IP Library Granted Patent US 9,799,836
Granted Patent B2
US 9,799,836 · App. 14/628,975 · Granted Oct 24, 2017

Light emitting element, light emitting device, authentication device, and electronic device

Inventors: Tetsuji Fujita (Nagano, JP); Hidetoshi Yamamoto (Nagano, JP); Yuiga Hamade (Fujimi-machi, JP)
Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
H01L51/008H01L51/0054H01L51/0072H01L51/508H01L2251/308
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Patent No.
US 9,799,836
App. No.
14/628,975
Granted
Oct 24, 2017
Kind
B2
Abstract

Provided are a light emitting element with a high efficiency and a long life that emits light in a near-infrared region, and a light emitting device, authentication device and electronic device that include the light emitting element. A light emitting element ( 1 ) according to one aspect of the invention includes an anode ( 3 ), a cathode ( 8 ), and a light emitting layer ( 5 ) that is provided between the anode ( 3 ) and the cathode ( 8 ) and that emits light by conducting current between the anode ( 3 ) and the cathode ( 8 ). The light emitting layer ( 5 ) includes a pyrromethene-based boron complex as a light emitting material and a tetracene-based material as a host material for retaining the light emitting material.

Claims (22)

1. A light emitting element comprising:

an anode;

a cathode; and

a light emitting layer that is provided between the anode and the cathode and that emits light having a wavelength of 700 nm or more in a near-infrared region by conducting current between the anode and the cathode,

wherein the light emitting layer includes a compound represented by one of the following formulas (2) to (6) as a light emitting material and a compound represented by the following formula IRH-1 as a host material for retaining the light emitting material

in the formulas (2) to (6), each R 1 independently represents an alkyl group or aryl group that has one to five carbon atoms, and each R 2 independently represents a hydrogen atom, or an alkyl group or aryl group that has one to five carbon atoms,

in the formula IRH-1, n represents a natural number from 1 to 12, and each R independently represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group that may have a substituent group, or an arylamino group.

2. The light emitting element according to claim 1 , wherein the host material is a compound represented by the following formula IRH-2

in the formula IRH-2, R 1 to R 4 independently represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group that may have a substituent group, or an arylamino group, and R 1 to R 4 may be the same as or different from each other.

3. The light emitting element according to claim 1 , wherein the host material is a compound represented by the following formula IRH-3

in the formula IRH-3, R 1 and R 2 independently represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group that may have a substituent group, or an arylamino group, and R 1 and R 2 may be the same as or different from each other.

4. The light emitting element according to claim 1 , wherein the host material is constituted by a carbon atom and a hydrogen atom.

5. The light emitting element according to claim 1 , wherein the light emitting material is contained in the light emitting layer in an amount of 0.25 wt % or more to 1.0 wt % or less.

6. The light emitting element according to claim 1 , comprising an electron transporting layer that is provided between the light emitting layer and the cathode and that includes a compound having an anthracene skeleton.

7. The light emitting element according to claim 6 , wherein the electron transporting layer includes a first electron transporting layer that includes an azaindolizine-based compound having an azaindolizine skeleton and an anthracene skeleton in a molecule thereof, and a second electron transporting layer that is provided between the first electron transporting layer and the light emitting layer and that includes an anthracene-based compound, the anthracene-based compound having an anthracene skeleton in a molecule thereof and being constituted by a carbon atom and a hydrogen atom.

8. The light emitting element according to claim 7 , wherein the second electron transporting layer is thicker than the first electron transporting layer.

9. The light emitting element according to claim 7 , wherein the second electron transporting layer has a thickness of 10 nm or more to 75 nm or less.

10. The light emitting element according to claim 6 , wherein the electron transporting layer has a thickness of 55 nm or more to 95 nm or less.

11. The light emitting element according to claim 1 , wherein the light emitting layer has a thickness of 10 nm or more to 50 nm or less.

12. A light emitting device, comprising the light emitting element according to claim 1 .

13. An authentication device, comprising the light emitting element according to claim 1 .

14. An electronic device, comprising the light emitting element according to claim 1 .

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 2, 2026
From: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
To: SHIHENG CREATION LIMITED
Reel/Frame 074265/0049 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 23, 2015
From: FUJITA, TETSUJI; YAMAMOTO, HIDETOSHI; HAMADE, YUIGA
To: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 035008/0248 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2014-039914 · Feb 28, 2014 · national
Continuity (1)
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