-transmitting property in a direction away from the substrate, wherein the first electrode comprises a layer having a reflective property; and

a first color filter layer over the first light-emitting element;

a second pixel comprising:

a second light-emitting element; and

a second color filter layer over the second light-emitting element,

wherein color filter layers of pixels of different colors each have a thickness less than or equal to 1.4 μm,

wherein each pixel is arranged so that a cavity effect is obtained,

wherein the first light-emitting element has a thickness different from a thickness of the second light-emitting element,

wherein, in the first pixel, an optical path between the first electrode and the light-emitting layer is adjusted so that a peak of spectrum of light emitted from the light-emitting layer is in a first central wavelength of a wavelength range in which transmittance of the first color filter layer is 50% or more,

wherein in the second pixel, an optical path between the first electrode and the light-emitting layer is adjusted so that a peak of spectrum of light emitted from the light-emitting layer is in a second central wavelength of a wavelength range in which transmittance of the second color filter layer is 50% or more, and

wherein the first central wavelength is longer than the second central wavelength.

2. The light-emitting device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the layer having a reflective property is made of any metal selected from the consisting of silver, aluminum, molybdenum, copper, and chrome, an alloy of aluminum and titanium, or an alloy of silver and copper; and/or

wherein the second electrode is made of any of indium tin oxide, indium zinc oxide, and graphene.

3. The light-emitting device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the first light-emitting element comprises:

a second light-emitting layer between the first electrode and the second electrode; and

a third light-emitting layer between the first electrode and the second electrode,

wherein a wavelength of a color of light emitted from the light-emitting layer is longer than a wavelength of a color of light emitted from the second light-emitting layer, and the wavelength of the color of light emitted from the second light-emitting layer is longer than a wavelength of a color of light emitted from the third light-emitting layer.

4. The light-emitting device according to claim 1 , wherein the transistor comprises a channel formation region comprising an oxide semiconductor.

5. The light-emitting device according to claim 1 , wherein the transistor comprises a channel formation region comprising indium and oxygen.

6. A light-emitting device comprising:

a first pixel comprises:

a first transistor;

a first light-emitting element over and electrically connected to the first transistor, the first light-emitting element comprising a first electrode, a light-emitting layer over the first electrode; and

a first color filter layer over the first light-emitting element,

a second pixel comprises:

a second transistor;

a second light-emitting element over and electrically connected to the second transistor, the second light-emitting element comprising a first electrode, the light-emitting layer over the first electrode; and

a second color filter layer over the second light-emitting element,

wherein a color of the first pixel differs from a color of the second pixel,

wherein each of the first color filter layer and the second color filter layer has a thickness less than or equal to 1.4 μm,

wherein a distance between a top surface of the first color filter layer and a top surface of the light-emitting layer differs from a distance between a top surface of the second color filter layer and the top surface of the light-emitting layer,

wherein the first light-emitting element has a thickness different from a thickness of the second light-emitting element,

wherein, in the first pixel, an optical path between the first electrode and the light-emitting layer is adjusted so that a peak of spectrum of light emitted from the light-emitting layer is in a first central wavelength of a wavelength range in which transmittance of the first color filter layer is 50% or more,

wherein in the second pixel, an optical path between the first electrode and the light-emitting layer is adjusted so that a peak of spectrum of light emitted from the light-emitting layer is in a second central wavelength of a wavelength range in which transmittance of the second color filter layer is 50% or more, and

wherein the first central wavelength is longer than the second central wavelength.

7. The light-emitting device according to claim 6 ,

wherein the first light-emitting element and the second light-emitting element comprise a second light-emitting layer and a third light-emitting layer, and

wherein a wavelength of a color of light emitted from the light-emitting layer is longer than a wavelength of a color of light emitted from the second light-emitting layer, and the wavelength of the color of light emitted from the second light-emitting layer is longer than a wavelength of a color of light emitted from the third light-emitting layer.

8. The light-emitting device according to claim 6 , wherein the first transistor comprises a channel formation region comprising an oxide semiconductor.

9. The light-emitting device according to claim 6 , wherein the first transistor comprises a channel formation region comprising indium and oxygen.

10. The light-emitting device according to claim 1 , wherein a thickness of each of the color filter layers is controlled based on a concentration of a coloring material and a transmittance of light in the respective color filter layers.

Priority Claims (1)
JP 2011-027961 · Feb 11, 2011 · national
Continuity (3)
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