Konica Minolta, Inc.

Konica-Minolta Holdings, Inc.

Merck Patent Gmbh

Shun Furukawa

Takeshi Hakii

Kazuhiro Yoshida

Shigeru Kojima

Tomoyuki Nakayama

Hiroshi Ishidai

Takeshi Ono

Shinya Otsu

Toshiyuki Kinoshita

Yasunobu Kobayashi

A transparent electrode has at least a conductive material layer on a transparent substrate. The conductive material layer is a metal nanowire layer. The transparent electrode has an organic layer containing a nitrogen-containing aromatic heterocyclic compound having a structure represented by the following Formula (1) adjacent to the metal nanowire layer, In Formula (1), A1 and A2 represent a reside that forms a 6-membered nitrogen-containing aromatic heterocycle together with a nitrogen atom, and the 6-membered nitrogen-containing aromatic heterocycle may form a fused ring, L represents a single bond or a linking group derived from an aromatic hydrocarbon ring, an aromatic heterocycle or an alkyl group.

Transparent electrode and electronic device equipped with same

Provided are an electronic device and an organic electroluminescence element both of which are excellent in optical properties as well as long-term storage stability and scratch resistance. Herein, the electronic device includes at least one functional layer on a resin substrate, and the electronic device is configured so that the functional layer contains a component with a structure of X&#x2014;Y&#x2014;X' as a resin component; X and X&#x2032; independently include at least any one of the formulae (1)&#x2dc;(7) respectively; and Y is a bivalent group including at least one S atom and one aromatic ring.

Electronic device having functional layer including particles and binder material

An object of the present invention is to provide a transparent electrode including a substrate having thereon a conductive layer containing silver as a main component, wherein the transparent electrode has an organic functional layer between the substrate and the conductive layer; and the organic functional layer contains a first organic compound represented by Formula (1) and a second organic compound having a different structure from a structure of the first organic compound, 

Transparent electrode and electronic device

A transparent electrode includes: a substrate; and a conductive metal layer on the substrate. The conductive metal layer has a thin metal wire and a plating layer. The plating layer covers the thin metal wire. The transparent electrode further includes a transparent conductive layer on a surface of the substrate on a side on which the thin metal wire is formed. The transparent conductive layer covers the substrate and the conductive metal layer. The thin metal wire is formed using a metal nanoparticle ink or a metal complex ink.

Transparent electrode, method for manufacturing same, and organic electroluminescent element

Provided are: a transparent electrode which exhibits excellent resistance to high temperature and high humidity, while having surface smoothness; a method for producing this transparent electrode; and an electronic device which has improved reliability by using this transparent electrode. A transparent electrode is configured to comprise a metal thin wire pattern that is formed on one main surface of a transparent substrate using metal nanoparticles and a metal oxide layer that has a surface roughness of 5 nm or less and is formed on the main surface of the transparent substrate so as to cover the surface of the metal thin wire pattern.

Transparent electrode, method for producing transparent electrode and electronic device

An organic electroluminescent element includes: first and second electrodes; and luminous units between the electrodes on a substrate, adjacent luminous units each being separated by an intermediate electrode layer, wherein at least one of the electrodes is a transparent electrode; the luminous units are each an organic functional layer including an organic luminous layer; the intermediate electrode layer includes an independent connecting terminal for electrical connection; a thin-film layer is disposed on a surface of the transparent electrode being at least one of the electrodes; and the thin-film layer has a variable refractive index across a thickness of the thin-film layer, the variable refractive index having an extreme value at which the refractive index changes from an increase to a decrease or an extreme value at which the refractive index changes from a decrease to an increase.

Organic electroluminescent element

Disclosed is a production method for an organic electroluminescent element that is provided with a substrate, an organic laminate with an organic light emitting layer that was formed by a method involving a wet process, and a pair of electrodes, wherein the method produces an organic electroluminescent element with high luminous efficiency, low driving voltage, and a minimal rise in voltage when continuously driven, by applying the coating liquid for said organic light emitting layer, and thereafter, in a drying process, heating the substrate while applying tension in a manner such that a stress that is less than the yield stress is applied to the substrate.

Production method for organic electroluminescent element

Provided is a method of manufacturing an organic electronic device, wherein an organic electronic device that controls the injection and mobility of carriers in an organic charge transport layer thereof is manufactured by laminating organic layers comprising the same charge transportable organic compound, when manufacturing the organic electronic device with the coating method. In this method of manufacturing an organic electronic device, which comprises a pair of electrodes on a substrate, and at least an organic functional layer and an organic charge transport layer in between the electrodes, the organic charge transport layer is formed by, in the following order: 1) a process for forming a first organic layer by coating, on the organic functional layer, a first organic layer coating-liquid, containing a charge transportable organic compound; and 2) a process for forming a second organic layer by coating, on the first organic layer, a second organic layer coating-liquid containing the charge transportable organic compound and a metallic compound. The method of manufacturing an organic electronic device is further specified by sections 3), 4), and 5).

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