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US 11,943,946 · App. 17/102,049 · Granted Mar 26, 2024

White organic light emitting element and display device using the same

Inventors: Wook Song (Seoul, KR); Eun-Jung Park (Goyang-si, KR); Chun-Ki Kim (Seoul, KR); Se-Ung Kim (Seoul, KR)
Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
H10K50/131H10K50/11H10K50/15H10K50/19H10K59/38H10K59/12H10K85/342H10K85/654H10K2101/10H10K2101/27H10K2101/30H10K2101/40H10K2101/90
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Patent No.
US 11,943,946
App. No.
17/102,049
Granted
Mar 26, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

Disclosed are a white organic light emitting element, which may uniformize the color coordinates of white regardless of a change in current density by changing the configuration of different kinds of light emitting layers contacting each other, and a display device using the same.

Claims (45)

1. A white organic light emitting element comprising:

a first electrode and a second electrode opposite each other; and

at least one blue light emitting stack and a phosphorescent light emitting stack provided between the first electrode and the second electrode and separated from each other by a charge generation layer,

wherein the phosphorescent light emitting stack comprises a hole transport layer, a red light emitting layer for emitting a single red color on the hole transport layer, a green light emitting layer on the red light emitting layer, and an electron transport layer on the green light emitting layer,

wherein the red light emitting layer comprises a red dopant and red hosts,

wherein the hole transport layer is positioned between the charge generation layer and the red light emitting layer, and

wherein the red dopant has a highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) energy level lower than a HOMO energy level of the hole transport layer, and higher than a HOMO energy level of the red hosts.

2. The white organic light emitting element according to claim 1 , wherein the red hosts comprise electron transporting hosts.

3. The white organic light emitting element according to claim 2 , wherein the electron transporting hosts are compounds having a triazine core.

4. The white organic light emitting element according to claim 2 , wherein the electron transporting hosts in the red light emitting layer comprise a first-type host and a second-type host having different electron mobilities,

wherein HOMO energy levels of the first-type host and the second-type host are lower than the HOMO energy level of the red dopant.

5. The white organic light emitting element according to claim 1 , wherein the red dopant is a compound of thienopyrimidine and iridium.

6. The white organic light emitting element according to claim 2 , wherein:

a content of the red dopant in the red light emitting layer is 1 wt % to 10 wt %; and

a content of a green dopant in the green light emitting layer is 3 wt % to 10 wt %.

7. The white organic light emitting element according to claim 6 , wherein a content of the electron transporting hosts in the red light emitting layer is 90 wt % to 99 wt %.

8. The white organic light emitting element according to claim 6 , wherein:

the red light emitting layer and the green light emitting layer contact each other;

the green light emitting layer comprises a hole transporting host, an electron transporting host, and the green dopant;

a total content of the hole transporting host and the electron transporting host in the green light emitting layer is 90 wt % to 97 wt %; and

a content of the hole transporting host in the green light emitting layer is higher than a content of the electron transporting host in the green light emitting layer.

9. The white organic light emitting element according to claim 8 , wherein a content of any one of the electron transporting hosts in the red light emitting layer is equal to a content of the electron transporting host in the green light emitting layer.

10. The white organic light emitting element according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one blue light emitting stack is provided between the first electrode and the second electrode.

11. The white organic light emitting element according to claim 10 , wherein each of the at least one blue light emitting stacks are provided on or under the phosphorescent light emitting stack, or is provided adjacent to the first electrode or the second electrode with the charge generation layer interposed between each of the at least one blue light emitting layer and the phosphorescent light emitting layer.

12. The white organic light emitting element according to claim 1 , wherein:

the red light emitting layer has an emission peak at wavelengths of 600 nm to 640 nm; and

the green light emitting layer has an emission peak at wavelengths of 500 nm to 540 nm.

13. The white organic light emitting element according to claim 1 , wherein:

the red light emitting layer has an emission peak at wavelengths of 600 nm to 640 nm; and

the green light emitting layer has an emission peak at wavelengths of 540 nm to 580 nm.

14. A display device comprising:

a substrate comprising a thin film transistor provided in each of a plurality of subpixels;

a first electrode connected to the thin film transistor in each subpixel, and a second electrode spaced apart from the first electrode and provided throughout the plurality of subpixels; and

at least one blue light emitting stack and a phosphorescent light emitting stack, provided between the first electrode and the second electrode and separated from each other by a charge generation layer,

wherein the phosphorescent light emitting stack comprises a hole transport layer, a red light emitting layer for emitting a single red color on the hole transport layer, a green light emitting layer on the red light emitting layer, and an electron transport layer on the green light emitting layer,

wherein the red light emitting layer comprises a red dopant and red hosts,

wherein the hole transport layer is positioned between the charge generation layer and the red light emitting layer, and

wherein the red dopant has a highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) energy level lower than a HOMO energy level of the hole transport layer, and higher than a HOMO energy level of the red hosts.

15. The display device according to claim 14 , wherein the red hosts comprise electron transporting hosts.

16. The display device according to claim 14 , further comprising color filters separated by the plurality of subpixels and provided under the first electrode or on the second electrode so as to transmit light having passed through the first electrode or the second electrode to produce different colored light between adjacent subpixels.

17. The display device according to claim 15 , wherein the electron transporting hosts are compounds having a triazine core.

18. The display device according to claim 15 , wherein the electron transporting hosts in the red light emitting layer comprise a first-type host and a second-type host having different electron mobilities,

wherein HOMO energy levels of the first-type host and the second-type host are lower than the HOMO energy level of the red dopant.

19. The display device according to claim 14 , wherein the red dopant is a compound of thienopyrimidine and iridium.

20. The white organic light emitting element according to claim 1 , wherein an energy level difference between the HOMO energy level of the red dopant and the HOMO energy level of the hole transport layer is 0.01 eV to 0.5 eV.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 23, 2020
From: SONG, WOOK; PARK, EUN-JUNG; KIM, CHUN-KI; KIM, SE-UNG
To: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 054506/0506 →
Priority Claims (1)
KR 10-2019-0161896 · Dec 6, 2019 · national
Continuity (1)
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