Polyethylene Dioxythiophene And Derivative (epo) Patents (Class 257/E51.03)
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Patent number: 8778511Abstract: An organic light emitting device is provided. The device includes an anode and a cathode. A first organic layer is disposed between the anode and the cathode. The first organic layer is an emissive layer that includes a first organic emitting material. The device also includes a second organic layer disposed between the anode and the first organic layer. The second organic layer is a non-emissive layer. The second organic layer includes an organic small molecule hole transport material having a concentration of 50 to 99 wt %, and an organic small molecule electron transport material having a concentration of 0.1 to 5 wt %. Other materials may be present.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2009Date of Patent: July 15, 2014Assignee: Universal Display CorporationInventors: Vadim Adamovich, Brian D'Andrade, Michael S. Weaver
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Publication number: 20110175065Abstract: A photovoltaic device is disclosed that includes a transparent front electrode formed by the self-assembly of conductive nanoparticles from an emulsion coated onto a substrate and dried. The nanoparticles self-assemble into a network-like pattern of conductive traces that define randomly-shaped transparent cells. The cells may be filled with various transparent filler materials and additional layers may be present in the device in addition to conventional components. Processes for forming the transparent electrode are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2008Publication date: July 21, 2011Applicant: Cima Nanotech Israel Ltd.Inventors: Fernando de la Vega, Nir M. Moira, Arkady Garbar
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Patent number: 7800102Abstract: The organic TFT includes: a gate electrode; source and drain electrodes insulated from the gate electrode; an organic semiconductor layer insulated from the gate electrode and electrically connected to the source and drain electrodes; an insulating layer insulating the gate electrode from the source and drain electrodes and the organic semiconductor layer; and a self-assembly monolayer (SAM) included between the insulating layer and the organic semiconductor layer. A compound forming the SAM has at least one terminal group selected from the group consisting of an unsubstituted or substituted C6-C30 aryl group and an unsubstituted or substituted C2-C30 heteroaryl group. The organic TFT is formed by forming the above-described layers and forming the SAM on the insulating layer before the organic semiconductor layer and source and drain electrodes are formed.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2006Date of Patent: September 21, 2010Assignee: Samsung Mobile Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jin-Seong Park, Taek Ahn, Min-Chul Suh
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Patent number: 7737435Abstract: Example embodiments pertain to an organic semiconductor composition, in which low-molecular-weight oligomer compounds are distributed in the spaces of a polymer compound so that the free spaces of the organic semiconductor polymer compound are filled with the low-molecular-weight oligomer compounds upon the formation of an organic semiconductor thin film, thereby increasing ?-? stacking effects, and to an organic semiconductor thin film using the same and an organic electronic device employing the thin film. Using the organic semiconductor composition according to example embodiments, a semiconductor thin film and an organic electronic device having improved electrical properties may be manufactured.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2007Date of Patent: June 15, 2010Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jung Seok Hahn, Tae-Sang Kim, Bang-Lin Lee, Sang-Yoon Lee, Eun Kyung Lee
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Patent number: 7714351Abstract: The invention provides a nanowire light emitting device and a manufacturing method thereof. In the light emitting device, first and second conductivity type clad layers are formed and an active layer is interposed therebetween. At least one of the first and second conductivity type clad layers and the active layer is a semiconductor nanowire layer obtained by preparing a layer of a mixture composed of a semiconductor nanowire and an organic binder and removing the organic binder therefrom.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2006Date of Patent: May 11, 2010Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Won Ha Moon, Dong Woohn Kim, Jong Pa Hong
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Publication number: 20100044696Abstract: A thin film transistor is provided. The thin film transistor includes a substrate, a gate, a source/drain, an insulating layer, and a semiconductor active layer. The gate and the source/drain are respectively deposited on the substrate and are separated by the insulating layer on the substrate. The semiconductor active layer connects the source and the drain. The material of the semiconductor active layer is a semiconductor precursor which produces semiconductor property after being irradiated by a light source. A liquid crystal display which includes the above thin film transistor is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2009Publication date: February 25, 2010Applicants: TAIWAN TFT LCD ASSOCIATION, CHUNGHWA PICTURE TUBES, LTD., AU OPTRONICS CORPORATION, HANNSTAR DISPLAY CORPORATION, CHI MEI OPTOELECTRONICS CORPORATION, INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE, TPO DISPLAYS CORP.Inventors: Hsiang-Yuan Cheng, Shin-Chuan Chiang, Shih-Hsiang Lai, Chin-Chih Yu, Bor-Chuan Chuang
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Patent number: 7649211Abstract: The present invention provides a light-emitting element including an electron-transporting layer and a hole-transporting layer between a first electrode and a second electrode; and a first layer and a second layer between the electron-transporting layer and the hole-transporting layer, wherein the first layer includes a first organic compound and an organic compound having a hole-transporting property, the second layer includes a second organic compound and an organic compound having an electron-transporting property, the first layer is formed in contact with the first electrode side of the second layer, the first organic compound and the second organic compound are the same compound, and a voltage is applied to the first electrode and the second electrode, so that both of the first organic compound and the second organic compound emit light.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2007Date of Patent: January 19, 2010Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventor: Nobuharu Ohsawa
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Patent number: 7525129Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide an organic light-emitting display of high light-emitting efficiency. The organic light-emitting element comprising a board, upper electrode, lower electrode, a plurality of light-emitting units placed between the upper and lower electrodes, and a charge-generating layer placed between a plurality of the light-emitting units, wherein one of the light-emitting units has a layer for emitting monochromatic light and one of the light-emitting units has a layer for emitting polychromatic light, the former unit having an equivalent or lower light-emitting efficiency than the latter unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2005Date of Patent: April 28, 2009Assignee: Hitachi Displays, Ltd.Inventors: Kazuhito Masuda, Shingo Ishihara, Sukekazu Aratani, Masaya Adachi
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Patent number: 7491968Abstract: A memory device, which includes a memory layer having quantum dots uniformly dispersed in organic material disposed between an upper electrode layer and a lower electrode layer. The memory device is advantageous because it is nonvolatile and inexpensive, and realizes high integration and high speed switching. Further, size and distribution of the quantum dots may be uniform, thus realizing uniform memory behavior. Furthermore, the memory device is suitable for application to portable electronic devices that must have low power consumption, due to low operating voltages thereof.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2005Date of Patent: February 17, 2009Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoon Sok Kang, Sang Kyun Lee, Won Jae Joo
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Patent number: 7427441Abstract: A member comprising a substrate and a transparent conductive layer comprising a composition including an electronically conductive polymer of a polythiophene present in a cationic form with a polyanion, wherein the composition of the conductive layer has an FOM less than or equal to 50 wherein FOM is defined as the slope of a best fit straight line passing through the origin of the plot of ln (1/T) versus [1/SER] for said composition: and wherein T=visual light transmission: SER=surface electrical resistance in ohm per square; FOM=figure of merit, and wherein the SER of the conductive layer has a value of less than or equal to 1000 ohm per square.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2004Date of Patent: September 23, 2008Inventors: Debasis Majumdar, Glen C. Irvin, Jr., Charles C. Anderson, Gary S. Freedman
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Patent number: 7378682Abstract: The present memory device has first and second electrodes, a passive layer between the first and second electrodes and on and in contact with the first electrode, and an active layer between the first and second electrodes and on and in contact with the passive layer and second electrode, for receiving a charged specie from the passive layer. The active layer is a mixture of (i) a first polymer, and (ii) a second polymer for enhancing ion transport, improving the interface and promoting a rapid and substantially uniform distribution of the charged specie in the active layer, i.e., preventing a localized injection of the charged species. These features result in a memory element with improved stability, a more controllable ON-state resistance, improved switching speed and a lower programming voltage.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2005Date of Patent: May 27, 2008Assignee: Spanson LLCInventors: David Gaun, Swaroop Kaza, Stuart Spitzer, Juri Krieger, Richard Kingsborough
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Patent number: 7372480Abstract: A liquid crystal device comprises a first and second cell wall structure; at least one liquid crystal material disposed within a space between the first and second cell wall structures; and polymer micro-structures, wherein the micro-structures are formed by polymerizing a prepolymer, and wherein said micro-structures have a shape and spatial location determined by said liquid crystal material. Permanent polymer micro-structures are formed from a liquid crystal with a non-uniform spatially modulated director field. The polymer structures have the shape and spatial location dictated by the non-uniform director field of the liquid crystal. The micro-structures are a backbone that restores the liquid crystal director field that existed during the polymerization process even when other factors, such as electric field, temperature, or surface anchoring, do not favor this restoration.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2004Date of Patent: May 13, 2008Assignee: Kent State UniversityInventors: Oleg D. Lavrentovich, Dmitry Voloschenko, Sergij Shiyanovskii
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Patent number: 7368331Abstract: A thin-film transistor, a thin-film transistor sheet, an electric circuit, and a manufacturing method thereof are disclosed, the method comprising the steps of forming a semiconductor layer by providing a semiconductive material on a substrate, b) forming an isolating area, which is electrode material-repellent, by providing an electrode material-repellent material on the substrate, and c) forming a source electrode on one end of the insulating area and a drain electrode on the other end of the insulating area, by providing an electrode material.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2003Date of Patent: May 6, 2008Assignee: Konica Minolta Holdings, Inc.Inventor: Katsura Hirai
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Patent number: 7355211Abstract: Conventional light-emitting elements, in particular an organic electroluminescence devices, involve problems resulting from a low light extraction efficiency of 20% or less, because of limitations on light emission set by total reflection angle on an organic layer or transparent electrode as the component, and are demanded to have improved luminance and other optical characteristics which depend on viewing angle. The present invention provides an organic electroluminescence device which can improve a light extraction efficiency and thereby reduce operational current and power consumption by incorporating a laminate of optical thin films of low refractive index and having pores whose size is controlled at a level equivalent to or shorter than visible wavelengths, because the light components totally reflected to become wave-guided or reflected light in a common device can be extracted as light scattered by the pores.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2005Date of Patent: April 8, 2008Assignee: Hitachi Displays, Ltd.Inventors: Toshiaki Tanaka, Hiroshi Sasaki, Hajime Murakami, Masao Shimizu, Ikuo Hiyama
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Publication number: 20070190236Abstract: A manufacturing method of an organic electroluminescent element is provided. The method includes forming an insulator layer between pattern-formed pixel electrodes on a substrate, and forming a hole transport layer by printing hole transport ink, having a hole transport material dissolved in a solvent, on the pixel electrodes between the insulator layers by relief printing, wherein the hole transport ink includes 3,4-polyethylen dihydroxy thiophen (PEDOT), and monohydric alcohol and dihydric alcohol as solvents.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2006Publication date: August 16, 2007Inventor: Koji Murata
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Patent number: 7208782Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor path, the semiconductor path including an organic semiconductor material, a first contact to inject charge carriers into the semiconductor path, a second contact to extract charge carriers from the semiconductor path, and a layer including phosphine arranged between the first contact and the semiconductor path and/or between the second contact and the semiconductor path. The phosphine in the layer acts as a charge transfer molecule which makes it easier to transfer charge carriers between contact and organic semiconductor material. As a result, the contact resistance between contact and organic semiconductor material can be reduced considerably.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2005Date of Patent: April 24, 2007Assignee: Infineon Technologies, AGInventors: Hagen Klauk, Günter Schmid, Ute Zschieschang, Marcus Halik, Efstratios Terzoglu
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Patent number: 7056600Abstract: A layer configuration on a support, the layer configuration comprising a non-photoactive element exclusive of poly(3,4-alkylenedioxythiophene)s and poly(3,4-dialkoxythiophene)s, the element containing a first polymer containing structural units according to formula (I): in which X and Y are independently O, S, N—R1, Z is —(CH2)m—CR2R3—(CH2)n—; R1 is aryl, C1-18-alkyl or hydrogen; R2 is hydrogen or —(CH2)s—O—(CH2)p—SO3?M+; R3 is —(CH2)s—O—(CH2)p—SO3?M+; M+ is a cation; m and n are independently a whole number from 0 to 3; s is a whole number from 0 to 10; and p is a whole number from 1 to 18, and a second polymer different from the first polymer and selected from the group consisting of optionally quaternized polyamine-polymers, polysulpho-polymers, polyphosphoric acids and polyphosphoric acid salts, the surface of one side of the element being contiguous with a positive electrode and the surface on the opposite side of the element being contiguous with a material capable of transporting holes.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2003Date of Patent: June 6, 2006Assignee: Agfa GevaertInventor: Hieronymus Andriessen