Hodogaya Chemical Co., Ltd.

Denso Corporation

Shinshu University

Shigeru Kusano

Norimasa Yokoyama

Shuichi Hayashi

Makoto Nagaoka

Mitsutoshi Anzai

Atsushi Takesue

Makoto Koike

Eiji Takahashi

Naoaki Kabasawa

Kazunori Togashi

Shigetaka Numazawa

Sawa Izumi

Kouki Kase

Daizou Kanda

Tetsuzo Miki

Shingo Ozawa

Chihaya Adachi

Yoshio Taniguchi

Musubu Ichikawa

Tetsuya Kato

Kazushige Kojima

Si In Kim

Kanae Otsuka

Teruaki Koizumi

Toru Akisada

Mari Toriya

An organic electroluminescent device having a capping layer composed of material having a high refractive index, excelling in thin film stability and durability and having no absorption in the respective wavelength ranges of blue, green, and red is provided to improve device characteristics of the organic electroluminescent device, particularly to greatly improve light extraction efficiency. The organic electroluminescent device has at least an anode electrode, a hole transport layer, a light emitting layer, an electron transport layer, a cathode electrode, and the capping layer in this order, wherein the capping layer contains an arylamine compound (X) having a structure in which two triphenylamine structures are joined within a molecule via a single bond or a divalent group that does not contain a heteroatom.

Organic electroluminescent device

According to the present invention, there are provided an indenoindole derivative represented by the following general formula (1); and an organic electroluminescent element including a pair of electrodes and at least one organic layer sandwiched therebetween, wherein the above compound is used as a constituent material for the at least one organic layer. The indenoindole derivative of the present invention provides an organic compound, which is excellent in hole injection/transport performance, has electron blocking capability, is highly stable in a thin film state, and excels in heat resistance, as a material for a high efficiency, high durability organic electroluminescent element. An organic electroluminescent element formed using this compound is highly efficient and highly durable. 

Indenoindole derivative and organic electroluminescent element

Naphthotriazole derivatives represented by the following general formula (1), wherein, Aris an aromatic hydrocarbon group or an aromatic heterocyclic group, and A is a group that contains an aromatic heterocyclic group. The compound features excellent electron injection/transporting capability, a high hole-blocking power and a high stability in the form of a thin film, and can be used as a material for producing highly efficient and highly durable organic electroluminescent devices.

Naphthotriazole derivatives and organic electroluminescence devices

A Benzotriazole derivative represented by the following general formula (1), 

Benzotriazole derivative and an organic electroluminescent device

According to the present invention, there are provided a benzopyridoindole derivative represented by the following general formula (1); and an organic EL element including a pair of electrodes and at least one organic layer sandwiched therebetween, wherein the above derivative is used as a constituent material for the at least one organic layer. The benzopyridoindole derivative of the present invention is excellent in electron injection/transport performance, has hole blocking capability, is highly stable in a thin film state, and excels in various characteristics. Thus, it is useful as a material for an organic EL element with a high efficiency, a low driving voltage, and high durability. 

Benzopyridoindole derivative and organic electroluminescent element

There is provided an organic compound having excellent characteristics, including excellent electron-injecting/transporting performance, hole blocking ability, and high stability in the thin-film state, for use as material of an organic electroluminescent device having high efficiency and high durability. There is also provided a high-efficient and high-durable organic electroluminescent device using the compound. The compound is represented by general formula (1) having a substituted anthracene ring structure and a pyridoindole ring structure. The organic electroluminescent device includes a pair of electrodes, and one or more organic layers sandwiched between the pair of electrodes, and the compound is used as a constituent material of at least one organic layer. 

Compound having substituted anthracene ring structure and pyridoindole ring structure, and organic electroluminescent device

[Problem]An organic compound of excellent characteristics is provided that exhibits excellent hole-injecting/transporting performance with electron blocking ability, and that has high stability in the thin-film state and high luminous efficiency, the organic compound being provided as material for an organic electroluminescent device having high efficiency and high durability. The invention also provides a high-efficient, high-durable organic electroluminescent device using the compound. [Means for Resolution] The compound is of the following general formula having a carbazole ring structure. The organic electroluminescent device includes a pair of electrodes, and one or more organic layers sandwiched between the pair of electrodes, and the compound is used as a constituent material of at least one organic layer. 

Compound having carbazole ring structure, and organic electroluminescent device

A problem of the invention is to provide an organic EL device having a high efficiency, a low driving voltage and a long life, by combining various materials for organic EL device, which are excellent in an injection or transportation performance of holes or electrons, and in stability and durability in a thin film, so as to enable the respective materials to effectively reveal their characteristics. The invention relates to an organic electroluminescent device including at least an anode electrode, a hole-injecting layer, a hole-transporting layer, an emitting layer, an electron-transporting layer and a cathode electrode in this order, in which the hole-injecting layer contains an arylamine compound having, in its molecule, a structure in which three or more triphenylamine structures are connected through a single bond or a hetero atom-free divalent group; and the hole-transporting layer contains an arylamine compound having two triphenylamine structures in its molecule.

Arylamine compound useful in an organic electroluminescent device

An organic electroluminescent device comprising, between an anode and a cathode, a hole-transporting layer, a luminous layer and an electron-transporting layer, wherein the hole-transporting layer contains an arylamine compound (X) having a molecular structure to which three or more triphenylamine skeletons are singly bonded or bonded through a divalent hydrocarbon group and an arylamine compound (Y) having a molecular structure to which two triphenylamine skeletons are singly bonded or bonded through the divalent hydrocarbon group. The device excels in hole and electron injection/transport property, stability and durability in the form of thin films, and is highly efficient, becomes luminous on a low driving voltage, and has a long life.

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 light emitting layer and an electron blocking layer, wherein a compound of the following general formula (1) having a carbazole ring structure is used as a constituent material of the electron blocking layer and the light emitting layer. 

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. 

There is provided an organic compound of excellent characteristics that exhibits excellent hole-injecting/transporting performance and has an electron blocking ability and a highly stable thin-film state with excellent heat resistance. The compound of the present invention is an arylamine compound having a triphenylamine structure. The arylamine compound is used as a constituent material of at least one organic layer in an organic electroluminescent device that includes a pair of electrodes, and one or more organic layers sandwiched between the pair of electrodes.

Compound having triphenylamine structure, and organic electroluminescent device

The invention relates to a compound having a pyridoindole ring structure having a substituted pyridyl group of formula (1); and to an organic electroluminescent device comprising a pair of electrodes and at least one organic layer interposed between the electrodes, wherein at least one of the organic layer(s) contains the compound: wherein Ar represents a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic hydrocarbon group, a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic heterocyclic group, or a substituted or unsubstituted condensed polycyclic aromatic group; R1 to R10 may be the same or different from one another and each independently represents a hydrogen atom, a fluorine atom, a cyano group, an alkyl group, or a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic hydrocarbon group; Z represents a 6-membered aromatic heterocyclic ring containing one nitrogen atom; and m and n each independently represents an integer of 1 to 3, provided that n is 1 when m is 2 or 3.

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Shigeru Kusano