Abstract: A light-emitting-layer host material is provided as material for high-efficiency organic electroluminescent devices. The light-emitting-layer host material has a high excitation triplet level, and is capable of completely confining the triplet excitons of phosphorescent material. A high-efficiency and high-luminance organic electroluminescent device is provided by using the compound. The compound is a compound of general formula (1) having a bipyridyl group and an ortho-terphenyl structure. The organic electroluminescent device includes a pair of electrodes, and one or more organic layers sandwiched between the pair of electrodes, and uses the compound as constituent material of at least one of the organic layers.

Abstract: An organic compound having an excellent electron injection and transport performance is provided as a material for a low-power-consumption organic electroluminescent device. A low-power-consumption organic electroluminescent device is also provided by using the compound. The compound is a compound of general formula (1) or (2) having a substituted bipyridyl and triphenylene ring structure. The organic electroluminescent device includes a pair of electrodes, and one or more organic layers sandwiched between the pair of electrodes, and uses the compound as constituent material of at least one of the organic layers.

Abstract: Provided are a phosphorescent material which is excellent in horizontal orientation and the like when a thin film is formed, a process for efficiently producing the phosphorescent material, and a light emitting element using the phosphorescent material. The present invention provides a phosphorescent material represented by the following general formula (1), a process for producing the phosphorescent material, and a light emitting element using the phosphorescent material, wherein the phosphorescent material has a straight-chain conjugated structure, a 2-phenylpyridine ligand, a central metal and a ?-diketone-type ligand, In the general formula (1), end substituents R1 and R2 each is a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, or the like, substituents a to l and o to s each is a hydrogen atom or the like, the central metal M is platinum or the like, and repetition numbers m and n each is an integer of 0 to 4.

Abstract: An organic EL element comprises: a substrate; a first electrode formed at one surface side of the substrate; a second electrode opposing the first electrode; and an organic EL layer located between the first and second electrodes. In the organic EL element, the second electrode is a transparent electrode, and the first electrode is a reflecting electrode. The organic EL element is a top-emission type. The first electrode comprises a plurality of nanometer-size (nanometer-order) columnar structures formed on the above-mentioned one surface of the substrate, and each of the plurality of columnar structures has a metallic surface as the outermost surface.

Abstract: An organic semiconductor device which has an organic semiconductor layer formed by crystallizing a compound represented by the following formula (1) from a solution of the compound: wherein X1, X2 and X3 represent O, S, Se or Te; at least one of R1, R2, R3 and R4 represents a group that has both an aromatic ring to form a ?-conjugated system with the skeleton to which it bonds, and a chainlike structure in which the number of the carbon atoms constituting the main chain is from 4 to 20, and the remaining ones represent a hydrogen atom or a substituent.

Abstract: This invention has an objective of producing the organic solar cell having the long life. The organic solar cell of this invention comprises a first electrode collecting holes, a second electrode collecting electrons, mixing layer interposed between the first electrode and the second electrode and having an electron donating semiconductor and the electron accepting semiconductor, and a first electron transport layer and a second electron transport layer interposed between the mixing layer and the second electrode. With this invention, the adhesiveness in the boundary between the mixing layer and the second electrode is improved. Consequently, it is possible to prevent the mixing layer from accumulating the electrical charge generated by absorbing the light. Therefore, the electrical charge is efficiently moved to the second electrode and the long life is achieved.

Abstract: Fluorescence-emitting material which improves luminous efficiency of an organic light-emitting element such as an organic EL element or an organic PL element and an organic light-emitting element using the fluorescence-emitting material. The fluorescence-emitting material includes a compound having an indolocarbazole skeleton represented by the following general formula (1), as defined in the specification. The organic light-emitting element includes an organic EL element including: a substrate; an anode; a cathode; and a light-emitting layer, the anode and the cathode being laminated on the substrate and the light-emitting layer being sandwiched between the anode and the cathode, in which the light-emitting layer includes: the organic light-emitting material; and as a host material, an organic compound having excited triplet energy higher than that of the organic light-emitting material.

Abstract: A delayed fluorescence material containing a mixture of an acceptor compound and a donor compound that satisfies the following formulae (1) to (4): T1A?S1>0.2 eV??(1) T1D?S1?0.2 eV??(2) |LUMOA|>2.0 eV??(3) |HOMOD|?5.3 eV??(4) wherein T1A represents the excited triplet energy of the acceptor compound; T1D represents the excited triplet energy defined of the donor compound; S1 represents the excited singlet energy of the exciplex; LUMOA represents the energy level of LUMO of the acceptor compound; and HOMOD represents the energy level of HOMO of the donor compound.

Abstract: A semiconductor device including a semiconductor 1, a first electrode 2, an insulating layer 3 interposed between the semiconductor 1 and the first electrode 2, the second electrode 4 which is in contact with the semiconductor 1 and is detached from the first electrode 2, and the third electrode 5 which is in contact with the semiconductor 1 and is detached from the first electrode 2 and the second electrode 4, wherein the semiconductor 1 is provided with the organic semiconductor layer 10 and the oxide semiconductor layer 11.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a host compound in an emission layer, which has a high excited triplet level and completely confines triplet excitons of an phosphorescence-emitting substance. The invention relates to a compound containing an m-carbazolylphenyl group, which is represented by the following general formula (1): wherein A represents a nitrogen atom, an amino group to which a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic hydrocarbon group is bonded, a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic hydrocarbon group, a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic heterocyclic group, or a substituted or unsubstituted condensed polycyclic aromatic group; n represents an integer of 2 to 4; R1 and R2 may be the same or different and represent each an arbitrary substituent; and m and o represent each an integer of 0 to 4.

Abstract: To provide an organic semiconductor element, containing: a source electrode containing a first organic compound layer and a second organic compound layer, at least one of the layers having an organic semiconductor active region; and a drain electrode containing the first organic compound layer and the second organic compound layer, as well as providing an organic electrode, containing: a laminated film, in which a layer of a tetrathiafulvalene derivative expressed by the following general formula I and a layer of an electron accepting compound are laminated:

Abstract: An organic semiconductor light-emitting device having the form of a field-effect transistor and a display using this device is provided. In the device, electrons and holes can be transported. The device comprises an organic semiconductor light-emitting layer capable of emitting light by recombination of holes and electrons, a hole injection electrode for injecting holes into the organic semiconductor light-emitting layer, an electron injection electrode for injecting electrons into the organic semiconductor light-emitting layer, and a gate electrode so disposed as to be opposed to the organic semiconductor light-emitting layer between the electrodes. When a control voltage is applied to the gate electrode, the carrier distribution in the organic semiconductor light-emitting layer is controlled. Thus, the light emission can be turned on/off and the emission intensity can be modulated.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescence device, includes a substrate; an anode layer; an organic layer including at least one organic material having a fluorescence spectrum; and a cathode layer, wherein the organic electroluminescence device has a primary light outgoing direction that is parallel to a surface of the substrate, wherein the organic electroluminescence device has an optical waveguide that includes a core layer formed by the anode layer and the organic layer, and a clad layer formed by the substrate and the cathode layer, and wherein the optical waveguide has cutoff wavelengths in a transverse electric mode any one of which is within a wavelength range of a full width at half maximum of the fluorescence spectrum of any one of the organic materials included in the organic layer.

Abstract: An organic semiconductor device in which recombination of holes and electrons and photoelectric conversion in an organic semiconductor layer are efficiently allowed to occur.

Abstract: [Object] To provide a wide band-gap material capable of forming a stable amorphous thin film and an organic electroluminescent device using such a compound and having a high light emission efficiency. [Solution] It has been found that a novel oligophenylene derivative, which is applicable as an organic electroluminescent material, can be produced efficiently using a cross-coupling reaction. It has also been found that a highly-efficient blue phosphorescent light-emitting device can be produced using this compound. The present invention is based on these findings.

Abstract: An organic semiconductor device with a vertical structure having both functions of an organic thin film transistor and light-emitting element, where the electrical characteristics as both the organic thin film transistor and light-emitting element can be controlled in the case of forming a gate electrode with an organic conductive film, and a manufacturing method thereof. The above organic semiconductor device has such a structure that organic semiconductor films are sandwiched between a pair of electrodes functioning as a source electrode and drain electrode of an organic thin film transistor and also functioning as an anode and cathode of a light-emitting element, a thin organic conductive film functioning as a gate electrode is sandwiched between the organic semiconductor films, and a part of the organic conductive film is electrically connected to an auxiliary electrode, thereby the electrical characteristics as both the organic thin film transistor and light-emitting element can be controlled.

Abstract: A 3,6-diphenylcarbazole compound, which has a specific formula and realizes an organic electroluminescent device having high durability and high luminous efficiency. An electroluminescent device which includes an anode; a cathode which faces the anode; and at least one layer including a luminescent layer, optionally a hole transporting layer and an electron transporting layer, which is located between the anode and the cathode, wherein the at least one layer includes the 3,6-diphenylcarbazole compound.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes an organic semiconductor layer 10 and an oxide semiconductor layer 11, and emits light.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an organic light emitting device structure having an organic light emitting device (OLED) over a substrate, where the OLED has, for example, an anode, a hole transporting layer (HTL), a first electron transporting layer (ETL) that is doped with a phosphorescent material, a second electron transporting layer (ETL), and a cathode. The OLEDs of the present invention are directed, in particular, to devices that include an emissive layer comprised of an electron transporting host material having a triplet excited state energy level that is higher than the emissive triplet excited state energy level of the phosphorescent dopant material.

Abstract: An organic light emitting device structure having an organic light emitting device (OLED) over a substrate, where the OLED has, for example, an anode, a hole transporting layer (HTL), a first electron transporting layer (ETL) that is doped with a phosphorescent material, a second electron transporting layer (ETL), and a cathode. The OLEDs of the present invention are directed, in particular, to devices that include an emissive layer comprised of an electron transporting host material having a triplet excited state energy level that is higher than the emissive triplet excited state energy level of the phosphorescent dopant material.