申请人:TDK Corporation
公开号:US20040110030A1
公开(公告)日:2004-06-10
One object of the invention is to provide an organic EL device which uses an optical and electronic functional material particularly less susceptible to physical changes, photochemical changes and electrochemical changes, and can give out light emissions of various colors with high reliability and high light emission efficiency. Another object of the invention is to provide an organic EL device comprising an organic thin film formed by an evaporation technique of a compound that has high amorphism and high compatibility with a hole injecting electrode, said organic EL device being substantially free from a driving voltage increase or a luminance drop and a current leakage with neither development nor growth of local non-emitting spots, and so being capable of emitting light with high luminance, and high reliability such as high heat resistance. Yet another object of the invention is to provide an organic EL device using a multilayered film, said organic EL device comprising a hole injecting electrode or an organic material combined therewith, to which the optimum work function is imparted, and having high heat resistance. A further object of the invention is to provide an organic EL device capable of having high Hole mobility and so obtaining much higher current density.
Such objects are achievable by the provision of an organic EL device comprising organic compound layers, at least one of which has a skeleton represented by formula (I):
1
where L
0
is any one of o-, p-, and m-phenylene groups which have two, three or four rings and which may have a substituent with the proviso that when L
0
is a phenylene group having four rings, the phenylene group may have an unsubstituted or substituted aminophenyl group somewhere therein, R
01
, R
02
, R
03
and R
04
are each any one of the following groups:
2
where R
11
, R
12
, R
13
, R
14
, R
15
, R
16
and R
17
are each a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group, and r
1
, r
2
, r
3
and r
4
are each an integer of 0 to 5 with the proviso that r
1
+r
2
+r
3
+r
4
≧1.
本发明的一个目的是提供一种有机EL器件,其使用光学和电子功能材料,特别是对物理变化、光化学变化和电化学变化不太敏感,并且可以以高可靠性和高发光效率发出各种颜色的光发射。本发明的另一个目的是提供一种有机EL器件,其中包括通过蒸发技术形成的有机薄膜,该有机薄膜具有高非晶性和高与注入空穴电极相容性的化合物,该有机EL器件基本上不会出现驱动电压增加或亮度下降以及电流泄漏,也不会出现局部非发光点的发展或生长,因此可以发出高亮度和高可靠性(如高耐热性)的光。本发明的另一个目的是提供一种使用多层膜的有机EL器件,该有机EL器件包括具有最佳功函数的空穴注入电极或与其组合的有机材料,并具有高耐热性。本发明的另一个目的是提供一种有机EL器件,其能够具有高空穴迁移率,从而获得更高的电流密度。这些目的可通过提供包括有机化合物层的有机EL器件来实现,其中至少有一层的骨架由式(I)表示:其中L0是具有两个、三个或四个环的o-、p-和m-苯基基团之一,并且可以具有取代基,但当L0是具有四个环的苯基基团时,苯基基团可以在其中的某个位置具有未取代或取代的氨基苯基基团,R01、R02、R03和R04是以下任意一种基团之一:其中R11、R12、R13、R14、R15、R16和R17是各自取代或未取代的芳基基团,r1、r2、r3和r4是0至5的整数,但具有r1 + r2 + r3 + r4≥1的限制。