Abstract: A color OLED display having at least three different colored microcavity pixels including a light-reflective structure and a semitransparent structure comprising an array of light-emitting microcavity pixels each having one or more common organic light-emitting layers, said light-emitting layer(s) having first, second, and third light-emitting materials that produce different light spectra. The first light-emitting material producing light has a first spectrum portion that is substantially contained within a first color of the array, the second light-emitting material producing light has a second spectrum portion that is substantially contained within a second color that is different from the first color, and the third light-emitting material producing light has a third spectrum portion that is substantially contained within a third color that is different from the first and second colors.

Abstract: An OLED device, with each pixel including a plurality of laterally spaced first electrodes, each corresponding to a portion of the pixel and a common second electrode vertically spaced from the plurality of first electrodes; at least one light-emitting layer disposed between the first and second electrodes including a host and a dopant for emitting light in response to current; a hole-transporting layer disposed between the light-emitting layer and the first or second electrodes; and a transistor drive circuit for each pixel including separate transistors, each transistor associated with a different one of the first electrodes and when driven causes current to pass between its corresponding first electrode and the second electrode so that, if there is a short in the portion between an individual first electrode and the second electrode, the remaining portions will continue to produce light in the light-emitting layer, thereby reducing the effects of the short.

Abstract: An OLED device includes an array of light-emitting pixels having organic layers, including at least one emissive layer that produces light and spaced electrodes, and wherein at least three pixels produce colors which define a color gamut and at least one pixel produces light within the color gamut, and wherein the at least one pixel within the color gamut includes a reflector and a semitransparent reflector which function to form a microcavity.

Abstract: A tuned OLED device includes a microcavity structure including a light-emitting layer for producing light, a semitransparent reflector, and a reflector layer disposed on opposite sides of the light-emitting layer, the microcavity structure enhancing on-axis light produced from the light-emitting layer in at least one particular wavelength to produce a desired on-axis viewed color while not substantially enhancing on-axis other wavelengths of such light; and a layer including a color change medium which is responsive to wavelengths of light shorter than the particular wavelength by absorbing such shorter wavelengths of light and emitting light corresponding in color to the particular wavelength, thereby improving the color of the light produced by the OLED device when viewed in an off-axis direction.

Abstract: An OLED device includes at least one light emitting layer arranged to produce light in a predetermined emitting area, a reflector and a semi-transparent reflector forming a microcavity structure for resonating the light produced in the at least one light emitting layer, and a color filter element disposed relative to a first portion of the predetermined emitting area so as to filter the light produced by the at least one light emitting layer and transmit substantially unfiltered light through a second portion of the predetermined emitting area.

Abstract: A method for making an OLED device includes providing a substrate having one or more test regions and one or more device regions, moving the substrate into a least one deposition chamber for deposition of at least one organic layer, and depositing the at least one organic layer through a shadowmask selectively onto the at least one device region and at least one test region on the substrate. The method also includes measuring a property of the at least one organic layer in the at least one test region, and adjusting the deposition process in accordance with the measured property.

Abstract: An OLED device having green emitting regions disposed over a substrate, and wherein each green emitting region includes one or more light-emitting layer(s), a reflector and a semitransparent reflector respectively disposed on opposite sides of the light-emitting layer(s) and arranged to resonate light produced by such layers such that the light has a substantial green spectral component, and a yellow color filter element disposed in relationship to each green emitting region to produce green light.

Abstract: A color OLED display includes an array of light emitting OLED pixels, each pixel having three or more gamut elements for emitting different colors of light specifying a gamut and at least one additional element for emitting a color of light within the gamut and wherein the power efficiency of the additional element is higher than the power efficiency of at least one of the three or more gamut elements; wherein all of the gamut elements for each color in the display are arranged in a first direction in a line such that no differently colored gamut element is in the line; wherein the colored gamut elements are arranged in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction in a line such that the colors of the gamut elements alternate in that line; and wherein the additional elements are arranged in lines in both the first and second directions.

Abstract: An OLED device including an array of light emitting pixels, each pixel including subpixels having organic layers including at least one emissive layer that produces light and spaced electrodes, and wherein there are at least three gamut subpixels that produce colors which define a color gamut and at least one subpixel that produces light within the color gamut produced by the gamut subpixels; and wherein at least one of the gamut subpixels includes a reflector and a semitransparent reflector which function to form a microcavity.

Abstract: An OLED device, with each pixel including a plurality of laterally spaced first electrodes, each corresponding to a portion of the pixel and a common second electrode vertically spaced from the plurality of first electrodes; at least one light-emitting layer disposed between the first and second electrodes including a host and a dopant for emitting light in response to current; a hole-transporting layer disposed between the light-emitting layer and the first or second electrodes; and a transistor drive circuit for each pixel including separate transistors, each transistor associated with a different one of the first electrodes and when driven causes current to pass between its corresponding first electrode and the second electrode so that, if there is a short in the portion between an individual first electrode and the second electrode, the remaining portions will continue to produce light in the light-emitting layer, thereby reducing the effects of the short.

Abstract: A color OLED display includes an array of light emitting OLED pixels, each pixel having three or more gamut elements for emitting different colors of light specifying a gamut and at least one additional element for emitting a color of light within the gamut and wherein the power efficiency of the additional element is higher than the power efficiency of at least one of the three or more gamut elements; wherein all of the gamut elements for each color in the display are arranged in a first direction in a line such that no differently colored gamut element is in the line; wherein the colored gamut elements are arranged in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction in a line such that the colors of the gamut elements alternate in that line; and wherein the additional elements are arranged in lines in both the first and second directions.

Abstract: A top emitting OLED display includes a substrate; a patterned electrode formed above the substrate, defining a plurality of light emitting elements having gaps between the light emitting elements; a layer of OLED material disposed above the patterned electrode; a continuous transparent electrode disposed above the layer of OLED material; and a light-absorbing auxiliary electrode that is thermally and electrically conductive and in electrical and thermal contact with the continuous transparent electrode and located over the gaps between the light emitting elements of the display.

Abstract: An organic light-emitting diode (OLED) device which produces substantially white light includes an anode; a hole-transporting layer disposed over the anode; and a blue light-emitting layer having a host doped with a blue light-emitting compound disposed directly on the hole-transporting layer and the blue light-emitting layer being doped with an electron-transporting or a hole-transporting material or both selected to improve efficiency and operational stability. The device also includes an electron-transporting layer disposed over the blue light-emitting layer; a cathode disposed over the electron-transporting layer; and the hole-transporting layer or electron-transporting layer, or both the hole-transporting layer and electron-transporting layer, being selectively doped with a compound which emits light in the yellow region of the spectrum which corresponds to an entire layer or a partial portion of a layer in contact with the blue light-emitting layer.

Abstract: A top emitting OLED display includes a substrate; a patterned electrode formed above the substrate, defining a plurality of light emitting elements having gaps between the light emitting elements; a layer of OLED material disposed above the patterned electrode; a continuous transparent electrode disposed above the layer of OLED material; and a light-absorbing auxiliary electrode that is thermally and electrically conductive and in electrical and thermal contact with the continuous transparent electrode and located over the gaps between the light emitting elements of the display.

Abstract: A four-color organic light-emitting device having pixels which emit light includes a substrate; pixels arranged in rows and columns and each pixel including groups of four subpixels disposed over the substrate and wherein each subpixel includes spaced apart first and second electrodes; and organic EL media disposed between the first and second electrodes of each subpixel. The device also includes drive circuitry disposed relative to the organic EL media over the substrate and arranged to drive each group of four subpixels and having an electrical connection to the first electrode corresponding to each subpixel, and wherein the drive circuitry for each group of four subpixels including four data lines, two power lines, and one select line, the four data lines being shared for each column of the array of pixels, and the select line being shared for each row of the array of pixels.

Abstract: A multicolor organic light-emitting display having an array of pixels having at least two different colors including a substrate; a reflective layer disposed over the substrate; and a first transparent electrode disposed over the reflective layer. The display also includes a second transparent electrode spaced from the first transparent electrode and an organic EL media disposed between the first and second transparent electrodes and arranged to produce white light. The display further includes at least first and second filters of different colors disposed respectively over different predetermined pixels of the array, and wherein the thickness of the first transparent electrode is separately adjusted for each different color to cause a substantial amount of the reflected component of colored light corresponding to its associated color filter to constructively interfere with a substantial amount of the non-reflected component of colored light corresponding to its associated color filter.