The disclosure relates to a substituted cyclooctatetraene triplet excited-state quencher compound of Formula (I): wherein: Z is a wide band gap moiety; L is a non-conjugating linker group; each R, which may be the same or different, is a non-conjugating substituent; n is an integer from 0 to 7; and m is an integer from 1 to 6. The disclosure further relates to use of such compounds as triplet quenchers, compositions comprising such compounds, films or coatings comprising said compounds or compositions, and use of said compositions or films or coatings as active gain media for light amplification.

The invention relates to an organic electronic device comprising at least one electron transport, electron injection or electron generation layer comprising a compound of Formula (I) wherein all positions which are not linked to a -(A)a-L moiety at a *- position may be bound to another substituent; A is selected from substituted or unsubstituted aryl or heteroaryl; L is selected from substituted or unsubstituted aryl or heteroaryl or a group (II) and (III); and a is an integer from 0 to 2; to the compounds of Formula (I) as well as to display and lightning devices comprising the same.

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The present disclosure relates to the field of organic electroluminescence, in particular to a compound, an organic electroluminescence device and a display device. The compound has a structure shown in a formula (I):

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and X is selected from O atom or S atom; X.sub.1-X.sub.8 are each independently selected from C atoms or N atoms, and at least one of X.sub.1-X.sub.8 is N atoms; A and B are each independently selected from any one or more of the substituted or unsubstituted C6-C40 aryl, and substituted or unsubstituted C4-C40 heteroaryl; R.sub.1 is selected from C1-C9 alkyl, substituted or unsubstituted C6-C18 aryl, substituted or unsubstituted C4-C30 heteroaryl.

The present disclosure provides an azulene ring-containing compound, its use, and an organic photoelectric device including the same. The azulene ring-containing compound is a compound comprising a structure of Formula I. The organic photoelectric device includes an anode, a cathode, and one or more organic thin film layers located between the anode and the cathode; and at least one of the organic thin film layers contains the above-mentioned azulene ring-containing compound comprising the structure of Formula I. The azulene ring-containing compound provided by the present disclosure has an energy level difference Est0.3 eV between the lowest singlet state S.sub.1 and the lowest triplet state T.sub.1, and has a light-emitting mechanism of a thermally activated delayed fluorescent material, and can be used as a thermally activated delayed fluorescent material for organic photoelectric device, so that the light-emitting efficiency of the device is improved.

[Object] It is an object of the present invention to provide an organic EL device in which, as a highly efficient and highly durable organic EL material, various materials excelling in electron injection/transport performance, hole blocking performance, hole resistance performance, exciton confinement performance, stability in a film state, and durability, are combined so that properties of each material can be effectively demonstrated, thereby achieving (1) high light emission efficiency and power efficiency, (2) low luminescence starting voltage, (3) low practical driving voltage, and (4) particularly long lifetime.

[Solving Means] An organic EL device including at least a anode, a hole transport layer, a light-emitting layer, a hole blocking layer, an electron transport layer, and a cathode in this order, characterized in that the hole blocking layer includes a compound having a benzoazole structure represented by the following general formula (1).

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(In the formula, Ar.sup.1 and Ar.sup.2 may be the same or different from each other and each represent a hydrogen atom, a deuterium atom, a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic hydrocarbon group, a substituted or unsubstituted fused polycyclic aromatic group, or a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic heterocyclic group. Y.sub.1 represents a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic hydrocarbon group, a substituted or unsubstituted fused polycyclic aromatic group, a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic heterocyclic group, a straight-chained or branched alkyl group that has 1 to 6 carbon atoms and may have a substituent group, a cycloalkyl group that has 5 to 10 carbon atoms and may have a substituent group, or a straight-chained or branched alkenyl group that has 2 to 6 carbon atoms and may have a substituent group. X represents an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom. Z.sub.1 and Z.sub.2 may be the same or different from each other and each represent a carbon atom or a nitrogen atom).

In one aspect, solid-state organic intermediate-band photovoltaic devices are provided. A solid-state organic intermediate-band photovoltaic device, in some embodiments, comprises an organic electron donor and an organic electron acceptor, wherein the organic electron donor comprises a singlet energy level separated from a triplet energy level by an energy gap. The device also comprises a triplet sensitizer comprising singlet and triplet energy levels falling within the singlet-triplet energy gap of the electron donor.

A compound of Formula I:

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wherein: X.sup.1-X.sup.8 are each independently C or N, wherein two adjacent X.sup.1-X.sup.8 are carbon-fused to a structure of Formula II:

##STR00002## X.sup.9-X.sup.12 are each independently C or N; A.sup.1, A.sup.2, and A.sup.3 are each independently selected from the group consisting of O, S, Se, N, NR, CR, CRR, SiR, SiRR, GeR, and GeRR, with at least one of A.sup.1 and A.sup.2 being N or NR; each occurrence of is independently a single bond or a double bond, wherein one occurrence of is a single bond and one occurrence of is a double bond; each of R.sup.A, R.sup.B, and R.sup.c independently represents zero, mono, or up to a maximum allowed substitution to its associated ring; each of occurrence R, R, R.sup.A, R.sup.B, and R.sup.C is independently a hydrogen or a substituent selected from the group consisting of Formula III, Formula IV, Formula V, Formula VI, Formula VII, Formula VIII, Formula IX, deuterium, halogen, alkyl, cycloalkyl, heteroalkyl, heterocycloalkyl, arylalkyl, alkoxy, aryloxy, amino, silyl, boryl, alkenyl, cycloalkenyl, heteroalkenyl, alkynyl, aryl, heteroaryl, acyl, carboxylic acid, ether, ester, nitrile, isonitrile, sulfanyl, sulfinyl, sulfonyl, phosphino, and combinations thereof, with at least one of R, R, R.sup.A, R.sup.B, and R.sup.C comprising a group of Formula III, Formula IV, Formula V, Formula VI, Formula VII, Formula VIII, or Formula IX:

##STR00003## ##STR00004## each occurrence of Y.sup.1, Y.sup.2, and Y.sup.3 is independently absent, O, S, Se, NR, CRR, SiRR, or GeRR; each occurrence of Ar.sup.1, and Ar.sup.2 is independently an optionally substituted aryl group or an optionally substituted heteroaryl group, wherein Ar.sup.1 and Ar.sup.2 are optionally joined or fused together to form a ring; each occurrence of X.sup.13-X.sup.20 is independently C or N, with the proviso that at least one of X.sup.13-X.sup.20 is N; each occurrence of A.sup.4 is selected from the group consisting of O, S, Se, NR, CRR, SiRR, and GeRR; each occurrence of R.sup.X independently represents zero, mono, or up to a maximum allowed substitution to its associated ring; each occurrence of R.sup.X is indepe

A compound of Formula I

##STR00001## wherein: ring B is a 5-membered heterocyclic ring, or a 6-membered carbocyclic ring; each of X.sup.1 and X.sup.2 is independently C, CR, or N, with at least one of them being C; each of X.sup.3-X.sup.11 is independently C, CR, or N, with at least one of them being N, and two adjacent of X.sup.3-X.sup.7 are carbon-fused to the shown moiety through the linkage indicated by the two squiggly lines; Y is selected from the group consisting of O, S, Se, NR, CRR, and SiRR; each of R.sup.A and R.sup.B independently represents zero, mono, or up to a maximum allowed substitution to its associated ring; each of R, R, R, R.sup.A, and R.sup.B is independently a hydrogen or a substituent selected from the group consisting of SiR.sup.1R.sup.2R.sup.3 or GeR.sup.1R.sup.2R.sup.3, deuterium, halogen, alkyl, cycloalkyl, heteroalkyl, heterocycloalkyl, arylalkyl, alkoxy, aryloxy, amino, silyl, boryl, alkenyl, cycloalkenyl, heteroalkenyl, alkynyl, aryl, heteroaryl, acyl, carboxylic acid, ether, ester, nitrile, isonitrile, sulfanyl, sulfinyl, sulfonyl, phosphino, and combinations thereof, with at least one of R.sup.A or R.sup.B comprising SiR.sup.1R.sup.2R.sup.3 or GeR.sup.1R.sup.2R.sup.3; each of R.sup.1, R.sup.2, and R.sup.3 is independently selected from the group consisting of alkyl, aryl group, heteroaryl group, and combinations thereof; and any two substituents are optionally joined or fused to form a ring where chemically feasible.

An organic electroluminescence device and a display apparatus, where the organic electroluminescence device includes an organic light emitting layer which includes a host material, a sensitizer material, and a resonance thermally activated delayed fluorescent material, where the host material is a wide bandgap material, and the sensitizer material is an exciplex material, a singlet state energy level for the wide bandgap material is greater than a singlet state energy level for the exciplex, and a triplet state energy level for the wide bandgap material is greater than a triplet state energy level for the exciplex, and a singlet state energy level for the exciplex material is greater than a singlet state energy level for the resonance delayed fluorescent material, and a triplet state energy level for the exciplex material is greater than a triplet state energy level for the resonance delayed fluorescent material.

Provided are a novel compound and an organic electronic device using the same. The novel compound is represented by the following Formula (I): ##STR00001## wherein X.sup.1 and X.sup.2 are each independently C(R.sup.a), multiple (R.sup.a)s are the same or different, and the two (R.sup.a)s are joined together to form an aryl ring; wherein X.sup.3 and X.sup.4 are each independently C(R.sup.b), multiple (R.sup.b)s are the same or different, and the two (R.sup.b)s are joined together to form a polycyclic aromatic ring.