Hodogaya Chemical Co., Ltd.

Sfc Co., Ltd.

Universal Display Corporation

Shinshu University

Naoaki Kabasawa

Shuichi Hayashi

Norimasa Yokoyama

Takeshi Yamamoto

Shunji Mochizuki

Daizou Kanda

Makoto Nagaoka

Shunji Mochiduki

Ju-man Song

Sang-woo Park

Soon-wook Cha

Kyung-seok Jeon

Eiji Takahashi

Se-Jin Lee

Shigeru Kusano

Bong-Ki Shin

Oun-gyu Lee

Hitoshi Yamamoto

Musubu Ichikawa

Kazuyuki Suruga

Hideyoshi Kitahara

Keigo Naito

Michael Stuart Weaver

Vadim Adamovich

Michael Stewart Weaver

Kazunori Togashi

Yoshio Taniguchi

Kouki Kase

Sawa Izumi

Daizo Kanda

Taeyoung Kim

Jeong-Soo Kim

Sohei Otsuru

To provide an organic compound having a high electron injection/transport performances, an excellent hole blocking ability, and a stable thin-film state, as a material for organic electroluminescent devices with high efficiency and high durability, and also to provide an organic electroluminescent device having a high efficiency and high durability by using the compound. An organic electroluminescent device comprising a pair of electrodes, and one or more organic layers sandwiched between the pair of electrodes, wherein the compound having a fused-azole ring structure of the general formula (1) is used as a constituent material of at least one organic layer.

Compound having a fused-azole ring structure and organic electroluminescent element

According to the present invention, there is provided an organic electroluminescence element including at least an anode, a hole injection layer, a hole transport layer, a light-emitting layer, an electron transport layer, and a cathode in the stated order, the organic electroluminescence element being characterized in that: the hole injection layer contains an arylamine compound represented by the following general formula (1) and an electron acceptor. The organic EL element of the present invention has a high light emission efficiency and an excellent durability, as compared with the related art, while maintaining the existing low drive voltage.

Organic electroluminescence element

An object of the present invention is to provide an organic EL element that has (1) high light emission efficiency and high power efficiency, (2) a low light-emission start voltage, (3) a low actual driving voltage, and (4) an especially long lifespan. According to the present invention, provided is an organic electroluminescent element, or organic EL element, having at least an anode, a hole injection layer, a first hole transport layer, a second hole transport layer, a light emitting layer, an electron transport layer, and a cathode, in this order, wherein the second hole transport layer contains an arylamine compound represented by the general formula (1) below, and the electron transport layer contains a pyrimidine derivative represented by the general formula (2) below. Note that A in the general formula (2) represents a monovalent group represented by the structural formula (3) below. 

Organic electroluminescent element

A material for an organic electroluminescent device that is excellent in hole injection and transport abilities, electron blocking ability, stability in a thin film state, and durability is provided as a material for an organic electroluminescent device having high efficiency and high durability. Further, an organic electroluminescent device having low driving voltage, high efficiency, and a long lifetime is provided by combining the material with various materials for an organic EL device that is excellent in hole and electron injection and transport abilities, electron blocking ability, thin film stability, and durability, in such a manner that the characteristics of the materials can be effectively exhibited. An organic electroluminescent device comprising at least an anode, a hole transport layer, a light emitting layer, an electron transport layer, and a cathode in this order, wherein the hole transport layer comprises an arylamine compound of the following general formula (1). 

Organic electroluminescent device

It is an object of the present invention to provide an organic EL device in which, as a highly efficient and highly durable organic EL material, various materials excelling in electron injection/transport performance, hole blocking performance, hole resistance performance, exciton confinement performance, stability in a film state, and durability, are combined so that properties of each material can be effectively demonstrated, thereby achieving (1) high light emission efficiency and power efficiency, (2) low luminescence starting voltage, (3) low practical driving voltage, and (4) particularly long lifetime. An organic EL device including at least a anode, a hole transport layer, a light-emitting layer, a hole blocking layer, an electron transport layer, and a cathode in this order, characterized in that the hole blocking layer includes a compound having a benzoazole structure represented by the following general formula (1). (In the formula, Arand Armay be the same or different from each other and each represent a hydrogen atom, a deuterium atom, a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic hydrocarbon group, a substituted or unsubstituted fused polycyclic aromatic group, or a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic heterocyclic group. Yrepresents a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic hydrocarbon group, a substituted or unsubstituted fused polycyclic aromatic group, a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic heterocyclic group, a straight-chained or branched alkyl group that has 1 to 6 carbon atoms and may have a substituent group, a cycloalkyl group that has 5 to 10 carbon atoms and may have a substituent group, or a straight-chained or branched alkenyl group that has 2 to 6 carbon atoms and may have a substituent group. X represents an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom. Zand Zmay be the same or different from each other and each represent a carbon atom or a nitrogen atom).

Organic electroluminescence device that includes compound having benzoazole structure

According to the present invention, there is provided an organic electroluminescent device which has an anode, a hole transport layer, a luminous layer, an electron transport layer, and a cathode arranged in order of description. The device is characterized in that: the hole transport layer includes a specific arylamine compound, and that the luminous layer includes a specific indenoindole derivative or a specific carbazole derivative. The organic EL device of the present invention has improved efficiency of hole transport from the hole transport layer to the luminous layer and also improved efficiency of electron transport from the electron transport layer to the luminous layer, in comparison to conventional organic EL devices.

Organic electroluminescence device

In the organic electroluminescent device having at least an anode, a hole injection layer, a hole transport layer, a light emitting layer, an electron transport layer and a cathode in this order, the hole injection layer includes an arylamine compound of the following general formula (1) and an electron acceptor. In the formula, Arto Armay be the same or different, and represent a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic hydrocarbon group, a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic heterocyclic group, or a substituted or unsubstituted condensed polycyclic aromatic group.

To provide an organic EL device having (1) high luminous efficiency and high power efficiency, (2) low turn on voltage, (3) low actual driving voltage, and (4) a long lifetime, by combining various materials for an organic EL device, which are excellent in hole injection/transport performances, electron injection/transport performances, electron blocking ability, stability in a thin-film state, and durability, so as to allow the respective materials to effectively reveal their characteristics. In the organic EL device having at least an anode, a hole transport layer, a light emitting layer, an electron transport layer and a cathode in this order, the hole transport layer includes an arylamine compound of the following general formula (1), and the electron transport layer includes a compound of the following general formula (2) having a benzazole ring structure. 

Object To provide an organic electroluminescence device including, in order to improve the device characteristics of the organic electroluminescence device, particularly, to absorb light having the wavelengths of from 400 nm to 410 nm from sunlight, not to affect a material inside the device, and to significantly improve the light extraction efficiency, a capping layer formed of a material that has a high absorption coefficient, a high refractive index, and an excellent stability, durability, and light resistance of a thin film, and does not absorb light in the blue, green, and red wavelength range. Solving Means An organic electroluminescence device including at least an anode electrode, a hole transport layer, a light emitting layer, an electron transport layer, a cathode electrode, and a capping layer in the stated order, in which the capping layer includes a material having an extinction coefficient of not less than 0.3 at wavelengths of from 400 nm to 410 nm and an absorbance of not less than 0.2 at wavelengths of from 400 nm to 410 nm in an absorption spectrum of a concentration of 10mol/l.

The present invention provides an organic EL device having at least an anode, a first hole transport layer, a second hole transport layer, a luminous layer, an electron transport layer, and a cathode in this order, wherein the second hole transport layer contains an arylamine compound represented by the following general formula (1), and the electron transport layer contains a pyrimidine derivative represented by the following general formula (2). The organic EL device of the present invention has a high efficiency, and is driven at a low driving voltage. Further, it has a particularly long lifetime. 

An organic electroluminescent device having low driving voltage, high luminous efficiency, and a long lifetime is provided by combining various materials for an organic EL device, which are excellent, as materials for an organic electroluminescent device having high efficiency and high durability, in hole and electron injection/transport performances, electron blocking ability, stability in a thin-film state and durability, so as to allow the respective materials to effectively reveal their characteristics. In the organic electroluminescent device having at least an anode, a hole transport layer, a light emitting layer, an electron transport layer and a cathode in this order, the hole transport layer includes an arylamine compound represented by the following general formula (1), and the light emitting layer includes an amine derivative of the following general formula (2) having a condensed ring structure.[Chemical Formula 1] 

In the organic electroluminescent device having at least an anode, a hole injection layer, a first hole injection layer, a second hole injection layer, a light emitting layer, an electron transport layer and a cathode in this order, the hole injection layer includes an arylamine compound of the following general formula (1) and an electron acceptor.  In the formula, Arto Armay be the same or different, and represent a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic hydrocarbon group, a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic heterocyclic group, or a substituted or unsubstituted condensed polycyclic aromatic group.

An organic electroluminescent device having high luminous efficiency, low driving voltage, and particularly a long lifetime is provided by combining various materials for an organic electroluminescent device, which have excellent hole and electron injection/transport performances, electron blocking ability, stability in a thin-film state, and durability as materials for an organic electroluminescent device having high luminous efficiency and high durability so as to allow the respective materials to effectively reveal their characteristics. In the organic electroluminescent device having at least an anode, a hole transport layer, a light emitting layer, an electron transport layer and a cathode in this order, the hole transport layer includes an arylamine compound represented by the following general formula (1), and the light emitting layer includes an amine derivative of the following general formula (2) having a condensed ring structure. 

The organic EL device of the present invention has an anode, a first hole transport layer, a second hole transport layer, a luminous layer, an electron transport layer, and a cathode in the order of description. The second hole transport layer includes an arylamine derivative represented by the following general formula (1): and the electron transport layer includes a pyrimidine compound represented by the following general formula (2): 

The organic EL device of the present invention has an anode, a hole transport layer, a luminous layer, an electron transport layer, and a cathode in the order of description. The hole transport layer includes an arylamine compound represented by the following general formula (1): 

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