The present invention generally discloses an organic compound and organic electroluminescence (herein referred to as organic EL) device using the organic compound. More specifically, the present invention relates to an organic EL device employing the organic compound as fluorescent emitting host or phosphorescent emitting host which can display long lifetime, high efficiency.

Provided are a novel compound and an organic electronic device using the same. The novel compound is represented by the following Formula (I): ##STR00001##

Indolocarbazole tetraphenylene compounds are disclosed. These novel compounds contain tetraarylene or tetraheteroarylene which can be used as charge transporting materials, charge blocking materials, hosts or emitters in an organic electroluminescent device. These novel compounds offer better device performance than comparative compounds that don't contain a tetraarylene or tetraheteroarylene structure. Also disclosed are an electroluminescent device and a formulation.

Novel substituted tetraphenylene compounds useful as host for phosphorescent emitters in OLEDs is disclosed.

Organic luminescent materials containing tetraphenylene ligands are disclosed, which can be used as emitters in the emissive layer of an organic electroluminescent device. The organic luminescent materials is metal complexes which comprise a new series of tetraphenylene ligands. The use of these novel ligands can decrease aggregation in the solid state and improve the lifetime of device. Also disclosed are an electroluminescent device and a formulation.

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.

The present invention includes novel compounds containing hexaphenyl borazine or azahexaphenyl borazine substituted with heterocycles or azaheterocycles were disclosed in this application. These compounds are useful as host materials for phosphorescent electroluminescent devices.

Circulene compounds of Formula I or Formula II, and organic light emitting devices (OLED) that include an organic layer disposed between an anode and a cathode, wherein the organic layer includes a compound of Formula I or Formula II. In addition, the OLED can be incorporated into one or more of a consumer product, for example, an electronic component module, and/or a lighting panel.

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The present invention includes novel compounds containing heterocycles or azaheterocycles and fused phenylene or aza and cyano substituted variants thereof. These compounds may be useful as host materials for phosphorescent electroluminescent devices.

The present invention includes novel compounds containing deuterated or partially deuterated xanthene and thioxanthene structures. These compounds may be useful as host materials with high triplet energies for phosphorescent electroluminescent devices