A new environmental barrier layer for organic light-emitting displays

  • Wagner, Sigurd (Department of Electrical Engineering and Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials, Princeton University) ;
  • Mandlik, Prashant (Department of Electrical Engineering and Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials, Princeton University) ;
  • Han, Lin (Department of Electrical Engineering and Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials, Princeton University) ;
  • Silvernail, Jeff A. (Universal Display Corporation) ;
  • Ma, Rui-Qing (Universal Display Corporation) ;
  • Hack, Michael (Universal Display Corporation) ;
  • Brown, Julie J. (Universal Display Corporation)
  • Published : 2008.10.13

Abstract

We have discovered a new single-layer environmental barrier for OLEDs. In storage at $65^{\circ}C$ and 85% relative humidity, OLED pixels encapsulated with this barrier have half-lives of approximately one year. We describe the fabrication and properties of the barrier, and results of accelerated storage tests.

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