White OLED Emission Layers for Color Viewing Angle

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current white organic light emitting devices face challenges in enhancing red, green, and blue emission efficiencies and color reproduction rates due to incomplete energy transfer and limited dopant components, leading to reduced color viewing angles and expression capabilities.

Innovation Solution

A white organic light emitting device with a novel structure featuring at least two emission layers emitting the same color, optimized to have peak wavelengths within specific ranges, and strategically positioned to enhance emission efficiency and color viewing angles by adjusting the spectrum change rate and cavity peak of each emission layer.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of manufacture

If a single emission layer with dopants is used to manufacture white OLED, then manufacturing process is simplified, but energy transfer to dopant is incomplete and white light balance cannot be adjusted

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemanufacturing process simplicityVSAvoidenergy transfer efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of manufactureVSLoss of energy

Solution Approach 1:

The single emission layer is divided into multiple emission layers (first emission layer with blue dopant, second emission layer with yellow-green dopant, third emission layer with red dopant). Each layer independently optimizes energy transfer to its specific dopant, eliminating the incomplete energy transfer problem of single-layer structures while maintaining manufacturing feasibility through sequential layer deposition

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Device complexity

If dopant components are limited by dopant characteristics, then device structure is simplified, but color balance and white light quality are compromised

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedopant component varietyVSAvoidcolor reproduction quality
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSIllumination intensity

Solution Approach 1:

Different dopant components are selectively placed in different emission layers based on their specific characteristics and optimal emission wavelengths. The first emission layer uses blue dopant (480-490nm), second layer uses yellow-green dopant (560-570nm), and third layer uses red dopant (610-620nm). This local optimization of dopant selection in each layer achieves superior color reproduction while managing device complexity through systematic arrangement

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

3Illumination intensity

If emission layers are stacked to realize white light, then color balance is improved, but peak wavelength range mismatch with color filter transmissive range occurs

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvewhite light qualityVSAvoidwavelength-filter alignment
Core Design Contradiction:
Illumination intensityVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The emission layers are designed with specific peak wavelength parameters that precisely match the transmissive ranges of the color filters. The blue emission layer peaks at 480-490nm, yellow-green at 560-570nm, and red at 610-620nm. These parameter optimizations ensure maximum transmission efficiency through the corresponding color filters while maintaining accurate color balance in the emitted white light

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

4Illumination intensity

If blue and yellow-green emission layers are provided, then white light emission is achieved, but cavity peak difference causes spectrum change rate variation with viewing angle

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvewhite light emissionVSAvoidspectrum consistency with viewing angle
Core Design Contradiction:
Illumination intensityVSStability of the object's composition

Solution Approach 1:

The invention adds a third dimension to the emission layer structure by introducing a red emission layer in addition to the blue and yellow-green layers. This three-layer configuration creates a more balanced optical cavity system where the additional layer compensates for spectrum changes with viewing angle, stabilizing the overall emission spectrum and reducing color shift across different observation angles

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

The solution significantly improves red, green, and blue emission efficiencies, leading to enhanced color reproduction rates and wider color viewing angles, thereby improving the overall panel efficiency and color representation.

Implementation Method 1

An electron and a hole are injected from the two electrodes into the organic emission layer, and an exciton is generated by recombination of the electron with the hole. The organic light emitting device is a device using the principle that light is emitted when the generated exciton is dropped from an excited state to a ground state.

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectElectroluminescence: Electroluminescence

Implementation Method 2

a phosphorescent material contributes a triplet exciton to emit light and thus enables a high-efficiency device to be more easily implemented than that of a fluorescent material

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectPhosphorescence: Phosphorescence

Data Source

PatentEP3016159B1White organic light emitting device
Publication Date: 2021.12.08 LG DISPLAY CO LTD
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AI summary

Disclosed is a white organic light emitting device (100, 200, 300) for enhancing emission efficiency and a color viewing angle or a color reproduction rate. The white organic light emitting device (100, 200, 300) includes a first emission part (110, 210, 310) between a first electrode (102, 202, 302) and a second electrode (104, 204, 304), the first emission part (110, 210, 310) having a first emission layer (114, 214, 314), a second emission part (120, 220, 320) on the first emission part (110, 210, 310), the second emission part (120, 220, 320) having a second emission layer (124, 224, 324), and a third emission part (130, 230, 330) on the second emission part (120, 220, 320), the third emission part (130, 230, 330) having a third emission layer (134, 234, 334). At least two emission layers (114, 124) of the first to third emission layers (114, 124, 134, 214, 224, 234, 314, 324, 334) emit lights having a same color to enhance emission efficiency and a color viewing angle, and the at least two emission layers (114, 124, 214, 224, 314, 324) are adjacent to each other.