IP Library Granted Patent US 11,925,097
Granted Patent B2
US 11,925,097 · App. 18/134,638 · Granted Mar 5, 2024

Display unit, display module, and electronic device

Inventors: Taisuke Kamada (Niiza, JP); Ryo Hatsumi (Hadano, JP); Daisuke Kubota (Atsugi, JP); Naoaki Hashimoto (Sagamihara, JP); Tsunenori Suzuki (Yokohama, JP); Harue Osaka (Atsugi, JP); Satoshi Seo (Sagamihara, JP)
Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
H10K65/00H10K39/32H10K50/16H10K50/17H10K50/865H10K59/12H10K59/40H10K2101/30
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Patent No.
US 11,925,097
App. No.
18/134,638
Granted
Mar 5, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

An object is to provide a highly reliable display unit having a function of sensing light. The display unit includes a light-receiving device and a light-emitting device. The light-receiving device includes an active layer between a pair of electrodes. The light-emitting device includes a hole-injection layer, a light-emitting layer, and an electron-transport layer between a pair of electrodes. The light-receiving device and the light-emitting device share one of the electrodes, and may further share another common layer between the pair of electrodes. The hole-injection layer is in contact with an anode and contains a first compound and a second compound. The electron-transport property of the electron-transport layer is low; hence, the light-emitting layer is less likely to have excess electrons. Here, the first compound is the material having a property of accepting electrons from the second compound.

Claims (48)

1. A display unit comprising:

a light-receiving device comprising:

a first pixel electrode;

an active layer over the first pixel electrode; and

a common electrode over the active layer;

a light-emitting device comprising:

a second pixel electrode;

a light-emitting layer over the second pixel electrode;

an electron-transport layer over the light-emitting layer; and

the common electrode over the electron-transport layer;

a light-blocking layer over the common electrode;

a resin layer over the light-blocking layer; and

a substrate over the resin layer,

wherein a first part of the light-blocking layer and a part of the resin layer overlap each other,

wherein a second part of the light-blocking layer and the resin layer do not overlap each other,

wherein a shortest distance between the common electrode and the first part of the light-blocking layer is smaller than a shortest distance between the common electrode and the second part of the light-blocking layer,

wherein the electron-transport layer comprises a first region and a second region,

wherein each of the first region and the second region comprises an electron-transport material and a first substance,

wherein the first region has a different concentration of the first substance from the second region, and

wherein the first substance is one of a metal, a metallic salt, a metal oxide and an organometallic complex.

2. The display unit according to claim 1 ,

wherein the first region is positioned between the light-emitting layer and the second region, and

wherein the first region has a higher concentration of the first substance than the second region.

3. The display unit according to claim 1 ,

wherein the electron-transport material has a highest occupied molecular orbital level higher than or equal to −6.0 eV, and

wherein the electron-transport material has an electron mobility higher than or equal to 1×10 −7 cm 2 /Vs and lower than or equal to 5×10 −5 cm 2 /Vs when a square root of electric field strength is 600 (V/cm) 1/2 .

4. The display unit according to claim 1 ,

wherein the light-emitting device further comprises a hole-injection layer,

wherein the hole-injection layer is in contact with one of the second pixel electrode and the common electrode,

wherein the one of the second pixel electrode and the common electrode is an anode,

wherein the hole-injection layer comprises a first compound and a second compound,

wherein the first compound has a property of accepting electrons from the second compound, and

wherein the second compound has a highest occupied molecular orbital level higher than or equal to −5.7 eV and lower than or equal to −5.4 eV.

5. The display unit according to claim 1 , wherein the light-receiving device further comprises the electron-transport layer over the active layer.

6. The display unit according to claim 1 ,

wherein the light-receiving device and the light-emitting device further comprise a common layer,

wherein the common layer is positioned over the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode,

wherein a first portion of the common layer and the active layer overlap each other, and

wherein a second portion of the common layer and the light-emitting layer overlap each other.

7. The display unit according to claim 1 , wherein the light-emitting device emits blue light.

8. The display unit according to claim 1 , wherein the light-emitting device is a fluorescent device.

9. The display unit according to claim 1 , wherein the resin layer has an island shape.

10. A display module comprising:

the display unit according to claim 1 ; and

one of a connector and an integrated circuit.

11. An electronic device comprising:

the display module according to claim 10 ; and

at least one of an antenna, a battery, a housing, a camera, a speaker, a microphone and an operation button.

Priority Claims (1)
JP 2019-126332 · Jul 5, 2019 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation 16914530 · Jun 29, 2020
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