Black conductive thick film compositions, black electrodes, and methods of forming thereof
AssigneeE. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company
InventorsJi-Yeon Lee, Michael F. Barker, Keiichiro Hayakawa, Hisashi Matsumo, Hiroaki Noda, Jerome David Smith
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Abstract
This invention is directed to black conductive compositions, black electrodes made from such compositions and methods of forming such electrodes. In particular, the invention is directed to a single layer bus electrode.
Claims6
A single layer electrode of a flat panel display formed from a composition comprising, based on total composition weight percent:
- (1) 40-70 weight percent of conductive metal particles selected from the group consisting of gold, silver, platinum, palladium, copper and mixtures thereof;
- (2) Particles selected from the group consisting of:
- (a) 0.5 to less than 3 weight percent of conductive metal oxides with metallic conductivity selected from the group consisting of RuO2, ruthenium polyoxide, and mixtures thereof;
- (b) 0.5 to less than 3 weight percent non-conductive oxide(s) selected from the group consisting of Cr—Fe—Co oxide, Cr—Cu—Co oxide, Cr—Cu—Mn oxide, Co3O4 and mixtures thereof;
- (c) 0.5 to 15 weight percent of metal oxide with metallic conductivity selected from an oxide of two or more elements, said elements selected from the group consisting of Ba, Ru, Ca, Cu, Sr, Bi, Pb, and the rare earth metals, wherein said metal oxide of (c) has a surface area to weight ratio in the range of 2 to 20 m2/g;
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- (d) mixtures thereof;
- (3) 25-59 weight percent organic matter comprising organic polymer binder and organic solvent;
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- (4) 0.5-20 weight percent of one or more lead-free bismuth glass binders wherein said glass binder comprises, based on weight percent total glass binder composition:
- 55-85% Bi2O3, 0-20% SiO2, 0-5% AI2O3, 2-20% B2O3, 0-20% ZnO, 0-15% of one or more of oxides selected from the group consisting of BaO, CaO, and SrO;
- and 0-3% of one or more of oxides selected from the group consisting of Na2O, K2O, Cs2O, Li2O and mixtures thereof;
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- wherein the softening point of said glass binder is in the range 400-600° C.;
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- wherein said composition is characterized by being lead-free.
The single layer electrode of claim 1 wherein said conductive metal particles of (1) are Ag particles present in the range of 50-60 weight percent total composition and wherein said conductive metal oxides with metallic conductivity or non-conductive oxide(s) are present in the range of 2 to less then 3 weight percent of the total composition and wherein said glass binders of claim 6 are present in the range of 2 to 10 weight percent total composition.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.