Patents by Inventor Michael S. Weaver

Michael S. Weaver has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20180219182
    Abstract: An OLED is disclosed that includes an enhancement layer having optically active metamaterials, or hyperbolic metamaterials, which transfer radiative energy from the organic emissive material to a non-radiative mode, wherein the enhancement layer is disposed over the organic emissive layer opposite from the first electrode, and is positioned no more than a threshold distance away from the organic emissive layer, wherein the organic emissive material has a total non-radiative decay rate constant and a total radiative decay rate constant due to the presence of the enhancement layer, and the threshold distance is where the total non-radiative decay rate constant is equal to the total radiative decay rate constant; and an outcoupling layer disposed over the enhancement layer, wherein the outcoupling layer scatters radiative energy from the enhancement layer to free space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Applicant: Universal Display Corporation
    Inventors: Nicholas J. THOMPSON, Marc A. BALDO, Michael S. WEAVER, Vinod M. MENON
  • Patent number: 9985232
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescence device utilizes a novel combination of one or more biscarbazole derivative compounds as the phosphorescent host material in combination with an organometallic phosphorescent material as a dopant in the light emitting region of the device, where the biscarbazole derivative compounds are represented by a formula (1A) or (2A) below: where A1 represents a substituted or unsubstituted nitrogen-containing heterocyclic group having 1 to 30 ring carbon atoms; A2 represents a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic hydrocarbon group having 6 to 30 ring carbon atoms, or substituted or unsubstituted nitrogen-containing heterocyclic group having 1 to 30 ring carbon atoms; X1 and X2 each are a linking group; Y1 to Y4 each represent a substituent; p and q represent an integer of 1 to 4; and r and s represent an integer of 1 to 3; and the organometallic phosphorescent material is a compound having a substituted chemical structure represented by the formula (4A): where each R is indepen
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignees: Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd., Universal Display Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuki Nishimura, Toshihiro Iwakuma, Hitoshi Yamamoto, Michael S. Weaver, Julia J. Brown
  • Patent number: 9966541
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescence device utilizes a novel combination comprising one or more biscarbazole derivative compounds as the phosphorescent host material in combination with a green phosphorescent dopant material in the light emitting region of the device, where the biscarbazole derivative compounds are represented by a formula (1A) or (1B) below; where A1 represents a substituted or unsubstituted nitrogen-containing heterocyclic group having 1 to 30 ring carbon atoms; A2 represents a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic hydrocarbon group having 6 to 30 ring carbon atoms, or substituted or unsubstituted nitrogen-containing heterocyclic group having 1 to 30 ring carbon atoms; X1 and X2 each are a linking group; Y1 to Y4 each represent a substituent; p and q represent an integer of 1 to 4; and r and s represent an integer of 1 to 3; and the green phosphorescent dopant material is a phosphorescent organometallic complex having a chemical structure represented by LL?L?M wherein M is a metal that forms octa
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignees: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO. LTD., UNIVERSAL DISPLAY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hitoshi Yamamoto, Michael S. Weaver, Julia J. Brown, Kazuki Nishimura, Toshihiro Iwakuma
  • Patent number: 9960386
    Abstract: A method for improving the operation of an OLED includes maximizing on-radiative transfer of excited state energy from the OLED's organic emissive material to surface plasmon polaritons in an enhancement layer by providing the enhancement layer no more than a threshold distance away from the organic emissive layer; and emitting light into free space from the enhancement layer by scattering the energy from the surface plasmon polaritons through an outcoupling layer that is provided proximate to the enhancement layer but opposite from the organic emissive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Universal Display Corporation
    Inventors: Nicholas J. Thompson, Marc A. Baldo, Michael S. Weaver, Vinod M. Menon
  • Publication number: 20180040676
    Abstract: A display includes a frontplane having multiple pixels in a first pixel region and multiple pixels in a second pixel region. At least one display characteristic in the first pixel region is different from at least one display characteristic in the second pixel region. The at least one characteristic is selected from the group consisting of resolution, cavity mode, outcoupling, color and color filter. A display with a curved scan line and variable spaced data line backplane architecture is also described. In addition, a method of reducing power requirements in a display is described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2016
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Inventors: Michael Hack, Michael S. Weaver, Julia A. Brown
  • Patent number: 9871219
    Abstract: The present invention provides an emissive region in organic light emitting devices having a combined emission from at least two emissive materials, a fluorescent blue emissive material and a phosphorescent emissive material. The emissive region may further comprise additional fluorescent or phosphorescent emissive materials. Preferably, the emissive region has three different emissive materials—a red emissive material, a green emissive material and a blue emissive material. Organic light emitting devices incorporating the emissive region provides a high color-stability of the light emission over a wide range of currents or luminances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: Universal Display Corporation
    Inventors: Yeh-Jiun Tung, Michael S. Weaver, Michael Hack, James R. Esler
  • Publication number: 20170365801
    Abstract: A compound is disclosed that has a metal coordination complex structure having at least two ligands coordinated to the metal; wherein the compound has a first substituent R1 at one of the ligands' periphery; wherein a first distance is defined as the distance between the metal and one of the atoms in R1 where that atom is the farthest away from the metal among the atoms in R1; wherein the first distance is also longer than any other atom-to-metal distance between the metal and any other atoms in the compound; and wherein when a sphere having a radius r is defined whose center is at the metal and the radius r is the smallest radius that will allow the sphere to enclose all atoms in the compound that are not part of R1, the first distance is longer than the radius r by at least 2.9 ?.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2017
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Applicant: Universal Display Corporation
    Inventors: Eric A. MARGULIES, Zhiqiang JI, Jui-Yi TSAI, Chun LIN, Alexey Borisovich DYATKIN, Mingjuan SU, Bin MA, Michael S. WEAVER, Julia J. BROWN, Lichang ZENG, Walter YEAGER, Alan DEANGELIS, Chuanjun XIA
  • Publication number: 20170345370
    Abstract: A display according to various embodiments is disclosed. The display has a frontplane including at least one OLED pixel having multiple subpixels connected to at least one power line. A backplane of the display includes at least one driver circuit connected to two or more of the multiple subpixels. Methods for powering the display are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2016
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: Michael Hack, Michael S. Weaver, Chun Hsin Liu
  • Patent number: 9831437
    Abstract: A composition formed of a first mixture of a first compound and a second compound wherein the first compound has different chemical structure than the second compound; the first compound is capable of functioning as a hole transporting material in an organic light emitting device at room temperature; the first compound comprises at least one carbazole group; the first compound has a evaporation temperature T1 of 150 to 350° C.; the second compound has evaporation temperature T2 of 150 to 350° C.; the absolute value of T1?T2 is less than 20° C.; the first compound having a concentration C1 in said first mixture, and the first compound having a concentration C2 in a film formed by evaporating the first mixture in a vacuum deposition tool at a constant pressure between 1×10?6 Torr to 1×10?9 Torr, at a 2 ?/sec deposition rate on a surface positioned at a predefined distance away from the mixture being evaporated; and wherein the absolute value of (C1?C2)/C1 is less than 5%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: Universal Display Corporation
    Inventors: Lichang Zeng, Vadim Adamovich, Ting-Chih Wang, Chuanjun Xia, Michael S. Weaver, Hitoshi Yamamoto, Bert Alleyne
  • Patent number: 9786858
    Abstract: The invention provides a light emitting device, comprising: a first electrode; a second electrode; a light emitting layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein the light emitting layer comprises an emitting material having a first triplet energy level (T1); and an exciton quenching layer disposed between the light emitting layer and the second electrode, wherein the exciton quenching layer comprises a non-emitting quenching material having a second triplet energy level (T1); wherein the exciton quenching layer is disposed adjacent to the light emitting layer; wherein the emitting material emits by phosphorescence or delayed fluorescence; and wherein the first triplet energy level (T1) is higher than the second triplet energy level (T1). Methods of making the same are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: UNIVERSAL DISPLAY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Vadim Adamovich, Hitoshi Yamamoto, Michael S. Weaver, Julia J. Brown
  • Publication number: 20170271598
    Abstract: A dual host system for OLEDs that contains hole-transporting indolocarbazole and electron-transporting indolocarbazole exhibiting superior performance in the OLEDs is disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2017
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Applicant: Universal Display Corporation
    Inventors: Lichang ZENG, Vadim ADAMOVICH, Chuanjun XIA, Michael S. WEAVER
  • Publication number: 20170229671
    Abstract: The invention provides a light emitting device, comprising: a first electrode; a second electrode; a light emitting layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein the light emitting layer comprises an emitting material having a first triplet energy level (T1); and an exciton quenching layer disposed between the light emitting layer and the second electrode, wherein the exciton quenching layer comprises a non-emitting quenching material having a second triplet energy level (T1); wherein the exciton quenching layer is disposed adjacent to the light emitting layer; wherein the emitting material emits by phosphorescence or delayed fluorescence; and wherein the first triplet energy level (T1) is higher than the second triplet energy level (T1). Methods of making the same are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Inventors: Vadim Adamovich, Hitoshi Yamamoto, Michael S. Weaver, Julia J. Brown
  • Publication number: 20170207408
    Abstract: The present invention provides an emissive region in organic light emitting devices having a combined emission from at least two emissive materials, a fluorescent blue emissive material and a phosphorescent emissive material. The emissive region may further comprise additional fluorescent or phosphorescent emissive materials. Preferably, the emissive region has three different emissive materials—a red emissive material, a green emissive material and a blue emissive material. Organic light emitting devices incorporating the emissive region provides a high color-stability of the light emission over a wide range of currents or luminances.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Publication date: July 20, 2017
    Applicant: Universal Display Corporation
    Inventors: Yeh-Jiun TUNG, Michael S. WEAVER, Michael HACK, James R. ESLER
  • Patent number: 9705099
    Abstract: An improved OLED includes an emissive layer disposed between a cathode and an anode where the emissive layer includes a multi-component host material and a phosphorescent emitter material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignees: Universal Display Corporation, Hodogaya Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Vadim Adamovich, Hitoshi Yamamoto, Michael S. Weaver, Norimasa Yokoyama, Makoto Nagaoka, Naoaki Kabasawa
  • Publication number: 20170194577
    Abstract: Methods of making novel organic compounds containing a twisted aryl group are provided. In particular, the compounds provided contain a 2-phenylpyridine ligand having a twisted aryl group on the pyridine portion of the ligand. The compounds may be used in organic light emitting devices, particularly as emitting dopants. Devices comprising the compounds containing twisted aryl may demonstrate improved color, efficiency, stability and manufacturing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Applicant: Universal Display Corporation
    Inventors: CHUANJUN XIA, Bert Alleyne, Raymond C. Kwong, James Fiordeliso, Michael S. Weaver, Nasrin Ansari, Alan Deangelis, Dinesh Rayabarapu, Vadim Adamovich
  • Patent number: 9685617
    Abstract: Novel iridium complexes containing phenylpyridine and pyridyl aza-benzo fused ligands are described. These complexes are useful as light emitters when incorporated into OLEDs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: UNIVERSAL DISPLAY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Scott Beers, Chuanjun Xia, Lichang Zeng, Vadim Adamovich, Michael S. Weaver
  • Publication number: 20170162802
    Abstract: An organic light emitting device (OLED) is provided. The OLED has an anode, a cathode, and an emission layer, disposed between the anode and the cathode, including a first emitting compound; wherein the first emitting compound is capable of functioning as a blue phosphorescent emitter in the OLED at room temperature; wherein the first emitting compound has PLQY of less than 90% at room temperature; wherein the OLED has an external quantum efficiency of between 8% and 20% at 1 mA/cm2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2017
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Applicant: Universal Display Corporation
    Inventors: Michael S. WEAVER, Nicholas J. THOMPSON, Jason BROOKS, Geza SZIGETHY, Glenn MORELLO, Jun DENG, Peter I. DJUROVICH, Hsiao-Fan CHEN
  • Publication number: 20170133631
    Abstract: A method for improving the operation of an OLED includes maximizing on-radiative transfer of excited state energy from the OLED's organic emissive material to surface plasmon polaritons in an enhancement layer by providing the enhancement layer no more than a threshold distance away from the organic emissive layer; and emitting light into free space from the enhancement layer by scattering the energy from the surface plasmon polaritons through an outcoupling layer that is provided proximate to the enhancement layer but opposite from the organic emissive layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2015
    Publication date: May 11, 2017
    Applicant: Universal Display Corporation
    Inventors: Nicholas J. THOMPSON, Marc A. BALDO, Michael S. WEAVER, Vinod M. MENON
  • Patent number: 9647227
    Abstract: The present invention provides an emissive region in organic light emitting devices having a combined emission from at least two emissive materials, a fluorescent blue emissive material and a phosphorescent emissive material. The emissive region may further comprise additional fluorescent or phosphorescent emissive materials. Preferably, the emissive region has three different emissive materials—a red emissive material, a green emissive material and a blue emissive material. Organic light emitting devices incorporating the emissive region provides a high color-stability of the light emission over a wide range of currents or luminances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: Universal Display Corporation
    Inventors: Yeh-Jiun Tung, Michael S. Weaver, Michael Hack, James R. Esler
  • Patent number: 9630983
    Abstract: Novel organic compounds containing a twisted aryl group are provided. In particular, the compounds provided contain a 2-phenylpyridine ligand having a twisted aryl group on the pyridine portion of the ligand. The compounds may be used in organic light emitting devices, particularly as emitting dopants. Devices comprising the compounds containing twisted aryl may demonstrate improved color, efficiency, stability and manufacturing. Additionally, methods are provided for making homoleptic Ir (III) compounds which may contain a twisted aryl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: UNIVERSAL DISPLAY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chuanjun Xia, Bert Alleyne, Raymond C. Kwong, James Fiordeliso, Michael S. Weaver, Nasrin Ansari, Alan Deangelis, Dinesh Rayabarapu, Vadim Adamovich