OTI Lumionics Inc.

The present disclosure relates to electronic devices having a display panel and a plurality of opto-electronic components, and in particular, mechanisms for mitigating diffraction effects when exchanging light, by such opto-electronic components, through at least one transmissive region of the display panel. The display panel may be one of: be, and comprise, a layered semiconductor device, which in some non-limiting examples, may be an opto-electronic device, having a plurality of (sub-) pixel emissive regions, each comprising first and second electrodes separated by at least one semiconducting layer.

A layered semiconductor device comprises at least one particle structure disposed on an underlying layer that comprises a particle material in contact with a contact material selected from: a seed material, a co-deposited dielectric material and/or at least one patterning material. A method for controllably selecting formation of the at least one particle structure on an underlying layer during manufacture of the device comprises depositing at least one layer, including the underlying layer, and exposing its surface to a flux of a particle material such that it comes into contact with the contact material, and coalesces to dispose the at least one particle structure on the underlying layer.

An opto-electronic device comprising a nucleation inhibiting coating (NIC) disposed on a surface of the device in a first portion of a lateral aspect thereof; and a conductive coating disposed on a surface of the device in a second portion of the lateral aspect thereof; wherein an initial sticking probability of the conductive coating is substantially less for the NIC than for the surface in the first portion, such that the first portion is substantially devoid of the conductive coating; and wherein the NIC comprises a compound having a formula such as that illustrated by the following formula:

A layered semiconductor device comprising a mixed ligand compound, the mixed ligand compound comprising: a cyclophosphazene core moiety, a first ligand moiety, and a second ligand moiety. The first ligand moiety and the second ligand moiety are each bonded to the core moiety. A composition comprising a plurality of compounds, each compound thereof comprises a cyclophosphazene core moiety, and at least one ligand moiety bonded to the cyclophosphazene core moiety; the plurality of compounds comprises at least one ligand moiety in common.

An opto-electronic device includes: (i) a substrate having a surface; (ii) a first electrode disposed over the surface; (iii) a semiconducting layer disposed over at least a portion of the first electrode; (iv) a second electrode disposed over the semiconducting layer; (v) a nucleation inhibiting coating disposed over at least a portion of the second electrode; (vi) a patterning structure disposed over the surface, the patterning structure providing a shadowed region between the patterning structure and the second electrode; (vii) an auxiliary electrode disposed over the surface; and (viii) a conductive coating disposed in the shadowed region, the conductive coating electrically connecting the auxiliary electrode and the second electrode.

An opto-electronic device includes: a first electrode; an organic layer disposed over the first electrode; a nucleation promoting coating disposed over the organic layer; a nucleation inhibiting coating covering a first region of the opto-electronic device; and a conductive coating covering a second region of the opto-electronic device.

An opto-electronic device comprises first and second laterally extending defining layers deposited on a substrate. The first and second defining layers reduce EM transmission therethrough in corresponding wavelength range(s) and comprises respective first and second layer aperture(s) therein defined by corresponding first and second layer laterally extending aperture(s). A geometric intersection of the first and second layer apertures substantially defines a corresponding aperture(s) of corresponding transmissive re-gion(s). The first and second defining layers are disposed in respective lateral patterns in which at least one of a: location, shape, spacing, size, orientation, and position, of the corresponding layer aperture boundary, is respectively substantially, regular, and non-uniform. Signal(s) passing through the transmissive region(s) are impacted by a diffraction characteristic of the corresponding aperture(s) of the corresponding transmissive region(s).

A display panel comprising at least one display part and at least one signal-exchanging part. The display part comprises a display part (sub-) pixel arrangement, which comprises a plurality of emissive regions, each corresponding to a (sub-) pixel. The signal-exchanging part comprises a signal-exchanging part (sub-) pixel arrangement, which comprises at least one transmissive region and a plurality of emissive regions, each corresponding to a (sub-) pixel. The signal-exchanging part (sub-) pixel arrangement accommodates the transmissive region by varying a lateral extent of an active region layer corresponding to at least one (sub-) pixel therein, such that at least one of a size, shape, configuration, and orientation, of the lateral extent of the active region layer is varied, and the first one of the active region layers is positioned at an extremity of an intersection of the lateral extent of remaining ones of the active region layers.

An opto-electronic device comprising a nucleation inhibiting coating (NIC) disposed on a surface of the device in a first portion of a lateral aspect thereof; and a conductive coating disposed on a surface of the device in a second portion of the lateral aspect thereof; wherein an initial sticking probability of the conductive coating is substantially less for the NIC than for the surface in the first portion, such that the first portion is substantially devoid of the conductive coating; and wherein the NIC comprises a compound having a formula such as that illustrated by the following formula:

An opto-electronic device having a plurality of layers, comprising a first capping layer (CPL) comprising a first CPL material and disposed in a first emissive region configured to emit photons having a first wavelength spectrum that is characterized by a first onset wavelength; and a second CPL comprising a second CPL material and disposed in a second emissive region configured to emit photons having a second wavelength spectrum that is characterized by a second onset wavelength; wherein at least one of the first CPL and the first CPL material (CPL(m)1) exhibits a first absorption edge at a first absorption edge wavelength that is shorter than the first onset wavelength; and at least one of the second CPL and the second CPL material (CPL(m)2) exhibits a second absorption edge at a second absorption edge wavelength that is shorter than the second onset wavelength.