Abstract: An opto-electronic device comprising a nucleation inhibiting coating (NIC) disposed on a surface of the device in a first portion of a lateral aspect thereof; and a conductive coating disposed on a surface of the device in a second portion of the lateral aspect thereof; wherein an initial sticking probability of the conductive coating is substantially less for the NIC than for the surface in the first portion, such that the first portion is substantially devoid of the conductive coating; and wherein the NIC comprises a compound having a formula such as that illustrated by the following formula (I).

Abstract: A device includes: (1) a substrate; (2) a patterning coating covering at least a portion of the substrate, the patterning coating including a first region and a second region; and (3) a conductive coating covering the second region of the patterning coating, wherein the first region has a first initial sticking probability for a material of the conductive coating, the second region has a second initial sticking probability for the material of the conductive coating, and the second initial sticking probability is different from the first initial sticking probability.

Abstract: A phosphazene derivative compound including a chain moiety including a backbone and an attached fluorine atom and an opto-electronic device including such compound. The chain moiety includes an intermediate moiety, a terminal moiety arranged at a terminal portion of thereof bonded to the intermediate moiety, and/or a core moiety comprising a phosphazene unit attached to the chain moiety, including by a linker moiety of the chain moiety. The chain moiety attaches to the phosphorous atom of the unit and/r comprises a cyclophosphazene comprising a plurality of units. The device has two electrodes and an active region comprising a semiconducting layer bounded longitudinally by the electrodes and laterally confined to an emissive region defined thereby that lacks the compound. A device patterning coating includes the compound in a first lateral portion. The device has a deposited layer of deposited material, but the first portion lacks a closed coating of deposited material.

Abstract: An opto-electronic device includes: a first electrode; an organic layer disposed over the first electrode; a nucleation promoting coating disposed over the organic layer; a nucleation inhibiting coating covering a first region of the opto-electronic device; and a conductive coating covering a second region of the opto-electronic device.

Abstract: An opto-electronic device includes: a first electrode; an organic layer disposed over the first electrode; a nucleation promoting coating disposed over the organic layer; a nucleation inhibiting coating covering a first region of the opto-electronic device; and a conductive coating covering a second region of the opto-electronic device.

Abstract: An opto-electronic device comprises light transmissive regions extending through it along a first axis to allow passage of light therethrough. The transmissive regions may be arranged along a plurality of transverse configuration axes. Emissive regions may lie between adjacent transmissive regions along a plurality of configuration axes to emit light from the device. Each transmissive region has a lateral closed boundary having a shape to alter at least one characteristic of a diffraction pattern exhibited when light is transmitted through the device to mitigate interference by such pattern. An opaque coating may comprise at least one aperture defining a corresponding transmissive region to preclude transmission of light therethrough other than through the transmissive region(s). The device can form a face of a user device having a body and housing a transceiver positioned to receive light along at least one light transmissive region.

Abstract: A semiconductor device having a plurality of layers deposited on a substrate and extending in at least one lateral aspect defined by a lateral axis thereof comprises at least one EM radiation-absorbing layer deposited on a first layer surface and comprising a discontinuous layer of at least one particle structure comprising a deposited material. The at least one particle structure of the at least one EM radiation-absorbing layer facilitates absorption of EM radiation therein in at least a part of at least one of a visible spectrum and a UV spectrum while substantially allowing transmission of EM radiation therein in at least a part of at least one of an IR and an NIR spectrum.

Abstract: A layered panel extends in first and second portions of a lateral aspect, accepting electromagnetic signal(s) through the second portion. The first portion but not the second portion has a closed coating of deposited material. The second portion may comprise a nucleation-inhibiting coating (NIC) and/or a low refractive-index coating. An initial sticking probability for the deposited material of the NIC in the first portion may be less than 0.3, and/or the initial sticking probability for the deposited material on the underlying surface. A higher refractive-index medium may lie on the low refractive index coating. The second portion may comprise at least one particle structure comprised of the deposited material and/or a UVA-absorbing layer. The first portion may comprise emissive region(s) for emitting electromagnetic signal(s). The panel may comprise a substrate and semiconducting layer(s).

Abstract: An opto-electronic device comprises light transmissive regions extending through it along a first axis to allow passage of light therethrough. The transmissive regions may be arranged along a plurality of transverse configuration axes. Emissive regions may lie between adjacent transmissive regions along a plurality of configuration axes to emit light from the device. Each transmissive region has a lateral closed boundary having a shape to alter at least one characteristic of a diffraction pattern exhibited when light is transmitted through the device to mitigate interference by such pattern. An opaque coating may comprise at least one aperture defining a corresponding transmissive region to preclude transmission of light therethrough other than through the transmissive region(s). The device can form a face of a user device having a body and housing a transceiver positioned to receive light along at least one light transmissive region.

Abstract: A method for depositing a conductive coating on a surface is provided, the method including treating the surface by depositing fullerene on the surface to produce a treated surface and depositing the conductive coating on the treated surface. The conductive coating generally includes magnesium. A product and an organic optoelectronic device produced according to the method are also provided.

Abstract: An opto-electronic device having a plurality of layers, comprising a nucleation-inhibiting coating (NIC) disposed on a first layer surface in a first portion of a lateral aspect thereof. In the first portion, the device comprises a first electrode, a second electrode and a semiconducting layer between them. The second electrode lies between the NIC and the semiconducting layer in the first portion. In the second portion, a conductive coating is disposed on a second layer surface. The first portion is substantially devoid of the conductive coating. The conductive coating is electrically coupled to the second electrode and to a third electrode in a sheltered region of a partition in the device.

Abstract: An opto-electronic device includes: (1) a substrate including a first region and a second region; and (2) a conductive coating covering the second region of the substrate. The first region of the substrate is exposed from the conductive coating, and an edge the conductive coating adjacent to the first region of the substrate has a contact angle that is greater than about 20 degrees.

Abstract: An opto-electronic device having a plurality of layers, comprising a first capping layer (CPL) comprising a first CPL material and disposed in a first emissive region configured to emit photons having a first wavelength spectrum that is characterized by a first onset wavelength; and a second CPL comprising a second CPL material and disposed in a second emissive region configured to emit photons having a second wavelength spectrum that is characterized by a second onset wavelength; wherein at least one of the first CPL and the first CPL material (CPL(m)1) exhibits a first absorption edge at a first absorption edge wavelength that is shorter than the first onset wavelength; and at least one of the second CPL and the second CPL material (CPL(m)2) exhibits a second absorption edge at a second absorption edge wavelength that is shorter than the second onset wavelength.

Abstract: An opto-electronic device includes: (i) a substrate having a surface; (ii) a first electrode disposed over the surface; (iii) a semiconducting layer disposed over at least a portion of the first electrode; (iv) a second electrode disposed over the semiconducting layer; (v) a nucleation inhibiting coating disposed over at least a portion of the second electrode; (vi) a patterning structure disposed over the surface, the patterning structure providing a shadowed region between the patterning structure and the second electrode; (vii) an auxiliary electrode disposed over the surface; and (viii) a conductive coating disposed in the shadowed region, the conductive coating electrically connecting the auxiliary electrode and the second electrode.

Abstract: A method for depositing a conductive coating on a surface is provided, the method including treating the surface by depositing fullerene on the surface to produce a treated surface and depositing the conductive coating on the treated surface. The conductive coating generally includes magnesium. A product and an organic optoelectronic device produced according to the method are also provided.

Abstract: An opto-electronic device comprises light transmissive regions extending through it along a first axis to allow passage of light therethrough. The transmissive regions may be arranged along a plurality of transverse configuration axes. Emissive regions may lie between adjacent transmissive regions along a plurality of configuration axes to emit light from the device. Each transmissive region has a lateral closed boundary having a shape to alter at least one characteristic of a diffraction pattern exhibited when light is transmitted through the device to mitigate interference by such pattern. An opaque coating may comprise at least one aperture defining a corresponding transmissive region to preclude transmission of light therethrough other than through the transmissive region(s). The device can form a face of a user device having a body and housing a transceiver positioned to receive light along at least one light transmissive region.

Abstract: An opto-electronic device includes: (i) a substrate having a surface; (ii) a first electrode disposed over the surface; (iii) a semiconducting layer disposed over at least a portion of the first electrode; (iv) a second electrode disposed over the semiconducting layer; (v) a nucleation inhibiting coating disposed over at least a portion of the second electrode; (vi) a patterning structure disposed over the surface, the patterning structure providing a shadowed region between the patterning structure and the second electrode; (vii) an auxiliary electrode disposed over the surface; and (viii) a conductive coating disposed in the shadowed region, the conductive coating electrically connecting the auxiliary electrode and the second electrode.

Abstract: An opto-electronic device comprises first and second electrodes and a semiconducting layer therebetween. The second electrode comprises ytterbium and magnesium. The second electrode may comprise a fullerene. The second electrode may comprise a lower section comprising ytterbium and/or fullerene and an upper section comprising a ytterbium-containing magnesium alloy. The lower section may comprise an interface section in physical contact with the semiconducting layer. The interface section may comprise ytterbium fulleride. In some examples, an interface coating comprising ytterbium extends across a pixel region and a transmissive region. A nucleation inhibiting coating (NIC) is disposed over the interface coating in the transmissive region. A conductive coating is disposed over the interface coating in the pixel region. The NIC surface in the transmissive region is substantially devoid of a closed coating film of the conductive coating. The interface coating may comprise fullerene.

Abstract: An opto-electronic device having a plurality of layers, comprising a nucleation-inhibiting coating (MC) disposed on a first layer surface in a first portion of a lateral aspect thereof. In the first portion, the device comprises a first electrode, a second electrode and a semiconducting layer between them. The second electrode lies between the NIC and the semiconducting layer in the first portion. In the second portion, a conductive coating is disposed on a second layer surface. The first portion is substantially devoid of the conductive coating. The conductive coating is electrically coupled to the second electrode and to a third electrode in a sheltered region of a partition in the device.

Abstract: An opto-electronic device includes: a first electrode; an organic layer disposed over the first electrode; a nucleation promoting coating disposed over the organic layer; a nucleation inhibiting coating covering a first region of the opto-electronic device; and a conductive coating covering a second region of the opto-electronic device.