IP Library Granted Patent US 11,101,448
Granted Patent B2
US 11,101,448 · App. 16/348,387 · Granted Aug 24, 2021

Electronic device having functional layer including particles and binder material

Inventors: Yasunobu Kobayashi (Hachioji, JP); Takeshi Hakii (Sagamihara, JP); Shun Furukawa (Sagamihara, JP)
Assignee: MERCK PATENTS GMBH
H01L51/5268C08G61/10C08G61/126C09D5/004C09D165/00H01L27/32H01L51/0035H01L51/0036H01L51/0043H01L51/44H01L51/5012C08G2261/124C08G2261/18C08G2261/228C08G2261/312C08G2261/3223C08G2261/91C08G2261/95G02B5/0242G02B5/0278H01L51/0059H01L51/0067H01L51/0072H01L51/0073H01L51/0085H01L2251/558
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Patent No.
US 11,101,448
App. No.
16/348,387
Granted
Aug 24, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

Provided are an electronic device and an organic electroluminescence element both of which are excellent in optical properties as well as long-term storage stability and scratch resistance. Herein, the electronic device includes at least one functional layer on a resin substrate, and the electronic device is configured so that the functional layer contains a component with a structure of X—Y—X′ as a resin component; X and X′ independently include at least any one of the formulae (1)˜(7) respectively; and Y is a bivalent group including at least one S atom and one aromatic ring.

Claims (16)

1. An electronic device comprising at least a functional layer on a resin substrate, wherein

the functional layer contains a component with a structure of X—Y—X′;

X and X′ independently have any one of structures represented at least the following formulae (1)˜(7), respectively;

Y is a bivalent group comprising at least one S atom and one aromatic ring,

Y comprises any one of structures represented by —R—R′—, —R—S—R′—, and —R—S(O)—R′—,

R and R′ independently have any one of structures represented by the following formulae (8)˜(12), respectively,

and

when Y is represented by —R—R′—, at least one of R and R′ is represented by the formula (12).

2. An organic electroluminescence element, wherein the electronic device according to claim 1 is an organic electroluminescence element.

3. The organic electroluminescence element according to claim 2 , wherein an optical scattering layer is a layer comprising the functional layer containing particles and a binder.

4. The organic electroluminescence element according to claim 3 , wherein the optical scattering layer comprises spherical particles at a rate in 80% or more of a number of particles with an aspect rate of 2 or less as the particles.

5. The organic electroluminescence element according to claim 4 , wherein a mean particle diameter of the spherical particles is in the range from 200 nm to 500 nm.

6. The organic electroluminescence element according to claim 3 , wherein the optical scattering layer has a thickness larger than a mean particle diameter of the particles in the optical scattering layer, and a particle presence volume rate of the particles located in a region at a side of the resin substrate relative to a center in a thickness direction is larger than a particle presence volume rate of the particles located in a region at a side of a transparent conductive film thus formed on the optical scattering layer relative to a center in a thickness direction.

7. The organic electroluminescence element according to claim 3 , wherein a volume rate of the particles in the optical scattering layer is in the range from 1 volume % to 40 volume %.

8. The organic electroluminescence element according to claim 3 , wherein a difference in refractive indexes between the particle and the binder is in the range from 0.20 to 1.00.

9. The organic electroluminescence element according to claim 3 , wherein the optical scattering layer has a thickness in the range from 250 nm to 1000 nm.

Assignments (4)
CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO CORRECT THE NAME OF ASSIGNEE PREVIOUSLY RECORDED AT REEL: 055135 FRAME: 0995. ASSIGNOR(S) HEREBY CONFIRMS THE ASSIGNMENT. Recorded Feb 7, 2022
From: MERCK PERFORMANCE MATERIALS GERMANY GMBH
To: MERCK PATENT GMBH
Reel/Frame 058981/0188 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 3, 2021
From: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
To: MERCK PERFORMANCE MATERIALS GERMANY GMBH
Reel/Frame 055135/0757 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 3, 2021
From: MERCK PERFORMANCE MATERIALS GERMANY GMBH
To: MERCK PATENTS GMBH
Reel/Frame 055135/0995 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 10, 2019
From: KOBAYASHI, YASUNOBU; HAKII, TAKESHI; FURUKAWA, SHUN
To: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
Reel/Frame 049142/0398 →