Patents by Inventor Nicholas J. Thompson

Nicholas J. Thompson 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).

  • ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT MATERIALS AND DEVICES
    Publication number: 20220298193
    Abstract: A compound of Formula I, or Formula II, is provided. In Formulae I and II, M is Pt or Pd; each RA, RA?, RA?, RB, R1, R2, R3, R4, and R5 is hydrogen or one of the General Substituents; R1? is one of the General Substituents; at least one of RA?, RA?, and RB is not hydrogen; any two of RA, RA?, RA?, RB, R1, R2, R3, R4, and R5 may be joined or fused together to form a ring; and RA?, RA?, and RB together comprise at least one heterocyclic group or at least two carbocyclic groups; with the proviso that at least one of RA? and RA? comprises a cyclic group when RB is one of five specific moieties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: Universal Display Corporation
    Inventors: Nicholas J. THOMPSON, Hsiao-Fan CHEN, Rasha HAMZE
  • High resolution low power consumption OLED display with extended lifetime
    Patent number: 11450713
    Abstract: Full-color pixel arrangements for use in devices such as OLED displays are provided, in which multiple sub-pixels are configured to emit different colors of light, with each sub-pixel having a different optical path length than some or all of the other sub-pixels within the pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Universal Display Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Hack, Michael Stuart Weaver, Nicholas J. Thompson, Vadim Adamovich
  • ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT MATERIALS AND DEVICES
    Publication number: 20220293865
    Abstract: Provided is an organic light emitting device that includes, sequentially: an anode; a hole transporting layer; an emissive region; an electron transporting layer; and a cathode; where the emissive region includes a first compound, and a second compound whose lowest-energy excited state is not a lowest excited triplet state T1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Applicant: UNIVERSAL DISPLAY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nicholas J. THOMPSON, Rasha HAMZE
  • Organic electroluminescent materials and devices
    Patent number: 11444249
    Abstract: Compounds that are organic radicals that can have a dual function. The compounds can be fluorescent emitters that emit in the near-IR. The compounds can also facilitate reverse intersystem crossing (RISC) to convert triplet excitons in an OLED to singlet excited states to maximize utilization of generated excitons in the OLED and approach 100% internal quantum efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Universal Display Corporation
    Inventors: Hsiao-Fan Chen, Tongxiang (Aaron) Lu, Nicholas J. Thompson, Eric A. Margulies, George Fitzgerald, Jerald Feldman
  • ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT MATERIALS AND DEVICES
    Publication number: 20220271241
    Abstract: Compounds comprising a first ligand LA of are disclosed. In LA, ring B is a 5- or 6-membered ring; Y is O, S, NRY, or CRYRY?; Z1 is O, S, NR, or CRR?; X1 is C or N; each R, R?, RY, RY?, RA, and RB is hydrogen or a substituent; LA is coordinated to a metal M by the dashed lines; any two of R, R?, RY, RY?, RA, and RB can be joined to form a ring; and with the proviso that the compound does not comprise Formula II, wherein each of Z? and Z? is C or N. Formulations, OLEDs, and consumer products containing the compound are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2022
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Applicant: UNIVERSAL DISPLAY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Noah HORWITZ, Morgan C. MACINNIS, Jason BROOKS, Nicholas J. THOMPSON, Joseph A. MACOR, Henry Carl HERBOL, Ting-Chih WANG
  • HIGH RESOLUTION LOW POWER CONSUMPTION OLED DISPLAY WITH EXTENDED LIFETIME
    Publication number: 20220199703
    Abstract: Full-color pixel arrangements for use in devices such as OLED displays are provided, in which multiple sub-pixels are configured to emit different colors of light, with each sub-pixel having a different optical path length than some or all of the other sub-pixels within the pixel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: Michael Hack, Michael Stuart Weaver, Nicholas J. Thompson, Vadim Adamovich
  • ENERGY LEVELS AND DEVICE STRUCTURES FOR PLASMONIC OLEDS
    Publication number: 20220181571
    Abstract: Organic emissive devices are provided that include host structures with electron and/or hole transporting components having specific energy levels that promote good charge balance and enhanced charge capture. The disclosed energy level structures provide host systems that reduce exciplex formation and thereby promote improved device internal quantum efficiency and stability, or which intentionally include exciplex formation so as to modify the average orientation of the dipole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventors: Michael FUSELLA, Nicholas J. THOMPSON
  • ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT MATERIALS AND DEVICES
    Publication number: 20220177492
    Abstract: Provided are new compositions of matter for host materials in OLEDs by incorporating deuterated moieties in the organic molecules. Also provided are formulations comprising these deuterated compounds. Further provided are OLEDs and related consumer products that utilize these deuterated compounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Applicant: UNIVERSAL DISPLAY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tyler FLEETHAM, Nicholas J. THOMPSON, Chun LIN, Jerald FELDMAN, Peter WOLOHAN, Bin MA
  • ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT MATERIALS AND DEVICES
    Publication number: 20220181561
    Abstract: High performance OLED that includes deuterated compounds in the emissive layer are disclosed. The OLED includes an anode; a cathode; and an emissive layer, disposed between the anode and the cathode. In the OLED, the emissive layer includes a first phosphorescent emitter and a first host; the first phosphorescent emitter is a metal complex; the first host is partially or fully deuterated; and at least one additional condition is true.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Applicant: Universal Display Corporation
    Inventors: Tyler FLEETHAM, Nicholas J. THOMPSON, Jason BROOKS, Ivan MILAS, Jerald FELDMAN, Siva Kumar TALLURI, Mahesh PAUDYAL, Douglas WILLIAMS, Eric A. MARGULIES, Chun LIN, Bin MA
  • ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT MATERIALS AND DEVICES
    Publication number: 20220158096
    Abstract: Provided are OLEDs and related electronic devices that utilize these OLED devices. The OLED includes an emissive region that includes a sensitizer and an acceptor, where the sensitizer has a lowest excitation energy state ET1, and is capable of harvesting triplet excitons; where the acceptor is capable of receiving energy from the sensitizer and functioning as a fluorescent emitter at room temperature; where the acceptor has a first moiety and a second moiety, the first moiety having a lowest singlet excitation energy state ES1A and a lowest triplet excitation energy state ET1A, and the second moiety having a lowest singlet excitation energy state ES1B and a lowest triplet excitation energy state ET1B; and where ES1A<ES1B, ET1A>ET1B, and ET1>ES1A.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2021
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Applicant: UNIVERSAL DISPLAY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tyler FLEETHAM, Rasha HAMZE, Nicholas J. THOMPSON, Hsiao-Fan CHEN, Scott BEERS, Noah HORWITZ, Jason BROOKS, Woo-Young SO, Sean Michael RYNO
  • NANO-OBJECTS FOR PURCELL ENHANCEMENT, OUT-COUPLING AND ENGINEERING RADIATION PATTERN
    Publication number: 20220149315
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosed subject matter provide a device including one or more organic layers that include an emissive layer, a first electrode layer disposed over the one or more organic layers, a plurality of nanostructures formed as part of the first electrode layer, a substrate, a second electrode layer, where the second electrode layer is disposed on the substrate, the one or more organic layers are disposed on the second electrode layer, and the first electrode layer including the plurality of nanostructures is disposed on the one or more organic layers and within the predetermined threshold distance of the emissive layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2021
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: Vinod M. MENON, Michael FUSELLA, Nicholas J. THOMPSON
  • ENHANCED OUTCOUPLING FROM SURFACE PLASMON MODES IN CORRUGATED OLEDs
    Publication number: 20220140286
    Abstract: Devices and techniques are provided for achieving OLED devices that include one or more enhancement layers formed at least partially from a plasmonic material exhibiting surface plasmon resonance that non-radiatively couples to an organic emissive material in the organic emissive layer, where a majority of excited state energy is transferred from the organic emissive material to a non-radiative mode of surface plasmon polaritons of the enhancement layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventors: Michael Fusella, Nicholas J. Thompson
  • SURFACE-PLASMON-PUMPED LIGHT EMITTING DEVICES
    Publication number: 20220115616
    Abstract: Devices and techniques are provided for achieving OLED devices that include one or more plasmonic material exhibiting surface plasmon resonance and one or more outcoupling layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Inventors: Michael Fusella, Nicholas J. Thompson, Eric A. Margulies
  • ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT MATERIALS AND DEVICES
    Publication number: 20220112232
    Abstract: Provided are organometallic compounds including a ligand LA of Also provided are formulations including these organometallic compounds. Further provided are OLEDs and related consumer products that utilize these organometallic compounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Applicant: UNIVERSAL DISPLAY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Morgan C. MACINNIS, Hsiao-Fan CHEN, Noah HORWITZ, Nicholas J. THOMPSON
  • High resolution low power consumption OLED display with extended lifetime
    Patent number: 11302749
    Abstract: Full-color pixel arrangements for use in devices such as OLED displays are provided, in which multiple sub-pixels are configured to emit different colors of light, with each sub-pixel having a different optical path length than some or all of the other sub-pixels within the pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Universal Display Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Hack, Michael Stuart Weaver, Nicholas J. Thompson, Vadim Adamovich
  • APPLICATION OF NANOPARTICLES FOR PLASMON ENERGY EXTRACTION IN ORGANIC DEVICES
    Publication number: 20220109105
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for depositing a monolayer of nanoparticles over an OLED or comparable device. In combination with an enhancement layer disposed within a threshold distance of an emissive layer of the OLED, the nanoparticles may be used to provide a nanopatch antenna or otherwise improve the performance of the OLED.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Inventors: Michael FUSELLA, Nicholas J. THOMPSON, David E. PALLER, Renata SARAMAK
  • Nano-objects for purcell enhancement, out-coupling and engineering radiation pattern
    Patent number: 11245086
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosed subject matter provide a device including one or more organic layers that include an emissive layer, a first electrode layer disposed over the one or more organic layers, a plurality of nanostructures formed as part of the first electrode layer, a substrate, a second electrode layer, where the second electrode layer is disposed on the substrate, the one or more organic layers are disposed on the second electrode layer, and the first electrode layer including the plurality of nanostructures is disposed on the one or more organic layers and within the predetermined threshold distance of the emissive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Universal Display Corporation
    Inventors: Vinod M Menon, Michael Fusella, Nicholas J. Thompson
  • Organic electroluminescent materials and devices
    Patent number: 11228010
    Abstract: An OLED is disclosed whose emissive layer has a first host and an emitter, where the emitter is a phosphorescent metal complex or a delayed fluorescent emitter, where EH1T, the T1 triplet energy of the first host, is higher than EET, the T1 triplet energy of the emitter, where EET is at least 2.50 eV, where the LUMO energy of the first host is higher than the HOMO energy of the emitter, where the absolute value of the difference between the HOMO energy of the emitter and the LUMO energy of the first host is ?E1, where a??E1?EET?b; and where a?0.05 eV, and b?0.60 eV.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: UNIVERSAL DISPLAY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chun Lin, Nicholas J. Thompson, Jerald Feldman
  • ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENT MATERIALS AND DEVICES
    Publication number: 20220013731
    Abstract: Provided is an OLED that includes, sequentially: an anode; a first emissive region; and a cathode; wherein the first emissive region comprises: a first compound; and a second compound; wherein the first compound is capable of functioning as a perovskite emitter in an OLED; wherein the second compound is capable of functioning as an emitter in an OLED, wherein the second compound is selected from the group consisting of phosphorescent emitters, fluorescent emitters, and delayed fluorescent emitters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Applicant: Universal Display Corporation
    Inventors: Chun LIN, Nicholas J. THOMPSON
  • Surface-plasmon-pumped light emitting devices
    Patent number: 11217762
    Abstract: Devices and techniques are provided for achieving OLED devices that include one or more plasmonic material exhibiting surface plasmon resonance and one or more outcoupling layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Universal Display Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Fusella, Nicholas J. Thompson, Eric A. Margulies