IP Library Granted Patent US 9,166,178
Granted Patent B2
US 9,166,178 · App. 14/104,882 · Granted Oct 20, 2015

Organic electronic device and dopant for doping an organic semiconducting matrix material

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Patent No.
US 9,166,178
App. No.
14/104,882
Granted
Oct 20, 2015
Kind
B2
Abstract

An organic electronic device includes a substrate, a first electrode arranged on the substrate, at least a first functional organic layer arranged on the first electrode and a second electrode arranged on the first functional organic layer. The first functional organic layer includes a matrix material and a p-dopant with regard to the matrix material, wherein the p-dopant includes a copper complex containing at least one ligand.

Claims (6)

1. A polynuclear Lewis acidic copper complex for p-doping an organic semiconducting matrix material comprising at least two copper atoms, and at least one ligand L bridging the two copper atoms, the ligand L having the following formula:

wherein E1 and E2 denote independent from each other oxygen, sulphur, selenium or NR′, wherein R′ represents hydrogen or a substituted or unsubstituted, branched, linear or cyclic hydrocarbon and wherein R represents a substituted or unsubstituted, branched, linear or cyclic alkyl or aryl group bearing at least one electron withdrawing substituent and wherein the copper atoms contained in the copper complex are at least partially in an oxidation state+2.

2. The polynuclear Lewis acidic copper complex of claim 1 , wherein R represents fluorinated or perfluorinated aromatic or aliphatic substituents, with the proviso that R does not represent CF 3 .

3. The polynuclear copper complex of claim 1 , comprising 4 or 6 copper atoms.

4. The polynuclear copper complex of claim 1 , wherein R contains at least two carbon atoms.

5. The polynuclear copper complex of claim 1 , wherein copper atoms contained in the copper complex are at least partially in an oxidation state+1.

Assignments (2)
MERGER Recorded Feb 17, 2026
From: OSRAM OLED GMBH
To: AMS-OSRAM INTERNATIONAL GMBH
Reel/Frame 074881/0104 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 17, 2015
From: OSRAM OPTO SEMICONDUCTORS GMBH
To: OSRAM OLED GMBH
Reel/Frame 036591/0262 →