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White organic electroluminescent devices with improved stability and efficiency

US6696177B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateAug 30, 2000
Grant dateFeb 24, 2004
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Expiry dateOct 16, 2020

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10S428/917
  • WIPO fieldElectrical machinery, apparatus, energy
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An organic light-emitting diode (OLED) device which produces substantially white light includes a substrate; an anode disposed over the substrate; and a hole-injecting layer disposed over the anode. The device also includes a hole transport layer disposed over the hole-injecting layer; a light-emitting layer doped with a blue light-emitting compound, disposed directly on the hole transport layer; and an electron transport layer disposed over the blue light-emitting layer. The device further includes a cathode disposed over the electron transport layer and the hole transport layer, electron transport layer, or the electron transport layer and the hole transport layer being selectively doped in a region which corresponds to an entire layer or a partial portion of a layer in contact with the blue light-emitting layer, the selective doping being with a compound which emits light in the yellow region of the spectrum.

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