Abstract: A material for an organic electroluminescent device including an imine derivative represented by the following formula (Ia) or (Ib), wherein Y1 to Y4 are independently a carbon atom or a nitrogen atom; R1 to R4 are independently hydrogen, an alkyl group, an aryl group, a heterocycle, a halogen atom, a fluoroalkyl group or a cyano group; and R1 and R2, or R3 and R4 may be bonded together to form a ring.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescence display unit includes: a lower electrode for each device; a first hole injection/transport layer provided on the lower electrode for each device; a second organic light emitting layer of the first color provided on the first hole injection/transport layer for the second organic electroluminescence device; a second hole injection/transport layer provided on the entire surfaces of the second organic light emitting layer and the first hole injection/transport layer for the first organic electroluminescence device, and being made of a low molecular material; a blue first organic light emitting layer provided on the entire surface of the second hole injection/transport layer; and an electron injection/transport layer having at least one of electron injection characteristics and electron transport characteristics, and an upper electrode that are provided in sequence on the entire surface of first organic light emitting layer.

Abstract: An organic EL display includes: lower electrodes arranged on a substrate so as to correspond to red, green and blue organic EL elements, respectively; hole injection/transport layers arranged on the lower electrodes so as to correspond to the red, green and blue organic EL elements, respectively, the hole injection/transport layers having one or both of hole injection and hole transport properties; red and green organic light-emitting layers arranged on the hole injection/transport layers for the red and green organic EL elements, respectively, and including a low-molecular material; a blue organic light-emitting layer arranged on whole surfaces of the red and green organic light-emitting layers and the hole injection/transport layer for the blue organic EL element; and an electron injection/transport layer and an upper electrode arranged on a whole surface of the blue light-emitting layer, the electron injection/transport layer having one or both of electron injection properties and electron transport proper

Abstract: Provided is a light-emitting element in the structure and configuration of causing no possibility of a short circuit between first and second electrodes even if there is any foreign substance or a protrusion on the first electrode. Such a light-emitting element is configured to include, in order, a first electrode 21, an organic layer 23 including a light-emitting layer made of an organic light-emitting material, a semi-transmissive/reflective film 40, a resistance layer 50, and a second electrode 22. The first electrode 21 reflects a light coming from the light-emitting layer, and the second electrode 22 passes through a light coming from the semi-transmissive/reflective film 40 after passing therethrough. The semi-transmissive/reflective film on the organic layer 23 has an average film thickness of 1 nm to 6 nm both inclusive.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescence element includes: a pair of electrodes; and an organic light emitting functional layer structured as a multilayer structure made of an organic material held between the pair of electrodes, and containing at least one of a material represented by the general formula (1), and a material represented by the general formula (2) in the multilayer structure.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescent includes an organic layer with a total thickness of 150 nm or over is included between an anode and a cathode. The organic layer includes a light-emitting layer containing a host material of a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon compound with a basic skeleton having three to seven ring members, and hole supply layers arranged between the anode and the light-emitting layer and having a smaller thickness than a thickness of the light-emitting layer.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescent device, includes: an anode and a cathode of inorganic conducting material; an organic emission functional layer interposed between the anode and the cathode, and that includes an organic emissive layer; and an organic electrode film provided in contact with an outer side of at least one of the anode and the cathode, wherein the organic electrode film is formed using at least one of (I) a combination of a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon compound having a backbone of 3- to 7-membered rings, and a benzoimidazole derivative having a substituent in the benzene ring, and (II) an azatriphenylene derivative.

Abstract: An organic EL device includes: an anode, a cathode and an organic thin-film layer interposed between the anode and the cathode, in which the organic thin-film layer includes: an emitting layer containing a host material and a phosphorescent material; and a hole transporting layer provided adjacent to the anode relative to the emitting layer. The hole transporting layer includes a first hole transporting layer and a second hole transporting layer that are sequentially layered on the anode, in which the first hole transporting layer contains an amino compound substituted by an aromatic substituent represented by a formula (1) below and the second hole transporting layer contains at least one of compounds represented by formulae (2) to (5) below.

Abstract: A material for an organic electroluminescent device including an imine derivative represented by the following formula (Ia) or (Ib), wherein Y1 to Y4 are independently a carbon atom or a nitrogen atom; R1 to R4 are independently hydrogen, an alkyl group, an aryl group, a heterocycle, a halogen atom, a fluoroalkyl group or a cyano group; and R1 and R2, or R3 and R4 may be bonded together to form a ring.

Abstract: Dibenzoanthracene derivatives are each substituted by an amino compound group at least one of 9-position and 14-position of a dibenzo[a,c]anthracene skeleton and represented by the following formula (1) or (2): wherein X1, X2 and X each independently represents a substituted or unsubstituted arylene or divalent heterocyclic group; A, B, C and D each independently represents a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, aryl heterocyclic group, and between the adjacent groups, may be fused together to form rings; and Y1 to Y12 and R1 each independently represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an alkoxy group, or a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, aryl or heterocyclic group, and, when Y1 to Y12 and R1 are other than a hydrogen atom or a halogen atom, Y1 to Y12 and R1 may be fused together between the adjacent groups to form rings.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescent device is provided with a substrate, and a lower electrode, a luminescence function layer including an organic light-emitting layer, and an upper electrode stacked in this order on the substrate to emit light, which has been generated in said organic light-emitting layer, out of said upper electrode. The lower electrode includes a reflective material layer comprised essentially of metal, an oxide film provided on a surface of said reflective material layer, and a thin metal film provided over the oxide film.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an organic electroluminescent element, the method includes the step of after forming the organic electroluminescent element obtained by interposing an emission layer composed of an organic material between an anode and a cathode, decreasing an operating voltage of the organic electroluminescent element by applying a voltage higher than the operating voltage of the organic electroluminescent element between the anode and the cathode.

Abstract: The present invention provides a novel aromatic amine derivative having a specific structure and an organic electroluminescence device in which an organic thin film layer comprising a single layer or plural layers including at least a light emitting layer is interposed between a cathode and an anode, wherein at least one layer in the above organic thin film layer, particularly a hole injecting layer contains the aromatic amine derivative described above in the form of a single component or a mixed component. Use of the aromatic amine derivative described above materialize an organic electroluminescence device which reduces an operating voltage and makes molecules less liable to be crystallized and which enhances a yield in producing the organic EL device and has a long lifetime.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescent device including: an anode, a cathode, an emitting layer formed of an organic compound and interposed between the cathode and the anode, and two or more layers provided in a hole-injecting/hole-transporting region between the anode and the emitting layer; of the layers which are provided in the hole-injecting/hole-transporting region, a layer which is in contact with the emitting layer containing a compound represented by the formula (1); and of the layers which are provided in the hole-injecting/hole-transporting region, a layer which is interposed between the anode and the layer which is in contact with the emitting layer containing an amine derivative represented by the formula (2).

Abstract: A display device including an anode, a cathode, and an organic layer provided with at least a light emitting layer interposed between the anode and the cathode, wherein the organic layer is provided with an electron injection layer which is provided in a state that it comes into contact with the light emitting layer between the cathode and the light emitting layer, and the electron injection layer is configured by using a material having an azaaryl structure.

Abstract: Dibenzoanthracene derivatives are each substituted by an amino compound group at at least one of 9-position and 14-position of a dibenzo[a,c]anthracene skeleton and represented by the following formula (1) or (2): wherein X1, X2 and X each independently represents a substituted or unsubstituted arylene or divalent heterocyclic group; A, B, C and D each independently represents a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, aryl or heterocyclic group, and between the adjacent groups, may be fused together to form rings; and Y1 to Y12 and R1 each independently represents a hydrogen or halogen atom, an alkoxy group, or a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, aryl or heterocyclic group, and, when Y1 to U12 and R1 are other than a hydrogen or halogen atom, Y1 to Y12 and R1 may be fused together between the adjacent groups to form rings.

Abstract: An anthracene derivative with general formula (1) is provided: wherein X represents a substituted or unsubstituted C6-28 arylene group, or a substituted or unsubstituted C5-21 divalent heterocyclic group; A and B each independently represent a substituted or unsubstituted C1-20 alkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted C6-28 aryl group, or a substituted or unsubstituted C5-21 heterocyclic group, and A and B may be bonded together to form a ring; Y1 and Y2 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, a substituted or unsubstituted C1-20 alkyl group or a C1-20 alkoxy group; and Z represents a substituted or unsubstituted C6-30 aryl group atoms, a substituted or unsubstituted C5-21 heterocyclic group, a hydrogen atom, a substituted or unsubstituted C1-20 alkyl group, or a C1-20 alkoxy group.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescence device having excellent life characteristics and high reliability and a display apparatus using such a device are provided. In the organic electroluminescence device having organic thin film layers provided between a lower electrode and an upper electrode and including at least a luminescent layer, any one of the organic thin film layers (particularly, the luminescent layer) contains a styrylamine derivative represented by the general formula shown below.