Novel Method for Fabricating Flexible Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED)

Zhao,Lihua ; Luo,Hao ; Mei, Ping ; Brug, James ; Garcia, Robert ; Almanza-Workman, Marcia ; Gomez-Pancorbo, Fernando ; Holland, Edward ; Jackson, Warren ; Jam, ITEM REPORT Mehrban ; Jeans, Albert ; Kim, Han-Jun ; Kwon, Ohseung ; Maltabes, John ; Perlov, Craig M ; Smith, Mark ; Trovinger, Steven W ; Elder, Richard E ; Taussig, Carl

HP Development Company

关键词: *OLEDs;    Flexible display;    SAIL;    Roll-to-roll;   

RP-ID  :  HPL-2011-152

学科分类：计算机科学（综合）

美国|英语

来源: HP Labs

【 摘 要 】

Recently, significant progress has been made toward application of organic (small molecule/polymer) light- emitting diodes (OLEDs) in full color flat panel displays and other devices. However, current technologies for OLEDs in the market are still very limited, especially in terms of cost, size and flexibility. We believe fabricating OLED displays using roll-to-roll (R2R) manufacturing on plastic is the way to achieve low cost, light weight and flexibility. One of big challenges for fabricating flexible OLED displays is alignment on large area flexible substrates. We discuss here a proof-of- concept HPproprietary solution to fabricate flexible active matrix OLED displays, which involves a process in which a well-defined micro OLEDs (*OLEDs) frontplane is directly laminated with our R2R processed active matrix flexible backplane built via self-aligned imprint lithography (SAIL) without any in-between alignment. A proof-of-concept AMOLED device has been built, which contains a flexible 5OLEDs frontplane with OLED sizes of 50 5m on PET and active matrix backplane on polyimide with pixel pitches of 1 mm. Such alignment-free method offers great possibility to create large area interactive displays such as wall-paper type of displays with very low cost that no other technology today can achieve.