5144 results about "Hole transport layer" patented technology

The present invention provides a novel aromatic amine derivative having a specific structure and an organic electroluminescence device in which an organic thin film layer comprising a single layer or plural layers including at least a light emitting layer is interposed between a cathode and an anode, wherein at least one layer in the above organic thin film layer, particularly a hole transporting layer contains the aromatic amine derivative described above in the form of a single component or a mixed component. Use of the aromatic amine derivative described above materialize an organic electroluminescence device which reduces a driving voltage and makes molecules less liable to be crystallized and which enhances a yield in producing the organic EL device and has a long lifetime.

Disclosed herein are red phosphorescent compounds of the following Formulas 1 to 4:

wherein

 is

• •  R1, R2 and R3 are independently a C₁-C₄ alkyl group, R4, R5, R6 and R7 are independently selected from hydrogen, C₁-C₄ alkyl groups and C₁-C₄ alkoxy groups, and

 is selected from 2,4-pentanedione, 2,2,6,6,-tetramethylheptane-3,5-dione, 1,3-propanedione, 1,3-butanedione, 3,5-heptanedione, 1,1,1-trifluoro-2,4-pentanedione, 1,1,1,5,5,5-hexafluoro-2,4-pentanedione, and 2,2-dimethyl-3,5-hexanedione;

wherein

 is

 R1 and R2 are independently selected from C₁-C₄ alkyl groups and C₁-C₄ alkoxy groups, R3, R4, R5 and R6 are independently selected from hydrogen, C₁-C₄ alkyl groups and C₁-C₄ alkoxy groups, and

 is selected from 2,4-pentanedione, 2,2,6,6,-tetramethylheptane-3,5-dione, 1,3-propanedione, 1,3-butanedione, 3,5-heptanedione, 1,1,1-trifluoro-2,4-pentanedione, 1,1,1,5,5,5-hexafluoro-2,4-pentanedione and 2,2-dimethyl-3,5-hexanedione;

wherein

 is

 R1 and R2 are independently selected from C₁-C₄ alkyl groups and C₁-C₄ alkoxy groups, R3, R4, R5 and R6 are independently selected from hydrogen, C₁-C₄ alkyl groups and C₁-C₄ alkoxy groups, and

 is selected from 2,4-pentanedione, 2,2,6,6,-tetramethylheptane-3,5-dione, 1,3-propanedione, 1,3-butanedione, 3,5-heptanedione, 1,1,1-trifluoro-2,4-pentanedione, 1,1,1,5,5,5-hexafluoro-2,4-pentanedione and 2,2-dimethyl-3,5-hexanedione; and

wherein

 is

 R1 and R2 are independently selected from C₁-C₄ alkyl groups and C₁-C₄ alkoxy groups, R3, R4, R5 and R6 are independently selected from hydrogen, C₁-C₄ alkyl groups and C₁-C₄ alkoxy groups, and  is selected from 2,4-pentanedione, 2,2,6,6,-tetramethylheptane-3,5-dione, 1,3-propanedione, 1,3-butanedione, 3,5-heptanedione, 1,1,1-trifluoro-2,4-pentanedione, 1,1,1,5,5,5-hexafluoro-2,4-pentanedione and 2,2-dimethyl-3,5-hexanedione. Further disclosed herein is an organic electroluminescent (EL) device comprising an anode, a hole injecting layer, a hole transport layer, a light-emitting layer, an electron transport layer, an electron injecting layer, and a cathode laminated in this order wherein one of the red phosphorescent compounds is used as a dopant of the light-emitting layer.

Provided are an organic electroluminescence device and an aromatic amine derivative for realizing the device. The aromatic amine derivative improves the luminous efficiency of an organic electroluminescence device using the derivative, and its molecules hardly crystallize. The organic electroluminescence device has an organic thin film layer composed of one or a plurality of layers including at least a light emitting layer, the organic thin film layer being interposed between a cathode and an anode, and at least one layer of the organic thin film layer, especially a hole transporting layer contains the aromatic amine derivative alone or as a component of a mixture, so the organic electroluminescence device can be produced in improved yield, and has a long lifetime.

Disclosed are compositions for an organic electroluminescent device favorably used for forming a hole injection layer and a hole transport layer of the organic electroluminescent device by a wet film forming method. The compositions for the organic electroluminescent device, which are composite solutions prepared by dissolving hole transport materials such as aromatic diamine compounds and an electron acceptor such as tri(pentafluorophenyl)boron in a solvent that contains an ether solvent and/or an ester solvent whose water solubility at 25° C. is 1 weight % or less in the solvent, with a concentration of 10 weight % or higher in the compositions.

Disclosed herein is a red phosphorescent compound of the following Formula 1:

wherein

is

• • R1 is a C₁-C₄ alkoxy group, R2, R3, R4 and R5 are independently selected from hydrogen, C₁-C₄ alkyl groups and C₁-C₄ alkoxy groups, and  is selected from 2,4-pentanedione, 2,2,6,6,-tetramethylheptane-3,5-dione, 1,3-propanedione, 1,3-butanedione, 3,5-heptanedione, 1,1,1-trifluoro-2,4-pentanedione, 1,1,1,5,5,5-hexafluoro-2,4-pentanedione, and 2,2-dimethyl-3,5-hexanedione. Further disclosed herein is an organic electroluminescent (EL) device comprising an anode, a hole injecting layer, a hole transport layer, a light-emitting layer, an electron transport layer, an electron injecting layer, and a cathode laminated in this order wherein one of the red phosphorescent compounds is used as a dopant of the light-emitting layer.

Provided are an organic electroluminescence device that not only provides high efficiency but also has a long lifetime, and an aromatic amine derivative that realizes the device. The organic electroluminescence device includes an aromatic amine derivative, including at least one substituent A having dibenzofuran and at least one substituent B selected from groups each having dibenzofuran or carbazole, in a molecule thereof, in which the substituent A and the substituent B include groups different from each other, and the substituent A and the substituent B are bonded to the same nitrogen atom, or different nitrogen atoms, in the molecule. The molecules of the aromatic amine derivative hardly crystallize, which improves a yield in the production of the organic electroluminescence device. In the organic electroluminescence device, including an organic thin film layer formed of one or more layers including at least a light emitting layer, the organic thin film layer being interposed between a cathode and an anode, the aromatic amine derivative is contained in at least one layer, particularly a hole transport layer, in the organic thin film layer.

Provided is an organic thin film light emitting element which has achieved all of improved luminous efficiency, improved driving voltage and improved durability life. Specifically provided is a light emitting element which comprises a hole transport layer and an electron transport layer between a positive electrode and a negative electrode and emits light by means of electrical energy. The light emitting element is characterized in that: the hole transport layer of the light emitting element contains a compound represented by general formula (1); the electron transport layer contains a donor compound; and the donor compound is an alkali metal, an inorganic salt containing an alkali metal, a complex of an alkali metal and an organic substance, an alkaline earth metal, an inorganic salt containing an alkaline earth metal, or a complex of an alkaline earth metal and an organic substance. (In the formula, R¹-R²⁰ each represents one group selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, deuterium, an alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, an amino group, an aryl group, a heterocyclic group, a heteroaryl group, an alkenyl group, a cycloalkenyl group, an alkynyl group, analkoxy group, an alkylthio group, an arylether group, an arylthioether group, a halogen, a cyano group, a —P(═O)R²⁴R²⁵ group and a silyl group; R²⁴ and R²⁵ each represents an aryl group or a heteroaryl group; and these substituents may be further substituted, or adjacent two substituents may combine together to form a ring. Meanwhile, R²¹-R²³ may be the same or different and each represents one group selected from the group consisting of an alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, an aryl group and a heteroaryl group; and these substituents maybe further substituted.)

A high-efficiency, high-durability organic electroluminescent device, particularly a phosphorescent organic electroluminescent device is provided by using an organic compound of excellent characteristics that exhibits excellent hole-injecting/transporting performance and has high triplet exciton confining capability with an electron blocking ability, and that has high stability in the thin-film state and high luminous efficiency.

The organic electroluminescent device includes a pair of electrodes, and a plurality of organic layers sandwiched between the pair of electrodes and including a phosphorescent light-emitting material-containing light emitting layer and a hole transport layer, wherein a compound of the following general formula (1) having a carbazole ring structure is used as a constituent material of the hole transport layer.

The present invention provides an organic electroluminescence device which can be driven at a reduced voltage, hardly causes the crystallization of a molecule, can be produced in improved yield, and has a long lifetime because of difficulty of molecular crystallization, and aromatic amine derivatives for realizing the device. The aromatic amine derivatives are novel aromatic amine derivatives having a specific structure. The organic electroluminescence device includes an organic thin film layer formed of one or more layers including at least a light emitting layer, the organic thin film layer being interposed between a cathode and an anode. In the organic electroluminescence device, at least one layer of the organic thin film layer, especially a hole transporting layer, contains the aromatic amine derivative alone or as a component of a mixture.

An electroluminescent device comprised of an anode, a hole transporting layer, a light emitting layer, and a cathode, wherein said light emitting layer contains a component of the formula wherein Ar1, Ar2, Ar3, and Ar4 are each independently aryl or optionally aliphatic; R1 and R2 are independently selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, aliphatic, halogen, and cyano; L is a suitable linking group; and n is a number of from 0 to about 3.

For use in a display device, a simple-matrix-drive-type luminescent panel is formed by stacking a dielectric mirror layer, a transparent electrode, a hole transport layer, a luminous layer, and a metal electrode on a glass substrate, wherein the transparent electrode is formed as a plurality of stripes equally spaced apart a specified distance from each other, and the metal electrode is formed as a plurality of stripes equally spaced apart a specified distance from each other and arranged at right angles with the transparent electrode stripes, and pixels are formed at intersections of the metal electrodes and the transparent electrodes and wherein in order for the pixels of the panel to emit light to display information, the application of a voltage to the pixels is controlled by selection of the electrodes according to information. This luminescent panel contributes to reductions in size and weight of the display device.

Solid state photosensitive devices including photovoltaic devices are provided which comprise a first electrode and a second electrode in superposed relation; and at least one isolated Light Harvesting Complex (LHC) between the electrodes. Preferred photosensitive devices comprise an electron transport layer formed of a first photoconductive organic semiconductor material, adjacent to the LHC, disposed between the first electrode and the LHC; and a hole transport layer formed of a second photoconductive organic semiconductor material, adjacent to the LHC, disposed between the second electrode and the LHC. Solid state photosensitive devices of the present invention may comprise at least one additional layer of photoconductive organic semiconductor material disposed between the first electrode and the electron transport layer; and at least one additional layer of photoconductive organic semiconductor material, disposed between the second electrode and the hole transport layer. Methods of generating photocurrent are provided which comprise exposing a photovoltaic device of the present invention to light. Electronic devices are provided which comprise a solid state photosensitive device of the present invention.

An organic electronluminescence device includes an array element divided into sub-pixels and including thin film transistors formed in the sub-pixels; a color conversion portion disposed below a second substrate and including a red (R), green (G) and blue (B) conversion layer for converting white light into three primary colors of red (R), green (G) and blue (B); a first electrode disposed below the color conversion portion and including a transparent conductive material; an organic EL layer disposed below the first electrode in the sub-pixels and including a plurality of stack units each including a charge generation layer, an electrode transporting layer, a hole transporting layer and an emission layer; a second electrode patterned below the organic EL layer in the sub-pixels; and a conductive spacer electrically connecting the thin film transistors with the second electrode.

The invention provides a quantum dot luminescent device. The quantum dot luminescent device comprises an anode, a hole transport layer, a quantum dot luminescent layer, an electronic transfer layer and a cathode which are arranged sequentially and adjacently. The quantum dot luminescent device further comprises an electronic barrier layer. The electronic barrier layer is arranged in the electronic transfer layer or between the quantum dot luminescent layer and the electronic transfer layer. Due to the arrangement of the electronic barrier layer, balance injection of charge carriers is ensured, automatic charge transfer between the electronic transfer layer and the quantum dot luminescent layer is isolated, electric neutrality of a quantum dot is ensured, then the quantum dot luminescent device can keep deserved luminous efficiency, the external quantum efficiency of the quantum dot luminescent device is improved, and meanwhile the service life of the quantum dot luminescent device is largely prolonged.

The present invention provides an organic electroluminescent element which is superior in luminance, reliability, and thermal stability and is capable of selectively emitting light with comparative long wavelengths such as red and good color purity and a light-emitting device or display device incorporated therewith. The organic electroluminescent element consists of a glass substrate (1), an anode (2), a hole transporting layer (10), an emitting layer (11), an electron transporting layer (12), and a cathode (3), which are sequentially laminated on top of the other. The emitting layer (11) is formed from a mixture composed of at least one species of the styryl compound represented by the general formula [I] below and a material with charge transporting capability.

Y—CH═CH—X   General formula [I]

(where X denotes an aryl group (such as phenyl group) which has a substituent group (such as cyano group and methyl group), and Y denotes a group having a skeleton of aminophenyl group or the like.)

Methods of making top-emitting or bottom-emitting full-color OLED flat panel using micro-cavity structure for primary colors are disclosed. The primary colors are realized by setting a different thickness for the hole injection layer of the OLEDs for each primary color, while keeping the thickness of the hole transport layer, the emission layer, the electron transport layer the same for all the OLEDs. Steps for predetermining the respective thickness of the hole injection layer for each primary color are also disclosed.

The invention relates to an organic light emitting device comprising an anode (2); a cathode (4); and a plurality of organic electroluminescent units (3.1, . . . , 3.m; m≧2) provided upon each other in a stack or an inverted stack between said anode (2) and said cathode (4) each of said organic electroluminescent units (3.1, . . . , 3.m) comprising an electroluminescent zone; wherein at least some of the organic electroluminescent units (3.2, . . . , 3.m) comprise a p-type doped hole transporting-layer and/or an n-type doped electron-transporting layer.

A tandem OLED includes an anode and a cathode. The OLED also includes at least two electroluminescent units disposed between the anode and the cathode, wherein each of the electroluminescent units includes at least one hole -transporting layer and one organic light-emitting layer. An intermediate connector is disposed between adjacent electroluminescent units, wherein the intermediate connector includes an n-doped organic layer and an electron-accepting layer, the electron-accepting layer being disposed closer to the cathode than the n-doped organic layer, and wherein the electron-accepting layer includes one or more organic materials, each having a reduction potential greater than −0.5 V vs. a Saturated Calomel Electrode, and wherein the one or more organic materials constitute more than 50% by volume of the electron-accepting layer.

A white light-emitting organic-inorganic hybrid electroluminescence device which has nanocrystals as illuminants. According to the device, a semiconductor nanocrystal layer composed of at least one kind of nanocrystals, a hole transport layer and/or an electron transport layer simultaneously emit light to produce white light, or a semiconductor nanocrystal layer composed of at least two kinds of nanocrystals emits light at different wavelengths to produce white light. The device can be used as a backlight unit for a liquid crystal display, or can be used to manufacture an illuminator.

A light-emitting component comprising organic layers and having several layers between a base contact and a cover contact, the corresponding process for its preparation. At least one polymer layer and two molecular layers are arranged, so that when the cover contact is a cathode, the layer adjacent to the cover contact is designed as an electron-transporting molecular layer and is doped with an organic or inorganic donor, the electron-transporting layer comprising a principal organic substance and a donor-type doping substance, the molecular weight of the dopant being more than 200 g/mole. When the cover contact is an anode, the layer adjacent to the cover contact is designed as a p-doped hole-transporting molecular layer and is doped with an organic or inorganic acceptor, the hole-transporting layer comprising a principal organic substance and an acceptor-like doping substance, the molecular weight of the dopant being more than 200 g/mole.