Light-emitting element

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9559313-B2
Application number	US-201615051910-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 24, 2016
Priority date	Aug 3, 2012
Publication date	Jan 31, 2017
Grant date	Jan 31, 2017

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 Si 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 an organic compound and a fluorescent material,
wherein the organic compound exhibits thermally activated delayed fluorescence,
wherein an emission spectrum of the organic compound is overlapped with an absorption band on the longest wavelength side of the fluorescent material,
wherein the organic compound is a heterocyclic compound having a π-electron rich heteroaromatic ring and a π-electron deficient heteroaromatic ring, and
wherein the π-electron rich heteroaromatic ring is directly bonded to the π-electron deficient heteroaromatic ring.

2. The light-emitting element according to claim 1 , wherein, in the organic compound, a difference between a levels of a triplet excited state and a singlet excited state is 0.2 eV or less.

3. The light-emitting element according to claim 1 , wherein an energy is transferred to from a level of a singlet excited state of the organic compound to a level of a singlet excited state of the fluorescent material.

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

5. The light-emitting element according to claim 1 , wherein a concentration of the fluorescent material is 5 wt % or lower.

6. The light-emitting element according to claim 1 , 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 organic compound is 0.2 eV or less.

7. The light-emitting element according to claim 1 , wherein a difference between a peak wavelength of light emission of the organic compound and a peak wavelength of light emission of the fluorescent material is 30 nm or less.

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

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

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

Assignees

• Semiconductor Energy Lab

Inventors

• Seo Satoshi
• Seo Hiromi
• Takahashi Tatsuyoshi

Classifications

• C09K2211/1029

  containing one nitrogen atom as the heteroatom · CPC title

• C09K11/06

  containing organic luminescent materials · CPC title

• C09K2211/1011

  Condensed systems · CPC title

• C09K2211/1092

  containing sulfur as the only heteroatom · CPC title

• C09K2211/1014

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