The present invention relates to compositions comprising at least one polymer containing repeat triarylamine units and comprising at least one salt, to processes for production thereof and to the use thereof in electronic devices, especially in organic electroluminescent devices, called OLEDs (OLED=organic light-emitting diodes). The present invention also further relates to organic electroluminescent devices comprising these compositions.

There is provided a hole transport polymer having a carbazole group and an amino nitrogen having Formula I

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In the formula: Ar.sup.1, Ar.sup.2, and Ar.sup.4 are the same or different and are substituted or unsubstituted aryl groups or deuterated aryl groups; Ar.sup.3 is substituted or unsubstituted aryl groups or deuterated aryl groups; E is the same or different at each occurrence and is selected from the group consisting of H, D, halide, alkyl, aryl, siloxane, deuterated alkyl, deuterated aryl, deuterated siloxane, and a crosslinking group; R.sup.1-R.sup.2 are the same or different at each occurrence and are selected from the group consisting of D, F, CN, alkyl, fluoroalkyl, aryl, heteroaryl, amino, silyl, germyl, alkoxy, aryloxy, fluoroalkoxy, siloxane, siloxy, deuterated alkyl, deuterated partially-fluorinated alkyl, deuterated aryl, deuterated heteroaryl, deuterated amino, deuterated silyl, deuterated germyl, deuterated alkoxy, deuterated aryloxy, deuterated fluoroalkoxy, deuterated siloxane, deuterated siloxy, and crosslinking groups, wherein adjacent groups selected from R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 can be joined together to form a fused ring; a is an integer from 0-4; b is an integer from 0-3; and n is an integer greater than or equal to 1.

A solar cell module includes a first substrate and a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements disposed on the first substrate. Each of the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements includes a first electrode, an electron transport layer, a perovskite layer, a hole transport layer, and a second electrode. In at least two of the photoelectric conversion elements adjacent to each other, the hole transport layers are extended continuous layers; and the first electrodes, the electron transport layers, and the perovskite layers in the at least two of the photoelectric conversion elements adjacent to each other are separated by the hole transport layer. The hole transport layer includes, as hole transport material, a polymer having a weight average molecular weight of 2,000 or more or a compound having a molecular weight of 2,000 or more.

A polymer compound having a constitutional unit represented by the following formula (1): ##STR00001##

An aromatic amine derivative represented by the following formula (1): wherein Z.sub.1 is a group represented by the following formula (2); Z.sub.2 is a group represented by the following formula (3) or (3′); and P and Q are independently a group represented by the following formula (4) or (5): ##STR00001##

The present invention relates to nanoparticles of π-conjugated polymers. The present invention also relates to an aqueous composition comprising these polymeric nanoparticles, to processes for making the nanoparticles, and to the use of these nanoparticles in the fabrication of electronic devices and components.

A composition for forming an underlayer film necessary for facilitating alignment of self-assembled film into desired vertical pattern. Composition for forming an underlayer film of self-assembled film including a polymer having unit structure containing aliphatic polycyclic structure of aliphatic polycyclic compound in main chain. The polymer is a polymer having unit structure containing aliphatic polycyclic structure of aliphatic polycyclic compound with aromatic ring structure of aromatic ring-containing compound or polymer chain derived from vinyl group of vinyl group-containing compound in main chain. The polymer has unit structure of Formula (1):
X—Y  Formula (1)
wherein X is single bond, divalent group having vinyl structure as polymer chain, or divalent group having aromatic ring-containing structure as polymer chain, and Y is divalent group having aliphatic polycyclic structure as polymer chain. The aliphatic polycyclic compound is bi- to hexa-cyclic diene compound. The aliphatic polycyclic compound is dicyclopentadiene or norbornadiene.

The present application relates to a polymer containing at least one structural unit of a formula (I) and at least one further structural unit selected from structural units A, B and C. The present application further relates to the use of the polymer in an electronic device and to a process for preparing the polymer. The present application further relates to an electronic device comprising the polymer.

The present invention relates to organic copolymers and organic semiconducting compositions comprising these materials, including layers and devices comprising such organic semiconductor compositions. The invention is also concerned with methods of preparing such organic semiconductor compositions and layers and uses thereof. The invention has application in the field of printed electronics and is particularly useful as the semiconducting material for use in formulations for organic thin film-transistor (OFET) backplanes for displays, integrated circuits, organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs), photodetectors, organic photovoltaic (OPV) cells, sensors, memory elements and logic circuits.

An organic light-emitting device (100) comprising an anode (103); a cathode (109); a light-emitting layer (107) between the anode and the cathode; a first hole-transporting layer (105A) comprising a first conjugated hole-transporting polymer between the anode and the light-emitting layer; and a second hole-transporting layer (105B) comprising a second conjugated hole-transporting polymer between the first hole-transporting layer and the light-emitting layer, wherein a lowest excited state energy level of the first hole-transporting polymer is lower than the lowest excited state energy of the second hole-transporting polymer.