A novel compound and a light-emitting element with high emission efficiency and a long lifetime are provided. The novel compound includes a benzofuropyrazine skeleton or a benzothienopyrazine skeleton, and each of a benzene ring and a pyrazine ring in the benzofuropyrazine skeleton or the benzothienopyrazine skeleton independently includes a substituent with a total number of carbon atoms of 6 to 100 inclusive. The light-emitting element includes the compound.

Provided are a compound of Formula (1) that improves the luminous efficiency, stability, and lifespan of an organic electronic element using the same, the element, and an electronic device thereof, ##STR00001##

A light-emitting element includes a light-emitting layer including a guest, an n-type host and a p-type host between a pair of electrodes, where the difference between the energy difference between a triplet excited state and a ground state of the n-type host (or p-type host) and the energy difference between a triplet excited state and a ground state of the guest is 0.15 eV or more. Alternatively, in such a light-emitting element, the LUMO level of the n-type host is higher than the LUMO level of the guest by 0.1 eV or more, or the HOMO level of the p-type host is lower than the HOMO level of the guest by 0.1 eV or more.

An organic light-emitting device includes: a first electrode; a second electrode; and an organic layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, the organic layer including an emission layer, wherein the emission layer includes an organometallic compound of Formula 1. The organometallic compound of Formula 1 may be a phosphorescent dopant: ##STR00001##

An ionic phosphorescent metal complex complex has a formula of [PtM.sub.3{(PR.sub.2CH.sub.2).sub.3P}(C?CR)(C?CR)(?Cl)].sup.2+ A.sup.n?.sub.2/n. M is selected from Au(I) and Ag(I). R, R and R are identical or different, and are independently selected from alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, aryl, and heteroaryl. Each of the alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, aryl, and heteroaryl may be substituted with one or more substituents selected from alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, alkoxy, amino, halogen, halogenated alkyl, aryl, and heteroaryl. The substituent is optionally further substituted with one or more of the following groups: alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, alkoxy, amino, halogen, halogenated alkyl, aryl, and heteroaryl. A.sup.n? is a monovalent or divalent anion, n is 1 or 2, ?represents bridging linkage. The organic light-emitting diode prepared by using the complex as the light-emitting layer dopant has an external quantum efficiency of 10% or more, and can be applied to the fields of flat panel display and daily lighting.

An organic light-emitting device including a first electrode, a second electrode facing the first electrode, and an organic layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein the organic layer includes an emission layer and an intermediate layer disposed between the first electrode and the emission layer, wherein the intermediate layer directly contacts the emission layer, and wherein the intermediate layer includes a first hole transport material, wherein the emission layer includes a host and a dopant, wherein the dopant is an organometallic compound, provided that the dopant does not comprise iridium, and wherein the organic light-emitting device satisfies certain parameters described in the specification.

An organic light-emitting device includes: a first electrode; a second electrode facing the first electrode; and an organic layer located between the first electrode and the second electrode and including an emission layer, wherein the emission layer includes a host and a dopant, the host includes a first compound and a second compound, and the first compound, the second compound, and the dopant are different from one another. Two compounds in the host included in the emission layer may have different HOMO and LUMO energy levels and may form an exciplex, and a difference between a HOMO energy level and a LUMO energy level of the exciplex (?E.sub.exciplex) may be greater than a difference between a HOMO energy level and a LUMO energy level of the dopant (?E.sub.dopant).

A light-emitting element which includes a plurality of light-emitting layers between a pair of electrodes and has low driving voltage and high emission efficiency is provided. A light-emitting element including first to third light-emitting layers between a cathode and an anode is provided. The first light-emitting layer includes a first phosphorescent material and a first electron-transport material; the second light-emitting layer includes a second phosphorescent material and a second electron-transport material; the third light-emitting layer includes a fluorescent material and a third electron-transport material; the first to third light-emitting elements are provided in contact with an electron-transport layer positioned on a cathode side; and a triplet excitation energy level of a material included in the electron-transport layer is lower than triplet excitation energy levels of the first electron-transport material and the second electron-transport material.

Provided is the compound represented by Formula 1, an organic electric element including a first electrode, a second electrode, and an organic material layer formed between the first electrode and the second electrode, and electronic device thereof, and by including the compound represented by Formula 1 and compound represented by Formula 2 in the organic material layer, the driving voltage of the organic electric element can be lowered, and the luminous efficiency and life time of the organic electric element can be improved.

An organic light-emitting device is provided. The device includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and an organic layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode and including an emission layer. The organic layer includes a first compound represented by Formula 1 and a second compound represented by Formula 2. Various possibilities for the constituents of chemical structures in Formulas 1 and 2 are presented. ##STR00001##