Abstract: A light emitting device (100) is provided, comprising a substrate (101), a first electrically conductive layer (102), a light emitting layer (103), and a second electrically conductive layer (104). The light emitting device (100) further comprises at least one metal shunt (105) which is in electrical contact with said first electrically conductive layer (102). The at least one metal shunt (105) is isolated from said second electrically conductive layer (104) at least by means of a dielectric oxide layer (106). The present invention allows for the use of electrically insulating material between one or more metal shunts and a cathode layer without reducing the effective pixel area of the device.

Abstract: An organic light emitting device includes a first pixel displaying a first color, a second pixel adjacent to the first pixel and displaying a second color, and a third pixel adjacent to the first pixel or the second pixel and displaying a third color, wherein the first pixel includes a first and second subpixel units that output respective lights having different color characteristics.

Abstract: An organic light-emitting component, having a substrate, a first electrode arranged on the substrate, a layer stack that is arranged on the first electrode and that has at least one organic layer and a second electrode arranged on the layer stack. The layer stack is suitable for emitting electromagnetic radiation during operation. The component also has a receiver device, which is suitable for drawing energy from an alternating electromagnetic field and for converting this energy at least partially into electrical energy and for making this energy available to the layer stack.

Abstract: A novel sub-structure of a thick film dielectric electroluminescent display and a thick film dielectric electroluminescent display incorporating the same is provided. The sub-structure comprises a barrier layer between a substrate and a thick film dielectric layer. The barrier layer is chemically inert with respect to the substrate and the thick film dielectric layer and the barrier layer inhibits diffusion of at least one chemical species therethrough. This sub-structure results in a higher capacitance for the thick dielectric layer, which provides higher display luminance and a reduced tendency for dielectric breakdown of the thick dielectric layer. The barrier layer permits for lower cost substrates, such as glass, to be used.

Abstract: An electroluminescent arrangement comprising a substrate (1), at least one layered structure applied to the substrate that comprises at least one organic electroluminescent layer (2) for emitting light (10) that is arranged between a first electrode (3) arranged on the side on which the substrate is situated and a second electrode (4) arranged on the side of the electroluminescent layer (2) remote from the substrate, and an electrically insulating layer (5) of a material that is chemically reactive with the organic electroluminescent layer (2), suitable for detaching the second electrode (4) from the organic electroluminescent layer (2) in a confined region around a hole defect.

Abstract: The strength of the whole OLED is increased by proposing a new method of fixing OLED panels. To address the problem, an OLED element is formed on a substrate, and a sealing substrate of a structure by which the substrate is sealed is fixed to a lower metallic frame via an elastic sheet. Silicon resin is preferably used as the sheet, and use of a sheet having a heat diffusion function based on radiation is more desirable.

Abstract: The diode comprises an organic electroluminescent layer interposed between a lower electrode and a partially transparent and semireflective upper electrode, which itself comprises a transparent conducting sublayer and a current-distributing metal sublayer, for example an opaque grid. A dielectric antireflection layer is deposited on the grid to improve the emission contrast in ambient light, which grid, according to an advantageous embodiment, is designed to optimize the semireflective properties of the upper electrode, thereby improving, by an optical cavity effect, extraction of the emitted light.

Abstract: An organic light emitting diode display with enhanced luminance and light uniformity is presented, along with a method of manufacturing the display. The display including: a substrate, a first signal line formed on the substrate and a second signal line extending perpendicularly to the first signal line, and thin film transistors formed on the substrate and electrically coupled to the first signal line and the second signal line. A planarization member is formed on the same layer as the first signal line and/or the second signal line, such that it does not overlap the first signal line, the second signal line, and the thin film transistors. An insulating layer is formed on the first signal line, the second signal line, the thin film transistors, and the planarization member. Two electrodes are formed on the insulating layer connected to one of the thin film transistors and sandwiching a light emitting member.

Abstract: A display device includes an insulating substrate on which a display element is disposed, a resin layer disposed on the display element and having a depressed portion formed along an edge of the insulating substrate, and a sealing layer formed on the resin layer, with a portion of the sealing layer extending into the depressed portion of the resin layer. A method of manufacturing a display element includes disposing a display element on an insulating substrate, disposing a resin layer on the display element, and partially curing the resin layer. A depressed portion in the resin layer is formed using a pressurizing member and a sealing layer is disposed on the resin layer.

Abstract: A light-emitting device includes an organic insulating layer lying above a face of a substrate, reflective layers arranged on a face of the organic insulating layer, an inorganic insulating layer extending over the reflective layers, pixel electrodes arranged on the inorganic insulating layer, and light-emitting sections arranged on the respective pixel electrodes. The inorganic insulating layer has openings and regions in which no pixel electrodes are arranged when viewed from above. The openings extend through the respective regions to the organic insulating layer. A method for manufacturing such a light-emitting device includes forming openings in regions of the inorganic insulating layer in advance of the formation of the light-emitting sections such that the openings extend through the regions to the organic insulating layer, the regions having no pixel electrodes thereon when viewed from above.

Abstract: The present invention provides an organic EL display device which has a long lifetime. The organic EL display device includes a plurality of pixels each of which is constituted of a top-emission-type active matrix organic EL element. The EL element includes: a pixel electrode; a reflective layer arranged between the pixel electrode and an active element and is formed over a leveling layer; an organic light emission layer; and a common electrode. The reflective layer includes: a first reflective layer which is made of high-melting-point metal; and a second reflective layer which is arranged on the first reflective layer. The second reflective layer includes a planar pattern in which an outer periphery of the second reflective layer is surrounded by the first reflective layer. The pixel electrode extends outward from the first reflective layer and the second reflective layer.

Abstract: A display device includes a substrate having at least one light-emitting element. The light-emitting element includes one electrically-continuous electrode formed over the substrate. A separator is located on the electrically-continuous electrode, dividing the electrically-continuous electrode into at least first and second separate electrode portions that remain electrically continuous. A transparent layer is located over the first electrode portion, while separated from the second electrode portion. A light-emitting layer is formed over the transparent layer and the second electrode portion. A second electrode is formed over the light-emitting layer. The first electrode portion, the transparent layer, the light-emitting layer, and the second electrode comprise a first optical cavity having a first optical path length.

Abstract: Provided is an organic light emitting display apparatus in which short circuit between conductive lines exposed outside a display unit is avoided. The organic light emitting display apparatus includes a substrate, a display unit disposed on the substrate, a plurality of conductive lines disposed on the substrate and extending in an edge direction of the substrate; an insulator filling the conductive lines; and a first spacer disposed on the insulator.

Abstract: New organic light-emitting diodes and related electroluminescent devices and methods for fabrication, using siloxane self-assembly techniques.

Abstract: An organic electro-luminescence display device includes at least one light emission device, the organic light emission device having a first electrode; at least one thin film transistor for driving the light emission device, a pixel electrode being connected to the at least one thin film transistor; a conductive layer formed of a conductive polymer material to electrically connect the light emission device and the pixel electrode.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescence device, includes a substrate; an anode layer; an organic layer including at least one organic material having a fluorescence spectrum; and a cathode layer, wherein the organic electroluminescence device has a primary light outgoing direction that is parallel to a surface of the substrate, wherein the organic electroluminescence device has an optical waveguide that includes a core layer formed by the anode layer and the organic layer, and a clad layer formed by the substrate and the cathode layer, and wherein the optical waveguide has cutoff wavelengths in a transverse electric mode any one of which is within a wavelength range of a full width at half maximum of the fluorescence spectrum of any one of the organic materials included in the organic layer.

Abstract: A light emitting device 10 includes: a lead frame 12a serving as a mounting portion having a cup 13; a light emitting element 14, mounted on the bottom face 13a of the cup, for emitting light having a predetermined peak wavelength; a layer of first phosphor particles 16, absorbed and formed on the light emitting element, for absorbing light emitted from the light emitting element and for emitting light having a longer peak wavelength than that of the light emitted from the light emitting element; second phosphor particles 18 for absorbing at least one of light emitted from the first phosphor particles and light emitted from the light emitting element and for emitting light having a longer peak wavelength than that of the at least one of the light emitted from the first phosphor particles and the light emitted from the light emitting element; and a sealing member 20, in which the second phosphor particles are dispersed, for sealing the light emitting element and the layer of first phosphor particles in the cup

Abstract: An organic electroluminescent display device comprises a substrate, including a pixel region and a non-pixel region at a boundary of the pixel region; a first electrode on the substrate in the pixel region; a separator over the first electrode, the separator located in the non-pixel region, the separator including a first portion having a first width and a second portion having a second width smaller than the first width, the first portion overlapping edges of the first electrode, and the second portion within the non-pixel region; an organic electroluminescent layer over the separator in the pixel region surrounded by the separator; and a second electrode on an entire surface of the organic electroluminescent layer and the separator.

Abstract: An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device and a method of fabricating the same are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes: i) preparing a support and a flexible layer, ii) forming a first metal layers on one side of a support and a second metal layer on one side of a flexible layer, iii) performing a cleaning process to the first metal layer and the second metal layer, iv) forming a first radical layer on the first metal layer and a second radical layer on the second metal layer and v) joining the first and second radial layers to each other. At least one embodiment of the invention enhances process convenience and manufacturing yield, and reduces manufacturing costs and time for a flat panel display device having a flexible substrate.

Abstract: An organic light emitting diode (OLED) device is provided. The OLED device includes: a substrate; an anode formed on the substrate; a first organic thin layer formed on the anode; an organic emission layer formed on the first organic thin layer; a second organic thin layer formed on the organic emission layer; and a cathode formed on the second organic thin layer, wherein the first and second organic thin layers are formed in a single layer or a multi-layer, and at least a part of the first or second organic thin layer is doped with or formed of an insulator. The OLED device provides excellent durability, long life-time, and increased luminous efficiency by balanced charge injection caused by doping or stacking the insulator into or on the organic thin layer.

Abstract: An LED base structure with an embedded capacitor includes a body, at least one pair of metal layers, at least one dielectric layer, and at least two conductive channels. The body is an insulating base. The metal layers are disposed in the body, and the dielectric layer is disposed between the metal layers, so as to form an embedded capacitor. The conductive channels are electrically connected to the metal layers, respectively. The LED base structure is further electrically connected to a resistor for forming a resistor-capacitor delay circuit whereby a phase delay is effectuated whenever AC power is supplied to the LED base structure, so as to control the time for switching on one of two parallel-connected LEDs and, as a result, prevent the LEDs from flashing which might otherwise arise when the LEDs are supplied with AC power.

Abstract: There are provided a perovskite oxide thin film EL element in which a hole transport layer/a light-emitting layer/an electron transport layer comprising a perovskite oxide thin film are formed on a lower electrode, and an upper electrode is formed thereon, and a perovskite oxide thin film EL element that provides red light emission in the vicinity of a wavelength of 610 nm, which is the basis of display making. A perovskite oxide thin film EL element comprising a lower electrode 1 comprising a polished single crystal substrate, an electron transport layer 2 comprising a perovskite oxide thin film, which is a dielectric, formed on the lower electrode 1, a light-emitting layer 3 comprising a perovskite oxide thin film formed on the electron transport layer 2, a hole transport layer 4 comprising a perovskite oxide thin film, which is a dielectric, formed on the light-emitting layer 3, a buffer layer 5 formed on the hole transport layer 4, and a transparent upper electrode 6 formed on the buffer layer 5.

Abstract: A pixel having an organic light emitting diode (OLED) and method for fabricating the pixel is provided. A planarization dielectric layer is provided between a thin-film transistor (TFT) based backplane and OLED layers. A through via between the TFT backplane and the OLED layers forms a sidewall angle of less than 90 degrees to the TFT backplane. The via area and edges of an OLED bottom electrode pattern may be covered with a dielectric cap.

Abstract: The invention provides an organic electroluminescence device having an input function, including: an element substrate that has a light-emitting layer sandwiched between a pair of electrodes; a sealing substrate that seals the element substrate; a first detection electrode that is provided at the inner-surface side of the sealing substrate; a second detection electrode that is provided at the outer-surface side of the sealing substrate; the second detection electrode having a detection axis that is not the same as that of the first detection electrode; a dielectric film that is formed on the second detection electrode; and a detection unit that detects a position at which electrostatic capacitance is generated via the dielectric film between the first detection electrode and the second detection electrode.

Abstract: A flat panel display capable of reducing element defects by decreasing taper angles of contact holes and a via hole. The flat panel display includes a thin film transistor having at least source and drain electrodes formed over an insulating substrate, an insulating layer having a via hole for exposing one of the source and drain electrodes, and an anode connected to said one of the source and drain electrodes through the via hole. The via hole and the anode are tapered with taper angles of 60° or less. The source and drain electrodes are connected respectively to source and drain regions of the thin film transistor through the contact holes. The contact holes are also tapered with taper angles of 60° or less.

Abstract: Provided are an organic electro-luminescence display device and a method of manufacturing the same. The organic electro-luminescence display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate facing the first substrate and including an organic electro-luminescence diode, and a sealant interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate to seal the organic electro-luminescence diode from outside and attach the first substrate to the second substrate. Herein, the sealant is formed of a frit glass.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescent display (OELD) device includes first substrate; a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines crossing each other to define a plurality of pixel regions; a power line parallel to and separated from the gate lines; switching and driving elements connected to each other in each of the plurality of pixel regions on the first substrate; a first electrode on the first substrate and connected to one of the driving element; an injection layer on the first electrode; an organic luminescent layer on the injection layer; a second electrode of a transparent conductive material on the organic luminescent layer; and a second substrate attached to and facing the first substrate.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide such a sealing structure that a material to be a deterioration factor such as water or oxygen is prevented from entering from external and sufficient reliability is obtained in a display using an organic or inorganic electroluminescent element. In view of the above object, focusing on permeability of an interlayer insulating film, deterioration of an electroluminescent element is suppressed and sufficient reliability is obtained by preventing water entry from an interlayer insulating film according to the present invention.

Abstract: A method of fabricating an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display is provided. According to the method, a first electrode overlaps a scan line, a common power supply line and/or a data line. A pixel defining layer (PDL) is etched by backside exposure so that an aperture ratio of the OLED may be enhanced.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescence device having a layer of an organic light emitting medium which comprises (A) a specific arylamine compound and (B) at least one compound selected from specific anthracene derivatives, spirofluorene derivatives, compounds having condensed rings and metal complex compounds and is disposed between a pair of electrodes and an organic light emitting medium comprising the above components (A) and (B) are provided. The organic electroluminescence device exhibits a high purity of color, has excellent heat resistance and a long life and efficiently emits bluish to yellowish light. The organic light emitting medium can be advantageously used for the organic electroluminescence device.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescent device including a switching element and a driving element connected to the switching element on a substrate including a pixel region, a cathode connected to the driving element, in which the cathode includes molybdenum (Mo), an emitting layer on the cathode, and an anode on the emitting layer.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescent panel has excellent reliability of luminance of emitted light, and an organic electroluminescent display device includes such an organic electroluminescent panel. The organic electroluminescent panel includes a structure in which the first electrode, an organic layer including at least a light-emitting layer, the second electrode are stacked in this order on a substrate having a surface on which an organic insulating film is formed, wherein the organic electroluminescent panel further includes an inorganic insulating film, the inorganic insulating film covers the organic insulating film and the first electrode, the inorganic insulating film has an opening in a display region and an opening in a non-display region, and the opening in the display region is formed on the first electrode.

Abstract: The present invention provides an organic electroluminescent panel, a production method thereof, and an organic electroluminescent display device, in which color mixing between adjacent pixels, caused by overflow or pull-in of a liquid material is suppressed and discontinuity (physical and electrical separation by the step) of an upper electrode is reduced when an organic film such as a luminescent layer is formed by an application method such as an ink jet printing method. The organic electroluminescent panel of the present invention is an organic electroluminescent panel comprising a lower electrode, a bank, an organic film, and an upper electrode on a substrate, wherein the organic electroluminescent panel has: two or more bank regions having different film thicknesses; and an organic film region surrounded by the two or more bank regions, the organic film region having a planar shape of a quadrangle or a substantial quadrangle with a rounded vertex or side.

Abstract: An exemplary embodiment of a display device includes a substrate, a transistor disposed on the substrate, a passivation layer which substantially covers the transistor, an organic layer disposed on the passivation layer which generates light to an outside, and a light efficiency improving layer including a first inorganic layer and a second inorganic layer which are sequentially disposed between the organic layer and the outside.

Abstract: A novel laminate is provided to improve the operating stability of thioaluminate based phosphors used in ac thick film dielectric electroluminescent displays. The novel structure comprises a rare earth activated alkaline earth thioaluminate phosphor thin film layer and a magnesium oxide or magnesium oxide containing layer provided directly adjacent and in contact with the bottom of the phosphor thin film layer. The invention is particularly applicable to phosphors used in electroluminescent displays that employ thick dielectric layers subject to high processing temperatures to form and activate the phosphor films.

Abstract: A display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate and a blocking member. The first substrate has a light emitting element. The second substrate faces the first substrate. The blocking member is arranged between the first and second substrates. The blocking member includes a first blocking layer and a second blocking layer.

Abstract: An electroluminescent display comprising a substrate (1), a substantially transparent electrode (2) adjacent to the substrate, a layer of electroluminescent material (3) adjacent to the substantially transparent electrode, a layer of dielectric material (4) adjacent to the layer of electroluminescent material and a further electrode (5) adjacent to the dielectric layer, in which there is further provided an intermediate layer (6) between the substantially transparent electrode and the layer of electroluminescent material. The intermediate layer typically acts as a diffuser and may comprise Barium Titanate.

Abstract: An organic optoelectrical device comprising: a substrate; at least one first electrode disposed over the substrate; a layer of bank material disposed over the first electrode and defining a plurality of wells; a layer of organic semi-conductive material disposed in the wells; at least one second electrode disposed over the layer of organic semi-conductive material in the wells; an encapsulant disposed over the at least one second electrode; a layer of the bank material provided at a periphery of the device; and a metallic seal adhering the encapsulant to the layer of bank material at the periphery of the device, the bank material being an inorganic electrically insulating material whereby the substrate, the bank material, the metallic seal and the encapsulant form a seal at the periphery of the device.

Abstract: An electroluminescent (EL) device that includes a light-emitting area formed over a substrate. First and second electrodes and one or more EL unit(s) are included along with at least one light-emitting layer formed between the electrodes, wherein at least one electrode is transparent. A cover is located over the light-emitting area, and a light-scattering layer is located between the substrate and cover. The light-scattering layer includes transparent, light-scattering particles, wherein the ratio of the volume of light-scattering particles to the volume of the light-scattering layer is greater than 0.55 over a majority of the light-emitting area, wherein either the substrate or cover is transparent and transmits light emitted from the EL unit(s).

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention is to provide a light-emitting device in which high luminance can be obtained with low power consumption by improving the extraction efficiency. A light-emitting device of the invention comprises an insulating film, a plurality of first electrodes being in contact with the insulating film and formed on the insulating film to be in parallel, an electroluminescent layer formed over the plurality of first electrodes, and a plurality of second electrodes intersecting with the plurality of first electrodes and formed over the electroluminescent layer in parallel, wherein the insulating film contains nitrogen and silicon and the first electrodes contain a conductive transparent oxide material and silicon oxide.

Abstract: Disclosed is a light-emitting display having a plurality of pixels wherein each pixel comprises a light-emitting device (100) having a light-emitting element layer which is formed between a first electrode and a second electrode and contains at least a light-emitting layer. An insulating layer (30) is formed between the light-emitting device (100) and a surface of a first or second substrate on the viewing side of the display, and the insulating layer (30) is provided with recesses and projections in at least one or more pixel regions, thereby forming an optical path length adjusting portion (32). By forming such an optical path length adjusting portion (32) in a pixel region, there is an increase in the interference conditions for the light emitted from the light-emitting device (100) to the outside, thereby averaging the interference.

Abstract: A display device includes lead wiring drawn out from a display region to a peripheral region of the display region; a first insulating film covering the lead wiring disposed on a substrate; a plurality of pieces of annular wiring disposed in a state of enclosing the display region in a multiple manner between the display region and the peripheral region on the first insulating film; a second insulating film covering the annular wiring disposed above the substrate, and having a groove pattern having each of the pieces of annular wiring as a bottom surface; and a light emitting element disposed on the second insulating film within the display region.

Abstract: A self-emissive display device. The display device comprises a substrate having a pixel region for displaying one of the primary colors. An organic electroluminescent multi-layer structure is disposed in the pixel region of the substrate. The organic electroluminescent multi-layer structure comprises a first micro-cavity portion and a second micro-cavity portion adjacent thereto. The first micro-cavity portion comprises an organic layer for light-emitting and a first film for determining light wavelength shift of the first micro-cavity portion. The second micro-cavity portion comprises the organic layer for light-emitting and a second film for determining light wavelength shift of the second micro-cavity portion. The first and second films have different optical lengths, such that the first and second micro-cavity portions provide opposite directions of the light wavelength shift.

Abstract: A liquid crystal device including a pair of electrodes provided with a vertical alignment film and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the pair of electrodes and including a liquid crystal composition containing a liquid crystal with positive dielectric anisotropy, a dichroic dye and a chiral reagent, with a ratio (P/G) of a chiral pitch length (P) of the liquid crystal composition to a gap (G) between the pair of electrodes being from 0.06 to less than 1.0.

Abstract: An electroluminescence (EL) display device with improved external light coupling efficiency and brightness that may be easily manufactured. The EL display device includes: a substrate; a first electrode arranged above the substrate; a second electrode arranged above and substantially parallel to the first electrode; an intermediate layer arranged between the first and second electrodes, and including an emissive layer; a color converting layer arranged between the substrate and the first electrode or above the second electrode; and a light resonance controlling layer arranged between the emissive layer and the color converting layer.

Abstract: In an organic EL display panel, one sealing substrate is shared between two organic EL substrates, thereby achieving thinning and lightening of the panel body. The display panel includes a sealing substrate having a first concave portion and a second concave portion opposite the first concave portion, a first transparent glass substrate hermetically sealed on the first concave portion, a first organic light emitting element formed on a surface of the first transparent glass substrate, a first desiccant disposed on a bottom surface of the first concave portion, a second transparent glass substrate hermetically sealed on the second concave portion, a second organic light emitting element formed on a surface of the second transparent glass substrate, a second desiccant disposed on a surface of the second concave portion, wherein the first organic light emitting element and the second organic light emitting element achieve a shared use of the sealing substrate.

Abstract: A light emitting device 10 includes: a lead frame 12a serving as a mounting portion having a cup 13; a light emitting element 14, mounted on the bottom face 13a of the cup, for emitting light having a predetermined peak wavelength; a layer of first phosphor particles 16, adsorbed and formed on the light emitting element, for absorbing light emitted from the light emitting element and for emitting light having a longer peak wavelength than that of the light emitted from the light emitting element; second phosphor particles 18 for absorbing at least one of light emitted from the first phosphor particles and light emitted from the light emitting element and for emitting light having a longer peak wavelength than that of the at least one of the light emitted from the first phosphor particles and the light emitted from the light emitting element; and a sealing member 20, in which the second phosphor particles are dispersed, for sealing the light emitting element and the layer of first phosphor particles in the cup

Abstract: A display device in which variations in luminance due to variations in characteristics of transistors are reduced, and image quality degradation due to variations in resistance values is prevented. The invention comprises a transistor whose channel portion is formed of an amorphous semiconductor or an organic semiconductor, a connecting wiring connected to a source electrode or a drain electrode of the transistor, a light emitting element having a laminated structure which includes a pixel electrode, an electro luminescent layer, and a counter electrode, an insulating layer surrounding an end portion of the pixel electrode, and an auxiliary wiring formed in the same layer as a gate electrode of the transistor, a connecting wiring, or the pixel electrode. Further, the connecting wiring is connected to the pixel electrode, and the auxiliary wiring is connected to the counter electrode via an opening portion provided in the insulating layer.

Abstract: An electroluminescent (EL) device includes a plurality of first transistors provided over a first area of a substrate and a plurality of second transistors provided over a second area of the substrate. A plurality of light emitting elements, each including an EL layer, are coupled to corresponding ones of the first transistors, and at least one insulating layer is provided on at least one of the plurality of first transistors or the plurality of second transistors. A conductive layer having a multilayer structure is then provided over at least one of the plurality of second transistors and on the at least one insulating layer.

Abstract: Deterioration of the whole electroluminescence layer which is caused by moisture penetration through the electroluminescence layer because of a pinhole in an electrode is prevented. A plurality of island-shaped electroluminescence layers is provided. That is, an electroluminescence layer is divided into plural layers. In addition, the plurality of island-shaped electroluminescence layers is interposed between a pair of common electrodes. Accordingly, even when moisture penetrates through one of the island-shaped electroluminescence layers, moisture does not penetrate through another of the island-shaped electroluminescence layers.