Light-emitting element

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9276228-B2
Application number	US-201313957612-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 2, 2013
Priority date	Aug 3, 2012
Publication date	Mar 1, 2016
Grant date	Mar 1, 2016

Abstract

To provide a light-emitting element which uses a fluorescent material as a light-emitting substance and has higher luminous efficiency. To provide a light-emitting element which includes a mixture of a thermally activated delayed fluorescent substance and a fluorescent material. By making the emission spectrum of the thermally activated delayed fluorescent substance overlap with an absorption band on the longest wavelength side in absorption by the fluorescent material in an S 1 level of the fluorescent material, energy at an S 1 level of the thermally activated delayed fluorescent substance can be transferred to the S 1 of the fluorescent material. Alternatively, it is also possible that the S 1 of the thermally activated delayed fluorescent substance is generated from part of the energy of a T 1 level of the thermally activated delayed fluorescent substance, and is transferred to the S 1 of the fluorescent material.

First claim

What is 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 light-emitting layer,
wherein the light-emitting layer comprises a first organic compound, a second organic compound, and a fluorescent material,
wherein the first organic compound and the second organic compound form an exciplex which exhibits thermally activated delayed fluorescence, and
wherein, in the exciplex, a difference between levels of a triplet excited state and a singlet excited state is 0.2 eV or less.

2. The light-emitting element according to claim 1 , wherein light emission of the exciplex is overlapped with an absorption band on a lowest energy side of the fluorescent material.

3. The light-emitting element according to claim 2 , wherein a difference in energy between a peak wavelength of the absorption band on the lowest energy side of the fluorescent material and a peak wavelength of the exciplex is 0.2 eV or less.

4. The light-emitting element according to claim 2 , wherein a peak wavelength of light emission of the exciplex is longer than or equal to a peak wavelength of the absorption band on the lowest energy side of the fluorescent material.

5. The light-emitting element according to claim 2 , wherein a difference between a peak wavelength of light emission of the exciplex and a peak wavelength of light emission of the fluorescent material is 30 nm or less.

6. The light-emitting element according to claim 1 , wherein one of the first organic compound and the second organic compound is a material having an electron-transport property and the other is a material having a hole-transport property.

7. The light-emitting element according to claim 1 , wherein one of the first organic compound and the second organic compound is a n-electron deficient heteroaromatic compound and the other is a n-electron rich heteroaromatic compound or an aromatic amine compound.

8. The light-emitting element according to claim 1 , wherein the first organic compound is different from the second organic compound.

9. The light-emitting element according to claim 1 ,
wherein the exciplex generates the singlet excited state from the triplet excited state, and
wherein an energy is transferred to from a level of the singlet excited state of the exciplex to a level of a single exited state of the fluorescent material.

10. A light-emitting element comprising:
a pair of electrodes; and
an EL layer between the pair of electrodes,
wherein the EL layer comprises a light-emitting layer,
wherein the light-emitting layer comprises a thermally activated delayed fluorescence substance and a fluorescent material,
wherein the thermally activated delayed fluorescence substance comprises a first organic compound and a second organic compound, wherein the first organic compound and the second organic compound form and exciplex which exhibits thermally activated delayed fluorescence, and wherein, in the exciplex, a difference between levels of a triplet excited state and a singlet excited state is 0.2 eV or less.

11. The light-emitting element according to claim 10 , wherein light emission of the exciplex is overlapped with an absorption band on a lowest energy side of the fluorescent material.

12. The light-emitting element according to claim 11 , wherein a difference in energy between a peak wavelength of the absorption band on the lowest energy side of the fluorescent material and a peak wavelength of the exciplex is 0.2 eV or less.

13. The light-emitting element according to claim 11 , wherein a peak wavelength of light emission of the exciplex is longer than or equal to a peak wavelength of the absorption band on the lowest energy side of the fluorescent material.

14. The light-emitting element according to claim 11 , wherein a difference between a peak wavelength of light emission of the exciplex and a peak wavelength of light emission of the fluorescent material is 30 nm or less.

15. The light-emitting element according to claim 10 , wherein one of the first organic compound and the second organic compound is a material having an electron-transport property and the other is a material having a hole-transport property.

16. The light-emitting element according to claim 10 , wherein one of the first organic compound and the second organic compound is a π-electron deficient heteroaromatic compound and the other is a π-electron rich heteroaromatic compound or an aromatic amine compound.

17. The light-emitting element according to claim 10 , wherein the first organic compound is different from the second organic compound.

18. The light-emitting element according to claim 10 ,
wherein the exciplex generates the singlet excited state from the triplet excited state, and
wherein an energy is transferred to from a level of the singlet excited state of the exciplex to a level of a single exited state of the fluorescent material.

Assignees

• Semiconductor Energy Lab

Inventors

• Seo Satoshi
• Seo Hiromi
• Takahashi Tatsuyoshi

Classifications

• C09K2211/1014

  bridged by heteroatoms, e.g. N, P, Si or B · CPC title

• C09K11/02 Primary

  Use of particular materials as binders, particle coatings or suspension media therefor · CPC title

• C09K11/06

  containing organic luminescent materials · CPC title

• C09K2211/1029

  containing one nitrogen atom as the heteroatom · CPC title

• C09K2211/1092

  containing sulfur as the only heteroatom · CPC title