Provided are an electroluminescent material and a device thereof. The electroluminescent material is a metal complex having a ligand represented by Formula 1 and can be used as light-emitting materials in electroluminescent devices. These new metal complexes can effectively regulate and control the luminescence wavelength, reduce the drive voltage of electroluminescent devices, greatly improve the current efficiency, power efficiency and EQE of electroluminescent devices, prolong the device lifetime, and provide better device performance. Further provided are an electroluminescent device and a compound composition.

An organic light-emitting device includes an organometallic compound represented by M.sub.1(L.sub.1).sub.n1(L.sub.2).sub.n2, wherein L.sub.1 is a ligand represented by Formula 1-1: ##STR00001##
In Formula 1-1, *1 to *4 indicate a binding site to M.sub.1, and Z.sub.11 and Z.sub.12 are respectively boron (B) and nitrogen (N), or N and B. When M.sub.1 binds to an α-position of the B or N atom, metal-ligand charge transfer in the complex may be improved. An OLED including the organometallic compound may have a long lifespan and improved luminescent efficiency and colorimetric purity.

The present invention relates to a compound for use in an optoelectronic device including a heterojunction. The heterojunction includes a metal-organic framework optimized for operation as an electron transport layer in an optoelectronic device.

An organic light emitting diode having a substrate, a first electrode, a hole transporting layer proximate the first electrode, a second electrode, an electron transporting layer proximate the second electrode, and an emissive layer between the hole transporting layer and the electron transporting layer. The emissive layer includes a square planar tetradentate platinum or palladium complex, and excimers formed by two or more of the complexes are aligned such that emitting dipoles of the excimers are substantially parallel to a surface of the substrate.

Provided are compounds compound comprising a first ligand L.sub.A of Formula I:

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wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are each independently a hydrogen or a substituent selected from the group consisting of deuterium, halogen, alkyl, cycloalkyl, heteroalkyl, heterocycloalkyl, arylalkyl, alkoxy, aryloxy, amino, silyl, germyl, boryl, selenyl, alkenyl, cycloalkenyl, heteroalkenyl, alkynyl, aryl, heteroaryl, acyl, carboxylic acid, ether, ester, nitrile, isonitrile, sulfanyl, sulfinyl, sulfonyl, phosphino, and combinations thereof; wherein L.sub.A is coordinated to a metal M through the indicated dashed lines; wherein M may be coordinated to other ligands; wherein L.sub.A may be joined with other ligands to comprise a tridentate, tetradentate, pentadentate, or hexadentate ligand; and wherein any two substituents may be joined or fused to form a ring. Also provided are formulations comprising these compounds. Further provided are OLEDs and related consumer products that utilize these compounds.

The present invention relates to an electronic device comprising between a first electrode and a second electrode at least one first hole transport layer, wherein the first hole transport layer comprises (i) at least one first hole transport matrix compound consisting of covalently bound atoms and (ii) at least one electrical p-dopant selected from metal salts and from electrically neutral metal complexes comprising a metal cation and a at least one anion and/or at least one anionic ligand consisting of at least 4 covalently bound atoms, wherein the metal cation of the electrical p-dopant is selected from alkali metals; alkaline earth metals, Pb, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Zn, Cd; rare earth metals in oxidation state (II) or (III); Al, Ga, In; and from Sn, Ti, Zr, Hf, V, Nb, Ta, Cr, Mo and W in oxidation state (IV) or less; provided that a) p-dopants comprising anion or anionic ligand having generic formula (Ia) or (Ib). ##STR00001##

Compounds of General Formula I may harvest electrogenerated excitons via metal-assisted delayed fluorescence (MADF). The compounds have utility in light emitting diodes and light emitting devices.

An organic light emitting diode (OLED) device includes an emissive layer having a first sublayer with a first emitter as a dopant, a second sublayer with a second emitter as a dopant, and a third sublayer with a third emitter as a dopant. The second sublayer is between the first sublayer and the third sublayer. A concentration of the first emitter in the first sublayer exceeds a concentration of the third emitter in the third sublayer, and the concentration of the third emitter in the third sublayer exceeds a concentration of the second emitter in the second sublayer.

Tetradentate platinum and palladium complexes based on biscarbazole and analogues for full color displays and lighting applications.

A white organic light emitting device comprises a first electrode; a hole transporting layer in contact with the first electrode; a second electrode; an electron transporting layer in contact with the second electrode; and an emissive layer between the hole transporting layer and the electron transporting layer. The emissive layer comprises a host, a fluorescent emitter, and a phosphorescent emitter. The fluorescent emitter harvests singlet excitons and emits blue light, and the phosphorescent emitter harvests triplet excitons and emits yellow-amber light.