Abstract:
An object is providing an organic electroluminescence element and an illumination device in which a driving voltage does not increase even when a high-productivity sputtering method is used to form a transparent conductive layer of the organic electroluminescence element of a top or top-and-bottom emission type, and hence which has an improved driving voltage. The organic electroluminescence element includes at least a light emitting layer and a transparent conductive layer. Between the light emitting layer and the transparent conductive layer, a transparent protective layer is disposed. The light emitting layer contains a phosphorescence emitting compound. The transparent protective layer contains a metal oxide. The metal oxide is a molybdenum (VI) oxide, a rhenium (VI) oxide or a nickel (II) oxide in an oxygen deficient state.
Abstract:
An organic EL device includes at least two light-emitting units and at least one intermediate electrode that are disposed between a lower electrode and an upper electrode, the at least one intermediate electrode being electrically connected to an external power source. The at least one intermediate electrode is disposed between the at least two light-emitting units. At least one of the at least one intermediate electrode consists of a first metal layer composed of a metal with a work function of 3 eV or lower and a second metal layer adjoining the first metal layer and composed of another metal with a work function of 4 eV or higher. The first and second metal layers have a total thickness of 15 nm or less. The first metal layer is adjacent to an anode side of the second metal layer, when a voltage is applied across the intermediate electrode and the electrode opposing the intermediate electrode.
Abstract:
A transparent electrode is configured which is provided with: a nitrogen-containing layer; a conductive layer which is provided abutting the nitrogen-containing layer, and which has silver as a main component thereof; a high refractive index layer having a refractive index higher than that of the nitrogen-containing layer; and a low refractive index layer having a refractive index lower than that of the high refractive index layer. In the nitrogen-containing layer, a compound is used which includes nitrogen atoms, and which has, in cases when n represents the number of unshared electron pairs which are not involved in aromaticity and which are not coordinated to metal, from among the unshared electron pairs of the nitrogen atoms, and M represents molecular weight, an effective unshared-electron-pair content [n/M] that satisfies 2.0×10−3≦[n/M].
Abstract:
An object of the present invention is to provide a two-sided light emission-type transparent organic electroluminescence element that has flexibility, has a small viewing angle dependence of chromaticity, and can easily adjust the light-emission balance of the two sides. The organic electroluminescence element of the present invention is characterized by being comprised by at least a transparent substrate, a first transparent electrode, an organic light-emitting layer, a second transparent electrode and a transparent sealing substrate, wherein both of the transparent substrate and the transparent sealing substrate have flexibility and are comprised by material(s) selected from an identical group of materials, and the first transparent electrode and the second transparent electrode are comprised by material(s) selected from an identical group of materials.
Abstract:
A transparent electrode for a touch panel includes a nitrogen-containing layer formed using a compound containing nitrogen atoms, and an electrode layer mainly containing silver and provided stacked on the nitrogen-containing layer.