11267 results about "OLED" patented technology

A pixel structure of an active matrix organic light-emitting diode (AMOLED) includes an organic light-emitting diode (OLED), a data line, at least one scan line, at least one switch thin film transistor (TFT), at least one driving TFT and at least one storage capacitor with two transparent electrodes. Since both the electrodes of the transparent storage capacitor are formed by transparent material, the aperture ratio of the pixel and the area of the capacitor largely increase and can reach 50%˜95% of a pixel area. Thus, the display quality of an AMOLED panel can be improved.

A process for preparing a compound having the formula L2IrL′ is provided. The process comprises: combining and L′ in the presence of an organic solvent to form a mixture, wherein L is a suitable carbene ligand precursor coordinated to Ir; and L′ is a bidentate ligand or two monodentate ligands, and L is different from L′; Also provided is a process for preparing a compound having the formula The process comprises: (a) combining L, a carbene ligand precursor, with an organic solvent; (b) maintaining the mixture of step (a) at a temperature from about 175° C. to less than the boiling point of the organic solvent in (a). A process for preparing a compound with the formula L3Ir is also provided. This process comprises combining and L in the presence of alcohol and a base to form a mixture, wherein L is a bidentate ligand that may form a five-membered chelate ring.

An OLED device comprising a cathode, an anode, and having located therebetween a light emitting layer containing an emitting compound having formula (I): (piq)b M ppy   (I) wherein piq is a phenylisoquinoline group and ppy is a phenylpyridine group bearing at least one further substituent on the pyridine ring, wherein M is Ir, Rh, Pt, or Pd and b is 2 in the case of Ir and Rh and 1 in the case of Pt and Pd.

Compositions are provided comprising aqueous dispersions of at least one polypyrrole and at least one colloid-forming polymeric acids at methods of making such compositions. The new compositions are useful in electronic devices including organic electronic devices such as organic light emitting diode displays, memory storage, electromagnetic shielding, electrochromic displays,and thin film transistors, field effect resistance devices.

A compound for an organic optoelectronic device represented by Chemical Formula 1wherein, in Chemical Formula 1, variables A, Y1 to Y4, X1, m, R1 to R4, L1 to L3, n1 to n3, Ar1 and Ar2 are described in the specification.

The present invention relates to a novel organometallic compound, and more particularly, to a luminescent organometallic compound in which intermolecular interaction is inhibited by means of introducing a germanium substituent, thereby improving light-emitting characteristics. The present invention also relates to an organic electronic device, specifically, to an organic light-emitting diode using the compound. According to the present invention, a germanium substituent is introduced to the parent organometallic iridium compound, thus inhibiting an intermolecular interaction in the solid state and enabling the compound of the present invention to be effectively used in solution processing. When the compound of the present invention is used as part of a light-emitting layer of an organic light-emitting diode, the light-emitting efficiency of the light-emitting diode may be significantly improved. Therefore, the compound of the present invention may be effectively used as a material for an organic light-emitting diode.

There is provided a method for driving an organic light emitting diode (OLED) pixel circuit. The method includes applying a first signal to a terminal of the OLED when setting a state of the pixel circuit, and applying a second signal to the terminal when viewing the state. There is also provided a driver for an OLED pixel circuit, where the driver employs this method.

There is provided a method for driving an organic light emitting diode (OLED) pixel circuit. The method includes applying a first signal to a terminal of the OLED when setting a state of the pixel circuit, and applying a second signal to the terminal when viewing the state. There is also provided a driver for an OLED pixel circuit, where the driver employs this method.

The invention provides an organic light emitting diode active driving system with current feedback, thereby a driving current for organic light emitting diode is not affected by variation of characteristic parameters of thin film transistor under an active driving mode. The active driving system in accordance with the invention includes a transistor and a current comparator for driving an organic light emitting diode. The transistor has two current carrying electrodes respectively connected to a cathode of the organic light emitting diode and ground, and a gate controlled by a data signal. The current comparator has two input terminals respectively receive a reference current with predetermined value and a driving current flowing through the organic light emitting diode. The current comparator compares the reference current and the driving current, and then outputs a voltage to the gate of the transistor in response to the comparison result so as to make the value of the driving current equal to that of the reference current. Therefore, the active driving system for organic light emitting diode array or flat panel display in accordance with the invention can achieve a desirable light emission uniformity.

An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display includes an array of OLEDs, each OLED having two terminals; a voltage sensing circuit for each OLED including a transistor in each circuit connected to one of the terminals of a corresponding OLED for sensing the voltage across the OLED to produce feedback signals representing the voltage across the OLEDs; and a controller responsive to the feedback signals for calculating a correction signal for each OLED and applying the correction signal to data used to drive each OLED to compensate for the changes in the output of each OLED.

An OLED includes a wide gap inert host material doped with two dopants. One of the dopants is an emissive phosphorescent material that can transport either electrons or holes. The other dopant is a charge carrying material that can transport whichever of the electrons and holes that is not transported by the phosphorescent dopant. The materials are selected so that the lowest triplet energy level of the host material and the lowest triplet energy level of the charge carrying dopant material are each at a higher energy level than the lowest triplet state energy level of the phosphorescent dopant material. The device is capable, in particular, of efficiently emitting light in the blue region of the visible spectrum.

An organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display having addressable pixels on a substrate, the pixels having performance attributes, and a control circuit for controlling the pixels of the display device, includes one or more OLED pixels; an OLED reference pixel located on a substrate and connected to the control circuit, the OLED reference pixel having the same performance attributes as the one or more OLED pixels, the OLED reference pixel having a voltage sensing circuit including a transistor connected to one of the terminals of the OLED reference pixel for sensing the voltage across the OLED reference pixel to produce a voltage signal representing the voltage across the OLED reference pixel; a measurement circuit connected to the voltage signal to produce an output signal representative of the performance attributes of the OLED reference pixel; an analysis circuit connected to the measurement circuit to receive the output signal, compare the performance attributes with predetermined performance attributes, and produce a feedback signal in response thereto; and the control circuit being responsive to the feedback signal to compensate for changes in the output of the OLED pixels.

A transformable pressure sensitive adhesive composition comprised of from about 15 to about 80% by weight of a polymer having a softening point greater than 60° C.; from about 20 to about 85% by weight of a polymerizable resin having a softening point less than 30° C.; a latent initiator in an amount sufficient to cause a reaction between said polymer and said resin; and optionally, a crosslinking agent. The transformable pressure sensitive adhesive has particular applicability in connection with organic light emitting diode display devices, light emitting diode display devices, medical diagnostic testing devices, flexible or rigid LCD display devices, plasma display devices, and electrochromic devices.

A light emitting display for compensating for the threshold voltage of transistor or mobility and fully charging a data line. A transistor and first through third switches are formed on a pixel circuit of an organic EL display. The transistor supplies a driving current for emitting an organic EL element (OLED). The first switch diode-connects the transistor. A first storage unit stores a first voltage corresponding to a threshold voltage of the transistor. A second switch transmits a data current in response to a select signal. A second storage unit stores a second voltage corresponding to the data current. A third switch transmits the driving current to the OLED. A third voltage determined by coupling of the first and second storage units is applied to a transistor to supply the driving current to the OLED.

The invention relates to a light-emmiting component having organic layers, in particular to an organic light-emmiting diode. The component has at least one doped charge carrier transport layer (2), a light-emmiting layer (4) and contact layers (1, 5) and also has a blocking layer (3; 3′) wherein an organic material is provided between the charge carrier transport layer (2, 2′) and the light-emmiting layer (4). The energy levels of the charge carried transport layer are chosen in such a way that efficient doping is possible and the blocking layer nevertheless ensures that non-radiating recombination processes on the interface with the emitting layer are prevented.

A method of manufacturing an OLED device with a curved light-emitting surface comprising: a) forming a flexible substrate and providing the flexible substrate in a flat configuration; b) forming one or more OLEDs having a first electrode, one or more layers of organic material, at least one of which is light emitting formed over the first electrode, and a second electrode formed over the one or more layers of organic material, on the substrate; c) forming a rigid, curved, encapsulating cover; d) conforming the flexible substrate, electrodes, and one or more layers of organic material to the rigid, curved, encapsulating cover; and e) sealing the conformed flexible substrate, electrodes, and one or more layers of organic material to the rigid, curved, encapsulating cover.

A pixel current driver comprises a plurality of thin film transistors (TFTs) each having dual gates and for driving OLED layers. A top gate of the dual gates is formed between a source and a drain of each of the thin film transistors, to thereby minimize parasitic capacitance. The top gate is grounded or electrically tied to a bottom gate. The plurality of thin film transistors may be two thin film transistors formed in voltage-programmed manner or five thin film transistors formed in a current-programmed ΔVT-compensated manner. Other versions of the current-programmed circuit with different numbers of thin film transistors are also presented that compensate for δVT. The OLED layer are continuous and vertically stacked on the plurality of thin film transistors to provide an aperture ratio close to 100%.

There is provided a circuit for driving an organic light emitting diode (OLED). The circuit includes a current source for providing current to a first terminal of the OLED, and a generator for providing a variable voltage signal to a second terminal of the OLED to facilitate control of the current.

An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display includes at least one shield electrode between a cathode layer and an OLED drive circuit. The OLED drive circuit has at least one thin-film transistor (TFT), and the shield electrode is disposed to correspond to the thin-film transistor and closer to the cathode layer, covering an entire region between the source and drain of the thin-film transistor. The shield electrode is either grounded or tied to the gate of the thin-film transistor, to thereby minimize parasitic capacitances in the pixels of the display to enhance the display performance. The presented architecture enables high density drive circuit integration in amorphous silicon or other technologies, yet preserving a high display aperture ratio.

There is provided a circuit for driving an organic light emitting diode (OLED). The circuit includes a current source for providing current to a first terminal of the OLED, and a generator for providing a variable voltage signal to a second terminal of the OLED to facilitate control of the current.

A pixel driving circuit of an organic light emitting diode display panel includes a scan TFT, a Vdd-connected TFT, a driving TFT, a diode-connected TFT, a storage capacitor, a reset TFT, an OLED-connected TFT, and an organic light emitting diode. A reset TFT is connected to the diode-connected TFT and a previous scan line. An OLED-connected TFT is connected to the driving TFT and the light-emitting line. An organic light emitting diode is connected to the OLED-connected TFT and the ground. The amount of output current to the OLED does not depend on the threshold voltage of the driving TFT and only depends on the amount of the data signal voltage to be written. Thus, the variance in the threshold voltage of the driving TFT caused by the factor of the manufacturing process can be compensated to improve the non-uniform image defect.

An organic light-emitting diode display device includes a first switch element turned-on in response to a first scanning signal during a first period to supply a data to a first node, and then maintaining an off-state during a second period, a driving device adjusting a current through an organic light-emitting diode element in accordance with a voltage of the first node; a reference voltage source providing a reference voltage that is capable of turning-off the driving device, a second switch element maintaining an off-state during the first period, and turned-on during the second period to supply the reference voltage to the first node, and a storage capacitor maintaining the voltage at the first node.

An OLED display device which can sense a current of each pixel at high speed by a simple structure in order to compensate for luminance non-uniformity and a pixel current sensing method thereof are discussed. The OLED display device includes a display panel including pixels, each including a light emitting element and a pixel circuit for independently driving the light emitting element, a data driver for driving a data line connected to the pixel circuit using a data voltage, floating one of the data line, a reference line for supplying a reference voltage to the pixel circuit, and a power line for supplying a power to the pixel circuit to use the floated line as a current sensing line, sensing a voltage corresponding to a pixel current of the pixel circuit flowing to the current sensing line, and outputting the sensing voltage, in a sensing mode.

Apparatus and methods for a nano-patterning process to fabricate nanostructures. A roller type mold is used to continuously imprint nanostructures onto a flexible web or a rigid substrate. The process includes a coating and an imprinting module, which rotate the web synchronously. Liquid resist materials are used for imprinting and the patterns are set by thermal or UV curing. The process is used to produce bilayer metal wire-grid polarizers, organic solar cells, and organic light emitting diodes.

A top-emitting OLED device, comprising: one or more OLEDs formed on a substrate; a light-scattering layer formed over the one or more OLEDs; a transparent cover; one or more color filters formed on the transparent cover; a color-conversion material layer formed over the color filters, or formed over or integral with the light-scattering layer; wherein the substrate is aligned and affixed to the transparent cover so that the locations of the color filters and color conversion material correspond to the location of the OLEDs, and the color-conversion material layer, color filters, and the light-scattering layer are between the cover and substrate, and a low-index gap is formed between the light-scattering layer and the color filters, with no light-scattering layer being positioned between the color conversion material layer and the low-index gap.

Disclosed are an OLED display device and method for sensing characteristic parameters of pixel driving circuits. The display device includes a display panel including pixels each having a light emitting element and a pixel driving circuit for independently driving the light emitting element, and a characteristic parameter detecting unit for driving the pixel driving circuit of one of the plural pixels, which is a sensing pixel, sensing a voltage discharged in accordance with characteristics of a driving TFT in the pixel driving circuit of the sensing pixel, on a data line connected to the pixel driving circuit of the sensing pixel, among data lines connected to respective pixel driving circuits of the pixels, and detecting a threshold voltage (Vth) of the driving TFT and a deviation of a process characteristic parameter (k-parameter) of the driving TFT, using the measured voltage.

An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device for reducing the number of lines of an organic light emitting diode panel is provided. The OLED display device includes first and second data lines; a power voltage supply line supplied with a power supply voltage; a gate line crossing the first data line, the second data line and the power voltage supply line; first and second organic light emitting diodes commonly connected to the power voltage supply line; a first organic light emitting diode driving circuit for driving the first organic light emitting diode with a data voltage from the first data line in response to a scanning signal from the gate line; and a second organic light emitting diode driving circuit for driving the second organic light emitting diode with a data voltage from the second data line in response to the scanning signal from the gate line.