Clearing the Road to Mass Production of OLED （扫清了道路大规模生产OLED的）.pdfVIP

frontline technology Clearing the Road to Mass Production of OLED Television Advanced material and process developments should help make printed OLED TVs commercially feasible. by David K. Flattery, Curtis R. Fincher, Daniel L. LeCloux, Marie B. O’Regan, and John S. Richard THE PROMISE of organic light-emitting- cant progress toward the removal of these scale, the bulk of the equipment and tooling diode (OLED) technology has been to deliver roadblocks through the use of solution required for solution-processed OLED devices displays that are more visually compelling and processing and particularly nozzle printing of is commonly available at all scales. The criti- power efficient than liquid-crystal displays large-format OLED displays will be reviewed. cal exception is the nozzle printer, for which (LCDs) at a lower manufacturing cost. Material performance in actual devices commercial systems have been produced up to Today, most of this promise has been realized continues to rapidly improve through both full-size Gen 4 (0.7 × 0.9 m). The basic tech- in small-format displays, but manufacturing process improvements and new material nology is fundamentally scalable, however, cost and product price premiums persist. developments. The latest suite of solution with engineering under way to deliver a full- Furthermore, the feasibility of production on materials achieves performance that now size Gen 8 system. glass size comparable to that used for large- meets the minimum threshold required for Historically, 5–10 grams of OLED material format LCDs has yet to be demonstrated. commercial OLED television. are consumed for each gram of material evap- Three key roadblocks must be removed for Over th