Nippon Steel Chemical & Material Co., Ltd.

Nippon Steel & Sumikin Chemical Co., Ltd.

Tokiko Ueda

Junya Ogawa

Takahiro Kai

Masashi Tada

Toshihiro Yamamoto

Masaki Komori

Katsuhide Noguchi

Masanori Hotta

Mitsuru Sakai

Yuji Ikenaga

Yuichi Sawada

Provided is an organic EL device having high efficiency and high driving stability while being driven at a low voltage. The organic electroluminescent device includes one or more light-emitting layers between an anode and a cathode opposite to each other. At least one of the light-emitting layers contains a host material and a light-emitting dopant, and (i) a first host formed of an indolocarbazole compound having one or two indolocarbazole rings, and (ii) a second host formed of a carbazole compound having a plurality of carbazole rings and having a bond structure represented by the following general formula (3) are used as the host material.

Organic electroluminescent element

Provided are an organic electroluminescent device (organic EL device) that is improved in luminous efficiency, sufficiently secures driving stability, and has a simple construction, and a material for an organic EL device to be used in the device. The material for an organic EL device includes a carborane compound represented by the general formula (1), and the carborane compound has a structure in which a six-membered ring group containing at least two nitrogen atoms is bonded to a carborane ring. The material for an organic EL device is suitable as a host material for a light-emitting layer containing a phosphorescent light-emitting dopant and the host material, or as a material for a hole-blocking layer. In the formula, rings A's each represent a divalent carborane group represented by the formula (1a) or the formula (1b), and two or more of X's each represent N. 

Material for organic electroluminescent element and organic electroluminescent element in which same is used

Provided are a material for an organic EL device that improves the luminous efficacy of a device, sufficiently secures its driving stability, and has a simple construction, and an organic EL device using the material. The material for an organic EL device is formed of a carborane compound having a structure in which a dibenzofuranyl group is bonded to a carborane ring. In addition, the material for an organic EL device is preferably used in a light-emitting layer, an electron-transporting layer, or a hole-blocking layer of an organic electroluminescent device having the light-emitting layer between an anode and a cathode laminated on a substrate. Also disclosed is an organic electroluminescent device using the material for an organic EL device as a host material for a light-emitting layer containing a phosphorescent light-emitting dopant and the host material.

Material for organic electroluminescent element and organic electroluminescent element using the same

Provided is an organic EL device that exhibits high luminous efficiency and has high stability when driven despite having low voltage. The organic electroluminescent device is obtained by laminating an anode, organic layers and a cathode on a substrate, wherein at least one of the organic layers contains (i) a compound represented by chemical formula (1) below, and (ii) a carborane compound having one or more divalent carborane groups and an aromatic group substituted for the carborane group. In the formulas, Xand Xrepresent NR, PR, O, S, Se, CRRor SiRRand Y represents a single bond or aromatic group.

Disclosed are an organic electroluminescent device that is improved in luminous efficiency, sufficiently secures driving stability, and has a simple construction, and a material to be used in the device. The material is a material for an organic electroluminescent device formed of a carborane ring compound having a structure in which two indolocarbazole groups are each bonded to a carborane ring through an aromatic group. In addition, the device is an organic electroluminescent device having organic layers between an anode and a cathode laminated on a substrate, in which at least one layer of the organic layers contains the material for an organic electroluminescent device. When the organic layer is a light-emitting layer, the layer contains a phosphorescent light-emitting dopant and contains the material for an organic electroluminescent device as a host material.

Organic-electroluminescent-element material and organic electroluminescent element using same

Provided are an organic EL device having high efficiency and high driving stability, and a compound suitable for the device. Provided is a material for an organic electroluminescent device formed of a carborane compound having a structure in which: one or two boron atoms of a carborane ring CBHare substituted with an aromatic hydrocarbon group or an aromatic heterocyclic group; and the two carbon atoms of the carborane ring are each bonded to an aromatic hydrocarbon group or an aromatic heterocyclic group, or are each bonded to any other carborane ring when a plurality of carborane rings are present. Also provided is an organic electroluminescent device in which the material for an organic electroluminescent device is used in a light-emitting layer, an electron-transporting layer, or a hole-blocking layer.

Organic-electroluminescent-element material, and organic electroluminescent element using same

Disclosed is an organic electroluminescent device (organic EL device) that is improved in luminous efficiency, sufficiently secures driving stability, and has a simple construction. The device is an organic electroluminescent device having organic layers including a light-emitting layer between an anode and a cathode laminated on a substrate, in which a carborane compound is incorporated into at least one layer of the organic layers, or is incorporated as a host material into a light-emitting layer containing a phosphorescent light-emitting dopant and the host material. The carborane compound has a structure in which a N-containing fused aromatic ring is bonded to a carborane ring. The N-containing fused aromatic ring is a quinoline ring or has a structure obtained by substituting 1 to 3 ring-forming carbon atoms in a quinoline ring with N atoms.

The present invention discloses an organic electroluminescent (EL) device having improved luminous efficiency, sufficiently secured driving stability, and a simple construction. The organic EL device of the present invention includes, between an anode and a cathode laminated on a substrate, an organic layer including a material for a luminescent device, in which the material for a luminescent device includes a carborane compound. The carborane compound includes a branched carborane compound in which three or more carborane rings bonded to one another through an aromatic group are present, at least one dibenzothiophene ring is present, and the at least one dibenzothiophene ring is bonded to the carborane ring.

Material for organic electroluminescent elements, and organic electroluminescent element using same

Disclosed are an organic electroluminescent device that is improved in luminous efficiency, sufficiently secures driving stability, and has a simple construction, and a material for an organic electroluminescent device to be used in the device. The material is a material for an organic electroluminescent device formed of a carborane compound having an indolocarbazole skeleton and one or two or more carborane groups each bonded thereto directly or through a divalent group. In addition, the device is an organic electroluminescent device having organic layers including a light-emitting layer between an anode and a cathode laminated on a substrate, in which at least one layer of the organic layers contains the material for an organic electroluminescent device. In addition, the device is an organic electroluminescent device containing, as a host material for a light-emitting layer containing a phosphorescent light-emitting dopant and the host material, the material for an organic electroluminescent device.

Organic-electroluminescent-element material and organic electroluminescent elements using same

Disclosed are an organic electroluminescent device (organic EL device) having improved luminous efficiency, sufficiently secured driving stability, and a simple construction, and a material for an organic EL device. The material for an organic EL device includes a carborane compound having a structure in which at least one carborane ring and at least one dibenzothiophene ring are present, and the at least one carborane ring is bonded to the at least one dibenzothiophene ring at position 1, 2, or 3. In addition, the organic EL device includes, between an anode and a cathode laminated on a substrate, at least one organic layer, in which the at least one organic layer includes the carborane compound.

Provided are an organic electroluminescent device (organic EL device) that is improved in luminous efficacy, sufficiently secures driving stability, and has a simple construction, and a material for organic EL devices to be used in the organic EL device. The material for organic EL devices is a material for organic EL devices formed of an ortho-carborane compound having a structure in which a silyl group (&#x2014;SiR) is bonded to a divalent ortho-carborane group represented by CBHthrough an aromatic group. In addition, the organic electroluminescent device is an organic electroluminescent device having a structure in which an anode, an organic layer, and a cathode are laminated on a substrate, the device having an organic layer containing the ortho-carborane compound, and the organic layer being a light-emitting layer, an electron-transporting layer, a hole-blocking layer, or an exciton-blocking layer.

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Tokiko Ueda