Patents by Inventor Steven A. Van Slyke

Steven A. Van Slyke 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).

  • Patent number: 8603642
    Abstract: The invention provides an electronic device including an anode and a cathode, between which there are at least two organic phototransducing units where the units are separated by an intermediate connecting region which comprises in sequence: an organic p-type layer, an intermediate layer in direct contact with the organic p-type layer and including a compound that has a LUMO more negative than ?3.0 eV and is different from the organic compound in the organic p-type layer, and an n-type doped organic layer in direct contact with the intermediate layer and including an electron transport material as a host and an organic n-dopant with a HOMO less negative than ?4.5 eV. In one embodiment, the electronic device is a tandem OLED.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: Global OLED Technology LLC
    Inventors: Tukaram K. Hatwar, Jeffrey P. Spindler, Denis Y. Kondakov, Steven A. Van Slyke, Sven Z. Murano, Gufeng He
  • Patent number: 8057916
    Abstract: An OLED device includes an anode, a cathode, and at least one individually selected organic light-emitting layer disposed between the anode and cathode. The device also includes an electron-transporting layer disposed between the at least one light-emitting layer and the cathode, such electron-transporting layer including a first electron-transporting material, and an electron-injecting layer disposed between the electron-transporting layer and the cathode, such electron-injecting layer including a metal dopant having a work function less than 4.0 eV and an electron-transporting material that is different from the first electron-transporting material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: Global OLED Technology, LLC.
    Inventors: Tukaram K. Hatwar, Liang-Sheng Liao, Yuan-Sheng Tyan, Steven A. Van Slyke
  • Publication number: 20100288362
    Abstract: The invention provides an electronic device including an anode and a cathode, between which there are at least two organic phototransducing units where the units are separated by an intermediate connecting region which comprises in sequence: an organic p-type layer, an intermediate layer in direct contact with the organic p-type layer and including a compound that has a LUMO more negative than ?3.0 eV and is different from the organic compound in the organic p-type layer, and an n-type doped organic layer in direct contact with the intermediate layer and including an electron transport material as a host and an organic n-dopant with a HOMO less negative than ?4.5 eV. In one embodiment, the electronic device is a tandem OLED.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2009
    Publication date: November 18, 2010
    Inventors: Tukaram K. Hatwar, Jeffrey P. Spindler, Denis Y. Kondakov, Steven A. Van Slyke, Sven Z. Murano, Gufeng He
  • Patent number: 7687990
    Abstract: In an OLED device having a substrate, a first electrode layer disposed over the substrate, an inorganic short reduction layer disposed over the first electrode layer, an organic electroluminescent medium disposed over the short reduction layer, and a second electrode layer over the electroluminescent medium, a feature is the inclusion of a mixture of ZnS, SiO2, and ITO in the short reduction layer wherein the ratio of In atoms to Zn atoms is in the range of from 0.90 to 2.37.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2010
    Assignee: Global OLED Technology LLC
    Inventors: Dustin L. Winters, Yuan-Sheng Tyan, Ansuman Banerjee, Thomas R. Cushman, Steven A. Van Slyke
  • Publication number: 20080261478
    Abstract: A method of forming a patterned, light-emitting device that includes providing a substrate, and mechanically locating a first masking film over the substrate. The first masking film is segmented into a first masking portion and one or more first contiguous opening portions in first locations. The first contiguous opening portions are mechanically removed. Subsequently, first light-emitting materials are deposited over the substrate in the first locations to form first light-emitting areas; and the first masking portion is mechanically removed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2007
    Publication date: October 23, 2008
    Inventors: Ronald S. Cok, John W. Hamer, Steven A. Van Slyke
  • Publication number: 20080252208
    Abstract: In an OLED device having a substrate, a first electrode layer disposed over the substrate, an inorganic short reduction layer disposed over the first electrode layer, an organic electroluminescent medium disposed over the short reduction layer, and a second electrode layer over the electroluminescent medium, a feature is the inclusion of a mixture of ZnS, SiO2, and ITO in the short reduction layer wherein the ratio of In atoms to Zn atoms is in the range of from 0.90 to 2.37.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2007
    Publication date: October 16, 2008
    Inventors: Dustin L. Winters, Yuan-Sheng Tyan, Ansuman Banerjee, Thomas R. Cushman, Steven A. Van Slyke
  • Patent number: 7382384
    Abstract: An active matrix OLED display has pixels with light emitting areas arranged in rows and columns and includes; a first pixel having a first height in the column direction and disposed in a first column of pixels and in a first row of pixels; a second pixel having a second height in the column direction and disposed in the first column of pixels and in a second row of pixels wherein the second row of pixels is adjacent to the first row of pixels and the first height being different than the second height; and a first select line arranged to drive only the first row of pixels and a second select lines spaced from the first select line arranged to drive only the second row of pixels wherein the emitting areas of the first and second pixels are disposed between the first and second select lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2008
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Dustin L. Winters, Steven A. Van Slyke
  • Patent number: 7304428
    Abstract: A cathode structure for use in an OLED device having one or more OLED layers includes a thin light-transmissive layer having a top surface and a bottom surface and including silver (Ag) wherein the Ag acts as a conductor for the cathode structure, and a light-transmissive electron-injecting layer disposed in contact with the bottom surface of the thin light-transmissive layer and with an underlying OLED layer. The structure also includes an oxide layer disposed over the thin light-transmissive layer, and a separation layer disposed between the top surface of the thin light-transmissive layer and the oxide layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2007
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Amalkumar P. Ghosh, Steven A. Van Slyke, Angelo G. Pignata
  • Patent number: 7279063
    Abstract: A method of bonding a cover plate over OLED devices formed on a surface of a device substrate wherein each one of the OLED devices includes at least one electrical interconnect area includes providing a flow-preventing pattern on a surface of the cover plate or on the OLED devices absent from the electrical interconnect areas of the OLED devices to prevent flow of a flowable adhesive material into at least the outermost portions of such interconnect areas; dispensing a selected amount of a flowable curable adhesive material on the surface of the cover plate in registration with the flow-preventing pattern; engaging the cover plate in alignment with the substrate; and curing the adhesive material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2007
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Joseph E. Yokajty, Jeffrey P. Serbicki, Steven A. Van Slyke
  • Patent number: 7268485
    Abstract: A white light emitting OLED apparatus includes a microcavity OLED device and a light-integrating element, wherein the microcavity OLED device has a white light emitting organic EL element and the microcavity OLED device is configured to have angular-dependent narrow-band emission, and the light-integrating element integrates the angular-dependent narrow-band emission from different angles from the microcavity OLED device to form white light emission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2007
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Yuan-Sheng Tyan, Steven A. Van Slyke, Joel D. Shore, Giuseppe Farruggia, Thomas R. Cushman
  • Patent number: 7135352
    Abstract: A method of bonding a common cover plate over a plurality of OLED devices formed on a device substrate includes providing an unpatterned or a patterned layer of a pressure-sensitive adhesive (PSA) material over a surface of the cover plate; bonding the cover plate over the OLED devices; and singulating individual OLED devices having a bonded cover plate and permitting electrical access to electrical interconnects associated with each OLED device for attaching electrical leads thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2006
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Joseph E. Yokajty, Jeffrey P. Serbicki, Steven A. Van Slyke
  • Patent number: 7067170
    Abstract: A method of depositing a patterned organic layer includes providing a manifold and an OLED display substrate in a chamber at reduced pressure and spaced relative to each other; providing a structure sealingly covering at least one surface of the manifold, the structure including a plurality of nozzles extending through the structure into the manifold. The method also includes delivering vaporized organic materials into the manifold, and applying an inert gas under pressure into the manifold so that the inert gas provides a viscous gas flow through each of the nozzles, such viscous gas flow transporting at least portions of the vaporized organic materials from the manifold through the nozzles to provide directed beams of the inert gas and of the vaporized organic materials and projecting the directed beams onto the OLED display substrate for depositing a pattern of an organic layer on the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2006
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Michael A. Marcus, Jeremy Grace, Justin H. Klug, Steven A. Van Slyke
  • Patent number: 7030553
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2006
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Dustin Winters, Yuan-Sheng Tyan, Steven A. Van Slyke, Ronald S. Cok, Andrew D. Arnold
  • Patent number: 6995035
    Abstract: A method of making a top-emitting OLED device, includes providing over a substrate laterally spaced and optically opaque lower electrodes and upper electrode busses which are electrically insulated from the lower electrodes; depositing an organic EL medium structure over the lower electrodes and the upper electrode busses; selectively removing the organic EL medium structure over at least portions of the upper electrode busses to reveal at least upper surfaces of the upper electrode busses; and depositing a light transmissive upper electrode over the organic EL medium structure so that such upper electrode is in electrical contact with at least upper surfaces of the upper electrode busses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2006
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Ronald S. Cok, Steven A. Van Slyke
  • Patent number: 6917159
    Abstract: A microcavity OLED device including a substrate; a metallic bottom-electrode layer disposed over the substrate; a metallic top-electrode layer spaced from the metallic bottom-electrode layer; and an organic EL medium structure having a defined thickness, and including a light-emitting layer comprising a host material and at least one dopant disposed between the top-electrode layer and the bottom-electrode layer; wherein one of the metallic electrode layers is light transmissive and the other one is essentially opaque and reflective; wherein the material for reflective metallic electrode layer includes Ag, Au, Al, or alloys thereof, and the material for the light transmissive metallic electrode layer includes Ag, Au, or alloys thereof. The at least one dopant is selected to generate one of red, green, or blue light in the light-emitting layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2005
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Yuan-Sheng Tyan, Giuseppe Farruggia, Joel D. Shore, Joseph C. Deaton, Steven A. Van Slyke
  • Patent number: 6911671
    Abstract: A new use for a structure including a plurality of nozzles extending through the structure, and the nozzles being spaced from each other in correspondence with the pattern to be deposited onto an OLED display substrate so that vaporized organic material is transported through the nozzles in a desired pattern for deposition onto the OLED display substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2005
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Michael A. Marcus, Jeremy Grace, Justin H. Klug, Steven A. Van Slyke
  • Publication number: 20040253756
    Abstract: A method of making a top-emitting OLED device, includes providing over a substrate laterally spaced and optically opaque lower electrodes and upper electrode busses which are electrically insulated from the lower electrodes; depositing an organic EL medium structure over the lower electrodes and the upper electrode busses; selectively removing the organic EL medium structure over at least portions of the upper electrode busses to reveal at least upper surfaces of the upper electrode busses; and depositing a light transmissive upper electrode over the organic EL medium structure so that such upper electrode is in electrical contact with at least upper surfaces of the upper electrode busses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2003
    Publication date: December 16, 2004
    Applicant: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Ronald S. Cok, Steven A. Van Slyke
  • Patent number: 6797314
    Abstract: A method of handling powders of organic materials in making an organic light-emitting device (OLED) is disclosed. The method includes forming solid pellets from powders of organic materials and using such pellets in a thermal physical vapor deposition source for making an organic layer on a structure which will form part of an OLED.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2004
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Steven A. Van Slyke, Dilip K. Chatterjee, Syamal K. Ghosh, Donn B. Carlton
  • Publication number: 20040149984
    Abstract: A color organic light-emitting display having an array of pixels divided into at least two different color pixel sets each color pixel set emitting a different predetermined color, wherein each pixel in the array includes a metallic bottom-electrode layer; an organic EL element including a light-emitting layer for emitting the predetermined color light and a metallic top-electrode layer over the organic EL element, spaced from the metallic bottom-electrode layer by a distance selected to improve the emission light output efficiency; and wherein one of the metallic electrode layers is semitransparent and the other one is essentially opaque and reflective; wherein the material for the semitransparent metallic electrode and the reflective electrode includes specific materials; and the thickness of the semitransparent metallic electrode layer and the position of the light-emitting layer between the electrodes are selected to enhance emission light output efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2003
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Applicant: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Yuan-Sheng Tyan, Steven A. Van Slyke, Joel D. Shore, Giuseppe Farruggia
  • Publication number: 20040144321
    Abstract: The need is met according to the present invention by providing a method of designing a system for thermal vapor deposition that includes a material to be deposited on a workpiece, an elongated container for containing the material, a heater for heating the material in the container to vaporize the material, the container defining n apertures for emitting the vaporized material in an elongated pattern in the elongated direction, that includes the steps of: calculating the total source throughput Q per unit length at a deposition rate of interest; calculating the internal pressure P of the source required to produce Q for the total aperture conductance CA of the source; modeling the system as a ladder network of conductances, the elongated container having a container conductance CB and conductances Cb=nCB, between apertures, and the apertures having a combined conductance 1 C A = ∑ i = 1 n ⁢   ⁢ C ai ,
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2003
    Publication date: July 29, 2004
    Applicant: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Jeremy M. Grace, Dennis R. Freeman, Neil Redden, Justin H. Klug, Steven A. Van Slyke