Abstract: A matrix material for an organic electroluminescent device, comprising substituted aromatic molecules for hole and/or electron conduction with at least 2 aromatic molecule components joined to one another via a carbon-carbon single bond which as individual molecule components respectively have a first triplet level with an excitation energy of more than 23,000 cm?1 and which respectively comprise at least one substituent in an ortho position with respect to the carbon-carbon single bond, the substituents incorporated in the ortho position causing a rotation of neighboring molecule components along the carbon-carbon single bond as a rotation axis owing to their size.

Abstract: A light emitting layer for an organic LED, comprising at least one electron transporting compound, at least one hole transporting compound and a rare earth metal ion compound, whereby the light emitting layer furthermore comprises at least one exciton conducting compound.

Abstract: The invention describes a light-emitting device which comprises at least a substrate (1), an anode (2), a first hole transport layer (3), a light-emitting layer (5) and a cathode (6), and in which a first hole blocking layer (4) is arranged between the first hole transport layer (3) and the light-emitting layer (5). The hole blocking layer (4) reduces the concentration of holes which reach the light-emitting layer (5) and thus the concentration of holes, which are usually the majority charge carriers, can be adapted to the electron current.

Abstract: This invention relates to electroluminescent compounds and in particular to electroluminescent compounds used in organic LED's (OLEDs).

Abstract: A luminescent body is described that comprises a optical waveguide plate, a UV light source, and means for coupling the UV light into the optical waveguide plate and in which the optical waveguide plate is provided with a covering layer that contains one or more phosphors that are either applied directly or may be embedded in spherical particles of synthetic resin material. These phosphors convert UV light of a wavelength from 300 to 400 nm into visible light of a wavelength from 420 to 480 nm. The covering layer has a thickness from 10 to 5000 nm and exhibits a light reflection of <20%.

Abstract: Conductor material for LEDs for improving the light outcoupling, wherein the conductor material is selected from the group comprising hole conductor material, electron conductor material and/or emitter material, the conductor material comprises at least one conductive fluorinated organic substance having at least one fluorinated alkyl substituent, one fluorinated alkenyl substituent and/or one fluorinated alkynyl substituent, wherein at least two fluorine atoms are bonded to at least one carbon atom of the fluorinated substituent, and the conductive fluorinated organic substance has a refractive index of >_1.30 and >_1.55.

Abstract: A full color electroluminescent display is disclosed, the display including a common substrate and an array of electroluminescent devices disposed on the common substrate, wherein each of said electroluminescent devices comprises an electroluminescent layer that is sandwiched between a first and a second electrode, a color converting material that is capable of changing light emitted by the electroluminescent layer into light having a longer wavelength and a stack of 2n+1 transparent dielectric layers wherein n=0, 1, 2, 3, . . . and said transparent dielectric layers show alternating refractive indexes n. The electroluminescent display shows improved light outcoupling.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescent component having a layer composite, which comprrises a) a substrate layer b) a first transparent electrode layer, c) a mixing layer having c.1) a matrix of a conductive organic material with one or more singlet states and one or more triplet states, selected from the group: p-conductive and n-conductive materials, c.2) in this matrix, a light-emitting material which contains a metallo-organic complex compound with an emissive triplet state, and d) a second electrode, the lowest-energy triplet state of the conductive organic material being higher than the emissive triplet state of the metallo-organic complex compound by an energy difference Et.

Abstract: A carbazole compound, polymeric or of low molecular weight, comprises a carbazole multimer unit of formula (I), wherein each carbazole unit may be unsubstituted or substituted with one or more substituents and n is larger than or equal to 2 for use in organic electroluminescent devices. The carbazole compounds provide facile hole-injection from a hole-injecting electrode and have a relatively triplet level enabling highly efficient electroluminescent devices to be obtained if combined with triplet emitter compounds.

Abstract: An electroluminescent device comprises a combination of a charge-transporting conjugated donor compound and a acceptor compound, the charge-transporting conjugated donor compound including a conjugated unit comprising a multivalent radical sub-unit having a first and a second unsaturated radical site and a shortest chain of unsaturated atoms connecting the first and the second radical site. The number of unsaturated atoms the shortest chain consists of is an odd integer, preferably 1. Such odd-integer sub-units provide the donor compound with lowest-energy triplet levels which are relatively high in energy which in turn enable the EL device, when the donor compound is combined with a suitable acceptor compound, to emit light with high efficiency. For example, highly efficient green light-emitting electroluminescent devices are obtained in this manner.

Abstract: An organic light-emitting diode comprising a laminated structure including, in succession, a substrate layer, a first electrode layer, a layer including a p-conductive material, a layer including a complex compound of terbium with organic ligands, a layer including an n-conductive material and a second electrode, the complex compound of terbium with organic ligands having the following composition: TbL(C2H5OH)2, wherein L=N,N′,N″-Tris-(3-R1—,5-R2-2-X-benzyl)-1,4,7-triazacyclononane, wherein X=—O—, —COO—, R1=CH3, C2H5, C3H7, i-C3H7, t-C4H9, OCH3, OC2H5, OC3H7, OtC4H9, F, Cl, Br, NO2 and R2=CH3, C2H5, C3H7, i-C3H7, t-C4H9, OCH3, OC2H5, OC3H7, OtC4H9, F, Cl, Br, NO2.

Abstract: A diode-addressed color display comprising an UV-diode and a phosphor of the general formula LnL.sub.3 X.sub.2, wherein Ln=Eu.sup.3+, Tb.sup.3+, Tm.sup.3+, Dys.sup.3+, Sm.sup.3+, L=4-R-4'-benzophenone carboxylic acid, wherein R=phenyl, benzyl, CH.sub.3, CF.sub.3, C.sub.2 H.sub.5, F, Cl, OCH.sub.3, CH.sub.3 CO; 4-R-4'-benzophenone acetylacetonate, wherein R=phenyl, benzyl, CH.sub.3, CF.sub.3, C.sub.2 H.sub.5, F, Cl, OCH.sub.3, CH.sub.3 CO; 4-acetophenone carboxylic acid, 4-trifluoroacetophenone carboxylic acid, 4-acetophenone acetylacetonate or 4-trifluoroacetophenone acetylacetonate and X=1/2 phenanthroline, 1/2 diphenyl phenanthroline, 1/2 4-Cl-phenanthroline, 1/2 bipyridine, 1/2ethylenediamine, triphenyl phosphineoxide, trimethyl phosphineoxide, triethyl phosphineoxide, 1/2 diethylene glycol-dimethylether (diglyme) or ethanol.

Abstract: A diode-addressed color display comprising an UV-diode and a phosphor of the general formula [Eu(diketonate).sub.a X.sub.b1 X'.sub.b2 ], wherein X=pyridine or a unidentate pyridine derivative and X'=2,2'-bipyridine or a 2,2'-bipyridyl derivative and 2a+b.sub.1 +2b.sub.2 =8, is characterized by a high quantum efficiency and a high extinction coefficient in the near-UV wavelength range and enables a color-sensitive image reproduction to be achieved.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescent component with a layer arrangement includes a first electrode layer, an inorganic layer which conducts electrons, one or several optoelectronically active layers with at least one light-emitting layer which comprises an organic emitter, and a second electrode layer. The inorganic layer which conducts electrons is an N-type conducting oxide of a transition metal chosen from the group consisting of zirconium oxide, hafnium oxide, vanadium oxide, barium titanate, barium-strontium titanate, strontium titanate, calcium titanate, calcium zirconate, potassium tantalate, and potassium niobate.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescent component with a transparent substrate, a first transparent electrode, a mixed layer comprising a light-emitting exciplex formed by a mixture of a hole transporting and electron transporting organic material, and a second electrode, where no further substances are used besides the hole transporting and the electron transporting compounds in which the redox processes serving for the charge transport are reversible, has a low operating voltage accompanied by a high luminance thanks to the simple layer structure. It has a long lifetime.