Organic Light-Emitting Display Light Reflection Member

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing organic light-emitting display apparatuses face challenges in optimizing the emission efficiency and color characteristics of visible rays, particularly in maintaining brightness and image quality across different viewing angles due to limitations in optical resonance and reflection.

Innovation Solution

The organic light-emitting display apparatus incorporates a light reflection member that overlaps only a portion of the intermediate layer, utilizing silver or aluminum to reflect and transmit visible rays, combined with insulating layers to enhance resonance effects, thereby improving luminescent efficiency and color coordinates.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If a light reflection member is introduced to improve emission efficiency, then luminescent efficiency is improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveemission efficiencyVSAvoiddevice complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

A light reflection member is introduced as an intermediary component between the organic emission layer and the external environment. This mediator reflects visible rays that would otherwise be lost, converting them into useful emitted light. The reflection member is positioned to overlap with the intermediate layer but not cover the entire region, creating optimized optical pathways that enhance emission efficiency while maintaining manageable device complexity through selective placement rather than comprehensive coverage.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Productivity

If the light reflection member overlaps the entire intermediate layer, then emission efficiency improves, but manufacturing precision requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveemission efficiencyVSAvoidmanufacturing precision
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The light reflection member is strategically positioned to overlap with specific regions of the intermediate layer rather than covering the entire area. This local quality approach places the reflection member primarily over the organic emission layer where visible rays are generated, maximizing the reflection of useful light while avoiding unnecessary coverage areas. This selective placement reduces the stringency of manufacturing precision requirements compared to full-coverage designs, as alignment tolerances are relaxed in non-critical regions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

3Illumination intensity

If insulating layers are added to enhance resonance effects, then color characteristics improve, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecolor characteristicsVSAvoiddevice complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Illumination intensityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

Insulating layers are introduced to create additional dimensional layers within the display apparatus structure. These layers, positioned between the substrate and the light reflection member, establish new optical pathways and resonance cavities that enhance color characteristics. The multi-layer insulation structure (including first, second, and third insulating layers at different positions) creates weak and intensive resonance effects that improve color coordinates, while the systematic layering approach manages complexity through organized structural progression rather than random component addition.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

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 configuration enhances the emission efficiency and color characteristics of visible rays, minimizing brightness changes with viewing angle and improving overall image quality by achieving both intensive and weak resonance effects.

Implementation Method 1

The light reflection member may reflect a portion of a visible ray and transmits another portion of the visible ray

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectReflection: Reflection

Implementation Method 2

improving luminescent efficiency and color coordinates... achieving both intensive and weak resonance effects

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectResonance: Resonance

Data Source

PatentUS8937312B2Organic light-emitting display apparatus
Publication Date: 2015.01.20 SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO LTD
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AI summary

An organic light-emitting display apparatus including: a substrate; a first electrode on the substrate; a second electrode on the first electrode; an intermediate layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, the intermediate layer being electrically connected with the first electrode and the second electrode, and including an organic emission layer; and a light reflection member overlapping a portion of the intermediate layer, the portion of the intermediate layer being less than an entire region of the intermediate layer.