Carbon Enabled Vertical Organic Light Emitting Transistors

A method to form vertical light emitting transistors, comprising:

• forming a light emitting layer formed of at least one light emitting material, the light emitting layer having first and second sides;
• forming at least one of a conductive drain electrode and a conductive source electrode in conductive relation with at least one side of said light emitting layer;
• forming a least one capacitor comprised of a dielectric layer formed of at least one dielectric material, the at least one dielectric layer having first and second sides in conductive relation to one of either the conductive source or drain electrodes, and a conductive gate electrode;
• encapsulating the formed layers using one of either a glass or barrier film;
• and
• wherein at least the electrode disposed between the light emitting layer and the dielectric layer is a gate tunable carbon electrode.

A vertical light emitting display comprising a plurality of pixels comprising a plurality of vertical light emitting transistors electronically coupled into addressing electrode lines, each vertical light emitting transistor comprising:

• a light emitting cell comprised of a light emitting layer formed of at least one light emitting material, the light emitting layer having first and second sides in conductive relation to a conductive drain electrode and a source electrode;
• at least one capacitor comprised of a dielectric layer formed of at least one dielectric material, the at least one dielectric layer having first and second sides in conductive relation to one of either the conductive source or drain electrodes, and a conductive gate electrode;
• and
• at least one substrate in supportive relation with each of said drain and gate electrodes;
• wherein the drain and source electrodes are the cathode and anode of the light emitting cell;
• and
• wherein at least the electrode disposed between the light emitting layer and the dielectric layer is a gate tunable carbon electrode.