Light-emitting element, light-emitting device, display device, electronic device, and lighting device

• US 8,994,013 B2
• Filed: 05/13/2013
• Issued: 03/31/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/18/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Seo, Satoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Matthews, Colleen A
• Assistant Examiner(s): JEFFERSON, QUOVAUNDA
• Application Number:
  US13/892,667
• Publication Number:
  US 20130306945A1
• Time in Patent Office: 687 Days
• Field of Search: 257/40, 257/79, 257/89, 257/103, 428/690, 428/917, 438/34, 438/35, 438/99
• US Class Current: 257/40
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 10/00 Organic devices specially adapted for rectifying, amplifying, oscillating or switching; Organic capacitors or resistors having potential barriers integrated devices or assemblies of multiple devices H10K19/00
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 2101/10 Triplet emission
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 2101/20 Delayed fluorescence emission
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 2101/40 Interrelation of parameters between multiple constituent active layers or sublayers, e.g. HOMO values in adjacent layers
• 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 50/15 Hole transporting layers
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 50/16 Electron transporting layers
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 85/381 Metal complexes comprising a group IIB metal element, e.g. comprising cadmium, mercury or zinc
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 85/633 comprising polycyclic condensed aromatic hydrocarbons as substituents on the nitrogen atom

Abstract

An object is to provide a light-emitting element which includes an exciplex being used as an energy donor capable of efficiently transferring energy to a substance exhibiting thermally activated delayed fluorescence. The exciplex comprises two kinds of substances and its singlet and triplet excited states are close to each other. Thus, by making light emission of the exciplex overlap with an absorption band on the longest wavelength side which corresponds to absorption by the substance exhibiting thermally activated delayed fluorescence, i.e., an energy acceptor, in a singlet excited state, it becomes possible to achieve efficient energy transfer from a singlet excited state of the exciplex to a singlet excited state of the substance exhibiting thermally activated delayed fluorescence, and it also becomes possible to achieve efficient energy transfer from a triplet excited state of the exciplex to a triplet excited state of the substance exhibiting thermally activated delayed fluorescence.

Claims

1. A light-emitting device comprising:

a pair of electrodes; and

a light-emitting layer between the pair of electrodes, the light-emitting layer comprising a first organic compound, a second organic compound, and a light-emitting substance which exhibits thermally activated delayed fluorescence,

wherein an emission of an exciplex of the first organic compound and the second organic compound overlaps with an absorption band of the light-emitting substance.

2. The light-emitting device according to claim 1, wherein the emission overlaps with the absorption band on the lowest energy side.

3. The light-emitting device according to claim 2, wherein a difference in energy between a peak wavelength of the absorption band and a peak wavelength of the emission is 0.2 eV or less.

4. The light-emitting device according to claim 1, wherein a difference in energy between peak wavelengths of fluorescence and phosphorescence of the light-emitting substance is 0.2 eV or less.

5. The light-emitting device according to claim 1, wherein the first organic compound has an electron-transport property, and the second organic compound has a hole-transport property.

6. The light-emitting device according to claim 1, wherein the first organic compound is a π

-deficient heteroaromatic compound, and the second organic compound is a π

-excessive heteroaromatic compound or an aromatic amine compound.

7. An electronic device comprising the light-emitting device according to claim 1.

8. A lighting device comprising the light-emitting device according to claim 1.

9. A light-emitting device comprising:

a pair of electrodes; and

a light-emitting layer between the pair of electrodes, the light-emitting layer comprising a first organic compound, a second organic compound, and a light-emitting substance which exhibits thermally activated delayed fluorescence,

wherein a difference in energy between peak wavelengths of fluorescence and phosphorescence of the light-emitting substance is 0.2 eV or less, and

wherein the light-emitting substance comprises a π

-excessive heteroaromatic ring and a π

-deficient heteroaromatic ring.

10. The light-emitting device according to claim 9, wherein a difference in equivalent energy between peak wavelengths of fluorescence and phosphorescence of an exciplex of the first organic compound and the second organic compound is 0.2 eV or less.

11. The light-emitting device according to claim 9, wherein the first organic compound has an electron-transport property, and the second organic compound has a hole-transport property.

12. The light-emitting device according to claim 9, wherein the first organic compound is a π

-deficient heteroaromatic compound, and the second organic compound is a π

-excessive heteroaromatic compound or an aromatic amine compound.

13. An electronic device comprising the light-emitting device according to claim 9.

14. A lighting device comprising the light-emitting device according to claim 9.