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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 27, 1988
Filed:
Dec. 22, 1987
Mark Levinson, Sudbury, MA (US);
GTE Laboratories Incorporated, Waltham, MA (US);
Abstract
A thin film electroluminescent device including a transparent substrate having a smooth, planar exterior surface and a rough, non-planar interior surface. Layers of a first transparent electrode of indium tin oxide or tin oxide, an insulating material, for example, silicon oxynitride, manganese activated zinc sulfide, an insulating material, and a second electrode of aluminum are deposited in order on the rough, non-planar interior surface of the substrate. The rough, non-planar interface between the phosphor and insulating material provides surfaces at different angles to the light generated within the phosphor layer preventing light from being trapped within the phosphor layer.