Organic EL display device and method of manufacturing the same

1. An organic EL display device, which stands for organic electro luminescence display device, comprising:

a lower electrode provided every first organic EL element for a blue color and every second organic EL element for another color on a substrate;

a partition layer in contact with said lower electrode;

a hole injection/transport layer provided every first organic EL element and second organic EL element on said lower electrode, and having at least one of properties of hole injection and hole transport;

a second organic light emitting layer for non-blue colors provided on said hole injection/transport layer for said second organic EL element;

a connection layer made of a low-molecular material and provided over an entire surface of said hole injection/transport layer for said second organic light emitting layer and said first organic EL element, the partition layer extending from said lower electrode to be in contact with said connection layer, wherein a triplet excited state (T 1 H) of said connection layer is 0.1 eV or more higher than a triplet excited state (T 1 E) of said second organic light emitting layer;

a first organic light emitting layer for a blue color provided over an entire surface of said connection layer so that the first organic light emitting layer for the blue color is above the second organic light emitting layer for non-blue colors;

an electron injection/transport layer having at least one of the properties of the electron injection and the electron transport and an upper electrode provided over an entire surface of said organic light emitting layer in order.

2. The organic EL display device according to claim 1 , wherein said second organic light emitting layer contains therein a phosphorescence luminescent ortho metalated complex or a polyfine complex.

3. The organic EL display device according to claim 2 , wherein a central metal of the ortho metalated complex is at least one of iridium (Ir), platinum (Pt) or palladium (Pd).

4. An organic EL display device, which stands for organic electro luminescence display device, comprising:

a lower electrode provided every first organic EL element for a blue color and every second organic EL element for another color on a substrate;

a partition layer in contact with said lower electrode;

a hole injection/transport layer provided every first organic EL element and second organic EL element on said lower electrode, and having at least one of properties of hole injection and hole transport;

a second organic light emitting layer for non-blue colors provided on said hole injection/transport layer for said second organic EL element;

a connection layer made of a low-molecular material and provided over an entire surface of said hole injection/transport layer for said second organic light emitting layer and said first organic EL element, the partition layer extending from said lower electrode to be in contact with said connection layer, wherein said connection layer contains therein a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic compound;

a first organic light emitting layer for a blue color provided over an entire surface of said connection layer so that the first organic light emitting layer for the blue color is above the second organic light emitting layer for non-blue colors;

an electron injection/transport layer having at least one of the properties of the electron injection and the electron transport and an upper electrode provided over an entire surface of said organic light emitting layer in order.

5. The organic EL display device according to claim 4 , wherein the nitrogen-containing heterocyclic compound is a compound expressed by the general formula (2):

in which L1 is a group into which 2 to 6 bivalent aromatic ring groups are coupled, specifically, a bivalent group into which 2 to 6 aromatic rings are linked, or a derivative thereof, and A6 to 9 are groups into which 1 to 10 aromatic hydrocarbon groups or derivatives thereof are coupled.

6. The organic EL display device according to claim 1 , wherein said electron injection/transport layer has a mobility in the range of 1.0×10 −6 cm 2 /Vs to 1.0×10 −1 cm 2 /Vs.

7. The organic EL display device according to claim 1 , wherein said second organic EL element for another color is at least one of a red organic EL element, a green organic EL element or a yellow organic EL element and the partition layer is between said second organic EL element and said hole injection/transport layer provided every first organic EL element.

8. The organic EL display device according to claim 1 , wherein said hole injection/transport layer is provided as a common layer over an entire surface of a lower electrode of said first organic EL element and said second organic EL element, said hole injection layer being divided by said partition layer in a space between said lower electrode of said first organic EL element and said second organic EL element.

9. The organic EL display device according to claim 1 , wherein said partition layer blocks light emission such that light emission occurs through said hole injection layer only above said lower electrode of said first organic EL element and said second organic EL element.

10. The organic EL display device according to claim 1 , wherein said partition layer has a two layer structure including an upper partition layer and a lower partition layer.

11. The organic EL display device according to claim 10 , wherein said upper partition layer is a photosensitive resin and said lower partition layer is an inorganic insulating material.

12. The organic EL display device according to claim 1 , wherein said partition layer has a water repellant surface.

13. An organic EL display device, which stands for organic electro luminescence display device, comprising:

a lower electrode provided every first organic EL element for a blue color and every second organic EL element for another color on a substrate;

a partition layer in contact with said lower electrode;

a hole injection/transport layer provided every first organic EL element and second organic EL element on said lower electrode, and having at least one of properties of hole injection and hole transport;

a second organic light emitting layer for non-blue colors provided on said hole injection/transport layer for said second organic EL element;

a connection layer made of a low-molecular material and provided over an entire surface of said hole injection/transport layer for said second organic light emitting layer and said first organic EL element, the partition layer extending from said lower electrode to be in contact with said connection layer, wherein an energy difference between a ground state (S 0 H) of said connection layer and a ground state (S 0 I) of said hole injection/transport layer is equal to or smaller than 0.4 eV;

a first organic light emitting layer for a blue color provided over an entire surface of said connection layer so that the first organic light emitting layer for the blue color is above the second organic light emitting layer for non-blue colors;

an electron injection/transport layer having at least one of the properties of the electron injection and the electron transport and an upper electrode provided over an entire surface of said organic light emitting layer in order.

14. The organic EL display device according to claim 4 , wherein the nitrogen-containing heterocyclic compound is a compound expressed by the general formula (1):

in which A1 to A3 are aromatic hydrocarbon groups, heterocyclic groups or derivatives thereof.