Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.

Nobuharu Ohsawa

Satoshi Seo

Sachiko Kawakami

Hideko Inoue

Satoko Shitagaki

Harue Osaka

Toshiki Sasaki

Shunpei Yamazaki

Ryoji Nomura

Hiroshi Kadoma

Takahiro Ushikubo

Takahiro Ishisone

Tsunenori Suzuki

Hiromi Nowatari

Masakazu Egawa

Kunihiko Suzuki

Takeyoshi Watabe

Hiroko Nomura

Yusuke Nonaka

Harue Nakashima

Tetsuo Tsutsui

Hiroki Suzuki

Airi Ueda

Kumi Kojima

Kyoko Takeda

Yuko Kawata

Hisao Ikeda

Hiromi Seo

Tomohiro Kubota

Mikio Yukawa

Takuya Kawata

Takako Takasu

Akihiro Kaita

Masahiro Takahashi

Yoshinobu Asami

Tomoka Nakagawa

Yasushi Kitano

Daiki Nakamura

Masato Suzuki

Shogo Uesaka

Yui Yamada

Shunsuke Hosoumi

Yuta Kawano

Hiroko Murata

Yasuhiko Takemura

Yoshiharu Hirakata

Tamae Takano

Hiroko Abe

Kaori Ogita

Junichiro Sakata

Masami Jintyou

Yoshiaki Oikawa

Yasutaka Nakazawa

Yuko Kubota

Takuya Haruyama

Kiyoshi Kato

Takao Hamada

Satomi Mitsumori

Kazuhiko Fujita

Takao Tosu

Moe Nishimaki

Naoto Kusumoto

Daisuke Kubota

Naoaki Hashimoto

Yoshitaka Dozen

Hiromitsu Kido

Taisuke Kamada

Yusuke Takita

Miki Kanamoto

Takehisa Sato

Takumu Okuyama

Anna Tada

Sachiko Yamagata

Yuji Iwaki

Ikuko Kawamata

Nozomu Sugisawa

Ryohei Yamaoka

Shinobu Furukawa

Masatoshi Kataniwa

Tomoka Hara

Toshiki Hamada

Shiho Nomura

Keito Tosu

Tsuneori Suzuki

Ryo Narukawa

A novel organic compound is provided. A novel organic compound having a carrier-transport property is provided. A novel organic compound having a hole-transport property is provided. An organic compound having a low refractive index is provided. An organic compound having a low refractive index and a carrier-transport property is provided. An organic compound having a low refractive index and a hole-transport property is provided. An organic compound represented by the following general formula (G1) is provided.

Organic compound, light-emitting device, light-emitting apparatus, electronic equipment, lighting device, and electronic device

A material for a hole-transport layer includes a monoamine compound. The first aromatic group, the second aromatic group, and the third aromatic group are bonded to the nitrogen atom of the monoamine compound. The first and second aromatic groups each independently include 1 to 3 benzene rings. One or both of the first and second aromatic groups have one or more hydrocarbon groups each having 1 to 12 carbon atoms each forming a bond only by the sphybrid orbitals. The total number of the carbon atoms in the hydrocarbon group in the first or second aromatic group is 6 or more. The total number of the carbon atoms in all of the hydrocarbon groups in the first and second aromatic groups is 8 or more. The third aromatic group is a substituted or unsubstituted monocyclic condensed ring or a substituted or unsubstituted bicyclic or tricyclic condensed ring.

Material for hole-transport layer, material for hole-injection layer, organic compound, light-emitting device, light-emitting apparatus, electronic device, and lighting device

An organic semiconductor device with low driving voltage is provided. The light-emitting device includes an anode, a cathode, and an EL layer between the anode and the cathode. The EL layer includes a hole-transport layer and alight-emitting layer. The hole-transport layer is positioned between the anode and the light-emitting layer. The hole-transport layer is not in contact with the anode. The hole-transport layer includes a transport layer material for a light-emitting device and the GSP_slope that is a potential gradient of a surface potential of an evaporated film of the material is higher than or equal to 20 (mV/nm).

Hole-transport layer material, electron-blocking layer material, electron-transport layer material, hole-blocking layer material, light-emitting device, light-emitting apparatus, electronic device, and lighting device

Emission efficiency of a light-emitting element is improved. The light-emitting element has a pair of electrodes and an EL layer between the pair of electrodes. The EL layer includes a first light-emitting layer and a second light-emitting layer. The first light-emitting layer includes a fluorescent material and a host material. The second light-emitting layer includes a phosphorescent material, a first organic compound, and a second organic compound. An emission spectrum of the second light-emitting layer has a peak in a yellow wavelength region. The first organic compound and the second organic compound form an exciplex.

Light-emitting element, light-emitting device, electronic device, and lighting device

A light-emitting device with high emission efficiency is provided. The light-emitting device includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and an EL layer positioned between the first electrode and the second electrode. The EL layer includes at least a light-emitting layer, a first layer, a second layer, and a third layer. The first layer is positioned between the first electrode and the light-emitting layer. The third layer is positioned between the first layer and the light-emitting layer. The second layer is positioned between the first layer and the third layer. The first layer includes a first organic compound. The second layer includes a second organic compound. The third layer includes a third organic compound. The ordinary refractive index of the second organic compound is higher than the ordinary refractive indices of the first organic compound and the third organic compound.

Light-emitting device, display device, light-emitting apparatus, electronic device, and lighting device

A light-emitting element having high emission efficiency which includes a fluorescent material as a light-emitting substance is provided. A light-emitting element includes a pair of electrodes and an EL layer between the pair of electrodes. The EL layer includes a light-emitting layer. The light-emitting layer includes a host material and a guest material. The host material has a difference of more than 0 eV and less than or equal to 0.2 eV between a singlet excitation energy level and a triplet excitation energy level. The guest material is capable of emitting fluorescence. The triplet excitation energy level of the host material is higher than a triplet excitation energy level of the guest material.

Light-emitting element, display device, electronic device, and lighting device

A near-infrared organic EL device with favorable efficiency is provided. A light-emitting device including a first electrode, a second electrode, and an EL layer is provided; in which the EL layer is positioned between the first electrode and the second electrode; in which the EL layer emits light having a peak of an emission spectrum in a wavelength range of greater than or equal to 750 nm and less than or equal to 1000 nm; in which one of the first electrode and the second electrode is an electrode having a transmitting property with respect to light with a peak wavelength of the emission spectrum of the EL layer; in which a first layer is provided in contact with a surface of the electrode having a transmitting property, which is opposite to a surface facing the EL layer; in which the first layer contains an organic compound; and in which the first layer has the local maximum value of an extinction coefficient k in the visible light region.

Light-emitting device, light-emitting apparatus, electronic device, and lighting device

A light-emitting apparatus with low power consumption is provided. A light-emitting apparatus including a first light-emitting device and a first color conversion layer. The first light-emitting device includes an anode, a cathode, and an EL layer positioned between the anode and the cathode. The EL layer includes a layer including a material with a refractive index lower than or equal to 1.75 at 467 nm. The first color conversion layer includes a first substance capable of emission by absorbing light. Light emitted from the first light-emitting device enters the first color conversion layer.

Light-emitting device, electronic device, and lighting device

A light-emitting device with high emission efficiency is provided. The light-emitting device includes an EL layer and a light-transmitting electrode. The EL layer includes a light-emitting layer and a low refractive index layer. The low refractive index layer is positioned between the light-emitting layer and the light-transmitting electrode. A cap layer is in contact with a surface of the light-transmitting electrode on the side opposite to the EL layer. The cap layer includes a high refractive index material having an ordinary refractive index of higher than or equal to 1.90 and lower than or equal to 2.40 and an ordinary extinction coefficient of higher than or equal to 0 and lower than or equal to 0.01. The low refractive index layer includes a low refractive index material having an ordinary refractive index of higher than or equal to 1.60 and lower than or equal to 1.70.

A light-emitting device with high emission efficiency and reliability is provided. The light-emitting device includes a fluorescent light-emitting layer and a phosphorescent light-emitting layer. A host material used in the fluorescent light-emitting layer has a function of converting triplet excitation energy into light emission and a guest material used in the fluorescent light-emitting layer emits fluorescence. The guest material has a molecular structure including a luminophore and a protecting group, and one molecule of the guest material includes five or more protecting groups. The introduction of the protecting groups into the molecule inhibits transfer of triplet excitation energy from the host material to the guest material by the Dexter mechanism. An alkyl group or a branched-chain alkyl group is used as the protecting group. The longest wavelength absorption band in the absorption spectrum of the guest material in the phosphorescent light-emitting layer has an overlap with the emission spectrum of the host material in the phosphorescent light-emitting layer.

Light-emitting device, light-emitting appliance, display device, electronic appliance, and lighting device

A light-emitting element having high emission efficiency is provided. The light-emitting element includes a first organic compound, a second organic compound, and a third organic compound. The first organic compound has a function of converting triplet excitation energy into light emission. The second organic compound is preferably a TADF material. The third organic compound is a fluorescent compound. Light emitted from the light-emitting element is obtained from the third organic compound. Triplet excitation energy in a light-emitting layer is transferred to the third organic compound by reverse intersystem crossing caused by the second organic compound or through the first organic compound.

Light-emitting element, display device, electronic device, and lighting device each having thermally-activated delayed fluorescent organic compound

A light-emitting device with high emission efficiency is provided. The light-emitting device includes a fluorescent substance and a phosphorescent substance or a thermally activated delayed fluorescent material; the fluorescent substance includes a luminophore and five or more protecting groups; the luminophore is a condensed aromatic ring or a condensed heteroaromatic ring; the five or more protecting groups each have any one of an alkyl group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, a substituted or unsubstituted cycloalkyl group having 3 to 10 carbon atoms, and a trialkylsilyl group having 3 to 12 carbon atoms; the lowest singlet excitation energy level of the fluorescent substance is higher than the lowest triplet excitation energy level of the phosphorescent substance or the thermally activated delayed fluorescent material; and light emission can be obtained from both the phosphorescent substance and the phosphorescent substance or the thermally activated delayed fluorescent material.

A light-emitting device is provided. The light-emitting device includes an intermediate layer, a first light-emitting unit, and a second light-emitting unit. The intermediate layer includes a region interposed between the first light-emitting unit and the second light-emitting unit. The intermediate layer has a function of supplying an electron to one of the first light-emitting unit and the second light-emitting unit and supplying a hole to the other. The first light-emitting unit includes a first light-emitting layer, the first light-emitting layer includes a first light-emitting material, the second light-emitting unit includes a second light-emitting layer, the second light-emitting layer includes a second light-emitting material, the second light-emitting layer has a first distance from the first light-emitting layer, and the first distance is longer than or equal to 5 nm and shorter than or equal to 65 nm.

Light-emitting device comprising charge-generation layer between light-emitting units

A light-emitting device with high emission efficiency and reliability is provided. The light-emitting device includes first and second fluorescent light-emitting layers. A host material used in the first fluorescent light-emitting layer has a function of converting triplet excitation energy into light emission, a guest material used in the first light-emitting layer has a molecular structure including a luminophore and a protecting group, and one molecule of the guest material includes five or more protecting groups. The introduction of the protecting groups into the molecule inhibits transfer of triplet excitation energy by the Dexter mechanism from the host material to the guest material. An alkyl group or a branched-chain alkyl group is used as the protecting groups. The materials are selected such that the triplet excitation energy level of the host material in the second light-emitting layer is lower than the triplet excitation energy level of the guest material in the second light-emitting layer.

An organic semiconductor device with low driving voltage is provided. The organic semiconductor device includes a layer containing an organic compound between a pair of electrodes. The layer containing an organic compound includes a hole-transport region. The hole-transport region includes a first layer and a second layer. The first layer is positioned between the anode and the second layer. When a potential gradient of a surface potential of an evaporated film is set as GSP (mV/nm), a value obtained by subtracting GSP of an organic compound in the second layer from GSP of an organic compound in the first layer is less than or equal to 20 (mV/nm).

Organic semiconductor device, organic el device, photodiode sensor, display device, light-emitting apparatus, electronic device, and lighting device

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Nobuharu Ohsawa