IP Library Granted Patent US 8,101,857
Granted Patent B2
US 8,101,857 · App. 11/177,071 · Granted Jan 24, 2012

Organic devices, organic electroluminescent devices and organic solar cells

Assignees: Junji Kido; ROHM Co., Ltd.; Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
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Patent No.
US 8,101,857
App. No.
11/177,071
Granted
Jan 24, 2012
Kind
B2
Abstract

An organic device, including an organic compound having charge-transporting ability (i.e., transporting holes and/or electrons) and/or including organic light emissive molecules capable of emitting at least one of fluorescent light or phosphorescent light, has a charge transfer complex-contained layer including a charge transfer complex formed upon contact of an organic hole-transporting compound and molybdenum trioxide via a manner of lamination or mixing thereof, so that the organic hole-transporting compound is in a state of radical cation (i.e., positively charged species) in the charge transfer complex-contained layer.

Claims (26)

1. An organic device including an organic charge-transporting compound for transporting holes or electrons and/or organic light emissive molecules capable of emitting at least one of fluorescent light and phosphorescent light, said organic device comprising:

a charge transfer complex-contained layer having a charge transfer complex formed upon contact of an organic hole-transporting compound and molybdenum trioxide via a manner of lamination or mixing, wherein at least the molybdenum trioxide is deposited via resistive heating in a molar ratio of about 5:1 relative to the organic hole-transporting compound, and wherein the organic hole-transporting compound consists essentially of alpha-NPD;

wherein the organic hole-transporting compound is in a state of radical cations, and forms a layer in the charge transfer complex-contained layer,

wherein the charge transfer complex-contained layer, and a layer in which an organic electron-transporting compound is in a state of radical anions by a radical-anion generating means, are laminated, and

wherein an interfacial layer is formed between the layer in which the organic hole-transporting compound is in a state of radical cations and the layer in which the organic electron-transporting compound is in a state of radical anions, and functions as a hole current-electron current conversion layer.

2. The organic device according to claim 1 , wherein said charge transfer complex-contained layer comprises a hole-transporting layer adjacent to an anode.

3. The organic device according to claim 1 , wherein said charge transfer complex-contained layer comprises an interfacial layer between two layers each comprising of hole-transporting molecules having different molecular structures to diminish a hole transfer barrier being therebetween.

4. The organic device according to claim 1 , wherein the hole current-electron current conversion layer is a process damage reduction layer during a process of electrode layer formation.

5. The organic device according to claim 1 , wherein said organic device comprises an organic electroluminescent device.

6. The organic device according to claim 1 , wherein said organic device comprises an organic solar cell.

7. A multi-photon emission organic electroluminescent device having at least two light emissive units consisting of an organic charge-transporting compound for transporting holes and/or electrons as well as an organic light emissive molecule capable of emitting at least one of fluorescent light and phosphorescent light, said multi-photon emission organic electroluminescent device comprising:

a hole current-electron current conversion layer formed upon lamination of:

a charge transfer complex-contained layer including a organic hole-transporting compound and molybdenum trioxide contacting each other by a manner of lamination or mixing, wherein the organic hole-transporting compound consists essentially of alpha-NPD and at least the molybdenum trioxide is deposited via resistive heating in a molar ratio of 5:1 relative to the organic hole-transporting compound, leading to the charge transfer complex-contained layer wherein the hole-transporting compound is in a state of radical cations, and forms a layer, and

a layer wherein an electron-transporting compound is in a state of radical anions generated by a radical anion generation means,

wherein an interfacial layer is formed between the layer in which the organic hole-transporting compound is in a state of radical cations and the layer in which the organic electron-transporting compound is in a state of radical anions, and functions as the hole current-electron current conversion layer, and

wherein the hole current-electron current conversion layer works as a charge generation layer in the multi-photon emission organic electroluminescent device.

8. An organic device having a layer structure on a substrate in the following deposition sequence:

(A) an anode;

(B) an anode-adjacent layer consisting of an MoO3;

(C) a layer of an organic hole-transporting compound consisting essentially of alpha-NPD;

(D) a layer structure mainly consisting of organic compounds;

(E) a cathode layer;

wherein the anode-adjacent layer is prepared via resistive heating method and is deposited in a molar ratio of 5:1 relative to the organic hole-transporting compound, and an interfacial layer between (B) and (C) layers is a charge transfer complex contained layer, thus the organic hole-transporting compound is in a state of radical cations, resulting from the contact of the MoO3 in (B) layer and the organic hole-transporting compound in (C) layer,

wherein the (D) layer structure is arranged to contact the (E) cathode layer, and Li is mixed with Alq in the (D) layer structure at a molar ratio of approximately 1:1, and

wherein Alq is in a state of radical anions by Li, and the (D) layer structure functions as an electron injection layer.

9. The organic device according to claim 1 , wherein the charge-transfer complex contained layer is formed upon codeposition, via resistive heating, of the organic hole-transporting compound and the molybdenum trioxide.

Assignments (3)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 21, 2008
From: INTERNATIONAL MANUFACTURING AND ENGINEERING SERVICES CO., LTD.
To: ROHM CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 020828/0617 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 15, 2006
From: KIDO, JUNJI; INTERNATIONAL MANUFACTURING AND ENGINEERING SERVICES CO., LTD.
To: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
Reel/Frame 017306/0841 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 23, 2005
From: KIDO, JUNJI; MATSUMOTO, TOSHIO; NAKADA, TAKESHI
To: KIDO, JUNJI; INTERNATIONAL MANUFACTURING AND ENGINEERING SERVICES CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 017030/0571 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2004-202266 · Jul 8, 2004 · national
Continuity (1)
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