Patent ID: 8207667

Claim:
An organic EL display, comprising: a substrate including pixel areas are arranged in a matrix; and first electrodes, second electrodes, functional material layers, and a barrier arranged to define the pixel areas and arranged over the substrate, the functional material layers being provided in the respective pixel areas between the first and second electrodes and each including a carrier transport layer and a non-carrier transport layer; where the barrier includes communication recesses arranged to extend the non-carrier transport layers from respective first pixel areas to respective second pixel areas such that the non-carrier transport layers extend completely through both of the respective first pixel areas and the second pixel areas, each first pixel area and each second pixel area being adjacent to each other in the pixel areas defined by the barrier, wherein the barrier includes pixel area defining recesses which define the pixel areas, and the communication recesses are arranged to extend continuously from the pixel area defining recesses of the barrier and to have a narrower width than the pixel area defining recesses.