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Organic light-emitting diode display with optical cavities and silver anodes

Pixels in an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display may be microcavity OLED pixels having optical cavities. The optical cavities may be defined by a partially transparent cathode layer and a reflective anode structure. The anode of the pixels may include both the reflective anode structure and a transparent anode structure that is used to tune the thickness of the optical cavity for each pixel. Organic light-emitting diode layers may be formed over the pixels and may have a uniform thickness in each pixel in the display. The reflective anode structure may be formed from a silver alloy having a high reflectance. The transparent anode structure may be electrically connected to the reflective anode structure using a via or may be formed in direct contact with the reflective anode structure. The reflective anode structures may be formed using chemical mechanical polishing of a silver alloy.

Patent

Brief

Patent brief

Problem

How can corrosion in underground pipelines and conduits be prevented?

Novelty

The optical cavities may be defined by a partially transparent cathode layer and a reflective anode structure.

Uses

Pipelines, Buried conduit, Storage tanks

Assignee

Apple Inc.

Published

Mar 10, 2026

Inventors

Naoya Inoue, Takahide Kuranaga, Wookyung Bae, Alexandru Riposan, Kanuo C Kustra, Chi-Jui Chung, Teruo Sasagawa, Xiaodan Zhu, Michael Slootsky, Gloria Wong, Jaein Choi, Sunggu Kang

Domain

Infrastructure / energy

Plain-English summary

Problem

How can corrosion in underground pipelines and conduits be prevented?

Solution

Pixels in an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display may be microcavity OLED pixels having optical cavities.

Key novelty

The optical cavities may be defined by a partially transparent cathode layer and a reflective anode structure.

Applications

PipelinesBuried conduitStorage tanks

Relevant search intents

anode

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