Multicolor Organic LEDs Processed by Integration of Screen Printing and Thermal Transfer Printing

Abstract

Color integration in organic LEDs (OLEDs) on a substrate has always been a challenge due to the incompatibility of OLED materials with the conventional photolithography. In this paper we report a process for the fabrication of large-area multicolor OLEDs of arbitrary patterns by combination of thermal-transfer printing and screen-printing. Thermal transfer printing is used to introduce color-tuning dyes into a thermally stable OLED polymer layer from a dye-dispersed polymer layer on the donor plate. Such a process permits controllable and uniform doping of a polymer layer over large areas. By using a patterned color donor plate. color integration in OLEDs could be accomplished with a single thermal transfer step. In this work, the source plate containing multicolor patterns is fabricated by screen-printing. The RGB color patterns were printed sequentially by using RGB inks prepared by dispersing nile red ,C6 and perylene into a commercial screen-printing paste. Based on these printing approaches, we have successfully fabricated multicolor single-layer and heterostructure OLEDs.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 2000
Accession Number
ADP011312

Entities

People

  • Cheng-chung Lee
  • Cheng-chung Yang
  • Chieh-wei Chen
  • Chung-chih Wu
  • Hsin-hua Chang

Organizations

  • National Central University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Diffusion
  • Diffusion Coefficient
  • Diffusion Theory
  • Energy Transfer
  • Fabrication
  • Films
  • Heterojunctions
  • Inks
  • Materials
  • Molecules
  • Photolithography
  • Polymeric Films
  • Polymers
  • Printing
  • Stainless Steel
  • Substrates
  • Transport Protocols

Fields of Study

  • Materials science

Readers

  • Image Processing and Computer Vision.
  • Nanocomposite Materials Science
  • Solar Photovoltaics and Thermoelectric Devices.