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US 6,602,731 B2Granted
Manufacturing of a thin inorganic light emitting diode
AssigneeAgfa-Gevaert
InventorHieronymus Andriessen
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Abstract
Nanoparticle dispersions of ZnS doped with a luminescent center and of CuxS are prepared together or separately by precipitation from aqueous solutions. When such dispersions are coated between conductive electrodes a Thin Film Inorganic Light Emitting Diode device is obtained.
Claims12
A method for manufacturing a Thin Film Inorganic Light Emitting Diode device, said method comprising following steps:
- either,
- (1) preparing a nanoparticle dispersion comprising together ZnS doped with a luminescent center (n-type semiconductor) and CuxS (p-type semiconductor) by precipitation from appropriate aqueous solutions of the respective ions,
- (1′) preparing a first separate nanoparticle dispersion of ZnS doped with a luminescent center (n-type semiconductor) and a second separate nanoparticle dispersion of CuxS (p-type semiconductor), both by precipitation from appropriate aqueous solutions of the respective ions,
- (2) washing the dispersion prepared according to (1) or both dispersions prepared according to (1′) to remove non-precipitated ions,
- (3) coating onto a first conductive electrode the dispersion resulting from steps (1) and (2), or a mixture of the dispersions resulting from steps (1′) and (2) in one and the same layer, or the separate dispersions resulting from steps (1′) and (2) in two separate layers,
- (4) applying on top of said coated layer(s) resulting from step (3) a second conductive electrode, with the proviso that at least one of said first and second electrodes is transparent.
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A Thin Film Inorganic Light Emitting Diode device manufactured according to the method of any of the previous claims.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.