Abstract: An example of the present invention provides a quantum rod layer including: a photo-induced polymer including a base polymer aligned along a first direction and a photo-reactive group combined to the base polymer; and a quantum rod aligned along the first direction.

Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device in which flicker and image sticking caused by long-term use are suppressed.

Abstract: A photomask blank substrate container having an inner member, inner cassette and retainer member, container main body having a lower box and an upper lid, and a sealing tape, in which the container main body and inner member include a polymer-based material in which when 0.1 g of a sample thereof is retained at 40° C. for 60 minutes to release an outgas component, the outgas total amount detected by a gas chromatography mass spectrometer is 1.9×103 ng or less in terms of n-tetradecane, and the sealing tape is a material in which when a size of 10 mm×10 mm of a sample thereof is retained at 150° C. for 10 minutes to release an outgas component, the outgas total amount detected by a gas chromatography mass spectrometer is 1.8×103 ng or less in terms of n-tetradecane. This photomask blank substrate container allows storing and transporting the photomask blank substrate while suppressing influence on the resist pattern.

Abstract: Provided is a display device having an antistatic film comprising a conductive coating liquid composition. The conductive coating liquid composition comprises 10 to 100 parts by weight of a silane sol based on 100 parts by weight of a carbon nanotube dispersion liquid composition, and the silane sol comprises 0.01 to 10 wt % of an acid catalyst with a pH of 3.0 to 6.0 based on the total weight of the silane sol.

Abstract: A display panel and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. Each pixel of the display panel includes a transmission region and a reflection region, and the display panel includes a first polarizer, a first base substrate, a first alignment layer, a liquid crystal layer, a second alignment layer, a second base substrate, and a second polarizer. A reflection layer is provided between the second alignment layer and the second polarizer in the reflection region. The liquid crystal layer in the reflection region includes nematic liquid crystal and a polymer network. The liquid crystal layer in the transmission region includes a liquid crystal mixture including the nematic liquid crystal and polymerizable monomers. The polymer network in reflection region is formed by polymerizing the polymerizable monomers in the liquid crystal mixture.

Abstract: A charge transporting, liquid crystal photoalignment material comprising a charge transporting moiety connected through covalent chemical bonds to a surface derivatising moiety, and a photoalignment moiety connected through covalent chemical bonds to a surface derivatising moiety.

Abstract: A flexible display device includes a flexible display panel, a flexible outer member disposed on the flexible display panel, and an adhesive member disposed between the flexible display panel and the flexible outer member. An elastic modulus of the adhesive member is from about 1/1000000 to about 1/1000 of an elastic modulus of each of the flexible display panel and the flexible outer member.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel; and a backlight unit disposed at one side of the liquid crystal panel. The backlight unit includes a prism sheet, which comprises a base and a plurality of prism patterns arranged on the base and a binder and a silicon compound having adjacent siloxane moieties linked via a diselenide group, and a light source disposed at a lower portion of the prism sheet. In the liquid crystal display device, the prism sheet is disposed between the light source and the liquid crystal panel.

Abstract: Provided is an optical laminate which has high absorption selectivity to short-wavelength visible light having wavelengths around 400 nm and hence high light fastness and can impart better display characteristics when used for a display device. The optical laminate comprises at least one polarizing plate and at least one pressure-sensitive adhesive layer and satisfying the following formulae (1) and (2): A(400)?0.5??(1) A(420)/A(400)?0.3??(2) where A(400) represents the absorbance of the optical laminate at a wavelength of 400 nm in the transmission direction of the polarizing plate and A(420) represents the absorbance of the optical laminate at a wavelength of 420 nm in the transmission direction of the polarizing plate.

Abstract: A color material dispersion liquid comprising: (A) a color material, (B) a dispersant and (C) a solvent, wherein the color material (A) contains a lake color material of a combination of an acid dye and a polyaluminum chloride; a basicity of the polyaluminum chloride is 70% or more; and a value of a ratio (I4/I6) between an integral value (I4) of a peak corresponding to a four-coordinate aluminum in a solid-state 27Al-NMR spectrum of the lake color material and an integral value (I6) a peak corresponding to a six-coordinate aluminum therein, is from 0 to 0.50.

Abstract: A color filter comprising a cured layer of a photosensitive resist composition comprising a highly reactive polyacrylate monomer and a process for the preparation thereof are provided. The color filter is especially useful for low temperature applications such as electrophoretic displays, polymer dispersed liquid crystal displays, OLED devices and the like.

Abstract: Methods for assembling a narrow border plastic cover include defining a center portion and an edge portion of a plastic cover. A hard coat treatment may be applied to the center portion of the plastic cover to improve anti-glare and anti-scratch properties and mechanical strength while retaining the flexibility of the plastic cover at the edge portion. An optically clear adhesive may be applied to the plastic cover to improve the durability and bond strength of the bond between the narrow border plastic cover and a display. A structural adhesive may be applied to an edge portion of the display to improve the mechanical strength at the edge portion of the plastic cover when bonded to the display. The narrow border plastic cover may be bonded to the display to improve the ability of the display to absorb impacts.

Abstract: This invention discloses novel compounds containing carbazole and (or) DBX units, separated with polyaromatic spacers. These compounds can be used as hosts for PHOLEDs.

Abstract: Regioselectively substituted cellulose esters having a plurality of pivaloyl substituents and a plurality of aryl-acyl substituents are disclosed along with methods for making the same. Such cellulose esters may be suitable for use in films, such as +A optical films, and/or +C optical films. Optical films prepared employing such cellulose esters have a variety of commercial applications, such as, for example, as compensation films in liquid crystal displays and/or waveplates in creating circular polarized light used in 3-D technology.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device, includes a liquid crystal panel; and a backlight unit under the liquid crystal panel and having a light source. The light source includes a first luminous material having a first peak wavelength, a second luminous material having a second peak wavelength greater than the first peak wavelength, a third luminous material having a third peak wavelength greater than the second peak wavelength, and a light absorption material having an absorption maximum at a wavelength between the second peak wavelength and the third peak wavelength.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes laminated glass comprising an interlayer film laminated between a pair of glass plates; and an irradiation device irradiating the laminated glass with light rays, wherein the interlayer film comprises a thermoplastic resin and a luminescent material, wherein an output of the light rays radiated from the irradiation device is equal to or less than 1 mW, and wherein the laminated glass emits light at a luminance of equal to or greater than 1 cd/m2 when being irradiated with the light rays.

Abstract: Provided are a material for an organic EL device that improves the luminous efficacy of a device, sufficiently secures its driving stability, and has a simple construction, and an organic EL device using the material. The material for an organic EL device is formed of a carborane compound having a structure in which a dibenzofuranyl group is bonded to a carborane ring. In addition, the material for an organic EL device is preferably used in a light-emitting layer, an electron-transporting layer, or a hole-blocking layer of an organic electroluminescent device having the light-emitting layer between an anode and a cathode laminated on a substrate. Also disclosed is an organic electroluminescent device using the material for an organic EL device as a host material for a light-emitting layer containing a phosphorescent light-emitting dopant and the host material.

Abstract: An optical material of the present invention has a minimum transmittance value in a wavelength range of 445 nm to 470 nm of a transmittance curve measured at a thickness of 2 mm of the optical material.

Abstract: A foldable display device includes a display panel, a polarizing member on the display panel, a window on the polarizing member, a first adhesive member between the display panel and the polarizing member, and a second adhesive member between the polarizing member and the window. In a first state, the display panel, the polarizing member, the window, the first adhesive member, and the second adhesive member are bent along a bending axis such that the window is closer to the bending axis than the display panel is. The first and second adhesive members have a storage modulus in a range of about 5×104 Pa to about 5×105 Pa at about ?25° C. The second adhesive member has a storage modulus in a range of about 4.5×104 Pa to about 6.5×104 Pa at about 60° C. The first adhesive member has a stress-relaxation ratio greater than about 40 and less than about 50.

Abstract: Provided is an adhesive layer-equipped transparent surface material that can easily be bonded to another surface material (a display panel, etc.) and that, when bonded to another surface material, is less likely to have voids left at the interface between the adhesive layer and another surface material. An adhesive layer-equipped transparent surface material 1 comprises an adhesive layer 14 formed on at least one surface of a protective plate 10 (a transparent surface material), wherein the adhesive layer 14 has a layer portion 18 spreading over the surface of the protective plate 10 and a barrier portion 20 surrounding the periphery of the layer portion 18; and the layer portion 18 has a shear modulus at 35° C. of from 0.5 to 100 kPa.