Abstract: There is provided an optical film obtained by laminating a polarizing film protective layer and a retardation film comprising a liquid crystalline compound layer, a retardation film protective layer and a polymer film, wherein the retardation film protective layer comprising a cured product of a UV-curable resin composition is inserted between the polymer film and the liquid crystalline compound layer to control or block the migration to the liquid crystalline compound layer of a material present in the polymer film and affecting the optical properties of the liquid crystalline compound layer by migrating to the liquid crystalline compound layer, in such a manner that the protective layer side of the polarizing film and the liquid crystalline compound layer side of the retardation film are opposed to each other.

Abstract: A liquid crystal composition includes about 1 to about 40% by weight of an alkoxyl naphthalene-base compound, about 5 to about 30% by weight of a dialkoxyl naphthalene-base compound, and about 5 to about 80% by weight of a low viscosity compound.

Abstract: A UV-curable resin composition for alignment film and an alignment film which is prepared by curing the composition with UV rays. The migration of a material which is present in a polymer film and capable of affecting the optical properties of a liquid crystalline compound layer to the liquid crystalline compound layer is controlled or blocked. The composition comprises at least one (meth)acrylate compound having one or more polar groups and one or more (meth)acryloyl groups in the molecule and a photoinitiator. A protective layer is inserted between a polymer film and a liquid crystalline compound layer for controlling or blocking the migration of the material which is present in the polymer film and capable of affecting the optical properties of the liquid crystalline compound layer.

Abstract: A spacer for forming a gap in a device includes a predetermined geometric shape and is less than about 500 micrometers in a broadest dimension. A plurality of spacers can be fabricated where each spacer of the plurality of spacers has a predetermined geometric shape, the same predetermined geometric shape, or a variety of predetermined geometric shapes. The spacers of the plurality of spacers can also include a polydispersity of about 1.0005. The spacer can be positioned between two components of a device to provide accurate spacing of the components.

Abstract: It is an object of the invention to provide a pressure sensitive adhesive for an optical film with which a pressure sensitive adhesive type optical film capable of suppressing bowing and light leakage caused by a stress accompanying a dimensional change of members such as an optical film, high in durability, excellent in handling ability in an aspect of a fabrication process thereof and good in quality can be obtained. There is provided a pressure sensitive adhesive for an optical film comprising: 100 parts by weight of a (meth)acrylic-based polymer (A) including an alkyl (meth)acrylate (a1) and a (meth)acrylic-based monomer containing a hydroxyl group (a2), as a copolymerizable component, in content in the range of from 0.01 to 5 parts by weight relative to 100 parts by weight of the alkyl (meth)acrylate (a1); 0.02 to 2 parts by weight of a peroxide (B); and 0.

Abstract: Described is an optical compensator device that can maintain a high degree of performance in the demanding environment of projection display. A mounting process involves using a sealant between optically clear glass or ceramic substrate and low elastic polymer retarder film. The sealant may mitigate or prevent the degradation of the retarder film by acting as an oxygen barrier that seals the substrate and increases the lifetime of the device in high luminance.

Abstract: A cellulose compound composition includes a cellulose compound that includes (A) an aliphatic acyl group having a carbon number of 5 to 30 and (B) an acyl group containing an aromatic group.

Abstract: A pressure-sensitive adhesive (PSA) tape, particular for producing or bonding optical liquid-crystal data displays, having two PSA layers (b, b?) and at least one carrier sheet (a), wherein the PSA tape has light-reflecting properties on both its top and bottom faces and at the same time is light-absorbing at least in so far as light not reflected is unable to penetrate the adhesive tape. The PSA tape is implemented in particular in such a way that at least between one face of the carrier sheet and the PSA layer located on that face there is a white paint layer (c). As a preference, a metallic layer (d) is provided between the carrier sheet and the white paint layer.

Abstract: A pressure-sensitive adhesive tape, in particular for producing a bond between optical liquid crystal data displays (LCDs), comprising an upper and a lower side with light-reflecting properties on the upper side and light-absorbing properties on the lower side and further comprising a support film with an upper and a lower side, each side of the pressure-sensitive adhesive tape having an outer pressure-sensitive layer, and said adhesive tape being characterized in that at least one metallic reflective layer for the reflection of light is provided between the outer pressure-sensitive layers of at least one pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, colored black, for the absorption of light and in that at least the outer pressure-sensitive layer on the upper side is transparent.

Abstract: A pressure sensitive adhesive tape for producing or bonding optical liquid crystal data displays (LCD's) is disclosed. The pressure sensitive adhesive tape is constructed of an upper side and an underside, as well as a carrier film with an upper side and a lower side. At least one pressure sensitive adhesive layer is applied to both the upper and lower side of the adhesive tape. The adhesive tape also includes at least two black layers on one side of the carrier film between one of the outer pressure sensitive adhesives, and a silver-colored layer between the two black layers.

Abstract: An antistatic optical film comprising an antistatic layer laminated on at least one side of an optical film, wherein the antistatic layer comprises a water soluble or a water dispersible conductive polymer, has excellent antistatic effect, optical characteristics and appearance.

Abstract: Provided are a curable resin and a curable resin composition which have alkali-solubility and curability that can freely be adjusted and a high sensitivity, a liquid crystal panel substrate which can maintain an even cell gap, and a liquid crystal panel using the liquid crystal panel substrate to exhibit a superior display quality. A curable resin composition comprising an imide-containing copolymer having a molecular structure wherein a constitutional unit at least the following units are connected: a constitutional unit having a cyclic imide group represented by the formula (1), a constitutional unit having an acid functional group such as a carboxyl group; and a constitutional unit having a photopolymerizing functional group. In a liquid crystal panel substrate (color filter 103), plural spacers (column-shaped spacers 12) are disposed in a non-display region on a substrate 5.

Abstract: The invention relates to a pressure-sensitive adhesive tape, particularly for producing or sticking together optical liquid crystal data displays (LCD's), comprising a top side and an underside, with light-reflective properties on the top side and light-absorbing properties on the underside. The pressure-sensitive adhesive tape also comprises a carrier film (a) with a top side and an underside, and the pressure-sensitive adhesive tape is provided with a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer (b, b?) on both sides. The pressure-sensitive adhesive tape is characterized in that the carrier film (a) is brightly colored, and the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer (b?) on the underside of the pressure-sensitive adhesive tape is colored black.

Abstract: A protective film (1) includes a substrate (10), an upper hardened layer (20), a lower hardened layer (22), a mirror-effect layer (30), and a DLC (Diamond-Like Carbon) film (40). The substrate is made of transparent plastic material, and has an upper surface (100) and a lower surface (102). The upper hardened layer is formed on the upper surface of the substrate, and the lower hardened layer is formed on the lower surface of the substrate. The mirror-effect layer is formed on a surface of the lower hardened layer. The DLC film is formed on a surface of the upper hardened layer. A method for making the protective film is also provided.

Abstract: A liquid crystal composition includes a first class including a liquid crystal compound having at least two fluorine atoms, and a second class including a liquid crystal compound that has a single fluorine atom or that does not have a fluorine atom. The first and second classes include liquid crystal compounds expressed by various chemical formulas. A liquid crystal display including the liquid crystal composition is also provided.

Abstract: The present invention is to solve a problem that, conventionally, there is a risk of impurity elution when the optical retardation control layer obtainable by photopolymerization comes into contact with the liquid crystal layer because of the deterioration in heat resistance of the optical retardation control layer due to high temperature of post-process, the insufficient chemical resistance or the like. ?-amino alkylphenone based 2-methyl-1[4-(methylthio)phenyl]-2-morpholinopropane-1-one or 2-benzyl-2-dimethylamino-1-(4-morpholinophenyl)-butanone-1 are used as a photopolymerization initiator to be compounded in a composition for forming an optical retardation control layer or other optically functional layers.

Abstract: Disclosed are a display panel including a substrate and a shielding layer formed on the substrate, a liquid crystal display device including the same and a method of fabricating the liquid crystal display device. The shielding layer includes a clay-based material to block the passage of impurities and a conductive polymer material to diffuse static electricity within the shielding layer. The malfunctioning of the device induced by the contamination and static electricity due to the impurities is prevented by the shielding layer.

Abstract: A composition comprising at least one compound having a fluoro-aliphatic group and at least one hydrophilic group selected from the group consisting of a carboxyl group (—COOH), a sulfo group (—SO3H), a sulfato group (—OSO3H), a phosphonoxy group {—OP(?O)(OH)2} and salts thereof; at least one onium salt; and at least one liquid-crystal compound is disclosed.

Abstract: A plasma display panel (PDP) and a method of manufacturing the same suppresses variation in the height of the intersecting barrier walls with a simple method and that prevents cross talk from occurring between the discharge cells. A concave part is formed at a position contacting an intersecting part of a first barrier wall before baking and a second barrier wall before baking orthogonal to the first barrier wall before baking. When such concave part is formed, the values of the surface area per volume of the intersecting part and the surface area per volume of the first barrier wall before baking and the second barrier wall before baking between the intersecting part and the intersecting part adjacent to the intersecting part become substantially equal. As a result, the height of the intersecting part does not become high after baking, a barrier wall of aligned height is obtained, and cross talk does not occur between the discharge cells.

Abstract: A photopolymerizable composition comprising a polymerizable compound and a photopolymerization initiator, wherein the polymerizable compound is characterized by comprising (a) a bifunctional (meth)acrylic acid (thio)ester compound containing a sulfur atom in the molecule and (b) at least one of a (meth)acrylic acid ester compound represented by the general formula (1) or a bifunctional (meth)acrylic acid ester compound having a urethane linkage: wherein R1 and R2 are each independently a hydrogen atom or a methyl group; R3 and R4 are each independently an alkyl group, an aralkyl group, an aryl group or a halogen atom; m and n are each an integer of 0 to 2; X1 is an alkylidene group having 1 to 3 carbon atoms; and Y1 and Y2 are each independently a poly(oxyalkylene) group with the proviso that at least one of Y1 and Y2 is a poly(oxyalkylene) group having a hydroxy group.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a gas barrier film improved in gas barrier characteristics by decreasing the adsorbent of the surface of a gas barrier layer to water and the like. The present invention attains the above object by providing a gas barrier film comprising a substrate, a gas barrier layer which is a vacuum deposition film, formed on one surface or both surfaces of the above substrate, and a water-repellent layer which is a film having water repellency, formed on the above gas barrier layer.

Abstract: A method of making ordered nanostructured layers comprises (a) applying an aqueous composition comprising a chromonic material to the surface of a substrate, (b) applying shear orientation to the aqueous composition, (c) non-covalently crosslinking the resulting ordered nanostructured chromonic layer with a multivalent cation salt (d) exposing the resulting crosslinked ordered nanostructured chromonic layer to an acid selected from the group consisting of carbonic acid, phosphoric acid, lactic acid, citric acid, boric acid, sulfuric acid, and mixtures thereof in the presence of water to form an ordered nanostructured barrier layer.

Abstract: The present invention provides an optical compensation plate having an optical compensation layer in which occurrence of cracks due to an applied pressure and deformation caused by heat or the like are suppressed. By applying an adhesive that contains a moisture-curing isocyanate compound and has a glass transition temperature of 100° C. or less onto at least one surface of the optical compensation layer and curing the adhesive, an anti-cracking layer is formed directly on the surface of the optical compensation layer. The occurrence of cracks and the deformation in the optical compensation layer can be prevented by this anti-cracking layer. The optical compensation layer preferably is a layer having a cholesteric structure, and a constituent material thereof preferably is a non-liquid crystal polymer formed by polymerizing aligned liquid crystal monomers or an aligned liquid crystal polymer.

Abstract: The invention relates to a compensator comprising a positive and a negative birefringent retardation film, its use in displays and optical elements, and to displays comprising such a compensator.

Abstract: A tiled display may be formed by temporarily securing a plurality of modules to a substrate. Thereafter, the tiled array may be tested to insure that each module is functional. If each module is functional, the modules may be permanently secured to the substrate. If any modules are defective, they may be replaced and the tiled array may be retested.

Abstract: A method for preparing an optical film, which comprises applying and developing an application liquid mixture containing a liquid crystal monomer, a chiral agent and a polymerization initiator on an orientation substrate, subjecting the resultant developed layer to a heat treatment, to orient the monomer to a cholesteric structure, and then subjecting the developed layer to a poltmerization treatment, to polymerize the oriented liquid crystal monomer, thereby forming an optical film exhibiting a selective reflection wave length of 100 to 320 nm. An optical film prepared by the above method is reduced in the coloring due to selective reflection.

Abstract: The invention relates to display and protective articles having a fluorochemical surface layer, and methods of making such articles. The invention also relates to fluoropolyether acrylate compositions.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display and a method of manufacturing the same include a first display panel and a second display panel that face each other, a sealant that contains polymer resin formed by curing methacrylic acid or a s derivative thereof to sealingly assemble the first display panel and the second display panel, and a liquid crystal provided in the region between the first display panel and the second display panel.

Abstract: Disclosed is an optical film that comprises certain radiation cured (meth)acrylate binders and, desirably, irregular semicrystalline asymmetric particles.

Abstract: The invention relates to a composition for producing a heat-insulating coating comprising at least one radiation-absorbing compound and at least one IR-reflector component, to a heat-insulating coating comprising this oriented, cured composition, and to a process for producing said coating.

Abstract: Adhesive layers are formed on the two opposing surfaces of a transparent support. At least one of the adhesive layers is made of a material of which the cured state may be changed. The adhesive layer is irradiated with light and a lens sheet is then pressed against the adhesive layer. The adhesive layer is cured. In this illustrative way, a laminate film of the lens sheet fixed to the transparent support via the adhesive layer may be obtained. The laminate film may be bonded to a polarizing plate on the viewer's side of a liquid crystal display element via the other adhesive layer.

Abstract: A case for a portable terminal using a color liquid crystal uses a Peltier device to vary the color of the case by means of electrical heating and cooling the interior of the case. The case includes a temperature control apparatus for emitting electrical heat, when an electrical current is applied thereto, and simultaneously cooling the opposite side; a liquid crystal application agent positioned on the upper portion of the temperature control apparatus and adapted to vary the color by means of the electrical heat; and a cooling unit positioned opposite to an upper portion of the temperature control apparatus to cool heat-generating devices inside the terminal.

Abstract: Disclosed are photo or electron beam curable polymerizable compositions, and preparation thereof and devices containing such cured material. The composition contains completely or substantially completely hydrogenated hydrocarbon-based material completely free or substantially free of carbon-carbon double and triple bonds containing photo or electron beam curable terminal or pendant groups, low-outgassing photoinitiators, an optional viscosity adjustment component and an optional filler. The composition is visible light, UV or electron beam curable. It cures into a low-modulus, low outgassing polymer material. The composition can be used as an adhesive, sealant or lens potting material. It is ideal for use in lithographic tools and other optical devices involving deep or vacuum ultraviolet radiations, in particular, as lens potting materials for 248 nm, 193 nm and 157 nm lithographic tools, as well as other optical devices involving using high fluence irradiation.

Abstract: A glass crack prevention laminate has a glass crack prevention adhesive layer having a dynamic storage elastic modulus G? of not larger than 1×107 Pa at 20° C., and a liquid crystal display optical film laminated on a surface of the glass crack prevention adhesive layer. Particularly, the liquid crystal display optical film is made of a polarizing plate or of a laminate of a polarizing plate and another optical layer. The thickness of the glass crack prevention adhesive layer is selected to be in a range of from 0.1 mm to 5 mm. The glass crack prevention adhesive layer has removability. The adhesive agent-including optical film having the configuration can be directly mounted on a liquid crystal panel so that the glass crack prevention adhesive layer is provided on an inner side. Thus, a liquid crystal display device can be provided.

Abstract: The curable pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet A of this invention comprises an optically transparent substrate on which the curable pressure-sensitive adhesive layer 2 is layered on and integrated therewith. The curable pressure-sensitive adhesive layer 2 comprises a curable pressure-sensitive adhesive composite comprising a cationically-polymerizable compound, a polymer and a photocationic polymerization initiator. Surface roughness Rt of a surface of the curable pressure-sensitive adhesive layer is 2 ?m or less.

Abstract: An edge-sealed, encapsulated environmentally sensitive device. The device includes at least one initial barrier stack, an environmentally sensitive device, and at least one additional barrier stack. The barrier stacks include at least one decoupling layer and at least one barrier layer. The environmentally sensitive device is sealed between the at least one initial barrier stack and the at least one additional barrier stack. A method of making the edge-sealed, encapsulated environmentally sensitive device is also disclosed.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a display and a method for making the display comprising a substrate, an electrically modulated imaging layer, a first transparent conductive layer, and a dark light absorbing layer comprising a binder and a blend of nonconductive colorants and conductive colorants, wherein the conductive colorant is present in an amount less than 25% by weight.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of temporarily and firmly fixing two solids to each other and to a composition used in the method, which is a method of temporarily fixing, comprising temporarily fixing the two solids to each other with a liquid crystal compound or a composition comprising the liquid crystal compound. This method is used for a method of temporarily fixing a pad for chemical mechanical polishing, for example, to polish a wafer for a semiconductor device fixed on a surface of a base plate, when one solid is a pad for chemical mechanical polishing of a wafer for a semiconductor device and the other is a base plate to fix the pad.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for forming a liquid crystal display comprising: providing a liquid crystal display substrate; and forming a light-shielding film for a display on the liquid crystal display substrate by coating the liquid crystal display substrate with a coating liquid containing a binder and fine metal particles, such as fine silver particles, dispersed in the binder, and optionally a dispersant by use of a spin coat method, a curtain coat method, or an extrusion method, and drying the resultant layer, and optionally forming a protective layer on the layer and exposing the protective layer to light.

Abstract: A durable optical film includes a polymerized optical film structure having a microstructured surface and a scratch contrast ratio value in a range of 1.0 to 1.65 or 1.0 to 1.15. These durable optical films can include a plurality of nanoparticles and a rounded prism apexes microstructure.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display which has spacers reliably joined with a pair of substrates of the liquid crystal display by using spacers adapted to the purpose with respect to material, structure, method of joining with the substrates, etc. A pair of substrates can be reliably joined with spacers, and the strength of the liquid crystal display against an external pressure as well as display characteristics can be thereby improved. A manufacturing methods for such a liquid crystal display is also disclosed.

Abstract: A double-faced tape according to which, in the case of fixing a liquid crystal display panel and a backlight module together using the double-faced tape, reflection of external light can be reduced as much as possible at the fixed parts, and moreover incident light from the backlight module can be reflected back toward the backlight module with high reflectance, whereby light from a light source can be used effectively; one face of the double-faced tape 10A is made to be a low-reflectance face, and the other face is made to be a high-reflectance face or high-scattering face.

Abstract: A polarizing plate provided on a surface of a liquid crystal cell of a display, containing a polarizing element, Film A and Film B each provided on each of two surfaces of the polarizing element, wherein: (i) a surface of Film B has an adhesive layer which adheres the polarizing plate to the liquid crystal cell; and (ii) concentrations of a ultraviolet absorber and a stabilizer contained in Film A and Film B, and in-plane and out-of-plane retardation values of Film B, satisfy predetermined conditions.

Abstract: This invention relates to a liquid crystal display with improved contrast ratio, switching performance, reflectivity at the Dmin state and structural integrity, and methods for its manufacture.

Abstract: A barrier film for separating liquid and air, including a liquid crystalline polymer layer having a glass transition temperature less than about 115° C., and having a thickness less than about 15 microns. The barrier film further including a heat-sealable layer, and an adhesive layer interposed between the liquid crystalline polymer layer and the heat sealable layer, forming the barrier film.

Abstract: A method of forming a liquid crystal device, includes: contacting an aqueous solution comprising a surfactant and a receptor molecule with a top surface of a liquid crystal. The liquid crystal is in a holding compartment of a substrate, and the receptor molecule is adsorbed on the top surface of the liquid crystal forming an interface between the liquid crystal and the aqueous solution. The receptor molecule is different than the surfactant. A method of detecting a compound in a flowing stream includes passing an aqueous solution over a top surface of a liquid crystal in a holding compartment of a substrate. The method also includes determining whether a change in the orientation of the liquid crystal occurs as the aqueous solution is passed over the top surface of the liquid crystal. A change in the orientation of the liquid crystal indicates the presence of the compound in the flowing stream.

Abstract: The invention relates to multireactive polymerizable mesogenic compounds of formula I R1—MG—R2 I wherein R1, R2 and MG have the meaning given in claim 1, to a polymerizable mesogenic composition comprising at least two components, at least one which is a compound of formula I, to a linear or crosslinked polymer obtainable by polymerization of one or more compounds of formula I or of a polymerizable composition comprising one or more compounds of formula I and to the use of a compound of formula I, or a polymerizable composition or polymer obtainable thereof, in optical elements such as polarizers, optical retardation or compensation films, alignment layers, colour filters or holographic elements, in liquid crystal displays such as PDLC, polymer gel or polymer stabilized cholesteric texture (PSCT) displays, in adhesives, synthetic resins with anisotropic mechanical properties, cosmetics, diagnostics or liquid crystal pigments, for decorative and security applications, and for nonlinear optics or optical info

Abstract: To provide hard coat films having high hardness, and uniform durability against scratching and high flatness even with a small thickness and a large width, and to provide a method producing the same. The hard coat films are provided with an actinic ray curable resin on a cellulose ester film thereof, the cellulose ester film containing a UV absorber and 2 or more plasticizers. One of the plasticizers is a polyalcohol ester type and the other one is a non-phosphate ester type. The cellulose ester film is produced by biaxially stretching of a cellulose ester film with a total acyl substitution degree ranging from 2.6 to 2.9, a number average molecular weight ranging from 80,000 to 200,000, and a ratio of a weight-average molecular weight to a number average molecular weight ranging from 1.4 to 3.0.

Abstract: An optical compensatory sheet comprises a transparent support and an optically anisotropic layer. The optically anisotropic layer is formed from liquid crystal molecules. Three principal refractive indices of the optically anisotropic layer are different from each other.

Abstract: A curved optical device includes a pair of initially flat opposed flexible substrates that may have a fluid material with spacers disbursed therein disposed between the pair of substrates and sealed. The substrates have a uniform controlled distance therebetween. The substrates are permanently curved by applying heat and pressure with a mold while maintaining the controlled distance therebetween. The fluid material may be a liquid crystal to provide the optical device with enhanced optical properties.