ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENCE DEVICE AND MATERIAL FOR ORGANIC ELECTROLUMINESCENCE DEVICE

• US 20090045731A1
• Filed: 07/03/2008
• Published: 02/19/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 07/07/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Idemitsu Kosan Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Idemitsu Kosan Company Limited
• Inventors: Iwakuma, Toshihiro, Fukuoka, Kenichi, Hosokawa, Chishio, Ito, Mitsunori, Kawamura, Masahiro, Nishimura, Kazuki, Ogiwara, Toshinari, Takashima, Yoriyuki
• Application Number:
  US12/167,737
• Publication Number:
  US 20090045731A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 313/504
• CPC Class Codes: C09K 11/06 containing organic luminescent materials
• CPC Class Codes: C09K 2211/1011 Condensed systems
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 33/14 characterised by the chemical or physical composition or the arrangement of the electroluminescent material , or by the simultaneous addition of the electroluminescent material in or onto the light source
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 33/20 characterised by the chemical or physical composition or the arrangement of the material in which the electroluminescent material is embedded
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 2101/10 Triplet emission
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 2102/103 comprising indium oxides, e.g. ITO
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 50/11 characterised by the electroluminescent [EL] layers
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 50/14 Carrier transporting layers
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 50/171 Electron injection layers
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 85/342 comprising iridium
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 85/346 comprising platinum
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 85/615 Polycyclic condensed aromatic hydrocarbons, e.g. anthracene
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 85/626 containing more than one polycyclic condensed aromatic rings, e.g. bis-anthracene
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 85/657 Polycyclic condensed heteroaromatic hydrocarbons
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 85/6572 comprising only nitrogen in the heteroaromatic polycondensed ring system, e.g. phenanthroline or carbazole

Abstract

An organic electroluminescence device includes: a cathode; an anode; and a single-layered or multilayered organic thin-film layer provided between the cathode and the anode. The organic thin-film layer includes at least one emitting layer. The at least one emitting layer contains at least one phosphorescent material and a host material represented by the following formula (1).

In the formula, Ar₁, Ar₂, Ar₃, B₁, B₂, B₃ and B₄ each represent a substituted or unsubstituted benzene ring or a substituted or unsubstituted condensed aromatic hydrocarbon ring selected from a naphthalene ring, a chrysene ring, a fluoranthene ring, a phenanthrene ring, a benzophenanthrene ring, a dibenzophenanthrene ring, a triphenylene ring, a benzo[a]triphenylene ring, a benzochrysene ring, a benzo[b]fluoranthene ring and a picene ring. p is 0 or 1.

Claims

1. An organic electroluminescence device, comprising:

a cathode;

an anode; and

a single-layered or multilayered organic thin-film layer provided between the cathode and the anode, wherein

the organic thin-film layer comprises at least one emitting layer, and

the at least one emitting layer comprises;

at least one phosphorescent material; and

a host material represented by a formula (1) as follows,

where;

Ar₁, Ar₂, Ar₃, B₁, B₂, B₃ and B₄ each represent a substituted or unsubstituted benzene ring or a condensed aromatic hydrocarbon ring selected from a substituted or unsubstituted naphthalene ring, a substituted or unsubstituted chrysene ring, a substituted or unsubstituted fluoranthene ring, a substituted or unsubstituted phenanthrene ring, a substituted or unsubstituted benzophenanthrene ring, a substituted or unsubstituted dibenzophenanthrene ring, a substituted or unsubstituted triphenylene ring, a substituted or unsubstituted benzo[a]triphenylene ring, a substituted or unsubstituted benzochrysene ring, a substituted or unsubstituted benzo[b]fluoranthene ring and a substituted or unsubstituted picene ring; and

p is 0 or 1.

2. The organic electroluminescence device according to claim 1, wherein when Ar₁, Ar₂, Ar₃, B₁, B₂, B₃ or B₄ in the formula (1) has a single or plural substituent(s), the single or plural substituent(s) is an alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, a haloalkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, a cycloalkyl group having 5 to 18 carbon atoms, a silyl group having 3 to 20 carbon atoms, a cyano group or a halogen atom, while a substituent for Ar₂ is further allowed to be an aryl group having 6 to 22 carbon atoms.

3. The organic electroluminescence device according to claim 1, wherein excited triplet energy of the host material is in a range of 2.0 eV to 2.8 eV.

4. The organic electroluminescence device according to claim 1, wherein

the phosphorescent material comprises a metal complex, and

the metal complex comprises:

a metal atom selected from Ir, Pt, Os, Au, Cu, Re and Ru; and

a ligand.

5. The organic electroluminescence device according to claim 4, wherein the ligand has an ortho-metal bond.

6. The organic electroluminescence device according to claim 1, wherein a maximum wavelength of light emission of the at least one phosphorescent material contained in the emitting layer is in a range of 500 nm to 720 nm.

7. The organic electroluminescence device according to claim 1, wherein

the organic thin-film layer comprises an electron transporting layer or an electron injecting layer between the cathode and the emitting layer, and

the electron transporting layer or the electron injecting layer comprises an aromatic ring having a nitrogen-containing six-membered or five-membered ring skeleton, or a condensed aromatic cyclic compound having a nitrogen-containing six-membered or five-membered ring skeleton.

8. The organic electroluminescence device according to claim 1, wherein a reductive dopant is present at an interfacial region between the cathode and the organic thin-film layer.

9. A material for an organic electroluminescence device, comprising a host material represented by a formula (2) as follows,

where:

Ar₁, Ar₂, Ar₃, B₁, B₂, B₃ and B₄ each represent a substituted or unsubstituted benzene ring or a condensed aromatic hydrocarbon ring selected from a substituted or unsubstituted naphthalene ring, a substituted or unsubstituted chrysene ring, a substituted or unsubstituted fluoranthene ring, a substituted or unsubstituted phenanthrene ring, a substituted or unsubstituted benzophenanthrene ring, a substituted or unsubstituted dibenzophenanthrene ring, a substituted or unsubstituted triphenylene ring, a substituted or unsubstituted benzo[a]triphenylene ring, a substituted or unsubstituted benzochrysene ring, a substituted or unsubstituted benzo[b]fluoranthene ring and a substituted or unsubstituted picene ring; and

p is 0 or 1.

10. The material for an organic electroluminescence device according to claim 9, wherein B₁, B₂, B₃ and B₄ in the formula (2) each are selected from a substituted or unsubstituted benzene ring, a substituted or unsubstituted naphthalene ring, a substituted or unsubstituted phenanthrene ring and a substituted or unsubstituted fluoranthene ring.

11. The material for an organic electroluminescence device according to claim 9, wherein when Ar₁, Ar₂, Ar₃, B₁, B₂, B₃ or B₄ in the formula (2) has a single or plural substituent(s), the single or plural substituent(s) is an alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, a haloalkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, a cycloalkyl group having 5 to 18 carbon atoms, a silyl group having 3 to 20 carbon atoms, a cyano group or a halogen atom, while a substituent for Ar₂ is further allowed to be an aryl group having 6 to 22 carbon atoms.