OLED pixel structure

Abstract

The present invention provides an OLED pixel structure, comprising: red, green and blue sub pixels, and the red sub pixel comprises a red light emitting layer, and the green sub pixel comprises a green light emitting layer, and the blue sub pixel comprises a blue light emitting layer, and material of the blue light emitting layer comprises inorganic quantum dots, and the blue light emitting layer emits white light, and a blue light filter is located corresponding to the blue sub pixel. By the blue sub pixel utilizing inorganic quantum dots+blue light filter, the stability and the life time of the OLED elements have been obviously promoted. The present invention further adds a white sub pixel, and the white sub pixel comprises a white light emitting layer, and material of the white light emitting layer comprises inorganic quantum dots. With the added white sub pixel, the luminous efficiency of the OLED is raised and the energy consumption thereof is reduced.

Claims

1. An OLED pixel structure, comprising: red, green and blue sub pixels, and the red sub pixel comprises a red light emitting layer, and the green sub pixel comprises a green light emitting layer, and the blue sub pixel comprises a blue light emitting layer, and material of the blue light emitting layer comprises inorganic quantum dots, and the blue light emitting layer also emits white light, and a blue light filter is located corresponding to the blue sub pixel.

2. The OLED pixel structure according to claim 1, wherein the inorganic quantum dots are white light quantum dots, or the inorganic quantum dots are a combination of red light quantum dots, green light quantum dots and blue light quantum dots, or the inorganic quantum dots are a combination of blue light quantum dots and yellow light quantum dots.

3. The OLED pixel structure according to claim 2, wherein the white light quantum dots are CdSe, CdS, CdTe, CdMnS, ZnSe or ZnMnSe II-VI compounds quantum dots, and the blue light quantum dots are ZnCdS, CdSe/ZnS or nano SiN.sub.4, and the green light quantum dots are CdSe/ZnS, or ZnSe:Cu.sup.2+, and the red light quantum dots are CdSe/CdS/ZnS, and the yellow light quantum dots are CdSe/CdS/ZnS or ZnS:Mn.sup.2+.

4. The OLED pixel structure according to claim 1, wherein a manufacture process of the blue light emitting layer is: mixing inorganic quantum dots particles and surface covering with solvent, and coating, volatilizing and removing the solvent to obtain the inorganic quantum dots, and the surface covering comprises stearic acid, trioctylphosphine oxide or polymethylmethacrylate; the solvent is chloroform, methylbenzene, chlorobenzene or methanol.

5. The OLED pixel structure according to claim 1, wherein a manufacture process of the blue light emitting layer is: mixing organic main material, and inorganic quantum dots particles with solvent, and coating, volatilizing and removing the solvent to obtain the inorganic quantum dots; the organic main material is TCTA or TRZ; the solvent is chloroform, methylbenzene, chlorobenzene or methanol.

6. The OLED pixel structure according to claim 1, wherein the red light emitting layer is formed by red light organic light emitting material which is Ir(piq).sub.3, and the green light emitting layer is formed by green light organic light emitting material which is Ir(ppy).sub.3.

7. The OLED pixel structure according to claim 1, further comprising a substrate and a covering layer tight fitting on the substrate, and the red, green and blue sub pixels are respectively located on the substrate and covered by the covering layer, and material of the substrate and the covering layer is glass or flexible material, and at least one of the substrate and the covering layer is pervious to light; the blue light filter is correspondingly located under the covering layer of the corresponding blue sub pixel.

8. The OLED pixel structure according to claim 7, wherein the red sub pixel comprises: a red-sub-pixel anode on the substrate, a red-sub-pixel thin film transistor on the red-sub-pixel anode, a red-sub-pixel Hole Injection Layer on the red-sub-pixel thin film transistor, a red-sub-pixel Hole Transporting Layer on the red-sub-pixel Hole Injection Layer, a red light emitting layer on the red-sub-pixel Hole Transporting Layer, a red-sub-pixel Electron Transport Layer on the red light emitting layer and a red-sub-pixel cathode on the red-sub-pixel Electron Transport Layer; the green sub pixel comprises: a green-sub-pixel anode on the substrate, a green-sub-pixel thin film transistor on the anode, a green-sub-pixel Hole Injection Layer on the green-sub-pixel thin film transistor, a green-sub-pixel Hole Transporting Layer on the green-sub-pixel Hole Injection Layer, a green light emitting layer on the green-sub-pixel Hole Transporting Layer, a green-sub-pixel Electron Transport Layer on the green light emitting layer and a green-sub-pixel cathode on the green-sub-pixel Electron Transport Layer; the blue sub pixel comprises: a blue-sub-pixel anode on the substrate, a blue-sub-pixel thin film transistor on the blue-sub-pixel anode, a blue-sub-pixel Hole Injection Layer on the blue-sub-pixel thin film transistor, a blue-sub-pixel Hole Transporting Layer on the blue-sub-pixel Hole Injection Layer, a blue light emitting layer on the blue-sub-pixel Hole Transporting Layer, a blue-sub-pixel Electron Transport Layer on the blue light emitting layer and a blue-sub-pixel cathode on the blue-sub-pixel Electron Transport Layer; a material of the red-sub-pixel, the green-sub-pixel, and the blue sub-pixel Electron Transport Layers is 8-Hydroxyquinoline aluminum, and a material of the red-sub-pixel, the green-sub-pixel, and the blue sub-pixel Hole Transporting layers is polytriphenylamine, and a material of the red-sub-pixel, the green-sub-pixel, and the blue sub-pixel Hole Injection Layers is PEDOT.

9. The OLED pixel structure according to claim 1, wherein the red light emitting layer and the green light emitting layer are manufacture by vacuum evaporation and formed after the blue light emitting layer is formed.

10. The OLED pixel structure according to claim 1, further comprising a white light sub pixel, and the white light sub pixel comprises a white light emitting layer, and material of the white light emitting layer comprises inorganic quantum dots, and the white light emitting layer emits white light.

11. The OLED pixel structure according to claim 10, wherein the white light emitting layer and the blue light emitting layer are manufacture by the same process with the same material.

12. The OLED pixel structure according to claim 10, further comprising a substrate and a covering layer tight fitting on the substrate, and the red, green, blue and white sub pixels are respectively located on the substrate and covered by the covering layer, and material of the substrate and the covering layer is glass or flexible material, and at least one of the substrate and the covering layer is pervious to light; the blue light filter is correspondingly located under the covering layer of the corresponding blue sub pixel.

13. The OLED pixel structure according to claim 12, wherein the red sub pixel comprises: a red-sub-pixel anode on the substrate, a red-sub-pixel thin film transistor on the red-sub-pixel anode, a red-sub-pixel Hole Injection Layer on the red-sub-pixel thin film transistor, a red-sub-pixel Hole Transporting Layer on the red-sub-pixel Hole Injection Layer, a red light emitting layer on the red-sub-pixel Hole Transporting Layer, a red-sub-pixel Electron Transport Layer on the red light emitting layer and a red-sub-pixel cathode on the red-sub-pixel Electron Transport Layer; the green sub pixel comprises: a green-sub-pixel anode on the substrate, a green-sub-pixel thin film transistor on the anode, a green-sub-pixel Hole Injection Layer on the green-sub-pixel thin film transistor, a green-sub-pixel Hole Transporting Layer on the green-sub-pixel Hole Injection Layer, a green light emitting layer on the green-sub-pixel Hole Transporting Layer, a green-sub-pixel Electron Transport Layer on the green light emitting layer and a green-sub-pixel cathode on the green-sub-pixel Electron Transport Layer; the blue sub pixel comprises: a blue-sub-pixel anode on the substrate, a blue-sub-pixel thin film transistor on the blue-sub-pixel anode, a blue-sub-pixel Hole Injection Layer on the blue-sub-pixel thin film transistor, a blue-sub-pixel Hole Transporting Layer on the blue-sub-pixel Hole Injection Layer, a blue light emitting layer on the blue-sub-pixel Hole Transporting Layer, a blue-sub-pixel Electron Transport Layer on the blue light emitting layer and a blue-sub-pixel cathode on the blue-sub-pixel Electron Transport Layer; the white sub pixel comprises: white-sub-pixel anode on the substrate, a white-sub-pixel thin film transistor on the white-sub-pixel anode, a white-sub-pixel Hole Injection Layer on the white-sub-pixel thin film transistor, a white-sub-pixel Hole Transporting Layer on the white-sub-pixel Hole Injection Layer, a white light emitting layer on the white-sub-pixel Hole Transporting Layer, a white-sub-pixel Electron Transport Layer on the white light emitting layer and a white-sub-pixel cathode on the white-sub-pixel Electron Transport Layer; a material of the red-sub-pixel, green-sub-pixel, blue-sub-pixel, and white-sub-pixel Electron Transport Layers is 8-Hydroxyquinoline aluminum, and a material of the red-sub-pixel, green-sub-pixel, blue-sub-pixel, and white-sub-pixel Hole Transporting Layers is polytriphenylamine, and a material of the red-sub-pixel, green-sub-pixel, blue-sub-pixel, and white-sub-pixel Hole Injection Layers is PEDOT.

14. The OLED pixel structure according to claim 10, wherein the red light emitting layer and the green light emitting layer are manufacture by vacuum evaporation and formed after the blue light emitting layer and the white light emitting layer are formed.

15. An OLED pixel structure, comprising: red, green and blue sub pixels, and the red sub pixel comprises a red light emitting layer, and the green sub pixel comprises a green light emitting layer, and the blue sub pixel comprises a blue light emitting layer, and material of the blue light emitting layer comprises inorganic quantum dots, and the blue light emitting layer also emits white light, and a blue light filter is located corresponding to the blue sub pixel; wherein the inorganic quantum dots are white light quantum dots, or the inorganic quantum dots are a combination of red light quantum dots, green light quantum dots and blue light quantum dots, or the inorganic quantum dots are a combination of blue light quantum dots and yellow light quantum dots; wherein the white light quantum dots are CdSe, CdS, CdTe, CdMnS, ZnSe or ZnMnSe II-VI compounds quantum dots, and the blue light quantum dots are ZnCdS, CdSe/ZnS or nano SiN.sub.4, and the green light quantum dots are CdSe/ZnS, or ZnSe:Cu.sup.2+, and the red light quantum dots are CdSe/CdS/ZnS, and the yellow light quantum dots are CdSe/CdS/ZnS or ZnS:Mn.sup.2+; wherein a manufacture process of the blue light emitting layer is: mixing inorganic quantum dots particles and surface covering with solvent, and coating, volatilizing and removing the solvent to obtain the inorganic quantum dots, and the surface covering comprises stearic acid, trioctylphosphine oxide or polymethylmethacrylate; the solvent is chloroform, methylbenzene, chlorobenzene or methanol; wherein a manufacture process of the blue light emitting layer is: mixing organic main material, and inorganic quantum dots particles with solvent, and coating, volatilizing and removing the solvent to obtain the inorganic quantum dots; the organic main material is TCTA or TRZ; the solvent is chloroform, methylbenzene, chlorobenzene or methanol; wherein the red light emitting layer is formed by red light organic light emitting material which is Ir(piq).sub.3, and the green light emitting layer is formed by green light organic light emitting material which is Ir(ppy)3; wherein the OLED pixel structure further comprises a substrate and a covering layer tight fitting on the substrate, and the red, green and blue sub pixels are respectively located on the substrate and covered by the covering layer, and material of the substrate and the covering layer is glass or flexible material, and at least one of the substrate and the covering layer is pervious to light; the blue light filter is correspondingly located under the covering layer of the corresponding blue sub pixel; wherein the red sub pixel comprises: a red-sub-pixel anode on the substrate, a red-sub-pixel thin film transistor on the red-sub-pixel anode, a red-sub-pixel Hole Injection Layer on the red-sub-pixel thin film transistor, a red-sub-pixel Hole Transporting Layer on the red-sub-pixel Hole Injection Layer, a red light emitting layer on the red-sub-pixel Hole Transporting Layer, a red-sub-pixel Electron Transport Layer on the red light emitting layer and a red-sub-pixel cathode on the red-sub-pixel Electron Transport Layer; the green sub pixel comprises: a green-sub-pixel anode on the substrate, a green-sub-pixel thin film transistor on the green-sub-pixel anode, a green-sub-pixel Hole Injection Layer on the green-sub-pixel thin film transistor, a green-sub-pixel Hole Transporting Layer on the green-sub-pixel Hole Injection Layer, a green light emitting layer on the green-sub-pixel Hole Transporting Layer, a green-sub-pixel Electron Transport Layer on the green light emitting layer and a green-sub-pixel cathode on the green-sub-pixel Electron Transport Layer; the blue sub pixel comprises: a blue-sub-pixel anode on the substrate, a blue-sub-pixel thin film transistor on the blue-sub-pixel anode, a blue-sub-pixel Hole Injection Layer on the blue-sub-pixel thin film transistor, a blue-sub-pixel Hole Transporting Layer on the blue-sub-pixel Hole Injection Layer, a blue light emitting layer on the blue-sub-pixel Hole Transporting Layer, a blue-sub-pixel Electron Transport Layer on the blue light emitting layer and a blue-sub-pixel cathode on the blue-sub-pixel Electron Transport Layer; a material of the red-sub-pixel, green-sub-pixel, and blue-sub-pixel Electron Transport Layers is 8-Hydroxyquinoline aluminum, and a material of the red-sub-pixel, green-sub-pixel, and blue-sub-pixel Hole Transporting layers is polytriphenylamine, and a material of the red-sub-pixel, green-sub-pixel, and blue-sub-pixel Hole Injection Layer is PEDOT; wherein the red light emitting layer and the green light emitting layer are manufacture by vacuum evaporation and formed after the blue light emitting layer is formed.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

(1) The technical solution, as well as beneficial advantages, of the present invention will be apparent from the following detailed description of an embodiment of the present invention, with reference to the attached drawings.

(2) In drawings,

(3) FIG. 1 is a structural diagram of an OLED pixel structure according to the first embodiment of the present invention;

(4) FIG. 2 is a plain view diagram of an OLED pixel structure according to the first embodiment of the present invention;

(5) FIG. 3 is a diagram of the OLED pixel structure in FIG. 2 employed in a display panel;

(6) FIG. 4 is a structural diagram of a TFT driving circuit having the OLED pixel structure in FIG. 2;

(7) FIG. 5 is a structural diagram of an OLED pixel structure according to the second embodiment of the present invention;

(8) FIG. 6 is a plain view diagram of an OLED pixel structure according to the second embodiment of the present invention;

(9) FIG. 7 is a diagram of the OLED pixel structure in FIG. 6 employed in a display panel;

(10) FIG. 8 is a structural diagram of a TFT driving circuit having the OLED pixel structure in FIG. 6;

(11) FIG. 9 is a structural diagram of an OLED pixel structure according to the third embodiment of the present invention;

(12) FIG. 10 is a plain view diagram of an OLED pixel structure according to the third embodiment of the present invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS

(13) The technical solution, as well as beneficial advantages, of the present invention will be apparent from the following detailed description of an embodiment of the present invention, with reference to the attached drawings.

(14) Please refer to FIGS. 1-2 which are the first embodiment of the present invention. In this embodiment, the present invention provides an OLED pixel structure, comprising red, green and blue sub pixels 11, 22, 33, and the red sub pixel 11 comprises a red light emitting layer 61, and the green sub pixel 22 comprises a green light emitting layer 62, and the blue sub pixel 33 comprises a blue light emitting layer 63, and material of the blue light emitting layer 63 comprises inorganic quantum dots, and the blue light emitting layer 63 emits white light, and a blue light filter 12 is located corresponding to the blue sub pixel 33.

(15) The inorganic quantum dots are white light quantum dots, or the inorganic quantum dots are a combination of red light quantum dots, green light quantum dots and blue light quantum dots, or the inorganic quantum dots are a combination of blue light quantum dots and yellow light quantum dots or other possible combinations.

(16) The white light quantum dots are CdSe, CdS, CdTe, CdMnS, ZnSe or ZnMnSe II-VI compounds quantum dots, and the blue light quantum dots are ZnCdS, CdSe/ZnS or nano SiN.sub.4, and the green light quantum dots are CdSe/ZnS, or ZnSe:Cu.sup.2+, and the red light quantum dots are CdSe/CdS/ZnS, and the yellow light quantum dots are CdSe/CdS/ZnS or ZnS:Mn.sup.2+.

(17) A manufacture process of the blue light emitting layer 63 is: mixing inorganic quantum dots particles and surface covering with solvent, and coating, volatilizing and removing the solvent to obtain the inorganic quantum dots, and the surface covering comprises stearic acid, trioctylphosphine oxide or polymethylmethacrylate; the solvent can be chloroform, methylbenzene, chlorobenzene or methanol.

(18) The manufacture process of the blue light emitting layer 63 also can be: mixing organic main material, and inorganic quantum dots particles with solvent, and coating, volatilizing and removing the solvent to obtain the inorganic quantum dots; the organic main material is TCTA or TRZ; the solvent can be chloroform, methylbenzene, chlorobenzene or methanol.

(19) The organic main material is TCTA (4,4,4-Tris(carbazol-9-yl)-triphenylamine) or TRZ (2,4,6-Tri(9H-carbazol-9-yl)-1,3,5-triazine).

(20) The structure of the compound TCTA is:

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(22) The structure of the compound TRZ is:

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(24) Both the organic main material and the surface covering have one function, i.e. to prevent the agglomeration and oxidation of the inorganic quantum dots. Because the inorganic quantum dots are nanoparticles, zero dimension material which the surfactivity is large. The agglomeration easily happens to lead to oxidation and fluorescence quenching.

(25) The red light emitting layer 61 is formed by red light organic light emitting material. The red light organic light emitting material is Ir(piq).sub.3, and the green light emitting layer 62 is formed by green light organic light emitting material. The green light organic light emitting material is Ir(ppy).sub.3.

(26) The structure of the Ir(piq).sub.3 is:

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(28) The structure of the Ir(ppy).sub.3 is:

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(30) The red light emitting layer (61) and the green light emitting layer (62) are manufacture by vacuum evaporation and formed after the blue light emitting layer (63) is formed.

(31) As aforementioned, the red sub pixel 11 and the green sub pixel 22 utilize organic material to self-illuminate. The blue sub pixel 33 illuminates white light. After being filtered with the corresponding blue light filter 12, the blue light is emitted.

(32) The OLED pixel structure further comprises a substrate 1 and a covering layer 9 tight fitting on the substrate 1, and the red, green and blue sub pixels 11, 22, 33 are respectively located on the substrate 1 and covered by the covering layer 9, and material of the substrate 1 and the covering layer 9 is glass or flexible material, and at least one of the substrate 1 and the covering layer 9 is pervious to light; the blue light filter 12 is correspondingly located under the covering layer 9 of the corresponding blue sub pixel 33. The blue light filter 12 can employ the blue light filter utilized in production line of the present liquid crystal panels.

(33) The red sub pixel 11 comprises: an anode 2 on the substrate 1, a thin film transistor 3 on the anode 2, a Hole Injection Layer 4 on the thin film transistor 3, a Hole Transporting Layer 5 on the Hole Injection Layer 4, a red light emitting layer 61 on the Hole Transporting Layer 5, an Electron Transport Layer 7 on the red light emitting layer 61 and a cathode 8 on the Electron Transport Layer 7; the green sub pixel 22 comprises: an anode 2 on the substrate 1, a thin film transistor 3 on the anode 2, a Hole Injection Layer 4 on the thin film transistor 3, a Hole Transporting Layer 5 on the Hole Injection Layer 4, a green light emitting layer 62 on the Hole Transporting Layer 5, an Electron Transport Layer 7 on the green light emitting layer 62 and a cathode 8 on the Electron Transport Layer 7; the blue sub pixel comprises: an anode 2 on the substrate 1, a thin film transistor 3 on the anode, a Hole Injection Layer 4 on the thin film transistor 3, a Hole Transporting Layer 5 on the Hole Injection Layer 4, a blue light emitting layer 63 on the Hole Transporting Layer 5, an Electron Transport Layer 7 on the blue light emitting layer 63 and a cathode 8 on the Electron Transport Layer 7.

(34) The material of the Electron Transport Layer 7 is 8-Hydroxyquinoline aluminum, and the material of the Hole Transporting Layer 5 is polytriphenylamine, and the material of the Hole Injection Layer 4 is PEDOT (polyethylene dioxythiophene).

(35) The substrate 1 and the covering layer 9 are cohered together with sealant 10 to seal and protect the electronic components inside.

(36) Please refer to FIG. 2 and FIG. 3, which show an OLED pixel structure according to the first embodiment of the present invention utilized in a display panel. As shown in FIG. 4, the red sub pixel 11, the green sub pixel 22 and the blue sub pixel 33 are respectively driven by the TFT transistors 3.

(37) Please refer to FIG. 5, which show the second embodiment of the present invention. Compared with the first embodiment of the present invention, the difference are that the pixel structure further comprises a white sub pixel 44, and the white light sub pixel 44 comprises a white light emitting layer 64, and material of the white light emitting layer 64 comprises inorganic quantum dots, and the white light emitting layer 64 emits white light.

(38) The white light emitting layer 64 and the blue light emitting layer 63 are manufacture by the same process with the same material.

(39) The white sub pixel 44 are located on the substrate 1 as well as the red, green and blue sub pixels 11, 22, 33 do and covered by the covering layer 9; the white sub pixel comprises: an anode 2 on the substrate 1, a thin film transistor 3 on the anode 2, a Hole Injection Layer 4 on the thin film transistor 3, a Hole Transporting Layer 5 on the Hole Injection Layer 4, a white light emitting layer 64 on the Hole Transporting Layer 5, an Electron Transport Layer 7 on the white light emitting layer 64 and a cathode 8 on the Electron Transport Layer 7.

(40) Please refer to FIG. 6 and FIG. 7, which show an OLED pixel structure according to the second embodiment of the present invention utilized in a display panel. As shown in FIG. 8, the red sub pixel 11, the green sub pixel 22, the blue sub pixel 33 and the white sub pixel 44 are respectively driven by the TFT transistors 3.

(41) Please refer to FIG. 9 which is the third embodiment of the present invention. The differences from the second embodiment are that the red sub pixel 11, the green sub pixel 22, the blue sub pixel 33 and the white sub pixel 44 are arranged in two lines. Please refer to FIG. 10 which shows an OLED pixel structure according to the third embodiment of the present invention utilized in a display panel.

(42) In conclusion, in the OLED pixel structure of the present invention, by the blue sub pixel utilizing inorganic quantum dots+blue light filter, the stability and the life time of the OLED elements have been obviously promoted. With the added white sub pixel, the luminous efficiency of the OLED is raised and the energy consumption thereof is reduced.

(43) Above are only specific embodiments of the present invention, the scope of the present invention is not limited to this, and to any persons who are skilled in the art, change or replacement which is easily derived should be covered by the protected scope of the invention. Thus, the protected scope of the invention should go by the subject claims.