Konica-minolta Holdings, Inc.

Konica Corporation

Konica Minolta, Inc.

Kunimasa Hiyama

Shigeru Kojima

Takeshi Ono

Tomoyuki Nakayama

Toshiya Kondo

Yasuo Taima

Kazuhiro Murai

Yoriko Nakayama

Hiroshi Kita

Shigeo Tanaka

Shinichi Suzuki

Hideo Taka

Eisaku Katoh

Toyoki Nishijima

Hirokazu Sato

Hiroshi Kashiwagi

Kunio Tani

Junji Ito

Kouji Tashiro

Hiroto Ito

Hiroyuki Hashimoto

An organic electroluminescent element includes a hole injection layer (HI), a first hole transport layer (HT1), a second hole transport layer (HT2), and a light-emitting layer containing a host compound (H) and a phosphorescence emitting dopant compound (D), which are laminated in this order, between and an anode and a cathode. The phosphorescence emitting dopant compound has a partial structure represented by Formula (1):  The 'highest occupied molecular orbital' HOMO of the second hole transport layer satisfies the expression: &#x2212;5.4&#x3c;HOMO (HT2)&#x3c;&#x2212;4.8; and the relationship of triplet excitation energies (T1) between the phosphorescence emitting dopant compound and a hole transport material contained in the second hole transport layer satisfies the expression: T1 (HT2)&#x2212;T1 (D)&#x3e;0.1.

Organic electroluminescent element

Disclosed is a novel light extraction sheet, which not only improves light extraction efficiency but suppresses color change with the angle of observation, an organic EL element employing this light extraction sheet, and an illumination device employing the element. The light extraction sheet is featured in that it comprises a transparent resin film and provided thereon, a light scatter layer containing a binder resin and light scattering particles with an average particle size of front 0.2 to 1.0 &#x3bc;m dispersed in the binder resin and a concavo-convex layer containing a binder resin and spherical particles with an average particle size of from 3 to 10 &#x3bc;m.

Light extraction sheet, organic electroluminescence element and illumination device

Disclosed is a white light-emitting organic electroluminescent device, which is excellent in stability of emission chromaticity over a long operation period, while having high electrical efficiency, long life, excellent storage stability and excellent color rendering properties. Also disclosed is an illuminating device using such an organic electroluminescent device. Specifically disclosed is an organic electroluminescent device having a light-emitting layer between an anode and a cathode, which is characterized by comprising a light-emitting layer A having a maximum emission wavelength of not more than 480 nm and containing a phosphorescent dopant having a maximum emission wavelength of not more than 480 nm, and a light-emitting layer B arranged between the light-emitting layer A and the anode, which has a maximum emission wavelength of not less than 510 nm and contains a phosphorescent dopant. This organic electroluminescent device is also characterized in that the concentration of the phosphorescent dopant contained in the light-emitting layer A varies in the thickness direction of the light-emitting layer A. Also specifically disclosed is an illuminating device using such a white light-emitting organic electroluminescent device.

White organic electroluminescent element and lighting device

Provided is an organic electroluminescence element containing a light transmissive base material laminated thereon a transparent electrode, a light emitting layer and a counter electrode in this order, wherein the light transmissive base material contains a light transmissive resin substrate (resin substrate B) provided with a hard coat layer on both surfaces of the light transmissive resin substrate, the hard coat layers containing metal oxide nano particles; and the transparent electrode is formed on one hard coat layer (H1); and a rugged structure is formed on one surface of the other hard coat layer (H2), the one surface being opposite to another surface of the other hard coat layer (H2) which is contacted with the light transmissive resin substrate (resin substrate B).

Organic electroluminescence element, method for producing organic electroluminescence element, and illumination device using organic electroluminescence element

Disclosed are an organic electroluminescence element with significantly improved light extraction efficiency and improved film properties and an illumination device that uses said element. The organic electroluminescence element has a transparent electrode, an organic electroluminescence layer, and a cathode sequentially stacked on a transparent base material. The element is characterized in that the transparent base material is a transparent resin film, there is a hard coat layer on both sides, the respective refractive indices satisfy the expressions (1)-(4), and there is a function to scatter light to the light emission side with respect to the organic electroluminescence layer. Expression (1): &#x2212;0.2&#x2266;n(H1)&#x2212;n(A)&#x2266;0.2, Expression (2): &#x2212;0.1&#x2266;n(H1)&#x2212;n(B)&#x2266;0.1, Expression (3): &#x2212;0.1&#x2266;n(H2)&#x2212;n(B)&#x2266;0.1, Expression (4): &#x2212;0.1&#x2266;n(H1)&#x2212;n(H2)&#x2266;0.1. In the expressions, n(A) is the refractive index of the transparent electrode; n(H1) is the refractive index of the hard coat layer (on the transparent electrode side); n(H2) is the refractive index of the hard coat layer (on the side opposite the transparent electrode); and n(B) is the refractive index of the transparent resin film.

Organic electroluminescence element and illumination device using the same

Provided is a manufacturing method by which each functional layer of various types of organic electronic elements can be uniformly formed by wet process. Specifically, a method for manufacturing an organic electronic element which uniformly emits light with high emission efficiency is provided. The method for manufacturing the organic electronic element includes a step of forming a functional layer by laminating at least an organic layer (A) and an organic layer (B) in this order on a substrate. After forming at least the organic layer (A), the organic layer (B) is applied and formed on the organic layer (A) by using a fluorine-containing solvent.

Method for manufacturing organic electronic element

Provided is an organic electroluminescence element which is driven with a reduced drive voltage without deteriorating emission luminance and has a high power efficiency. The organic electroluminescence element having at least one light emitting layer is characterized in that two or more types of light emitting dopants having different emission colors are included in at least one light emitting layer, the concentration of all the light emitting dopants included in the light emitting layer is 5 Vol % or more, and the concentration of the light emitting dopant giving a main emission color among the light emitting dopants in the light emitting layer is 2 Vol % or less.

Electroluminescent element

An organic electroluminescent element having at least an anode, a cathode, and a light-emitting layer held between the anode and the cathode on a substrate and emitting white light. The light-emitting layer consists of three or less layers, the light-emitting material contained entirely in the light-emitting layer consists of at least four kinds of light-emitting material having different emission maximum wavelengths (&#x3bb;max). The four kinds of light emitting material have emission colors of blue, green, yellow red and red, and since one or more layers out of the three or less layers of the light-emitting layer contain two or more kinds of light-emitting material simultaneously, there is obtained an organic electroluminescent element excellent in color rendering and exhibiting high power efficiency in which variation in emission color is small even if current density varies.

The present invention provides a white organic electroluminescent element which can emits white light and is free from deviation of chromaticity. This organic electroluminescent element comprises a substrate and, provided on the substrate, at least an anode, a cathode, and a light emitting layer held between the anode and the cathode. This organic electroluminescent element is characterized in that the light emitting layer contains at least three types of light emitting materials different from each other in &#x3bb; max, and the absolute value of HOMO level of the light emitting material having the shortest wavelength is smaller than the absolute value of HOMO level of the other light emitting materials.

A white light-emitting organic electroluminescent element is disclosed, containing a substrate having thereon: an anode; a cathode; and a plurality of light emitting layers between the anode and the cathode, wherein the plurality of light emitting layers contains: a first light emitting layer which emits a light having a predetermined wavelength; a second light emitting layer which is located at a nearer position to the anode than the first light emitting layer and emits a light having a complementary color to the light having the predetermined wavelength; and a third light emitting layer which is located at a nearer position to the cathode than the first light emitting layer and emits the light having the complementary color to the light having the predetermined wavelength.

White light emitting organic electroluminescent element and lighting device

An ink-jet recording sheet comprising a support having thereon in the following order: (i) a first ink absorbing layer comprising gelatin and a first cationic polymer; and (ii) a second ink absorbing layer comprising gelatin and a second cationic polymer, wherein the first cationic polymer has a larger ink absorption ratio A than the second cationic polymer, the ink absorption ratio A being defined by the following equation: A (%)&equals;((an optical density of a print after immersion in water)/(an optical density of a print before immersion in water))&times;100.

Ink-jet recording medium

A silver halide photographic light sensitive material is disclosed. The light-sensitive material comprises a support having thereon a yellow dye image-forming emulsion layer, a magenta dye image-forming emulsion layer, and a cyan dye image-forming emulsion layer and optionally a light-insensitive layer, in which said yellow image-forming emulsion layer contains a yellow dye-forming coupler represented by Formula I and an organic solvent-soluble polymer, and a light-sensitive or light-insensitive layer each adjoined to the yellow image forming emulsion layer contains a polymer which have a constituting unit represented by Formula II;

Silver halide photographic light-sensitive material

A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material is disclosed. The light-sensitive material comprises a dispersion material which is obtained by emulsifying a mixture of a yellow coupler represented by the formula and a polymer compound that is insoluble in water and soluble in an organic solvent.

A silver halide color photographic material comprises a support and provided thereon a silver halide emulsion layer, wherein the material comprises a water-insoluble alcoholic compound having a hydroxy group forming an intramolecular hydrogen bond.

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Hachioji, Japan

Kunimasa Hiyama