Abstract: The invention relates to iridium complexes that are suitable for use in organic electroluminescent devices, in particular as emitters.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescence device material comprising a metal complex having a neopentyl group, for example, as shown below; and an organic electroluminescence device comprising a substrate having thereon a pair of electrodes and at least one organic layer between the electrodes, the organic layer containing a light emitting layer, wherein any one of the organic layer contains the organic electroluminescence device material.

Abstract: The present invention relates to organic light emitting elements, comprising thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) emitters and/or hosts of formula which have a sufficiently small energy gap between S1 and T1 (?EST) to enable up-conversion of the triplet exciton from T1 to S1. The organic light emitting elements show high electroluminescent efficiency.

Abstract: An iridium complex which has a phenylpyridine bidentate ligand containing a group represented by the following general formula (A): (In the general formula (A), X represents a cyano group or a halogenated alkyl group. L represents a single bond or a divalent linking group. R represents a substituent. n represents an integer of 0 to 4. * represents a binding site to a phenylpyridine bidentate ligand.

Abstract: The present invention relates to metal complexes and to electronic devices, in particular organic electroluminescent devices, containing these metal complexes.

Abstract: A material for an organic electroluminescence device, includes: an organic material that is to be provided for a film formation of any of at least one organic layer included in the organic electroluminescence device, the organic material having a water content before the film formation, as measured by the Karl Fischer method, of 100 ppm or more and not more than 1,000 ppm.

Abstract: Provided is an organic electroluminescence device having a low drive voltage and excellent durability. Provided also is an organic electroluminescence device having low dependency of voltage increment after driving on temperature of usage environment. A light emitting organic thin film containing at least one compound represented by Formula (PQ-1) and a hydrocarbon compound having a specific structure, and an organic electroluminescence device using the same. In Formula (PQ-1), each of Ra, Rb and Rc independently represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group, wherein any one of Ra, Rb and Rc represents a hydrogen atom and the remaining two represent an alkyl group. Each of R1 to R5 independently represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group, a fluorine atom or a cyano group. Each of Rx and Ry independently represents an alkyl group or a phenyl group.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescent element is provided that has high luminous efficiency, and a slow luminance deterioration rate in the initial stage of lighting. The organic electroluminescent element includes a substrate; a pair of electrodes including an anode and a cathode, disposed on the substrate; and at least one organic layer including a light emitting layer, disposed between the electrodes, wherein at least one organic layer includes a compound represented by the general formula (1). (R11 to R15 represent hydrogen atoms, alkyl groups, or silyl groups, and any one of R21 to R24 represents a group represented by general formula (1A) or (1B). Ph4 represents a p-phenylene group, and at least one of Ph4a and Ph4b represents a p-phenylene group.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an organic electroluminescence device having excellent light emission efficiency and durability, in particular, durability when driving at a high temperature. Provided is an organic electroluminescence device including on a substrate a pair of electrodes, and at least one layer of an organic layer including a light emitting layer containing a light emitting material disposed between the electrodes, wherein the light emitting layer includes at least each one of specific indolocarbazole derivatives and specific condensed ring metal complexes.

Abstract: Provided is a method for producing an organic electroluminescence device which contains an anode, a cathode and an organic layer between the anode and the cathode where the organic layer contains a light-emitting layer and an adjacent layer adjacent to the light-emitting layer, the method including: applying to the adjacent layer a coating liquid prepared by dissolving or dispersing a light-emitting material and a host material in a solvent, and heating the coating liquid applied to the adjacent layer at a temperature higher than a melting temperature of the host material and higher than a boiling point of the solvent, to thereby form the light-emitting layer, wherein a difference as an absolute value between contact angle A (°) of the light-emitting layer with respect to pure water and contact angle B (°) of the adjacent layer with respect to pure water is 13 (°) or smaller.

Abstract: A light emitting layer-forming solid material including at least one host material and at least one light-emitting material, wherein the light emitting layer-forming solid material is used for forming a white light emitting layer having a single layer structure by an evaporation method.

Abstract: In an electroluminescence device, highly efficient light emission is realized without reducing the durability thereof. The electroluminescence device includes electrodes, a plurality of layers deposited between the electrodes, a light emitting region between the plurality of layers, the light emitting region emitting light by application of an electric field between the electrodes. The plurality of layers include a metal thin-film in the vicinity of the light emitting region. The metal thin-film induces plasmon resonance on the surface thereof by the emitted light. Surface modification is provided on at least one of the surfaces of the metal thin-film. The surface modification includes an end group having polarity that makes the work function of the metal thin-film become close to the work function of at least a layer next to the metal thin-film.

Abstract: To provide methods of forming fluorescence-producing organometallic complexes which can ensure high durability when used in organic electroluminescence devices. For example, a compound 106 is prepared in accordance with the following reaction scheme.

Abstract: Provided is a material for organic electroluminescence device containing (a) a phosphorescent metal complex containing a monoanionic bidentate ligand and a metal having an atomic weight of 40 or greater, wherein the monoanionic bidentate ligand is represented by the following formula (A): wherein, each of E1a, E1d, E1e, E1f, E1k, E1l, E1p, and E1q independently represents a carbon atom or a hetero atom, each of Z1, Z2, and Z3 independently represents an aromatic ring or aromatic heterocycle, the aromatic ring or aromatic heterocycle may have a substituent, and a skeleton represented by the formula (A) has, in total, a 18? electron structure, and the bidentate ligand represented by the formula (A) may be coupled to another ligand to form a tridentate or higher-dentate ligand; and (b) a structural isomer represented by the same chemical formula as that of the phosphorescent metal complex (a) but different sterically in a coordination method of the ligand, wherein the structural isomer (b) is contained in