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Granted Patent B2
US 9,263,695 · App. 14/644,887 · Granted Feb 16, 2016

Light-emitting element, light-emitting device, display device, electronic device, and lighting device

Inventors: Satoshi Seo (Kanagawa, JP); Shunpei Yamazaki (Tokyo, JP); Takahiro Ishisone (Kanagawa, JP)
Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
H01L51/504H01L51/0085H01L51/5004H01L51/5016H01L51/5262H01L51/006H01L51/0072H01L2251/308H01L2251/5384
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Patent No.
US 9,263,695
App. No.
14/644,887
Granted
Feb 16, 2016
Kind
B2
Abstract

An object is to provide a light-emitting element which uses a plurality of kinds of light-emitting dopants and has high emission efficiency. In one embodiment of the present invention, a light-emitting device, a light-emitting module, a light-emitting display device, an electronic device, and a lighting device each having reduced power consumption by using the above light-emitting element are provided. Attention is paid to Förster mechanism, which is one of mechanisms of intermolecular energy transfer. Efficient energy transfer by Förster mechanism is achieved by making an emission wavelength of a molecule which donates energy overlap with the longest-wavelength-side local maximum peak of a graph obtained by multiplying an absorption spectrum of a molecule which receives energy by a wavelength raised to the fourth power.

Claims (50)

1. A light-emitting element comprising:

a first electrode;

a first light-emitting layer over the first electrode, the first light-emitting layer comprising a first light-emitting substance;

a second light-emitting layer over the first light-emitting layer, the second light-emitting layer comprising a second light-emitting substance;

a second electrode over the second light-emitting layer,

wherein a longest-wavelength-side peak of a function ε(λ)λ 4 of the second light-emitting substance overlaps with a photoluminescence spectrum F(λ) of the first light-emitting substance,

wherein λ denotes a wavelength, and

wherein ε(λ) denotes a molar absorption coefficient at the wavelength λ.

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

wherein the first light-emitting layer further comprises a host material in which the first light-emitting substance is dispersed.

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

wherein the second light-emitting layer further comprises a host material in which the second light-emitting substance is dispersed.

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

wherein the first light-emitting substance is a phosphorescent compound.

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

wherein the second light-emitting substance is a phosphorescent compound.

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

wherein the photoluminescence spectrum is a phosphorescence spectrum.

7. The light-emitting element according to claim 2 ,

wherein the first light-emitting layer further contains a first organic compound, and

wherein the host material and the first organic compound form an exciplex.

8. The light-emitting element according to claim 7 ,

wherein light emitted from the first light-emitting substance has a longer wavelength than light emitted from the exciplex.

9. The light-emitting element according to claim 7 ,

wherein an emission spectrum of the exciplex overlaps with the longest-wavelength-side peak of the function ε(λ)λ 4 of the first light-emitting substance.

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

wherein the first light-emitting substance has a photoluminescence peak in a range of 500 nm to 600 nm, and

wherein the second light-emitting substance has a photoluminescence peak in a range of 600 nm to 700 nm.

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

wherein a recombination region of an electron and a hole is the first light-emitting layer.

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

wherein the first electrode is an anode, and

wherein an electron-transport property is higher than a hole-transport property in the second light-emitting layer.

13. The light-emitting element according to claim 2 ,

wherein the first electrode is an anode, and

wherein the host material has an electron-transport property.

14. The light-emitting element according to claim 3 ,

wherein the first electrode is an anode, and

wherein the host material has an electron-transport property.

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

wherein the first electrode is a cathode, and

wherein a hole-transport property is higher than an electron-transport property in the second light-emitting layer.

16. The light-emitting element according to claim 3 ,

wherein the first electrode is a cathode, and

wherein the host material has a hole-transport property.

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

wherein the first light-emitting layer and the second light-emitting layer are in contact with each other.

18. A lighting device comprising the light-emitting element according to claim 1 .

19. A light-emitting device comprising the light-emitting element according to claim 1 .

20. An electronic device comprising the light-emitting element according to claim 1 .

Priority Claims (2)
JP 2012-096808 · Apr 20, 2012 · national
JP 2013-052791 · Mar 15, 2013 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation 13863597 · Apr 16, 2013
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