Abstract: Provided is an organic electroluminescence device material, which, in its production, is free from formation of impurities that worsen the performance of organic EL devices, which, in forming an upper layer by coating, does not cause dissolution mixing or swelling mixing, which forms a film of good quality and which contributes toward improving the performance (high durability, and low driving voltage) of organic EL devices.

Abstract: [This] charge transport material which comprises a compound expressed by the following formula has a high efficiency and drive durability after high-temperature storage and resists the occurrence of dark spots (X101 represents a sulfur atom or an oxygen atom; R101 and R102 represent each independently an alkyl group, an aryl group, a heteroaryl group, a fluorine atom, or a silyl group, and may further be substituted with these groups; n101 represents an integer from 0 to 11; n102 represents an integer from 0 to 7; a plurality of R101 and R102 [groups] may be the same or different; and L101 represents a single bond or a divalent linking group; however, one of R101, L101, and R102 includes a fluorine atom, a fluoroalkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, a cycloalkylene group, a silyl group, an alkylsilyl group, an arylsilyl group, or a silicon atom linking group.

Abstract: Metal carbene complexes comprising at least one imidazo-quinoxaline ligand, organic electronic devices, especially OLEDs (Organic Light-Emitting Diodes) which comprise such complexes, a light-emitting layer comprising at least one inventive metal carbene complex, an apparatus selected from the group consisting of illuminating elements, stationary visual display units and mobile visual display units comprising such an OLED, the use of such a metal carbene complex for electrophotographic photoreceptors, photoelectric converters, organic solar cells (organic photovoltaics), switching elements, organic light emitting field effect transistors (OLEFETs), image sensors, dye lasers and electroluminescent devices and a process for preparing such metal carbene complexes.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescent element containing a light emitting material represented by the following general formula (1) and a host material represented by the general formula (H-1) in a light emitting layer. The organic electroluminescent element has low driving voltage, high luminous efficiency, and excellent durability. L represents O, NRC0, or CRC1RC2; RC0 to RC2 each represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent; RC3 to RC6 each represents a substituent; nC3 and nC6 each represents an integer of 0 to 3; nC4 and nC5 each represents an integer of 0 to 4; RH111 to RH118 each represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent; X represents any one of O, S, NRH119, CRH120RH121, and SiRH122RH123, and RH119 to RH123 each represents a substituent; the ring A represents a benzene ring; and the ring B represents a 5- or 6-membered ring.

Abstract: [Problem] To provide an organic electroluminescent device that is excellent in external extraction efficiency of emitted light and able to attain reduced power consumption and prolonged service life. [Solution] An organic electroluminescent device including, in an order mentioned: a reflective electrode; an organic electroluminescent layer; a transparent substrate; and a light-extracting unit, wherein the light-extracting unit contains a light-extracting member and a light distribution-converting member. In one preferable embodiment, the light-extracting member and the light distribution-converting member are each a prism, a prism array, a lens, a lens array, a fine concavo-convex structure or a fine particle layer.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescent element comprising 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 the light emitting layer includes a compound represented by the following general formula: wherein: R1, R3, and R19; R11 to R18; and A1 to A4 are as defined in the specification.

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: The present invention relates to process for the preparation of a compound of formula (I), comprising heating a compound of formula (II) in the presence of a catalyst and a base in a solvent at elevated temperature. The compounds of formula (I) can be produced by the process easily, with excellent yield and purity and at low cost.

Abstract: Use of transition metal complexes of the formula (I) in organic light-emitting diodes where: M1 is a metal atom; carbene is a carbene ligand; L is a monoanionic or dianionic ligand; K is an uncharged monodentate or bidentate ligand selected from the group consisting of phosphines; CO; pyridines; nitriles and conjugated dienes which form a ? complex with M1; n is the number of carbene ligands and is at least 1; m is the number of ligands L, where m can be 0 or ?1; o is the number of ligands K, where o can be 0 or ?1; where the sum n+m+o is dependent on the oxidation state and coordination number of the metal atom and on the denticity of the ligands carbene, L and K and also on the charge on the ligands carbene and L, with the proviso that n is at least 1, and also an OLED comprising these transition metal complexes, a light-emitting layer comprising these transition metal complexes, OLEDs comprising this light-emitting layer, devices comprising an OLED according to the present invention, and specific tr

Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of transition metal-carbene complexes in organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), to a light-emitting layer, to a blocking layer for electrons or excitons, or to a blocking layer for holes, each comprising these transition metal-carbene complexes, to OLEDs comprising these transition metal-carbene complexes, to devices which comprise an inventive OLED, and to transition metal-carbene complexes.

Abstract: [Disclosed is] a high-efficiency and durable organic electroluminescent element having a low drive voltage, being an organic electroluminescent element having on a substrate a pair of electrodes comprising an anode and a cathode and at least one organic layer including a light-emitting layer between these electrodes, with this organic electroluminescent element containing a specific compound having a dibenzothiophene or dibenzofuran structure and a phenanthrene structure in at least one layer out of the aforementioned at least one organic layer. [Also disclosed is] this specific compound.

Abstract: The present invention relates to metal complexes of the general formula L1ML2 (I), wherein M is selected from Ir and Rh, L1 is a ligand of formula L2 is a ligand of formula to OLEDs (Organic Light-Emitting Diodes) which comprise such complexes, to a device selected from the group consisting of illuminating elements, stationary visual display units and mobile visual display units comprising such an OLED, to the use of such a metal complex in OLEDs, for example as emitter, matrix material, charge transport material and/or charge or exciton blocker.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescent element including 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, in which the organic layer includes a compound represented by the following general formula (1), has high luminous efficiency, excellent blue color purity, and a small change in the chromaticity due to deterioration by driving, wherein Cy, Dn1, Ac1, L1, L2, L3, ring Z1, u1, q1, n1, m1, A11, and A12 are as defined herein.

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: The present invention relates to compounds of formula a process for their production and their use in electronic devices, especially electroluminescent devices. When used as host material for phosphorescent emitters in electroluminescent devices, the compounds of formula I may provide improved efficiency, stability, manufacturability, or spectral characteristics of electroluminescent devices.

Abstract: A light emitting organic thin film including at least one compound represented by Formula (PQ-1) and at least one compound represented by Formula (BN-1). 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. In Formula (BN-1), Ar1 represents an arylene group that may have a substituent Z. Ar2 represents a condensed hydrocarbyl group that may have a substituent Z. Each of R101 to R113 independently represents a phenyl group, or the like.

Abstract: Disclosed is an organic electroluminescent element which is excellent with respect to luminous efficiency and driving voltage and rarely undergoes initial luminance drop. Specifically disclosed is an organic electroluminescent element which comprises, on a substrate, a pair of electrodes composed of an anode and a cathode and a light-emitting layer arranged between the electrodes, and additionally comprises at least one organic layer arranged between the light-emitting layer and the cathode, where in the light-emitting layer contains, for example, a compound (A-1), and the at least one layer arranged between the light-emitting layer and the cathode contains, for example, a compound (e-4).

Abstract: The present invention relates to Pt- or Pd-amidine-carbene complexes, to organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) comprising at least one such Pt- or Pd-amidine-carbene complex, to light-emitting layers comprising at least one such Pt- or Pd-amidine-carbene complex, a device, for example stationary or mobile visual display units or illumination means, comprising a corresponding OLED, and to the use of the inventive Pt- or Pd-amidine-carbene complexes in OLEDs, for example as emitters, matrix materials, charge transport materials and/or charge blockers.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an electroluminescence device having high luminous efficiency (for example, external quantum efficiency) and high durability and causing little chromaticity shift after device deterioration. The present invention also relates to an organic electroluminescence device material 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 the light emitting layer contains a metal complex having a group represented by formula (I).