Patent 7309531 was granted and assigned to Nippon Soda Co., Ltd. on December, 2007 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The present invention relates to an EL device which is driven with a lower voltage or power amount, which is superior in interface stability between layers in the device and which has a higher luminance as compared with the use of a conventional electrode, and is characterized in that in the EL device comprising a light emitting layer disposed as an essential layer between two electrodes facing each other, at least one of the electrodes includes a crystalline conductive film whose diffraction intensity ratio of (400)/(222) is 1.0 or more in X-ray diffraction by a θ/2θ method.