Patent ID: 7859188

Claim:
A light-emitting diode device, comprising: a) a substrate; b) a reflective electrode and a semi-transparent electrode formed over the substrate and an unpatterned white light-emitting layer formed between the reflective electrode and the semi-transparent electrode, the reflective electrode, semi-transparent electrode, and unpatterned white light-emitting layer forming an optical microcavity, and wherein either the reflective or semi-transparent electrode is patterned to form a plurality of independently controllable light-emitting elements; c) a plurality of color filters formed over a side of the semi-transparent electrodes opposite the unpatterned white light-emitting layer in correspondence with the light-emitting elements, the plurality of color filters having at least two different colors and wherein at least one light-emitting element has no color filter; d) a reflected-light absorbing layer located over all of the light-emitting elements; and e) a light-scattering layer that scatters light emitted by the at least one light-emitting element that has no color filter, wherein the reflective electrode comprises a reflective layer and a transparent conductive layer, and the light-scattering layer is formed between the reflective and transparent conductive layers.