Light-emitting element with light-emitting layer including first and second organic compounds, display device, electronic device, and lighting device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11563191-B2
Application number	US-202016923526-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 8, 2020
Priority date	Aug 29, 2014
Publication date	Jan 24, 2023
Grant date	Jan 24, 2023

Abstract

A light-emitting element having high emission efficiency which includes a fluorescent material as a light-emitting substance is provided. A light-emitting element includes a pair of electrodes and an EL layer between the pair of electrodes. The EL layer includes a light-emitting layer. The light-emitting layer includes a host material and a guest material. The host material has a difference of more than 0 eV and less than or equal to 0.2 eV between a singlet excitation energy level and a triplet excitation energy level. The guest material is capable of emitting fluorescence. The triplet excitation energy level of the host material is higher than a triplet excitation energy level of the guest material.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A light-emitting device comprising:
a first electrode;
a second electrode; and
a light-emitting layer between the first electrode and the second electrode,
wherein the light-emitting layer comprises a first organic compound, a second organic compound, and a light-emitting material,
wherein the first organic compound and the second organic compound form an exciplex,
wherein a difference between a triplet excitation energy level of the first organic compound and a triplet excitation energy level of the second organic compound is less than 0.4 eV,
wherein the light-emitting material emits fluorescence,
wherein a difference between a singlet excitation energy level and the triplet excitation energy level of the first organic compound is more than 0 eV and less than or equal to 0.2 eV, and
wherein the triplet excitation energy level of the first organic compound is higher than a triplet excitation energy level of the light-emitting material.

2. The light-emitting device according to claim 1 , wherein the singlet excitation energy level of the first organic compound is higher than a singlet excitation energy level of the light-emitting material.

3. The light-emitting device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the first organic compound is capable of exhibiting thermally activated delayed fluorescence at room temperature, and
wherein a thermally activated delayed fluorescence emission energy of the first organic compound is higher than a phosphorescence emission energy of the light-emitting material.

4. The light-emitting device according to claim 1 ,
wherein a weight ratio of the light-emitting material to the combination of the first organic compound and the second organic compound is more than 0 and less than or equal to 0.05.

5. The light-emitting device according to claim 1 , further comprising at least one of a hole-injection layer, a hole-transport layer, an electron-transport layer, and an electron-injection layer.

6. An electronic device comprising:
the light-emitting device according to claim 1 ; and
a housing or a touch sensor.

7. A lighting device comprising:
the light-emitting device according to claim 1 ; and
a housing or a touch sensor.

8. A light-emitting device comprising:
a first electrode;
a second electrode; and
a light-emitting layer between the first electrode and the second electrode,
wherein the light-emitting layer comprises a first organic compound, a second organic compound, and a light-emitting material,
wherein the first organic compound and the second organic compound form an exciplex,
wherein a difference between a triplet excitation energy level of the first organic compound and a triplet excitation energy level of the second organic compound is less than 0.4 eV,
wherein the light-emitting material emits fluorescence,
wherein a difference between a singlet excitation energy level and the triplet excitation energy level of the first organic compound is more than 0 eV and less than or equal to 0.2 eV,
wherein the triplet excitation energy level of the first organic compound and the triplet excitation energy level of the second organic compound are higher than a triplet excitation energy level of the exciplex, and
wherein the triplet excitation energy level of the exciplex is higher than a triplet excitation energy level of the light-emitting material.

9. The light-emitting device according to claim 8 , wherein the singlet excitation energy level of the first organic compound is higher than a singlet excitation energy level of the light-emitting material.

10. The light-emitting device according to claim 8 ,
wherein the first organic compound is capable of exhibiting thermally activated delayed fluorescence at room temperature, and
wherein a thermally activated delayed fluorescence emission energy of the first organic compound is higher than a phosphorescence emission energy of the light-emitting material.

11. The light-emitting device according to claim 8 ,
wherein a weight ratio of the light-emitting material to the combination of the first organic compound and the second organic compound is more than 0 and less than or equal to 0.05.

12. The light-emitting device according to claim 8 , further comprising at least one of a hole-injection layer, a hole-transport layer, an electron-transport layer, and an electron-injection layer.

13. An electronic device comprising:
the light-emitting device according to claim 8 ; and
a housing or a touch sensor.

14. A lighting device comprising:
the light-emitting device according to claim 8 ; and
a housing or a touch sensor.

Assignees

• Semiconductor Energy Lab

Inventors

• Seo Satoshi
• Ohsawa Nobuharu
• Hosoumi Shunsuke
• Ishisone Takahiro

Classifications

• H01L51/5016 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01L51/5012

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01L2251/552

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H10K85/633

  comprising polycyclic condensed aromatic hydrocarbons as substituents on the nitrogen atom · CPC title

• H10K2101/10

  Triplet emission · CPC title