U.S. patent application number 15/677966 was filed with the patent office on 2018-02-01 for pixel demarcation layer, oled and manufacturing method thereof as well as display device.
The applicant listed for this patent is BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.. Invention is credited to Chinlung LIAO.
Application Number | 20180033844 15/677966 |
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Family ID | 54577933 |
Filed Date | 2018-02-01 |
United States Patent
Application |
20180033844 |
Kind Code |
A1 |
LIAO; Chinlung |
February 1, 2018 |
PIXEL DEMARCATION LAYER, OLED AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF AS
WELL AS DISPLAY DEVICE
Abstract
A pixel demarcation layer includes a first pixel demarcation
sub-layer and a second pixel demarcation sub-layer stacked on the
first pixel demarcation sub-layer. The pixel demarcation layer is
divided into a display area and an edge area located outside the
display area. The first pixel demarcation sub-layer includes a
plurality of first openings positioned within the display area each
corresponding to a light-emitting region of a respective sub-pixel
unit. The second pixel demarcation sub-layer includes a plurality
of second openings each coated with an organic light-emitting
material. Each of the second openings includes a first area
positioned in the display area and corresponding to a set of the
first openings. Each of the second openings also includes a second
area positioned in the edge area and configured to provide an
initiating terminal from which the first area corresponding to the
second area is coated with the organic light-emitting material.
Inventors: |
LIAO; Chinlung; (Beijing,
CN) |
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Applicant: |
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BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD. |
Beijing |
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CN |
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Family ID: |
54577933 |
Appl. No.: |
15/677966 |
Filed: |
August 15, 2017 |
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Patent Number |
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15098893 |
Apr 14, 2016 |
9735215 |
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15677966 |
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Current U.S.
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1/1 |
Current CPC
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H01L 27/3246 20130101;
H01L 27/3211 20130101 |
International
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H01L 27/32 20060101
H01L027/32 |
Foreign Application Data
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Jul 29, 2015 |
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201510456824.4 |
Claims
1. A pixel demarcation layer, comprising a first pixel demarcation
sub-layer and a second pixel demarcation sub-layer stacked on the
first pixel demarcation sub-layer, wherein the pixel demarcation
layer is divided into a display area and an edge area located
outside the display area, the first pixel demarcation sub-layer
includes a plurality of first openings positioned within the
display area, the second pixel demarcation sub-layer includes a
plurality of second openings, each of the second openings includes:
a first area positioned in the display area and corresponding to a
set of the first openings; and a second area positioned in the edge
area and configured to provide an initiating terminal from which
the first area corresponding to the second area is coatable with an
organic light-emitting material.
2. The pixel demarcation layer according to claim 1, wherein the
plurality of first openings is arranged in columns, each first area
corresponds to one of the columns.
3. The pixel demarcation layer according to claim 2, wherein each
second opening comprises a plurality of first areas, the first
areas of each second opening coupled in flow communication with
each other via the corresponding second area.
4. The pixel demarcation layer according to claim 3, wherein two
adjacent columns of the first openings are coated with different
organic light-emitting materials.
5. An OLED, comprising the pixel demarcation layer according to
claim 1.
6. A display device, comprising the OLED according to claim 5.
7. A method of manufacturing an LED, the method comprising: making,
on a substrate, a pixel demarcation layer comprising a first pixel
demarcation sub-layer and a second pixel demarcation sub-layer
stacked on the first pixel demarcation sub-layer, wherein the pixel
demarcation layer is divided into a display area and an edge area
located outside the display area, the first pixel demarcation
sub-layer includes a plurality of first openings positioned within
the display area, the second pixel demarcation sub-layer includes a
plurality of second openings, each of the second openings includes
(i) a first area positioned in the display area and corresponding
to a set of the first openings, and (ii) a second area positioned
in the edge area; and coating an organic light-emitting material on
the first area corresponding to the second area using the second
area as an initiating terminal, to form an organic light-emitting
layer.
8. The method of manufacturing an LED according to claim 7, wherein
making the pixel demarcation layer further comprises arranging the
plurality of first openings in columns, wherein each first area
corresponds to one of the columns.
9. The method of manufacturing an LED according to claim 8, wherein
each second opening comprises a plurality of first areas, and
wherein making the pixel demarcation layer further comprises
coupling the first areas of each second opening in flow
communication with each other via the second area corresponding to
the first areas.
10. The manufacturing method of an LED according to claim 9,
wherein coating the organic light-emitting material comprises
coating two adjacent columns of the first openings with different
organic light-emitting materials.
Description
CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
[0001] The present application is a continuation of U.S. patent
application Ser. No. 15/098,893, which was filed on Apr. 14, 2016,
which claims priority to Chinese Patent Application Serial No.
201510456824.4, which was filed on Jul. 29, 2015, the disclosures
of which are incorporated herein by reference in their
entirety.
BACKGROUND
[0002] Exemplary embodiments of the present invention relate to a
pixel demarcation layer, OLED and manufacturing method thereof as
well as display device.
[0003] Due to its advantages such as, but not limited to,
self-luminescence, all-solid state, wide viewing angle, and quick
response time, it is considered that organic light emitting devices
(OLED) have enormous potential in flat-panel display and are
becoming a new generation of flat-panel display products after
liquid crystal display (LCD) and plasma display panel (PDP).
[0004] An OLED mainly comprises an anode electrode layer, an
organic light-emitting functional layer and a cathode electrode
layer, among which the organic light-emitting functional layer is a
core component of the OLED. Currently, there are two methods for
fabricating the organic light-emitting functional layer, including
vacuum evaporation and solution processing. As compared with the
organic light-emitting functional layer fabricated by means of
vacuum evaporation, the organic light-emitting functional layer
fabricated by means of solution processing exhibits better coating
performance for the anode electrode layer, resulting in an OLED
with reduced leakage current. Moreover, adopting solution
processing is conducive to whole surface coating of the substrate
and thus enhances the OLED productivity. Strip coating is so far a
potential coating technique for solution-processed OLED. However,
since the coating device may be unstable at the beginning of the
coating process, such coating technique easily leads to ink
overflow at the initiating terminal for the coating process, and as
a result, its application in display is limited.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION
[0005] Embodiments of the present disclosure facilitate overcoming
the above-mentioned technical problem in the prior art, i.e., ink
overflow at beginning of the coating process due to instability of
the coating device.
[0006] In one aspect, there is provided a pixel demarcation layer
that includes a first pixel demarcation sub-layer and a second
pixel demarcation sub-layer stacked on the first pixel demarcation
sub-layer. The pixel demarcation layer is divided into a display
area and an edge area located outside the display area The first
pixel demarcation sub-layer includes a plurality of first openings
positioned within the display area. Each of the first openings
corresponds to a light-emitting region of a respective sub-pixel
unit. The second pixel demarcation sub-layer includes a plurality
of second openings. Each of the subpixel openings is coated with an
organic light-emitting material. Each of the second openings
includes a first area positioned in the display area and
corresponding to a set of the first openings. Each of the second
openings further includes a second area positioned in the edge area
and configured to provide an initiating terminal from which the
first area corresponding to the second area is coated with the
organic light-emitting material.
[0007] According to an embodiment, the plurality of first openings
is arranged in columns, and each first area corresponds to one of
the columns.
[0008] According to an embodiment, each second opening includes a
plurality of first areas, and the first areas of each second
opening are coupled in flow communication with each other via the
corresponding second area.
[0009] According to an embodiment, two adjacent columns of the
first openings are coated with different organic light-emitting
materials.
[0010] In another aspect, there is provided an OLED that includes
the pixel demarcation layer as described above.
[0011] In another aspect, there is provided a display device that
includes the OLED as described above.
[0012] In another aspect, there is provided a method of
manufacturing an LED. The method includes making, on a substrate, a
pixel demarcation layer comprising a first pixel demarcation
sub-layer and a second pixel demarcation sub-layer stacked on the
first pixel demarcation sub-layer, wherein the pixel demarcation
layer is divided into a display area and an edge area located
outside the display area, the first pixel demarcation sub-layer
includes a plurality of first openings positioned within the
display area, wherein each of the first openings corresponds to a
light-emitting region of a respective sub-pixel unit, the second
pixel demarcation sub-layer includes a plurality of second
openings, each of the second openings coated with an organic
light-emitting material, each of the second openings includes (i) a
first area positioned in the display area and corresponding to a
set of the first openings, and (ii) a second area positioned in the
edge area; and coating an organic light-emitting material on the
first area corresponding to the second area using the second area
as an initiating terminal, to form an organic light-emitting
layer.
[0013] According to an embodiment, making the pixel demarcation
layer further includes arranging the plurality of first openings in
columns, and each first area corresponds to one of the columns.
[0014] According to an embodiment, each second opening includes a
plurality of first areas, and making the pixel demarcation layer
further includes coupling the first areas of each second opening in
flow communication with each other via the second area
corresponding to the first areas.
[0015] According to an embodiment, coating the organic
light-emitting material includes coating two adjacent columns of
the first openings with different organic light-emitting
materials.
[0016] According to the embodiments of the pixel demarcation layer
provided herein, the second opening of the second pixel demarcation
sub-layer is additionally provided with a second area which extends
to the edge area and serves as an initiating terminal from which
the coating of the organic light-emitting material is performed,
such that the ink excessively injected by the coating device, which
may be unstable at the beginning of the coating process, can be
stored in said second area, whereby the ink overflow phenomenon can
be significantly alleviated.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
[0017] To illustrate the embodiments described herein more clearly,
the accompanying drawings will be briefly described below.
Obviously, the accompanying drawings in the following description
are associated with example embodiments, and other embodiments may
become apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art based on
these drawings.
[0018] FIG. 1 is a schematic view illustrating the structure of a
pixel demarcation layer according to an embodiment;
[0019] FIG. 2 is a schematic view illustrating the cross-section
along the AA' direction shown in FIG. 1;
[0020] FIG. 3 is a schematic view illustrating the structure of the
pixel demarcation layer shown in FIG. 1 coated with an organic
light-emitting material;
[0021] FIG. 4 is a schematic view illustrating the structure of a
pixel demarcation layer according to another embodiment; and
[0022] FIG. 5 is a schematic view illustrating the structure of the
pixel demarcation layer shown in FIG. 4 coated with an organic
light-emitting material.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS
[0023] To make the present disclosure clearer, the present
disclosure will be clearly and comprehensively described below in
conjunction with the accompanying drawings in the example
embodiments. Obviously, the embodiments described are merely part
instead of all of embodiments of the present disclosure. Based on
the embodiments of the present disclosure as described herein,
those of ordinary skill in the art may obtain other embodiments
which also fall within the scope of protection of the present
disclosure.
[0024] According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, there
is provided a pixel demarcation layer comprising a first pixel
demarcation sub-layer and a second pixel demarcation sub-layer
stacked on the first pixel demarcation sub-layer, wherein the pixel
demarcation layer may be divided into a display area and an edge
area located outside the display area. The first pixel demarcation
sub-layer includes a plurality of first openings within the display
area, each of which corresponds to a light-emitting region of a
respective sub-pixel unit. The second pixel demarcation sub-layer
includes a plurality of second openings, each of which is coated
with an organic light-emitting material. Each of the second
openings at least includes a first area positioned in the display
area and corresponding to a set of the first openings, and a second
area positioned in the edge area and serving as an initiating
terminal, from which the first area corresponding to the second
area is coated with the organic light-emitting material.
[0025] According to the pixel demarcation layer provided by the
embodiments of the present disclosure, the second area may store
the ink excessively injected by the coating device which may be
unstable at the beginning of the coating process, whereby the ink
overflow phenomenon due to instability of the coating device may be
effectively alleviated.
[0026] FIG. 1 is a schematic view illustrating the structure of a
pixel demarcation layer according to an embodiment of the present
disclosure, and FIG. 2 is a schematic view illustrating the
cross-section along the AA' direction shown in FIG. 1. As can be
seen, the pixel demarcation layer comprises a first pixel
demarcation sub-layer 100 and a second pixel demarcation sub-layer
200 stacked on the first pixel demarcation sub-layer 100. The pixel
demarcation layer is divided into a display area 400 and an edge
area 300 located outside the display area.
[0027] The first pixel demarcation sub-layer 100 includes a
plurality of first openings 110 positioned within the display area
400, each of which corresponds to a light-emitting region of a
respective sub-pixel unit. The plurality of first openings 110 is
distributed in the form of multiple columns, and the first openings
in the same column are coated with the same organic light-emitting
material.
[0028] The second pixel demarcation sub-layer 200 includes a
plurality of second openings 210, each of which (e.g., the second
opening 210 in each column) is coated with an organic
light-emitting material. Each second opening 210 at least comprises
a first area 211 positioned in the display area and corresponding
to a column of the first openings, and a second area 212 arranged
in the edge area. For each said second opening, its second area
serves as an initiating terminal, from which the first area
corresponding to the second area is coated with the organic
light-emitting material, whereby the first openings in the
corresponding column are coated.
[0029] More specifically, with respect to the pixel demarcation
layer, the first openings in the first pixel demarcation sub-layer
are coated with the organic light-emitting material in the form of
columns, and the organic light-emitting material coated onto one
column is prevented from flowing towards an adjacent column by the
second pixel demarcation sub-layer.
[0030] As shown in FIG. 3, each column of the first openings in the
first pixel demarcation sub-layer is coated with an organic
light-emitting material 500 by using the second area in the second
opening 210 as an initiating terminal. In this way, the ink
excessively injected by the coating device, which may be unstable
at the beginning of the coating process, can be stored in the
second area, whereby the ink overflow phenomenon due to instability
of the coating device can be effectively alleviated. Moreover,
since the ink excessively injected can be stored in the second
area, an environmental difference between the edge of the display
area and the center of the display area can be reduced, whereby a
difference in the ink evaporation speed between said edge and
center is reduced, and the uniformity of the organic light-emitting
functional layer is enhanced.
[0031] According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, each
second opening in the second pixel demarcation sub-layer includes a
plurality of first areas, and the first areas of the same second
opening are in flow communication with each other via the second
area corresponding to the first areas.
[0032] FIG. 4 is a schematic view illustrating the structure of a
pixel demarcation layer according to another embodiment of the
present disclosure. The pixel demarcation layer includes a first
pixel demarcation sub-layer 100 and a second pixel demarcation
sub-layer 200 stacked on the first pixel demarcation sub-layer 100.
The pixel demarcation layer is divided into a display area 400 and
an edge area 300 located outside the display area 400. The first
pixel demarcation sub-layer 100 includes a plurality of first
openings 110 positioned within the display area 400, each of which
corresponds to a light-emitting region of a respective sub-pixel
unit. The plurality of first openings 110 is arranged in multiple
columns and the first openings in the same column are coated with
the same organic light-emitting material. The second pixel
demarcation sub-layer 200 includes two second openings 210, 220,
each of which is coated with an organic light-emitting material. In
this case, each of the second openings includes a plurality of
first areas and a second area. For example, the second opening 210
comprises a plurality of first areas 211 (which, for example,
correspond to the second and fourth columns of the first openings)
and a second area 212, and the second opening 220 comprises a
plurality of first areas 221 (which, for example, correspond to the
first, third and fifth columns of the first openings) and a second
area 222. In each of the second openings, each of the first areas
211, 221 corresponds to a column of the first openings in the first
pixel demarcation sub-layer.
[0033] According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, the
two second openings 210, 220 are coated with different organic
light-emitting materials.
[0034] For example, according to the pixel demarcation layer
described above, since two adjacent columns of the first openings
correspond to different second openings, it is possible to coat the
two adjacent columns of the first openings with different organic
light-emitting materials.
[0035] According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, the
same organic light-emitting material refers to those configured to
emit light with the same color, and the different organic
light-emitting materials refer to those configured to emit light of
different colors.
[0036] When the pixel demarcation layer is coated with organic
light-emitting materials, since each second opening includes a
plurality of first areas and a second area, multiple columns of the
first openings share one second area as an initiating terminal for
coating. As a result, the area of each second area can be
effectively increased to increase its ink storage capacity, whereby
the ink overflow phenomenon can be further alleviated and the
difference in the ink evaporation speed between the edge and the
center can be further reduced.
[0037] As shown in FIG. 5, for example, in order to coat the pixel
demarcation layer as shown in FIG. 4 with two different organic
light-emitting functional layers 510, 520, the second area 212 is
used as an initiating terminal for forming the organic
light-emitting functional layer 510 and the second area 222 is used
as an initiating terminal for forming the organic light-emitting
functional layer 520. By means of the second areas 212, 222, it is
possible to effectively alleviate the ink overflow phenomenon which
may occur at the beginning of the coating process due to
instability of the coating device, and reduce the difference in the
ink evaporation speed between the edge and the center, thus
enhancing uniformity of the organic light-emitting functional
layer.
[0038] According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, there
is further provided an OLED that includes the pixel demarcation
layer as described above.
[0039] According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, there
is further provided a display device that includes the OLED as
described above.
[0040] The display device provided according to embodiments of the
present disclosure may be a laptop screen, display, TV, digital
photo frame, mobile phone, tablet or any product or component with
a display function.
[0041] According to an embodiment of the present invention, there
is further provided a method of manufacturing an OLED that includes
the following steps, designated as step S1 and step S2:
[0042] The step S1 includes making a pixel demarcation layer on a
substrate. The pixel demarcation layer includes a first pixel
demarcation sub-layer and a second pixel demarcation sub-layer
stacked on the first pixel demarcation sub-layer, wherein the pixel
demarcation layer is divided into a display area and an edge area
located outside the display area. The first pixel demarcation
sub-layer includes a plurality of first openings positioned within
the display area, each of which corresponds to a light-emitting
region of a respective sub-pixel unit. The second pixel demarcation
sub-layer includes a plurality of second openings. Each of the
second openings is coated with an organic light-emitting material
and at least includes (i) a first area arranged in the display area
and corresponding to a plurality of the first openings, and (ii) a
second area positioned in the edge area.
[0043] The step S2 includes coating an organic light-emitting
material on the first area corresponding to the second area, using
the second area as an initiating terminal, to form an organic
light-emitting layer.
[0044] According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, making
the pixel demarcation layer in step S1 further includes arranging
the plurality of first openings in columns, and each said first
area corresponds to one of the columns of the first openings.
[0045] According to an embodiment of the present invention, each
second opening includes a plurality of first areas, and making the
pixel demarcation layer in step S1 further includes coupling the
first areas of each second opening in flow communication with each
other via the second area corresponding to the first areas.
[0046] According to an embodiment of the present disclosure,
coating the organic light-emitting material in step S2 includes
coating two adjacent columns of the first openings with different
organic light-emitting materials.
[0047] Those skilled in the art would appreciate that all or a part
of the steps in the foregoing embodiments may be implemented by
hardware or by a program instructing relevant hardware. The program
may be stored in a computer readable storage medium, such as a ROM,
a magnetic disk, or an optical disk etc.
[0048] The foregoing is only example embodiments of the present
disclosure and is not intended to limit the present disclosure. All
modifications, equivalent substitutions and improvements, which
fall within the spirit and principles of the present disclosure,
are intended to be included in the scope of protection of the
present disclosure.
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