Abstract: Provided are a long-lifetime organic electroluminescence device which can be fabricated in an improved yield owing to suppressed crystallization of molecules, and an aromatic amine derivative that realizes the device, i.e., a novel aromatic amine derivative having a specific structure. Specifically provided are an organic electroluminescence device, including an organic thin film layer formed of one or more layers including at least a light emitting layer, the organic thin film layer being interposed between a cathode and an anode, and an aromatic amine derivative for at least one layer of the organic thin film layer, in particular, a hole transporting layer, the derivative having at least one such structure that a substituent in which two or more specific heterocycles are linked to each other, in particular, a substituent in which two or more specific heterocycles are linked through an aryl group is bonded to an amine through an aryl group.

Abstract: A thin film transistor with improved performance is provided. The thin film transistor includes a gate electrode, an organic semiconductor layer, and a gate insulating layer which is positioned between the gate electrode and the organic semiconductor layer and is adjacent to the organic semiconductor layer. The gate insulating layer contains a material in which a first monomer as at least one of styrene and a derivative of styrene, and a second monomer having carbon-carbon double bond and a cross-linking reaction group are copolymerized and cross-linked.

Abstract: A compound for an organic photoelectric device and an organic photoelectric device, the compound being represented by the following Chemical Formula 1:

Abstract: A semiconductor layer and device can be provided using a method including thermally converting an aromatic, non-polymeric amic acid salt to a corresponding arylene diimide. The semiconducting thin films can be used in various articles including thin-film transistor devices that can be incorporated into a variety of electronic devices. In this manner, the arylene diimide need not be coated but is generated in situ from a solvent-soluble, easily coated aromatic, non-polymeric amic acid salt at relatively lower temperature because the cation portion of the salt acts as an internal catalyst.

Abstract: A thin film transistor includes a channel layer including an amorphous 12CaO.7Al2O3 (C12A7) and a flat panel display device including the same. According to the present invention, the amorphous channel layer can be formed at a low temperature using C12A7. The thin film transistor including the amorphous channel layer has excellent electron mobility.

Abstract: An electroluminescent element which comprises host materials and guest materials in a part of an electroluminescent layer, and which is superior in device characteristics such as luminous efficiency and luminous characteristics to those of the conventional electroluminescent element is provided. According to the present invention, device characteristics (luminous efficiency, luminous characteristics, or the like) of an electroluminescent element is improved by using host materials and guest materials which have a common skeleton (represented by the following general formula 1) for an electroluminescent layer interposed between a pair of electrodes in the electroluminescent element. wherein R1 is a hydrogen atom, or the like, R2 to R5, each of which may be the same or different, are individually a hydrogen atom, or the like, and Ar1 is an aryl group which may have a substituent, or the like.

Abstract: To provide a light-emitting element, a light-emitting device, and an electronic device each formed using the organometallic complex represented by General Formula (G1) as a guest material and a low molecule compound as a host material.

Abstract: The present invention provides a quinoxaline derivative represented by a general formula (G1). In the formula, ?1 and ?2 each independently represent an arylene group which has 13 or less carbon atoms forming a ring; Ar represents an aryl group which has 13 or less carbon atoms forming a ring; R1 and R6 each independently represent any of a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, or an aryl group which has 13 or less carbon atoms forming a ring; and R2 to R5 and R7 to R10 each independently represent any of a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, a substituted or unsubstituted phenyl group, or a substituted or unsubstituted biphenyl group.

Abstract: Novel organic compounds comprising azaborine are provided. In particular, the compounds comprise a dibenzo-1,4,-azaborine core having a phenyl substituent on the boron atom, and aryl or heteroaryl substituents at positions 2 and 6 of the phenyl substituent. These compounds may be advantageously used in organic light-emitting devices to provide improved efficiency and lifetime.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a new fused cyclic compound, and an organic electronic device using the same. Since the compound according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention may be used as a material of an organic material layer of the organic electronic device and in particular may effectively inject, transport or extract a hole, it is possible to provide an organic electronic device having excellent efficiency and performance.

Abstract: An organic light-emitting device including a first electrode, a plurality of hole transport layers, a plurality of intermediate layers, an emission layer, a plurality of electron transport layers, and a second electrode. The emission layer may include a host, an emitting dopant, and an auxiliary dopant. The host and the auxiliary dopant are able to transport different types of carriers.

Abstract: A host compound for a light emitting layer, which is excellent in electron transporting capability and hole blocking capability, has a high triplet excitation level and is capable of completely confining triplet excitons of a phosphorescent material, is provided as a material for an organic electroluminescent device having a high efficiency, and an organic electroluminescent device having a high efficiency and a high luminance is provided by using this compound.

Abstract: A light-emitting element has high luminous efficiency and excellent durability. The light-emitting element includes at least a light-emitting layer between a positive electrode and a negative electrode, and emits light by electrical energy. The light-emitting element is characterized by containing a naphthacene compound that has a specific structure and organic fluorescent substance that has a fluorescence peak wavelength of not less than 500 nm but not more than 690 nm.

Abstract: The present invention describes indenofluorene derivatives of the general formula I, II, III or IV having emitting and hole-transporting properties, in particular for use in the emission and/or charge-transport layer of electro-luminescent devices. The invention furthermore relates to a process for the preparation of the compounds according to the invention and to electronic devices comprising same.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescent device includes a pair of electrodes and a plurality of organic layers disposed between the electrodes, and one of the organic layers comprises an organic material forming the organic layers and a polymer obtained by polymerizing a polymerizable compound capable of exhibiting charge portability.

Abstract: Provided is an o organic electroluminescence element comprising an anode, a cathode and a plurality of composing layers including a light emitting layer sandwiched between the anode and the cathode, wherein an electron transport layer containing the compound represented by Formula (1) is included in the composing layers; the light emitting layer contains a phosphorescence emitting organic metal complex; and the cathode or one composing layer adjacent to the cathode contains a metal or a metal compound belonging to Group 1 or Group 2 of the periodic table of elements, provided that the metal exhibits a standard electrode potential larger than ?3 V vs.

Abstract: The present invention describes indenofluorene derivatives containing a heteroaromatic bridge atom as a novel class of materials having emitting and hole-transporting properties, in particular for use in the emission and/or charge-transport layer of electroluminescent devices. The invention furthermore relates to a process for the preparation of the compounds according to the invention and to electronic devices comprising same.

Abstract: Provided are a novel bichrysene compound and an organic light emitting device having high light emitting efficiency and excellent driving durability. The organic light emitting device includes an anode, a cathode, and a layer formed of an organic compound interposed between the anode and the cathode. The layer formed of an organic compound has a bichrysene compound represented by the following general formula (1).

Abstract: An organic light-emitting device includes a first electrode, a mixed organic layer, an emission layer, an electron transport layer, and a second electrode. The mixed organic layer contains a fluorene derivative and a pyrazine derivative, and the electron transport layer contains a lithium quinolate and a pyridine derivative.

Abstract: An organic light-emitting diode, organic solar cell or switching element comprising at least one substituted carbazole derivative of the general formula (I), (II) or (III) in which X is NR4, O, S or PR4; Y is NR5, O, S or PR5; where at least one of the symbols X and Y is NR4 or NR5; substituted carbazole derivatives of the formula (I), (II) or (III); a light-emitting layer comprising at least one substituted carbazole derivative of the general formula (I), (II) or (III) and at least one emitter material; the use of substituted carbazole derivatives of the general formula (I), (II) or (Ill) as matrix material, hole/exciton blocker material and/or electron/exciton blocker material and/or hole injection material and/or electron injection material and/or hole conductor material and/or electron conductor material in an organic light-emitting diode, an organic solar cell or in a switching element, and a device selected from the group consisting of stationary visual display units, mobile visual display units,

Abstract: The present invention relates to novel pyridine compounds that can be used as anchoring ligands in metal-based sensitizing dyes of dye sensitized solar cells (DSCS). The dyes comprising the polypyridine compounds exhibit improved light harvesting ability and lead to increased conversion efficiencies, in particular in thin TiO2 film devices.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention, in a case of using a conductive material as part of an electrode for an organic transistor, to provide an organic transistor having a structure whose characteristics are not controlled by the work function of the conductive material. Moreover, it is other objects of the present invention to provide an organic transistor having favorable carrier mobility and to provide an organic transistor which is excellent in durability. A composite layer containing an organic compound and an inorganic material is used for an electrode for an organic field effect transistor, that is, at least part of one of a source electrode and a drain electrode in the organic field effect transistor.

Abstract: Homoleptic square planar complexes [M(N?N)2], wherein two identical N?N bidentate anionic ligands are coordinated to the M(II) metal center, including bidentate square planar complexes of triazolates, possess optical and electrical properties that make them useful for a wide variety of optical and electrical devices and applications. In particular, the complexes are useful for obtaining white or monochromatic organic light-emitting diodes (“OLEDs”). Improved white organic light emitting diode (“WOLED”) designs have improved efficacy and/or color stability at high brightness in single- or two-emitter white or monochrome OLEDs that utilize homoleptic square planar complexes, including bis[3,5-bis(2-pyridyl)-1,2,4-triazolato]platinum(II) (“Pt(ptp)2”).

Abstract: An object is to provide a light-emitting element which exhibits light emission with high luminance and can be driven at low voltage. Another object is to provide a light-emitting device or an electronic device with reduced power consumption. Between an anode and a cathode, n (n is a natural number of two or more) EL layers are provided, where between a first EL layer and a second EL layer, a first layer containing any of an alkali metal, an alkaline earth metal, a rare earth metal, an alkali metal compound, an alkaline earth metal compound, and a rare earth metal compound, a second layer containing a material having a high electron-transporting property in contact with the first layer, and a region containing a material having a high hole-transporting property and an acceptor material in contact with the second layer are provided in this order from the anode side.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a host material comprising a compound having a carbazole moiety which is suitable for blue-emitting OLEDs. Surprisingly, it has been found that when appropriate substituents are present in the carbazole structure, the solubility of the compounds can be improved without any adverse effect on the OLED performance. The present invention further relates to the use of the host materials and to an organic light emitting device comprising the host material.

Abstract: A compound for an organic photoelectric device, an organic photoelectric device including the same, and a display device including the same the compound being represented by the following Chemical Formula 1:

Abstract: A method of producing an electronic or electro-optic device, and the devices produced, includes producing a first electrode by a solution process, producing a second electrode by a solution process, and lamination an active polymer layer between the first and second electrodes.

Abstract: This invention relates to triarylamine compounds that are useful in electronic applications. It also relates to electronic devices in which the active layer includes such a compound.

Abstract: Disclosed is an organic electroluminescence device which can be stably produced by a wet process and exhibits enhanced external quantum efficiency and reduced coating unevenness and a production method thereof. Specifically, disclosed is a method of producing the organic electroluminescence device comprising at least a layer, which is formed by a wet process comprising of coating a solution of an organic material dissolved in a solvent to form a liquid layer, followed by removal of the solvent by blowing air to form the layer, wherein the relative drying rate of the solvent to butyl acetate is from 1 to 1000, (based on the drying rate of butyl acetate being 100), the thickness of the formed liquid layer is from 1 to 100 ?m, a air-blowing rate is from 0.1 to 5 m/s and the time between completion of coating and start of blowing is from 0 to 60 sec.

Abstract: [Problem to be Solved] To provide an organic electroluminescence device with heat resistance capable of being driven by a low voltage. [Solution] An organic electroluminescence device includes a pair of anode and cathode opposed to each other; and a plurality of organic semiconductor layers layered or disposed between the anode and the cathode, the organic semiconductor layers including a light-emitting layer. At least one of the organic semiconductor layers contains a bulky organic semiconductor compound having an aromatic multi-membered ring structure and at least three aromatic substituents bonded thereto. Each of the aromatic substituents is arranged in a manner that a dihedral angle between a ring plane of the aromatic multi-membered ring structure and the ring plane of the aromatic substituent is within 70 to 90° determined by a semiempirical molecular orbital calculation method.

Abstract: This invention relates to triarylamine compounds that are useful in electronic applications. It also relates to electronic devices in which the active layer includes such a compound.

Abstract: An electronic device containing a polythiophene wherein R represents a side chain, m represents the number of R substituents; A is a divalent linkage; x, y and z represent, respectively, the number of Rm substituted thienylenes, unsubstituted thienylenes, and divalent linkages A, respectively, in the monomer segment subject to z being 0 or 1, and n represents the number of repeating monomer segments in the polymer or the degree of polymerization.

Abstract: Provided are a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic derivative having a specific structure containing a pyrazine skeleton in the center thereof, a hole injecting material or hole transporting material for an organic electroluminescence (EL) device, a light emitting material for an organic EL device, and an electron injecting material or electron transporting material for an organic EL device each containing the nitrogen-containing heterocyclic derivative, an organic EL device which includes one or a plurality of organic layers interposed between a cathode and an anode and in which at least one layer of the organic layers contains the nitrogen-containing heterocyclic derivative, and an apparatus including the organic EL device. The organic EL device shows high luminous brightness and high luminous efficiency even at a low voltage as compared with a conventional device.

Abstract: Exemplary embodiments provide materials and processes for forming organic semiconductor features by heating a liquid composition containing semiconductor particles into a Newtonian solution for a uniform deposition.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to semiconducting carbon-containing devices and methods of making thereof. The semi-conducting carbon containing devices comprise an n-type semiconducting layer and a p-type semiconducting layer, both of which are positioned over a substrate. The n-type semiconducting layer can be formed by pyrolyzing a carbon- and nitrogen-containing polymer, and the p-type semiconducting layer can be formed by pyrolyzing an aromatic- and aliphatic-group-containing polymer. In some embodiments, the devices are solar cell devices.

Abstract: A semiconductor device that can transmit and receive data without contact is popular partly as some railway passes, electronic money cards, and the like; however, it has been a prime task to provide an inexpensive semiconductor device for further popularization. In view of the above current conditions, a semiconductor device of the present invention includes a memory with a simple structure for providing an inexpensive semiconductor device and a manufacturing method thereof. A memory element included in the memory includes a layer containing an organic compound, and a source electrode or a drain electrode of a TFT provided in the memory element portion is used as a conductive layer which forms a bit line of the memory element.

Abstract: An aromatic amine derivative represented by the following formula (1); wherein Ar1 to Ar4 are independently a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group having 6 to 20 ring carbon atoms or a substituted or unsubstituted heteroaryl group having 5 to 20 ring carbon atoms and at least one of Ar1 to Ar4 has a substituted or unsubstituted silyl group; Ar5 is a substituted or unsubstituted arylene group having 6 to 20 ring carbon atoms or a substituted or unsubstituted heteroarylene group having 5 to 20 ring carbon atoms; and L is a group represented by the following formula (A) or (B);

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a facile process for the formation of conjugated polymers inside or outside assembled solid-state devices. One process generally involves applying a voltage to a device comprising at least two electrodes, a combination of an electrolyte composition and a electroactive monomer disposed between the electrodes, and a potential source in electrical connection with the at least two electrodes; wherein the applying voltage polymerizes the electroactive monomer into a conjugated polymer. Also disclosed are electrochromic articles prepared from the process and solid-state devices comprising a composite of an electrolyte composition and a conjugated polymer.

Abstract: It is an object to provide an organic light-emitting element having two or more light-emitting layers, wherein degradation of each constituent material for the light-emitting layer is reduced to improve reliability of the element. The present invention provides an organic light-emitting element having a laminated structure with a first mixed light-emitting layer 4 composed of a hole transport material, an electron transport material and a dopant which determines a color of an emitted light, and a second mixed light-emitting layer 5 composed of a hole transport material, an electron transport material and a dopant which determines a color of an emitted light, and also provides an image display device which uses the organic light-emitting element.

Abstract: Provided is an organic light emitting device having high light emitting efficiency and good emission color purity. The organic light emitting device includes an anode, a cathode, and an organic compound layer which is sandwiched between the anode and the cathode, in which one of the anode and the cathode is transparent or semi-transparent and the organic compound layer contains at least one kind of perylene compound represented by the following general formula (1): where R1 to R8 each represent a hydrogen atom or a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group; and Ar1 to Ar4 each represent a substituent represented by the following general formula (2) or (3).

Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel chrysene derivative and an organic electronic device using the same. A chrysene according to the present invention may act as a hole injection, hole transport, electron injection and transport, or light emitting material in an organic light emitting device and an organic electronic device, and in particular, may be used alone as a light emitting host or a dopant.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to the field of organic light emitting diode (OLED) electroluminescent devices comprising a novel hole-conducting material having a Spirobixanthen-unit.

Abstract: An organic compound represented by general formula (1) below and an organic light-emitting device including the organic compound are provided.

Abstract: The present invention provides a composite material for a light-emitting element including a high molecular compound having an arylamine skeleton and an inorganic compound showing an electron accepting property to the high molecular compound. The absorption spectrum of the composite material is different from absorption spectra of the high molecular compound and the inorganic compound which each form the composite material. In other words, a composite material having an absorption peak in a wavelength which is seen in the absorption spectra of neither the high molecular compound nor the inorganic compound forming the composite material is superior in carrier transporting and injecting properties and a favorable material. In addition, the composite material can be formed by a wet method such as a sol-gel method, it can be apply to the increase of substrate size easily in a manufacturing process and advantageous industrially.

Abstract: An organic thin film transistor including a substrate having thereon at least three terminals of a gate electrode, a source electrode and a drain electrode, an insulator layer and an organic semiconductor layer, with a current between a source and a drain being controlled upon application of a voltage to the gate electrode, wherein the organic semiconductor layer includes a specified organic compound having a divalent aromatic hydrocarbon group having a phenanthrene structure in the center thereof; and an organic thin film light emitting transistor utilizing an organic thin film transistor, wherein the organic thin film transistor is one in which light emission is obtained utilizing a current flowing between the source and the drain, and the light emission is controlled upon application of a voltage to the gate electrode, and is made high with respect to the response speed and has a large ON/OFF ratio, are provided.

Abstract: A method of producing an organic semiconductor device is provided in which a layer composed of an organic semiconductor having excellent crystallinity and orientation in a low-temperature region can be formed, and the device can be produced in the air.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescence material composition including a solvent represented by the following formula (1) and an anthracene derivative: wherein ring A is an aliphatic ring or an aromatic ring having 4 to 8 carbon atoms; R1 is a substituent on the ring A; and R2 and R3 are substituents connected to adjacent carbon atoms on the ring A.

Abstract: The invention provides a light emitting layer host compound and an electron-blocking compound that have high excited triplet levels, and can completely confine the triplet excitons of phosphorescent material, for use as the material of a high-efficient organic electroluminescent device. The invention also provides a high-efficient, high-luminance organic electroluminescent device with the use of the compounds. The compound of the general formula (1) below has a triphenylsilyl group and a triarylamine structure, and the organic electroluminescent device includes a pair of electrodes and at least one organic layer interposed between the pair of electrodes, wherein the compound of the general formula (1) having a triphenylsilyl group and a triarylamine structure is used as constituent material of the at least one organic layer.

Abstract: The present invention provides an organic light emitting device including an organic layer of two or more organic layers including a first electrode, a second electrode and an emission layer disposed between the two electrodes, wherein the organic layer includes a first injection or transport layer including a material having a LUMO energy level of ?4 eV or lower and a second hole injection or transport layer including a material having a HOMO energy level of ?4 eV or lower and a material having a LUMO energy level of ?4 eV or lower, which is in contact with the first hole injection or transport layer and a method for manufacturing the organic light emitting device.

Abstract: The present invention relates to novel donor-acceptor fluorene compounds, which can be used as for the fabrication of electroluminescent devices, and a process of preparing said novel compounds. More particularly, the present invention relates to amine donor and nitrile/ester acceptor fluorenes, fluorenones their ?-conjugated systems and related compounds, processes for preparing the said compounds including oxidation of fluorenes to corresponding fluorenones and their use in preparing organic electronic devices such as organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs), photovoltaic/solar cell, Field effect transistors and other useful electroluminescent devices. The compounds are prepared by reacting 2H-pyran-2-ones in isolated or rigid conformations with cyclic ketones containing methylene carbonyl moiety in the presence of a base in an organic solvent.