Patent ID: 8026510

Claim:
An organic electronic device comprising a substrate, two or more electrodes facing each other disposed on the substrate and at least one organic layer disposed between two electrodes among the electrodes, wherein a layer containing a reactive organic compound having a reducing portion or a proton accepting portion and/or a reaction product thereof is disposed between at least one electrode and an organic layer containing a charge injection transporting material and the reducing portion or the proton accepting portion of the reactive organic compound directly reacts with the charge injection transporting material to form a radical anion of the charge injection transporting material; wherein the reactive organic compound is such that oxygen is not directly bonded to a metal, and is at least one kind of compound selected from the group consisting of a metallic cyclopentadiene compound; wherein the metal contained in the metallic cyclopentadiene compound is at least one kind of metal selected from the group consisting of an alkali metal, an alkaline-earth metal scandium and yttrium; and wherein the at least one electrode adjacent to the layer containing the reactive organic compound and/or the reaction product thereof is comprised of (i) a vacuum deposited film comprising a metal which has a work function of 4.2 eV or more (except a metal which can reduce a metal ion contained in the metallic compound to a metal under vacuum condition), or (ii) a film formed by a wet film forming method comprising one or more materials selected from the group consisting of a metallic particle, a metal oxide particle, a metal having a low melting point and an alloy containing a metal having a low melting point.