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US 9,741,777 · App. 15/130,017 · Granted Aug 22, 2017

Bottom-emitting OLED display panel

Inventor: Huifeng Wang (Beijing, CN)
Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
H01L27/3258H01L27/3248H01L27/3262H01L51/5206H01L51/5271H01L2251/301H01L2251/5307H01L2251/558
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Patent No.
US 9,741,777
App. No.
15/130,017
Granted
Aug 22, 2017
Kind
B2
Abstract

A bottom-emitting OLED display panel is provided. The bottom-emitting OLED display panel includes: a driving transistor disposed on a substrate; a protective layer covering the driving transistor; a planarization layer disposed on the protective layer; and a OLED device disposed on the planarization layer; and a reflective structure disposed between the protective layer and the planarization layer, the reflective structure is configured for reflecting light emitted from the OLED device and radiated on the reflective structure; a bottom surface of the reflective structure which is close to the protective layer at least covers a region occupied by the driving transistor.

Claims (31)

1. A bottom-emitting organic-light-emitting-diode (OLED) display panel, comprising:

a driving transistor disposed on a substrate,

a protective layer covering the driving transistor;

a planarization layer disposed on the protective layer;

an OLED device disposed on the planarization layer; and

a reflective structure disposed between the protective layer and the planarization layer, the reflective structure is configured for reflecting light emitted from the OLED device and radiated on the reflective structure;

a bottom surface of the reflective structure which is close to the protective layer at least covers a region occupied by the driving transistor.

2. The bottom-emitting OLED display panel according to claim 1 , wherein the reflective structure comprises a body part and a reflection layer.

3. The bottom-emitting OLED display panel according to claim 2 , wherein, the body part has a bottom surface and a top surface arranged in parallel, and at least one side surface connecting the bottom surface and the top surface, the side surface is a concave cambered surface or a flat surface, and the reflective layer is at least disposed on one side surface of the body part.

4. The bottom-emitting OLED display panel according to claim 3 , wherein an area of the bottom surface is larger than an area of the top surface, the bottom surface and the top surface are rectangles with geometric centers overlapped, and two adjacent sides of the rectangles respectively parallel a gate line and a data line of the bottom-emitting OLED display panel, and the body part has four side surfaces.

5. The bottom-emitting OLED display panel according to claim 2 , wherein along a direction perpendicular to a panel surface of the bottom-emitting OLED display panel, a cross section pattern of the body part has a circular arc, and the circular arc is a semicircle or an inferior arc; and

the reflective layer at least covers half of the circular arc, the half of the circular arc has a halving line in a direction in parallel with a gate line or a data line of the bottom-emitting OLED display panel.

6. The bottom-emitting OLED display panel according to claim 4 , wherein the reflective layer is arranged on the four side surfaces of the body part, and the top surface and the bottom surface are both square.

7. The bottom-emitting OLED display panel according to claim 3 , wherein

the side surface of the body part is a concave cambered surface, and the concave cambered surface has a radian of 5 to 30° covered by the reflective layer; or

the side surface of the body part is a flat surface, and an angle between the flat surface covered by the reflective layer and the bottom surface is 5 to 30°.

8. The bottom-emitting OLED display panel according to claim 5 , wherein an angle between a tangent line at an end point of the inferior arc and the bottom surface of the reflective structure which is close to the protective layer is 5 to 30°.

9. The bottom-emitting OLED display panel according to claim 2 , wherein

the OLED device includes a transparent anode, an organic material functional layer and a metal cathode, which are gradually farther from the substrate; and

the transparent anode is connected with a drain electrode of the driving transistor via a through hole passing through the planarization layer, the reflective structure and the protective layer.

10. The bottom-emitting OLED display panel according to claim 9 , wherein

the through hole passes through the reflective structure in a top surface of the body part.

11. The bottom-emitting OLED display panel according to claim 8 , wherein, the OLED device includes a transparent anode, an organic material functional layer and a metal cathode, which are gradually farther from the substrate;

the transparent anode is connected with a drain electrode of the driving transistor via a through hole passing through the planarization layer, the reflective structure and the protective layer,

the through hole passes through the reflective structure via another half of the circular arc that is not covered by the reflective layer.

12. The bottom-emitting OLED display panel according to claim 2 , wherein the reflective layer is mainly constituted of at least one selected from the group consisting of a metal simple substance and a metal alloy;

wherein the metal simple substance is selected from the group consisting of argentum, zinc, aluminium, cuprum, manganese, germanium, yttrium, bismuth, scandium and cobalt,

the metal alloy comprises at least one selected from the group consisting of argentum alloy, zinc alloy, aluminium alloy, cuprum alloy, manganese alloy, germanium alloy, yttrium alloy, bismuth alloy, scandium alloy and cobalt alloy.

13. The bottom-emitting OLED display panel according to claim 2 , wherein the reflective layer has a thickness of 20 nm to 500 nm.

14. The bottom-emitting OLED display panel according to claim 2 , wherein the body part is mainly constituted of a photosensitive resin material.

15. The bottom-emitting OLED display panel according to claim 2 , wherein the body part has a thickness of 1 μm to 10 μm.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 15, 2016
From: WANG, HUIFENG
To: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 038295/0382 →
Priority Claims (1)
CN 2015 1 0634549 · Sep 29, 2015 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20170092707A1 · Mar 30, 2017