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Granted Patent B2
US 10,930,855 · App. 15/779,661 · Granted Feb 23, 2021

Light-emitting element, light-emitting device, electronic device, lighting device, lighting system, and guidance system

Inventors: Yusuke Takita (Kanagawa, JP); Satoshi Seo (Kanagawa, JP); Tsunenori Suzuki (Kanagawa, JP); Harue Osaka (Kanagawa, JP)
Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
H01L51/0061C07D333/76C09K11/06H01L51/0059H01L51/0074H05B45/60H05B47/11H01L51/5064H01L2251/552
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Patent No.
US 10,930,855
App. No.
15/779,661
Granted
Feb 23, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

An object is to provide a light-emitting element with a favorable lifetime. A light-emitting element which includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and an EL layer and in which the EL layer includes a hole-injection layer and first to fourth layers; the hole-injection layer includes an organic acceptor and is positioned between the first electrode and the first layer; the first layer includes a first hole-transport material; the second layer includes a second hole-transport material and is positioned between the first layer and the third layer; the third layer includes a third hole-transport material; the fourth layer includes a host material and a light-emitting material and is positioned between the third layer and the second electrode; the HOMO level of the second hole-transport material is deeper than the HOMO level of the first hole-transport material; the HOMO level of the host material is deeper than the second hole-transport material HOMO level; the HOMO level of the third hole-transport material is deeper than or equal to the HOMO level of the host material; a difference between the HOMO level of the second hole-transport material and the HOMO level of the third hole-transport material is less than or equal to 0.3 eV; and the second hole-transport material is a triarylamine compound having a structure where a dibenzofuran skeleton or a dibenzothiophene skeleton is bonded to nitrogen of an amine directly or via a divalent aromatic hydrocarbon group.

Claims (37)

1. A light-emitting element comprising:

an anode;

a first layer over the anode;

a second layer over the first layer;

a third layer over the second layer;

a light-emitting layer over the third layer; and

a cathode over the light-emitting layer,

wherein the first layer comprises an organic compound having at least one electron withdrawing group, wherein the organic compound is optionally a condensed heteroaromatic ring,

wherein the second layer comprises a triarylamine having a fluorenylamine skeleton,

wherein the third layer comprises an organic compound represented by Structural Formula (100) shown below:

2. A light-emitting device comprising:

the light-emitting element according to claim 1 ; and

a transistor or a substrate.

3. An electronic device comprising:

the light-emitting device according to claim 2 ; and

a sensor, an operation button, a speaker, or a microphone.

4. A lighting device comprising:

the light-emitting device according to claim 2 ; and

a housing.

5. A lighting system comprising:

a control portion;

a sensor portion; and

a lighting portion,

wherein the lighting portion includes a plurality of light-emitting device portions,

wherein each light-emitting device portion of the plurality of light-emitting device portions includes one or more light-emitting elements, and

wherein each light-emitting element of the one or more light-emitting elements is the light-emitting element according to claim 1 .

6. The lighting system according to claim 5 , wherein the sensor portion senses presence information or positional information of a user and transmits the information to the control portion, whereby the control portion makes the light-emitting device portion emit light with appropriate emission intensity.

7. The lighting system according to claim 5 , wherein the emission intensity of the light-emitting device portion is sequentially changed with a change in the positional information of the user.

8. A guidance system using the lighting system according to claim 5 .

9. The guidance system according to claim 8 ,

wherein the sensor portion has a function of detecting attribute information of the user, and

wherein the guidance system guides the user in the appropriate direction by changing the emission intensity of the light-emitting device portion on the basis of the attribute information and the positional information of the user.

10. The light-emitting element according to claim 1 , further comprising:

a fourth layer over the third layer,

wherein the fourth layer comprises an organic compound having a carbazole skeleton, a carbazole skeleton and a triphenylene skeleton, a carbazole skeleton and a phenanthrene skeleton, or a carbazole skeleton and a naphthalene skeleton.

11. The light-emitting element according to claim 1 ,

wherein the organic compound in the first layer is 7,7,8,8-tetracyano-2,3,5,6-tetrafluoroquinodimethane, 3,6-difluoro-2,5,7,7,8,8-hexacyanoquinodimethane, chloranil, or 2,3,6,7,10,11-hexacyano-1,4,5,8,9,12-hexaazatriphenylene.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 30, 2018
From: TAKITA, YUSUKE; SEO, SATOSHI; SUZUKI, TSUNENORI; OSAKA, HARUE
To: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 045927/0956 →
Priority Claims (2)
JP JP2015-246311 · Dec 17, 2015 · national
JP JP2016-010274 · Jan 22, 2016 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20180358562A1 · Dec 13, 2018
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