公开(公告)号：US10658441B2

公开(公告)日：2020-05-19

申请号：US16114039

申请日：2018-08-27

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Kwang Ohk Cheon ,  Cheng Chen ,  Chien Lu ,  Chih-Lei Chen ,  Chin Wei Hsu ,  Hui Lu ,  KiBeom Kim ,  Lun Tsai ,  Meng-Huan Ho ,  Nai-Chih Kao ,  Pei-Ling Lin ,  Rui Liu ,  Shan-Jen Yu ,  Wendi Chang ,  Yusuke Fujino

IPC: H01L27/32 ,  H01L51/50 ,  G09G3/3225 ,  H01L51/56 ,  H01L51/52

Abstract: A display may have an array of pixels formed from organic light-emitting diodes and thin-film transistor circuitry. Each pixel may include organic layers interposed between an anode and a cathode. The organic layers may emit out-coupled light that escapes the display and waveguided light that is waveguided within the organic layers. A reflector may be placed at the edge of the organic layers to reflect the waveguided light out of the display. The reflector may be located within a pixel definition layer and may be formed from metal or may be formed from one or more interfaces between high-refractive-index material and low-refractive-index material. The reflector may be formed from an extended portion of the pixel anode. The reflector may be formed from light-reflecting particles that are suspended in the pixel definition layer.

公开(公告)号：US20190067394A1

公开(公告)日：2019-02-28

申请号：US16114039

申请日：2018-08-27

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Kwang Ohk Cheon ,  Cheng Chen ,  Chien Lu ,  Chih-Lei Chen ,  Chin Wei Hsu ,  Hui Lu ,  KiBeom Kim ,  Lun Tsai ,  Meng-Huan Ho ,  Nai-Chih Kao ,  Pei-Ling Lin ,  Rui Liu ,  Shan-Jen Yu ,  Wendi Chang ,  Yusuke Fujino

IPC: H01L27/32 ,  H01L51/50 ,  H01L51/52 ,  H01L51/56 ,  G09G3/3225

Abstract: A display may have an array of pixels formed from organic light-emitting diodes and thin-film transistor circuitry. Each pixel may include organic layers interposed between an anode and a cathode. The organic layers may emit out-coupled light that escapes the display and waveguided light that is waveguided within the organic layers. A reflector may be placed at the edge of the organic layers to reflect the waveguided light out of the display. The reflector may be located within a pixel definition layer and may be formed from metal or may be formed from one or more interfaces between high-refractive-index material and low-refractive-index material, The reflector may be formed from an extended portion of the pixel anode. The reflector may be formed from light-reflecting particles that are suspended in the pixel definition layer.

公开(公告)号：US20230171988A1

公开(公告)日：2023-06-01

申请号：US17968280

申请日：2022-10-18

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Prashant Mandlik ,  Bhadrinarayana Lalgudi Visweswaran ,  Ankit Mahajan ,  Chia-Hao Chang ,  Christopher E Glazowski ,  David L Wei ,  Hui Lu ,  Takahide Ishii ,  Themistoklis Afentakis ,  Han Liu ,  Cheng-Chih Hsieh ,  Asli Sirman ,  Shih Chang Chang ,  Ko-Wei Chen ,  Shang-Chih Lin ,  Tsung-Ting Tsai ,  Jae Won Choi ,  Abbas Jamshidi Roudbari ,  Ting-Kuo Chang ,  Jean-Pierre S Guillou

IPC: H01L51/52 ,  H01L27/32

CPC classification number: H01L51/5253 ,  H01L51/5262 ,  H01L51/5293 ,  H01L27/323

Abstract: An electronic device may have a display such as an organic light-emitting diode display. The organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display may have an array of organic light-emitting diode pixels that each have OLED layers interposed between a cathode and an anode. A first passivation layer, a first planarization layer, and a second passivation layer may be formed over the cathode. The first and second passivation layers may be formed from inorganic material. A second planarization layer may be formed over the second passivation layer between the second passivation layer and a polarizer. The second planarization layer may planarize the polarizer at the edges of the active area of the display where the polarizer would otherwise have a steep taper. Planarizing the polarizer in this way mitigates undesirable secondary reflections off of the polarizer. The first and second planarization layers may be formed from organic material.

公开(公告)号：US20220271254A1

公开(公告)日：2022-08-25

申请号：US17569384

申请日：2022-01-05

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Niva A. Ran ,  Michelle C. Sherrott ,  Steven J. Brewer ,  Ping Kuen Daniel Tsang ,  KiBeom Kim ,  Hui Lu ,  Siddharth Harikrishna Mohan

IPC: H01L51/52

Abstract: An electronic device may have a display such as an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display. The OLED display may have an array of OLED pixels that each have OLED layers interposed between a cathode and an anode. The pixels may be microcavity OLED pixels having optical cavities. The optical cavities may be defined by a partially transparent cathode layer and a reflective anode structure. The distance between the partially transparent cathode layer and the reflective anode structure for a pixel may be selected such that light at the wavelength emitted by the pixel forms a standing wave between the anode and the cathode. The standing wave may have only one anti-node and the emissive layer for the pixel may be aligned with that one anti-node. To mitigate short circuits, a roughness reduction layer and/or short-circuit-reducing layer having a high sheet resistance may be formed between the anode the OLED layers.