Abstract: The present invention provides an arylamine compound having a molecular weight of from 1500 to 6000 represented by the general formula (1): According to the present invention, there can be provided an arylamine compound having excellent hole injection and transporting characteristics and being capable of forming a stable thin film. By using the compound, emission efficiency and durability of conventional organic EL devices can remarkably be improved.

Abstract: Objects of the invention are to provide a compound of a single molecular species having excellent hole injection/transport property suitable for highly efficient and highly durable organic EL device and excellent amorphousness, and provide a highly efficient and highly durable organic EL device using the compound.

Abstract: [Problem] To provide an organic compound which shows an excellent electron-injecting/transporting performance, has a hole-blocking ability and shows a high stability as a film, that is, having excellent characteristics as a material for organic electroluminescent device having high efficiency and high durability; and to provide an organic EL device comprising the compound and having high efficiency and high durability. [Means for Solution] A substituted bipyridyl compound represented by the general formula (1); and an organic electroluminescent device comprising a pair of electrodes and at least one organic layer sandwiched between then, wherein the compound is used as the constitutive material of at least one organic layer.

Abstract: The present invention provides an arylamine compound having a molecular weight of from 1500 to 6000 represented by the general formula (1): According to the present invention, there can be provided an arylamine compound having excellent hole injection and transporting characteristics and being capable of forming a stable thin film. By using the compound, emission efficiency and durability of conventional organic EL devices can remarkably be improved.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a compound having an oxadiazole ring structure having a substituted pyridyl group connected thereto, represented by the following general formula (1). According to the present invention, it becomes possible to provide an organic compound having excellent characteristic of high stability in a thin film state, and the emission efficiency and durability of conventional organic EL devices can be remarkably improved.

Abstract: A luminescence quantum efficiency measuring instrument is provided for easily and surely changing luminescence of a luminescent sample exhibiting strong luminescence anisotropy into an isotropic luminescence and for accurately measuring the luminescence quantum efficiency of the luminescent sample. The luminescence quantum efficiency measuring instrument comprises an integrating sphere (1) having a center, an excitation light entrance window (2), and a detection probe end (3) connected to a spectroscope, the excitation light entrance window and the detection probe end being disposed in respective directions perpendicular to each other on a plane including the center, wherein a luminescent sample (5) is disposed inside the integrating sphere (1) and on a vertical line extending from the center and vertical to the plane, and a baffle plate (7) is disposed at a place through which the luminescent sample (5) is seen from the detection probe end (3).

Abstract: The present invention is to provide an organic compound having excellent characteristics as a material for an organic EL device having a high efficiency and a high durability, and to provide an organic EL device having a high efficiency and a high durability using the compound.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a compound having an oxadiazole ring structure having a substituted pyridyl group connected thereto, represented by the following general formula (1). According to the present invention, it becomes possible to provide an organic compound having excellent characteristic of high stability in a thin film state, and the emission efficiency and durability of conventional organic EL devices can be remarkably improved.

Abstract: Provided is an electro-optical device including: a pair of substrates; an electro-optical material sandwiched between the pair of substrates; a seal material disposed in a seal region located at the periphery of a region in which the electro-optical material is provided on the pair of substrates so as to bond the pair of substrate to each other, between the pair of substrates; and a coloring layer provided in a concave portion formed in the region in which the electro-optical material is provided on one substrate, wherein a upper surface of a coloring layer facing the electro-optical material is formed nearer to the other substrate than a seal region surface overlapping with the seal material on one substrate.

Abstract: Objects of the invention are to provide a compound of a single molecular species having excellent hole injection/transport property suitable for highly efficient and highly durable organic EL device and excellent amorphousness, and provide a highly efficient and highly durable organic EL device using the compound.

Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide an organic compound having excellent characteristics as a material for highly efficient and highly durable organic EL devices, and also to provide a highly efficient and highly durable organic EL device. This invention relates to a compound represented by the general formula (1) having an oxadiazole ring structure bonded with an aromatic heterocycle, and to an organic electroluminescence device containing the compound: wherein Ar represents a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic hydrocarbon group, a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic heterocyclic group, or a substituted or unsubstituted condensed polycyclic aromatic group; A represents a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic heterocyclic group; and n represents an integer of 1 to 3.

Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide an organic compound having excellent electron transport property and hole blocking property as a material for a highly efficient organic EL device, and also provide a highly efficient organic EL device using the compound.

Abstract: A substrate for a liquid crystal device includes: an electrode film provided on a display area on the substrate; an alignment film which covers at least the display area and is subjected to an alignment process by rubbing; and a band-shaped projection provided in a peripheral area outside the display area so as at least to intersect the rubbing direction and extend along the display area, in which the height of the band-shaped projection on the substrate is higher than the height of the surface of the electrode film.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescence element has a layered structure on a surface of a transparent substrate. The layered structure comprises an organic material layer including a light-emitting organic material layer, an opaque electrode layer, an insulating layer, a metal layer and a resin film in order. The organic electroluminescence element is improved in durability because moisture is prevented from permeating into a light-emitting element.

Abstract: An organic light-emitting diode element (OLED element) is provided. The OLED element includes at least an anode, an emitting layer, an electron transport layer, a cathode and a semiconductor material is used in the electron transport layer. An optical interconnection module is provided that uses the organic light-emitting diode element.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescence which includes a first electrode layer, an organic layer having an emitting layer, and a second electrode layer, in which the emitting layer is made of at least one material selected from the group consisting of DPVBi, PBD, DSB, and BCzVB, and in which fluorescence lifetime of the emitting layer is equal to or less than 3.0 ns. A high-speed response organic electroluminescence, which is able to use as a light emitting element for optical communications, such as a optical interconnect module, can be provided.

Abstract: 4-Cyanocoumarin derivatives which have a distinct sensitivity to visible light, distinct luminescent ability, and satisfactory applicability for photochemical polymerization, dye lasers, and organic electroluminescent elements. Since most of the derivatives have a fluorescent maximum wavelength of 600 to 650 nm, particularly, 610 to 630 nm, they are extremely useful as luminescent agents for organic EL elements which emit visible light in a red-color region, and can be quite useful as luminescent agents in organic EL elements and laser-active substances in dye lasers, as well as luminous bodies as lighting sources for lighting devices, and information displays for visually displaying information.

Abstract: The present invention provides a carbozole derivative containing a fluorene group, represented by the following general formula (1) and an organic electroluminescence device containing the compound: wherein Cz represents a substituted or unsubstituted carbazole group; Ar represents a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic hydrocarbon group, a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic heterocyclic group, or a substituted or unsubstituted condensation polycyclic aromatic group; A represents a substituted or unsubstituted fluorene group; and n is an integer of from 1 to 4. According to the present invention, a compound stable in thin film state and suitable as a host compound for an emission layer of an organic electroluminescence device or as a hole transporting material can be provided. By producing an organic electroluminescence device using the compound, emission efficiency and durability of the conventional organic electroluminescence device can be remarkably improved.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a compound having an oxadiazole ring structure having a substituted pyridyl group connected thereto, represented by the following general formula (1). According to the present invention, it becomes possible to provide an organic compound having excellent characteristic of high stability in a thin film state, and the emission efficiency and durability of conventional organic EL devices can be remarkably improved.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an EL device which is driven with a lower voltage or power amount, which is superior in interface stability between layers in the device and which has a higher luminance as compared with the use of a conventional electrode, and is characterized in that in the EL device comprising a light emitting layer disposed as an essential layer between two electrodes facing each other, at least one of the electrodes includes a crystalline conductive film whose diffraction intensity ratio of (400)/(222) is 1.0 or more in X-ray diffraction by a ?/2? method.