Abstract: Provided is an organic electroluminescence device material, which, in its production, is free from formation of impurities that worsen the performance of organic EL devices, which, in forming an upper layer by coating, does not cause dissolution mixing or swelling mixing, which forms a film of good quality and which contributes toward improving the performance (high durability, and low driving voltage) of organic EL devices.

Abstract: A resist composition includes a resin (A) including at least one repeating unit selected from the group consisting of a repeating unit represented by General Formula (1) as defined herein and a repeating unit represented by General Formula (2) as defined herein, and a repeating unit having an acid-decomposable group.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescent element which has a substrate, a pair of electrodes disposed on this substrate and composed of an anode and a cathode, and at least one organic layer disposed between these electrodes and including a light-emitting layer, and in which a compound expressed by General Formula 1-1 is contained in at least one layer of the aforementioned light-emitting layer(s) exhibits high luminous efficiency, excellent blue color purity, and little change in chromaticity accompanying drive deterioration.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescent element including a substrate, a pair of electrodes including an anode and a cathode, disposed on the substrate, and at least one organic layer including a light emitting layer, disposed between the electrodes, in which the organic layer includes a compound represented by the following general formula, has high luminous efficiency, excellent blue color purity, and a small change in the chromaticity due to deterioration by driving (Cy represents a fused aromatic ring structure having the number of constituent rings of 3 or more, and has Dn1 and Ac1 as different constituent rings, and each of the constituent rings are all hydrocarbon rings. Dn1 represents NR11, an O atom, or an S atom. Ac1 represents an electron absorbing substituent, an aryl group having an electron absorbing substituent, or an electron deficient heteroaryl group. The ring Z1 represents an arylene group or a heteroarylene group. L1, L2 and L3 represent specific linking groups.

Abstract: An actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive resin composition includes: a resin, in which the actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive resin composition has a concentration of a solid content of 10% by mass or more, and in which the resin includes: a repeating unit A which is a repeating unit derived from a monomer allowing a homopolymer formed therefrom to have a glass transition temperature of 50° C. or lower, and a repeating unit B which is a repeating unit having an acid-decomposable group, a content of the repeating unit B is 20% by mole or less with respect to all the repeating units in the resin, and at least one of the repeating unit contained in the resin is a repeating unit having an aromatic ring.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescent element including a substrate, a pair of electrodes including an anode and a cathode, disposed on the substrate, and at least one organic layer including a light emitting layer, disposed between the electrodes, in which the organic layer includes a compound represented by the following general formula (1), has high luminous efficiency, excellent blue color purity, and a small change in the chromaticity due to deterioration by driving, wherein Cy, Dn1, Ac1, L1, L2, L3, ring Z1, u1, q1, n1, m1, A11, and A12 are as defined herein.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescent element including a luminescent compound represented by the following formula (in which R1 to R14 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, a deuterium atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group, a heteroaryl group, a fluorine atom, a cyano group, an amino group, an alkoxy group, an aryloxy group, a thio group, or a silyl group, and 8 to 13 groups out of R1 to R14 each represent a hydrogen atom or a deuterium atom) in a light emitting layer has high durability and excellent chromaticity.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescent element comprising a substrate, a pair of electrodes including an anode and a cathode, disposed on the substrate, and at least one organic layer which is arranged between the electrodes and which includes a light emitting layer, wherein the organic layer contains a compound represented by general formula (1) in at least one layer. The organic electroluminescent element has a high luminous efficiency, excellent blue color purity, and little chromaticity change due to drive deterioration. (In the formula, the two Xs either both represent an O atom or both represent an S atom, and R1-R10 each independently represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent group).

Abstract: An actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive resin composition contains a resin which has a repeating unit having an alkyleneoxy chain and a repeating unit having an aromatic group, and has a concentration of the solid content of 10% by mass or more. A pattern forming method has (i) forming an actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive film having a film thickness of 1 ?m or more on a substrate with an actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive resin composition containing a resin which has a repeating unit having an alkyleneoxy chain.

Abstract: The present invention provides a protective film forming composition capable of forming a pattern having excellent depth of focus and exposure latitude even after being stored for a predetermined period of time. The protective film forming composition of the present invention contains a resin, a basic compound, a solvent, and an antioxidant.

Abstract: Provided are a pattern forming method including a film forming step of forming a film using a resin composition containing a resin (A) obtained from a monomer having a silicon atom, the monomer having a turbidity of 1 ppm or less based on JIS K0101:1998 using formazin as a reference material and an integrating sphere measurement system as a measurement system, in which the pattern forming method is capable of remarkably improving scum defect performance, particularly in formation of an ultrafine pattern (for example, a line-and-space pattern having a line width of 50 nm or less, or a hole pattern having a hole diameter of 50 nm or less); and a method for manufacturing an electronic device, using the pattern forming method.

Abstract: The present invention has an object to provide an actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive resin composition having excellent collapse performance, an actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive film formed using the composition, a pattern forming method using the composition, and a method for manufacturing an electronic device, including the pattern forming method. The actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive resin composition of the present invention is an actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive resin composition containing a resin whose solubility with respect to a developer changes by the action of an acid, in which the resin includes a repeating unit derived from a monomer having at least one of a lactone structure or an amide structure, and the dissolution parameter of the monomer is 24.0 or more.

Abstract: Provided are an organic thin-film transistor including: a gate electrode, an organic semiconductor layer, a gate insulating layer, and a source electrode and a drain electrode on a substrate, in which the organic semiconductor layer contains an organic semiconductor and a block copolymer, and the block copolymer is at least one selected from specific block copolymers such as a styrene-(meth)acrylate ester block copolymer and may be phase-separated, and a method for manufacturing an organic thin-film transistor, which includes an organic semiconductor containing a phase-separated block copolymer, including: applying a coating solution which contains an organic semiconductor and a block copolymer for film formation; and heating the obtained film so that the block copolymer is self-assembled.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescent element that uses a compound expressed by the following general formula emits dark blue light and exhibits little change in chromaticity during brightness modulation. (n1 is an integer from 0 to 8; the R1 [groups] are each independently a substituent substituted for a hydrogen atom of the pyrene skeleton; X is CRaRb (Ra and Rb are each independently a hydrogen atom or a substituent), O, S, or SiRdRe (Rd and Re are each independently a hydrogen atom or a substituent); and A1 to A4 represent each independently either N or CRf (Rf represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent, and two adjacent Rf [groups] may jointly form a saturated or unsaturated ring, but no more than two rings may be formed jointly by two or more of the Rf [groups]).

Abstract: An organic electroluminescent element comprising a substrate, a pair of electrodes including an anode and a cathode, disposed on the substrate, and at least one organic layer which is arranged between the electrodes and which includes a light emitting layer, wherein the organic layer contains a compound represented by general formula (1) in at least one layer. The organic electroluminescent element has a high luminous efficiency, excellent blue color purity, and little chromaticity change due to drive deterioration. (In the formula, the two Xs either both represent an O atom or both represent an S atom, and R1-R10 each independently represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent group).

Abstract: The disclosure relates to organic electroluminescent elements, compounds for use in the elements, and devices using the elements, which include a compound represented by the following General Formula (1): where R1 to R3 and R6 to R8 each independently represents a hydrogen atom, which may be a deuterium atom, or a substituent with a Hammett substituent constant ?p value of ?0.15 or more, R5, R9 and R10 each independently represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent, L1 represents a divalent linking group, DG1 represents a donor group, and n1 represents 1 or 2, and where R1 to R3, R5 to R10, L1, and DG1 are not bound to each other to form a ring.

Abstract: An organic thin film transistor containing a compound represented by the formula (1) in a semiconductor active layer has a high carrier mobility, a small change in the threshold voltage after repeated driving and a high solubility in an organic solvent. A1 and A2 represent S, O or Se; at least one of R1 to R6 represents a substituent represented by *-L-R wherein L represents a divalent linking group and R represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an oligooxyethylene group, an oligosiloxane group or a trialkylsilyl group.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescent element comprising a substrate, a pair of electrodes including an anode and a cathode, disposed on the substrate, and at least one organic layer which is arranged between the electrodes and which includes a light emitting layer, wherein the organic layer contains a compound represented by general formula (1) in at least one layer. The organic electroluminescent element has a high luminous efficiency, excellent blue color purity, and little chromaticity change due to drive deterioration. (In the formula, the two Xs either both represent an O atom or both represent an S atom, and R1-R10 each independently represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent group).

Abstract: An organic thin-film transistor including: a gate electrode, an organic semiconductor layer, a gate insulating layer, a source electrode, and a drain electrode on a substrate, in which the organic semiconductor layer includes an organic semiconductor and a resin (C) having one or more groups selected from the group consisting of a group having fluorine atoms, a group having silicon atoms, an alkyl group having one or more carbon atoms or having two or more carbon atoms in a case of forming an alkoxycarbonyl group, a cycloalkyl group, an aralkyl group, an aryloxycarbonyl group, an aromatic ring group substituted with at least one alkyl group, and an aromatic ring group substituted with at least one cycloalkyl group; and a method for manufacturing an organic thin-film transistor including: applying a coating solution which contains the organic semiconductor and the resin (C) and causing the resin (C) to be unevenly distributed.

Abstract: This application relates in part to an organic electroluminescent element including a substrate, a pair of electrodes including an anode and a cathode, disposed on the substrate, and an organic layer(s) including a light emitting layer, in which the organic layer(s) contains a compound represented by the following formula (1), in which R1 to R8 are each hydrogen or a substituent, at least one of R1 to R4 and at least one of R5 to R8 are each a substituent represented by the formula (2); R9 to R12, Z1 to Z4, Ar1, Ar2, and L1 are as defined herein.