An object of the present invention is to provide an electrode material for an organic semiconductor device which maintains excellent conductivity and of which contact properties with an organic semiconductor becomes favorable. The electrode material for an organic semiconductor device of the present invention contains inorganic nanoparticles and an organic π-conjugated ligand, in which the organic π-conjugated ligand is a ligand having at least one electron-withdrawing substituent.

Provided are an organic photodetector and an electronic apparatus including the same. The organic photodetector includes a first electrode, a second electrode facing the first electrode, an auxiliary layer arranged between the first electrode and the second electrode, and an activation layer arranged between the first electrode and the activation layer. The auxiliary layer includes a compound having a refractive index of about 2.2 or more.

A film-forming ink includes a film-forming material and a liquid medium in which the film-forming material is dissolved or dispersed. The liquid medium contains a first component which has a viscosity of less than 20 cp and a second component which has a boiling point at an atmospheric pressure within a range of ±30° C. relative to the boiling point at an atmospheric pressure of the first component and has a viscosity of 20 cp or more, and the second component is contained in an amount of 20 parts by weight or more and 500 parts by weight or less with respect to 100 parts by weight of the first component.

A method for producing an organic electronic component and an organic electronic component are disclosed. In an embodiment the component comprises at least one organic electronic layer having a matrix, wherein the matrix contains a metal complex as a dopant, wherein the metal complex comprises at least one metal atom M and at least one ligand L bonded to the metal atom M.

A dye-sensitized solar cell including a working electrode having a photocatalytic film, a counter electrode, and an electrolyte-containing layer or solid charge-transfer layer containing a basic compound, wherein the photocatalytic film includes an oxide semiconductor layer containing a dye compound represented by the following formula (1), ##STR00001## wherein Y is an optionally substituted hydrocarbon group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms and having —CO—NR.sup.4— or —SO.sub.2—NR.sup.4— in the group, or a direct bond, Z is a conjugated group, R.sup.1, R.sup.2, and R.sup.3 each represent an optionally substituted hydrocarbon group or an optionally substituted hydrocarbonoxy group, at least one of R.sup.1, R.sup.2, and R.sup.3 is an optionally substituted hydrocarbonoxy group, and R.sup.4 represents a hydrogen atom or an optionally substituted hydrocarbon group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms.

Provided is a light emitting member that emits near-infrared light, containing a surface light source that emits at least red light and a wavelength conversion film that converts visible light of the surface light source into near-infrared light, wherein the light emitting member has a maximum emission wavelength in the wavelength range of 700 to 1500 nm.

An ionic phosphorescent metal complex has a formula of formula (I). R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are the same or different, and are independently selected from alkyl, aryl and heteroaryl, wherein the alkyl, aryl and heteroaryl are optionally substituted with 1-5 of the following groups: halogen, alkyl, alkoxy, alkylthio, amino, alkylamino, dialkylamino, arylamino, diarylamino, haloalkyl, cyano, nitro, alkenyl, aryl and heteroaryl optionally substituted with 1-3 aryl groups; R.sub.3 is independently selected from halogen, alkyl, haloalkyl, alkoxy, alkylthio, amino, alkylamino, dialkylamino, cyano, nitro or alkenyl; M is Cu(I), Ag(I) or Au(I). The organic light-emitting diode prepared by using the phosphorescent metal complex of formula (I) as a dopant for an emissive layer is capable of achieving high-performance organic electroluminescence and is applicable to the fields of lighting and flat-panel display.

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An organic electronic component includes an organic functional layer having a p-dopant. The p-dopant includes a copper complex having at least one ligand containing an aryloxy group and an iminium group. Additionally specified are the use of a copper complex as a p-dopant and a process for producing a p-dopant.

The present invention relates to a light-emitting layer B comprising a first emitter compound (a) having a non-exited state S0(a), a first excited singlet state S1(a) and a first excited triplet state T1(a); a second emitter compound (b) having a non-exited state S0(b), a first excited singlet state S1(b) and a first excited triplet state T1(b), wherein the energy level of S1(a) is higher than that of S1(b), the energy level of S1(b) is higher than that of T1(b) and wherein the rate of reverse intersystem crossing from T1(a) to S1(a) is higher than the rate of excition energy transfer from S1(a) to S1(b) and/or the rate of excition energy transfer from T1(a) to T1(b), and/or wherein the energy level of T1(b) is higher than that of T1(a). Further, the present invention also refers to an opto-electronic device comprising such light-emitting layer B and use thereof.

The present disclosure provides amide M 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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