Abstract: Disclosed is an integral film comprising a base bearing a pattern of complex lenses on a surface thereof wherein the complex lenses comprise two or more distinct layers.

Abstract: An optical compensation film for liquid crystal displays comprises first and second optically anisotropic layers containing positively birefringent material disposed on a substrate, wherein the optic axis, thickness, and retardation of these layers are within prescribed limitations.

Abstract: Disclosed is a molecule containing a first chromophore that exhibits a first absorption maximum above 700 nm and a second chromophore that exhibits a second absorption maximum different from the first absorption maximum, wherein the absorption of the first and second chromophores are substantially independent of each other. The molecule exhibits improved stability.

Abstract: Disclosed is an organic light emitting diode device containing a light emitting layer (LEL) comprising a host and a blue light emitting dopant wherein the dopant comprises a 2-(3-aminophenyl)-benzofuran or 2-(4-aminophenyl)-benzofuran compound. The dopant provides improved luminance and luminance yield.

Abstract: Disclosed is an electroluminescent device comprising a cathode, an anode, and, located there between, a light emitting layer (LEL) containing a light emitting material that contains an organometallic complex comprising Pt or Pd metal and a tridentate (N^N^C) ligand, wherein the tridentate (N^N^C) ligand represents a ligand that coordinates to the metal through a nitrogen donor bond, a second nitrogen donor bond, and a carbon-metal bond, in that order, wherein at least one of the nitrogen donors is part of an aromatic ring or an imine group, and wherein the Pt or Pd atom also forms a bond to an anionic ligand group L, wherein L represents alkyl, alkenyl, aryl, or a cyano carbon, or halogen, or RX, wherein X represents a substituent that forms a bond to the Pt or Pd atom and wherein X represents N, O, S, or Se, and R represents a substituent. Such a device provides useful light emissions.

Abstract: Disclosed is an optical element comprising in order a light source, air, at least one thin layer having a thickness of 80 to 200 nm, and a thick layer, each layer varying in refractive index (RI) by at least 0.05 from the next adjacent layer, in an alternating manner.

Abstract: Disclosed is an OLED device comprising a light-emitting layer containing a host and a dopant where the dopant comprises a boron compound containing a bis(azinyl)methene boron complex group.

Abstract: Disclosed is an optical compensation film for improves viewing angle of twisted nematic liquid crystal display, especially in the vertical viewing direction. The said optical compensation film contains a positively birefringent material oriented with its optic axis tilted in a plane perpendicular to the film plane, wherein the phase retardation value defined by (ne-no)d is 100±20 nm at the wavelength of 550 nm and the average tilt angle relative to the film plane is 10±5°, where ne and no are the extraordinary and ordinary refractive indices, respectively, and d, the thickness of the birefringent material.

Abstract: Disclosed is a light management film containing a substrate, light shaping elements with a roughness average of at least 3 micrometers, and a layer capable of receiving a colorant density of at least 0.5.

Abstract: Disclosed is a diffuse reflector comprising a reflective layer and a transparent polymeric film comprising a plurality of complex lenses on a surface thereof.

Abstract: Disclosed is a coextruded film comprising a transparent polymeric inner core layer of thickness less than 250 &mgr;m and two peelable outer polymeric layers wherein the inner layer constitutes a low enough proportion, less than 40%, of the total film thickness and exhibits a low enough melt flow index value to achieve a birefringence of not more than 1×10−4 nm/nm.

Abstract: An optical compensation film for Ordinary-mode Normally White Twisted Nematic Liquid Crystal Display comprising, a first and a second optically anisotropic layers containing positively birefringent material disposed on a substrate, wherein the optic axis of said first optically anisotropic layer tilts in a first plane with an average tilt angle between 10° and 60°, and the optic axis of said second optically anisotropic layer tilts in a second plane with an average tilt angle between 0° and 30°, and said average tilt angle of said first optically anisotropic layer and said average tilt angle of said second optically anisotropic layer are different, and said first and said second planes are perpendicular to the plane of said optical compensation film with the angle between said first and said second planes being 90±10°, and the retardation defined by (ne1−no1)d1 of said first optically anisotropic layer is between 60 nm and 220 nm and the retardation defined by (ne2−no2)d

Abstract: Disclosed is a reflection media comprising a polymer layer having a Tg of less than 75° C. and containing machine scannable information in the form of matte and glossy areas.

Abstract: Disclosed is a photographic element comprising a light sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and, having associated with that layer, a 1H-pyrazo[1,5-b]-1,2,4-triazole dye forming coupler having a fully substituted carbon atom at the 6-position, a chloro group at the 7-position, and, at the 2-position, a propionic ester moiety.

Abstract: Disclosed is a colour photographic element containing one or more cyan dye-forming couplers, a UV absorber and a specific class of stabiliser, and an imaging process used therewith. The element exhibits improved stability.

Abstract: Disclosed is a triacetyl cellulose film comprising (a) an unsubstituted triphenyl phosphate compound and (b) a lower alkyl-substituted triphenyl phosphate ester compound. Such a film exhibits a reduced rate of water vapor transmission.

Abstract: Disclosed is a triacetyl cellulose film comprising (a) a triphenyl monophosphate compound and (b) an aromatic polyol-bridged polyphosphate compound. Such a film exhibits a reduced rate of water vapor transmission.

Abstract: The invention relates to a photographic element comprising at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith a heterocyclic magenta or cyan dye-forming coupler of formula (I), wherein HET is a heterocyclic coupler comprising at least two fused rings and having at least one bridgehead nitrogen atom; S is bonded to a position of HET capable of releasing the heterocyclylthio moiety from HET upon reaction with oxidized developer; X is a heteroatom selected from nitrogen, oxygen and sulfur, bonded to the carbon atom bearing the exocyclic S and to other ring atoms only; and Z are the atoms necessary to complete an unsubstituted or substituted heterocyclic ring or ring system, which may contain one or more other heteroatoms selected from nitrogen, oxygen and sulfur; provided also that the heterocyclylthio moiety released upon reaction with oxidized developer does not significantly inhibit silver development nor cause a bleach acceleration effect.

Abstract: An optical element comprising an elongated channel for light travel comprising a light transmitting polymeric central core and further comprising multilayer particles, wherein a majority of the particles have both a longest dimension less than 1 micrometer and an aspect ratio of longest to smallest dimension of from 1000:1, to 10:1, wherein the particles are arranged in a concentration differential in at least a portion of a plane normal to the length of the channel so as to create a refractive index gradient in that plane.

Abstract: Disclosed is a transparent polymeric film having a top and bottom surface comprising a plurality of complex lenses on at least one surface thereof. Such a film is useful for diffusing light such as necessary in an LC display device.