Electrical connectors for optoelectronic device packaging
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsThomas Bert Gorczyca, Stefan Rakuff, Michael Scott Herzog
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Abstract
Packaged optoelectronic device include a first barrier layer having a plurality of feedthrough apertures communicating with at least one electrode layer of the device, and a plurality of conductive patches disposed on at least one of the plurality of feedthrough apertures for electrically connecting the device to a power supply. Each conductive patch includes a conductive metal surface layer and a non-conducting surface layer having an opening exposing the metal surface layer.
Claims20
A roll to roll process for packaging an optoelectronic device, said process comprising providing a partially packaged optoelectronic device in roll format, said partially packaged optoelectronic device comprising a substrate, a plurality of electroactive layers sandwiched between a cathode and an anode, and a first barrier layer having a plurality of feedthrough apertures exposing the cathode and the anode;
- providing a plurality of conductive patches, each conductive patch comprising a conductive metal surface layer and a non-conducting surface layer having an opening exposing the conductive layer;
- applying a conductive patch to each of the feedthrough apertures;
- and making contact between the conductive metal surface layer of each conductive patch and at least one of the cathode and the anode.
A packaged optoelectronic device in roll format, the packaged optoelectronic device comprising a substrate, a plurality of electroactive layers sandwiched between a cathode and an anode and a first barrier layer having a plurality of feedthrough apertures exposing at least the cathode or the anode of the device, and a plurality of conductive patches disposed on at least one of the plurality of feedthrough apertures;
- wherein each conductive patch comprises a conductive metal surface layer and a non-conducting surface layer having an opening.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.