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

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10026917-B2
Application number	US-201615162675-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 24, 2016
Priority date	Dec 2, 2013
Publication date	Jul 17, 2018
Grant date	Jul 17, 2018

Abstract

An object of one embodiment of the present invention is to provide a multicolor light-emitting element that utilizes fluorescence and phosphorescence and is advantageous for practical application. The light-emitting element has a stacked-layer structure of a first light-emitting layer containing a host material and a fluorescent substance, a separation layer containing a substance having a hole-transport property and a substance having an electron-transport property, and a second light-emitting layer containing two kinds of organic compounds that form an exciplex and a substance that can convert triplet excitation energy into luminescence. Note that a light-emitting element in which light emitted from the first light-emitting layer has an emission spectrum peak on the shorter wavelength side than an emission spectrum peak of the second light-emitting layer is more effective.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A light-emitting element comprising:
a pair of electrodes; and
an EL layer between the pair of electrodes,
wherein the EL layer comprises a first light-emitting layer, a second light-emitting layer, and a first layer between the first light-emitting layer and the second light-emitting layer,
wherein an emission spectrum of the first light-emitting layer is in a shorter wavelength region than an emission spectrum of the second light-emitting layer,
wherein the first light-emitting layer comprises a fluorescent substance and a host material,
wherein the fluorescent substance emits light in the first light-emitting layer,
wherein the second light-emitting layer comprises a substance capable of converting triplet excitation energy into light emission,
wherein a singlet excited level of the host material is higher than a singlet excited level of the fluorescent substance, and
wherein a triplet excited level of the host material is lower than a triplet excited level of the fluorescent substance.

2. The light-emitting element according to claim 1 , wherein the first layer comprises a substance having a hole-transport property and a substance having an electron-transport property.

3. The light-emitting element according to claim 2 , wherein the substance having a hole-transport property and the substance having an electron-transport property form an exciplex.

4. The light-emitting element according to claim 1 , wherein a thickness of the first layer is greater than 0 nm and less than or equal to 20 nm.

5. The light-emitting element according to claim 1 , wherein a thickness of the first layer is greater than or equal to 1 nm and less than or equal to 10 nm.

6. The light-emitting element according to claim 2 , wherein a triplet excited level of the host material is lower than a triplet excited level of the substance having a hole-transport property and a triplet excited level of the substance having an electron-transport property.

7. The light-emitting element according to claim 1 , wherein the host material is an organic compound having a condensed aromatic ring skeleton.

8. The light-emitting element according to claim 1 , wherein the host material is an organic compound having an anthracene skeleton.

9. The light-emitting element according to claim 1 ,
wherein the host material is an organic compound having an anthracene skeleton, and
wherein the fluorescent substance is an organic compound having a pyrene skeleton.

10. The light-emitting element according to claim 1 ,
wherein the second light-emitting layer comprises n layers,
wherein n is an integer of 2 or larger, and
wherein the n layers contain n kinds of substances having different emission spectra and capable of converting triplet excitation energy into light emission.

11. The light-emitting element according to claim 1 ,
wherein the second light-emitting layer comprises a first phosphorescent substance and a second phosphorescent substance as the substance capable of converting triplet excitation energy into light emission, and
wherein the first phosphorescent substance and the second phosphorescent substance have different emission spectra.

12. The light-emitting element according to claim 11 ,
wherein the first phosphorescent substance emits light in a red region,
wherein the second phosphorescent substance emits light in a green region, and
wherein the fluorescent substance emits light in a blue region.

13. The light-emitting element according to claim 12 ,
wherein the first phosphorescent substance has a peak of an emission spectrum of 580 nm to 680 nm,
wherein the second phosphorescent substance has a peak of an emission spectrum of 500 nm to 560 nm, and
wherein the fluorescent substance has a peak of an emission spectrum of 400 nm to 480 nm.

14. The light-emitting element according to claim 11 ,
wherein the second light-emitting layer comprises a first phosphorescent layer and a second phosphorescent layer,
wherein the first phosphorescent layer comprises the first phosphorescent substance, and
wherein the second phosphorescent layer comprises the second phosphorescent substance.

15. The light-emitting element according to claim 14 , wherein the first phosphorescent substance exhibits a carrier-trapping property in the first phosphorescent layer.

16. The light-emitting element according to claim 15 , wherein the carrier-trapping property is an electron-trapping property.

17. A light-emitting element comprising:
a pair of electrodes; and
an EL layer between the pair of electrodes,
wherein the EL layer comprises a first light-emitting layer, a second light-emitting layer, and a first layer between the first light-emitting layer and the second light-emitting layer,
wherein an emission spectrum of the first light-emitting layer is in a shorter wavelength region than an emission spectrum of the second light-emitting layer,
wherein the first light-emitting layer comprises a fluorescent substance and a host material,
wherein the fluorescent substance emits light in the first light-emitting layer,
wherein the fluorescent substance comprises a pyrene skeleton,
wherein the host material comprises a condensed aromatic ring, and
wherein the second light-emitting layer comprises a substance capable of converting triplet excitation energy into light emission.

18. A light-emitting element comprising:
a pair of electrodes; and
an EL layer between the pair of electrodes,
wherein the EL layer comprises a first light-emitting layer, a second light-emitting layer, and a first layer between the first light-emitting layer and the second light-emitting layer,
wherein an emission spectrum of the first light-emitting layer is in a shorter wavelength region than an emission spectrum of the second light-emitting layer,
wherein the first light-emitting layer comprises a fluorescent substance and a host material,
wherein the fluorescent substance emits light in the first light-emitting layer,
wherein the fluorescent substance comprises a pyrene skeleton,
wherein the host material comprises a condensed aromatic ring,
wherein the second light-emitting layer comprises a substance, a first organic compound, and a second organic compound and,
wherein the first organic compound and the second organic compound form an exciplex.

19. The light-emitting element according to claim 17 , wherein the condensed aromatic ring skeleton comprises an anthracene skeleton.

20. The light-emitting element according to claim 18 , wherein the condensed aromatic ring skeleton comprises an anthracene skeleton.

21. The light-emitting element according to claim 17 , wherein the second light-emitting layer comprises a substance, a first organic compound, and a second organic compound.

Assignees

• Semiconductor Energy Lab

Inventors

• Ohsawa Nobuharu
• Nonaka Yusuke
• Ishisone Takahiro
• Seo Satoshi
• Kawata Takuya

Classifications

• H01L51/0054

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01L51/0052

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01L51/0085

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01L51/5072

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01L51/0058

  Electricity · mapped topic