Abstract: A polymerizable compound has a practical low melting point, excellent solubility in a general-purpose solvent, and can produce an optical film at low cost, exhibits low reflected luminance, and achieves uniform conversion of polarized light over a wide wavelength band, an optically anisotropic article.

Abstract: A light-emitting device includes: a light-emitting element; a light-transmissive member that covers the light-emitting element; and a light-diffusing particles contained in the light-transmissive member. The light-diffusing particles are hollow and have a particle size not smaller than 50 ?m. The light-transmissive member has a surface having irregularities associated with the light-diffusing particles. A method for manufacturing a light-emitting device includes steps of: mounting a light-emitting element in a recess of a base member; injecting a silicone resin containing light-diffusing particles into the recess, the light-diffusing particles having a particle size not smaller than 50 ?m; causing the light-diffusing particles to float up to a surface of the injected silicone resin; and curing the injected silicone resin.

Abstract: A cellulose acylate film includes cellulose acylate and a compound A which has a group represented by the formula (G) as defined herein and in which a value obtained by dividing a molecular weight of the compound by a number of the groups represented by formula (G) contained in the compound is 200 or less, and a content of the compound A is 15% by weight or more based on a content of the cellulose acylate, the iodine diffusion index X as defined herein is less than 0.005 and the iodine diffusion index Y as defined herein is 0.015 or more.

Abstract: The present invention relates generally to multi-layered reflective insulating composites and a method of fabricating those composites. The present invention comprises a multi-layered reflective insulation system comprising a first protective layer; a first scattering optic layer; microsphere film layers; a polyblend foam layer; a second scattering optic layer; and a second protective layer. The present invention also comprises a method of manufacture of a multi-layered reflective insulation system comprising a first protective layer; a first scattering optic layer; microsphere film layers; a polyblend foam layer; a second scattering optic layer; a second protective layer; securably disposing the layers on top of each other; and securably attaching the layers. The multi-layered reflective insulation system provides a cost-effective and efficient insulation system.

Abstract: Laminated body including a substrate and an optically anisotropic layer. This layer satisfies the following expressions (1), (2), and (3): ?n50(450)/?n50(550)?1.00 (1), and 1.00??n50(650)/?n50(550) (2) wherein ?n50(450), ?n50(550) and ?n50(650) represent the respective birefringences of the layer that are derived from retardation values of the laminated body that are obtained by measuring the laminated body at wavelengths of 450 nm, 550 nm and 650 nm in the state of inclining the fast axis of the layer at an angle of 50 degrees to act as an inclined central axis; and nz>nx?ny (3) wherein nx and ny represent the respective refractive indexes of the substrate in directions parallel with the plane of the substrate, these directions being orthogonal to each other, and nz represents the refractive index of the substrate in a direction orthogonal to each of the directions about nx and ny.

Abstract: There is provided an antireflective film, including: a plastic substrate; a infiltration layer; and an antireflective layer containing metallic oxide fine particles with an average primary particle diameter of 50 nm to 250 nm and a viscosity increasing compound, in this order, wherein the infiltration layer contains a polymer of a (meth)acrylate compound having a molecular weight of 400 or less, and the antireflective layer has a moth-eye structure including an uneven shape formed by the metallic oxide fine particles.

Abstract: An aqueous dispersion-type pressure-sensitive adhesive composition for an optical film includes a emulsion particles of a core-shell structure, wherein the emulsion particles include a (meth)acryl-based copolymer (A) having a glass transition temperature of ?55° C. to 0° C. and a (meth)acryl-based copolymer (B) having a glass transition temperature of 0° C. to 180° C., in a single emulsion particle, one of the copolymers (A) and (B) forms a core layer, and another forms a shell layer, at least one of the copolymers (A) and (B) contains a carboxyl group-containing monomer, a difference of the glass transition temperatures between the copolymers (A) and (B) is 50° C. or more, and a ratio (A)/(B) (by weight) is in the range of 50/50 to 90/10.

Abstract: A display device, including: a display panel configured to display an image through a frontal surface thereof; and a window substrate disposed on the frontal surface of the display panel. The window substrate includes at least two sheets of base substrates. The display device may also include an ultraviolet blocking layer. The ultraviolet blocking layer may be disposed between the at least two base substrates.

Abstract: An optical film includes a first compensation film and a second compensation film having a retardation for incident light different from the first compensation film, wherein the first compensation film includes a first liquid crystal layer including liquid crystals which are obliquely tilted relative to a surface of the first compensation film, and the second compensation film has a refractive index satisfying Relationship Equation 1 and Relationship Equation 2.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a transparent poly(meth)acrylimide-based resin multilayer film exhibiting excellent surface smoothness, transparency, outer appearance, and resistance to puchability. According to at least one embodiment, there is provided a method for producing said transparent multilayer film, in which the transparent multilayer film in which a first poly(meth)acrylimide-based resin layer (?1), an aromatic polycarbonate-based resin layer (?), and a second poly(meth)acrylimide-based resin layer (?2) are directly laminated in said order, and in that the total light transmittance exceeds 90% and the haze is 2.0% or lower. The transparent multilayer film is produced by continuously coextruding, from a T die, a molten film of the transparent multilayer film in which the aforementioned layers were directly laminated in the aforementioned order, and by supplying and then pressing the molten film between a first mirror body that has a surface temperature between 100 and 200° C.

Abstract: A polarizing plate of the present invention includes polarizing plate protective film(s) on one or both sides of a polarizer, wherein the polarizing plate protective film contains a compound represented by general formula (I) or (II) described below, the polarizer contains iodine, and the content of the iodine within the polarizer is 4.0 wt % or greater.

Abstract: An optical film roll is disclosed capable of realizing excellent display characteristics while maintaining manufacturing efficiency. The optical film roll has a width corresponding to a pair of opposite sides of a liquid crystal cell and is used by being cut to a length corresponding to another pair of opposite sides of the liquid crystal cell to be continuously attached to a surface of the liquid crystal cell. The optical film roll includes a long optical film wound into a roll shape, the long optical film being obtained by subjecting a long optical raw film, which is produced by laminating a polarizing film having an absorption axis in its width direction, and a reflective polarizing film having a reflection axis in its width direction, to a slitting process in a machine direction while conveying the long optical raw film in its lengthwise direction.

Abstract: Provided is a polarizing lens that is excellent in terms of impact resistance, prevention of eye strain, and a small variation of color tone or transparency or both. A sunglass polarizing lens that is formed by laminating a transparent protective sheet via an adhesive layer to each surface of a polarizing film that is made from polyvinyl alcohol and that is stretched and stained with dichroic organic dye; curving the resultant laminate so as to impart spherical or aspherical surfaces thereto to obtain a polarizing sheet; and injecting a transparent resin for a lens onto a surface of the polarizing sheet, wherein the polarizing film is stained by combined dichroic organic dyes so that the dichroic ratio of the film is within the range of from 5 to 14.

Abstract: The present invention pertains to an optical film for use as a quarter wave plate (QWP) having a normal wavelength dispersion curve. More specifically, this invention relates to a quarter wave plate based on cellulose ester polymer and fused ring additives.

Abstract: A process for producing resin particles includes a step in which a polymerizable mixture including a polymerizable monomer including at least one of a styrene-based monomer and a (meth)acrylic-based monomer, and a polymerization initiator is absorbed into seed particles in an aqueous medium, without using a dispersant, in the presence of an anionic surfactant not having a polyoxyethylene chain but having an alkyl group; and a step in which the polymerizable monomer is polymerized in an aqueous medium, without using a dispersant, in the presence of an anionic surfactant having a polyoxyethylene chain to thereby obtain resin particles. The resin particles include a resin derived from a polymerizable monomer including at least one of a styrene-based monomer and a (meth)acrylic-based monomer. The proportion by number of particles having a particle diameter in the range of from 80 to 120% of the volume-average particle diameter is 85% or more.

Abstract: Provided is a transparent conductive film having multilayer structure, and inconspicuous pattern shape and good visibility. The film includes: transparent base 11 formed of film-like polymer resin; first hard coat layer 12 laminated on the base 11; first transparent dielectric layer 13 laminated as required on the layer 12; and first transparent conductive layer 14 laminated on the layer 13. The base 11 has a film thickness of 2 to 250 micrometers. The layer 12 is formed of hardening resin containing inorganic oxide, with refractive index: 1.40 to 1.90 and film thickness: 0.5 to 6 micrometers. The layer 13 is formed of inorganic substance, with refractive index: 1.30 to 1.50 and film thickness: 10 to 50 nanometers. The layer 14 is formed of at least one kind of inorganic oxide, metal and carbon, and patterned, and has a film thickness of 10 nanometers to 2 micrometers.

Abstract: A pressure-sensitive adhesive layer for optical applications of the present invention is made from a pressure-sensitive adhesive for optical applications including a base polymer (A), and the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer for optical applications includes iodine and/or iodide ions (B). The pressure-sensitive adhesive layer for optical applications has an antistatic function and can satisfy a durability.

Abstract: Disclosed are a liquid crystal display device having touch and three-dimensional display functions and a method for manufacturing the same. The liquid crystal display device includes a touch and three-dimensional image display panel adhered to a liquid crystal panel through an adhesive layer, wherein the touch and three-dimensional image display panel includes a lower substrate provided with first and second electrodes for realizing a three-dimensional image, a upper substrate provided with third and fourth electrodes for sensing touch and a common electrode for realizing the three-dimensional image, and a liquid crystal display filled between the upper and lower substrates.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a liquid-crystal medium which comprises a component A which consists of one or more compounds of the formula I in which the parameters have the respective meanings given in the claims or in the text, and to the corresponding, novel mesogenic compounds and to the preparation thereof. The present invention likewise relates to the use of these liquid-crystal media, in particular in components for high-frequency technology, and to components of this type which contain media according to the invention, and to the production and use of these components. The components according to the invention are suitable, in particular, as phase shifters in the microwave and millimeter wave region, for microwave and millimeter wave array antennae and very particularly for so-called tuneable “reflectarrays”.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a laminate including an unstretched polymer film; and an unstretched polyvinyl alcohol-based film attached to at least one surface of the polymer film, and a preparing method for a thin polarizer using the laminate.

Abstract: A polarizing plate protective film contains a compound represented by general formula (II-1) or (II-2). In general formulas (II-1) and (II-2), X represents a 6-membered cyclic acetal group; n represents an integer of 2 or more; and a plurality of Xs may be identical or different. In general formula (II-1), Z2 represents a linking group having a valence of n; R1 represents a substituent, when there are a plurality of R1s, at least two of the plurality of R1s may be taken together to form a ring, R1s in different benzene rings may be taken together to form a single bond; m represents an integer of 0-4; and the plurality of R1s may be identical or different. In general formula (II-2), Z3 represents an alkylene group having a valence of n, provided that Z3 does not have a ring structure.

Abstract: A driver assist arrangement includes a first yaw rate controller, a hazard evaluation unit, a driver intention evaluation unit, and a second yaw rate controller. The first yaw rate controller is configured to control a yaw rate of a vehicle hosting the arrangement by comparing an expected yaw rate with an actual yaw rate, and in response thereto selectively apply brakes of respective wheels of the host vehicle. The second yaw rate controller is configured to intervene in the control of the first yaw rate controller in case the evaluated risk of an accident is above a threshold value and occurrence of an avoidance maneuver initiated by the driver is detected. A vehicle including a driver assist arrangement and a method of assisting a driver of a vehicle are also provided.

Abstract: A cellulose acylate film, containing: at least two or more of chelating agents having different pKa values from one another, wherein the chelating agents comprise: a chelating agent A having at least one functional group whose acid dissociation constant pKa, measured at 25° C. in a mixed solvent having a mixing ratio of tetrahydrofuran 60 ml/water 40 ml, is 6 or less; and a chelating agent B having at least one functional group of a conjugate acid whose pKa, measured at the same condition, is 7 or more; and a cellulose acylate, and wherein the number of bright spots of the cellulose acylate film is equal to or less than 500/cm2; a polarizing plate protective film, a polarizing plate and a liquid crystal display using the same.

Abstract: Provided is a stretched laminate for manufacturing a thin polarizer while increasing the degree of orientation of a polyvinyl alcohol-iodine complex without problems such as breakage. In addition, there are provided a method of manufacturing a thin polarizer having superior optical characteristics by using the stretched laminate, a thin polarizer manufactured by the method, and a polarizing plate including the thin polarizer.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a liquid-crystal display device in which at least an absorptive polarizing film is arranged on a viewing side of a rectangular liquid-crystal display panel and at least the absorptive polarizing film and a reflective polarizing film are arranged on a non-viewing side thereof, the liquid-crystal display panel having a long side and a short side and of VA mode or IPS mode is provided.

Abstract: There is provided a display apparatus that can suppress the occurrence of a crack in a circularly polarizing plate in its manufacturing process without reducing designability and mass productivity. A display apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a display element; and a circularly polarizing plate placed on a viewer side of the display element. The circularly polarizing plate includes a polarizer and a retardation film. In-plane retardations of the retardation film satisfy a relationship represented by the below-indicated expression (1); and an angle ?1 formed between a slow axis of the retardation film and a direction in which a wiring crimping portion provided along at least one side of a peripheral edge portion of the display element extends satisfies a relationship represented by the below-indicated expression (2): Re(450)<Re(550)??(1) ?1?70°??(2) where Re(450) and Re(550) represent in-plane retardations measured at 23° C.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a polarizing plate excellent durability even under high humidity conditions and more particularly, to a polarizing plate including a polarizer and a protective layer formed on at least one surface of the polarizer, wherein the protective layer is formed of a cured product of a radically curable composition including a compound represented by the following [Chemical Formula 1]; a vinyl ether compound; a carboxylic acid compound including at least one unsaturated double bond; and a radical initiator.

Abstract: A novel compound having satisfactory sensitivity (base generating performance), a photosensitive resin composition containing the compound as a photo-initiator, and a cured product of the composition are provided. Specifically, a compound represented by general formula (1) (compound (1)), a photosensitive resin composition containing (A) a photo-initiator including at least one compound (1) and (B) a photosensitive resin are provided. Preferred are the compound (1) in which R1 is an unsubstituted or substituted C6-C20 aromatic hydrocarbon group, the compound (1) in which at least one of R5, R6, R7, R8, R9, R10, and R11 is nitro, and the compound (1) in which n is 0. The symbols in general formula (1) are as defined in the description.

Abstract: Provide a cellulose acylate film with small photoelastic coefficient, low moisture content and low haze, and a polarizing plate and a liquid crystal display device using the same. Also provided is a cellulose acylate film including at least cellulose acylate and a resin produced by hydrogenating a polymer containing a repeating unit derived from a monomer represented by the formula (1) below and hydroxyl group: in the formula (1), R1 represents a hydrogen atom or C1-5 alkyl group; each R2 represents a hydrogen atom or substituent, at least one of (R2)s being a hydroxyl group-containing substituent; moiety (A) may form, or does not necessarily form, a five- or six-membered ring; n represents an integer of 1 to 5, and when n is 2 or larger, the plurality of (R2)s may be same with or different from each other.

Abstract: A rotatable compensator configured to transmit non-collimated light over a broad range of wavelengths, including ultraviolet, with a high degree of retardation uniformity across the aperture is presented. In one embodiment, a rotatable compensator includes a stack of four individual plates in optical contact. The two thin plates in the middle of the stack are made from a birefringent material and are arranged to form a compound, zeroth order bi-plate. The remaining two plates are relatively thick and are made from an optically isotropic material. These plates are disposed on either end of the compound, zeroth order bi-plate. The low order plates minimize the sensitivity of retardation across the aperture to non-collimated light. Materials are selected to ensure transmission of ultraviolet light. The optically isotropic end plates minimize coherence effects induced at the optical interfaces of the thin plates.

Abstract: A method of producing an optical compensating resin film for a polarizing plate including casting a resin exhibiting a glass transition temperature of 150 to 200° C. determined via DSC via a solution casting to form a film; peeling the formed film; conveying the film at a temperature of 60° C. or less for at least 90 seconds; and stretching the film.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing an elongate polarizer plate having an absorption axis in a direction of 45°±15° relative to the longitudinal direction of the elongate polarizer plate. Provided is a method for producing a polarizer plate including a step of forming, on an elongate substrate, an elongate polarization film having an absorption axis in a direction of 45°±15° to the longitudinal direction of the elongate substrate. The above-mentioned production method further includes a step of forming, on an elongate substrate, an elongate orientation film having an orientation regulating force direction of 45°±15° to the longitudinal direction of the elongate substrate, and can perform the elongate orientation film formation step and the elongate polarizer plate formation step in this order.

Abstract: A polarization plate includes a first protective film, a polarizer, and a second protective film in this order, in which the first protective film is a film including a (meth)acryl-based resin, a thickness of the first protective film is in a range of 20 ?m to 30 ?m, a thickness of the second protective film is in a range of 1.5 times to 1.8 times of the thickness of the first protective film, and a humidity dimensional change ratio of the second protective film in the direction orthogonal to an absorption axis of the polarizer is in a range of 0.45% to 0.8%.

Abstract: There is provided an antireflection film having a surface haze of less than 1.0%, including: a light transmitting layer; and an antireflection layer, wherein the antireflection layer includes a specific unevenness structure on a surface at a side opposite to a side at which the light transmitting layer is provided, the specific unevenness structure made from specific raw materials.

Abstract: An aspect of the present invention is a method for producing a resin film, wherein in a casting step of a solution cast film-forming method, a dope is discharged from a discharge port of the casting die to cast the dope onto the support while a solvent capable of dissolving a transparent resin is flowed from the positions above the discharge port of the casting die through the outer surface of the casting die, and further from the longitudinally opposite ends of the discharge port of the casting die.

Abstract: A touch panel (20) is attached, via a reflection-prevention layer (31) or an adhesive layer, to the polarizing plate (2) side of a display device (10) having the polarizing plate (2) laminated upon a display panel (1). The polarizing plate (2) has: a polarizer (3); and a film (4) having a film thickness of no more than 35 ?m and laminated on the touch panel (20) side of the polarizer (3). The contact angle for the surface of the touch panel (20) side in the film is less than 60°.

Abstract: Provided are a laminated body which is made to extend and contract to a reduced extent due to humidity so as to reduce the number of the occurrence of crosstalk, a polarization plate having the same, a stereoscopic image display device and a stereoscopic image display system. A laminated body includes a patterned phase difference film having a supporter film and a patterned optical anisotropic layer in which a first phase difference region and a second phase difference region having mutually different in-plane slow axis directions and/or phase differences are disposed in a predetermined pattern on the supporter film, and a stiff body attached to a surface of the patterned optical anisotropic layer through a first attaching layer.

Abstract: A display device includes a display panel and a polarization conversion panel facing the display panel. The polarization conversion panel includes: an insulation substrate; an absorptive polarizer positioned on the insulation substrate; a first electrode positioned on the absorptive polarizer; a passivation layer formed on the first electrode while being spaced apart therefrom a microcavity interposed between the passivation layer and the first electrode, the passivation layer an injection hole; an overcoat formed on the passivation layer to cover the injection hole and seal the microcavity; a second electrode positioned on the overcoat; a reflective polarizer positioned on the second electrode; and a liquid crystal layer positioned in the microcavity.

Abstract: The liquid crystal display of the present invention includes: a liquid crystal panel including vertical alignment liquid crystals encapsulated between a first substrate and a second substrate; a first compensation layer stacked on one side of the first layer; a first polarizing layer stacked on one side of the first compensation layer; a second compensation layer stacked on one side of the second substrate; and a second polarizing layer stacked on one side of the second compensation layer, wherein the first compensation layer includes a polyimide copolymer, and the polyimide copolymer is a copolymer of a monomer mixture including maleimide compounds and aromatic vinyl compounds. The liquid crystal display provides significantly improved lateral viewing angle.

Abstract: An adhesive composition for polarizing plates includes an epoxy compound, a (meth)acrylic compound, an alkoxysilane compound including at least one epoxy group, and an alkoxysilane compound including at least one (meth)acrylate group. A polarizing plate using the adhesive composition can exhibit good adhesion, reliability, durability, water resistance, and high temperature/high humidity resistance. An optical apparatus includes the polarizing plate.

Abstract: A multilayered reflective polarizing film is provided that has high polarization performance comparable to that of an absorption-type polarizing plate, and is preferred as a polarizing plate attached to a liquid crystal cell. An optical member for liquid crystal display devices, and a liquid crystal display device formed from such a multilayered reflective polarizing film are also provided. Specifically, the reflective polarizing film includes a uniaxially stretched multilayered film in which a specific aromatic polyester containing (alkylenedioxy)di-2-naphthoic acid as a part of dicarboxylic acid components is used as a first layer, and an optically isotropic polyester having an average refractive index of 1.50 to 1.60 is used as a second layer, and that has a predetermined refractive index difference between the layers. The reflective polarizing film has an angle of orientation of 2 degrees or less.

Abstract: In one aspect, an encapsulation sheet, a method of manufacturing an organic light emitting display device using the encapsulation sheet, and an organic light emitting display device is provided. The encapsulation sheet includes a carrier film; and a first sheet formed on the carrier film, wherein the first sheet comprises at least one of tin fluorophosphates glass, chalcogenide glass, tellurite glass, borate glass, and phosphate glass.

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: A resin composition containing a specific cellulose-based resin and a specific fumaric acid diester polymer in a specific blending ratio or containing, as the resin component, a specific cellulose-based resin and a specific fumaric acid diester polymer in a specific blending ratio and containing the resin component and an additive having an aromatic hydrocarbon ring or the like in a specific blending ratio. An optical compensation film can be produced using the resin composition.

Abstract: An organic dispersion is provided. The organic dispersion includes an organic solvent, and an inorganic nano sheet material modified by a fluoro-containing modifier and dispersed in the organic solvent, wherein the inorganic nano sheet material is in a size from 20 to 80 nm, and the organic dispersion has a solid content from 1 to 20 wt %. Further, a weight ratio of the fluoro-containing modifier in the inorganic nano sheet material to the inorganic nano sheet material is in a range from 0.06 to 1.5.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a color material dispersion liquid which is able to form a coating film with high luminance, excellent heat resistance and excellent light resistance. Disclosed is a color material dispersion liquid including a color material represented by the following general formula (I), a dispersant, and a specific solvent, wherein molybdenum and tungsten are contained in a polyoxometalate anion in the color material, and a molar ratio between the molybdenum and the tungsten is 0.4:99.6 to 15:85: (Symbols shown in the general formula (I) are described in the Description.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an azo compound represented by the following formula (1), [wherein, A represents a phenyl group which may have a substituent, R1 to R6 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having a carbon atom number of 1 to 5, an alkoxy group having a carbon atom number of 1 to 5, a sulfo group, or an alkoxy group having a sulfo group and a carbon atom number of 1 to 5, and X represents an amino group which may have a substituent, a benzoylamino group which may have a substituent, a phenylamino group which may have a substituent, a phenylazo group which may have a substituent, or a naphthotriazole group which may have a substituent] or/and a salt thereof and to a polarizing film and a polarizing plate which contain it.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an azo compound represented by the following formula (1) [wherein, A represents a naphthyl group having a substituent, R1 to R6 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having a carbon atom number of 1 to 5, an alkoxy group having a carbon atom number of 1 to 5, a sulfo group, or an alkoxy group having a sulfo group and a carbon atom number of 1 to 5, and X represents a benzoylamino group having a substituent, a phenylamino group having a substituent, a phenylazo group having a substituent, or a naphthotriazole group having a substituent] and a salt thereof. By using the azo compound or a salt thereof of the present invention, a neutral color polarizing plate and a color polarizing plate for a liquid crystal projector being excellent in polarization performance and durability.

Abstract: A method for exposing an electrode terminal covered with an organic film in a light-emitting device without damaging the electrode terminal is provided. In a region of the electrode terminal to which electric power from an external power supply or an external signal is input, an island-shaped organic compound-containing layer is formed and the organic film is formed thereover. The organic film is removed by utilizing low adhesion of an interface between the organic compound-containing layer and the electrode terminal, whereby the electrode terminal can be exposed without damage to the electrode terminal.

Abstract: The present invention pertains to an optical film for use as a quarter wave plate (QWP) having a normal wavelength dispersion curve. More specifically, this invention relates to a quarter wave plate based on cellulose ester polymer and fused ring additives.