Abstract: An adhesive construction, characterized by excellent converting and adhesive performance, comprises a facestock, a face-side adhesive (FSA) in contact with a first surface of the facestock, and a liner-side adhesive (LSA) in contact with the FSA. The FSA is compounded with an organopolysiloxane or modified organopolysiloxane. Single layer constructions, and multilayer constructions comprising more than two adhesive layers, and unique adhesive compositions, are also provided. The constructions can be run in high-speed converting presses and adhere well to a variety of substrates.

Abstract: Transparent conductive films for flat panel displays and methods for producing them are disclosed. In general, a method according to the present invention comprises: (1) providing a flexible plastic substrate; (2) depositing a multi-layered conductive metallic film on the flexible plastic substrate by a thin-film deposition technique to form a composite film, the multi-layered conductive metallic film comprising two layers of an alloy selected from the group consisting of indium cerium oxide (InCeO) and indium tin oxide (ITO) surrounding a layer of an alloy of silver, palladium, and copper (Ag/Pd/Cu); and (3) collecting the composite film in continuous rolls. Typically, the thin-film deposition technique is DC magnetron sputtering. Another aspect of the invention is a composite film produced by a method according to the present invention.

Abstract: A display includes a front panel and a back panel with a light control material in between. One of the panels includes a rigid substrate, for example made of glass or rigid plastic. The other of the panels includes a flexible substrate, for example made of a flexible plastic film. The panel with the flexible substrate may be made by a roll-to-roll process, with various fabrication operations formed while the flexible substrate is still part of a web of material. The panel with the rigid substrate may be separately fabricated, then combined with the other panel on the web through a pick and place operation that accurately locates the front panel relative to the back panel. The display may be any of a variety of displays, such as liquid crystal displays (LCDs), and electroluminescent displays, such as polymer light emitting devices (PLEDs) and organic light emitting devices (OLEDs).

Abstract: An adhesive construction, characterized by excellent converting and adhesive performance, comprises a facestock, a face-side adhesive (FSA) in contact with a first surface of the facestock, and a liner-side adhesive (LSA) in contact with the FSA. The FSA is compounded with an organopolysiloxane or modified organopolysiloxane. Single layer constructions, and multilayer constructions comprising more than two adhesive layers, and unique adhesive compositions, are also provided. The constructions can be run in high-speed converting presses and adhere well to a variety of substrates.

Abstract: A device, such as a radio frequency identification (RFID) inlay structure for an RFID tag or label, includes a microstructure element, with leads coupling the microstructure element to other electrical or electronic components of the device. The leads may be electroless-plated leads, and may contact connectors of the microstructure element without the need for an intervening planarization layer.

Abstract: A display device includes a light control device, and a backlight having a panel with one or more light management features. The light control device may be a liquid crystal display (LCD), for example having a plurality of picture elements, such as pixels, selectively activatable to allow or black transmission of light through the LCD. The light management features may include one or more features such as a brightness enhancement film, a transflective film, and/or a polarizing film. The backlight has a light emitting structure that may include an electroluminescent structure, such a small molecule organic light emitting device (SMOLED) or a polymer light emitting device (PLED). The electroluminescent structure of the backlight provides good illumination of the light control device at low voltage and low power, and the inclusion of the one or more light management features in the backlight may result in reduction of size, cost, and/or weight of the display device.

Abstract: Monomers containing the benzocyclobutenone moiety, and a method of preparing same, are provided.

Abstract: Fluoropolymers containing the benzocyclobutenone moiety are provided.

Abstract: An adhesive construction, characterized by excellent converting and adhesive performance, comprises a facestock, a face-side adhesive (FSA) in contact with a first surface of the facestock, and a liner-side adhesive (LSA) in contact with the FSA. The FSA is compounded with an organopolysiloxane or modified organopolysiloxane. Single layer constructions, and multilayer constructions comprising more than two adhesive layers, and unique adhesive compositions, are also provided. The constructions can be run in high-speed converting presses and adhere well to a variety of substrates.

Abstract: PSAs and protective coatings are provided, and include solvent, emulsion, and hot melt PSAs formulated with at least one benzocyclobutenone (BCBO) monomer. UV-cured PSAs and coatings are provided, and include cured BCBO-containing polymers and cured mixtures of BCBO-containing and OH-containing polymers.

Abstract: The present invention relates to improved performance multilayer PSA constructions useful for making labels. In one embodiment the invention relates to a multilayer PSA construction comprising: (A) a multilayer adhesive laminate having an overall thickness of less than about 100 microns and comprising (I) at least one composite PSA layer comprising a continuous phase of a pressure sensitive adhesive and a discontinuous phase of non-adhesive filler particles, filler particle aggregate, or a mixture thereof, and (ii) at least one second PSA layer which is in contact with the composite layer and contains no filler or less filler than the composite layer, and (B) a facestock which is in contact with and adhered to either the composite layer or the second PSA layer of the multilayer adhesive laminate.

Abstract: A display includes a front panel and a back panel with a light control material in between. One of the panels includes a rigid substrate, for example made of glass or rigid plastic. The other of the panels includes a flexible substrate, for example made of a flexible plastic film. The panel with the flexible substrate may be made by a roll-to-roll process, with various fabrication operations formed while the flexible substrate is still part of a web of material. The panel with the rigid substrate may be separately fabricated, then combined with the other panel on the web through a pick and place operation that accurately locates the front panel relative to the back panel. The display may be any of a variety of displays, such as liquid crystal displays (LCDs), and electroluminescent displays, such as polymer light emitting devices (PLEDs) and organic light emitting devices (OLEDs).

Abstract: An electroluminescent display includes a pair of panels with respective corresponding substrates. At least one of the substrates has an array of microreplicated protrusions to maintain the substrates a desired distance apart from one another. The protrusions may be ridges surrounding each of a plurality of wells in which electrodes and light emitting material is located. The protrusions may be in formed in a flexible substrate by a roll embossing process. The electroluminescent display may be any of a variety of types of displays, for example polymer light emitting devices (PLEDs) or organic light emitting devices (OLEDs).

Abstract: A display includes a front panel and a back panel with a light control material in between. One of the panels includes a rigid substrate, for example made of glass or rigid plastic. The other of the panels includes a flexible substrate, for example made of a flexible plastic film. The panel with the flexible substrate may be made by a roll-to-roll process, with various fabrication operations formed while the flexible substrate is still part of a web of material. The panel with the rigid substrate may be separately fabricated, then combined with the other panel on the web through a pick and place operation that accurately locates the front panel relative to the back panel. The display may be any of a variety of displays, such as liquid crystal displays (LCDs), and electroluminescent displays, such as polymer light emitting devices (PLEDs) and organic light emitting devices (OLEDs).

Abstract: The present invention is directed toward multilayer pressure-sensitive adhesive constructions with improved convertibility and aging. In one embodiment, the multilayer constructions have one layer formed of a first adhesive composition having a first glass transition temperature, and also having a tangent delta greater than about 0.5 at 102 radians per second at 20° C., and a storage modulus greater than about 3×108 dynes/cm2 at 104 radians per second at 20° C. At least a second adhesive layer is provided in the construction, the second adhesive layer comprising a second adhesive composition with a second glass transition temperature.

Abstract: An improved hot-melt pressure-sensitive adhesive (HMPSA) composition contains an elastomeric component, such as a blend of SIS and SB block copolymers, and a tackifying component comprising one or more intermediate softening point resins (ISPRs) having a ring and ball softening point of from 35 to 60° C. The improved adhesive compositions are characterized by reduced volatility, less bleed and staining tendencies, and improved overall adhesive performance. The invention also provides improved label constructions in which a release liner is coated with an HMPSA composition and laminated to a flexible facestock. Notably, even when low basis weight paper facestocks are used, the construction can be converted at high speeds.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a primerless removable pressure sensitive adhesive construction comprising an unprimed facestock, a first adhesive layer in contact with the facestock, a second removable pressure sensitive adhesive layer in contact with the first adhesive layer, and a release surface in contact with the second adhesive layer. Advantageously, constructions of this design exhibit improved layflatness in comparison to conventional emulsion primed removable pressure sensitive adhesive constructions.

Abstract: A pressure sensitive adhesive of a mutually immiscible first elastomer (styrene-butadiene block copolymer) exhibiting a first glass transition temperature and a second elastomer (e.g., a styrene-isoprene-styrene block copolymer) exhibiting a second glass transition temperature greater than the first is tackified by a tackifying system comprising tackifier preferentially miscible with the second elastomer to provide a dynamic mechanical spectrum plot of tangent delta versus temperature in .degree.C. showing two separate and distinct glass transition temperature peaks. The mixture exhibits excellent processability and ambient and low temperature adhesive properties.

Abstract: The present invention is directed toward a multilayer, pressure-sensitive adhesive construction wherein one layer is formed of a first adhesive composition having a first glass transition temperature, and at least a second layer is formed of a second adhesive composition having a second glass transition temperature. The first glass transition temperature differs from the second glass transition temperature by from about 10.degree. C. to about 50.degree. C.

Abstract: The cuttability of elastomeric pressure-sensitive adhesives, particularly of hot-melt tackified mutually immiscible elastomers, is improved by the addition of surfactants containing polyethylene-oxide and polypropylene-oxide blocks.