Structural Detail Of Device (epo) Patents (Class 257/E51.002)
  • Patent number: 9029844
    Abstract: An organic light emitting diode display and a method of manufacturing the same, the display including a substrate; a plurality of thin film transistors on the substrate; a protective film covering the plurality of thin film transistors; a pixel electrode on the protective film; a pixel defining film on the protective film, the pixel defining film having an opening exposing the pixel electrode; an organic emission layer on the pixel electrode and the pixel defining film; and a common electrode covering the organic emission layer, wherein a cross-section of an opening sidewall of the opening in the pixel defining film has a rounded shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jung-Ho Choi, Yang-Wan Kim
  • Patent number: 9006715
    Abstract: A method of making an electronic device comprising a double bank well-defining structure, which method comprises: providing an electronic substrate; depositing a first insulating material on the substrate to form a first insulating layer; depositing a second insulating material on the first insulating layer to form a second insulating layer; removing a portion of the second insulating layer to expose a portion of the first insulating layer and form a second well-defining bank; depositing a resist on the second insulating layer and on a portion of the exposed first insulating layer; removing the portion of the first insulating layer not covered by the resist, to expose a portion of the electronic substrate and form a first well-defining bank within the second well-defining bank; and removing the resist. The method can provide devices with reduced leakage currents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Cambridge Display Technology Limited
    Inventors: Mark Crankshaw, Mark Dowling, Daniel Forsythe, Simon Goddard, Gary Williams, Ilaria Grizzi, Angela McConnell
  • Patent number: 9005997
    Abstract: Provided are a magneto resistive element and a method of manufacturing the same, and in particular, a magneto resistive element and a method of manufacturing the same that may be applied to a digitizer sensing panel. The magneto resistive element includes a substrate, a first electrode disposed on the substrate, a first hole transport layer disposed on the first electrode, a first magneto resistive layer disposed on the first hole transport layer, wherein the first magneto resistive layer comprises an organic material, a first transport layer disposed on the first magneto resistive layer, a second magneto resistive layer disposed on the first transport layer, wherein the second magneto resistive layer comprises an organic material, a first electron transport layer disposed on the second magneto resistive layer, and a second electrode disposed on the first electron transport layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyun-Sung Bang, Won-Jong Kim, Ji-Young Choung, Joon-Gu Lee, Jin-Baek Choi, Yeon-Hwa Lee
  • Patent number: 8963143
    Abstract: The invention provides an OLED device with improved light out-coupling comprising an electroluminescent layer stack (2) on top of a substrate (1), where the electroluminescent layer stack (2) comprises an organic light-emitting layer stack (6) with one or more organic layers sandwiched between a first electrode (3) facing towards the substrate (1) and a second electrode (7) to apply a driving voltage to the organic light-emitting layer stack (6), and a first electron transport layer stack (4a) arranged between the organic light emitting layers stack (6) and the second electrode (7), wherein the electron transport layer stack (4a) comprises an electron transport layer (41) made of a first electron transport material having a low refractive index and at least one n-doped layer (40, 42). The invention further relates to a method to manufacture these OLED devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Koninklijkle Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Hans-Peter Loebl, Herbert Friedrich Boerner, Claudia Michaela Goldmann
  • Patent number: 8946731
    Abstract: Spalling is employed to generate a single crystalline semiconductor layer. Complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) logic and memory devices are formed on a single crystalline semiconductor substrate prior to spalling. Organic light emitting diode (OLED) driving circuitry, solar cells, sensors, batteries and the like can be formed prior to, or after, spalling. The spalled single crystalline semiconductor layer can be transferred to a substrate. OLED displays can be formed into the spalled single crystalline semiconductor layer to achieve a structure including an OLED display with semiconductor driving circuitry and other functions integrated on the single crystalline semiconductor layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ning Li, Devendra K. Sadana
  • Patent number: 8901549
    Abstract: The present invention provides an organic light emitting diode touch display panel including a substrate, a plurality of first electrodes and a plurality of second electrodes disposed on the substrate, a plurality of light emitting layers, a plurality of dielectric layers, a plurality of first electrode stripes, and a plurality of second stripes. Each light emitting layer is disposed on each first electrode, and each dielectric layer is disposed on each second electrode. Each first electrode stripe is disposed on the light emitting layers in each row, and each second electrode stripe is disposed on the dielectric layers in each row. Each first electrode, each light emitting layer and each first electrode stripe form an organic light emitting diode, and each second electrode, each dielectric layer and each second electrode stripe form a touch sensing capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: HannStar Display Corp.
    Inventors: Chien-Hsiang Huang, Kun-Hua Tsai, Jun-Shih Chung, Chun-Hsi Chen
  • Patent number: 8866171
    Abstract: To provide a light-emitting element or a light-emitting device in which power is not consumed wastefully even if a short-circuit failure occurs. The present invention focuses on heat generated due to a short-circuit failure which occurs in a light-emitting element. A fusible alloy which is melted at temperature T2 by heat generated due to the short-circuit failure when the short-circuit failure occurs is used for at least one of a pair of electrodes in a light-emitting element, and a layer containing an organic composition which is melted at temperature T1 is formed on a surface of the electrode opposite to a surface facing the other electrode. The present inventors have reached a structure in which the temperature T2 is lower than temperature T3 at which the light-emitting element is damaged and the temperature T1 is lower than the temperature T2, and this structure can achieve the objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuo Nakamura, Satoshi Seo, Masaaki Hiroki
  • Patent number: 8829542
    Abstract: An organic light emitting diode device including an anode, a cathode facing the anode, and a light emitting member between the anode and cathode, wherein the light emitting member includes at least two light emitting units displaying the same or different color as one another, and a charge-generation layer between the at least two light emitting units, the charge-generation layer including a first charge-generation layer and a second charge-generation layer that each include an undoped material, and wherein the first charge-generation layer has an ionization energy that is about the same as or less than an electron affinity of the second charge-generation layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung-Hun Lee, Jung-Bae Song
  • Patent number: 8816335
    Abstract: By the invention it is proposed a method of preparing a serial connection of OLED-devices, comprising the steps of providing a carrier substrate; depositing a first electrode material layer on said carrier substrate; depositing a layer of an organic optoelectronic active material on said first electrode material layer; depositing a second electrode material layer on said organic optoelectronic active material layer; ablating at least the second electrode material layer and the organic optoelectronic active material layer at least in selected areas to build a trench forming separated OLED-devices on the carrier surface; electrically interconnecting neighboring OLED-devices by connecting the anode of a first OLED-device to the cathode of a neighboring second OLED-device, wherein in the steps of depositing the organic optoelectronic active material layer and the cathode layer, the carrier substrate surface is covered over its entire functional area with said layers, and wherein the electrical interconnection of
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventor: Holger Schwab
  • Patent number: 8809841
    Abstract: A light-emitting element which at least includes a monomolecular layer including a luminescent center material with a fluorescent light-emitting property, and a monomolecular layer including a host material with a carrier (electron or hole)-transport property and a band gap larger than a band gap (note that a band gap refers to the energy difference between a HOMO level and a LUMO level) of the luminescent center material, between a pair of electrodes, in which the monomolecular layer including the host material and the monomolecular layer including the luminescent center material share the same interface, is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Kunihiko Suzuki, Harue Osaka, Masahiro Takahashi
  • Patent number: 8729532
    Abstract: The present invention provides a light-absorbing material capable of providing high photoelectric conversion efficiency when applied to a photoelectric conversion element. The light-absorbing material of the present invention has a structure represented by Formula (1) below: X—Y??(1) (wherein X represents a light-absorbing site, and Y represents a radical site that becomes a radical when in an oxidized state and/or when in a reduced state, and is capable of repeated oxidation-reduction).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignees: Panasonic Corporation, Waseda University
    Inventors: Takashi Sekiguchi, Hiroyuki Nishide, Michio Suzuka, Takeyuki Yamaki, Kenichi Oyaizu, Fumiaki Kato, Satoko Kambe
  • Patent number: 8698169
    Abstract: An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display includes a first electrode including a conductive black layer, a second electrode facing the first electrode, and an organic emission layer provided between the first electrode and the second electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hyun-Eok Shin
  • Patent number: 8686427
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a first substrate including pixels, a second substrate facing the first substrate, and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. Each of the pixels includes a thin film transistor disposed on a first insulating substrate, a first protective layer that covers the thin film transistor and includes a SiOC layer, a first electrode disposed on the first protective layer, a second protective layer that covers the first electrode, and a second electrode disposed on the second protective layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chang Ok Kim, Hyeongsuk Yoo, Jieun Nam, Kiseong Seo, Jae Sul An, Taeyoung Ahn, Jungyun Jo
  • Patent number: 8633523
    Abstract: A thin film transistor which may be included in a pixel circuit includes: a substrate; a semiconductor layer formed on the substrate and including a source region, a first drain region spaced apart from the source region by a first current path, and a second drain region spaced apart from the source region by a second current path having a length different from that of the first current path; a gate electrode insulated from the semiconductor layer by a gate insulating layer; a source electrode connected to the source region of the semiconductor layer; a first drain electrode connected to the first drain region of the semiconductor layer; and a second drain electrode connected to the second drain region of the semiconductor layer. Currents having different magnitudes may be simultaneously provided through the first current path and the second current path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin-Woo Park, Dong-Hwan Kim
  • Patent number: 8633475
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescence device includes: an anode; a cathode opposed to the anode; and a plurality of emitting units including at least a first emitting unit and a second emitting unit. The plurality of emitting units each includes: an emitting layer; and an intermediate unit between the first emitting unit and the second emitting unit. The intermediate unit includes an electron injecting layer, a zinc oxide layer and a hole injecting layer in this sequence from the anode. The electron injecting layer contains an electron donating material and is adjacent to the first emitting unit. The hole injecting layer contains an organic electron accepting material and is adjacent to the second emitting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignee: Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun Endo, Chishio Hosokawa
  • Patent number: 8558223
    Abstract: An organic electronic component, including a substrate, a first electrode, a second electrode, an electron-conducting layer which is arranged such that it is electrically conductively connected to at least one of the electrodes, wherein the electron-conducting layer is obtained by joint vaporization of a metal complex with an organic compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventors: Günter Schmid, Ralf Krause, Andreas Kanitz, Jürgen Adler, Stefan Seidel, Arvid Hunze
  • Patent number: 8530905
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting display apparatus for blocking or preventing an electrode of an organic light-emitting device from being shorted with another electrode of the organic light-emitting device at the bent portions of the electrode and for blocking or preventing impurities from penetrating into an organic layer through the bent portions. The organic light-emitting display apparatus includes: a first electrode; a pixel defining layer formed to have a thickness away from the first electrode and covering edge portions of the first electrode; a light-emitting layer on the first electrode; a second electrode on the light-emitting layer; and a stepheight lowering layer over a portion where the first electrode contacts the pixel defining layer, and between the first electrode and the light-emitting layer or between the light-emitting layer and the second electrode, to reduce a bend of the second electrode over the portion where the first electrode contacts the pixel defining layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Eun-Ah Kim
  • Patent number: 8507897
    Abstract: An organic EL element includes a functional layer disposed between an anode and a cathode on a substrate and including laminated different organic thin films including a light-emitting layer, and a partition wall which defines the functional layer. Each of the organic thin films is formed by applying a liquid containing a functional layer-forming material on a film-forming region defined by the partition wall and then drying the liquid. The partition wall has at least one step portion provided in the side wall thereof in the thickness direction, and liquid repellency is imparted to the uppermost surface of the partition wall and the upper surface of the step portion. The surface of the side wall excluding the step portion has lyophilicity in comparison with the upper surface of the step portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Hirokazu Yanagihara
  • Patent number: 8502203
    Abstract: Disclosed is a laminated structure, including a substrate, a wettability changing layer on the substrate, the wettability changing layer including a material, a critical surface tension of the material being changed by providing energy thereto, and an electrically conductor layer on the substrate, the electrically conductor layer formed on a region of the wettability changing layer, the region being provided with the energy, wherein the material includes a structural unit including a side chain and a structural unit including no side chain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takanori Tano, Koei Suzuki, Yusuke Tsuda
  • Publication number: 20130153864
    Abstract: An ambipolar inverter device suitable for use in an integrated circuit. An electron blocking layer and a hole blocking layer are respectively disposed at two sides of the ambipolar semiconductor layer, so that the operation of the inverter may be executed in a single device. In addition, the manufacturing method of the disclosure is simple, adopting only one patterning step, so as to effectively improve the performance of the ambipolar device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2012
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Applicant: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Chao-Feng Sung, Yen-Min Hsieh
  • Patent number: 8362468
    Abstract: A micro-channel chip can be coated uniformly with a thin inorganic oxide film and can prevent an ionic hydrophobic substance from adsorbing through a surface of an inorganic oxide film. In the micro-channel chip, surfaces of inner walls of through-holes in an upper plate member and a channel of a lower plate member are entirely coated with a SiO 2 film. The SiO 2 film is formed of two layers, namely a bottom layer that contains a high content of carbon atoms and is formed in a part that contacts a resin substrate, and a surface layer that contains nearly zero content of carbon atoms and t is formed in a part that is exposed on the surface of a channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: Enplas Corporation
    Inventors: Koichi Ono, Tomoki Nakao, Akira Niwayama
  • Publication number: 20130005077
    Abstract: A chemical mechanical polishing method is provided. The chemical mechanical polishing method includes steps of providing a plurality of semiconductor elements to be polished, obtaining a respective dimension of the each semiconductor element to be polished, and polishing the each semiconductor element according to the respective dimension thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2011
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Applicant: NATION CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Hsin-Fei Meng, Hsiao-Wen Zan, Sheng-Fu Horng, Hsiu-Yuan Yang, Kuo-Jui Huang, Hao-Wen Chang, Chun-Yu Chen, Yu-Chiang Chao, Yu-Fan Chang, Bo-Jie Chang
  • Publication number: 20120326136
    Abstract: The present teachings provide methods for depositing and patterning organic light-emitting device (OLED) buffer layers. The method can use a thermal printing process and one or more additional processes, such as vacuum thermal evaporation (VTE), to create an OLED stack. OLED stack structures are also provided wherein which at least one of the charge injection or charge transport layers is formed by a thermal printing method at a high deposition rate. The organic layer can be subject to post-deposition treatment such as baking. The structure of the organic layer can be amorphous, crystalline, porous, dense, smooth, rough, or a combination thereof, depending on deposition parameters and post-treatment conditions. The organic layer can improve light out-coupling efficiency of an OLED, increase conductivity, decrease index of refraction, and/or modify the emission chromaticity of an OLED.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2011
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicant: KATEEVA, INC.
    Inventor: Jianglong Chen
  • Publication number: 20120273976
    Abstract: A process for fabricating an amorphous diamond-like film layer for protection of a moisture or oxygen sensitive electronic device is described. The process includes forming a plasma from silicone oil, depositing an amorphous diamond-like film layer from the plasma, and combining the amorphous diamond-like film layer with a moisture or oxygen sensitive electronic device to form a protected electronic device. Articles including the amorphous diamond-like film layer on an organic electronic device are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2012
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Inventors: Moses M. David, Fred B. McCormick, Mark A. Roehrig
  • Publication number: 20120217492
    Abstract: Disclosed are an organic compound, an organic electronic device using the same, and a terminal thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2010
    Publication date: August 30, 2012
    Applicant: DUKSAN HIGH METAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dongha Kim, Soungyun Mun, Jungcheol Park, Jinuk Ju, Jangyeol Baek, Wonsam Kim, Eunkyung Kim, Daehyuk Choi, Junghwan Park
  • Publication number: 20120219831
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a hybrid device comprising: an energy converting unit comprising a first electrode, a second electrode and an energy converting medium arranged between the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein the energy conversion takes place between the first electrode and the second electrode; an energy charge storing unit comprising a first electrode, a second electrode and an electrolyte medium; wherein the energy charge is stored between the first and the second electrode; the second electrode of the energy converting unit and the second electrode of the energy charge storing unit being a shared electrode electrically connecting the energy converting unit and the energy charge storing unit; and wherein the shared electrode comprises a metal and a nanostructured material. The present invention is also directed to a method of manufacturing such a hybrid device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2009
    Publication date: August 30, 2012
    Applicant: NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Wai Fatt Mak, Tsyh Ying Grace Wee, Teddy Salim, Madhavi Srinivasan, Subodh Mhaisalkar, Yin Chiang Freddy Boey
  • Publication number: 20120193617
    Abstract: A subject for the invention is to provide compounds where a film formation can be made by a wet film formation method, a heating temperature at the film formation is low, the film formed therefrom has high stability, and the other layers can be laminated thereon by a wet film formation method or another method. The compounds are usable as a material for electronic device which decreases little in charge transport efficiency or luminescent efficiency and which have excellent driving stability. The invention resides in a compound and a polymer which are characterized by having a elimination group of a specific structure and in an organic compound characterized by having a elimination group having a low elimination temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2012
    Publication date: August 2, 2012
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Urano, Toshimitsu Nakai, Koichiro Iida, Yanjun Li, Tatsushi Baba
  • Publication number: 20120187373
    Abstract: The present invention relates to high-purity quantum dot-fullerene dimers with controllable linker length and the process of fabricating the same. More particularly, this invention relates to the design, synthesis, and application of high-purity quantum dot-fullerene dimers by applying a novel stepwise surface assembly procedure that ensures the formation of conjugates due to steric repulsion effects between the quantum dots.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2012
    Publication date: July 26, 2012
    Applicant: BROOKHAVEN SCIENCE ASSOCIATES, LLC
    Inventors: Zhihua Xu, Mircea Cotlet
  • Publication number: 20120181516
    Abstract: The present invention provides a light-absorbing material capable of providing high photoelectric conversion efficiency when applied to a photoelectric conversion element. The light-absorbing material of the present invention has a structure represented by Formula (1) below: X—Y??(1) (wherein X represents a light-absorbing site, and Y represents a radical site that becomes a radical when in an oxidized state and/or when in a reduced state, and is capable of repeated oxidation-reduction).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2010
    Publication date: July 19, 2012
    Inventors: Takashi Sekiguchi, Hiroyuki Nishide, Michio Suzuka, Takeyuki Yamaki, Kenichi Oyaizu, Fumiaki Kato, Shingo Kambe, Satoko Kambe
  • Patent number: 8212243
    Abstract: An organic semiconducting composition consists essentially of an N,N-dicycloalkyl-substituted naphthalene diimide and a polymer additive comprising an insulating or semiconducting polymer having a permittivity at 1000 Hz of at least 1.5 and up to and including 5. This composition can be used to provide a semiconducting layer in a thin-film transistor that can be incorporated into a variety of electronic devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Deepak Shukla, Dianne M. Meyer
  • Publication number: 20120132898
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions comprising functionalized or un-functionalized multi cyclic hydrocarbons and functional organic compounds, which can be used in different electronic devices. The invention further relates to an electronic device comprising one or more organic functional layers, wherein at least one of the layers comprises at least one functionalized or un-functionalized multi cyclic hydrocarbon. Another embodiment of the present invention relates to a formulation comprising functionalized or un-functionalized multi cyclic hydrocarbons, from which a thin layer comprising at least one functionalized or un-functionalized multi cyclic hydrocarbon can be formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2010
    Publication date: May 31, 2012
    Applicant: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Junyou Pan, Thomas Eberle, Herwig Buchholz
  • Publication number: 20120118350
    Abstract: An organic device, including an organic compound having charge-transporting ability (i.e., transporting holes and/or electrons) and/or including organic light emissive molecules capable of emitting at least one of fluorescent light or phosphorescent light, has a charge transfer complex-contained layer including a charge transfer complex formed upon contact of an organic hole-transporting compound and molybdenum trioxide via a manner of lamination or mixing thereof, so that the organic hole-transporting compound is in a state of radical cation (i.e., positively charged species) in the charge transfer complex-contained layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2012
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Applicants: ROHM Co., Ltd., Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Junji Kido, Toshio Matsumoto, Takeshi Nakada
  • Publication number: 20120112171
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a nonvolatile semiconductor memory device includes a first stacked structure body, a first semiconductor layer, a first organic film, a first semiconductor-side insulating film, and a first electrode-side insulating film. The first stacked structure body includes a plurality of first electrode films stacked along a first direction and a first inter-electrode insulating film provided between the first electrode films. The first semiconductor layer is opposed to side faces of the first electrode films. The first organic film is provided between the side faces of the first electrode films and the first semiconductor layer and containing an organic compound. The first semiconductor-side insulating film is provided between the first organic film and the first semiconductor layer. The first electrode-side insulating film provided between the first organic film and the side faces of the first electrode films.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2011
    Publication date: May 10, 2012
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Shigeki Hattori, Reika Ichihara, Masaya Terai, Hideyuki Nishizawa, Tsukasa Tada, Koji Asakawa, Hiroyuki Fuke, Satoshi Mikoshiba, Yoshiaki Fukuzumi, Hideaki Aochi
  • Publication number: 20120037893
    Abstract: The present invention provides a water-trapping agent disposed inside a hermetically sealed container. The water-trapping agent comprises an organometallic compound as represented by Formula 1 as a drying agent component, and is obtained by a process comprising mixing the organometallic compound with organic solvent, and at least partially substituting the organic solvent with viscous replacement material: wherein R is selected from the group consisting of alkyl group, alkoxy group, alkenyl group, aryl group, cycloalkyl group, heterocyclic group and acyl group, M is a trivalent metal atom, and n is an integer of 1 or above.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2011
    Publication date: February 16, 2012
    Inventors: Satoshi Tanaka, Shigeru Hieda, Yoshihisa Yonezawa, Youhei Fujimura
  • Publication number: 20120034735
    Abstract: Example embodiments herein relate to compositions useful in forming organic active patterns that may, in turn, be incorporated in organic memory devices. The compositions comprise N-containing conjugated electroconductive polymer(s), photoacid generator(s) and organic solvent(s) capable of dissolving suitable quantities of both the electroconductive polymer and the photoacid generator. Also disclosed are methods for patterning organic active layers formed using one or more of the compositions to produce organic active patterns, portions of which may be arranged between opposed electrodes to provide organic memory cells. The methods include directly exposing and developing the organic active layer to obtain fine patterns without the use of a separate masking pattern, for example, a photoresist pattern, thereby tending to simplify the fabrication process and reduce the associated costs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Publication date: February 9, 2012
    Inventors: Sang Kyun Lee, Won Jae Joo, Kwang Hee Lee, Tae Lim Choi, Myung Sup Jung
  • Publication number: 20120025173
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device including a gate electrode, a gate insulating layer, source/drain electrodes, and a channel-forming region that are disposed on a base is provided. The method includes the steps of forming a thin film by application of a mixed solution including a polymeric insulating material and a dioxaanthanthrene compound represented by structural formula (1) below; and subsequently drying the thin film to induce phase separation of the polymeric insulating material and the dioxaanthanthrene compound, thereby forming the gate insulating layer from the polymeric insulating material and the channel-forming region from the dioxaanthanthrene compound: wherein at least one of R3 and R9 represents a substituent other than hydrogen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2010
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Norihito Kobayashi, Mari Sasaki, Takahiro Ohe
  • Publication number: 20120012820
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescence device includes: an anode; a cathode opposed to the anode; and a plurality of emitting units including at least a first emitting unit and a second emitting unit. The plurality of emitting units each includes: an emitting layer; and an intermediate unit between the first emitting unit and the second emitting unit. The intermediate unit includes an electron injecting layer, a zinc oxide layer and a hole injecting layer in this sequence from the anode. The electron injecting layer contains an electron donating material and is adjacent to the first emitting unit. The hole injecting layer contains an organic electron accepting material and is adjacent to the second emitting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2010
    Publication date: January 19, 2012
    Inventors: Jun ENDO, Chishio Hosokawa
  • Patent number: 8071974
    Abstract: An organic thin film transistor includes a gate electrode having a first thickness on a substrate; an organic insulating layer on the gate electrode and the substrate, a portion of the organic insulating layer on the substrate having a second thickness, and a portion of the organic insulating layer on the gate electrode having a third thickness of about 2000 ? to 5000 ?; a semiconductor layer on the organic insulating layer; and source and drain electrodes on the organic insulating layer and contacting both side portions of the semiconductor layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: LG Display Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyun-Sik Seo, Nack-Bong Choi
  • Patent number: 8058644
    Abstract: A nanostructure pattern which includes pairs of metal lines separated by identical gaps whose dimensions are in the nanometer range, can be prepared by providing a separating sacrificial layer, whose dimensions can be controlled precisely, in the separation gap between the first metal line and the second metal line. The sacrificial layer is removed at the end of the fabrication, leaving a precisely dimensioned gap between the lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Inventor: Ari Aviram
  • Publication number: 20110272682
    Abstract: A flexible barrier film has a thickness of from greater than zero to less than 5,000 nanometers and a water vapor transmission rate of no more than 1×10?2 g/m2/day at 22° C. and 47% relative humidity. The flexible barrier film is formed from a composition, which comprises a multi-functional acrylate. The composition further comprises the reaction product of an alkoxy-functional organometallic compound and an alkoxy-functional organosilicon compound. A method of forming the flexible barrier film includes the steps of disposing the composition on a substrate and curing the composition to form the flexible barrier film. The flexible barrier film may be utilized in organic electronic devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2010
    Publication date: November 10, 2011
    Inventors: John Blizzard, James Steven Tonge, William Kenneth Weidner
  • Publication number: 20110273824
    Abstract: An electric transport component (10; 110; 310; 60) comprises a substrate (20; 120) provided with a barrier structure with a first inorganic layer (16; 116; 66), an organic decoupling layer (12; 112; 62) and a second inorganic layer (18; 118; 68), wherein the organic decoupling layer is sandwiched between the first and the second inorganic layer, and at least one electrically conductive structure (14; 114; 314; 414; 414-1, 414-2; 514; 614-1, 614-2; 64) distributed in a plane defined by the organic decoupling layer, and that is accommodated in at least one trench (13; 113) in the organic decoupling layer. A method of manufacturing an electric transport component comprises the steps of a) providing a first inorganic layer b) providing a first organic decoupling layer, c) forming at least one trench in the organic decoupling layer, d) depositing an electrically conductive material in the at least one trench, e) providing a second inorganic layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2009
    Publication date: November 10, 2011
    Applicants: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V., NEDERLANDSE ORGANISATIE VOOR TOEGEPAST- NATUURWETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK TNO
    Inventors: Cristina Tanase, Erik Dekempeneer, Herbert Lifka, Ike de Vries, Antonius Maria Bernardus van Mol
  • Publication number: 20110253989
    Abstract: The invention concerns an organically electronic circuit (1, 2, 3), having a main substrate (80, 80a, 80b) and an organic electronic assembly (10, 11, 12) in the form of a multilayer film body with electrically conducting and semiconducting functional layers (101, 103, 105). In a first region (90) of the circuit (1, 2, 3) one of the electrically conducting functional layers (101, 105) of the electronic assembly (10, 11, 12), is shaped in the form of an electrode layer. Electrodes for organic field effect transistors or diodes are formed in that electrically conducting functional layer which is in the form of a first capacitor plate (201). In a second region (91) of the circuit (1, 2, 3) one of the electrically conducting functional layers (101, 105) of the organic electronic assembly (10, 11, 12), is in the form of an electrode layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2009
    Publication date: October 20, 2011
    Applicant: POLYIC GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Andreas Ullmann, Klaus Schmidt
  • Publication number: 20110240973
    Abstract: Disclosed is an organic semiconductor material, layer or component, comprising a copolymer of the formula wherein v and w each generally are from the range 4 to 1000; A is a benzodithiophene repeating unit of the formula II or III and COM is selected from certain arylene-type repeating units, and combinations thereof, with further symbols as defined in the claims. The present copolymers, as well as composites thereof, may be used as semiconductor in the preparation of electronic devices such as photodiodes, organic field effect transistors and especially organic photovoltaic devices such as solar cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2011
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Mathias Dueggeli, Ralph Reiger, Klaus Muellen, Natalia Chebotareva, Dirk Beckmann
  • Publication number: 20110241721
    Abstract: The invention relates to a switching apparatus (1) for conducting electrical contact tests on bare and assembled printed circuit boards (12), comprising at least a flat support layer (2), a first electrode arrangement (3) and a functional layer (4), which support layer (2) is elastically restorably deformable, and the functional layer (4) is disposed on top of the first electrode arrangement (3). The functional layer (4) is made from at least one of the group comprising a layer of a photosensitive material (7), a quantum detector and a photoresistor, and at least one source for electromagnetic radiation (8) is additionally disposed above the functional layer (7), and the emitted electromagnetic radiation predominantly acts in the direction of the functional layer (4). The functional layer (4) may also be provided in the form of a transistor arrangement (9) made up of a plurality of transistors. The invention further relates to a method of producing a switching apparatus (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2009
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Inventor: Klaus Schroeter
  • Patent number: 8003980
    Abstract: The present invention is drawn to a layered organic device, and a method of forming the same. The method includes steps of applying a first solvent-containing organic layer to a substrate and removing solvent from the first solvent-containing organic layer to form a first solidified organic layer. Additional steps include applying a second solvent-containing organic layer to the first solidified organic layer and removing solvent from the second solvent-containing organic layer to form a second solidified organic layer. The first solidified organic layer can be crosslinked, which suppresses negative impact to components in the first solidified organic layer when the solvent of the second solvent-containing organic layer is deposited on the first solidified organic layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2011
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Xia Sheng, Zhang-Lin Zhou, Krzysztof Nauka, Chung Ching Yang
  • Patent number: 7989963
    Abstract: A specially designed mask controls the arrangement of conductive materials that form a source and drain of a transistor. Designing the mask can be costly and time-consuming, which means that the testing of a circuit involving a transistor can also be costly, time consuming and a barrier towards efficient circuit development and testing. Accordingly, the present invention provides a pre-fabricated, general-purpose pattern comprising an array of conductive islands. The pattern is used as a source and a drain terminal for the formation of a thin-film transistor and as a conductive source for the formation of other electrical components upon the array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Simon Tam
  • Publication number: 20110180784
    Abstract: An organic semiconducting composition consists essentially of an N,N-dicycloalkyl-substituted naphthalene diimide and a polymer additive comprising an insulating or semiconducting polymer having a permittivity at 1000 Hz of at least 1.5 and up to and including 5. This composition can be used to provide a semiconducting layer in a thin-film transistor that can be incorporated into a variety of electronic devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2010
    Publication date: July 28, 2011
    Inventors: Deepak Shukla, Dianne M. Meyer
  • Publication number: 20110156009
    Abstract: An electrical device includes a substrate; first and second active areas; first and second word lines disposed in a first plane; first and second bit lines in a second plane and in electrical communication with first and second active areas; and a reference line disposed in a third plane. A nanotube element disposed in a fourth plane is in electrical communication with first and second active areas and the reference line via electrical connections at a first surface of the nanotube element. The nanotube element includes first and second regions having resistance states that are independently adjustable in response to electrical stimuli, wherein the first and second regions nonvolatilely retain the resistance states. Arrays of such electrical devices can be formed as nonvolatile memory devices. Methods for fabricating such devices are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2009
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Inventors: H. Montgomery Manning, Thomas Rueckes, Claude L. Bertin
  • Publication number: 20110156012
    Abstract: Method of manufacturing a substrate comprising an active organic layer, the method comprising providing a substrate comprising a first layer of an organic material, depositing a second layer on the first layer of organic material, depositing a third layer on the second layer, wherein the second layer protects the first layer of organic material during the deposition of the third layer, and patterning the second layer and the third layer to form a hardmask.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2010
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Rene WIRTZ, Silvia Rosselli, Gabriele Nelles
  • Publication number: 20110127503
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescence element comprising a luminescent layer formed by a wet film-forming method, which is a long-life organic electroluminescence element is provided. A composition for an organic electroluminescence element, which comprises: two or more kinds of organic electroluminescence element materials including a luminescent material; and a solvent, wherein the composition satisfies the following formula (1): [ Math . ? 1 ] ( Saturated ? ? solubility ? ? of ? ? E ? ? L ? ? material ? ? S ) ( Weight ? ? ratio ? ? of ? ? E ? ? L ? ? material ? ? S ) × ( Weight ? ? ratio ? ? of ? ? E ? ? L ? ? material ? ? N ) ( Saturated ? ? solubility ? ? of ? ? E ? ? L ? ? material ? ? N ) ? 2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2009
    Publication date: June 2, 2011
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Takahashi, Hideaki Okamoto