The present disclosure provides coinage metal carbene emitters of Formula I; organic light emitting device (OLED) comprising an anode, a cathode, and an organic layer, disposed between the anode and the cathode, comprising a compound of Formula I; and consumer products comprising an OLED comprising a compound of Formula I:

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This invention relates to an iridium metal complex. The iridium metal complex comprises no more than three 1,3-dihydro-2H-benzo[d]imidazol-2-ylidene based carbene cyclometalate ligands. The iridium metal complex provides a blue emission. This is useful for organic light emitting diode (OLED) components where blue emitters have trailed behind the advances of red and green emitters.

The present invention relates to a compound of formula (I), wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 are each independently hydrogen or R.sup.a, with proviso that a pair of two substituents selected from R.sup.1 and R.sup.2, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3, and R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 is linked to one another and forms a group of formula (II); a material for an organic electroluminescence device comprising at least one compound of formula (I); an organic electroluminescence device which comprises an organic thin film layer be-tween an anode and a cathode, wherein the organic thin film layer comprises one or more layers and comprises a light emitting layer, and at least one layer of the organic thin film layer comprises at least one compound of formula (I); and an electronic equipment comprising the inventive organic electroluminescence device. ##STR00001##

Disclosed herein are compounds capable of producing organic electroluminescence (EL) devices having excellent properties, organic EL devices comprising the compounds, and electronic devices comprising the organic EL devices. The compounds of this disclosure are represented by formula (1) below, where A, B, C, and R.sub.1 to R.sub.11 are defined herein. ##STR00001##

To provide an organic electroluminescent device having high efficiency and high driving stability while having a low driving voltage. The organic electroluminescent device has one or more light-emitting layers between an anode and a cathode opposed to each other, wherein at least one of the light-emitting layers is a light-emitting layer composed of a vapor deposition layer containing a first host, a second host and a light-emitting dopant material; the first host is selected from oligopyridine compounds represented by the general formula (1); and the second host is selected from carbazole compounds having two or more carbazole rings, indolocarbazole compounds having an indolocarbazole ring or compounds having a carbazole ring and an indolocarbazole ring.

Provided are organometallic compounds. Also provided are formulations comprising these organometallic compounds. Further provided are OLEDs and related consumer products that utilize these organometallic compounds.

The present invention relates to spiro compounds containing electron-conducting groups and to electronic devices, in particular organic electroluminescent devices, comprising these compounds.

An organometallic compound represented by Formula 1A:

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The present disclosure relates to a plurality of host materials comprising a first host material having a compound represented by formula 1, and a second host material having a compound represented by formula 2, and an organic electroluminescent device comprising the same. By comprising a specific combination of compounds of the present disclosure as host materials, it is possible to provide an organic electroluminescent device having long lifetime properties while having an equivalent or improved level of power efficiency compared to conventional organic electroluminescent devices.

Disclosed are an organic light-emitting device and an electronic apparatus including the same. The 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 compound, a first dopant compound, and a second dopant compound, and the second dopant compound is represented by Formula 1,

A-(Ar.sub.1).sub.n11  Formula 1

wherein, in Formula 1, A is a group represented by Formula 1-1,

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wherein, in Formulae 1 and 1-1, Ar.sub.1, n11, M, CY.sub.1 to CY.sub.5, R.sub.1 to R.sub.5, and a1 to a5 are the same as described in the specification.