An object of the present invention is to provide an optical device that can accomplish both the effect of preventing external light reflection and the improvement of utilization efficiency of light emitted from an organic electroluminescent element. The object is achieved by an optical device having an organic electroluminescent substrate, a circularly polarized light-separating layer separating light into right-handed circularly polarized light and left-handed circularly polarized light, a λ/4 plate, and a polarizer, wherein the circularly polarized light-separating layer has a liquid crystal alignment pattern in which a liquid crystal compound is twisted and aligned along a helical axis extending in a thickness direction and the direction of an optical axis derived from the liquid crystal compound changes while continuously rotating in one direction in the plane.

Alight-emitting element of the present disclosure includes a light-emitting section including a plurality of light-emitting regions, and one or a plurality of microlens members controlling a traveling direction of light emitted from each of the light-emitting regions. Alternatively, the light-emitting element of the present disclosure includes a light-emitting section including one light-emitting region, and a plurality of microlens members controlling a traveling direction of light emitted from the one light-emitting region. Alternatively, the light-emitting element of the present disclosure includes a light-emitting section including a plurality of light-emitting regions, and one or a plurality of microlens members controlling a traveling direction of each light emitted from the plurality of light-emitting regions.

An electroluminescent element including an anode, a cathode, and a light-emitting layer provided between the anode and the cathode, in which the electroluminescent element further includes an electron transport layer including n-type semiconductor particles and a first insulating polymer, and a hole transport layer including p-type semiconductor particles, the electron transport layer is provided between the cathode and the light-emitting layer, the hole transport layer is provided between the anode and the light-emitting layer, and a volume proportion of the n-type semiconductor particles in the electron transport layer is smaller than a volume proportion of the p-type semiconductor particles in the hole transport layer.

An organic electroluminescence device includes two or more emitting units disposed between an anode and a cathode, and an intermediate layer, in which the intermediate layer contains a phenanthroline compound, the laminated emitting unit includes a first emitting layer containing a first host material and a second emitting layer containing a second host material, and a triplet energy T.sub.1(H1) of the first host material and a triplet energy T.sub.1(H2) of the second host material satisfy a relationship of a numerical formula (Numerical Formula 3),

T.sub.1(H1)>T.sub.1(H2)  (Numerical Formula 3).

An organic electroluminescence device includes an anode, a cathode, a first emitting layer, and a second emitting layer provided between the first emitting layer and the cathode, in which the first emitting layer includes, as a first host material, a first compound that includes at least one group represented by a formula (11) below, the first compound being represented by a formula (1) below, the second emitting layer includes a second compound represented by a formula (2) below as a second host material, and the first emitting layer is in direct contact with the second emitting layer. L.sub.101 is a single bond or a substituted or unsubstituted arylene group having 6 to 50 ring carbon atoms. Ar.sub.101 is a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group having 6 to 50 ring carbon atoms. mx is 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5.

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A method for manufacturing a display device provided with a plurality of pixels and a plurality of first electrodes in island shapes includes electrode forming of forming the plurality of first electrodes on a substrate, coating of applying a thermally decomposable resin including a charge transport material to cover the plurality of first electrodes, and decomposition processing of decomposing the thermally decomposable resin and forming a charge transport layer, and forming a partition that defines the plurality of pixels and that is provided by using the thermally decomposable resin.

Provided are a wavelength selective absorption filter including a resin and the following dye A and dye D, each of which has a main absorption wavelength band in a different wavelength range, in which an absorbance Ab (λ) at a wavelength λ nm of this wavelength selective absorption filter satisfies a relationship of the Relational Expression (I) 0.05<Ab (450)/Ab (430)<1.00, as well as a polarizing plate and an organic electroluminescent display device or liquid crystal display device including the wavelength selective absorption filter. The dye A is a dye having a main absorption wavelength band in the wavelength selective absorption filter at a wavelength of 400 to 430 nm. The dye D is a dye having a main absorption wavelength band in the wavelength selective absorption filter at a wavelength of 640 to 730 nm.

An organic electroluminescence device includes: an anode; a cathode; a first emitting layer; and a second emitting layer provided between the first emitting layer and the cathode, in which the first emitting layer contains, as a first host material, a first compound that has at least one group represented by a formula (11A) below and that is represented by a formula (1) below, the second emitting layer contains, as a second host material, a second compound represented by a formula (2) below, and the first emitting layer and the second emitting layer are in direct contact with each other

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An organic electroluminescence device includes: an anode; a cathode; a first emitting layer; and a second emitting layer provided between the first emitting layer and the cathode, in which the first emitting layer contains, as a first host material, a first compound that has at least one group represented by a formula (11) below and that is represented by a formula (1) below, the second emitting layer contains, as a second host material, a second compound represented by one of formulae (2-1A) to (2-4A) below, and the first emitting layer and the second emitting layer are in direct contact with each other.

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A display device according to an aspect of the disclosure includes a first metal protrusion being in contact with a first power-source trunk wire, and a second metal protrusion being in contact with a second power-source trunk wire. A first bank defining the end of an organic sealing film includes the first metal protrusion, the second metal protrusion, and a first resin protrusion. The first resin protrusion overlaps the first and second metal protrusions. The first resin protrusion has a frame shape.