Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the vacuum purification of chemical compounds and to an apparatus for carrying out this process.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the vacuum purification of chemical compounds and to an apparatus for carrying out this process.

Abstract: The present invention relates to organic electroluminescent devices comprising metal complexes of the formula (1), and to metal complexes for use in organic electroluminescent devices.

Abstract: The present invention relates to electronic devices comprising organic semiconductors whose content of halogens is less than 20 ppm. This increases the lifetime and the efficiency of the corresponding electronic devices, and these materials are thus better suited to use in organic electronic devices than materials with a higher halogen content. The present invention further relates to corresponding organic semiconductors and to a process for their production.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the improvement of organic electroluminescent devices which consist of a certain matrix material which has been doped with at least one phosphorescent emitter, and which are characterized in that the doping zone of the emitter in the matrix at right angles to the layer extends only over a part of the matrix layer.

Abstract: The invention relates to a compound of the Structure 1 wherein Structure 1 contains a metal Met, coordinated to a tetradentate chelating ligand Lig of Structure 2 where V is a bridging unit which contains 1 to 40 atoms from the third, fourth, fifth and/or sixth main group and connects the two ligand moieties L1 and L2, which may be identical or different on each occurrence, covalently to one another, and where the two ligand moieties L1 and L2 satisfy Structure 3 where Cy1 and Cy2, identically or differently on each occurrence, correspond to a substituted or unsubstituted, saturated, unsaturated or aromatic homo- or heterocyclic ring, which is in each case bonded ionically, covalently or coordinatively to the metal via a ring atom or via an atom bonded exocyclically to the homo- or heterocyclic ring; and where L3, identically or differently on each occurrence, is a mono- or bidentate, neutral or monoanionic ligand, and where a is 0, 1 or 2.

Abstract: The present invention relates to new types of material mixtures composed of at least two substances, one serving as a matrix material and the other being an emission material capable of emission and containing at least one element of atomic number greater than 20, and for their use in organic electronic components such as electroluminescent elements and displays.

Abstract: The present invention describes new metal complexes. Such compounds can be used as functional materials in a variety of different applications which can in the broadest sense be considered part of the electronics industry. The compounds of the invention have the formulae (1) and (1a).

Abstract: The present invention relates to organic semiconductors which contain structural units L=X and in addition structural units which emit light from the triplet state. The materials according to the invention are more soluble and easier to synthesise and are therefore more suitable for use in organic light-emitting diodes than comparative materials in accordance with the prior art.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the improvement of organic electroluminescent devices, in particular blue-emitting devices, by using compounds of the formula (1) as host materials in the emitting layer.

Abstract: The present invention relates to triarylamines which are substituted by defined groups. These compounds can be used for producing organic electroluminescent devices.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the improvement of phosphorescent organic electroluminescent devices by using materials of the formula (1), preferably triazines, pyrimidines, pyridazines and pyrazines, in the hole-blocking layer.

Abstract: The invention relates to the improvement of organic electronic devices, especially organic electroluminescence devices, to which end inclusion compounds are used, especially as charge injection materials and/or charge transporting materials.

Abstract: The present invention describes novel organometallic compounds which are phosphorescent emitters. Such compounds can be used as active components (=functional materials) in a variety of different applications which can in the widest sense be considered part of the electronics industry. The compounds of the invention are described by the formulae (I), (Ia), (II) and (IIa).

Abstract: The invention relates to the improvement of phosphorescing organic electroluminescent devices characterized in that the emission layer, which consists of a matrix material which is doped with at least one phosphorescing emitter, directly adjoins an electrically conducting layer.

Abstract: The present invention describes new types of metal complexes. Such compounds can be used as functional materials in a series of different types of applications which can be classified within the electronics industry in the widest sense. The inventive compounds are described by the formulae (1) and (4).

Abstract: The present invention relates to the improvement of organic electronic devices, in particular fluorescent electroluminescent devices, by using electron-transport materials of the formula (I).

Abstract: The invention relates to novel metal complexes. Said compounds can be used as functional material in a series of different applications which in the broadest sense can be attributed to the electronics industry. The inventive compounds are described by the formula (1) and by compounds (1) to (52).

Abstract: The present invention relates to phosphorescent copolymers comprising trifunctional triplet emitters. The polymers according to the invention are highly soluble, readily accessible synthetically and more suitable for use in organic light-emitting diodes than are comparative materials in accordance with the prior art.

Abstract: The present invention describes new types of metal complexes. Such compounds can be used as functional materials in a series of different types of applications which can be classified within the electronics industry in the widest sense. The inventive compounds are described by the formulae (1) and (4).