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CN102163617A - Organic light-emitting display device and method of manufacturing the same - Google Patents
CN102163617A
CN102163617A CN2011100394353A CN201110039435A CN102163617A CN 102163617 A CN102163617 A CN 102163617A CN 2011100394353 A CN2011100394353 A CN 2011100394353A CN 201110039435 A CN201110039435 A CN 201110039435A CN 102163617 A CN102163617 A CN 102163617A
CN2011100394353A
CN102163617B (en
朴容佑
2010-02-16 Priority to KR10-2010-0013846 priority Critical
2010-02-16 Priority to KR20100013846A priority patent/KR101084193B1/en
2011-02-15 Application filed by 三星移动显示器株式会社 filed Critical 三星移动显示器株式会社
2011-08-24 Publication of CN102163617A publication Critical patent/CN102163617A/en
2015-06-17 Publication of CN102163617B publication Critical patent/CN102163617B/en
239000011810 insulating materials Substances 0.000 claims abstract description 19
An organic light-emitting display device including a pixel-defining layer and a spacer, and a method of manufacturing the same. The method includes: forming an organic insulating material layer on a pixel electrode; placing a half-tone mask including a light-blocking portion, a partial-transmitting portion, and a light-transmitting portion on the organic insulating material layer and performing an exposure process so that the pixel electrode corresponds to the light-transmitting portion, a pixel-defining layer at least partially surrounding the pixel electrode corresponds to the partial-transmitting portion, and a spacer adjacent to the pixel-defining layer corresponds to the light-blocking portion; and etching a portion of the organic insulating material layer that is exposed so that a pixel area on the pixel electrode is at least partially surrounded by the pixel-defining layer and the spacer. A taper angle of the pixel-defining layer is between about 15 degrees to about 30 degrees.
Oganic light-emitting display device and manufacture method thereof
The application requires priority and the rights and interests of the korean patent application No.10-2010-0013846 that submitted in Korea S Department of Intellectual Property on February 16th, 2010, and its full content is incorporated herein by reference.
Embodiments of the invention relate to oganic light-emitting display device and manufacture method thereof.
Generally speaking, oganic light-emitting display device is a spontaneous emission type display device, it comprises pixel electrode, counterelectrode and the organic luminous layer between pixel electrode and counterelectrode, make when suitable anode voltage and suitable cathode voltage are applied in these electrodes, send light from organic luminous layer.
Because the size of oganic light-emitting display device increases recently, therefore organic luminous layer forms by the typography such as nozzle printing or ink jet printing, with form organic luminous layer by mask process and compare, this has eliminated using the needs of mask more frequently.
For by utilizing typography to form organic luminous layer, the organic luminous layer solution that can use barrier to prevent to be ejected in the pixel region is penetrated in the adjacent pixels district.Spacer (spacer) and pixel limit layer can be used as barrier.
Pixel qualification layer surrounds each pixel at least in part and each pixel and other pixel is separated.It is outstanding that spacer limits layer from pixel, and serve as and be used for preventing that organic luminous layer solution is penetrated into the barrier in neighbor district.
Because traditional manufacture method relates to pixel on the patterning pixel electrode and limits layer and patterning pixel and limit spacer on the layer, therefore may need to carry out dual masks technology and limit layer and spacer to form pixel.Correspondingly, carrying out the more research of simple manufacturing process.
Correspondingly, an aspect of of the present present invention provides a kind of oganic light-emitting display device, wherein utilizes single mask process to form pixel and limits layer and spacer.Another aspect of the present invention provides a kind of method of making oganic light-emitting display device.
According to one embodiment of present invention, provide a kind of oganic light-emitting display device, comprising: the pixel electrode that is electrically connected to thin-film transistor; The pixel of surrounding described pixel electrode at least in part and limiting pixel region limits layer; Limit the adjacent spacer of layer with described pixel; Second electrode corresponding with described pixel electrode; And the organic luminous layer between described pixel electrode and described second electrode, wherein said pixel limits layer and spends in the scope of 30 degree 15 at the cone angle between described pixel electrode and the described organic luminous layer.
Described pixel limit layer can have less than Thickness.It is one that described spacer can limit layer with described pixel, and it is outstanding to limit layer from described pixel.Described second electrode can be faced described pixel electrode.
Another embodiment of the present invention provides a kind of method of making oganic light-emitting display device, comprising: form organic insulation material layer on pixel electrode; On described organic insulating material layer, place the half-tone mask that comprises photoresist part, part transmission part and transmittance part; Carry out exposure process, make described pixel electrode corresponding with described transmittance part, the pixel qualification layer that surrounds described pixel electrode at least in part is corresponding with described part transmission part, and the spacer adjacent with described pixel qualification layer is corresponding with described photoresist part; And the part of the described organic insulating material layer of etching, make that the pixel region on the described pixel electrode is limited layer and the encirclement of described spacer by the described pixel corresponding with described exposure process at least in part.
Described exposure process can comprise and defocus technology that wherein a branch of at least light focuses on away from the exposed surface of described organic insulating material layer.The described technology that defocuses can be included in from described at least one light beam of exposed surface 10 μ m to the 15 μ m places of described organic insulating material layer focusing.Described pixel limits layer and can spend between 30 degree 15 at the cone angle between described pixel electrode and the described organic luminous layer.Described pixel limit layer can have less than Thickness.Described photoresist part can have 0% light transmittance, and described part transmission part can have 40% to 70% light transmittance, and described transmittance part can have 100% light transmittance.The described part of described organic insulating material layer can be exposed during described exposure process.Described method can also comprise the described half-tone mask of preparation.
According to embodiments of the invention, pixel be can form by the single mask process that utilizes half-tone mask and layer and spacer limited, can simplified manufacturing technique, and can form uniform organic luminous layer by reducing the cone angle that pixel limits layer.
Accompanying drawing illustrates exemplary embodiment of the present invention with specification, and is used from the principle of explaining the embodiment of the invention with explanation one.
Fig. 1 is the cross-sectional view according to the oganic light-emitting display device of the embodiment of the invention;
Fig. 2 is the zoomed-in view that illustrates the part A of Fig. 1; And
Fig. 3 A and Fig. 3 B are the cross-sectional views that illustrates embodiments of the invention, and wherein manufacture method is used to form the embodiment of the oganic light-emitting display device of Fig. 1.
Hereinafter, describe with reference to the accompanying drawings according to some exemplary embodiments of the present invention.Here, when first element was described to be connected to second element, first element can be directly connected to second element, perhaps can be connected to second element indirectly via one or more additional element.Further, for the sake of clarity, omitted for complete understanding the present invention and some unnecessary elements.And identical Reference numeral refers to components identical all the time.
Hereinafter, describe exemplary embodiment of the present invention in detail referring to figs. 1 through Fig. 3 B.
Fig. 1 illustrates the cross-sectional view of oganic light-emitting display device according to an embodiment of the invention.
Referring to Fig. 1, oganic light-emitting display device comprises the thin-film transistor (TFT) 30 that is formed on the substrate 10 according to an embodiment of the invention, also comprises organic illuminating element 40.Show a pixel of oganic light-emitting display device although should be appreciated that Fig. 1, oganic light-emitting display device can comprise a plurality of pixels.
TFT 30 comprises: be formed on the active layer 31 on the substrate 10; Cover first insulating barrier 32 of active layer 31; Be formed on the gate electrode 33 on first insulating barrier 32; Be formed on first insulating barrier 32 and second insulating barrier 34 of covering grid electrode 33; And be connected respectively to active layer 31 active layer 31 is connected to the source/drain electrode 35 of the pixel electrode 41 of organic illuminating element 40.Correspondingly, if suitable voltage is applied in gate electrode 33, then electric current begins to flow to pixel electrode 41 by active layer 31 and source/drain electrode 35.
In addition, be used to prevent dopants penetration and be used to realize that the resilient coating (not shown) of the planarization of substrate 10 can be disposed in the top surface of substrate 10.
Passivation layer 20 can comprise inorganic insulation layer or organic insulator.If passivation layer 20 comprises inorganic insulation layer, then inorganic insulation layer can comprise SiO 2, SiNx, SiON, Al 2O 3, TiO 2, Ta 2O 5, HfO 2, ZrO 2, BST and/or PZT.If passivation layer 20 comprises organic insulator, then organic insulator can comprise polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA), contain the phenol polymer derivative, acrylic polymer, acid imide polymer, aryl oxide base polymer, acylamide polymer, fluorinated polymer, p-xylene polymer, vinyl alcohol polymer and/or its mixture.Alternately, passivation layer 20 can comprise inorganic insulation layer and the organic insulator that piles up.
The pixel electrode 41 of the contact source/drain electrode 35 of organic illuminating element 40 is formed on the passivation layer 20.
The pixel of surrounding pixel electrode 41 at least in part and limiting pixel region limits layer 51 and forms (for example, integrally formed) on passivation layer 20 with spacer 52.The organic luminous layer 42 of organic illuminating element 41 and counterelectrode 43 (it can be referred to as second electrode) are formed on the pixel electrode 41.
Organic illuminating element 40 is electrically connected to TFT 30 and is configured to luminously, and it comprises the pixel electrode 41 that is electrically connected to TFT30, as second electrode 43 and the organic luminous layer 42 between the pixel electrode 41 and second electrode 43 of public electrode.Correspondingly, if voltage is applied in pixel electrode 41 to produce electric field between the pixel electrode 41 and second electrode 43 from TFT 30, then organic luminous layer 42 can be luminous.
If oganic light-emitting display device is the top emission structure oganic light-emitting display device, wherein light is along the direction emission towards second electrode 43, and then pixel electrode 41 can be a reflection-type.For this reason, pixel electrode 41 can comprise the reflector that is formed by the alloy such as aluminium (Al) or silver (Ag).
If pixel electrode 41 is as anode, then pixel electrode 41 can comprise the layer that is formed by the metal oxide with high work function (absolute value) (for example tin indium oxide (ITO), indium zinc oxide (IZO) or zinc oxide (ZnO)).If pixel electrode 41 is as negative electrode, then pixel electrode 41 can be formed by the metal with high conductance and low work function (absolute value), for example silver (Ag), magnesium (Mg), aluminium (Al), platinum (Pt), plumbous (Pd), gold (Au), nickel (Ni), neodymium (Nd), iridium (Ir), chromium (Cr), lithium (Li) or calcium (Ca).Correspondingly, in this case, do not need aforesaid reflector.
Second electrode 43 can be a transmission electrode.For this reason, second electrode 43 can comprise the part Transflective layer that is formed by Ag, Mg, Al, Pt, Pd, Au, Ni, Nd, Ir, Cr, Li or Ca, perhaps the transmittance metal oxide such as ITO, IZON or ZnO.If pixel electrode 41 is as anode, then second electrode 43 can be used as negative electrode.On the contrary, if pixel electrode 41 is used as negative electrode, then second electrode 43 can be used as anode.
Organic luminous layer 42 between the pixel electrode 41 and second electrode 43 can form by all layers or some layers that piles up in hole injection layer, hole transmission layer, luminescent layer, electron injecting layer and the electron transfer layer.Organic luminous layer 42 comprises luminescent layer.
Organic luminous layer 42 can form by the typography such as ink jet printing or nozzle printing.That is to say, can by with ink droplet jet to limiting by pixel in the pixel region that floor 51 and spacer 52 limit to utilize ink droplet filler pixels district, then dry ink droplet, form organic luminous layer 42.
Owing to do not expect that ink droplet is penetrated in the adjacent pixels district, so pixel limits layer 51 and spacer 52 can serve as barrier.Yet, too thick in limited space if pixel limits layer 51, may be too big towards the taper angle theta (referring to Fig. 2) of pixel region.In this case, ink droplet may not can be filled into equably with pixel region and pixel and limits in the corresponding area B (referring to Fig. 2) in border between the layer 51, thereby may cause pixel of poor quality.Correspondingly, pixel limits layer 51 and can have less than approximately Thickness " h " (referring to Fig. 2), and taper angle theta (referring to Fig. 2) can about 15 spend about 30 the degree between.
If it is too thin that pixel limits layer 51, then, pixel can not serve as barrier separately because limiting layer 51, therefore should form spacer 52.Yet if pixel limits layer 51 and spacer 52 forms by the pattern corresponding mask that utilization and pixel limit layer 51 and spacer 52, the manufacturing process possibility is complicated.Correspondingly, can utilize half-tone mask 100 shown in Fig. 3 B.
Fig. 3 A and Fig. 3 B illustrate one embodiment of the present of invention, wherein make the technology utilization half-tone mask 100 that pixel limits layer 51 and spacer 52.
Referring to Fig. 3 A, the organic insulating material layer 50 that is used to form pixel qualification layer 51 and spacer 52 can be formed on the pixel electrode 41.Organic insulating material layer 50 can be formed by polyimides or the like.Aforesaid material is provided as just example, and should not be interpreted as limiting the present invention or embodiment.
Referring to Fig. 3 B, half-tone mask 100 has been placed on the insulation material layer 50, and carries out exposure process.By half-tone mask 100, thereby can limit the zone of layer 51 and the zone execution exposure process of spacer 52 to be formed to the pixel region of laying out pixel electrode 41, pixel to be formed.By convention, this can utilize different dosage and form in the different time.
Half-tone mask 100 comprises the transmittance part 110 of transmitted light (promptly have about 100% light transmittance), the photoresist part 130 that stops light (promptly have about 0% light transmittance) and the part transmission part 120 of part transmitted light.Exposure process can be carried out by placing half-tone mask 100, make transmittance part 110 corresponding with the pixel region of pixel electrode 41, make part transmission part 120 and pixel limit the regional corresponding of layer 51, and make the regional corresponding of photoresist part 130 and spacer 152.
Next, can during etch process subsequently, be removed exposing pixel electrode 41 by transmittance part 110 exposed portions in the organic insulating material layer 50, and the part that is stopped light by photoresist part 130 in the organic insulating material layer 50 can keep to form spacer 52.The part that light partly sees through in the organic insulating material layer 50 can partly keep to form pixel qualification layer 51.Correspondingly, because pixel limits layer 51 and spacer 52 utilizes single mask process to form together each other, therefore can avoid utilizing in the conventional method inconvenience of dual masks technology.
The part transmission part 120 that is used to form pixel qualification layer 51 can have about 40% to about 70% light transmittance.If implement exposure process when part transmission part 120 has about 40% to about 70% light transmittance, then pixel qualification layer 51 can have approximately Thickness " h " (referring to Fig. 2), it is less than the thickness of spacer 52, and taper angle theta (referring to Fig. 2) can be spent between about 30 degree about 15.
During exposure process, can carry out defocusing, it causes light beam to focus on away from the exposed surface of organic insulating material layer 50.That is to say, if implementing to defocus in the mode that focuses on to about 15 μ m places from the about 10 μ m of exposed surface, then can reduce transmittance part 110 by half-tone mask 100 and part transmission part 120 and the acutance on border between the area exposed with light beam.Correspondingly, because the pixel region by etch process formation tilts gradually after exposure process, so taper angle theta may be also little.Correspondingly, if taper angle theta less than about 30 degree, the ink droplet that then is used to form organic luminous layer 42 is the filler pixels district more equably, thereby reduces the risk that forms ropy pixel.Yet if taper angle theta is too little, pixel limits the size that layer 51 possibly can't be determined pixel.Therefore, taper angle theta is usually greater than about 15 degree.
The oganic light-emitting display device of Fig. 1 can limit layer 51 and spacer 52, ink droplet jet is made as second electrode 43 of public electrode to form organic luminous layer 42 and to form on organic luminous layer 42 to pixel region by aforesaid formation pixel.
In addition, the protective layer (not shown) can be formed on second electrode 43, and can carry out sealing by for example utilizing glass.
As mentioned above, owing to form pixel qualification layer and spacer by the single mask process that utilizes half-tone mask according to the oganic light-emitting display device and the manufacture method thereof of the embodiment of the invention, therefore can simplified manufacturing technique.In addition, by reducing the cone angle that pixel limits layer, can form uniform organic luminous layer.
Although described the present invention in conjunction with some exemplary embodiments, but be to be understood that, the invention is not restricted to the disclosed embodiments, but on the contrary, be intended to contain various improvement and equivalent arrangements in the spirit and scope that are included in claims and equivalent thereof.
1. oganic light-emitting display device comprises:
Be electrically connected to the pixel electrode of thin-film transistor;
The pixel of surrounding described pixel electrode at least in part and limiting pixel region limits layer;
Limit the adjacent spacer of layer with described pixel;
Second electrode corresponding with described pixel electrode; And
Organic luminous layer between described pixel electrode and described second electrode,
Wherein said pixel limits layer and spends in the scope of 30 degree 15 at the cone angle between described pixel electrode and the described organic luminous layer.
2. oganic light-emitting display device according to claim 1, wherein said pixel limit layer have less than Thickness.
3. oganic light-emitting display device according to claim 1, wherein said spacer and described pixel are one, and it is outstanding to limit layer from described pixel.
4. oganic light-emitting display device according to claim 1, wherein said second electrode surface is to described pixel electrode.
5. method of making oganic light-emitting display device comprises:
On pixel electrode, form organic insulation material layer;
On described organic insulating material layer, place the half-tone mask that comprises photoresist part, part transmission part and transmittance part;
Carry out exposure process, make described pixel electrode corresponding with described transmittance part, the pixel qualification layer that surrounds described pixel electrode at least in part is corresponding with described part transmission part, and the spacer adjacent with described pixel qualification layer is corresponding with described photoresist part; And
The part of the described organic insulating material layer of etching makes that the pixel region on described pixel electrode is limited layer and the encirclement of described spacer by the described pixel corresponding with described exposure process at least in part.
6. the method for manufacturing oganic light-emitting display device according to claim 5, wherein said exposure process comprise and defocus technology that wherein a branch of at least light focuses on away from the exposed surface of described organic insulating material layer.
7. the method for manufacturing oganic light-emitting display device according to claim 6, the wherein said technology that defocuses is included in from the described a branch of at least light of exposed surface 10 μ m to the 15 μ m places of described organic insulating material layer focusing.
8. the method for manufacturing oganic light-emitting display device according to claim 5, wherein said pixel limit layer and spend between 30 degree 15 at the cone angle between described pixel electrode and the described organic luminous layer.
9. the method for manufacturing oganic light-emitting display device according to claim 5, wherein said pixel limit layer have less than Thickness.
10. the method for manufacturing oganic light-emitting display device according to claim 5, wherein said photoresist part has 0% light transmittance, and described part transmission partly has 40% to 70% light transmittance, and described transmittance partly has 100% light transmittance.
11. the method for manufacturing oganic light-emitting display device according to claim 5, the described part of wherein said organic insulating material layer is exposed during described exposure process.
12. the method for manufacturing oganic light-emitting display device according to claim 5 further comprises: prepare described half-tone mask.
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