Organic electroluminescent element

Abstract

Provided is an organic electroluminescence device that has solved the conventional problems, and is thermally and chemically stable, has high efficiency with which an electron is injected from a cathode layer or an intermediate conductive layer to a light emitting layer, provides high luminous efficiency at a low voltage, and can maintain a long lifetime. Specifically, the organic electroluminescence device is an organic electroluminescence device, including: two electrode layers and optionally one or more intermediate conductive layers; a light emitting layer between the electrode layers, or between one of the electrode layers and the intermediate conductive layer and/or between the intermediate conductive layers; and an electron injection region formed of one or two or more layers between the light emitting layer and the cathode layer and/or between the light emitting layer and the intermediate conductive layer, in which at least one layer in the electron injection region contains at least one kind selected from the group consisting of an oxide of a transition metal belonging to any one of Groups 5 to 8 of the periodic table, a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic derivative, and a chalcogenide, and further contains a compound represented by the formula: MxAOy (in the formula, M represents Li, Na, K, Rb, or Cs, A represents Zr, V, Nb, Ta, Si, or Ge, x represents 1 or 2, and y represents an integer of 1 to 4).