IP Library Granted Patent US 7,968,904
Granted Patent B2
US 7,968,904 · App. 11/702,173 · Granted Jun 28, 2011

Organic electroluminescence device

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Patent No.
US 7,968,904
App. No.
11/702,173
Granted
Jun 28, 2011
Kind
B2
Abstract

There is provided an organic electroluminescence device that is high in light emitting efficiency and excellent in driving durability, which contains at least a light emitting layer between an anode and a cathode opposing each other, and further has either 1) an organic layer containing at least a first acceptor and a second acceptor between the light emitting layer and the anode, in which the first acceptor is a metal compound and the second acceptor is an organic compound which does not contain a metal, or 2) an organic layer containing a metal oxide as an acceptor between the light emitting layer and the anode, in which a concentration of the metal oxide in the organic layer is varied in a thickness direction and the concentration is lower in a portion near the light emitting layer than a portion near the anode.

Claims (10)

1. An organic electroluminescence device comprising at least a light emitting layer between an anode and a cathode opposing each other, and further comprising an organic layer having a metal oxide as an acceptor between the light emitting layer and the anode, wherein a concentration of the metal oxide in the organic layer is varied in a thickness direction thereof, and the concentration is lower in a portion near the light emitting layer than in a portion near the anode.

2. The organic electroluminescence device according to claim 1 , wherein a ratio Cmax/Cmin of a concentration Cmax in a region of the organic layer having the highest concentration of the metal oxide to a concentration Cmin in a region of the organic layer having the lowest concentration of the metal oxide is 2 or more.

3. The organic electroluminescence device according to claim 1 , wherein the metal oxide as the acceptor is a metal oxide capable of forming a charge transfer complex.

4. The organic electroluminescence device according to claim 1 , wherein the organic layer including the acceptor is a hole injection layer.

5. The organic electroluminescence device according to claim 4 , wherein the hole injection layer contains an organic compound which does not contain a metal, as an acceptor.

6. The organic electroluminescence device according to claim 5 , wherein the organic compound which does not contain a metal is 7,7,8,8-tetrafluorotetracyanoquinodimethane.

7. The organic electroluminescence device according to claim 1 , wherein the organic electroluminescence device further comprises a hole transport layer between the organic layer having the acceptor and the anode.

8. The organic electroluminescence device according to claim 7 , wherein the hole transport layer does not substantially contain the acceptor.

9. The organic electroluminescence device according to claim 1 , wherein the acceptor is molybdenum oxide or vanadium oxide.

10. The organic electroluminescence device according to claim 1 , wherein the organic layer comprises a hole transport layer made of 2 or more sub-layers, and a concentration of the metal oxide is different in each sub-layer.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 1, 2012
From: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
To: UDC IRELAND LIMITED
Reel/Frame 028889/0636 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 5, 2007
From: ITAI, YUICHIRO
To: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 018958/0104 →