Polyfluorene Quantum Dot White Light Emitter

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current light emitting devices using quantum dots to produce white light require a multi-layer structure with separate red, green, and blue light emitting layers, which complicates the production process and limits scalability.

Innovation Solution

A light emitting device with a single white light emitting layer composed of a polyfluorene blue light material doped with red and green quantum dots, offering high thermal stability, chemical stability, and luminous efficiency, allowing for a simplified production process and scalable structure.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If a multi-layer structure with separate red, green, and blue light emitting layers is used, then white light can be obtained through quantum dots, but the production process becomes complicated and scalability is limited

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvewhite light qualityVSAvoidproduction process complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines red, green, and blue light emitting layers into a single white light emitting layer by doping quantum dots into a blue light polymer matrix. This merging approach maintains the white light quality through quantum dot luminescence while dramatically simplifying the production process from multiple separate layers to one integrated layer.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The invention uses a composite material system consisting of a blue light polymer matrix (polyfluorene derivative) combined with red and green quantum dots. This composite structure enables the single layer to emit white light by integrating the luminescent properties of different quantum dot sizes within the polymer host, achieving both simplified processing and high performance.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #40Composite materials

2Reliability

If a multi-layer structure with separate red, green, and blue light emitting layers is used, then white light can be obtained through quantum dots, but scalability is limited

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvewhite light qualityVSAvoidscalability
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

By merging multiple light emitting layers into a single white light emitting layer with doped quantum dots, the patent enables easier scaling of production. The single-layer structure can be manufactured using conventional coating techniques without the need for precise alignment and stacking of multiple layers, thereby improving productivity and scalability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

3Ease of manufacture

If conventional light emitting materials are used, then the device can be manufactured, but thermal stability and chemical stability are insufficient

Engineering Contradiction:
ImprovemanufacturabilityVSAvoidthermal and chemical stability
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of manufactureVSStability of the object's composition

Solution Approach 1:

The patent employs a composite material where quantum dots are embedded in a polyfluorene derivative polymer matrix. This composite structure provides both ease of manufacture through solution processing and enhanced thermal and chemical stability from the robust polymer framework, resolving the contradiction between manufacturability and stability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #40Composite materials

Solution Approach 2:

The invention selects specific polyfluorene derivative polymers with high thermal stability characteristics and optimizes the doping concentration of quantum dots to achieve the desired color gamut while maintaining stability. By carefully controlling these parameters, the patent achieves both manufacturability and compositional stability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

4Device complexity

If a single white light emitting layer with doped quantum dots is used, then the production process is simplified and scalability is improved, but color gamut control becomes challenging

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveproduction process simplicityVSAvoidcolor gamut control
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent controls color gamut by precisely adjusting the doping ratios of red and green quantum dots relative to the blue light polymer matrix. By optimizing these concentration parameters, the invention achieves accurate color control while maintaining the simplicity of the single-layer production process.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Solution Approach 2:

The invention applies local quality by using different quantum dot sizes (red and green) distributed within the blue polymer matrix to create specific luminescent regions. This localized doping approach enables precise color gamut control through the size-dependent luminescence properties of quantum dots while keeping the overall structure simple.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

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

The solution simplifies the production process, enhances performance by achieving high thermal and chemical stability, and improves color gamut control, making it easier to scale up while maintaining high luminous efficiency.

Implementation Method 1

Quantum dots have special photoluminescence and electroluminescence performances

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectPhotoluminescence: Photoluminescence

Implementation Method 2

Quantum dots have special photoluminescence and electroluminescence performances

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectElectroluminescence: Electroluminescence

Implementation Method 3

having a relatively high fluorescent quantum yield and a relatively high luminous efficiency

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectFluorescence: Fluorescence

Data Source

PatentUS9716230B2Light emitting device, production method thereof, and display panel
Publication Date: 2017.07.25 BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO LTD
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AI summary

The present disclosure provides a light emitting device, a production method thereof, and a display panel, for simplifying the production process of light emitting device and improving the performance of the light emitting device. The light emitting device in the present disclosure comprises a white light emitting layer comprising a polyfluorene blue light material, and red light quantum dots and green light quantum dots doped in the polyfluorene blue light material.