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).

  • Publication number: 20200176714
    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 15, 2019
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: Michael Fusella, Nicholas J. Thompson
  • Publication number: 20200176700
    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: November 19, 2019
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: Michael Fusella, Nicholas J. Thompson, Eric A. Margulies
  • Publication number: 20200168811
    Abstract: A compound of Formula I wherein at least one of R1 or R2 includes a polycyclic group selected from the group consisting of Formula A, Formula B, and Formula C: wherein X1, X2, X3, and X4 are independently CRA or N; X5, X6, X7, and X8 are independently CRB or N; X9, X10, X11, and X12 are independently CRC or N; X13, X14, X15, and X16 are independently CRD or N; X17, X18, X19, and X20 are independently CRE or N; X21, X22, X23, and X24 are independently CRF or N; X25, X26, X27, and X28 are independently CRG or N; X29, X30, X31, and X32 are independently CRH or N; Y is selected from the group consisting of O, S, NR, and CRR?; the maximum number of N atoms that can connect to each other within each ring is two; with the proviso that R1 does not connect to ring B, and R2 does not connect to ring A, and wherein at least one of RC and RD of Formula A is a direct bond or an organic linker, one of RE and RF of Formula B is a direct bond or an organic linker, or one of RG, RH, and RN of Formula C is a d
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Inventors: Peter Wolohan, Nicholas J. Thompson, Tyler Fleetham
  • Publication number: 20200168812
    Abstract: A compound of Formula I: wherein ring A is a 5-membered or 6-membered aromatic ring; wherein RA, RB, and RC each independently represent mono to the maximum allowable substitution, or no substitution; wherein Y1 is absent or present, and when present is selected from the group consisting of a direct bond, O, S, Se, CRR?, NR, SiRR?, and BR; wherein each X1-X3 is N or CR; wherein at least one of X1-X3 is N; wherein each A1-A5 is independently C or N; wherein the maximum number of N atoms that can connect to each other within each ring is two; wherein each R1, R2, R3, and R4 is independently selected from the group consisting of alkyl, cycloalkyl, heteroalkyl, heterocycloalkyl, aryl, heteroaryl, and combinations thereof; wherein each R, R?, RA, RB, and RC is independently a hydrogen or a substituent selected from the group consisting of deuterium, halogen, alkyl, cycloalkyl, heteroalkyl, heterocycloalkyl, arylalkyl, alkoxy, aryloxy, amino, silyl, alkenyl, cycloalkenyl, heteroalkenyl, alkynyl, aryl, heteroa
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Inventors: Peter Wolohan, Tyler Fleetham, Jason Brooks, Rasha Hamze, Nicholas J. Thompson
  • Publication number: 20200168818
    Abstract: An OLED is disclosed whose emissive layer has a first host and an emitter, where the emitter is a phosphorescent metal complex that is a Pt(II) or Pd(II) complex having a square planar coordinating geometry or has the formula of M(L1)x(L2)y(L3)z, 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: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Applicant: UNIVERSAL DISPLAY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chun LIN, Nicholas J. THOMPSON, Jerald FELDMAN
  • Publication number: 20200140471
    Abstract: A compound having the following formula is disclosed. The compound is useful as an emitter in OLED applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Applicant: Universal Display Corporation
    Inventors: Hsiao-Fan CHEN, Morgan C. MACINNIS, Nicholas J. THOMPSON, Tyler FLEETHAM, Jason BROOKS, Scott BEERS, Peter WOLOHAN, Sean Michael RYNO, Ivan MILAS
  • Patent number: 10600981
    Abstract: Emissive layer structures for organic emissive devices and emissive devices containing such structures are provided. The emissive layer includes one or more sub-layers or similar regions. A fluorescent emitter and two compounds that may form an exciplex are distributed within the sub-layers so as to enhance Forster transitions from the exciplex to the fluorescent acceptor and suppress undesirable Dexter transitions from the exciplex to the fluorescent acceptor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: Universal Display Corporation
    Inventors: Woo-Young So, Nicholas J. Thompson, Jerald Feldman
  • Publication number: 20200083471
    Abstract: Devices having multiple multicomponent emissive layers are provided, where each multicomponent EML includes at least three components. Each of the components in each EML is a host material or an emitter. The devices have improved color stability and relatively high luminance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Publication date: March 12, 2020
    Inventors: Vadim Adamovich, Michael Stuart Weaver, Nicholas J. Thompson
  • Patent number: 10580832
    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: April 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Universal Display Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Hack, Michael Stuart Weaver, Nicholas J. Thompson, Vadim Adamovich
  • Publication number: 20200035761
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosed subject matter provide a full-color pixel arrangement for a device, the full-color pixel arrangement including a plurality of sub-pixels, each having an emissive region of a first color, where the full-color pixel arrangement comprises emissive regions having exactly one emissive color that is a red-shifted color of a deep blue sub-pixel of the plurality of sub-pixels. Embodiments of the disclosed subject matter may also provide a full-color pixel arrangement for a device, the full-color pixel arrangement including a plurality of sub-pixels, each having an emissive region of a first color, where the full-color pixel arrangement comprises emissive regions having exactly one emissive color, and where the plurality of sub-pixels comprise a light blue sub-pixel, a deep blue sub-pixel, a red sub-pixel, and a green sub-pixel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Inventors: Michael HACK, Michael Stuart WEAVER, Nicholas J. THOMPSON, Julia J. BROWN
  • Publication number: 20200027931
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosed subject matter provide a wearable device that includes an organic light emitting diode (OLED) light source to output light having one peak wavelength from a single OLED emissive layer, and a first barrier layer that is disposed over or between the single OLED emissive layer and one or more down-conversion layers. One or more regions of the single OLED emissive layer are independently switchable and controllable so that the wearable device is configurable to output a plurality of wavelengths of light. One of the plurality of wavelengths of light that is output is near infrared light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Inventors: Michael HACK, Mark E. THOMPSON, Eric A. MARGULIES, Nicholas J. THOMPSON, Michael Stuart WEAVER
  • Publication number: 20200020877
    Abstract: A method for engineering a line shape of emission spectrum of an organic emissive material in an electroluminescent device is disclosed in which a layer of plasmonic metallic nanostructures having a localized surface plasmonic resonance (LSPR) is provided in proximity to the emissive layer and the layer of plasmonic metallic nanostructures is greater than 2 nm but less than 100 nm from the emissive layer and the LSPR of the plasmonic metallic nanostructures matches the emission wavelength of the organic emissive material. An electroluminescent device incorporating the plasmonic metallic nanostructures is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Applicants: UNIVERSAL DISPLAY CORPRORATION, THE TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
    Inventors: Nicholas J. THOMPSON, Cherie R. KAGAN, Christopher B. MURRAY
  • Publication number: 20200017508
    Abstract: A compound having a structure of Formula I, is provided. In Formula I, Z1 to Z16 are each CR or N; three consecutive ones of Z1 to Z16 within the same ring cannot be N; each R is independently a hydrogen or a substituent selected from a variety of substituents; at least one R includes and electron donor substituent; at least one R includes an electron acceptor substituent; and any two Rs on the same ring can be joined or fused together to form a ring. Organic light emitting devices, consumer products, formulations, and chemical structures containing the compounds are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Applicant: Universal Display Corporation
    Inventors: Hsiao-Fan CHEN, Peter WOLOHAN, Nicholas J. THOMPSON
  • Patent number: 10522776
    Abstract: Devices having multiple multicomponent emissive layers are provided, where each multicomponent EML includes at least three components. Each of the components in each EML is a host material or an emitter. The devices have improved color stability and relatively high luminance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Universal Display Corporation
    Inventors: Vadim Adamovich, Michael Stuart Weaver, Nicholas J. Thompson
  • Publication number: 20190348636
    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: July 26, 2019
    Publication date: November 14, 2019
    Applicant: Universal Display Corporation
    Inventors: Nicholas J. THOMPSON, Marc A. BALDO, Michael S. WEAVER, Vinod M. MENON
  • Publication number: 20190280055
    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: April 26, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Michael Hack, Michael Stuart Weaver, Nicholas J. Thompson, Vadim Adamovich
  • Patent number: 10403854
    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: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: UNIVERSAL DISPLAY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nicholas J. Thompson, Marc A. Baldo, Michael S. Weaver, Vinod M. Menon
  • Patent number: 10403830
    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: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: 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: 20190214582
    Abstract: Novel organic metal complexes containing fused isoquinoline type ligands useful as emitters for near infrared OLED devices are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Applicant: UNIVERSAL DISPLAY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nicholas J. THOMPSON, Bin MA, Scott JOSEPH, Pierre-Luc T. BOUDREAULT, Zhiqiang JI
  • Publication number: 20190181370
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosed subject matter provide a device having a substrate, at least one organic light-emitting layer disposed over the substrate, and at least one down-conversion layer. The at least one down-conversion layer may generate the NIR emission by absorbing at least a portion of the light emitted by the at least one organic light emitting layer, and re-emitting light at a longer NIR wavelength or range of wavelengths having a peak NIR emission that may be greater than 700 nm, greater than 750 nm, or greater than 800 nm. An out-of-plane optical density of the at least one down-conversion layer may be less than 0.1 for all wavelengths of light in a range from 400 nm to 600 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Inventors: Eric A. MARGULIES, Nicholas J. THOMPSON, Michael Stuart WEAVER