IP Library Granted Patent US 8,288,763
Granted Patent B2
US 8,288,763 · App. 12/633,819 · Granted Oct 16, 2012

Organic electroluminescence device

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Patent No.
US 8,288,763
App. No.
12/633,819
Granted
Oct 16, 2012
Kind
B2
Abstract

Disclosed is an organic electroluminescence device containing a pair of electrodes on a substrate, two or more luminescence layers disposed between the electrodes, and an intermediate layer containing a charge transporting material and disposed between the two or more luminescence layers, each of the two or more luminescence layers contains at least one phosphorescence material selected from a blue phosphorescence material having an emission peak from 420 nm to less than 500 nm, a green phosphorescence material having an emission peak from 500 nm to less than 570 nm, and a red phosphorescence material having an emission peak from 570 nm to 650 nm, the phosphorescence material contained in the respective luminescence layers having different emission peaks from one another; and the charge transporting material contained in the intermediate layer has an energy difference (T 1 ) of 2.7 eV or more between a ground state and an excited triplet state and the energy difference (T 1 ) of the charge transporting material is higher by at least 0.15 eV than T 1 of a phosphorescence material having the shortest wavelength emission among the phosphorescence materials contained in the two or more luminescence layers.

Claims (9)

1. An organic electroluminescence device comprising a pair of electrodes on a substrate, two or more luminescence layers disposed between the electrodes, and an intermediate layer containing a charge transporting material and disposed between the two or more luminescence layers, wherein:

each of the two or more luminescence layers contains at least one phosphorescence material selected from a blue phosphorescence material having an emission peak from 420 nm to less than 500 nm, a green phosphorescence material having an emission peak from 500 nm to less than 570 nm, and a red phosphorescence material having an emission peak from 570 nm to 650 nm, the phosphorescence material contained in the respective luminescence layers having different emission peaks from one another;

the charge transporting material contained in the intermediate layer has an energy difference (T 1 ) of 2.7 eV or more between a ground state and an excited triplet state and the energy difference (T 1 ) of the charge transporting material is higher by at least 0.15 eV than T 1 of a phosphorescence material having the shortest wavelength emission among the phosphorescence materials contained in the two or more luminescence layers;

the two or more luminescence layers comprise a layer containing the blue phosphorescence material and a layer containing the green phosphorescence material and the red phosphorescence material; and

each of the two or more luminescence layers further contains a host material wherein the host material is different from the charge transporting material contained in the intermediate layer.

2. The organic electroluminescence device of claim 1 , wherein the intermediate layer is 0.1 to 10 nm in layer thickness.

3. The organic electroluminescence device of claim 1 , wherein the two or more luminescence layers comprise, in this order from an anode side, a layer containing a hole transporting host material having an ionization potential (Ip) of from 5.1 to 6.4 eV and an electron affinity (Ea) of from 1.2 to 3.1 eV and a layer containing an electron transporting host material having an ionization potential (Ip) of from 5.7 to 7.5 eV and an electron affinity (Ea) of from 2.5 to 3.5 eV.

4. The organic electroluminescence device of claim 1 , wherein the two or more luminescence layers comprise, in this order from an anode side, a layer containing a hole transporting host material having an ionization potential (Ip) of from 5.1 to 6.4 eV and an electron affinity (Ea) of from 1.2 to 3.1 eV and a layer containing an electron transporting luminescence material having an ionization potential (Ip) of from 5.7 to 7.0 eV and an electron affinity (Ea) of from 2.5 to 3.5 eV.

5. The organic electroluminescence device of claim 1 , wherein the blue phosphorescence material is contained in an amount of 10 to 25 mass % in the two or more luminescence layers, and the red phosphorescence material is contained in an amount of 0.2 to 5% by weight in the two or more luminescence layers.

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 Dec 11, 2009
From: SHIBATA, KAZUYUKI
To: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 023637/0726 →