IP Library Granted Patent US 8,183,586
Granted Patent B2
US 8,183,586 · App. 12/690,945 · Granted May 22, 2012

Organic electroluminescence device and luminescence apparatus

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Patent No.
US 8,183,586
App. No.
12/690,945
Granted
May 22, 2012
Kind
B2
Abstract

The invention provides an organic EL device including an anode, a cathode, and a luminescent portion positioned between the anode and cathode, the luminescent portion including two or more luminescent layers, each of the luminescent layers including plural primary luminescent layers that emit light of different colors, and each of the primary luminescent layers having a thickness of 5 nm or less.

Claims (16)

1. An organic EL device comprising an anode, a cathode, and a luminescent portion positioned between the anode and cathode, the luminescent portion comprising two or more luminescent layers, each of the luminescent layers comprising plural primary luminescent layers that emit light of different colors, and each of the primary luminescent layers having a thickness of 5 nm or less, wherein the primary luminescent layers each independently comprise a luminescent material and a host material, and in each of the luminescent layers, the concentration of a luminescent material that emits light of the shortest wavelength in a primary luminescent layer including the luminescent material that emits light of the shortest wavelength is at least twice as high as the concentration of a luminescent material that emits light of the longest wavelength in a primary luminescent layer including the luminescent material that emits light of the longest wavelength.

2. The organic EL device according to claim 1 , wherein in each of the luminescent layers, the primary luminescent layers that emit light of different colors are adjacent to each other.

3. The organic EL device according to claim 1 , wherein the luminescent portion emits white light by mixing the colors of light emitted from the primary luminescent layers.

4. The organic EL device according to claim 1 , wherein in each of the luminescent layers, the primary luminescent layer comprising the luminescent material that emits light of the shortest wavelength is at least twice as thick as the primary luminescent layer comprising the luminescent material that emits light of the longest wavelength.

5. The organic EL device according to claim 1 , wherein the luminescent portion comprises four or more luminescent layers each comprising plural primary luminescent layers that emit light of different colors.

6. The organic EL device according to claim 1 , wherein the primary luminescent layers in each of the luminescent layers comprise a red primary luminescent layer, a green primary luminescent layer, and a blue primary luminescent layer.

7. The organic EL device according to claim 1 , wherein the luminescent material comprises a metal complex that emits phosphorescent light.

8. An organic EL device comprising an anode, a cathode, and a luminescent portion positioned between the anode and cathode, the luminescent portion comprising two or more luminescent layers, each of the luminescent layers comprising plural primary luminescent layers that emit light of different colors, and each of the primary luminescent layers having a thickness of 5 nm or less, wherein in each of the luminescent layers, a primary luminescent layer comprising a luminescent material that emits light of the shortest wavelength is at least twice as thick as a primary luminescent layer comprising a luminescent material that emits light of the longest wavelength; and

wherein in each of the luminescent layers, the concentration of the luminescent material that emits light of the shortest wavelength in the primary luminescent layer including the luminescent material that emits light of the shortest wavelength is at least twice as high as the concentration of the luminescent material that emits light of the longest wavelength in the primary luminescent layer including the luminescent material that emits light of the longest wavelength.

9. An organic EL device comprising an anode, a cathode, and a luminescent portion positioned between the anode and cathode, the luminescent portion comprising two or more luminescent layers, each of the luminescent layers comprising plural primary luminescent layers that emit light of different colors, and each of the primary luminescent layers having a thickness of 5 nm or less, wherein, in each of the luminescent layers, the primary luminescent layers comprise a red primary luminescent layer, a green primary luminescent layer, and a blue primary luminescent layer, the red primary luminescent layer, the green primary luminescent layer, and the blue primary luminescent layer each independently comprise a luminescent material and a host material, and the concentration of a luminescent material in the blue primary luminescent layer is at least twice as high as the concentration of a luminescent material in the red primary luminescent layer.

10. The organic EL device according to claim 9 , wherein in each of the luminescent layers,

the thickness of the blue primary luminescent layer is at least twice as thick as the red primary luminescent layer.

11. The organic EL device according to claim 9 , wherein in each of the luminescent layers, the primary luminescent layers that emit light of different colors are adjacent to each other.

12. The organic EL device according to claim 9 , wherein the luminescent portion emits white light by mixing the colors of light emitted from the primary luminescent layers.

13. The organic EL device according to claim 9 , wherein the luminescent portion comprises four or more luminescent layers each comprising plural primary luminescent layers that emit light of different colors.

14. The organic EL device according to claim 9 , wherein the luminescent material comprises a metal complex that emits phosphorescent light.

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 Jan 26, 2010
From: KITAMURA, YOSHITAKA
To: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 023851/0577 →