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

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12225748-B2
Application number	US-202418788835-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 30, 2024
Priority date	Jul 23, 2015
Publication date	Feb 11, 2025
Grant date	Feb 11, 2025

Abstract

A light-emitting element with high emission efficiency. The light-emitting element includes a first organic compound, a second organic compound, and a guest material. The LUMO level of the first organic compound is lower than the LUMO level of the second organic compound. The HOMO level of the first organic compound is lower than the HOMO level of the second organic compound. The HOMO level of the guest material is higher than the HOMO level of the second organic compound. The energy difference between the LUMO level of the guest material and the HOMO level of the guest material is larger than the energy difference between the LUMO level of the first organic compound and the HOMO level of the second organic compound. The guest material has a function of converting triplet excitation energy into light emission. The first organic compound and the second organic compound form an exciplex.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A light-emitting element comprising:
a first electrode;
a light-emitting layer over the first electrode, the light-emitting layer comprising a first organic compound, a second organic compound and a phosphorescent material; and
a second electrode over the light-emitting layer,
wherein the first organic compound comprises a triazine skeleton,
wherein the second organic compound comprises a carbazol-3-yl group,
wherein the first organic compound and the second organic compound form an exciplex,
wherein the phosphorescent material has a lower triplet excitation energy level than each of the first organic compound and the second organic compound,
wherein a lowest unoccupied molecular orbital level of the first organic compound is lower than a lowest unoccupied molecular orbital level of the second organic compound,
wherein a highest occupied molecular orbital level of the first organic compound is lower than a highest occupied molecular orbital level of the second organic compound,
wherein a highest occupied molecular orbital level of the phosphorescent material is higher than the highest occupied molecular orbital level of the second organic compound, and
wherein an energy difference between a lowest unoccupied molecular orbital level of the phosphorescent material and the highest occupied molecular orbital level of the phosphorescent material is larger than an energy difference between the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital level of the first organic compound and the highest occupied molecular orbital level of the second organic compound.

2. The light-emitting element according to claim 1 , wherein an energy difference between the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital level of the first organic compound and the highest occupied molecular orbital level of the phosphorescent material is larger than or equal to a light emission energy of the phosphorescent material.

3. The light-emitting element according to claim 1 , wherein the energy difference between the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital level of the phosphorescent material and the highest occupied molecular orbital level of the phosphorescent material is larger than a transition energy calculated from an absorption edge of an absorption spectrum of the phosphorescent material by 0.3 eV or more.

4. The light-emitting element according to claim 1 , wherein the energy difference between the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital level of the phosphorescent material and the highest occupied molecular orbital level of the phosphorescent material is larger than a light emission energy of the phosphorescent material by 0.3 eV or more.

5. The light-emitting element according to claim 1 , wherein an emission spectrum of the exciplex comprises a region overlapping with an absorption band on a longest wavelength side of an absorption spectrum of the phosphorescent material.

6. The light-emitting element according to claim 1 , wherein the phosphorescent material comprises iridium.

7. The light-emitting element according to claim 1 ,
wherein the phosphorescent material has an emission peak in a blue or green wavelength range.

8. A display device comprising:
the light-emitting element according to claim 1 ; and
at least one of a color filter and a transistor.

9. An electronic device comprising:
the display device according to claim 8 ; and
at least one of a housing and a touch sensor.

10. A lighting device comprising:
the light-emitting element according to claim 1 ; and
at least one of a housing and a touch sensor.

Assignees

• Semiconductor Energy Lab

Inventors

• Seo Satoshi
• Takahashi Tatsuyoshi
• Watabe Takeyoshi
• Mitsumori Satomi

Classifications

• H10K59/12

  Active-matrix OLED [AMOLED] displays · CPC title

• H10K50/121 Primary

  for assisting energy transfer, e.g. sensitization · CPC title

• C07F15/0033 Primary

  Iridium compounds · CPC title

• C09K2211/185

  of the platinum group, i.e. Os, Ir, Pt, Ru, Rh or Pd · CPC title

• C09K2211/1059

  containing three nitrogen atoms as heteroatoms · CPC title