Fabrication of OLED Devices on Engineered Plastic Substrates
Protective ultrabarrier coatings for displays on flexible polymeric film substrates were deposited. The ultrabarrier coatings met a number of tight performance specifications including low gas permeation, high conductivity transparent electrodes, chemical resistance, thermal stability and scratch resistance must be met. Transmission of oxygen and water vapors by native polymeric materials was sufficiently high to prohibit their use in LCD and OLED applications. A multilayer film structure with alternate layers of organic polymer and metal oxide, demonstrated oxygen and moisture permeation rates below the measurement limit of commercial instrumentation (<0.005 O2 cc/m2/day, H2O g/m2/day). This highly transparent, multilayer ultra-barrier coating, with and without ITO overocats, was deposited by roll-to-roll compatible, vacuum deposition processes. The process for vacuum evaporation of organic monomers and in-situ polymerization, was used to deposit the organic layers. This process was also used to encapsulate OLED structures on plastic, glass, and silicon. Flexible OLED devices have been successfully fabricated using these ultrabarrier substrates. Lifetimes of greater than 10,000 hours were achieved for encapsulated OLED devices. Performance of the OLED devices on plastic substrates was similar to those on glass substrates.
- Research Organization:
- Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-76RL01830
- OSTI ID:
- 981627
- Report Number(s):
- PNNL-SA-33130; TRN: US201013%%835
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 43rd Annual Technical Conference Proceedings, denver April 15-20, 2000, 397- 400
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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