IP Library Granted Patent US 8,242,488
Granted Patent B2
US 8,242,488 · App. 12/601,542 · Granted Aug 14, 2012

Organic electroluminescent element, display device, and illuminating device

Assignee: Konica Minolta Holdings, Inc.
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Patent No.
US 8,242,488
App. No.
12/601,542
Granted
Aug 14, 2012
Kind
B2
Abstract

Disclosed is an organic electroluminescent device having high external quantum efficiency and long emission life and an illuminating device and a display device, each comprising the organic electroluminescent device. The organic electroluminescent device comprises at least an anode and a cathode arranged on a supporting substrate and at least two organic layers, namely a first layer and a second layer, between the anode and the cathode, in which the organic electroluminescent device is characterized in that the first organic layer contains a light emitting dopant and the second organic layer contains a charge-transporting material and a part of the material constituting the first organic layer, and the second organic layer is formed by coating after formation of the first organic layer.

Claims (17)

1. An organic EL element comprising at least an anode and a cathode on a supporting substrate, and at least two layers of a first organic layer and a second organic layer between the anode and the cathode, wherein the first organic layer contains a light emitting dopant, the second organic layer contains an electron transport material and a material which composes the first organic layer, the second organic layer is formed by a coating method after forming the first organic layer, and

the first organic layer contains a compound represented by Formula (a),

wherein X is NR', O, S, CR′R″ or SiR′R″, wherein R′ and R″ is each a hydrogen atom or a substituent, Ar is an aromatic ring, and n is an integer of 0 to 4.

2. The organic EL element of claim 1 , wherein the second organic layer is formed on the first organic layer by a coating method.

3. The organic EL element of claim 1 , wherein the first organic layer is formed by a coating method.

4. The organic EL element of claim 1 , wherein the organic EL element comprises three or more organic layers.

5. The organic EL element of claim 1 , wherein the organic EL element comprises at least one of anode buffer layer.

6. The organic EL element of claim 1 , wherein the emitting dopant is a phosphorescent light emitting dopant.

7. The organic EL element of claim 6 , wherein the phosphorescent light emitting dopant is an iridium complex.

8. The organic EL element of claim 1 , wherein the second organic layer contains an azacarbazole derivative.

9. The organic EL element of claim 1 , wherein the aromatic ring represented by Ar in Formula (a) is benzene ring or an aromatic heterocyclic ring in which 3 or more rings are condensed.

10. The organic EL element of claim 1 , wherein X is NR′, O, or S in Formula (a).

11. The organic EL element of claim 1 , wherein the first organic layer contains at least a compound having a reactive substituent or a polymer thereof.

12. The organic EL element of claim 1 , wherein the material which composes the first organic layer is a phosphorescent light emitting dopant.

13. The organic EL element of claim 1 , which emits white light.

14. A display device providing an organic EL element claim 1 .

15. A illumination device providing an organic EL element claim 1 .

Assignments (4)
NUNC PRO TUNC ASSIGNMENT Recorded Oct 7, 2021
From: KONICA MINOLTA INC
To: MERCK PERFORMANCE MATERIALS GERMANY GMBH
Reel/Frame 057748/0075 →
NUNC PRO TUNC ASSIGNMENT Recorded Oct 7, 2021
From: MERCK PERFORMANCE MATERIALS GERMANY GMBH
To: MERCK PATENT GMBH
Reel/Frame 057748/0146 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Mar 23, 2020
From: KONICA MINOLTA HOLDINGS, INC.
To: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
Reel/Frame 052207/0010 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 24, 2009
From: KATAKURA, RIE; KITA, HIROSHI; TAKA, HIDEO
To: KONICA MINOLTA HOLDINGS, INC.
Reel/Frame 023561/0398 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2007-143049 · May 30, 2007 · national
Continuity (1)
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