Electrodes useful in dye sensitized photoelectrosynthesis cells provide a coreshell nanoparticle having a chromophore and a catalyst, or a chromophore-catalyst assembly, linked to the shell material. Optionally, an overlayer stabilizes the chromophore or chromophore-catalyst assembly on the shell material. In some embodiments, the core material comprises tin oxide; the shell material comprises titanium dioxide; the chromophore-catalyst assembly includes [(PO.sub.3H.sub.2).sub.2bpy).sub.2Ru(4-Mebpy-4′-bimpy)Ru(tpy) (OH.sub.2)].sup.4+, and the overlayer comprises aluminum oxide or titanium dioxide.

An organic light-emitting device (100) comprising an anode (103); a cathode (109); a first light-emitting layer (107) comprising a first light-emitting material between the anode and the cathode; and a hole-transporting layer (105) comprising a hole-transporting polymer between the anode and the first light-emitting layer and adjacent to the first light-emitting layer, wherein a HOMO level of the first light-emitting material is closer to vacuum than a HOMO level of the hole-transporting polymer and wherein more than 50 mol % of the repeat units of the hole-transporting polymer are hole-transporting repeat units.

A photoelectric conversion element includes a frame-shaped insulating sealing part that is disposed between the plurality of first electrodes and the cover and defines a space inside the photoelectric conversion element, a photoelectric conversion part formed on an upper surface of a first electrode in the space; a second electrode formed in the space, which includes a flat portion and a bent portion, and insulates the photoelectric conversion part from the second electrode, an inter-cell insulating part that insulates the first electrode from the second electrode, a carrier transporting part with which the space is filled, and an insulating bonding part that has at least a portion positioned between the porous insulating part and the cover and is brought into contact with the inter-cell insulating part and with a portion of the flat portion so as to bond the inter-cell insulating part and the second electrode to each other.

A phosphorescent emitter compound having a first ligand L.sub.A having a Formula I,

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is disclosed. An OLED having the compound incorporated therein is also disclosed.

A compound of the formula ML.sub.AL.sub.B where ligand L.sub.A is of Formula I, and ligand L.sub.B is of Formula II below. ##STR00001## M is selected from Os(II) or Ru(II), and the compound ML.sub.AL.sub.B has a formal neutral charge; and rings A, B, C, D, E, and F are independently a 5-membered or 6-membered aromatic ring, and R.sup.A, R.sup.B, R.sup.C, R.sup.D, R.sup.E,and R.sup.F each independently represent mono to the maximum allowable substitution, or no substitution. L.sup.1, L.sup.2, L.sup.3, and L.sup.4 independently represent a single bond or an organic linking group; W.sup.1, W.sup.2, W.sup.3, and W.sup.4 are independently selected from carbon or nitrogen; Y.sup.1, Y.sup.2, Y.sup.3, and Y.sup.4 are independently selected from carbon or nitrogen; and Z.sup.1, Z.sup.2, and Z.sup.3 are independently selected from carbon or nitrogen, and at least one of Z.sup.1, Z.sup.2, and Z.sup.3 is nitrogen. An organic electroluminescent device that includes an anode, a cathode, and an organic layer comprising a compound of the formula ML.sub.AL.sub.B where ligand L.sub.A is of Formula I, and ligand L.sub.B is of Formula II above. A consumer product comprising an organic light-emitting device (OLED) above.

An organic light emitting device (OLED) that includes an anode, a cathode, and an organic layer disposed between the anode and the cathode, the organic layer comprising a light-emitting dopant within a host material, the host material including an optically active host compound; wherein one enantiomer of the optically active host compound is present in an enantiomeric excess (ee) of at least 75%. A consumer product that includes the OLED.

The present disclosure provides a light emitting device having an anode and a cathode, and a first layer and a second layer disposed between the anode and the cathode.

Visibly transparent photovoltaic devices are disclosed, such as those are transparent to visible light but absorb near-infrared light and/or ultraviolet light. The photovoltaic devices make use of transparent electrodes and near-infrared absorbing visibly transparent photoactive compounds, optical materials, and/or buffer materials.

The present invention includes novel heteroleptic/homoleptic iridium complexes containing two tridentate ligands, where at least one of the tridentate ligands comprises of pyridinium-derived N-heterocyclic carbene. The compounds of the present invention may be useful for organic electroluminescent devices.

A light-emitting element having low driving voltage and high emission efficiency is provided. In the light-emitting element, a combination of a guest material and a host material forms an exciplex. The guest material is capable of converting triplet excitation energy into light emission. Light emission from the light-emitting layer includes light emission from the guest material and light emission from the exciplex. The percentage of the light emission from the exciplex to the light emission from the light-emitting layer is greater than 0 percent and less than or equal to 60 percent. The energy after subtracting the energy of light emission from the exciplex from the energy of light emission from the guest material is greater than 0 eV and less than or equal to 0.23 eV.