Light-emitting element

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9947885-B2
Application number	US-201715412515-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 23, 2017
Priority date	Aug 3, 2012
Publication date	Apr 17, 2018
Grant date	Apr 17, 2018

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 themially 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, and
wherein the first organic compound and the second organic compound form an exciplex which exhibits thermally activated delayed fluorescence.

2. The light-emitting element according to claim 1 , wherein the exciplex generates the singlet excited state from the triplet excited state.

3. The light-emitting element according to claim 2 , 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.

4. 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.

5. 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 exciplex is 0.2 eV or less.

6. The light-emitting element according to claim 1 , 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.

7. The light-emitting element according to claim 1 , 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.

8. 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.

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

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

11. 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 an exciplex which exhibits thermally activated delayed fluorescence, and
wherein an energy is transferred from a level of the singlet excited state of the exciplex to a level of a single exited state of the fluorescent material.

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

13. 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.

14. 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.

15. 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.

16. The light-emitting element according to claim 11 , 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.

17. The light-emitting element according to claim 11 , 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.

18. The light-emitting element according to claim 11 , wherein the first organic compound is different from the second organic compound.

Assignees

• Semiconductor Energy Lab

Inventors

• Seo Satoshi
• Seo Hiromi
• Takahashi Tatsuyoshi

Classifications

• C09K2211/1029

  containing one nitrogen atom as the heteroatom · CPC title

• C09K2211/1014

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

• C09K2211/1044

  containing two nitrogen atoms as heteroatoms · CPC title

• C09K2211/1007

  Non-condensed systems · CPC title

• C09K11/06

  containing organic luminescent materials · CPC title