Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.

Mitsui Petrochemical Industries, Ltd.

Hideyuki Murata

Tetsuo Tsutsui

Takahiro Fujiyama

Tooru Yamanaka

Shogo Saito

Hideki Hirano

In a first aspect, an organic electroluminescent device having an electroluminescent layer and/or a charge injecting/transporting layer formed out of a thin film of organic polymers of network structure which are excellent in heat resistance and durability, e.g., polyoxadiazoles is obtained by conducting a vapor deposition polymerization of a bifunctional monomer, a polyfunctional monomer of 3 or higher in functionality or a mixture of the polyfunctional monomer and bifunctional monomer and heating the resultant polymer in vacuum or an inert gas. In another aspect, an organic electroluminescent device having an electroluminescent layer and/or a charge injecting/transporting layer formed out of a thin film of polyoxadiazoles is produced without the formation of hydrogen halides (acids) as by-products by performing a vapor deposition polymerization of a monomer having two carboxylic acid halide groups and a monomer having two silylated carbohydrazide groups and heating the resultant polymer in vacuum or an inert gas.

Organic electroluminescent device and process for producing the same

The thin-film electroluminescent device of the present invention comprises a thin film of a polyoxadiazole derivative represented by the formula: ##STR1## wherein each of X.sub.0 and Y.sub.0 independently represents a divalent organic group which may comprise a silicon atom, and n is an integer of 2 or greater,

Thin-film electroluminescent device

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Sodegaura, Japan

Hideyuki Murata