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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 02, 2008
Filed:
Apr. 17, 2003
Rifat Ata Mustafa Hikmet, Eindhoven, NL;
Henricus Albertus Maria Van Hal, Eindhoven, NL;
Eliav Itzhak Haskal, Eindhoven, NL;
Rifat Ata Mustafa Hikmet, Eindhoven, NL;
Henricus Albertus Maria Van Hal, Eindhoven, NL;
Eliav Itzhak Haskal, Eindhoven, NL;
Koninklijke Philips Electronics, N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
An electroluminescent panel comprising: a closed casing; an organic device received in the casing and defining a plurality of pixels; the organic device including an organic luminescent layer between a lower and an upper electrode layer; and a getter means disposed in the casing. The getter means is a high capacity getter means by employing alkaline metals and/or alkaline earth metals in the form of non-oxidic compounds or alloys in which they are dispersed on a molecular scale, whereby they are still active reactants with oxygen, hydrogen and water. Preferably the getter means comprises a getter material selected from the following groups: (a) an alloy of at least one alkaline metal or alkaline earth metal with an other metal; (b) alkaline (earth) metal carbide, alkaline (earth) metal silicide, alkaline (earth) metal nitride; (c) at least one alkaline (earth) metal intercalated in C, Si, Ge, Sn or Pb.