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- the present invention relates to a light-emitting polymer composition and an organic electroluminescent (EL) display device using the same.
- An organic EL display device includes an anode, a hole injection layer, a hole transportation layer, a light-emitting layer, an electron transporting layer, an electron injection layer, and a cathode, which are sequentially stacked on a substrate.
- the above-described layers of the organic EL display device are made of a low-molecular organic material or a high-molecular organic material (i.e., a polymer).
- the layers of the organic EL display device comprising a low-molecular organic material are formed by, for example, a vacuum deposition technique, while the layers of the organic EL display comprising a high-molecular organic material are formed by, for example, a spin coating technique.
- an organic EL display device having a light-emitting layer of one color made of a high-molecular organic material is easy to manufacture and is lower in driving voltage than that of a low-molecular organic material.
- an organic EL display device having a light-emitting layer of one color made of the high-molecular organic material is lower in light-emitting efficiency and shorter in life span than that of the low-molecular organic material.
- an organic EL display device having the high-molecular organic material has difficulties in patterning red, green and blue light-emitting layers using an ink jet technique or a laser transfer technique, leading to a low light-emitting efficiency and a short life span.
- the thermal transfer technique requires at least a light source, a transfer film, and a substrate. Light emitted from the light source is absorbed into a light absorbing layer of the transfer film and then converted into heat energy. An image forming material of the transfer film is transferred to the substrate by the heat energy, thereby forming a desired image on the substrate.
- the thermal transfer technique is also used to form a color filter of a liquid crystal display (LCD) device.
- LCD liquid crystal display
- FIG. 1 shows a schematic view illustrating a laser transfer operation for patterning a light-emitting layer of a conventional organic EL display device.
- an organic film S 2 is formed on a substrate S 1 .
- a laser beam is irradiated to the substrate S 1 to separate the organic film S 2 from the substrate S 1 and transfer it to a substrate S 3 .
- parameters that determine a transfer characteristic include an adhesion W 12 between the substrate S 1 and the organic film S 2 , a cohesion W 22 between elements of the organic films S 2 , and an adhesion W 23 between the organic film S 2 and the substrate S 3 .
- ⁇ 1 denotes a surface tension of the substrate S 1
- ⁇ 2 denotes a surface tension of the organic film S 2
- ⁇ 3 denotes a surface tension of the substrate S 3
- ⁇ 12 denotes an interfacial tension between the substrate S 1 and the substrate S 2
- Y 22 denotes an interfacial tension between the elements of the organic film S 2
- Y 23 denotes an interfacial tension between the substrate S 2 and the substrate S 3 .
- the laser transfer characteristic improves.
- a lighting-emitting layer of the conventional organic EL display device is usually made of a polymer film which has a high molecular weight. Therefore, the cohesion between elements of the polymer film is relatively large. Accordingly, the polymer film shows a bad transfer characteristic in the conventional organic EL display device.
- the conventional art does not disclose a technique that can improve a transfer characteristic where the light-emitting layer is formed using the laser transfer technique.
- a light-emitting polymer composition for a light-emitting layer in an organic EL display comprising at least first and second light-emitting polymers having elements, wherein the first and second light-emitting polymers have different interfacial characteristics which lower a cohesion between the elements of the first and second light-emitting polymers, and a corresponding wavelength spectrum of the first light-emitting polymer overlaps a corresponding wavelength spectrum of the second light-emitting polymer, so as to have an energy transfer in the light-emitting polymer composition.
- the light-emitting polymer composition further includes an additive which improves adhesion of the light-emitting composition to a substrate and lowers the cohesion between the elements of the first and second light-emitting polymers.
- the additive is “optically inert.” That is, the addition of the additive to the light-emitting polymer composition does not affect a final emitting spectrum and a color index of the light-emitting polymer composition in a range of visible light region of 400 nm to 800 nm, wherein the range is a emitting light region of the light-emitting polymer composition.
- the additive is one of an optically inert polymer, an optically inert low-molecular material, a polymer having a carrier transporting ability, and a low-molecular material having a carrier transporting ability.
- the optically inert polymer is selected from a group consisting of a polystyrene, a poly(styrene-butadione) copolymer, a polymethylmethacrylate, a polyalphamethylstyrene, a styrene-methylmethacrylate copolymer, a polybutadiene, a polycarbonate, a polyethyleneterephthalate, a polyestersulfonate, a polysulfonate, a polyarylate, a fluorinepolyimide, a transparent fluoric resin, and a transparent acrylic resin.
- the polymer having the carrier transporting ability is selected from a group consisting of an arylamine, a perylrene group and a pyrrole-based polymer.
- the low-molecular material having the carrier transporting ability is, for example, an arylamine, a hydrazone, a carbazole, a stylbene, a staburst group, and an oxadiazole.
- a mixing mass ratio of the first light-emitting polymer is in a range between 0.3 and 0.8, and a mixing mass ratio of the second light-emitting polymer is in a range between 0.2 and 0.7.
- a mixing mass ratio of the additive is less than 0.7.
- a light-emitting polymer composition for a light-emitting layer of an organic EL display comprising a light-emitting polymer having elements and an additive which improves adhesion of the light-emitting composition to a substrate of the organic EL display, and lowers a cohesion between the elements of the light-emitting polymers.
- the additive is one of an optically inert polymer, an optically inert low-molecular material, a polymer having a carrier transporting ability, and a low-molecular material having a carrier transporting ability.
- the optically inert polymer is selected from a group consisting of a polystyrene, a poly(styrene-butadione) copolymer, a polymethylmethacrylate, a polyalphamethylstyrene, a styrene-methylmethacrylate copolymer, a polybutadiene, a polycarbonate, a polyethyleneterephthalate, a polyestersulfonate, a polysulfonate, a polyarylate, a fluorinepolyimide, a transparent fluoric resin, and a transparent acrylic resin.
- the polymer having the carrier transporting ability is selected from a group consisting of an arylamine, a perylrene group and a pyrrole-based polymer.
- the low-molecular material having the carrier transporting ability is, for example, an arylamine, a hydrazone, a carbazole, a stylbene, a staburst group, and an oxadiazole.
- a mixing mass ratio of the additive is in a range between 0.375 and 0.667.
- an organic EL display device comprising an anode, a hole transporting layer formed on the anode, a light-emitting layer comprising a light-emitting polymer composition including at least first and second light-emitting polymers having elements, wherein the first and second light-emitting polymers have different interfacial characteristics which lower a cohesion between the elements of the first and second light-emitting polymers, and a cathode formed on the light-emitting layer.
- a corresponding wavelength spectrum of the first light-emitting polymer overlaps a corresponding wavelength spectrum of the second light-emitting polymer so as to have an energy transfer in the light-emitting polymer composition.
- the light-emitting polymer composition further comprises an additive which improves adhesion of the light-emitting composition to a substrate of the organic display device, and lowers the cohesion between the elements of the first and second light-emitting polymers.
- an organic EL display device comprising an anode, a hole transporting layer formed on the anode, a light-emitting layer comprising a light-emitting polymer composition including a light-emitting polymer having elements, and an additive which improves adhesion of the light-emitting composition to a substrate and lowers a cohesion between the elements of the light-emitting polymer, and a cathode formed on the light-emitting layer.
- FIG. 1 is a schematic view illustrating a laser transfer operation for patterning a light-emitting layer of a conventional organic EL display device
- FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view illustrating an organic EL display device according to an embodiment of the present invention
- FIG. 3 is a mixing mass ratio graph showing a mixing mass ratio of a light-emitting polymer composition according to the present invention
- FIG. 4 Is a graph illustrating a wavelength spectrum of the organic EL display device of FIG. 2 having a light-emitting polymer composition of the present invention
- FIG. 5 is a graph illustrating a wavelength spectrum of the organic EL display device of FIG. 2 according to variations of a mixing mass ratio of the light-emitting polymer composition
- FIG. 7 is a wavelength spectrum of the organic EL display device of FIG. 6 having the light-emitting polymer composition of the present invention.
- a transfer characteristic of a polymer film can be improved by lowering a cohesion between elements of the polymer film and/or raising an adhesion between a substrate and the polymer film.
- a light-emitting polymer composition according to an embodiment of the present invention includes at least two kinds of light-emitting polymers having different interfacial properties.
- Two kinds of light-emitting polymers having different interfacial properties are mixed to prepare a polymer film.
- a phase separation occurs.
- the polymer film begins to transfer to a substrate from a portion of the polymer film in which the phase separation occurs.
- the phase separation lowers a cohesion between elements of the polymer film without greatly lowering an adhesion between the substrate and the polymer film. Consequently, a transfer characteristic of the polymer film can be improved.
- the polymers have a greater difference in interfacial characteristic, the polymer film is transferred more efficiently.
- the light-emitting polymer composition of the present invention has a structure that efficiently performs an energy transfer. That is, an energy received by one polymer (hereinafter, host polymer) is momentarily transferred to the other polymer (hereinafter, a dopant polymer). Therefore, wavelength spectrums of the host polymer and the dopant polymer overlap each other.
- a yellow light-emitting polymer in which a wavelength of absorbed light is relatively small (i.e., has a relatively high energy), receives energy to emit yellow light
- a red light-emitting polymer in which a wavelength of absorbed light is large (i.e., has a relatively low energy)
- receives the energy from the yellow light-emitting polymer to finally emit red light since the energy transfer occurs momentarily, only the wavelength spectrum of the red light-emitting polymer is finally observed.
- the light-emitting polymer composition can be prepared to emit R, G and B colors as well as a single color in the above-described method.
- the light-emitting polymer composition may further include an additive which improves the adhesion between the polymer film and the substrate, and simultaneously lowers the cohesion between elements of the polymer film.
- the additive is “optically inert.” That is, the addition of the additive to the light-emitting polymer composition does not affect a final emitting spectrum and a color index of the light-emitting polymer composition in a range of visible light region of 400 nm to 800 nm, wherein the range is a emitting light region of the light-emitting polymer composition.
- the additive includes an optically inert polymer, an optically inert low-molecular material, a polymer having a carrier transporting ability, or a low-molecular material having a carrier transporting ability.
- the optically inert polymer includes a polystyrene, a poly(styrene-butadione)copolymer, a polymethylmethacrylate, a polyalphamethylstyrene, a styrene-methylmethacrylate copolymer, a polybutadiene, a polycarbonate, a polyethyleneterephthalate, a polyestersulfonate, a polysulfonate, a polyarylate, a fluorinepolyimide, a transparent fluoric resin, and a transparent acrylic resin.
- the polymer having the carrier transporting ability includes an arylamine, a perylrene group and a pyrrole-based polymer.
- the low-molecular material having a carrier transporting ability includes one of an arylamine, a hydrazone, a carbazole, a stylbene, a staburst group, and an oxadiazole.
- a mixing mass ratio of the two kinds of light-emitting polymers of the light-emitting polymer composition is as follows: 0.3 ⁇ first polymer ⁇ 0.8; and 0.2 ⁇ second polymer ⁇ 0.7.
- a mixing mass ratio of the additive is less than 0.7.
- a light-emitting polymer composition according to another embodiment of the present invention can include one kind of polymer and an additive.
- the additive is one of the above-described additives.
- a light-emitting efficiency is not improved, but the adhesion between a substrate and a polymer film prepared using the light-emitting polymer composition is improved.
- a large amount of the additive may reduce the light-emitting efficiency. Accordingly, a mixing mass ratio of the additive in this case is in a range between 0.375 and 0.667.
- the mixing mass ratios depend on pattern characteristics and a color purity of a resulting device.
- a substrate having an anode is cleaned in, for example, an acetone and an isopropylalcohol in sequence and is UV/ozone-treated.
- a hole transporting layer is, for example, spin-coated on the substrate and then baked.
- a light-emitting polymer composition of the present invention is deposited on a transfer substrate to tens of nanometers (nm) to thereby form a transfer film.
- a light-emitting layer having R, G and B color patterns is patterned on the hole transporting layer by using a laser transfer technique.
- a cathode is formed on the light-emitting layer. Finally, an encapsulating process is performed to complete the organic EL display device.
- the organic EL display device of the present invention has an excellent transfer characteristic, thereby forming the light-emitting layer having an edge roughness of less than 5 ⁇ m.
- FIG. 2 shows a cross-sectional view illustrating an organic EL display device according to the present invention.
- reference numerals 100 , 200 , 300 and 400 denote a cathode, a light-emitting layer, a hole transporting layer, and an anode, respectively.
- Example 1 describes a light-emitting polymer composition having two kinds of light-emitting polymers and an additive, and an organic EL display device using the same according to the present invention:
- the two kinds of light-emitting polymers and the additive are mixed in an appropriate mass ratio and dissolved in a single solvent to prepare the light-emitting polymer composition.
- One light-emitting polymer is a PPV-based yellow electrolight-emitting polymer available under the trade name “SUPER YELLOW” from Covion Organic Semiconductors GmbH.
- the other light-emitting polymer is a PFO-based red electrolight-emitting polymer available under the trade name “RED-B” from Dow Chemical Company.
- the additive is a polystyrene having a molecular weight of 2,500 available from Sigma-Aldrich Corporation.
- the light-emitting polymer composition is sufficiently stirred at a temperature of 60° C. for at least three hours.
- the light-emitting polymer composition is deposited on a transfer substrate to a thickness 80 nm to thereby form a transfer film.
- a substrate having an anode electrode pattern is cleaned and then UV/ozone-treated.
- a hole transporting layer made of a “PEDOT/PSS” from Bayer AG is coated on the substrate to a thickness of 50 nm.
- the transfer film undergoes a laser transfer technique to thereby form a light-emitting layer of the organic EL display device.
- a cathode electrode including an LiF layer of 1 nm and an Al layer of 150 nm is formed on the light-emitting layer.
- an encapsulating process is performed to complete the organic EL display device.
- a mixing mass ratio of the above light-emitting polymer composition which satisfies a Commission Internationale de I'Eclairage (CIE) color coordinate and have an improved transfer characteristic is as follows: 0.3 ⁇ SUPER YELLOW ⁇ 0.8, 0.2 ⁇ RED-B ⁇ 0.7, and polystyrene ⁇ 0.7.
- CIE Commission Internationale de I'Eclairage
- a light-emitting efficiency is 1.25 cd/A
- FIG. 3 shows a mixing mass ratio graph of a light-emitting polymer composition of the present invention which satisfies a CIE color coordinate and have an improved transfer characteristic.
- a non-dotted region (a region not filled with dots) is a feasible region that can satisfy the CIE coordinate and has the laser transfer characteristic.
- FIG. 4 shows a graph illustrating a wavelength spectrum of an organic EL display device according to the present invention.
- a wavelength spectrum of emitted light overlaps a wavelength spectrum of absorbed light in a wavelength range between 500 nm and 700 nm. Therefore, an energy transfer from i.e., SUPER YELLOW to RED-B occurs momentarily, so that only a wavelength spectrum of red light is observed.
- FIG. 5 shows a graph illustrating a wavelength spectrum of an organic EL display device of the present invention according to variations of a mixing mass ratio of a light-emitting polymer composition used in the organic EL display device.
- a wavelength spectrum of an organic EL display device having a mixing mass ratio of RED-B of 25% is almost identical to that of where a mixing mass ratio of RED-B is 100%.
- Example 2 describes a light-emitting polymer composition having one light-emitting polymer and an additive, and an organic EL display device using the same according to the present invention.
- the light-emitting polymer is a red electrolight-emitting polymer available under the trade name “AEF 2009 & 2045” from Covion Organic Semiconductors GmbH.
- the additive is a polystyrene available from Sigma-Aldrich Corporation.
- the molecular weight of the polystyrene is in a range between 2,000 and 2,500. The closer the molecular weight of the polystyrene is to 2,000, better the edge roughness of the light-emitting layer.
- the light-emitting polymer and the additive are mixed in an appropriate mixing mass ratio and dissolved in a toluene to prepare the light-emitting polymer composition.
- the light-emitting polymer composition is sufficiently stirred at a temperature of 60° C. for at least three hours.
- the light-emitting polymer composition is deposited on a transfer substrate to a thickness 80 nm to thereby form a transfer film.
- a substrate having an anode is cleaned and then UV/ozone-treated for fifteen minutes.
- a hole transporting layer made of “PEDOT/PSS” from Bayer AG is coated on the substrate to a thickness of 50 nm.
- the transfer film undergoes a laser transfer technique to thereby form a light-emitting layer of the organic EL display device.
- a cathode electrode is formed on the light-emitting layer.
- an encapsulating process is performed to complete the organic EL display device.
- the mixing mass ratio of the light-emitting polymer composition is as follows: 0.333 ⁇ AEF 2009 or 2045 ⁇ 0.675, and 0.375 ⁇ polystyrene ⁇ 0.667.
- the light-emitting layer has an edge roughness of less than 5 ⁇ m.
- Tables 1 and 2 below show the light emitting efficiency and the CIE color coordinate of the organic EL display device manufactured in the above-described condition.
- An organic EL display device of Table 1 has the following structure: substrate having anode/hole transporting layer of 50 nm/AEF2009:polystyrene(1:1)/cathode having a Ca layer of 30 nm and an Ag layer of 250 nm.
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- An organic EL display device of Table 2 has the following structure: substrate having anode/hole transporting of 50 nm/AEF2045:polystyrene(1:2)/cathode having a Ca layer of 30 nm and a Ag layer of 250 nm.
- a transfer characteristic of a light-emitting layer of an organic EL display device, formed using a laser transfer technique, is improved. Accordingly, a resulting pattern of the light-emitting layer is improved.
- the organic EL display device of the present invention shows an improved light-emitting efficiency, as compared to a conventional, i.e., pure red light-emitting polymer in the same luminance condition.
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A light-emitting polymer composition for a light-emitting layer in an organic EL display device includes at least first and second light-emitting polymers having different interfacial characteristics which lower a cohesion between elements of the first and second light-emitting polymers.
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- This application claims the benefit of Korean Patent Application No. 2001-66880 filed on Oct. 29, 2001, in the Korean Industrial Property Office, the disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference.
- 1. Field of the Invention
- The present invention relates to a light-emitting polymer composition and an organic electroluminescent (EL) display device using the same.
- 2. Description of the Related Art
- An organic EL display device includes an anode, a hole injection layer, a hole transportation layer, a light-emitting layer, an electron transporting layer, an electron injection layer, and a cathode, which are sequentially stacked on a substrate.
- The above-described layers of the organic EL display device are made of a low-molecular organic material or a high-molecular organic material (i.e., a polymer). The layers of the organic EL display device comprising a low-molecular organic material are formed by, for example, a vacuum deposition technique, while the layers of the organic EL display comprising a high-molecular organic material are formed by, for example, a spin coating technique.
- In general, an organic EL display device having a light-emitting layer of one color made of a high-molecular organic material is easy to manufacture and is lower in driving voltage than that of a low-molecular organic material. However, an organic EL display device having a light-emitting layer of one color made of the high-molecular organic material is lower in light-emitting efficiency and shorter in life span than that of the low-molecular organic material.
- On the other hand, in forming a light-emitting layer of a full color, an organic EL display device having the high-molecular organic material has difficulties in patterning red, green and blue light-emitting layers using an ink jet technique or a laser transfer technique, leading to a low light-emitting efficiency and a short life span.
- Conventional light-emitting polymer materials are patterned by the ink-jet technique or the laser transfer technique. However, in most cases, light-emitting polymer materials are not transferred using the laser transfer technique, which is a kind of a thermal transfer technique.
- The thermal transfer technique requires at least a light source, a transfer film, and a substrate. Light emitted from the light source is absorbed into a light absorbing layer of the transfer film and then converted into heat energy. An image forming material of the transfer film is transferred to the substrate by the heat energy, thereby forming a desired image on the substrate. The thermal transfer technique is also used to form a color filter of a liquid crystal display (LCD) device.
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FIG. 1 shows a schematic view illustrating a laser transfer operation for patterning a light-emitting layer of a conventional organic EL display device. - Referring to
FIG. 1 , an organic film S2 is formed on a substrate S1. A laser beam is irradiated to the substrate S1 to separate the organic film S2 from the substrate S1 and transfer it to a substrate S3. - Here, parameters that determine a transfer characteristic include an adhesion W12 between the substrate S1 and the organic film S2, a cohesion W22 between elements of the organic films S2, and an adhesion W23 between the organic film S2 and the substrate S3.
- The adhesion W12 and W23 and the cohesion W22 can be described by a surface tension and an interfacial tension as follows:
W 12=γ1+γ2−γ12;
W 22=2γ22; and
W 23=γ2+γ3−γ23, - where γ1 denotes a surface tension of the substrate S1, γ2 denotes a surface tension of the organic film S2, γ3 denotes a surface tension of the substrate S3, γ12 denotes an interfacial tension between the substrate S1 and the substrate S2, Y22 denotes an interfacial tension between the elements of the organic film S2 and Y23 denotes an interfacial tension between the substrate S2 and the substrate S3.
- As the cohesion between the elements of the organic film S2 becomes smaller than the adhesion between the respective substrates S1 and S3 and the organic film S2, the laser transfer characteristic improves.
- However, a lighting-emitting layer of the conventional organic EL display device is usually made of a polymer film which has a high molecular weight. Therefore, the cohesion between elements of the polymer film is relatively large. Accordingly, the polymer film shows a bad transfer characteristic in the conventional organic EL display device.
- That is, the conventional art does not disclose a technique that can improve a transfer characteristic where the light-emitting layer is formed using the laser transfer technique.
- Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide a light-emitting polymer composition which can improve a transfer characteristic where a light-emitting layer of an organic EL display device is formed using a laser transfer technique.
- It is another object of the present invention to provide a light-emitting polymer composition which can improve a light-emitting efficiency of an organic EL display device.
- Additional objects and advantages of the invention will be set forth in part in the description which follows and, in part, will be obvious from the description, or may be learned by practice of the invention.
- To achieve the above and other objects of the present invention, there is provided a light-emitting polymer composition for a light-emitting layer in an organic EL display, comprising at least first and second light-emitting polymers having elements, wherein the first and second light-emitting polymers have different interfacial characteristics which lower a cohesion between the elements of the first and second light-emitting polymers, and a corresponding wavelength spectrum of the first light-emitting polymer overlaps a corresponding wavelength spectrum of the second light-emitting polymer, so as to have an energy transfer in the light-emitting polymer composition.
- The light-emitting polymer composition further includes an additive which improves adhesion of the light-emitting composition to a substrate and lowers the cohesion between the elements of the first and second light-emitting polymers. The additive is “optically inert.” That is, the addition of the additive to the light-emitting polymer composition does not affect a final emitting spectrum and a color index of the light-emitting polymer composition in a range of visible light region of 400 nm to 800 nm, wherein the range is a emitting light region of the light-emitting polymer composition.
- The additive is one of an optically inert polymer, an optically inert low-molecular material, a polymer having a carrier transporting ability, and a low-molecular material having a carrier transporting ability.
- The optically inert polymer is selected from a group consisting of a polystyrene, a poly(styrene-butadione) copolymer, a polymethylmethacrylate, a polyalphamethylstyrene, a styrene-methylmethacrylate copolymer, a polybutadiene, a polycarbonate, a polyethyleneterephthalate, a polyestersulfonate, a polysulfonate, a polyarylate, a fluorinepolyimide, a transparent fluoric resin, and a transparent acrylic resin.
- The polymer having the carrier transporting ability is selected from a group consisting of an arylamine, a perylrene group and a pyrrole-based polymer. The low-molecular material having the carrier transporting ability is, for example, an arylamine, a hydrazone, a carbazole, a stylbene, a staburst group, and an oxadiazole. A mixing mass ratio of the first light-emitting polymer is in a range between 0.3 and 0.8, and a mixing mass ratio of the second light-emitting polymer is in a range between 0.2 and 0.7. A mixing mass ratio of the additive is less than 0.7.
- To achieve the above and other objects according to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a light-emitting polymer composition for a light-emitting layer of an organic EL display, comprising a light-emitting polymer having elements and an additive which improves adhesion of the light-emitting composition to a substrate of the organic EL display, and lowers a cohesion between the elements of the light-emitting polymers.
- The additive is one of an optically inert polymer, an optically inert low-molecular material, a polymer having a carrier transporting ability, and a low-molecular material having a carrier transporting ability.
- The optically inert polymer is selected from a group consisting of a polystyrene, a poly(styrene-butadione) copolymer, a polymethylmethacrylate, a polyalphamethylstyrene, a styrene-methylmethacrylate copolymer, a polybutadiene, a polycarbonate, a polyethyleneterephthalate, a polyestersulfonate, a polysulfonate, a polyarylate, a fluorinepolyimide, a transparent fluoric resin, and a transparent acrylic resin.
- The polymer having the carrier transporting ability is selected from a group consisting of an arylamine, a perylrene group and a pyrrole-based polymer. The low-molecular material having the carrier transporting ability is, for example, an arylamine, a hydrazone, a carbazole, a stylbene, a staburst group, and an oxadiazole. A mixing mass ratio of the additive is in a range between 0.375 and 0.667.
- To achieve the above and other objects according to yet another aspect of the present invention, there is provided an organic EL display device comprising an anode, a hole transporting layer formed on the anode, a light-emitting layer comprising a light-emitting polymer composition including at least first and second light-emitting polymers having elements, wherein the first and second light-emitting polymers have different interfacial characteristics which lower a cohesion between the elements of the first and second light-emitting polymers, and a cathode formed on the light-emitting layer.
- A corresponding wavelength spectrum of the first light-emitting polymer overlaps a corresponding wavelength spectrum of the second light-emitting polymer so as to have an energy transfer in the light-emitting polymer composition.
- The light-emitting polymer composition further comprises an additive which improves adhesion of the light-emitting composition to a substrate of the organic display device, and lowers the cohesion between the elements of the first and second light-emitting polymers.
- To achieve the above and other objects according to still another aspect of the present invention, there is provided an organic EL display device comprising an anode, a hole transporting layer formed on the anode, a light-emitting layer comprising a light-emitting polymer composition including a light-emitting polymer having elements, and an additive which improves adhesion of the light-emitting composition to a substrate and lowers a cohesion between the elements of the light-emitting polymer, and a cathode formed on the light-emitting layer.
- These and other objects and advantages of the present invention will become apparent and more readily appreciated from the following description of the embodiments, taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings of which:
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FIG. 1 is a schematic view illustrating a laser transfer operation for patterning a light-emitting layer of a conventional organic EL display device; -
FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view illustrating an organic EL display device according to an embodiment of the present invention; -
FIG. 3 is a mixing mass ratio graph showing a mixing mass ratio of a light-emitting polymer composition according to the present invention; -
FIG. 4 Is a graph illustrating a wavelength spectrum of the organic EL display device ofFIG. 2 having a light-emitting polymer composition of the present invention; -
FIG. 5 is a graph illustrating a wavelength spectrum of the organic EL display device ofFIG. 2 according to variations of a mixing mass ratio of the light-emitting polymer composition; -
FIG. 6 is a CIE color coordinate of the organic EL display device having a mixing mass ratio of SUPER YELLOW:RED-B:polystyrene=0.64:0.28:0.08, respectively, according to the present invention; and -
FIG. 7 is a wavelength spectrum of the organic EL display device ofFIG. 6 having the light-emitting polymer composition of the present invention. - Reference will now be made in detail to the embodiments of the present invention, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein like reference numerals refer to the like elements throughout. The embodiments are described below in order to explain the present invention by referring to the figures.
- A transfer characteristic of a polymer film can be improved by lowering a cohesion between elements of the polymer film and/or raising an adhesion between a substrate and the polymer film.
- A light-emitting polymer composition according to an embodiment of the present invention includes at least two kinds of light-emitting polymers having different interfacial properties.
- Two kinds of light-emitting polymers having different interfacial properties are mixed to prepare a polymer film. When a laser beam is irradiated to the polymer film, a phase separation occurs. The polymer film begins to transfer to a substrate from a portion of the polymer film in which the phase separation occurs. The phase separation lowers a cohesion between elements of the polymer film without greatly lowering an adhesion between the substrate and the polymer film. Consequently, a transfer characteristic of the polymer film can be improved. As the polymers have a greater difference in interfacial characteristic, the polymer film is transferred more efficiently.
- However, when the two kinds of polymers are mixed, a light-emitting efficiency of an organic EL display device may be lowered. Therefore, the light-emitting polymer composition of the present invention has a structure that efficiently performs an energy transfer. That is, an energy received by one polymer (hereinafter, host polymer) is momentarily transferred to the other polymer (hereinafter, a dopant polymer). Therefore, wavelength spectrums of the host polymer and the dopant polymer overlap each other.
- For example, a yellow light-emitting polymer, in which a wavelength of absorbed light is relatively small (i.e., has a relatively high energy), receives energy to emit yellow light, and a red light-emitting polymer, in which a wavelength of absorbed light is large (i.e., has a relatively low energy), receives the energy from the yellow light-emitting polymer to finally emit red light. In other words, since the energy transfer occurs momentarily, only the wavelength spectrum of the red light-emitting polymer is finally observed.
- The light-emitting polymer composition can be prepared to emit R, G and B colors as well as a single color in the above-described method.
- The light-emitting polymer composition may further include an additive which improves the adhesion between the polymer film and the substrate, and simultaneously lowers the cohesion between elements of the polymer film. The additive is “optically inert.” That is, the addition of the additive to the light-emitting polymer composition does not affect a final emitting spectrum and a color index of the light-emitting polymer composition in a range of visible light region of 400 nm to 800 nm, wherein the range is a emitting light region of the light-emitting polymer composition.
- The additive includes an optically inert polymer, an optically inert low-molecular material, a polymer having a carrier transporting ability, or a low-molecular material having a carrier transporting ability.
- The optically inert polymer includes a polystyrene, a poly(styrene-butadione)copolymer, a polymethylmethacrylate, a polyalphamethylstyrene, a styrene-methylmethacrylate copolymer, a polybutadiene, a polycarbonate, a polyethyleneterephthalate, a polyestersulfonate, a polysulfonate, a polyarylate, a fluorinepolyimide, a transparent fluoric resin, and a transparent acrylic resin. The polymer having the carrier transporting ability includes an arylamine, a perylrene group and a pyrrole-based polymer. The low-molecular material having a carrier transporting ability includes one of an arylamine, a hydrazone, a carbazole, a stylbene, a staburst group, and an oxadiazole.
- A mixing mass ratio of the two kinds of light-emitting polymers of the light-emitting polymer composition is as follows: 0.3<first polymer<0.8; and 0.2<second polymer<0.7. A mixing mass ratio of the additive is less than 0.7.
- A light-emitting polymer composition according to another embodiment of the present invention can include one kind of polymer and an additive. The additive is one of the above-described additives. In this case, since the energy transfer does not occur, a light-emitting efficiency is not improved, but the adhesion between a substrate and a polymer film prepared using the light-emitting polymer composition is improved. A large amount of the additive may reduce the light-emitting efficiency. Accordingly, a mixing mass ratio of the additive in this case is in a range between 0.375 and 0.667.
- The mixing mass ratios depend on pattern characteristics and a color purity of a resulting device.
- A method of manufacturing an organic EL display device according to the present invention is described below.
- A substrate having an anode is cleaned in, for example, an acetone and an isopropylalcohol in sequence and is UV/ozone-treated. A hole transporting layer is, for example, spin-coated on the substrate and then baked. A light-emitting polymer composition of the present invention is deposited on a transfer substrate to tens of nanometers (nm) to thereby form a transfer film. A light-emitting layer having R, G and B color patterns is patterned on the hole transporting layer by using a laser transfer technique. A cathode is formed on the light-emitting layer. Finally, an encapsulating process is performed to complete the organic EL display device.
- The organic EL display device of the present invention has an excellent transfer characteristic, thereby forming the light-emitting layer having an edge roughness of less than 5 μm.
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FIG. 2 shows a cross-sectional view illustrating an organic EL display device according to the present invention. InFIG. 2 ,reference numerals - Example 1 below describes a light-emitting polymer composition having two kinds of light-emitting polymers and an additive, and an organic EL display device using the same according to the present invention:
- The two kinds of light-emitting polymers and the additive are mixed in an appropriate mass ratio and dissolved in a single solvent to prepare the light-emitting polymer composition. One light-emitting polymer is a PPV-based yellow electrolight-emitting polymer available under the trade name “SUPER YELLOW” from Covion Organic Semiconductors GmbH. The other light-emitting polymer is a PFO-based red electrolight-emitting polymer available under the trade name “RED-B” from Dow Chemical Company. The additive is a polystyrene having a molecular weight of 2,500 available from Sigma-Aldrich Corporation.
- The light-emitting polymer composition is sufficiently stirred at a temperature of 60° C. for at least three hours. The light-emitting polymer composition is deposited on a transfer substrate to a thickness 80 nm to thereby form a transfer film. A substrate having an anode electrode pattern is cleaned and then UV/ozone-treated. A hole transporting layer made of a “PEDOT/PSS” from Bayer AG is coated on the substrate to a thickness of 50 nm. The transfer film undergoes a laser transfer technique to thereby form a light-emitting layer of the organic EL display device. A cathode electrode including an LiF layer of 1 nm and an Al layer of 150 nm is formed on the light-emitting layer. Finally, an encapsulating process is performed to complete the organic EL display device.
- A mixing mass ratio of the above light-emitting polymer composition which satisfies a Commission Internationale de I'Eclairage (CIE) color coordinate and have an improved transfer characteristic is as follows: 0.3<SUPER YELLOW<0.8, 0.2<RED-B<0.7, and polystyrene<0.7.
- One of the optimum mixing mass ratio of the above light-emitting polymer composition is as follows: SUPER YELLOW:RED-B:polystyrene=0.64:0.28:0.08. In this case, a light-emitting efficiency is 1.25 cd/A, and a color coordinate is x=0.66 and y=0.33 (CIE1931, 300 Cd/m2 at a voltage of 6.5 volts).
- In the above light-emitting polymer composition, where the organic EL display device emits a red light, which is a finally observed light, SUPER YELLOW is a host polymer and RED-B is a dopant polymer.
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FIG. 3 shows a mixing mass ratio graph of a light-emitting polymer composition of the present invention which satisfies a CIE color coordinate and have an improved transfer characteristic. A non-dotted region (a region not filled with dots) is a feasible region that can satisfy the CIE coordinate and has the laser transfer characteristic. -
FIG. 4 shows a graph illustrating a wavelength spectrum of an organic EL display device according to the present invention. As shown inFIG. 4 , a wavelength spectrum of emitted light overlaps a wavelength spectrum of absorbed light in a wavelength range between 500 nm and 700 nm. Therefore, an energy transfer from i.e., SUPER YELLOW to RED-B occurs momentarily, so that only a wavelength spectrum of red light is observed. -
FIG. 5 shows a graph illustrating a wavelength spectrum of an organic EL display device of the present invention according to variations of a mixing mass ratio of a light-emitting polymer composition used in the organic EL display device. As shown inFIG. 5 , a wavelength spectrum of an organic EL display device having a mixing mass ratio of RED-B of 25% is almost identical to that of where a mixing mass ratio of RED-B is 100%. -
FIGS. 6 and 7 show a CIE color coordinate and a wavelength spectrum of an organic EL display device having a light-emitting polymer composition with a mixing mass ratio of SUPER YELLOW:RED-B:polystyrene=0.64:0.28:0.08, respectively. - Example 2 below describes a light-emitting polymer composition having one light-emitting polymer and an additive, and an organic EL display device using the same according to the present invention.
- The light-emitting polymer is a red electrolight-emitting polymer available under the trade name “AEF 2009 & 2045” from Covion Organic Semiconductors GmbH. The additive is a polystyrene available from Sigma-Aldrich Corporation. The molecular weight of the polystyrene is in a range between 2,000 and 2,500. The closer the molecular weight of the polystyrene is to 2,000, better the edge roughness of the light-emitting layer.
- The light-emitting polymer and the additive are mixed in an appropriate mixing mass ratio and dissolved in a toluene to prepare the light-emitting polymer composition.
- The light-emitting polymer composition is sufficiently stirred at a temperature of 60° C. for at least three hours. The light-emitting polymer composition is deposited on a transfer substrate to a thickness 80 nm to thereby form a transfer film. A substrate having an anode is cleaned and then UV/ozone-treated for fifteen minutes. A hole transporting layer made of “PEDOT/PSS” from Bayer AG is coated on the substrate to a thickness of 50 nm. The transfer film undergoes a laser transfer technique to thereby form a light-emitting layer of the organic EL display device. A cathode electrode is formed on the light-emitting layer. Finally, an encapsulating process is performed to complete the organic EL display device.
- The mixing mass ratio of the light-emitting polymer composition is as follows: 0.333<AEF 2009 or 2045<0.675, and 0.375<polystyrene<0.667. The light-emitting layer has an edge roughness of less than 5 μm.
- Tables 1 and 2 below show the light emitting efficiency and the CIE color coordinate of the organic EL display device manufactured in the above-described condition.
- An organic EL display device of Table 1 has the following structure: substrate having anode/hole transporting layer of 50 nm/AEF2009:polystyrene(1:1)/cathode having a Ca layer of 30 nm and an Ag layer of 250 nm.
TABLE 1 Spincoating Turn-on Voltage (V) Efficiency speed Thickness voltage at 100 at 100 CIE (1931) (rpm) (Å) (V) Cd/ Cd/ X Y CR/PS 2000 800 4.5 7.5 0.78 0.6601 0.3383 (#1) CR/PS 2000 800 4.0 7.0 0.83 0.6628 0.3354 (#2) CR/PS 2000 800 4.0 6.5 0.77 0.6605 0.3376 (#3) - An organic EL display device of Table 2 has the following structure: substrate having anode/hole transporting of 50 nm/AEF2045:polystyrene(1:2)/cathode having a Ca layer of 30 nm and a Ag layer of 250 nm.
TABLE 2 Voltage Turn-on (V) Efficiency Thickness voltage at 100 at 100 CIE (1931) (Å) (V) Cd/ Cd/ x Y CR/ PS 700 3.5 5.5 0.79 0.6658 0.3342 (#1) CR/ PS 800 3.5 6.0 1.34 0.6682 0.3309 (#2) CR/PS 850 3.5 6.5 1.22 0.6682 0.3309 (#3) CR/PS 900 4.0 7.0 0.51 0.6675 0.3316 (#4) - According to the present invention, a transfer characteristic of a light-emitting layer of an organic EL display device, formed using a laser transfer technique, is improved. Accordingly, a resulting pattern of the light-emitting layer is improved. In addition, the organic EL display device of the present invention shows an improved light-emitting efficiency, as compared to a conventional, i.e., pure red light-emitting polymer in the same luminance condition.
- Although a few embodiments of the present invention have been shown and described, it will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that changes may be made in these embodiments without departing from the principles and spirit of the invention, the scope of which is defined in the appended claims and their equivalents.
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1-22. (canceled)
23. A method for fabricating an organic EL display device, comprising:
providing a substrate;
forming an anode on the substrate;
forming a hole transporting layer over the anode;
forming a light-emitting layer comprising a light-emitting polymer composition including first and second light-emitting polymers having elements by Laser Induced Thermal Imaging method (LITI); and
forming a cathode over the light-emitting layer,
wherein the first and second light-emitting polymers have different interfacial characteristics which lower a cohesion between the elements of the first and second light-emitting polymers, and
wherein a corresponding wavelength spectrum of the first light-emitting polymer overlaps a corresponding wavelength spectrum of the second light-emitting polymer, so as to allow an energy transfer in the light-emitting polymer composition.
24. The method of claim 23 , wherein the light-emitting polymer composition further comprises an additive which improves adhesion of the light-emitting composition to a substrate and lowers the cohesion between the elements of the first and second light-emitting polymers.
25. The method of claim 24 , wherein the additive is one of an optically inert polymer, an optically inert low-molecular material, a polymer having a carrier transporting ability, and a low-molecular material having a carrier transporting ability.
26. The method of claim 24 , wherein the optically inert polymer is selected from a group consisting of a polystyrene, a poly(styrene-butadione) copolymer, a polymethylmethacrylate, a polyalphamethylstyrene, a styrene-methylmethacrylate copolymer, a polybutadiene, a polycarbonate, a polyethyleneterephthalate, a polyestersulfonate, a polysulfonate, a polyarylate, a fluorinepolyimide, a transparent fluoric resin, and a transparent acrylic resin.
27. The method of claim 24 , wherein the polymer having the carrier transporting ability is selected from a group consisting of an arylamine, a perylrene group and a pyrrole-based polymer.
28. The method of claim 24 , wherein the low-molecular material having the carrier transporting ability is one of an arylamine, a hydrazone, a carbazole, a stylbene, a staburst group, and an oxadiazole.
29. The method of claim 24 , wherein:
the first light-emitting polymer has a mixing mass ratio in a range between 0.3 and 0.8, and the second light-emitting polymer has a mixing mass ratio in a range between 0.2 and 0.7.
30. The method of claim 23 , wherein the additive has a mixing mass ratio of less than 0.7.
31. A method for fabricating an organic EL display device, comprising:
providing a substrate;
forming an anode on the substrate;
forming a hole transporting layer over the anode;
forming a light-emitting layer by Laser Induced Thermal Imaging (LITI) method; and
forming a cathode over the light-emitting layer,
wherein the light-emitting layer comprises a light-emitting polymer composition including:
a light-emitting polymer having elements; and
an additive which improves adhesion of the light-emitting composition to a substrate and lowers a cohesion between the elements of the light-emitting polymer, wherein the additive is one of an optically inert polymer, an optically inert low-molecular material, a polymer having a carrier transporting ability, and a low-molecular material having a carrier transporting ability.
32. The method of claim 31 , wherein the optically inert polymer is selected from a group consisting of a polystyrene, a poly(styrene-butadione) copolymer, a polymethylmethacrylate, a polyalphamethylstyrene, a styrene-methylmethacrylate copolymer, a polybutadiene, a polycarbonate, a polyethyleneterephthalate, a polyestersulfonate, a polysulfonate, a polyarylate, a fluorinepolyimide, a transparent fluoric resin, and a transparent acrylic resin.
33. The method of claim 31 , wherein the polymer having the carrier transporting ability is selected from a group consisting of an arylamine, a perylrene group and a pyrrole-based polymer.
34. The method of claim 31 , wherein the low-molecular material having the carrier transporting ability is one of an arylamine, a hydrazone, a carbazole, a stylbene, a staburst group, and an oxadiazole.
35. The method of claim 31 , wherein the additive has a mixing mass ratio in a range between 0.375 and 0.667.
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