Patent ID: 8187670

Claim:
A method for manufacturing an electro-optical device in which thin film layers are formed by drying droplets containing thin film layer formation materials, and the thin film layers are laminated to form a light emitting element, the method comprising: mixing lyophilic microparticles that are lyophilic with respect to droplets that form an upper thin film layer into droplets that form a lower thin film layer, and drying the droplets in which the lyophilic microparticles have been mixed to form the lower thin film layer, and then drying the droplets that form the upper thin film layer on the lower thin film layer to laminate the upper thin film layer over the lower thin film layer, the lower thin film layer being one of a hole transport layer and a light emitting layer, and the upper thin film layer being the other of the hole transport layer and the light emitting layer.