Organic electroluminescent device

• US 5,834,130 A
• Filed: 08/28/1996
• Issued: 11/10/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 05/26/1994
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Chemipro Kasei Kaisha, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries Limited (Sumitomo Corporation)
• Inventors: Kido, Junji
• Primary Examiner(s): NOLD, CHARLES R
• Application Number:
  US08/591,432
• Time in Patent Office: 804 Days
• Field of Search: 428/690, 428/917, 313/504, 313/506
• US Class Current: 428/690
• CPC Class Codes: C09K 11/06 containing organic luminescent materials
• 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: Y02B 20/00 Energy efficient lighting technologies, e.g. halogen lamps or gas discharge lamps
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 428/917 Electroluminescent

Abstract

The first organic electroluminescent device is prepared by laminating the hole-transport luminescent layer 1 in which a dye is molecularly dispersed, and the electron-transport layer 2 containing a triazole derivative of the following formula (1). The second organic electroluminescent device has the layer containing the above triazole derivative. The third organic electroluminescent device wherein the layer containing the triazole derivative is interposed between the electron-transport layer and a hole-transport layer.

Every device is excellent in luminous efficiency, luminance and stability, realizing blue light emission, the multi-color displays and white light emission due to three primary colors. ##STR1## wherein the numeral references have the same meanings stated in specification.

Claims

1. An organic electroluminescent device comprising:

an electron transport layer which comprises a single layer of an 1,2,4-triazole derivative of the formula;

##STR14## wherein R¹, R², R³, R⁴ and R⁵ may be the same or different, each is hydrogen atom, alkyl, alkoxyl, aryl or aralkyl, and R¹, R², R³, R⁴ and R⁵ are not hydrogen atoms at the same time, or comprises the layer of the 1,2,4-triazole derivative and a layer of a tris(8-quinolinolato)aluminum (III) complex; and

a hole-transport luminescent layer in which at least one dye is molecularly dispersed in a disperse medium.

2. An organic electroluminescent device according to claim 1, wherein the hole-transport luminescent layer is prepared by molecularly dispersing a dye into a disperse medium having carrier-transport property, or by molecularly dispersing a dye and a hole-transport material having low molecular-weight into a disperse medium having no carrier-transport property.

3. An organic electroluminescent device according to claim 1, wherein the disperse medium is a polymer.

4. An organic electroluminescent device according to claim 1, wherein a plurality of dyes are dispersed into the hole-transport luminescent layer in order that an emission spectrum of the hole-transport luminescent layer extends over a visual region ranging from 400 to 700 nm.

5. An organic electroluminescent device having at least a layer of a 1,2,4-triazole derivative of the formula:

##STR15## wherein R¹, R², R³, R⁴ and R⁵ may be the same or different, and each is a member selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, alkyl, alkoxyl, aryl and aralkyl, with the proviso that R¹, R², R³, R⁴ and R⁵ are not all hydrogen at the same time.

6. An organic electroluminescent device according to claim 5, said device having a layer of a poly-N-vinylcarbazole as a hole-transport luminescent layer.

7. An organic electroluminescent device according to claim 5, said device having a layer of a tris(8-quinolinolato)aluminum (III) as a hole-transport luminescent layer.

8. An organic electroluminescent device comprising:

a hole-transport layer;

an electron-transport layer; and

a carrier-transport control layer being interposed between the hole-transport layer and the electron-transport layer, the carrier-transport control layer being composed of a 1,2,4 -triazole derivative of the general formula (1), transporting at least either of holes and electrons.