Patent Description:
The present disclosure relates to a light emitting device, and more particularly, to a white light emitting device and a display device using the same which is capable of improving efficiency, prevents changes in a luminance and a color according to a viewing angle and lowers a driving voltage by changing a structure.

Recently, in order to omit a separate light source and to achieve device compactness and clear color display, a self-luminous display device is considered as a competitive application. The self-luminous display device may be classified into an organic light emitting display device and an inorganic light emitting display device by an internal emitting material.

In the self-luminous display device, a plurality of sub-pixels are provided and a light emitting device is provided in each sub-pixel without a separate light source.

A display device is required to have a high resolution and a high integration. A tandem-type white light emitting device (hereinafter, referred to as a "white light emitting device") is proposed and studied since an organic layer and/or a light emitting layer in the tandem device are commonly formed on a substrate without a fine metal mask FMM.

<CIT> provides an organic light-emitting element comprising a board, upper electrode, lower electrode, a plurality of light-emitting units placed between the upper and lower electrodes, and a charge-generating layer placed between a plurality of the light-emitting units, wherein one of the light-emitting units has a layer for emitting monochromatic light and one of the light-emitting units has a layer for emitting polychromatic light, the former unit having an equivalent or lower light-emitting efficiency than the latter unit.

<CIT> presents an organic electroluminescence device that includes a cathode, an anode, a charge generating layer provided between the cathode and the anode, a first emitting unit provided between the charge generating layer and the cathode, and a second emitting unit provided between the charge generating layer and the anode.

<CIT> presents a tandem white light-emitting OLED device comprising a spaced anode and cathode, a light reflector associated with either the anode or the cathode, and at least two white light emitting units. The first white light-emitting unit has a set of at least two emission peaks in the blue and yellow spectral regions that are more intense than any other emission peaks that may be present in the emission spectrum of the first white light-emitting unit. The second white light-emitting unit is disposed closer to the reflector than the first white light-emitting unit and includes a set of at least three emission peaks in the blue, green, and red spectral regions that are more intense than any other emission peaks that may be present in the emission spectrum of the second white light-emitting unit. An intermediate connector is disposed between the first and second white light-emitting units.

A tandem-type display device includes a plurality of light emitting layers overlapping each other. Each light emitting layer has different resonance characteristics, thus a color defect may be observed when a user views the tandem-type display device at a certain viewing angle.

Accordingly, the present disclosure is directed to a white light emitting device and a display device using the same that substantially obviate one or more problems due to limitations and disadvantages of the related art.

An object of the present disclosure is to provide a white light emitting device and a display device using the same which can prevent a change in luminance due to a change in viewing angle, prevent or reduce a color deviation, and simultaneously lower driving voltage by changing an internal stack structure and a relationship with an emission side electrode.

One or more objects of the present technique are achieved by the features of the independent claim.

According to the claimed invention, a white light emitting device comprises a first transparent electrode; a first stack on the first electrode, the first stack including a red light emitting layer and a green light emitting layer; a charge generation layer on the first stack; a second stack on the charge generation layer, the second stack including a blue light emitting layer; and a second reflective electrode on the second stack, wherein the first electrode is configured to transmit a light of the white light emitting device to be emitted therethrough, wherein the first stack and the second stack are disposed between an upper surface of the first electrode and a lower surface of the second electrode; and wherein a thickness of the first electrode is between <NUM> times and <NUM><NUM> times of a distance from a lower surface of the first electrode to the lower surface of the second electrode and the distance from the lower surface of the first electrode to the lower surface of the second electrode is <NUM> to <NUM>.

According to a further aspect of the present technique, a display device a substrate including a plurality of sub-pixels; a thin-film transistor at each of the sub-pixels; and a white light emitting device according to the claimed invention, the first electrode of the white light emitting device connected to the thin-film transistor, at each of the sub-pixels.

According to a further aspect of the present technique, a display device comprises a substrate including a plurality of sub-pixels; a thin-film transistor at each of the sub-pixels; a first electrode connected to the thin-film transistor, at each of the sub-pixels; a white organic stack on the first electrode, the white organic stack comprising a first stack including a red light emitting layer and a green light emitting layer; a second stack including a blue light emitting layer, and a charge generation layer between the first and second stacks; and a second electrode on the white organic stack. A light is emitted through the first electrode from the white organic stack. A thickness of the first electrode may be <NUM> times or more and <NUM> times or less of a total thickness of the first electrode and the white organic stack.

The first electrode includes upper and lower surfaces i.e. the opposite or flip surfaces of the first electrode. The second electrode includes upper and lower surfaces i.e. the opposite or flip surfaces of the second electrode. The upper surface of the first electrode faces the lower surface of the second electrode. The upper surface of the first electrode and the upper surface of the second electrode face the same direction, say a first direction i.e. 'up' direction. The lower surface of the first electrode and the lower surface of the second electrode face the same direction, say a second direction i.e. 'down' direction.

In the present technique, 'upper' and 'lower' can be understood along the down-up direction (i.e. direction extending from down toward up) extending from the first electrode (at the down of the down-up direction) towards the second electrode (at the up of the down-up direction). Thus, an 'upper' surface of a layer may be understood as the surface of the layer facing the second electrode (the layer's surface facing the second electrode) and a 'lower' surface of the layer may be understood as the surface of the layer facing the first electrode (the layer's surface facing the first electrode). In a further specific example, this may also be understood as follows, an 'upper' surface of a layer may be understood as the surface of the layer facing the up direction and a 'lower' surface of the layer may be understood as the surface of the layer facing the down direction.

The afore-mentioned directions may be understood as perpendicular to a substrate and/or to a displaying surface and/or emitting surface of the white light emitting device and/or the display device.

The white light emitting device and the display device may further include one or more of the following.

Positions of the blue light emitting layer, the green light emitting layer and the red light emitting layer may be set in one contour region having a single inclination, for example in the white light emitting device and/or in the white organic stack. Here, inclination may refer to a slope of a contour line with respect to a wavelength of a contour region in a contour map, i.e. a map of calculated emittance depending on wavelength of the emitted light and a distance from the cathode.

The blue light emitting layer may have an electroluminescence peak at a wavelength of <NUM> to <NUM>, for example in the white light emitting device and/or in the white organic stack.

The green light emitting layer may have an electroluminescence peak at a wavelength of <NUM> to <NUM>, for example in the white light emitting device and/or in the white organic stack.

The red light emitting layer may have an electroluminescence peak at a wavelength of <NUM> to <NUM>, for example in the white light emitting device and/or in the white organic stack.

The blue light emitting layer may be thicker than the red light emitting layer, for example in the white light emitting device and/or in the white organic stack.

The green light emitting layer may be thicker than the red light emitting layer, for example in the white light emitting device and/or in the white organic stack.

Each of the blue light emitting layer and the green light emitting layer may be thicker than the red light emitting layer, for example in the white light emitting device and/or in the white organic stack.

The charge generation layer may be thinner than the red light emitting layer, for example in the white light emitting device and/or in the white organic stack.

A first common layer may be between the first electrode and the red light emitting layer, for example in the white light emitting device and/or in the white organic stack.

A second common layer may be between the green light emitting layer and the charge generation layer, for example in the white light emitting device and/or in the white organic stack.

A third common layer may be between the charge generation layer and the blue light emitting layer, for example in the white light emitting device and/or in the white organic stack.

A fourth common layer may be between the blue light emitting layer and the second electrode, for example in the white light emitting device and/or in the white organic stack.

The red light emitting layer may be in contact with the green light emitting layer, for example in the white light emitting device and/or in the white organic stack.

A distance from an upper surface of the green light emitting layer to a lower surface of the blue light emitting layer may be <NUM> to <NUM>, for example in the white light emitting device and/or in the white organic stack.

A distance from a lower surface of the red light emitting layer to an upper surface of the blue light emitting layer may be <NUM> to <NUM>, for example in the white light emitting device and/or in the white organic stack.

The charge generation layer may include a n-type charge generation layer and a p-type charge generation layer, for example in the white light emitting device and/or in the white organic stack.

The thickness of the charge generation layer may be <NUM> to <NUM>, for example in the white light emitting device and/or in the white organic stack.

The display device may include a color filter between the substrate and first electrode.

It is to be understood that both the foregoing general description and the following detailed description of the present disclosure are exemplary and explanatory and are intended to provide further explanation of the disclosure as claimed.

Reference will now be made in detail to the preferred embodiments of the present disclosure, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings. However, the present disclosure may be embodied in many alternative forms and should not be construed as limited to the embodiments set forth herein, and the embodiments of the present disclosure are provided only to completely disclose the disclosure and to completely inform those skilled in the art of the scope of the disclosure. Therefore, it should be understood that there is no intent to limit the disclosure to the particular forms disclosed, but on the contrary, the disclosure is to cover all modifications, equivalents, and alternatives within the scope of the disclosure as defined by the claims.

Shapes, sizes, rates, angles, numbers, etc. disclosed in the drawings to describe the embodiments of the present disclosure are only exemplary and do not limit the present disclosure. In the following description of the embodiments and the drawings, the same or similar elements are denoted by the same reference numerals even though they are depicted in different drawings. In the following description of the embodiments of the present disclosure, a detailed description of known functions and configurations incorporated herein will be omitted when it may make the subject matter of the present disclosure rather unclear. In the following description of the embodiments, the terms "including" and "having" will be interpreted as indicating presence of one or more other characteristics, numbers, steps, operations, elements or parts stated in the specification or combinations thereof, and do not exclude presence of characteristics, numbers, steps, operations, elements, parts or combinations thereof, or possibility of adding the same. It will be understood that a singular expression includes a plural expression unless otherwise stated.

In interpretation of elements included in the various embodiments of the present disclosure, it will be interpreted that the elements include error ranges unless otherwise stated.

In the following description of the embodiments, it will be understood that, when positional relations are expressed, for example, when an element is 'on', 'above', 'under', 'beside', etc. another element, the two elements may directly contact each other, or one or more other elements may be interposed between the two elements unless the term 'immediately' or 'directly' is used.

In the following description of the embodiments, it will be understood that, when temporal relations are expressed, for example, the term expressing a sequence of events, such as 'after', 'subsequent to', 'next to' or before' may encompass continuous relationship between the events, or discontinuous relationship between the events unless the term 'immediately' or 'directly' is used.

In the following description of the embodiments, it will be understood that, when the terms "first", "second", etc. are used to describe various elements, these terms are used merely to distinguish the same or similar elements. Therefore, a first element described hereinafter could be termed a second element without departing from the technical scope of the disclosure.

Characteristics of the various embodiments of the present disclosure may be partially or wholly connected to or combined with each other and technically variously driven and interlocked with each other, and the various embodiments may be independently implemented or be implemented together in connection with each other.

In the following description of the embodiments, an electroluminescence (EL) spectrum is calculated by multiplying (<NUM>) a photoluminescence (PL) spectrum, in which unique characteristics of a luminescent material, such as a dopant material or a host material included in an organic light emitting layer, are reflected, by (<NUM>) an out-coupling emittance spectrum curve, determined according to the structure and optical characteristics of an organic light emitting device including thicknesses of organic layers, such as an electron transport layer, etc..

<FIG> is a cross-sectional view schematically illustrating a white light emitting device in accordance with the present disclosure, and <FIG> is a cross-section view in accordance with one embodiment of <FIG>. Also, <FIG> is a contour map representing an EL spectrum of each emission color and corresponding positions of light emitting layers in the white light emitting device of the present disclosure.

In this disclosure, a contour map is a map of calculated emittance depending on a wavelength of the emitted light and the distance from the cathode. A contour map may be used to dispose the emitting layers at the position having high emittance of the corresponding wavelength. The contour map may differ depending on the number of stacks and/or the thickness of organic layers. Since the contour map is a map of calculated emittance, positions of different color emitting layers may be determined after considering real thicknesses of the color emitting layers required for each resonance and the thicknesses of common layers between different stacks.

Generally, if a thickness of organic layers between the cathode and the anode is large, there are a plurality of contour lines having different orders (for instance as shown in <FIG>). The inclination of the first contour line (in <FIG>: C1) may be gentle and the inclination of the second contour line (in <FIG>: C2) may be steeper. The inclination of a contour line affects perception of the difference in luminance with respect to the viewing angle. If the emitting layer is disposed like the first contour line, the difference in luminance is not severely recognized. On the contrary, the emitting layer is disposed like the third contour line (having B3 and YG3), the difference in luminance may be severely recognized.

According to the present disclosure, a total thickness of the organic layers between the anode and the cathode, and the thickness of the anode may be controlled such that the red, green and blue emitting layers may be disposed in one contour line like in <FIG>, i.e. differently than in <FIG> and <FIG> having different contour lines (at least three orders).

As shown in <FIG> and <FIG>, a white light emitting device <NUM> according to the present disclosure comprises a first stack S1 on a first electrode <NUM>, a charge generation layer <NUM> on the first stack S1, a second stack S2 on the charge generation layer <NUM>, and a second electrode <NUM> on the second stack S2. The first stack S1 includes a red light emitting layer <NUM> and a green light emitting layer <NUM>, and the second stack S2 includes a blue light emitting layer <NUM>. It is to be noted that, although in the FIGs and description of the present technique, the green light emitting layer <NUM> is shown/described to be disposed on the red light emitting layer <NUM> for example as shown in <FIG>, but embodiments of the present disclosure are not limited thereto. Instead of the green light emitting layer <NUM> being disposed on the red light emitting layer <NUM>,for example, the red light emitting layer <NUM> may be disposed on the green light emitting layer <NUM> - the FIGs and description of the present technique are applicable to such arrangement too, and can be understood accordingly, for example all mentions of the light emitting layer <NUM> as 'green' may be understood as 'red' and of the light emitting layer <NUM> as 'red' may be understood as 'green'.

In the white light emitting device <NUM> of the present disclosure, each of light emitting layers <NUM>, <NUM> and <NUM> is located at a specific position. Also, in the white light emitting device <NUM>, a thickness of the first electrode <NUM> is applied under a specific condition with regard to a distance d from a lower surface of the first electrode <NUM> to the second electrode <NUM>, for example to a lower surface of the second electrode <NUM>. Through this, in a contour map of a white organic stack WEL defining each light emission position, the red light emitting layer <NUM>, the green light emitting layer <NUM> and the blue light emitting layer <NUM> are applied to contour regions having each gentle single slope with respect to the distance d from a lower surface of the first electrode <NUM> to the second electrode <NUM>. Thus, each position of the red light emitting layer <NUM>, the green light emitting layer <NUM> and the blue light emitting layer <NUM> is configured to prevent interference of other color emission and to maintain stable luminance and color characteristic against changes in a viewing angle.

In the white light emitting device <NUM> of the present disclosure, the first electrode <NUM> is an emission side, and a light from an inside of the white light emitting device <NUM> is emitted through the first electrode <NUM>. The first electrode <NUM> is a transparent electrode and the second electrode <NUM> is a reflective electrode. Light generated from the red light emitting layer <NUM> and the green light emitting layer <NUM> of the first stack S1 and light generated from the blue light emitting layer <NUM> of the second stack S2 are resonated between the first and second electrodes <NUM> and <NUM>, and finally emitted through the first electrode <NUM>.

The first electrode <NUM> may be a transparent oxide electrode, optionally including at least two elements selected from among indium In, tin Sn, zinc Zn, Titanium Ti and gallium Ga. For example, the first electrode <NUM> may be formed of a material such as ITO or IZO.

The second electrode <NUM> may be formed of Al, Al alloy, Ag, Ag Alloy, Mg, Mg alloy or APC (Ag-Pd-Cu) and the like, including a reflective electrode.

Functionally, the first electrode <NUM> may be referred to as an anode and the second electrode <NUM> may be referred to as a cathode.

The white light emitting device <NUM> of the present disclosure is configured to reduce color viewing angle characteristics that change depending on a viewing angle. For example, in the white light emitting device <NUM>, light emitting layers of the first stack S1 and the second stack S2 are positioned at contour regions each having gentle profile, so each light emitting layer is positioned where interference of light emission of other color does not appear, as shown in <FIG>. Thus, color variability can be reduced or prevented according to the viewing angle. For example, a contour region in which a red or green light emitting layer is positioned and a contour region in which a blue light emitting layer is positioned are arranged to have different inclinations, as a viewing angle increases, a difference becomes large between an angle corresponding to an optimal light emission region of the red or green light emitting layer and an angle corresponding to an optimal light emission region of the blue light emitting layer. Therefore, it causes a difference in visibility between the red or green luminance change and the blue luminance change. The white light emitting device <NUM> of the present disclosure is to reduce or prevent the different in visibility between red or green luminance change and the blue luminance change, each of the red, green and blue light emitting layers is disposed in the contour region having a single gentle slope.

In the white light emitting device <NUM> of the present disclosure, a thickness Ad of the first electrode <NUM> is <NUM> times or more and <NUM> times or less of a distance 'd' from a lower surface of the first electrode <NUM> to a lower surface of the second electrode <NUM>. In other words, the thickness Ad of the first electrode <NUM> is between <NUM> times and <NUM> times of the distance 'd', wherein the distance 'd' is distance between the lower surface of the first electrode <NUM> and the lower surface of the second electrode <NUM>.

Herein, the distance 'd' from the lower surface of the first electrode <NUM> to the lower surface of the second electrode <NUM> is <NUM> to <NUM>. The distance "d" includes a thickness of the first electrode <NUM> and a thickness of white organic stack WEL which comprises organic materials. In particular, in the distance d from the lower surface of the first electrode <NUM> to the lower surface of the second electrode <NUM>, there are the first electrode <NUM> and the white organic stack WEL including two stacks S1 and S2, but the distance d is <NUM> or less. Thus, the white light emitting device <NUM> of the present disclosure is substantially thin, even though the white light emitting device <NUM> has the two stacks, so a distance is very short between the red light emitting layer <NUM> which is lowermost located among light emitting layers of the white organic stack WEL and the blue light emitting layer <NUM> which is uppermost located among light emitting layers of the white organic stack WEL. For example, the red light emitting layer <NUM> and the green light emitting layer <NUM> may be in contact with each other, and each thickness of layers <NUM>, <NUM> and <NUM> between the green light emitting layer <NUM> and the blue light emitting layer <NUM> may be thin. Also, since the thickness Ad of the first electrode <NUM> is proportional to the distance d from the lower surface of the first electrode <NUM> to the lower surface of the second electrode <NUM>, the thickness Ad of the first electrode <NUM> is smaller than that of a white organic light emitting device having known two-stack structure.

Between the first stack S1 and the second stack S2, there is a charge generation layer CGL <NUM> including a n-type charge generation layer n-CGL <NUM> and a p-type charge generation layer p-CGL <NUM>. The n-type charge generation layer n-CGL <NUM> generates electrons and provides the electrons into the first stack S1 which is away from the second electrode <NUM>. The p-type charge generation layer p-CGL <NUM> generates holes and provides the holes into the second stack S2 which is away from the first electrode <NUM>. The charge generation layer <NUM> can be formed of two layers as shown in <FIG>, and also can be formed of one layer including different dopants as shown in <FIG>. In the white light emitting device <NUM> of the present disclosure, the charge generation layer <NUM> is provided to supply holes and electrons into adjacent stacks and to remain a charge balance in each light emitting layer of each stack S1 and S2.

The first stack S1 may comprise a first common layer <NUM> between the red light emitting layer <NUM> and the first electrode <NUM>, and a second common layer <NUM> between the green light emitting layer <NUM> and the charge generation layer <NUM>. The first common layer <NUM> may comprise a hole injection layer and a hole transport layer.

In some cases, the first common layer <NUM> further comprises an electron blocking layer adjacent to the red light emitting layer <NUM>. The second common layer <NUM> may comprise an electron transport layer.

The second stack S2 may comprise a third common layer <NUM> between the charge generation layer <NUM> and the blue light emitting layer <NUM> and a fourth common layer <NUM> between the blue light emitting layer <NUM> and the second electrode <NUM>. The third common layer <NUM> may comprise a hole transport layer, and the fourth common layer <NUM> may comprise an electron transport layer and an electron injection layer.

In each stack, the common layers e.g. the first and third common layers <NUM>, and <NUM>, which are positioned under the light emitting layers relates to a transport of holes, and the common layers, e.g. the second and fourth common layers <NUM> and <NUM>, which are positioned above the light emitting layers relates to a transport of electrons.

The positions (vertical distance) of the red light emitting layer <NUM>, the green light emitting layer <NUM> and the blue light emitting layer <NUM> from the second electrode <NUM> may be adjusted by controlling thicknesses of the common layers <NUM>, <NUM>, <NUM> and <NUM> of stacks.

A host material used in the red light emitting layer <NUM> may include an aryl group as a core, and may include one of an aryl group, a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group having a carbon number of <NUM> to <NUM>, a substituted or unsubstituted fused aryl group having a carbon number of <NUM> to <NUM>, a substituted or unsubstituted hetero aryl group having a carbon number of <NUM> to <NUM>, a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group having a carbon number of <NUM> to <NUM>, a substituted or unsubstituted hetero alkyl group having a carbon number of <NUM> to <NUM>, a substituted or unsubstituted cyclo alkyl group having a carbon number of <NUM> to <NUM>, a substituted or unsubstituted alkoxy group having a carbon number of <NUM> to <NUM>, a substituted or unsubstituted aryl oxy group having a carbon number of <NUM> to <NUM>, a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl silyl group having a carbon number of <NUM> to <NUM>, a substituted or unsubstituted aryl silyl group having a carbon number of <NUM> to <NUM>, a cyano group, a halogen group, deuterium and hydrogen, and R-R14 may form a fused ring with a neighboring substituted group.

In addition, the aryl group, which is a core component, may include one of phenyl, naphthalene, fluorene, carbazole, phenazine, phenanthroline, phenanthridine, acridine, cinnoline, quinazoline, quinoxaline, naphthyridine, phthalazine, quinolizine, indole, indazole, pyridazine, pyrazine, pyrimidine, pyridine, pyrazole, imidazole, and pyrrole.

In one example, a host material of the red light emitting layer <NUM> may include one or multiple ones of CBP, CDBP, mCP, BCP, BAlq, and TAZ.

In addition, the red light emitting layer <NUM> includes a dopant to emit red light, and a phosphorescent dopant may be, for example, Ir(piz)<NUM>(Tris)(<NUM>-phenylisoquinoline)iridium(III), Ir(piq)<NUM>(acac)(Bis)(<NUM>-phenylisoquinoline)(acetylacetonate)iridium(III), Ir(bip)<NUM>(acac)(Bis)<NUM>-benzolbithiophen-<NUM>-yl-pyridime(acetylacetonate)iridium(III), or Ir(BT)<NUM>(acac)(Bis)(<NUM>-pheylbenzothazolato)(acetylacetonate)iridium(III), without being limited thereto.

A host material of the green light emitting layer <NUM> may include C-545T(<NUM>-(<NUM>-benzothia-zylyl)-<NUM>,<NUM>,<NUM>,<NUM>-tetramethyl-<NUM>,<NUM>,<NUM>,<NUM>-tetrahydro-<NUM>,<NUM>), <NUM>-[<NUM>] benzo-pyrano[<NUM>,<NUM>,<NUM>-ij]quinolizin-<NUM>-ne, which use Alq3 as a matrix, derivatives thereof, quinacridone derivatives, and carbazole derivatives such as, for example, CBP, mCP, TCTA and TCP. Although Alq3 may emit green light by itself when it is used as a host, a green dopant is included in order to increase the luminous efficacy of green light, and may be one of a phosphorescent dopant and a fluorescent dopant. For example, the green dopant may be Ir(mppy)<NUM>, Ir(ppy)<NUM>, or Ir(ppy)<NUM>(acac).

Here, the blue light emitting layer <NUM> may include at least one blue host and at least one blue dopant. Specifically, the blue light emitting layer <NUM> may be formed by doping a pyrene derivative blue dopant or a boron derivative blue dopant in at least one host which is selected from at least one of an anthracene derivative, a pyrene derivative, and a perylene derivative.

Each wavelength of the red light emitting layer <NUM>, the green light emitting layer <NUM> and the blue light emitting layer <NUM> may be adjusted by changing a substituent of its dopant.

The white light emitting device <NUM> of the present disclosure implements a <NUM>-stack <NUM>-peak structure capable of emitting colors in which red, green and blue can be distinguished in two stacks.

Several methods are possible to represent a white emission. For example, a white emission may be implemented by including a plurality of light emitting dopants of different colors in one light emitting layer, or a white emission may be implemented by separately disposing blue, green and red light emitting layers in three or more stacks.

However, in a case including a plurality of light emitting dopants in one light emitting layer, excitation energies required for light emitting dopants are different, and a difference of quenching characteristics, a difference of efficiencies and a difference of lifetimes among light emitting dopants occur, during the continuous recombination of holes and electrodes. Accordingly, there is a problem that uniform white emission is impossible.

In a case that light emitting layers is divided into three or more stacks, there is a difference visibility in green, red and blue emission. Thus, there is a problem in that the color of a specific color is deteriorated when implemented as an actual display device. Also, as the number of stacks increases, process reproducibility decreases and a driving voltage increases.

As another example, a color viewing angle characteristics may be excellent by applying a yellow-green dopant to a structure of the <NUM>-stack <NUM>-peak. However, when a single yellow-green dopant is used, it is difficult to represent pure colors of red and green, respectively. In order to increase color purity, the structure realizing <NUM> stacks and <NUM> peaks is applied. Also, in this case, phosphorescent light emitting layers are provided in multi layers and it causes a color change which appears according to a viewing angle.

Accordingly, the white light emitting device of the present disclosure has a <NUM>-stack <NUM>-peak structure, so solves the problems that the process reproducibility in three or more stack structure is deteriorated and a driving voltage is increased due to an increased thickness of the organic stack. Also, the blue light emitting layer, the green light emitting layer and the red light emitting layer are separately provided in the white light emitting device, so reproducibility of each color can also be improved.

Moreover, in the white light emitting device of the present disclosure, as shown in the contour map of <FIG>, in the vertical distance between the second electrode <NUM> and the first electrode <NUM>, the total thickness (d-Ad, d minus Ad) of organic materials which is determined by summing the first stack S1, the charge generation layer and the second stack S2 is thin, so the position of each light emitting layer is set in one contour region having a certain inclination. This is one feature that the white light emitting device of the present disclosure is differentiated from a first experimental example Ex <NUM> of <NUM>-stack <NUM>-peak structure in which the positions of the light emitting layers are determined in contour regions having a plurality of inclinations. In the present disclosure, the thickness Ad of the first electrode <NUM> is set to become <NUM> times or more to <NUM> times or less of the distance d from the lower surface of the first electrode <NUM> to the lower surface of the second electrode <NUM> and the distance d from the lower surface of the first electrode <NUM> to the lower surface of the second electrode <NUM> is set to <NUM> to <NUM>, so the inclination of the contour region is gentle in the thin structure having two stacks. In particular, by determining the position of the blue light emitting layer, the position of the green light emitting layer and the position of the red light emitting layer, respectively, in the contour region having one gentle inclination, a multicolor interference is prevented compared to a structure that uses multiple contour regions to correspond to different light emitting layers. Also, when the position of the blue light emitting layer is determined in one gentle contour region, it is configured that a similar blue light intensity is generated at a certain vertical distance including the light emission region in which the blue light emitting layer is located, a similar green light intensity is generated at a certain vertical distance including the light emission region in which the green light emitting layer is located and a similar red light intensity is generated at a certain vertical distance including the light emission region in which the red light emitting layer is located. Through this, even when the white light emitting device is observed while tilting the white light emitting device from a front at a predetermined angle, each light emitting layer exhibits a similar emission color intensity, thereby preventing a change in luminance due to a change in the viewing angle and preventing color deviation at the same time. Such effects of preventing luminance change and color deviation due to the change in viewing angle is a very meaningful effect that can be obtained without increasing the process in the structure including disposing the red light emitting layer <NUM> and the green light emitting layer <NUM> adjacently.

As can be shown in <FIG>, the position of each light emitting layer <NUM>, <NUM> and <NUM> is determined in a region in which the light emission intensity of each light emitting color is equal or similar, and interference of other color light emission is prevented in the thickness range of each light emitting layer. For example, since the inclination of the contour region that determines the position of the light emitting layer is gentle at a distance from the second electrode, and the contour lines representing the optimal light emission of blue, green and red do not overlap or partially overlap other contour lines, the blue light emitting layer <NUM> is secured at a thickness of about <NUM> or more within a gentle contour line, and the green light emitting layer <NUM> and the red light emitting layer <NUM> are secured to be sequentially spaced downward from the blue light emitting <NUM>. In order to have sufficient light emission area in each of the light emitting layers <NUM>, <NUM> and <NUM>, the green light emitting layer <NUM> is set to have a thickness of about <NUM> or more, and the red light emitting layer <NUM> is set to have a thickness of about <NUM> or more. The thicknesses of the blue, green and red light emitting layers <NUM>, <NUM> and <NUM> may all be <NUM> or less so that the thickness between the first electrode <NUM> and the second electrode <NUM> is <NUM> or less. In addition, a distance from an upper surface of the green light emitting layer <NUM> to a lower surface of the blue light emitting layer <NUM> may be <NUM> to <NUM>, and a distance from a lower surface of the red light emitting layer <NUM> to an upper surface of the blue light emitting layer <NUM> may be <NUM> to <NUM>.

The blue light emitting layer may have an electroluminescence peak at a wavelength of <NUM> to <NUM>, the green light emitting layer may have an electroluminescence peak at a wavelength of <NUM> to <NUM>, and the red light emitting layer may have an electroluminescence peak at a wavelength of <NUM> to <NUM>.

Each of the light emitting layers <NUM>, <NUM> and <NUM> is at a position where maximum constructive interference occurs, respectively, and satisfies Equation <NUM> below. <MAT> wherein 'h' is a thickness of a white organic stack, and 'z' is a distance from a second electrode to a light emitting layer.

In the white light emitting device of the present disclosure, the total optical thickness including the distance d from the lower surface of the first electrode <NUM> to the second electrode <NUM> is set, and the position of each light emitting layer is determined in the provided white organic stack WEL, in consideration of the wavelengths of the dopants applied to the light emitting layers <NUM>, <NUM> and <NUM>. Each of the light emitting layers <NUM>, <NUM> and <NUM> includes a dopant to control its emission wavelength with at least one host.

Each of the red light emitting layer <NUM> and the green light emitting layer <NUM> may include at least one host and a dopant for phosphorescence and the blue light emitting layer <NUM> may include of at least one host and a dopant for fluorescence.

The red light emitting layer <NUM> and the green light emitting layer <NUM> in the first stack S1 are adjacent to each other. As shown in <FIG>, the red light emitting layer <NUM> and the green light emitting layer <NUM> are positioned so that each emission region of red and green is generated in the contour region where each color change is not large according to change of viewing angle. Therefore, the white emitting device of the present disclosure makes to represent each of the red, green and blue colors in an equal or similar color even if the viewing angle changes, so prevents luminance deviation and color deviation due to the viewing angle variation.

In some cases, the first stack S1 can comprise one single phosphorescence light emitting layer so to represent <NUM> peaks of green and red. In this case, in the phosphorescence light emitting layer, one or a plurality of phosphorescence dopants can have an EL peak at a wavelength range of <NUM> to <NUM>. Even in this case of having the single phosphorescence light emitting layer in the first stack S1, in the contour map of <FIG>, the phosphorescent light emitting layer is positioned in a region where the contour region having the same or similar intensity with respect to the wavelength of the light emitting color of the phosphorescent light emitting layer is secured with a certain distance from the second electrode <NUM> at a vertical distance. Thus, it is possible to prevent occurrence of luminance deviation and color deviation due to the viewing angle variation.

In the white light emitting device of present disclosure, the blue light emitting layer <NUM> is positioned in the second stack S2, and the red and green phosphorescent light emitting layers <NUM> and <NUM> is positioned at the first stack S1. The blue light emitting layer <NUM> is positioned higher than the red and green light emitting layers <NUM> and <NUM>. This is to position the blue light emitting layer <NUM> having relatively low visibility in the region having the greatest light emission intensity, than other phosphorescent light emitting layers <NUM> and <NUM>, while disposing the blue, red and green light emitting layers <NUM>, <NUM> and <NUM> at regions having the same inclination of the contour map. Through this, a viewer can recognize blue, green and red with comparable luminance without further providing an additional blue light emitting layer in the white light emitting device.

The charge generation layer <NUM> is provided between the first stack S1 and the second stack S2. For an example, the charge generation layer <NUM> comprises the n-type charge generation layer <NUM> and the p-type charge generation layer <NUM> stacked.

Hereinafter, a display device using the white light emitting device and a thin-film transistor array connected to the white light emitting device of the present disclosure may be provided.

<FIG> is a cross-sectional view illustrating a display device including a white light emitting device of the present disclosure, for example of <FIG>.

As shown in <FIG>, the display device of the present disclosure may include a substrate <NUM>, which has a plurality of subpixels R_SP, G_SP, B_SP and W_SP, a white light emitting device OLED (of the present disclosure e.g. refer to <FIG>), which is commonly provided in the subpixels R_SP, G_SP, B_SP and W_SP of the substrate <NUM>, a thin-film transistor TFT, which is provided in each of the subpixels and is connected to the first electrode <NUM> of the white light emitting device OLED, and color filter layers 109R, <NUM> and 109B, which are provided under the first electrode <NUM> of at least one of the subpixels.

Although the display device is illustrated as including the white subpixel W_SP, the embodiment is not limited thereto. The white subpixel W_SP may be omitted, and only the red, green and blue subpixels R_SP, G_SP and B_SP may be included. In some cases, the red, green and blue subpixels may be replaced by a cyan subpixel, a magenta subpixel, and a yellow subpixel, which are capable of expressing white in combination.

The thin-film transistor TFT includes, for example, a gate electrode <NUM>, a semiconductor layer <NUM>, a source electrode 106a, which is connected to one side of the semiconductor layer <NUM>, and a drain electrode 106b, which is connected to the opposite side of the semiconductor layer <NUM>. Also, a channel protection layer <NUM> may be further provided so as to be in direct contact with the upper surface of the semiconductor layer <NUM> in order to prevent damage to a channel portion of the semiconductor layer <NUM>.

A gate insulation film <NUM> is provided between the gate electrode <NUM> and the semiconductor layer <NUM>.

The semiconductor layer <NUM> may be formed of a material selected from the group consisting of amorphous silicon, polycrystalline silicon, an oxide semiconductor, and combinations thereof. For example, if the semiconductor layer <NUM> is formed of an oxide semiconductor, heating temperature required to form the thin film transistor can be lowered, degree of freedom in using the substrate <NUM> is high, so that it will be advantageously applied to a flexible display device.

In addition, the drain electrode 106b of the thin-film transistor TFT may be connected to the first electrode <NUM> in the region of a contact hole CT, which is formed in first and second protective films <NUM> and <NUM>.

The first protective film <NUM> is provided to primarily protect the thin-film transistor TFT. The color filter layers 109R, <NUM> and 109B may be provided on the first protective film <NUM>.

When the plurality of subpixels SP includes a red subpixel R_SP, a green subpixel G_SP, a blue subpixel B_SP, and a white subpixel W_SP, each of the first to third color filter layers 109R, <NUM> and 109B is provided in a corresponding one of the subpixels other than the white subpixel W_SP so as to transmit white light, having passed through the first electrode <NUM>, for each wavelength. The second protective film <NUM> is formed under the first electrode <NUM> so as to overlay the first to third color filter layers 109R, <NUM> and 109B. The first electrode <NUM> is formed on the surface of the second protective film <NUM> except for a portion thereof formed in the contact hole CT.

Here, the white light emitting device OLED includes a white organic stack OS between the first electrode <NUM>, which is transparent, and the second electrode <NUM>, which is disposed opposite the first electrode <NUM> and is reflective, and emits light through the first electrode <NUM>. The white organic stack OS corresponds to the white organic stack WEL includes the first stack S1 of phosphorescence, the second stack S2 of blue light emitting, and the charge generation layer <NUM> between the first and second stacks S1 and S2, which is explained in <FIG>.

The first electrode <NUM> is divided for each sub-pixel, and other layers of the white light emitting device OLED are integrally provided in an entire display area without any separation.

Here, reference numeral <NUM> represents a bank, and the bank <NUM> has an opening area with a hole shape. Light emission is performed in the opening area of the bank. The opening area of the bank <NUM> defines an emission portion of each subpixel.

Here, it can be called to a thin film transistor array substrate <NUM> comprising the substrate <NUM>, the transistor TFT and the color filters 109R, <NUM> and 109B.

The display device shown in <FIG> is a bottom emission-type display device. However, the present disclosure is not limited to a bottom emission-type display device. The display device of the present disclosure may be implemented as a top emission-type display device by changing the structure shown in <FIG> such that the color filter layers are located on the second electrode <NUM>, such that reflective metal is included in the first electrode <NUM>, and such that the second electrode <NUM> is formed as a transparent electrode or is formed of semi-transmissive metal.

Alternatively, the color filter layers may be omitted, and both the first electrode <NUM> and the second electrode <NUM> may be formed as transparent electrodes, thereby implementing a transparent organic light emitting device.

Hereinafter, in order to explain significance of arrangement of the light emitting layers of the present disclosure, the first experimental example Ex1 having a different structure from the present disclosure and the second experimental example Ex2 having the same structure with the present disclosure are explained.

<FIG> is a cross-sectional view illustrating a first experimental example and a second experimental example, and <FIG> is a graph illustrating color deviations according to viewing angles of the first and second experimental examples.

As shown in <FIG>, the first experimental example Ex1, not being part of the claimed invention, comprises a first electrode Anode and a second electrode Cathode, and a white organic stack. The white organic stack includes a first stack S1 having a blue light emitting layer B-EML, a second stack S2 having red and green light emitting layers R-EML and G-EML contacting each other, and a charge generation layer CGL.

The second experimental example Ex2, according to the claimed invention, comprises a first electrode Anode and a second electrode Cathode, and a white organic stack. The white organic stack includes a first stack S1 having red and green light emitting layers R-EML and G-EML contacting each other, a second stack S2 having a blue light emitting layer B-EML, and a charge generation layer CGL. The second experimental example Ex2 is a corresponded structure to <FIG>.

The first and second experimental examples Ex1 and Ex2 may further comprise a common layer between the light emitting layer and the electrode(s).

Each color deviation Δu'v' of the first and second experimental examples Ex1 and Ex2 is evaluated by observing each EL spectrum of the first and second experimental examples Ex1 and Ex2 while changing the viewing angle by <NUM>° from <NUM>° to <NUM>°.

As shown in <FIG>, the first experimental example Ex1 has a large color deviation Δu'v' at the viewing angle <NUM>° or more. In particular, the first experimental example Ex1 represents the color deviation of <NUM> at the viewing <NUM>°. On the contrary, the second experimental example Ex2 applying the present disclosure has a color deviation Δu'v' under <NUM> from the viewing angle <NUM>° to the viewing angle <NUM>°. For example, in the white light emitting device of the second experimental example Ex2 of the present disclosure, it can be seen that each of the light emitting layers in the <NUM> stack structure is applied to a position that can maintain constant color and luminance regardless of a change of the viewing angle. The color deviation of <FIG> is represented as change amount Δu'v' value of color coordinate value at a certain viewing angle comparing with the value of color coordinate value at the front standard in the white color.

It can be seen that there is almost no color change in the second experimental example Ex2 compared to the first experimental example Ex1.

This color deviation value is a characteristic expressed as an important specification when applied to a product, and is an important item in a display device. It is also one of the important advantages of a display device including an organic light emitting device compared to a display device such an LCD and an LED.

Hereinafter, referring Table <NUM>, efficiencies according to each color, color deviations at the viewing angle <NUM>° and color reproduction effects of the first and second experimental examples Ex1 and Ex2 are explained.

In Table <NUM>, the color efficiencies, the DCI Overlapping Ratio and the BT2020 Overlapping Ratio of the first experimental example Ex1 are represented as <NUM>%, and the color efficiencies, the DCI Overlapping Ratio and the BT2020 Overlapping Ratio of the second experimental example Ex2 are evaluated by comparing each values of the first experimental example Ex1. Table <NUM> shows each color efficiency of R, G, B and W at each of R G, B, and W sub-pixels to express a full white in the first and second experimental examples Ex1 and Ex2. To express the full white, in the second experimental example Ex <NUM>, the efficiencies of green and white are higher than the efficiencies of red and blue. Also, the Table <NUM> shows that in order to express same full white, the second experimental example Ex2 requires smaller efficiencies of R, G, B and W colors than those of the first experimental example Ex1.

As shown in <FIG> and <FIG>, the color deviation represented by the second experimental example Ex2 is less than <NUM>/<NUM> of that of the first experimental example Ex1, so that there is almost no color deviation according to the viewing angle change.

DCI stands for Digital Cinema Initiatives that can be expressed in a digital cinema. BT2020 is a standard of <NUM> UHD recommended by ITU International broadcasting standard organization, and is also called Rec. More stringent standards are applied in BT2020 than in DCI, and the color expression area of BT2020 is larger than that of DCI.

The Table <NUM> shows that the second experimental example Ex2 has a color reproduction equal to or higher than that of the first experimental example Ex1. This means that the second experimental example Ex2 realizes a more accurate and clear image than the first experimental example Ex1.

The white light emitting device is considered in view of a display device. The display device may comprise white, red, green and blue subpixels each emitting white, red, green and blue lights. An aperture ratio and driving power defined by an opening area of the bank <NUM> of <FIG> may be determined in consideration of the efficiencies, lifetimes and color coordinates of each sub-pixel. In addition, relative color difference in subpixels can be compensated by controlling the aperture ratio and the driving power.

Hereinafter, as structures implementing three peaks, the above-described first and second experimental examples Ex1 and Ex2 each having two stacks, and a experimental example Ex3 having three stacks are further explained.

<FIG> are contour maps illustrating the first to third experimental examples.

As shown in <FIG>, in the first experimental example Ex1, not forming part of the claimed invention, having two stacks, the blue light emitting layer B-EML is disposed in the first stack and red and green light emitting layers R-EML and G-EML are disposed in the second stack. A total vertical distance from a lower surface of the first electrode Anode to a lower surface of the second electrode Cathode is 4300Å to 4500Å. The first experimental example Ex1 requires a thicker vertical distance from the lower surface of the first electrode to the lower surface of the second electrode. Since a thickness of the first electrode is thicker at 1000Å or more, and emission region of the blue light emitting layer B-EML and emission regions of the red and green light emitting layers R-EML and G-EML are disposed at different first and second contour regions C1 and C2, the contour regions C1 and C2 each having maximum intensity of each stack, an.

optical distance is substantially formed over a wide distance in the first experimental example Ex1. Since the third contour region C3 does not represent an enough vertical distance to dispose a light emitting layer for any emission color, the blue light emitting layer B-EML of the first stack as a first light emitting is far from the first electrode in the first experimental example Ex1. This means that a thickness of a common layer between the first electrode Anode and the blue light emitting layer B-EML is very thick, and as a result, an overall thickness of the white organic stack is increased. Also, in the first experimental example Ex1, since an inclination of the second contour region C2 in which the blue light emitting layer B-EML is positioned is different from an inclination of the first contour region C1 in which the red and green light emitting layers R-EML and G-EML are positioned, the color deviation of blue and the red and green color deviations are different when the viewing angle is changed. It causes luminance difference and color deviation according to the change of the viewing angle.

In the second experimental example Ex2, being part of the claimed invention, according to <FIG>, as shown in <FIG>, red and green light emitting layers R-EML and G-EML are disposed in the first stack and the blue light emitting layer B-EML is disposed in the second stack. A total vertical distance d from a lower surface of the first electrode Anode to a lower surface of the second electrode Cathode is 1500Å to 2000Å (=<NUM> ~<NUM>). Even though the second experimental example Ex2 has two stacks, the total vertical distance d of the second experimental example Ex2 is smaller than a half of that of the first experimental example Ex1 since the blue light emitting layer B-EML, the green light emitting layer G-EML and the red light emitting layer R-EML are disposed in the contour region C1 having single inclination.

Also, the thickness of the first electrode in the second experimental example Ex2 is smaller than a half of thickness of the first electrode in the first experimental example Ex <NUM>.

For example, the second experimental example Ex2 may provide a white organic stack WEL having a thickness of 1500Å or less and the first electrode in which a thickness of the first electrode is <NUM> times or more and <NUM> times or less of a distance from a lower surface of the first electrode to a lower surface of the second electrode. In this case, the thickness of the first anode in the second experimental example Ex2 may be a half or less than that of the first experimental example Ex1 in which the thickness of the first electrode is 1000Å or more. In addition, a ratio of the thickness of the first electrode <NUM> having an optical effect with respect to the distance d from the lower surface of the first electrode <NUM> to the lower surface of the second electrode <NUM> is smaller than that of the first experimental example Ex1, thus a transmittance of light passing through the first electrode <NUM> from the white organic stack WEL may be increased. In the second experimental example Ex2, blue, green and red light emitting layers B-EML, G-EML and R-EML are disposed at the contour region C1 having the single inclination, and the single inclination is gentle at the contour region C1, in a vertical distance d from the lower surface of the first electrode <NUM> to the lower surface of the second electrode <NUM>, the blue, green and red light emission regions B-EMZ, G-EMZ and R-EMZ of the blue, green and red light emitting layers (as shown in <FIG>) can be secured in a certain vertical distance. Therefore, even when the view watches the display device while tilting at a certain viewing angle, the same color can be felt without any color change or luminance change from watching the front of the display device.

As shown in <FIG>, the third experimental example Ex3, not according to the claimed invention, has three stacks and realizes three peaks. In the third experimental example Ex3, a first blue light emitting layer B1-EML is disposed in the first stack, red and green light emitting layers R-EML and G-EML are disposed in the second stack, and a second blue light emitting layer B2-EML is disposed in the third stack. The third experimental example Ex3 is intended to increase blue efficiency. A total vertical distance from a lower surface of the first electrode Anode to a lower surface of the second electrode Cathode is 5300Å to 5500Å. The third experimental example Ex3 requires additional stacks over the first and second experimental examples Ex1 and Ex2, and the thickness of the first electrode Anode is thicker, similar to the thickness of the first electrode in the first experimental example Ex1. In the third experimental example Ex3, the first to fourth contour regions C1, C2, C3 and C4 have different inclinations each other. To the first to fourth contour regions, the first blue light emitting layer B1-EML is disposed in the third contour region C3, the red and green light emitting layers R-EML and G-EML are disposed in the second contour region C2 and the second blue light emitting layer B2-EML is disposed in the first contour region C1. The third experimental example Ex3 requires increased thickness corresponding to the vertical distance from the lower surface of the first electrode to the lower surface of the second electrode and increased thickness of a common layer between the first electrode and the first blue light emitting layer for the same reason as the first experimental example Ex1, also lowers process capability and increases driving voltages as the number of stacks increases. Furthermore, since the light emitting layers B1-EML, R-EML, G-EML and B2-EML provided in the first to third stacks are positioned in the contour regions C3, C2 and C1 having different inclination, a deviation according to change of a viewing angle in a blue color is different from a deviation according to change of viewing angle in a red and green colors. Such different tendency according to the viewing angle in colors causes a large color deviation as the viewing angle becomes large.

For example, comparing vertical distances from the lower surface of the first electrode to the lower surface of the second electrode in the first to third experimental examples Ex1 to Ex3, the vertical distance of the first experimental example Ex1 is over twice or more than that of the second experimental example Ex2 and the vertical distance of the first experimental example Ex3 is over <NUM> times or more than that of the second experimental example Ex2. Thus, the first and third experimental examples Ex1 and Ex3 may have problems in that burden of process is high and driving voltage is increased.

Also, since the first and third experimental examples Ex1 and Ex3 uses emitting layers provided in different contour regions having different inclination for a plurality stacks, the first and third experiment examples Ex1 and Ex3 has different tendencies according to a viewing angle for the plurality of stack, and has problems of color deviation and luminance change in change of the viewing angle. On the contrary, in the second experimental example Ex2, the light emitting layers are provided in the contour region have the single inclination, thus the second experimental example Ex2 can overcome color deviation and luminance change in change of the viewing angle.

Hereinafter, effects of the present disclosure are will be explained.

<FIG> is a graph illustrating light intensity according to wavelength of the white light emitting device of the present disclosure. <FIG> is a graph illustrating light intensity according to wavelength for each viewing angle of the white light emitting device of the present disclosure. <FIG> is a graph illustrating color deviations according to viewing angles of the present disclosure. <FIG> is a graph illustrating J-V curve in the white light emitting device of the present disclosure.

As shown in <FIG>, the white light emitting device of the present disclosure can realize <NUM> peaks representing emitting peak characteristics for blue, green and red.

Also, as shown in <FIG>, referring the EL spectrum of the white light emitting device of the present disclosure while change the viewing angle by <NUM>° from <NUM>°to <NUM>°from the front, it can be seen that there is almost no change in the intensity for each emission color. For example, the white light emitting device according to the present disclosure represents the same color and the same luminance characteristics even when the viewing angle is changed.

<FIG> shows the color deviation value Δu'v' according to the change of the viewing angle from the front to <NUM>° while change the viewing angle from <NUM>° to <NUM>°. In <FIG>, the vertical axis is enlarged to make it easier to understand. Substantially, in the present disclosure, the color deviation value Δu'v' at the viewing angle <NUM>° is less than or equal to <NUM>, which is <NUM> times or less than that of the first experimental example Ex1 described above. It can be seen the color deviation according to the change of the viewing angle is insignificant in the present disclosure.

As shown in <FIG>, the white light emitting device of the present disclosure exhibits a current density of 10mA/cm<NUM> or more at a driving voltage of 7V or more, it indicates that the white light emitting device of the present disclosure realize a stable device with a current density of a certain level or more at a predetermined driving voltage.

In the present disclosure, a thickness of charge generation layer is very thin between the first stack S1 and the second stack S2 since a thickness of the white light emitting device is thin. The total thickness of the charge generation layer (<NUM> in <FIG>) is from 60Å to 150Å. The charge generation layer <NUM> may comprise the n-type charge generation layer and the p-type charge generation layer.

If the thickness of the charge generation layer <NUM> is less than 60Å, the white light emitting device may not have enough lifespan. If the thickness of the charge generation layer <NUM> is more than 150Å, it is difficult to have a different common layer between the light emission region of the green light emitting layer G-EMZ and the light emission region of the blue light emitting layer B-EMZ. So the thickness of the charge generation layer <NUM> is greater than or equal to 60Å and less than or equal to 150Å.

Hereinafter, referring the first and second experimental examples Ex1 and Ex2 and a fourth experimental example Ex4, characteristics of a driving voltage according to a thickness of the charge generation layer is explained. The fourth experimental example Ex4, according to the claimed invention, has the same structure as the second experimental example Ex2, and the red and green light emitting layers are disposed in the first stack and the blue light emitting layer is disposed in the second stack.

As described above, the second experimental example Ex2 has thin first electrode and the thin total thickness of the white organic stack. Thus the second experimental example Ex2 can increase productivity and lower the driving voltage than the first experimental example Ex1. Also, in the second experimental example Ex2, there is almost no color deviation according to the change of the viewing angle. In the above experiments based on the Table <NUM>, the total thickness of the charge generation layer comprising the n-type charge generation layer and the p-type charge generation layer is <NUM>Å in the second experimental example Ex2.

In the fourth experimental example Ex4, the total thickness of the charge generation layer comprising the n-type charge generation layer and the p-type charge generation layer is 60Å. It can be seen that the driving voltage is increased and characteristics of color coordinate are changed in the fourth experimental example Ex4 than those of the second experimental example Ex2. For example, the red and green light emitting layers of the first stack and the blue light emitting layer of the second stack are disposed in the contour region having the single inclination, so the distance from the green light emitting layer to the blue light emitting layer is very short in the white light emitting device according to the present disclosure. Therefore, as a common layer, the charge generation layer positioned between the green light emitting layer and the blue light emitting layer has a thickness less than or equal to 130Å and more than or equal to 60Å, it is possible to lower the driving voltage and reduce or prevent color deviation or luminance change.

<FIG> is a graph illustrating <NUM> lifetimes of the second and fourth experimental examples of white light emitting devices. <FIG> is a graph illustrating deviations of driving voltage according to time in the first and second experimental examples. <FIG> is a graph illustrating deviation of color temperature according to time in the white light emitting device of the present disclosure. Hereinafter, a white light emitting device and a display device of the present disclosure is explained referring drawings.

Referring a result of evaluating <NUM> lifetimes showing the luminance level of <NUM>% with respect to the initial luminance shown in <FIG>, the second experimental example Ex2 and the fourth experimental example Ex4 represent similar tendencies in their lifetimes. In general, the second experimental example Ex2 is superior to the fourth experimental example Ex4, which means that the thickness of the charge generation layer needs to be secured to a certain level or more.

The time <NUM>% presented in the experimental examples of <FIG> may be several hundred hours as a reference time for examining the lifetime of the device under an acceleration condition.

As a result of evaluating the driving voltage change ΔV with regard to time for the first experimental example Ex1 (referring <FIG>) and the second experimental example Ex2 (referring <FIG>), it can be seen that the driving voltage change of the second experimental example Ex2 is smaller than that of the first experimental example Ex1. For example, in the structure of the second experimental example Ex2 of the present disclosure, there is almost no driving voltage variation as time goes on, thus it represents driving stability in the present disclosure.

<FIG> shows change of color temperature ΔCCT in the present disclosure according to time. In <FIG>, time <NUM>% means a time to evaluate a normal level of color temperature, which corresponds to several hundred hours. It shows that the change of the color temperature is less than <NUM> even after several hundred hours, so it can be seen that the color temperature characteristics of the initial level are exhibited even after a certain period of time has elapsed.

For example, through the above experiment, it is said that there is little variation in the driving voltage, increased lifespan is secured and the color temperature characteristics can be stably secured.

When applying a white organic stack in a display device, the color temperature needs to be adjusted to a certain level. For considering this, an additional stack is required and a driving voltage is increased due to an increased thickness of the white organic stack. Also it may cause to lower a panel application performance due to the increased driving voltage. The white light emitting device and the display device according to the present disclosure can solve such problems. For example, the white light emitting device and the display device according to the present disclosure can adjust the color temperature at the certain level, comprehensively matches the color viewing angle characteristics, luminance decrease rate, and color reproduction rate, thus stabilizes the color viewing angle characteristics generated in the multi-stack structure, remains the color temperature and main wavelength characteristics, and additionally prevent decrease in luminance according to the viewing angle.

The white light emitting device of the present disclosure is a device having three peaks of red, green and blue colors. For example, it can be seen that in the white light emitting device of the present disclosure, there is little change in intensity and no decrease in luminance for each of red, green and blue light. In other words, it shows an equal level in all directions, and in view of this trend, it seems that the white light emitting device and the display device using the same according to the present disclosure can be applied to a new generation model.

In addition, the white light emitting device of the present disclosure can be enlarge. The viewing angle range required for a large-area display device is wide. In the white light emitting device and the display device of the present disclosure, the same luminance and color efficiency are exhibited at the above-described wide viewing angle range, and thus good characteristics suitable for viewing by many watchers in a wide space are exhibited. Also, since the structure is also simple, its application range is expected to be diversified. There is almost no change in intensity for each peak, so it is possible to display the same image in any direction.

Further, the white light emitting device of the present disclosure optimizes the optical distance and positions of light emitting regions of the light emitting layers by adjusting a vertical distance between light emitting layers provided in the different stacks related to the contour region having the single inclination, so the display device having the white light emitting device of the present disclosure has little color deviation and luminance change irrespective of change of a viewing angle.

The two-stack structure according to the present disclosure reconstructs the stacking order and an optical distance to limit a thickness range of the first electrode, an entire thickness of the organic material in the white organic stack and positions of the light emitting layers, so there is almost no color deviation depending on the viewing angle, and the same luminance and color characteristics in all directions without a decrease in luminance. Through this, it is possible to expand application to a product for an IT and a display device.

A white organic light emitting device according to one embodiment of the present disclosure comprises a first stack on a first electrode, the first stack including a red light emitting layer and a green light emitting layer, a charge generation layer on the first stack, a second stack on the charge generation layer, the second stack including a blue light emitting layer and a second electrode on the second stack, wherein a light is emitted through the first electrode, and wherein a thickness of the first electrode is <NUM> times or more and <NUM><NUM> times or less of a distance from a lower surface of the first electrode to a lower surface of the second electrode.

The distance from the lower surface of the first electrode to the lower surface of the second electrode is <NUM> to <NUM>.

Each of the blue light emitting layer and the green light emitting layer may be thicker than the red light emitting layer.

The charge generation layer may be thinner than the red light emitting layer.

The white light emitting device may further comprise a first common layer between the first electrode and the red light emitting layer, a second common layer between the green light emitting layer and the charge generation layer, a third common layer between the charge generation layer and a blue light emitting layer and a fourth common layer between the blue light emitting layer and the second electrode. The red light emitting layer may be in contact with the green light emitting layer.

A distance from an upper surface of the green light emitting layer to a lower surface of the blue light emitting layer may be <NUM> to <NUM>.

A display device according to one embodiment of the present disclosure may comprise a substrate including a plurality of sub-pixels, a thin-film transistor at each of the sub-pixels, a first electrode connected to the thin-film transistor, at each of the sub-pixels, a white organic stack on the first electrode, the white organic stack comprising a first stack including a red light emitting layer and a green light emitting layer, a second stack including a blue light emitting layer and a charge generation layer between the first and second stacks, and a second electrode on the white organic stack. A light may be emitted through the first electrode from the white organic stack. A thickness of the first electrode may be <NUM> times or more and <NUM> times or less of a total thickness of the first electrode and the white organic stack.

The display device according to one embodiment of the present disclosure may further comprise a color filter between the substrate and first electrode.

In the display device of the present disclosure, the first electrode may be a transparent electrode and the second electrode may be a reflective electrode.

In the display device of the present disclosure, the distance from the lower surface of the first electrode to the lower surface of the second electrode may be <NUM> to <NUM>.

In the display device of the present disclosure, the blue light emitting layer may have an electroluminescence peak at a wavelength of <NUM> to <NUM>, the green light emitting layer may have an electroluminescence peak at a wavelength of <NUM> to <NUM>, and the red light emitting layer may have an electroluminescence peak at a wavelength of <NUM> to <NUM>.

In the display device of the present disclosure, each of the blue light emitting layer and the green light emitting layer may be thicker than the red light emitting layer.

In the display device of the present disclosure, the charge generation layer may be thinner than the red light emitting layer.

The display device of the present disclosure, further comprises a first common layer between the first electrode and the red light emitting layer, a second common layer between the green light emitting layer and the charge generation layer, a third common layer between the charge generation layer and a blue light emitting layer and a fourth common layer between the blue light emitting layer and the second electrode. The red light emitting layer may be in contact with the green light emitting layer.

In the display device of the present disclosure, a distance from an upper surface of the green light emitting layer to a lower surface of the blue light emitting layer may be <NUM> to <NUM>.

In the display device of the present disclosure, a distance from a lower surface of the red light emitting layer to an upper surface of the blue light emitting layer may be <NUM> to <NUM>.

The white light emitting device of the present disclosure specifies positions of the red, green and blue light emitting layers, and adjusts a thickness of a first electrode in a constant relation to a total thickness including the first electrode and the white organic stack so that spectrum of each light can be maintained the same or similar to that of the front even when the viewing is changed, while disposing emission region of each light emitting layer in the contour region having the same gentle inclination. Since there is no color variation according to a change in the viewing angle, it is advantageous to apply the white light emitting device of the present disclosure in the display device. Especially, since it hardly causes a change in viewing angle in all directions, when applied to a large area, excellent color characteristics can be exhibited without causing a color difference even when many viewers watch.

Also, the white light emitting device and the display device of the present disclosure does not cause luminance deviation according to the change of the viewing angle, it is possible to realize the same image in a wide viewing angle.

Furthermore, the white light emitting device and the display device of the present disclosure can realize <NUM> peaks with a minimum structure in a white organic stack, thus it is possible to reduce a driving voltage and improve capability of process at the same time.

Claim 1:
A white light emitting device comprising:
a first electrode (<NUM>), wherein the first electrode is a transparent electrode;
a first stack (S1) on the first electrode (<NUM>), the first stack (S1) including a red light emitting layer (<NUM>) and a green light emitting layer (<NUM>);
a charge generation layer (<NUM>) on the first stack (S1);
a second stack (S2) on the charge generation layer (<NUM>), the second stack (S2) including a blue light emitting layer (<NUM>); and
a second electrode (<NUM>) on the second stack (S2), wherein the second electrode is a reflective electrode;
wherein the first electrode (<NUM>) is configured to transmit a light of the white light emitting device to be emitted therethrough,
wherein the first stack (S1) and the second stack (S2) are disposed between an upper surface of the first electrode (<NUM>) and a lower surface of the second electrode (<NUM>); and
wherein a distance (d) from a lower surface of the first electrode (<NUM>) to the lower surface of the second electrode (<NUM>) is <NUM> to <NUM>, and a thickness (Ad) of the first electrode (<NUM>) is between <NUM> times and <NUM> times of the distance (d) from the lower surface of the first electrode (<NUM>) to the lower surface of the second electrode (<NUM>).