OLED Hole Injection Layer Composite Material Design

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Solution Overview

Problem

The existing organic light-emitting display panels face poor performance due to a high interfacial energy barrier between the hole injection layer and the anode, which limits hole injection capacity.

Innovation Solution

Incorporating a hole injection layer made of an organic material and a conductive metal oxide, or forming the layer by stacking an organic material film layer and a conductive metal oxide film layer, to lower the interfacial energy barrier.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If a conventional hole injection layer is used in the organic light-emitting display panel, then the device structure is simple, but the interfacial energy barrier between the hole injection layer and the anode is too high, resulting in poor hole injection capacity and low display performance

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvehole injection capacityVSAvoidhole injection layer structure
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies composite materials by combining organic material and conductive metal oxide in the hole injection layer. This composite structure lowers the interfacial energy barrier between the hole injection layer and the anode, significantly improving hole injection capacity while maintaining a relatively simple overall device structure. The conductive metal oxide component provides enhanced electrical conductivity and facilitates charge transport.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #40Composite materials

Solution Approach 2:

The patent changes the material composition parameters of the hole injection layer by incorporating conductive metal oxide alongside organic material. This parameter change directly addresses the high interfacial energy barrier issue by modifying the electrical and energetic properties of the hole injection layer, enabling better energy level matching with the anode and improving hole injection efficiency.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Use of energy by moving object

If the interfacial energy barrier between the hole injection layer and the anode is high, then the device structure remains conventional, but the required bias voltage is high and the light-emitting efficiency and lifetime are poor

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvebias voltageVSAvoiddisplay performance
Core Design Contradiction:
Use of energy by moving objectVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

By using composite materials consisting of organic material and conductive metal oxide in the hole injection layer, the patent achieves better energy level alignment with the anode. This reduces the interfacial energy barrier, allowing for lower bias voltage operation while simultaneously improving light-emitting efficiency and device lifetime through enhanced charge injection and transport.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #40Composite materials

Applied Scientific Principles

This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.

Function Achieved in This Case

This approach enhances hole injection capacity and overall performance by reducing the required bias voltage and improving light-emitting efficiency and lifetime of the organic light-emitting display panel.

Implementation Method 1

by setting that the material of the hole injection layer includes an organic material and a conductive metal oxide, or the hole injection layer is formed by stacking an organic material film layer and a conductive metal oxide film layer, it can solve the problems of the existing organic light-emitting display panels that the interfacial energy barrier between the hole injection layer and the anode is too high

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectEnergy barrier reduction:

Implementation Method 2

During operation, a bias voltage is applied between the anode and the cathode of the organic light-emitting display panel, so that holes and electrons can break through the interfacial energy barrier and migrate respectively from the hole transport layer and the electron transport layer to the light-emitting layer

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectCarrier migration:

Implementation Method 3

on the light-emitting layer, electrons and holes are recombined to generate excitons. The excitons are unstable, and energy can be released. The energy is transferred to the molecules of the organic light-emitting material in the light-emitting layer, so that the molecules transit from a ground state to an excited state. The excited state is very unstable, and thus the excited molecules return to the ground state from the excited state, so that a light emitting phenomenon appears due to radiative transition

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectElectroluminescence: Electroluminescence

Data Source

PatentUS10497879B2Organic light-emitting display panel device
Publication Date: 2019.12.03 WUHAN TIANMA MICRO ELECTRONICS CO LTD
  • US10497879B2 patent drawing
  • US10497879B2 patent drawing
  • US10497879B2 patent drawing

AI summary

Embodiments of the present invention disclose an organic light-emitting display panel and an organic light-emitting display device. The organic light-emitting display panel includes: a first electrode, a hole injection layer, a light-emitting layer and a second electrode that are stacked in turn; wherein, the material of the hole injection layer includes an organic material and a conductive metal oxide, or the hole injection layer is formed by stacking an organic material film layer and a conductive metal oxide film layer.