Light-Emitting Element, Display Device, Electronic Device, and Lighting Device

Abstract

To provide a light-emitting element with high emission efficiency and low driving voltage. The light-emitting element includes a guest material and a host material. A LUMO level of the guest material is lower than a LUMO level of the host material. An energy difference between the LUMO level and a HOMO level of the guest material is larger than an energy difference between the LUMO level and a HOMO level of the host material. The guest material has a function of converting triplet excitation energy into light emission. An energy difference between the LUMO level of the guest material and the HOMO level of the host material is larger than or equal to energy of light emission of the guest material.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A light-emitting element comprising:
 a guest material; and   a host material,   wherein a LUMO level of the guest material is lower than a LUMO level of the host material,   wherein an energy difference between the LUMO level of the guest material and a HOMO level of the guest material is larger than an energy difference between the LUMO level of the host material and a HOMO level of the host material, and   wherein the guest material is configured to convert triplet excitation energy into light emission.   
     
     
         2 . A light-emitting element comprising:
 a guest material; and   a host material,   wherein a LUMO level of the guest material is lower than a LUMO level of the host material,   wherein an energy difference between the LUMO level of the guest material and a HOMO level of the guest material is larger than an energy difference between the LUMO level of the host material and a HOMO level of the host material,   wherein the guest material is configured to convert triplet excitation energy into light emission, and   wherein an energy difference between the LUMO level of the guest material and the HOMO level of the host material is larger than or equal to transition energy calculated from an absorption edge of an absorption spectrum of the guest material.   
     
     
         3 . A light-emitting element comprising:
 a guest material; and   a host material,   wherein a LUMO level of the guest material is lower than a LUMO level of the host material,   wherein an energy difference between the LUMO level of the guest material and a HOMO level of the guest material is larger than an energy difference between the LUMO level of the host material and a HOMO level of the host material,   wherein the guest material is configured to convert triplet excitation energy into light emission, and   wherein an energy difference between the LUMO level of the guest material and the HOMO level of the host material is larger than or equal to light emission energy of the guest material.   
     
     
         4 . The light-emitting element according to any one of  claims 1  to  3 ,
 wherein the energy difference between the LUMO level of the guest material and the HOMO level of the guest material is larger than the transition energy calculated from the absorption edge of the absorption spectrum of the guest material by 0.4 eV or more. 
 
     
     
         5 . The light-emitting element according to any one of  claims 1  to  3 ,
 wherein the energy difference between the LUMO level of the guest material and the HOMO level of the guest material is larger than the light emission energy of the guest material by 0.4 eV or more. 
 
     
     
         6 . The light-emitting element according to any one of  claims 1  to  3 ,
 wherein the host material has a difference between a singlet excitation energy level and a triplet excitation energy level of larger than 0 eV and smaller than or equal to 0.2 eV. 
 
     
     
         7 . The light-emitting element according to any one of  claims 1  to  3 ,
 wherein the host material is configured to exhibit thermally activated delayed fluorescence at room temperature. 
 
     
     
         8 . The light-emitting element according to any one of  claims 1  to  3 ,
 wherein the host material is configured to supply excitation energy to the guest material. 
 
     
     
         9 . The light-emitting element according to any one of  claims 1  to  3 ,
 wherein a light emission spectrum of the host material comprises a wavelength region overlapping with an absorption band on the lowest energy side in the absorption spectrum of the guest material. 
 
     
     
         10 . The light-emitting element according to any one of  claims 1  to  3 ,
 wherein the guest material comprises iridium. 
 
     
     
         11 . The light-emitting element according to any one of  claims 1  to  3 ,
 wherein the guest material is configured to emit light. 
 
     
     
         12 . The light-emitting element according to any one of  claims 1  to  3 ,
 wherein the host material is configured to transport an electron, and 
 wherein the host material is configured to transport a hole. 
 
     
     
         13 . The light-emitting element according to any one of  claims 1  to  3 ,
 wherein the host material comprises a π-electron deficient heteroaromatic ring skeleton, and 
 wherein the host material comprises at least one of a π-electron rich heteroaromatic ring skeleton and an aromatic amine skeleton. 
 
     
     
         14 . The light-emitting element according to  claim 13 ,
 wherein the π-electron deficient heteroaromatic ring skeleton comprises at least one of a diazine skeleton and a triazine skeleton, and   wherein the π-electron rich heteroaromatic ring skeleton comprises at least one of an acridine skeleton, a phenoxazine skeleton, a phenothiazine skeleton, a furan skeleton, a thiophene skeleton, and a pyrrole skeleton.   
     
     
         15 . The light-emitting element according to any one of  claims 1  to  3 ,
 wherein the host material is a compound represented by any one of Structural Formulae (500) to (503) below: 
 
       
         
           
           
               
               
           
         
         
           
           
               
               
           
         
       
     
     
         16 . A display device comprising the light-emitting element according to any one of  claims 1  to  3 ,
 wherein the display device comprises at least one of a color filter and a transistor. 
 
     
     
         17 . An electronic device comprising the display device according to  claim 16 ,
 wherein the electronic device comprises at least one of a housing and a touch sensor.   
     
     
         18 . A lighting device comprising the light-emitting element according to any one of  claims 1  to  3 ,
 wherein the lighting device comprises at least one of a housing and a touch sensor. 
 
     
     
         19 . A compound represented by any one of Structural Formulae (500) to (503) below: