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US 9,812,662 · App. 15/490,290 · Granted Nov 7, 2017

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

Inventors: Takeyoshi Watabe (Kanagawa, JP); Satoshi Seo (Kanagawa, JP)

Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.

H01L51/5028 H01L51/5016 H01L51/006 H01L51/0052 H01L51/0061 H01L51/0072 H01L51/0074 H01L51/0085 H01L2251/556

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Patent No.: US 9,812,662
App. No.: 15/490,290
Granted: Nov 7, 2017
Kind: B2

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Abstract

A light-emitting element of the present invention can have sufficiently high emission efficiency with a structure including a host material being able to remain chemically stable even if a phosphorescent compound having higher emission energy is used as a guest material. The relation between the relative emission intensity and the emission time of light emission obtained from the host material and the guest material contained in a light-emitting layer is represented by a multicomponent decay curve. The relative emission intensity of the slowest component of the multicomponent decay curve becomes 1/100 for a short time within a range where the slowest component is not interfered with by quenching of the host material (the emission time of the slowest component is preferably less than or equal to 15 μsec); thus, sufficiently high emission efficiency can be obtained.

Claims (48)

1. A light-emitting device comprising:

a light-emitting layer comprising a first organic compound and a second organic compound,

wherein the first organic compound is a guest material,

wherein emission time-dependence of emission intensity of the light-emitting layer is represented by a multicomponent decay curve, and

wherein an emission time of a longest lifetime component of the multicomponent decay curve at room temperature is less than or equal to 15 μsec where the emission time is a time required for a value of initial emission intensity to become 1/100.

2. The light-emitting device according to claim 1 , wherein the first organic compound is a phosphorescence compound.

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

wherein a wavelength of a peak on a short wavelength side of a phosphorescence of the second organic compound is shorter than or equal to a wavelength of a peak on a short wavelength side of a phosphorescence of the first organic compound.

4. The light-emitting device according to claim 3 ,

wherein a difference between the wavelength of the peak on the short wavelength side of the phosphorescence of the second organic compound and the wavelength of the peak on the short wavelength side of the phosphorescence of the first organic compound is greater than or equal to 0 nm and less than or equal to 45 nm.

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

wherein the room temperature is 25° C.

6. The light-emitting device according to claim 1 , wherein the multicomponent decay curve represents at least two components derived from the guest material at the time when the value of initial emission intensity becomes 1/100.

7. The light-emitting device according to claim 1 , wherein the light-emitting device is configured to emit blue light.

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

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

10. A light-emitting device comprising:

a light-emitting layer comprising a first organic compound and a second organic compound,

wherein the first organic compound is a guest material,

wherein the second organic compound is a host material,

wherein the first organic compound and the second organic compound are selected so that emission time-dependence of emission intensity of the light-emitting device is represented by a multicomponent decay curve, and

wherein an emission time of a longest lifetime component of the multicomponent decay curve at room temperature is less than or equal to 15μsec where the emission time is a time required for a value of initial emission intensity to become 1/100.

11. The light-emitting device according to claim 10 , wherein the first organic compound is a phosphorescence compound.

12. The light-emitting device according to claim 10 ,

13. The light-emitting device according to claim 12 ,

14. The light-emitting device according to claim 10 ,

wherein the room temperature is 25° C.

15. The light-emitting device according to claim 10 , wherein the multicomponent decay curve represents at least two components derived from the first organic compound and/or the second organic compound at the time when the value of initial emission intensity becomes 1/100.

16. The light-emitting device according to claim 10 , wherein the light-emitting device is configured to emit blue light.

17. An electronic device comprising the light-emitting device according to claim 10 .

18. A lighting device comprising the light-emitting device according to claim 10 .

19. A light-emitting device comprising:

a light-emitting layer comprising a guest material and a host material,

wherein the guest material and the host material are selected so that emission time-dependence of emission intensity of the light-emitting layer is represented by a multicomponent decay curve, and

wherein an emission time of a longest lifetime component of the multicomponent decay curve obtained from photoluminescence at room temperature is less than or equal to 15 μsec where the emission time is a time required for a value of initial emission intensity to become 1/100.

20. The light-emitting device according to claim 19 , wherein the guest material is a phosphorescence compound.

21. The light-emitting device according to claim 19 ,

wherein a wavelength of a peak on a short wavelength side of a phosphorescence of the host material is shorter than or equal to a wavelength of a peak on a short wavelength side of a phosphorescence of the guest material.

22. The light-emitting device according to claim 21 ,

wherein a difference between the wavelength of the peak on the short wavelength side of the phosphorescence of the host material and the wavelength of the peak on the short wavelength side of the phosphorescence of the guest material is greater than or equal to 0 nm and less than or equal to 45 nm.

23. The light-emitting device according to claim 19 ,

wherein the room temperature is 25° C.

24. The light-emitting device according to claim 19 , wherein the multicomponent decay curve represents at least two components derived from the guest material at the time when the value of initial emission intensity becomes 1/100.

25. The light-emitting device according to claim 19 , wherein the light-emitting device is configured to emit blue light.

26. An electronic device comprising the light-emitting device according to claim 19 .

27. A lighting device comprising the light-emitting device according to claim 19 .

Priority Claims (1)

JP 2013-002296 · Jan 10, 2013 · national

Continuity (3)

Continuation 15204363 · Jul 7, 2016

Continuation 14150388 · Jan 8, 2014

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