Abstract: An optical film includes a liquid crystal layer derived from a smectic phase, wherein an Nz factor of the liquid crystal layer is from 0.2 to 0.8. A display device that includes the optical film, and a method of producing an optical film is also provided.

Abstract: According to a method for manufacturing an organic electronic device, a sealing member (19) that includes a sealing substrate (15), an adhesive part (13) exhibiting adhesiveness and is provided on the sealing substrate (15), and a hygroscopic part (11) being a hygroscopic cured product provided on the adhesive part (13) is bonded to an organic electronic element (17).

Abstract: To suppress a phenomenon where an optical axis of the optically anisotropic layer is tilted when the optically anisotropic layer is produced by using a liquid crystalline compound showing smectic phase as a materials showing a higher level of orderliness. An optically anisotropic layer wherein a polymerizable composition, containing one or more polymerizable rod-like liquid crystal compound showing a smectic phase, is fixed in a state of smectic phase, and a direction of maximum refractive index of the optically anisotropic layer is inclined at 10° or smaller to the surface of the optically anisotropic layer, a method for manufacturing the same, a laminate and a method for manufacturing the same, a polarizing plate, a liquid crystal display device, and an organic EL display device.

Abstract: An organic electronic element manufacturing method is a method of manufacturing an organic electronic element (1) having flexibility using a roll-to-roll process, including a first electrode forming step in which a first electrode (21) is pattern-formed onto a flexible substrate (10), a functional layer forming step in which a functional layer (23) containing an organic material is pattern-formed onto the first electrode (21), and a mask forming step in which a mask element (30) having flexibility is formed on the substrate (10) such that it has an opening on at least a portion of the functional layer (23) and at least a portion of the first electrode (21) with the functional layer (23) therebetween and covers edge portions (21a and 23a) on at least one side of the first electrode (21) and the functional layer (23).

Abstract: A method of manufacturing an organic EL element (1) includes: a step of forming a first electrode layer (5), an organic functional layer (7), and a second electrode layer (9) on a substrate (3), a step of detecting a defective portion after forming the second electrode layer (9), a step of removing the second electrode layer (9) in the defective portion by irradiating the defective portion with a laser beam (L) from the second electrode layer (9) side when the defective portion has been detected, and a step of forming a sealing layer (11) after removing the second electrode layer 9 in the defective portion.

Abstract: Provided is a polarizing film showing high dichroism comprising a substrate, and a photo alignment film and a light absorption anisotropic film laminated on the substrate in this order. The light absorption anisotropic film is obtained by fixing the alignment of a dichroic dye composition comprising at least one nematic liquid crystalline azo dichroic dye and in X-ray diffraction measurement thereof, diffraction peaks derived from periodic structure along a vertical direction to the alignment axis are present, the period indicated by at least one of the diffraction peaks is 3.0 to 15.0 ? and an intensity of the diffraction peak does not show a maximum value in the range of ±70° of the film normal line direction in a plane vertical to the alignment axis.

Abstract: To suppress a phenomenon where an optical axis of the optically anisotropic layer is tilted when the optically anisotropic layer is produced by using a liquid crystalline compound showing smectic phase as a materials showing a higher level of orderliness. An optically anisotropic layer wherein a polymerizable composition, containing one or more polymerizable rod-like liquid crystal compound showing a smectic phase, is fixed in a state of smectic phase, and a direction of maximum refractive index of the optically anisotropic layer is inclined at 10° or smaller to the surface of the optically anisotropic layer, a method for manufacturing the same, a laminate and a method for manufacturing the same, a polarizing plate, a liquid crystal display device, and an organic EL display device.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an organic electronic element according to one embodiment is a method for manufacturing an organic electronic element 1A having an organic functional layer and includes: a substrate drying step S10 of heating and drying a plastic substrate 10 containing moisture; and an element body formation step S20 of forming an element body 20 including the organic functional layer on the plastic substrate dried in the substrate drying step. The plastic substrate is heated with an infrared ray by irradiating the plastic substrate with the infrared ray in the substrate drying step, and an integral value of a first wavelength range of 1.2 ?m to 5.0 ?m is larger than an integral value of a second wavelength range of 5.0 ?m to 10.0 ?m in a radiation spectrum of the infrared ray.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an organic electronic element according to one embodiment includes: a hole injection layer coating film formation step of applying a hole injection layer coating liquid containing a material having an electron-accepting property on a plastic substrate 10 to form a hole injection layer coating film 22b; and a heat treatment step of heating the hole injection layer coating film by irradiating the hole injection layer coating film with an infrared ray to form a hole injection layer. The hole injection layer coating film has absorption in a first wavelength range of 1.2 ?m to 5.0 ?m, and the infrared ray is an infrared ray in which 80% or more of total radiation energy of the infrared ray in a wavelength range of 1.2 ?m to 10.0 ?m is included in the first wavelength range.

Abstract: There is provided a composition containing a discotic liquid crystal compound, a chiral agent, and a surfactant which can form a light reflecting layer formed by fixing a cholesteric liquid crystalline phase, which exhibits excellent durability under a hot and humid environment and excellent heat resistance, and has few alignment defects; a light reflecting film; a luminance-improving film; a backlight unit; and a liquid crystal display device.

Abstract: The present invention includes an optical element of which an oblique tint change can be improved in a case of the optical element is incorporated to a liquid crystal display device, a method of manufacturing an optical element, and a liquid crystal display device. The optical element includes: a reflection polarizer which is formed of a discotic liquid crystal compound and in which a cholesteric liquid crystalline phase is immobilized, in which, in the reflection polarizer, a front retardation value Re satisfies 0 nm?Re<10 nm in a range of ±50 nm outside a reflection center wavelength, and an absolute value |Ret (50°)| of a retardation value Ret in a polar angle 50° direction satisfies |Ret (50°)|?50 nm.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a liquid crystal display device having excellent color reproducibility. A liquid crystal display device of the present invention is a liquid crystal display device including a non-white light source, a rear polarizer, a liquid crystal layer, and a front-side polarizer in this order, in which a light conversion layer that converts a wavelength of light transmitted through the front-side polarizer is provided on a viewer side of the front-side polarizer.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescent device comprising: a transparent support substrate having flexibility; a light emitting element disposed on the transparent support substrate and including a pair of electrodes and a luminescent layer disposed between the pair of electrodes; a sealing material layer disposed on the transparent support substrate so as to cover and seal the light emitting element; and a sealing substrate disposed on the sealing material layer, wherein based on an arithmetic average of roughness profile defined in JIS B 0601-1994, the surface roughness of a surface of the sealing substrate beside the sealing material layer has a smaller value than the surface roughness of the other surface of the sealing substrate, and the arithmetic average of roughness profile of the surface of the sealing substrate beside the sealing material layer and a thickness of the sealing material layer satisfy a requirement represented by the following formula (I): 0.002<(Ra/t)<0.

Abstract: An optical film of the present invention includes a positive A-plate and a positive C-plate, in which the Re(450), Re(550), and Re(650) of the positive A-plate satisfy the relationship of Re(450)?Re(550)?Re(650), the positive A-plate is formed of a cured product of a composition including the liquid crystal compound A, and the positive C-plate is formed of a cured product of a composition including the liquid crystal compound C.

Abstract: An optical film of the present invention includes an optically anisotropic layer containing a compound represented by the following general formula (1) or an optically anisotropic layer formed by the curing of a polymerizable composition containing a compound represented by the following general formula (1):

Abstract: There is provided a composition containing a discotic liquid crystal compound, a chiral agent, and a surfactant which can form a light reflecting layer formed by fixing a cholesteric liquid crystalline phase, which exhibits excellent durability under a hot and humid environment and excellent heat resistance, and has few alignment defects; a light reflecting film; a luminance-improving film; a backlight unit; and a liquid crystal display device.

Abstract: Provided is a polarizing film showing high dichroism comprising a substrate, and a photo alignment film and a light absorption anisotropic film laminated on the substrate in this order. The light absorption anisotropic film is obtained by fixing the alignment of a dichroic dye composition comprising at least one nematic liquid crystalline azo dichroic dye and in X-ray diffraction measurement thereof, diffraction peaks derived from periodic structure along a vertical direction to the alignment axis are present, the period indicated by at least one of the diffraction peaks is 3.0 to 15.0 ? and an intensity of the diffraction peak does not show a maximum value in the range of ±70° of the film normal line direction in a plane vertical to the alignment axis.

Abstract: A polarizing film comprising a substrate, and a photo alignment film and a light absorption anisotropic film laminated on the substrate in this order, wherein the light absorption anisotropic film has a content ratio of 30% by mass or less of a liquid crystalline non-colorable low molecular weight compound and is obtained by fixing the alignment of a dichroic dye composition comprising at least one nematic liquid crystalline azo dichroic dye; in X-ray diffraction measurement thereof, diffraction peaks derived from periodic structure along a vertical direction to the alignment axis are present, the period indicated by at least one of the diffraction peaks is 3.0 to 15.0 ? and an intensity of the diffraction peak does not show a maximum value in the range of ±70° of the film normal line direction in a plane vertical to the alignment axis.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a liquid crystal display device having excellent color reproducibility. A liquid crystal display device of the present invention is a liquid crystal display device including a non-white light source, a rear polarizer, a liquid crystal layer, and a front-side polarizer in this order, in which a light conversion layer that converts a wavelength of light transmitted through the front-side polarizer is provided on a viewer side of the front-side polarizer.

Abstract: An optical film includes a transparent film having a thickness of 10 to 150 ?m and a first layer on a first surface of the transparent film. The first layer has an average in-plane refractive index that is highest of average refractive indices of the transparent film and a layer disposed on the first surface, and the average in-plane refractive index of the first layer is higher than average refractive indices of the transparent film and the layer other than the first layer disposed on the first surface by 0.02 or more, wherein the average in-plane refractive index of the first layer is higher than the average refractive index of the transparent film by 0.02 or more, provided that the layer disposed on the first surface is the first layer alone, and the first layer has an optical thickness D satisfying: 260×N?190?65 nm?D?260×N?190+65 nm (N is an integer of 6 to 12).