Patents by Inventor Christian Schildknecht

Christian Schildknecht has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20150073152
    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 n 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
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2014
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Markus BOLD, Christian LENNARTZ, Martina PRINZ, Hans-Werner SCHMIDT, Mukundan THELAKKAT, Markus BAETE, Christian NEUBER, Wolfgang KOWALSKY, Christian SCHILDKNECHT, Hans-Hermann JOHANNES
  • Patent number: 8940904
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of transition metal-carbene complexes, in which the carbene ligand(s) is bonded to the transition metal exclusively via carbene carbon atoms, in organic light-emitting diodes, to organic light-emitting diodes comprising at least one aforementioned transition metal-carbene complex, to a light-emitting layer comprising at least one aforementioned transition metal-carbene complex, to organic light-emitting diodes comprising at least one inventive light-emitting layer, and to devices which comprise at least one inventive organic light-emitting diode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Evelyn Fuchs, Oliver Molt, Christian Lennartz, Jens Rudolph, Klaus Kahle, Christian Schildknecht, Thomas Strassner, Nicolle Langer
  • Publication number: 20150005497
    Abstract: This invention relates to electroluminescent metal complexes of the formula electronic devices comprising the metal complexes and their use in electronic devices, especially organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs). The metal complexes of formula (I) show high emission efficiency, excellent vaporizability, thermal stability, processing stability, high charge carrier mobilities, low turn-on voltage and high temperature stability of the emission color.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2013
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Peter Murer, Stephan Allenbach, Gerhard Wagenblast, Christian Schildknecht, Christian Lennartz
  • Patent number: 8916853
    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
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Markus Bold, Christian Lennartz, Martina Prinz, Hans-Werner Schmidt, Mukundan Thelakkat, Markus Baete, Christian Neuber, Wolfgang Kowalsky, Christian Schildknecht, Hans-Hermann Johannes
  • Publication number: 20140309428
    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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2014
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Martina EGEN, Klaus Kahle, Markus Bold, Thomas Gessner, Christian Lennartz, Simon Nord, Hans-Werner Schmidt, Mukundan Thelakkat, Markus Baete, Christian Neuber, Wolfgang Kowalsky, Christian Schildknecht, Hans-Hermann Johannes
  • Publication number: 20140252280
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of formula (I), a process for their production and their use in electronic devices, especially electroluminescent devices. When used as electron transport and/or 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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2012
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Thomas Schaefer, Ute Heinemeyer, Nicolle Langer, Annemarie Wolleb, Christian Lennartz, Soichi Watanabe, Teresa Marina Figueira Duarte, Gerhard Wagenblast, Didier Bauer, Ingo Muenster, Christian Schildknecht, Heinz Wolleb
  • Patent number: 8728632
    Abstract: Bridged cyclometalated carbene complexes, a process for preparing the bridged cyclometalated carbene complexes, the use of the bridged cyclometalated carbene complexes in organic light-emitting diodes, organic light-emitting diodes comprising at least one inventive bridged cyclometalated carbene complex, a light-emitting layer comprising at least one inventive bridged cyclometalated carbene complex, organic light-emitting diodes comprising at least one inventive light-emitting layer and devices which comprise at least one inventive organic light-emitting diode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Oliver Molt, Christian Lennartz, Evelyn Fuchs, Klaus Kahle, Nicolle Langer, Christian Schildknecht, Jens Rudolph, Gerhard Wagenblast, Soichi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 8697255
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an organic light-emitting diode comprising an anode and a cathode Ka and a light-emitting layer E and if appropriate at least one further layer, where the light-emitting layer E and/or the at least one further layer comprises at least one compound selected from disilylcarbazoles, disilyldibenzofurans, disilyldibenzothiophenes, disilyldibenzophospholes, disilyldibenzothiophene S-oxides and disilyldibenzothiophene S,S-dioxides, to a light-emitting layer comprising at least one of the aforementioned compounds, to the use of the aforementioned compounds as matrix material, hole/exciton blocker material, electron/exciton blocker material, hole injection material, electron injection material, hole conductor material and/or electron conductor material, and to a device selected from the group consisting of stationary visual display units, mobile visual display units and illumination units comprising at least one inventive organic light-emitting diode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Nicolle Langer, Klaus Kahle, Christian Lennartz, Oliver Molt, Evelyn Fuchs, Jens Rudolph, Christian Schildknecht, Soichi Watanabe, Gerhard Wagenblast
  • Patent number: 8691401
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a metal-carbene complex of the general formula (I) in which R5 and R6 together, or R6 and R7 together, a unit of the formula: in which * denotes the connection to the carbon atoms of the benzene ring bearing the R5 and R6 radicals or R6 and R7 radicals, and the oxygen atom is connected to the carbon atom bearing the R5, R6 or R7 radical, and A is oxygen or sulfur. The present invention further concerns light-emitting layer comprising at least one metal-carbene complex according to the present invention and an organic light-emitting diode comprising a light-emitting layer according to the present invention, a device selected from the group consisting of stationary visual display units, mobile visual display units and illumination means and the use of a metal-carbene complex according to the present invention in organic light-emitting diodes, especially as emitter, matrix material, charge carrier material and charge blocker material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Oliver Molt, Christian Lennartz, Korinna Dormann, Evelyn Fuchs, Thomas Gessner, Nicolle Langer, Soichi Watanabe, Christian Schildknecht, Gerhard Wagenblast
  • Patent number: 8637857
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting diode, organic solar cell or switching element comprising at least one substituted carbazole derivative of the general formula (I), (II) or (III) in which X is NR4, O, S or PR4; Y is NR5, O, S or PR5; where at least one of the symbols X and Y is NR4 or NR5; substituted carbazole derivatives of the formula (I), (II) or (III); a light-emitting layer comprising at least one substituted carbazole derivative of the general formula (I), (II) or (III) and at least one emitter material; the use of substituted carbazole derivatives of the general formula (I), (II) or (III) as matrix material, hole/exciton blocker material and/or electron/exciton blocker material and/or hole injection material and/or electron injection material and/or hole conductor material and/or electron conductor material in an organic light-emitting diode, an organic solar cell or in a switching element, and a device selected from the group consisting of stationary visual display units, mobile visual display units,
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignees: BASF SE, Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., Osram Opto Semiconductor GmbH
    Inventors: Nicolle Langer, Christian Schildknecht, Soichi Watanabe, Evelyn Fuchs, Gerhard Wagenblast, Christian Lennartz, Oliver Molt, Korinna Dormann, Arvid Hunze, Ralf Krause, Günter Schmid, Karsten Heuser, Volker van Elsbergen, Herbert Friedrich Boerner
  • Patent number: 8618533
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of siloles substituted by fused ring systems in organic electronics applications, and to specific siloles substituted by fused ring systems and to the use thereof in organic electronics applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignees: Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH, BASF SE, Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventors: Karsten Heuser, Arvid Hunze, Guenter Schmid, Ralf Krause, Herbert Friedrich Boerner, Volker Van Elsbergen, Nicolle Langer, Oliver Molt, Korinna Dormann, Evelyn Fuchs, Jens Rudolph, Christian Lennartz, Soichi Watanabe, Christian Schildknecht, Gerhard Wagenblast
  • Patent number: 8592586
    Abstract: Metal complexes comprising at least one polycyclic aromatic ligand and bearing at least one deuterium atom, an organic light-emitting diode comprising at least one inventive metal complex, a light-emitting layer comprising at least one inventive metal complex, an organic light-emitting diode comprising at least one inventive light-emitting layer, the use of the at least one inventive metal complex in organic light-emitting diodes, and a device selected from the group consisting of stationary visual display units such as visual display units of computers, televisions, visual display units in printers, kitchen appliances and advertising panels, illuminations, information panels and mobile visual display units such as visual display units in cellphones, laptops, digital cameras, vehicles, and destination displays on buses and trains, comprising at least one inventive organic light-emitting diode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Oliver Molt, Christian Lennartz, Evelyn Fuchs, Korinna Dormann, Nicolle Langer, Christian Schildknecht, Jens Rudolph, Gerhard Wagenblast, Soichi Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20130158268
    Abstract: Metal complexes comprising at least one polycyclic aromatic ligand and bearing at least one deuterium atom, an organic light-emitting diode comprising at least one inventive metal complex, a light-emitting layer comprising at least one inventive metal complex, an organic light-emitting diode comprising at least one inventive light-emitting layer, the use of the at least one inventive metal complex in organic light-emitting diodes, and a device selected from the group consisting of stationary visual display units such as visual display units of computers, televisions, visual display units in printers, kitchen appliances and advertising panels, illuminations, information panels and mobile visual display units such as visual display units in cellphones, laptops, digital cameras, vehicles, and destination displays on buses and trains, comprising at least one inventive organic light-emitting diode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2013
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Inventors: Oliver MOLT, Christian LENNARTZ, Evelyn FUCHS, Korinna DORMANN, Nicolle LANGER, Christian SCHILDKNECHT, Jens RUDOLPH, Gerhard WAGENBLAST, Soichi WATANABE
  • Patent number: 8410270
    Abstract: Metal complexes comprising at least one polycyclic aromatic ligand and bearing at least one deuterium atom, an organic light-emitting diode comprising at least one inventive metal complex, a light-emitting layer comprising at least one inventive metal complex, an organic light-emitting diode comprising at least one inventive light-emitting layer, the use of the at least one inventive metal complex in organic light-emitting diodes, and a device selected from the group consisting of stationary visual display units such as visual display units of computers, televisions, visual display units in printers, kitchen appliances and advertising panels, illuminations, information panels and mobile visual display units such as visual display units in cellphones, laptops, digital cameras, vehicles, and destination displays on buses and trains, comprising at least one inventive organic light-emitting diode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Oliver Molt, Christian Lennartz, Evelyn Fuchs, Korinna Dormann, Nicolle Langer, Christian Schildknecht, Jens Rudolph, Gerhard Wagenblast, Soichi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 8383828
    Abstract: The present invention relates to heteroleptic carbene complexes comprising both carbene ligands and heterocyclic noncarbene ligands, to a process for preparing the heteroleptic carbene complexes, to the use of the heteroleptic carbene complexes in organic light-emitting diodes, to organic light-emitting diodes comprising at least one inventive heteroleptic carbene complex, to a light-emitting layer comprising at least one inventive heteroleptic carbene complex, to organic light-emitting diodes comprising at least one inventive light-emitting layer, and to devices which comprise at least one inventive organic light-emitting diode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Oliver Molt, Evelyn Fuchs, Christian Lennartz, Klaus Kahle, Nicolle Moonen, Christian Schildknecht, Jens Rudolph
  • Patent number: 8384068
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of (hetero)aryl-substituted acridine derivatives as matrix materials in a light-emitting layer of organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) and/or in a blocking layer for electrons in organic light-emitting diodes. The present invention further relates to a light-emitting layer which comprises at least one emitter material and at least one matrix material, wherein the matrix material used is at least one (hetero)aryl-substituted acridine derivative, and to an organic light-emitting diode which comprises at least one inventive light-emitting layer, to an organic light-emitting diode which comprises at least one acridine derivative of the formula (I) in a blocking layer for electrons, and to a device selected from stationary and mobile visual display units and illumination units which comprise at least one inventive organic light-emitting diode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Klaus Kahle, Oliver Molt, Nicolle Langer, Christian Lennartz, Christian Schildknecht, Simon Nord, Evelyn Fuchs, Jens Rudolph
  • Patent number: 8377332
    Abstract: Metal complexes comprising at least one polycyclic aromatic ligand which is bonded to the central metal via two nitrogen atoms, an organic light-emitting diode comprising at least one inventive metal complex, a light-emitting layer comprising at least one inventive metal complex, an organic light-emitting diode comprising at least one inventive light-emitting layer, the use of the at least one inventive metal complex in organic light-emitting diodes, and a device selected from the group consisting of stationary visual display units such as visual display units of computers, televisions, visual display units in printers, kitchen appliances and advertising panels, illuminations, information panels and mobile visual display units such as visual display units in cellphones, laptops, digital cameras, vehicles, and destination displays on buses and trains, comprising at least one inventive organic light-emitting diode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Oliver Molt, Christian Lennartz, Evelyn Fuchs, Korinna Dormann, Nicolle Langer, Christian Schildknecht, Jens Rudolph, Gerhard Wagenblast, Soichi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 8377740
    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
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Markus Bold, Christian Lennartz, Martina Prinz, Hans-Werner Schmidt, Mukundan Thelakkat, Markus Baete, Christian Neuber, Wolfgang Kowalsky, Christian Schildknecht, Hans-Hermann Johannes
  • Patent number: 8373159
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an organic light-emitting diode comprising an anode An and a cathode Ka and a light-emitting layer E which is arranged between the anode An and the cathode Ka and comprises at least one carbene complex and if appropriate at least one further layer, where the light-emitting layer E and/or the at least one further layer comprises at least one compound selected from disilylcarbazoles, disilyldibenzofurans, disilyldibenzothiophenes, disilyldibenzophospholes, disilyldibenzothiophene S-oxides and disilyldibenzothiophene S,S-dioxides, to a light-emitting layer comprising at least one of the aforementioned compounds and at least one carbene complex, to the use of the aforementioned compounds as matrix material, hole/exciton blocker material, electron/exciton blocker material, hole injection material, electron injection material, hole conductor material and/or electron conductor material, and to a device selected from the group consisting of stationary visual display units, mobile visu
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Nicolle Langer, Klaus Kahle, Christian Lennartz, Oliver Molt, Evelyn Fuchs, Jens Rudolph, Christian Schildknecht, Soichi Watanabe, Gerhard Wagenblast
  • Publication number: 20130032766
    Abstract: The present invention relates to metal-carbene complexes comprising a central atom selected from iridium and platinum, and diazabenzimidazolocarbene ligands, to organic light diodes which comprise such complexes, to light-emitting layers comprising at least one such metal-carbene complex, to a device selected from the group comprising illuminating elements, stationary visual display units and mobile visual display units comprising such an OLED and to the use of such a metal-carbene complex in OLEDs, for example as emitter, matrix material, charge transport material and/or charge or exciton blocker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2010
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Oliver Molt, Christian Lennartz, Gerhard Wagenblast, Evelyn Fuchs, Nicolle Langer, Christian Schildknecht, Korinna Dormann, Soichi Watanabe, Thomas Schaefer, Heinz Wolleb, Teresa Marina Figueira Duarte, Stefan Metz, Peter Murer