Abstract: Disclosed is a novel organic EL device material. Also disclosed are an organic EL device, an illuminating device and a display each having high emission efficiency and long emission lifetime, which are obtained by employing the organic EL device material.

Abstract: Disclosed is an organic EL device having high luminous efficiency and long emission life, wherein emission wavelength is controlled. Also disclosed are an illuminating device and a display. Specifically disclosed is an organic electroluminescent device containing at least a light-emitting layer sandwiched between an anode and a cathode. This organic electroluminescent device is characterized in that the light-emitting layer contains a metal complex having a partial structure represented by the following general formula (1).

Abstract: The first object of the present invention is to provide a blue phosphorescent light-emitting organic electroluminescent (EL) device driven at low voltage, and a display and illuminating device each using such an organic EL device. The second object of the present invention is to provide an organic EL device having long life, and an illuminating device and display each using such an organic EL device. Each organic EL device comprises an electrode and at least one organic layer on a substrate, and at least one of the organic layers is a light-emitting layer containing a host compound and a phosphorescent compound. In order to accomplish the first object, the host compound has an HOMO of from ?7.20 to ?5.42 eV and an LUMO of from ?2.30 to ?0.50 eV, and the phosphorescent compound is represented by the general formula (1). In order to accomplish the second object, the host compound is an electron-transporting host compound having an excited triplet energy T1 of not less than 2.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescent element containing an anode and a cathode having therebetween a light emitting layer, wherein the light emitting layer contains a guest compound having a substructure represented by Formula (AA): wherein A represents a group of atoms necessary to form an aromatic hydrocarbon ring or an aromatic heterocycle, B represents a group of atoms necessary to form a 5-membered aromatic heterocycle containing nitrogen or a 5-membered heterocycle containing nitrogen and M represents Ir or Pt, and a host compound represented by Formula (1): wherein Ra1 represents an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an alkynyl group, a cycloalkyl group, an aromatic hydrocarbon group, an aromatic heterocyclic group or a heterocyclic group, R1, R2 and R5 each represent a hydrogen atom or a substituent, and n1, n2 and n5 each represent an integer of 0 to 4.