This master thesis presents as research, manufacture and characterization of new rare-earth-based complexes for application in light-emitting organic diodes (OLEDs). For this, three europium beta-dicetonated complexes were studied. The focus of the investigation was the two new complexes, [Eu(hfac)3dpso] and [Eu(hfac)3dbso], synthesized in our group, whose main difference was to evaluate the behavior of the complex [Eu(hfac)3X], as a function of two ancillary ligands: dpso and dbso. This may imply variations in the absorption of the complex and also in the process of energy transfer from ligands to the Europium ion. Also, a third commercial complex [Eu(dbm)3phen] was employed as a reference for the manufacture and optimization of OLED architecture. These beta-diketonated complexes with N or O coordinated binding ligands were characterized by different techniques (optical, electrochemical and morphological) in both thin film and powder form. From the study of OLED optimization based on the complex [Eu(dbm)3phen], the architecture that presented a compromise between the OLED s performance and the degree of complexity associated with its fabrication. The emitter layer was based on the co-deposition technique, where a Spiro-2CBP matrix was chosen because: 1) good energy transfer to the dopant, in this case [Eu(dbm)3phen] and 2) the effective charge mobility in the co-deposited layer is higher than the common mobility in beta-diketone complexes. The optimized architecture was ITO / MoO3 (10nm) / TAPC (30nm) / Spiro-2CBP: [Eu(dbm)3phen] (30nm, 10 percent) / TPBi (40nm) / LiF (0.1nm) / Al (100nm). From this architecture other OLEDs devices were fabricated with the complex [Eu(hfac)3dpso] and [Eu(hfac)3dbso]. The comparative study, according to the current efficiency measurements, found that the [Eu(hfac)3dpso] complex-based OLED had higher efficiency than the [Eu(hfac)3dbso] OLED with a gain of 7.5 percent for a current density of around 75mA /cm2. In summary, considering the OLED results and also the arrangement of the triplet energy levels of the hfac, dbso and dpso ligands, both imply that the [Eu(hfac)3dpso] complex has a better performance than the complex [Eu(hfac)3dbso].