IP Library Granted Patent US 8,476,823
Granted Patent B2
US 8,476,823 · App. 12/788,788 · Granted Jul 2, 2013

Organic electroluminescent device

Inventors: Hitoshi Kuma (Sodegaura, JP); Yuichiro Kawamura (Sodegaura, JP); Yukitoshi Jinde (Sodegaura, JP); Toshinari Ogiwara (Sodegaura, JP); Chishio Hosokawa (Sodegaura, JP)
Assignee: Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.
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Patent No.
US 8,476,823
App. No.
12/788,788
Granted
Jul 2, 2013
Kind
B2
Abstract

An organic electroluminescence device including at least an anode, an emitting layer, an electron-transporting region and a cathode in sequential order, wherein the emitting layer contains a host and a dopant which gives fluorescent emission of which the main peak wavelength is 550 nm or less; the affinity Ad of the dopant is equal to or larger than the affinity Ah of the host; the triplet energy E T d of the dopant is larger than the triplet energy E T h of the host; and a blocking layer is provided within the electron-transporting region such that it is adjacent to the emitting layer, and the triplet energy E T b of the blocking layer is larger than E T h .

Claims (26)

1. An organic electroluminescence device comprising at least an anode, an emitting layer, an electron-transporting region and a cathode in sequential order, wherein

the emitting layer contains a host and a dopant which gives fluorescent emission of which the main peak wavelength is 550 nm or less;

the affinity Ad of the dopant is equal to or larger than the affinity Ah of the host;

the triplet energy E T d of the dopant is larger than the triplet energy E T h of the host; and

a blocking layer is provided within the electron-transporting region such that it is adjacent to the emitting layer, and the triplet energy E T b of the blocking layer is larger than E T h .

2. The organic electroluminescence device according to claim 1 , wherein the dopant is a compound selected from fluoranthene derivatives and boron complexes.

3. The organic electroluminescence device according to claim 1 further comprising a hole-transporting region between the anode and the emitting layer, wherein a hole-transporting layer is provided in the hole-transporting region such that it is adjacent to the emitting layer, and the triplet energy E T ho of the hole-transporting layer is larger than E T h .

4. The organic electroluminescence device according to claim 1 , wherein the blocking layer comprises an aromatic hydrocarbon compound.

5. The organic electroluminescence device according to claim 4 , wherein the aromatic hydrocarbon compound is a polycyclic aromatic compound.

6. The organic electroluminescence device according to claim 1 , wherein the electron mobility of a material constituting the blocking layer is 10 −6 cm 2 /Vs or more in an electric field intensity of 0.04 to 0.5 MV/cm.

7. The organic electroluminescence device according to claim 1 , wherein the electron-transporting region is a multilayer stack of the blocking layer and an electron-injecting layer, and the electron mobility of a material constituting the electron-injecting layer is 10 −6 cm 2 /Vs or more in an electric field intensity of 0.04 to 0.5 MV/cm.

8. The organic electroluminescence device according to claim 1 , wherein the electron-transporting region is a multilayer stack of the blocking layer and an electron-injecting layer, and the affinity Ab of the blocking layer and the affinity Ae of the electron-injecting layer satisfy the relationship shown by Ae−Ab<0.2 eV.

9. The organic electroluminescence device according to claim 1 , wherein the electron-transporting region is a single blocking layer.

10. The organic electroluminescence device according to claim 1 , wherein the electron-transporting region is a single blocking layer which is doped with a donor.

11. The organic electroluminescence device according to claim 1 , wherein the host is a compound which does not contain a double bond in other parts than a ring structure.

12. The organic electroluminescence device according to claim 1 , wherein the dopant is a compound which does not contain a double bond in other parts than a ring structure.

13. An organic electroluminescence device comprising an anode, an emitting layer, an electron-transporting region and a cathode in sequential order, wherein

the emitting layer contains a host and a fluorescent dopant;

the affinity Ad of the dopant is equal to or larger than the affinity Ah of the host;

the triplet energy E T d of the dopant is larger than the triplet energy E T h of the host;

a blocking layer is provided in the electron-transporting region such that it is adjacent to the emitting layer, and the triplet energy E T b of a material constituting the blocking layer is larger than E T h ; and

at an applied voltage which makes current efficiency (unit: cd/A) maximum, a luminous intensity derived from singlet excitons generated by collision of triplet excitons generated in the emitting layer is 30% or more of the total luminous intensity.

14. The organic electroluminescence device according to claim 1 , which comprises at least two emitting layers between the anode and the cathode and an intermediate layer between two emitting layers.

15. The organic electroluminescence device according to claim 13 , which comprises at least two emitting layers between the anode and the cathode and an intermediate layer between two emitting layers.

16. The organic electroluminescence device according to claim 1 , which comprises a plurality of emitting layers between the anode and the cathode and a carrier-blocking layer between a first emitting layer and a second emitting layer.

17. The organic electroluminescence device according to claim 13 , which comprises a plurality of emitting layers between the anode and the cathode and a carrier-blocking layer between a first emitting layer and a second emitting layer.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 4, 2013
From: KUMA, HITOSHI; KAWAMURA, YUICHIRO; JINDE, YUKITOSHI; OGIWARA, TOSHINARI; HOSOKAWA, CHISHIO
To: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 030542/0328 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2009-124759 · May 22, 2009 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation In Part 12477599 · Jun 3, 2009
Related Publication 20100301318A1 · Dec 2, 2010