The present disclosure relates to the technical field of display, and particularly to a light-emitting device, a display panel and a display apparatus.
Organic electroluminescence devices are widely used in mobile phones, tablets and other fields due to their advantages of self-luminescence, full curing, flexibility, wide color gamut and so on. The energy level potential barrier between interfaces in the organic electroluminescence device is too large, resulting in charge injection difficulties and influence on a brightening voltage and a low gray level characteristic of the device. The large energy level potential barrier also leads to the accumulation of charges on the interfaces, which affects the efficiency and life of the device.
An embodiment of the present disclosure provides a light-emitting device, including an anode and a cathode arranged oppositely, and a light-emitting function layer located between the anode and the cathode;
In a possible implementation, in the light-emitting device provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure, an energy level potential barrier between the two film layers adjacent to the co-doped layer is greater than or equal to 0.2 eV.
In a possible implementation, in the light-emitting device provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure, the first auxiliary function layer includes an electron blocking layer;
In a possible implementation, in the light-emitting device provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure, an HOMO value of the blue organic light-emitting material is 5.9 eV, and an HOMO value of the electron blocking layer is 5.5 eV.
In a possible implementation, in the light-emitting device provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure, the first auxiliary function layer includes a hole transport layer;
In a possible implementation, in the light-emitting device provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure, an HOMO value of the blue organic light-emitting material is 5.9 eV, and an HOMO value of the hole transport layer is 5.4 eV.
In a possible implementation, in the light-emitting device provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure, the second auxiliary function layer includes an electron transport layer and a hole blocking layer;
In a possible implementation, in the light-emitting device provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure, an LUMO value of the electron transport layer is 3.0 eV, and an LUMO value of the hole blocking layer is 2.6 eV.
In a possible implementation, in the light-emitting device provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure, the second auxiliary function layer includes a hole blocking layer;
In a possible implementation, in the light-emitting device provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure, a difference in a carrier mobility between the two film layers adjacent to the co-doped layer is greater than an order of magnitude.
In a possible implementation, in the light-emitting device provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure, the first auxiliary function layer includes an electron blocking layer;
In a possible implementation, in the light-emitting device provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure, a hole mobility of the electron blocking layer is 2.2 E-04 cm2/Vs, and a hole mobility of the green organic light-emitting material is 2.8 E-07 cm2/Vs.
In a possible implementation, in the light-emitting device provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure, the first auxiliary function layer includes a hole transport layer;
In a possible implementation, in the light-emitting device provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure, a hole mobility of the hole transport layer is 2.2 E-04 cm2/Vs, and a hole mobility of the green organic light-emitting material is 2.8 E-07 cm2/Vs.
In a possible implementation, in the light-emitting device provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure, a thickness of the co-doped layer is 3 nm to 10 nm.
In a possible implementation, in the light-emitting device provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure, a thickness of the co-doped layer is 5 nm to 8 nm.
In a possible implementation, in the light-emitting device provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure, a mass ratio of materials of the two adjacent film layers in the co-doped layer is 1:9 to 9:1.
In a possible implementation, in the light-emitting device provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure, a mass ratio of the materials of the two adjacent film layers in the co-doped layer is 1:1.
In a possible implementation, in the light-emitting device provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure, a light-emitting host material in the blue organic light-emitting material is TCTA or Bphen, and a guest material in the blue organic light-emitting material is an aromatic or aniline luminophore; and
In a possible implementation, in the light-emitting device provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure, a material of the hole blocking layer is BCP, and a material of the electron transport layer is PBD or NCB.
In another aspect, an embodiment of the present disclosure further provides a display panel, including the plurality of light-emitting devices provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure.
In a possible implementation, in the display panel provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure, the light-emitting devices include a blue light-emitting device, a green light-emitting device and a red light-emitting device; and
In a possible implementation, in the display panel provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure, the red light-emitting device includes a seventh co-doped layer located between an electron blocking layer and the light-emitting layer.
In another aspect, an embodiment of the present disclosure further provides a display apparatus, including the display panel provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure.
To make objectives, technical solutions and advantages of embodiments of the present disclosure clearer, the present disclosure will be further described in detail below in conjunction with the accompanying drawings. Obviously, the described embodiments are one part of embodiments of the present disclosure, not all of them. On the basis of embodiments in the present disclosure, all other embodiments acquired by those ordinarily skilled in the art without creative labor fall within the scope of protection of the present disclosure.
Shapes and sizes of the parts in the accompanying drawings do not reflect the true scale and are intended only to illustrate the contents of the present disclosure.
An organic electroluminescence device generally includes a cathode, an anode and an organic material clamped between the cathode and the anode. According to different functions of the organic material, the organic material may be roughly divided into a hole injection material, a hole transport material, an electron injection material, an electron transport material, a light-emitting material, a hole blocking material, an electron blocking material, and so on. The anode is generally made of indium tin oxide (ITO) with a higher work function, and the work function is about 4.8 ev. A highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) of a blue light-emitting host material is about 6.0 ev, injection of holes into a blue light-emitting layer from the anode needs to overcome a 1.2 ev energy level potential barrier, and an energy level potential barrier between interfaces may be weakened by evaporating different auxiliary function layers with ladder-changing HOMO energy levels, that is, under the effect of an external electric field, the holes are injected from the ITO and reach the light-emitting layer via hole injection layer, hole transport layer and electron blocking layer materials. A cathode material generally adopts relatively active aluminum (Al) or magnesium (Mg) or silver (Ag) alloys, electrons are injected from the cathode under the effect of the external electric field, and reach the light-emitting layer via electron injection layer, electron transport layer and hole blocking layer materials. In the light-emitting layer, the electrons and the holes meet to form excitons, and the excitons are compounded to emit light.
Although auxiliary material layer materials with different energy levels are arranged between the cathode and the anode to serve an injection layer, a transport layer and a barrier layer, too large energy level potential barriers in some interfaces still exist.
In addition, as shown in
On this basis, embodiments of the present disclosure provide a light-emitting device, a display panel and a display apparatus, for interfaces with greater interface energy level potential barriers or greater mobility differences, the difference of physical properties on the interfaces may be weakened, the injection capability of carriers is improved, and accumulations of interface charges are obviously reduced by mutually doping materials of the adjacent interfaces in the case of not introducing other new organic materials.
An embodiment of the present disclosure provides a light-emitting device, as shown in
In the light-emitting device provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure, the co-doped layer is added between interfaces with the difference in the material physical properties being greater than a set value, which may obviously reduce the difference in the physical properties of the adjacent interfaces, enhance the injection capability of charges, and obviously reduce accumulation of the charges on the interfaces, thereby weakening the difference in the interfaces in the light-emitting device and improving the performance of the device. Compared with a traditional method that an auxiliary function layer is added in a light-emitting device to weaken the difference in physical properties on the interfaces, a new organic material does not need to be introduced, the requirement of the traditional method of adding the auxiliary function layer for the property (such as the energy level) of the newly-introduced organic material is higher, the property (such as the energy level) needs to be located between the properties (such as energy levels) of two interface materials, and therefore particular material design is needed. In the light-emitting device provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure, materials of adjacent interfaces with greater difference in the physical properties are mutually doped to form the co-doped layer, which ensures that a good contact interface is formed between the co-doped layer and adjacent film layers and injection and transport of charges are more easily performed.
In the light-emitting device provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure, the light-emitting layer 31 may be an organic light-emitting material, and may also be a quantum dot light-emitting material, which is not limited here. When the light-emitting layer 31 adopts the organic light-emitting material, the light-emitting device may be called an organic electroluminescence device, and when the light-emitting layer 32 adopts the quantum dot light-emitting material, the light-emitting device may be called a quantum dot light-emitting device. The organic electroluminescence device is taken as an example below to illustrate specific film layer positions and properties of the co-doped layer 34 in the above light-emitting device provided in the present disclosure.
Optionally, in the light-emitting device provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure, the difference of the material physical properties between two film layers being greater than the set value may also be specified as: an energy level potential barrier between two film layers adjacent to the co-doped layer 34 is greater than or equal to 0.2 ev. When the interface energy level potential barrier between the adjacent film layers is greater than 0.2 eV, it leads to charge injection difficulties and influences on a brightening voltage and a low gray scale characteristic of the device, and the large energy level potential barrier also leads to accumulation of charges on the interfaces and influences on the service life of the device. Therefore, for the interfaces with the interface energy level potential barriers being greater than 0.2 eV, the energy level potential barriers on the interfaces may be weakened, the injection capability of carriers is improved, and accumulations of charges on the interfaces are obviously reduced by mutually doping materials of the adjacent interfaces in the case of not introducing other new organic materials. Moreover, the energy level of the co-doped layer 34 added on the interface with the greater energy level potential barrier is closer to the energy level of the adjacent low energy level film layer.
Or, optionally, in the light-emitting device provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure, the difference of the material physical properties between two film layers being greater than the set value may also be specified as: a difference in a carrier mobility between the two film layers adjacent to the co-doped layer 34 is greater than an order of magnitude. For example, table 1 shows that the hole mobility of the green light-emitting layer is far lower than the hole mobility of the electron blocking layer, and when the difference in the carrier mobility between the two film layers adjacent to the co-doped layer is greater than an order of magnitude, a large number of charges are accumulated on the interface, which affects the service life of the device. Moreover, the carrier mobility of the co-doped layer 34 added on the interface with the greater difference in the carrier mobility is closer to the carrier mobility of the adjacent low carrier mobility film layer.
In the light-emitting device provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure, the first auxiliary function layer 32 may include one or a combination of a hole injection layer 321, a hole transport layer 322 or an electron blocking layer 323; the second auxiliary function layer 33 may include one or a combination of an electron injection layer 333, an electron transport layer 332 or a hole blocking layer 331; and the light-emitting layer 31 may include a blue organic light-emitting material, a green organic light-emitting material, a red organic light-emitting material and so on. According to different selected materials of the light-emitting layer 31, and different film layer structures of the first auxiliary function layer 32 and the second auxiliary function layer 33, the co-doped layer 34 may be set on different film layer positions according to the difference in the energy level potential barriers between the interfaces and the difference in the mobility between the interfaces.
For example, optionally, in the light-emitting device provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure, as shown in
For example, optionally, in the light-emitting device provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure, as shown in
For example, optionally, in the light-emitting device provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure, as shown in
For example, optionally, in the light-emitting device provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure, as shown in
For example, optionally, in the light-emitting device provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure, as shown in
It should be noted that for facilitating descriptions,
Optionally, in the light-emitting device provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure, the co-doped layer 34 is made of two materials by a common evaporating, a thickness of the co-doped layer 34 is generally controlled to be 3 nm to 10 nm, the thickness of the co-doped layer 34 is optionally controlled to be 5 nm to 8 nm, a mass ratio of materials of two adjacent film layers in the co-doped layer 34 is generally controlled to be 1:9-9:1, and the mass ratio is optionally controlled to be 1:1.
During manufacturing of the light-emitting device provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure, an upright structure may be adopted, that is, a manufacturing sequence of manufacturing the anode and then manufacturing the light-emitting function layer and the cathode in sequence on a substrate. An inverted structure may also be adopted, that is a manufacturing sequence of manufacturing the cathode and then manufacturing the light-emitting function layer and the anode in sequence on the substrate, which is not detailed here. A structure shown in
In a first step, cleaning of an anode ITO base substrate is as follows.
In a second step, vacuum evaporation of materials of light-emitting function layers is performed, high-temperature evaporation is performed on the materials of the light-emitting function layers under a vacuum degree of 10−5-10−7 Pascal, and an evaporation sequence is as follows.
An impedance spectroscopy test is performed on the light-emitting device without the first co-doped layer 341 and the light-emitting device manufactured with the first co-doped layer 341, a test frequency is set to 1 Hertz to 1 million Hertz, a direct current voltage is 3.0 volts, and a voltage of an alternating-current signal is 100 millivolts. A test result is as shown in
Referring to the manufacturing method, the blue light-emitting device including the third co-doped layer 343 shown in
Referring to the manufacturing method, the green light-emitting device including the fifth co-doped layer 345 shown in
Based on the same inventive conception, an embodiment of the present disclosure further provides a display panel, including a plurality of light-emitting devices provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure. As shown in
Moreover, in a manufacturing process of the display panel, since the electron blocking layer 323 and the light-emitting layer 31 need to be patterned according to a light-emitting area of the light-emitting device, that is, an FMM mask is adopted in a same evaporation cavity to manufacture a patterned pattern, addition of the co-doped layer 34 between the electron blocking layer 323 and the light-emitting layer 31 does not increase processes and evaporation cavities.
Furthermore, in the display panel provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure, as shown in
During manufacturing the display panel, the hole injection layers 321 in light-emitting devices of respective colors may be manufactured by adopting an open mask in an evaporation cavity, the hole transport layers 322 in the light-emitting devices of respective colors may be manufactured by adopting an open mask by moving to another evaporation cavity, the electron blocking layer 323, the first co-doped layer 341 and the light-emitting layer 31 in the blue light-emitting device are manufactured by adopting an FMM mask by moving to another evaporation cavity, the electron blocking layer 323, the fifth co-doped layer 345 and the light-emitting layer 31 in the green light-emitting device are manufactured by adopting an FMM mask by moving to another evaporation cavity, the electron blocking layer 323, the seventh co-doped layer 347 and the light-emitting layer 31 in the red light-emitting device are manufactured by adopting an FMM mask by moving to another evaporation cavity, and then the hole blocking layers 331, the electron transport layers 332 and other film layers are manufactured by moving to other evaporation cavities.
Based on the same inventive conception, an embodiment of the present disclosure further provides a display apparatus, including the display panel provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure, and the display apparatus may be a mobile phone, a tablet personal computer, a television, a display, a notebook computer, a digital photo frame, a navigator and other any products or components with display functions. Other essential components of the display apparatus should be understood by those ordinarily skilled in the art, which is not repeated here, nor shall it be taken as a limitation of the present disclosure. The implementation of the display apparatus may refer to an embodiment of the display panel, and the repetition is not repeated.
According to the light-emitting device, the display panel and the display apparatus provided by embodiments of the present disclosure, the co-doped layer is added between interfaces with the difference in the material physical properties being greater than the set value, which may obviously reduce the difference in the physical properties of the adjacent interfaces, enhance the injection capability of the charges, and obviously reduce accumulation of the charges on the interfaces, thereby weakening the difference in the interfaces in the light-emitting device and improving the performance of the device. Compared with the traditional method that an auxiliary function layer is added in a light-emitting device to weaken the difference in the physical properties on interfaces, a new organic material does not need to be introduced, the requirement of the traditional method of adding the auxiliary function layer for the property (such as the energy level) of the newly-introduced organic material is higher, the property (such as the energy level) needs to be located between the properties (such as the energy levels) of two interface materials, and therefore particular material design is needed. In the light-emitting device provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure, materials of adjacent interfaces with greater difference in the physical properties are mutually doped to form the co-doped layer, which ensures that the good contact interface is formed between the co-doped layer and adjacent film layers and injection and transport of the charges are more easily performed.
Obviously, those skilled in the art may make various modifications and variations to the present disclosure without departing from the spirit and scope of the present disclosure. In this way, if these modifications and variations of the present disclosure fall within the scope of the claims of the present disclosure and equivalent technologies thereof, the present disclosure is also intended to include these modifications and variations.
| Filing Document | Filing Date | Country | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|
| PCT/CN2020/130661 | 11/20/2020 | WO |