Abstract: Provided is an optical laminate which has high absorption selectivity to short-wavelength visible light having wavelengths around 400 nm and hence high light fastness and can impart better display characteristics when used for a display device. The optical laminate comprises at least one polarizing plate and at least one pressure-sensitive adhesive layer and satisfying the following formulae (1) and (2): A(400)?0.5??(1) A(420)/A(400)?0.3??(2) where A(400) represents the absorbance of the optical laminate at a wavelength of 400 nm in the transmission direction of the polarizing plate and A(420) represents the absorbance of the optical laminate at a wavelength of 420 nm in the transmission direction of the polarizing plate.

Abstract: A novel substance with which an increase in life and emission efficiency of a light-emitting element can be achieved is provided. A carbazole compound having a structure represented by General Formula (G1) is provided. Note that a substituent which makes the HOMO level and the LUMO level of a compound in which a bond of the substituent is substituted with hydrogen deep and shallow, respectively is used as each of substituents in General Formula (G1) (R1, R2, Ar3, and ?3). Further, a subsistent which makes the band gap (Bg) and the T1 level of a compound in which a bond of the substituent is substituted with hydrogen wide and high is used as each of the substituents in General Formula (G1) (R1, R2, Ar3, and ?3).

Abstract: Novel anthracene derivatives, novel materials capable of blue light emission with high color purity, and a light-emitting element, a light-emitting device, and an electronic device using any of the novel materials. The anthracene derivative represented by general formula (1) is provided. With the anthracene derivative, a light-emitting element with high emission efficiency can be provided. With the anthracene derivative, a light-emitting element emitting blue light with high color purity can be provided. In the formula, A1 represents a substituted or unsubstituted phenyl group, B1 represents any of an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms or a substituted or unsubstituted phenyl group, ? represents any of a substituted or unsubstituted phenylene group or a substituted or unsubstituted biphenyl-4,4?-diyl group, and R1 to R9 individually represent any of hydrogen, an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, or a substituted or unsubstituted phenyl group.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a new family of luminescent pigments consisting of a salt of two ruthenium(II) complex ions of opposite sign charges comprising N-chelating heterocyclic ligands and to their use in security applications to prevent counterfeiting. The invention also refers to ink compositions and to the security documents or secured goods comprising said luminescent pigments.

Abstract: It is an object to provide a composition in which an anthracene derivative is dissolved and a technique in which a thin film that has a favorable film quality is formed by a wet process using the composition. In addition, it is another object to manufacture a highly reliable light-emitting element using the composition at low cost with high productivity. A composition having a solvent and an anthracene derivative having one anthracene structure and one carbazolyl group which is bonded to the anthracene structure directly or through a phenyl group is formed. A thin film with a favorable film quality can be formed by a wet process using the composition. Accordingly, a highly reliable light-emitting element can be manufactured using such a thin film.

Abstract: It is an object to provide a composition in which an anthracene derivative is dissolved and a technique in which a thin film that has a favorable film quality is formed by a wet process using the composition. In addition, it is another object to manufacture a highly reliable light-emitting element using the composition at low cost with high productivity. A composition having a solvent and an anthracene derivative having one anthracene structure and one carbazolyl group which is bonded to the anthracene structure directly or through a phenyl group is formed. A thin film with a favorable film quality can be formed by a wet process using the composition. Accordingly, a highly reliable light-emitting element can be manufactured using such a thin film.

Abstract: It is an object to provide a composition in which an anthracene derivative is dissolved and a technique in which a thin film that has a favorable film quality is formed by a wet process using the composition. In addition, it is another object to manufacture a highly reliable light-emitting element using the composition at low cost with high productivity. A composition having a solvent and an anthracene derivative having one anthracene structure and one carbazolyl group which is bonded to the anthracene structure directly or through a phenyl group is formed. A thin film with a favorable film quality can be formed by a wet process using the composition. Accordingly, a highly reliable light-emitting element can be manufactured using such a thin film.

Abstract: The present invention provides a detergent composition D comprising at least one compound of formula (1) together with at least one compound of formula (2) wherein all substituents have the meanings as defined in the claims; as well as a process using such detergent composition and mixtures comprising fluorescent whitening agents.

Abstract: The present invention relates to fluorescent diketopyrrolopyrroles (“DPPs”) of the formula A1 and A2 independently from each other stand for characterized in that that at least two adjacent substituents R5 to R11 form an aromatic or aliphatic fused ring system, or at least one substituent R5 to R11 is cycloalkyl, aralkyl, alkenyl, cycloalkenyl, alkynyl, a hydroxyl group, a mercapto group, alkylthio, an aryl thioether group, a heterocyclic group, halogen, haloalkyl, haloalkenyl, haloalkynyl, a cyano group, an aldehyde group, a carbonyl group, a carboxyl group, an ester group, a carbamoyl group, a nitro group, a silyl group, a siloxanyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted vinyl, arylamino or diarylamino group; a process for their preparation and their use for the preparation of inks, colorants, pigmented plastics for coatings, non-impact-printing material, color filters, cosmetics, or for the preparation of polymeric ink particles, toners, dye lasers and electroluminescent devices.

Abstract: The present invention is related to a luminescent material generated by polymerization of a pyrromethene complex by glow discharge. The polymer material of the present invention exhibits semi-conductive properties and has a luminescence maximum in a spectrum region in the range of about 540 nm to about 585 nm with a half-width of the luminescence band in the range of about 55 nm to about 75 nm, a quantum yield of photoluminescence in the range of about 0.6 to about 0.8, and an electric conductivity at a temperature of about 20° C. in the range of about 1×10?10 S/cm to about 5×10?10 S/cm. The resultant polymer layer has a thickness in the range of about 0.01 ?m to about 10 ?m on a substrate placed between or on any of the electrodes. The starting pyrromethene complex may be a 1,3,5,7,8-pentamethyl-2,6-diethylpyrromethene difluoroborate complex (pyrromethene 567).

Abstract: The present invention is generally directed to perfluoroalkylated fluorene polymers. It further relates to a process for preparing the polymers and devices that are made with the polymers.

Abstract: The present invention is generally directed to copolymers of fluorene. It further relates to devices that are made with the copolymers.

Abstract: The present invention relates to fluorescent diketopyrrolopyrroles (“DPPs”) of the formula characterized in that that at least two adjacent substituents R5 to R11 form an aromatic or aliphatic fused ring system, or at least one substituent R5 to R11 is cycloalkyl, aralkyl, alkenyl, cycloalkenyl, alkynyl, a hydroxyl group, a mercapto group, alkylthio, an aryl thioether group, a heterocyclic group, halogen, haloalkyl, haloalkenyl, haloalkynyl, a cyano group, an aldehyde group, a carbonyl group, a carboxyl group, an ester group, a carbamoyl group, a nitro group, a silyl group, a siloxanyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted vinyl, arylamino or diarylamino group; a process for their preparation and their use for the preparation of inks, colorants, pigmented plastics for coatings, non-impact-printing material, color filters, cosmetics, or for the preparation of polymeric ink particles, toners, dye lasers and electroluminescent devices.

Abstract: A pyrromethene metal complex is used as a fluorescent dye to form a light emitting device. The light emitting device has a substance which brings about light emission between an anode and a cathode. By applying electrical energy, the device generates emission having an emission peak wavelength of 580 to 720 nm. The device contains at least one of: a diketopyrrolo[3,4-c]pyrrole derivative and an organic fluorescent material having a fluorescent peak wavelength of 580 to 720 nm; and a light emitting device composition containing a pyrromethene metal complex.

Abstract: Organic light emitting device (OLED) assemblies having light emitting layers made from boron atom rigidized monomethine cyanines are disclosed. OLED assemblies are constructed by conventional vapor deposition technique as well as by solution spin coating method. The OLED assemblies disclosed are expected to emit blue light and have improved color saturation because of smaller spectral width of the light emissive materials used.

Abstract: Fluorescent maleimides of the formula I 1

Abstract: A material for a light emitting device which is a compound represented by the following formula (I): wherein Ar1 and Ar6, which are the same or different, each represents a divalent aryl group or a divalent heterocyclic group; R2, R3, R7 and R8, which are the same or different, each represents an aryl group, a heterocyclic group or an aliphatic hydrocarbon group; R4a, R5a, R9a and R10a, which are the same or different, each represents a hydrogen atom or a monovalent group, and at least one of R4a, R5a, R9a and R10a represents an electron withdrawing group having a Hammett's &sgr;p value of 0.

Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for using a maleimide of formula (I) with the proviso that R1 and R2 do not simultaneously stand for phenyl or a maleimide of formula Ia as UV fluorescent material for void detection and for the preparation of scintillators films, luminescent solar energy collectors, organic electroluminescent devices, printing inks, non-impact printing inks, electrophotographic toners, color filters, and colored high molecular organic material.

Abstract: Disclosed is a material for a light emitting device excellent in color purity, good in light emitting characteristics and excellent in stability, which consists of a compound represented by the following general formula (I): L&Parenopenst;A)m  (I) wherein A represents a heterocyclic group in which two or more aromatic heterocycles are condensed; m represents an integer of 2 or more, and the heterocyclic groups represented by A may be the same or different; and L represents a connecting group.

Abstract: The present invention provides an organic light-emitting device material such as electron-transporting material and light-emitting material capable of emitting light having a high luminance and color purity. A novel organic light-emitting material is provided comprising a compound having a partial structure represented by the following general formula (I): wherein R11 and R12 each represent a hydrogen atom or substituent, with the proviso that R11 and R12 are not bonded to form a benzo condensed ring; X1 represents an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom, a substituted or unsubstituted nitrogen atom or —C(R13)R14—; R13 and R14 each represent a hydrogen atom or a substituent; Y1 represents an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom or a substituted or unsubstituted nitrogen atom; M1 represents a metal ion or a hydrogen atom; and Z1 represents an atomic group required to form a 5- or 6-membered ring.

Abstract: Preparation of a solid fluorescent composition comprising (1) mixing a host chromophore and an effective amount of a pigment precursor in a solvent, then generating a pigment as guest chromophore in-situ from the pigment precursor, and, subsequently, isolating the mixture of the host and guest chromophores, thereby forming a solid solution, or (2) mixing a polymer as a matrix or a polymer precursor and a pigment precursor in a solvent, if desired in the presence of a chromophore being a host component, then generating a pigment in-situ from the pigment precursor (being the guest component if a host component is present), and, subsequently, isolating the mixture of polymer and pigment, and—if present—the host component, thereby forming a solid solution, wherein in all cases where there is a host component, the absorption spectrum of the pigment (guest chromophore) overlaps with the fluorescence emission spectrum of the host chromophore.