Abstract: A method for producing a color filter for an image sensor capable of obtaining pixels each constituted substantially into a rectangular shape and having a favorable cross-sectional pattern profile and capable of effectively preventing the deformation of a dye-containing pixel even in a case of conducting post-baking or the like, the production method comprising the processes of coating a dye-containing photo-curable composition on a substrate directly or by way of another layer, then drying to form a coating film, exposing the coating film, putting the exposed coating film to alkali development and irradiating a Ultraviolet radiation to alkali-developed coating film while heating at 20 to 50° C.

Abstract: Provided is a photopolymerizable composition that is highly sensitive to light having wavelengths of 365 nm and 405 nm, and is capable of forming a curable film that can suppress deterioration in physical properties of the film due to heat-aging. The photopolymerizable composition include: (A) an oxime polymerization initiator which includes a condensed ring formed by containing two or more rings selected from an aromatic ring and a heterocyclic ring, and a cyclic structure which is connected to the condensed ring, the cyclic structure containing a carbonyl group and having an oxime group directly connected to the carbonyl group; and (B) a polymerizable compound.

Abstract: An ink formulation comprises a marking component, e.g. ammonium octamolybdate, and a metal salt that absorbs laser irradiation at 780-2500 nm, e.g. reduced indium tin oxide, and thereby causes the marking component to change colour.

Abstract: A color filter fabricated by an ink jet process is disclosed. The color filter includes a substrate, a plurality of pixel regions positioned on the surface of the substrate, and a plurality of colored photoresists. Each pixel region includes a plurality of sub-pixel regions, and each colored photoresist is positioned in each sub-pixel region. The colored photoresists include a plurality of hydrophile photoresists and a plurality of hydrophobic photoresists. The hydrophile photoresists and the hydrophobic photoresists are alternately arranged to prevent an overflow of the colored photoresists.

Abstract: Disclosed is a substrate for a display device, wherein generation of a region which is not filled with the components of a liquid material is suppressed by simple processes during the formation of color layers by a coating method such as an inkjet method using the liquid material, thereby achieving good display quality. Also disclosed are a method for manufacturing the substrate for a display device, and a display device. The substrate for a display device comprises, on a principal surface thereof, banks formed of a resin material, and color layers arranged in a plurality of pixel regions surrounded by the banks. The color layers are formed of the liquid material, and the bank is provided with an impregnated region containing the components of the liquid material.

Abstract: The present invention provides a photosensitive resin composition for a color filter including a methine-based dye represented by the following Chemical Formula 1, and a color filter fabricated using the same. In Chemical Formula 1, R1 and R2 are respectively the same as defined in the specification.

Abstract: A manufacturing method of a color filter comprising the following steps is provided. At first, a transparent substrate is provided. Next, a black matrix is formed on the transparent substrate to define a plurality of pixel areas on the transparent substrate. Then, an isolation layer is formed and patterned on the black matrix and then Red/Green/Blue color filter inks are filled into each of the pixel areas separately by inkjet printing. After that, the color filter inks are dried to form color filter units and optionally the isolation layer can further be patterned to form plenty of photo spacers on the black matrix. The isolation layers prevented the color filter inks from spilling out of the pixel areas and color mixing problems during color filter inkjet fabrication. Besides, it is characterized that the color filter units can be formed with even thickness.

Abstract: Provided is a colored curable composition, comprising at least one tetraazaporphyrin dye represented by the following Formula (C1), a color filter prepared by using the same, and a production method thereof. wherein, R1 represents a substituent group; L represents an aliphatic or aromatic connecting group; Z1 represents a non-metal atom group needed for forming a six-membered ring with carbon atoms; at least one of the multiple groups R1 has —OY, —COOY, —SO3Y, —CON(Y)CO—, —CON(Y)SO2— or —SO2N(Y)CO—; Y represents a hydrogen atom, a metal atom or a conjugate acid; and M represents two hydrogen atoms, a bivalent metal atom, a bivalent metal oxide, a bivalent metal hydroxide or a bivalent metal chloride.

Abstract: There are provided: a curable resin composition having a high exposure sensitivity and a good developing property, and thereby capable of forming an accurate and precise pattern; a liquid crystal panel substrate on which a protective film for covering a color layer or spacers for a liquid crystal layer, by using the curable resin composition, hardly causing a color irregularity and contrast irregularity; and a liquid crystal panel using the liquid crystal panel substrate and having a superior display quality. The curable resin composition of the present invention comprises: a copolymer (a) having a molecular structure in which a constitutional unit including an acidic functional unit and a constitutional unit including a photocurable functional group are linked at least; a photopolymerization initiator (h) having a tertiary amine structure; and a photocurable compound (c) having at least one acidic functional group and at least three photocurable functional groups.

Abstract: A colored photosensitive resin composition comprising (1) an alkali-soluble binder, (2) a monomer or an oligomer, (3) a photopolymerizaton initiator or a photopolymerization initiator system, and (4) a coloring agent, wherein the coloring agent is a specific pigment in a specific quantity. Also provided is a color filter obtained by using the colored photosensitive resin compositions for formation of the respective photosensitive resin layers of R, G and B.

Abstract: Composition, which comprises a latent activator and a colour former, a process for the preparation of these compositions, substrates coated with these compositions and a process for their preparation, a process for preparing marked substrates using these compositions and marked substrates obtainable by the latter process.

Abstract: Methods of fabricating a static interferometric image device and static interferometric image device formed by the same are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes providing a substrate. A plurality of liquid layers are formed over the substrate by an inkjet process such that the layers are lateral to one another. The liquid layers contain a solidifiable material or particles. Then, the plurality of liquid layers are solidified to form a plurality of solid layers. In some embodiments, the substrate includes pre-defined cavities, and the liquid layers are formed in the cavities. In other embodiments, the substrate includes a substantially planar, stepped, or continuously transitioning surface, and the liquid layers are formed on the surface. The inkjet process provides optical fillers or spacers for defining interferometric gaps between absorbers and reflectors in the display device, based at least partially on an image that the display device is designed to display.

Abstract: A color filter ink is adapted to be used to manufacture a color filter by an inkjet method. The color filter ink includes a colorant, a liquid medium that dissolves and/or disperses the colorant, and a resin material. The resin material includes a polymer X and a polymer Y. The polymer X has a monomer component x1 represented by a prescribed chemical formula, a monomer component x2 represented by a prescribed chemical formula, a monomer component x3 represented by a prescribed chemical formula, and a monomer component x4 represented by a prescribed chemical formula. The polymer Y has a monomer component y1 represented by a prescribed chemical formula and a monomer component y2 represented by a prescribed chemical formula.

Abstract: A polymerizable composition for a color filter, including (A) a polymerizable compound, (B) a polymerization initiator, (C) a coloring agent, and (D) a polymer including at least a group having polymerization inhibiting ability and a group having surface localizability.

Abstract: The present invention provides a colored curable composition including a phthalocyanine pigment, a dioxazine pigment, a dye, a polymerization initiator, a polymerizable compound and a solvent; and a colored curable composition including a phthalocyanine pigment, a dye multimer having a polymerizable group and a group derived from a dipyrromethene dye, a polymerization initiator, a polymerizable compound and a solvent.

Abstract: According to a composition for a photo-alignment film of the present invention, which includes an azo compound and a polymer that exhibits mutual solubility with the azo compound, an adhesion to a substrate, particularly to a plastic substrate, is improved within both a photo-alignment film having a haze of not more than 1 obtained by forming a layer of the above composition for a photo-alignment film on a substrate and subsequently irradiating the layer with light to generate a liquid crystal alignment ability; and an optically anisotropic medium, wherein a layer (A) obtained by irradiating a layer of the above composition for a photo-alignment film with light to generate a liquid crystal alignment ability, and a polymer layer (B) obtained by polymerizing a liquid crystal compound having a polymerizable group in an aligned state generated by the layer (A) are bonded and laminated together by covalent bonds.

Abstract: A resist for printing that is coated on a printing roll and is then sequentially transcribed on a printing plate and a substrate including: a material wherein a cohesive energy between the resist and the printing plate is larger than a cohesive energy between the resist and a blanket formed on the surface of printing roll, and wherein a cohesive energy between the resist and the substrate is larger than the cohesive energy between the resist and the blanket formed on the surface of printing roll.

Abstract: The invention relates to a colorant of the formula (2) where M=Ca, Sr or a combination of Ca and Sr.

Abstract: The present invention related to a pigment dispersion composition, a color resist composition including the same, and a color filter fabricated by using the color resist composition. The pigment dispersion composition includes [A] a pigment, [B] a dispersing agent, [C] a cardo-based binder resin, and [D] a solvent.

Abstract: The present invention provides a composition, which comprises a latent activator. It also provides a process for the preparation of these compositions, substrates coated with these compositions and a process for their preparation, a process for preparing marked substrates using these compositions and marked substrates obtainable by the latter process.

Abstract: A color filter being precisely and easily manufactured while solving an alignment problem is provided. Further, a method for manufacturing a color filter structure formed in a display panel that has front and rear substrates opposed to each other is provided.

Abstract: Electrowetting display devices and fabrication methods thereof are presented. The electrowetting display device includes a first substrate and a second substrate with a polar fluid layer and a non-polar fluid layer insolvable to each other and interposed between the first and second substrates. A first transparent electrode is disposed on the first substrate. A second electrode is disposed on the second substrate. A dielectric layer is disposed on the second electrode. A hydrophilic partition wall structure is directly disposed on the dielectric layer defining a plurality of pixel regions. A layer of low surface energy material is disposed on the dielectric layer within each of the pixel region.

Abstract: This invention relates to a dispersant for an organic pigment comprising a compound represented by the below-described formula (1) or (2), and also to its use. According to the present invention, it is possible to provide a dispersant or the like, which can afford a coating formulation for a color filter. The coating formulation is prevented from an increase in viscosity and a reduction in storage stability even when the concentration of a pigment is high, and can fabricate the color filter with excellent transparency and color quality.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a method of forming exposure patterns. These steps of the present method comprise: a substrate is provided; a photoresist layer is formed over the substrate; subsequently, a photo mask with a pattern is placed and aligned to a corresponding location over the photoresist layer for at least double exposure processes, and the photo mask with a pattern is moved and aligned to another corresponding location over the photoresist layer during at least one exposure process; successively, at least one filter is provided to perform at least one exposure process, and the filter is placed above or below the photo mask; and the patterns with different dimensions are consequently formed on the substrate after partial photoresist is removed during a later developing process.

Abstract: The invention provides a dye-containing negative curable composition containing at least: (A) an organic solvent-soluble dye; (B) a photo-polymerization initiator; (C) a photo-polymerizable compound; (D) an amino group-containing alkali-soluble resin having, in a side chain thereof, a structure represented by the following Formula (1); and (E) an organic solvent. In Formula (1), R1 and R2 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or a monovalent organic group, and R1 and R2 may be linked with each other to form a ring structure.

Abstract: A color filter including: a transparent substrate; a light shielding part formed on the transparent substrate and contains at least a light shielding material and a resin; and a colored layer formed in the opening part of the light shielding part on the transparent substrate to cover a part of the light shielding part. The light shielding part has: the width of the thick film region, 85% of more of the maximum film thickness of the light shielding part and disposed in the central part of the light shielding part, in a range of 30% to 60% of the light shielding part line width; and the width of each of the thin film regions, 50% or less of the maximum film thickness of the light shielding part and disposed on the both side parts of the light shielding part, in a range of 10% to 20% of the light shielding part line width.

Abstract: A method and optical component prevent external light reflection and increase light extraction efficiency. In one example embodiment, an optical component is provided on a light extraction side of a light-emitting panel. After a shielding film shaped like a lattice or a mesh is formed on a transparent substrate, a resist film is formed, the resist film is irradiated with ultraviolet light UV from the back side of the substrate by using the shielding film as a mask, and development is carried out, so that an optical functional element is formed. The planar shape of the undersurface of the optical functional element is the same as the planar shape of the lattice or the mesh of the shielding film, and a positioning error between the optical functional element and the shielding film becomes extremely small.

Abstract: According to an aspect of the invention, there is provided a process for producing a dye-containing negative curable composition, the process including passing a mixture containing a dye, a photopolymerization initiator, and a radical polymerizable monomer through a filter having a pore diameter of from not less than 0.02 ?m to less than 0.2 ?m.

Abstract: Compounds of the formula (I), wherein R1, R2 and R3 for example are hydrogen, halogen, CN, C1-C18alkyl, C1-C10 haloalkyl, (CO)R8, (CO)OR4, or (CO)NR5R6; Y is O, S or CO; D2, D3 and D4 for example are a direct bond, O, S, NR7, CO, O(CO), (CO)O, S(CO), (CO)S, NR7(CO), (CO)NR7, SO, SO2, or OSO2, C1-C18alkylene, C3-C30cycloalkylene, C2-C12alkenylene, C4-C30cycloalkenylene, Ar1; Ar1, Ar2 and Ar3 are for example phenylene, R4, R5, R6, R7 and R8 are for example hydrogen, C3-C30-cycloalkyl, C1-C18alkyl, C1-C10haloalkyl, C2-C12alkenyl, C4-C30cycloalkenyl, phenyl-C1C3-alkyl; X? is Formulae (IA), (IB) or (IC); R10 is for example C1-C18alkyl, C1-C10haloalkyl, camphoryl, phenyl-C1-C3alkyl, C3-C30cycloalkyl; and R11, R12, R13, R14 and R15 are for example C1-C10haloalkyl; are useful as polymerizable photolatent acids.

Abstract: The present invention provides (I) a method of manufacturing a triphenylmethane colorant that can suppress the sub-reactions in conversion to a sulfonamide and is industrially advantageous, (II) a colorant compound that has both excellent spectral characteristics and a high solubility relative to organic solvents or polymers as a coloring agent to be used in color filters and (III) a blue resist composition for use in a color filter that shows a high lightness and an excellent hue particularly for blue color and can be used to display an image that is excellent in terms of spectral characteristics and contrast.

Abstract: An azo pigment and a pigment dispersion showing excellent coloring characteristics such as tinctorial strength and hue and excellent fastness such as light fastness are provided. An azo pigment represented by the following general formula (1), its tautomer, a salt or hydrate thereof: (wherein G represents a hydrogen atom, an aliphatic group, an aryl group, a heterocyclic group, an acyl group, an aliphatic oxycarbonyl group, a carbamoyl group, a sulfonyl group, R1 represents an amino group, an aliphatic oxy group, an aliphatic group, an aryl group, or a heterocyclic group, R2 represents a substituent, A represents an aromatic 5- or 6-membered heterocyclic group, m represents an integer of from 0 to 5, n represents an integer of from 1 to 4 and, when n=2, the formula represents a dimer formed through R1, R2, A, or G and, when n=3, the formula represents a trimer formed through R1, R2, A, or G and, when n=4, the formula (1) represents a tetramer formed through R1, R2, A, or G.

Abstract: Methods of forming color filters having a light blocking material therebetween. A color filter is formed such that a trench is defined between a color filter and an adjacent color filter. The trench may be formed by exposing the color filter to polymerizing conditions such as, for example, ultraviolet radiation and heat. The trench may also be formed by etching between adjacent color filters. A material is formed within the trench.

Abstract: A method for producing a colour filter, comprising: applying to a substrate at least one diacetylene capable of undergoing a light-activated colour change reaction, and exposing the substrate to light thereby causing the exposed regions of the substrate to change colour. The invention also provides devices comprising coloured filters such as liquid crystal displays.

Abstract: A color filter including: a transparent substrate; a light shielding part formed on the transparent substrate and contains at least a light shielding material and a resin; and a colored layer formed in the opening part of the light shielding part on the transparent substrate to cover a part of the light shielding part. The light shielding part has: the width of the thick film region, 85% of more of the maximum film thickness of the light shielding part and disposed in the central part of the light shielding part, in a range of 30% to 60% of the light shielding part line width; and the width of each of the thin film regions, 50% or less of the maximum film thickness of the light shielding part and disposed on the both side parts of the light shielding part, in a range of 10% to 20% of the light shielding part line width.

Abstract: A colored curable composition containing a pigment (A) made into fine particles in the presence of sodium chloride (NaCl), an alkali soluble resin (B), a polymerizable compound (C), a photopolymerization initiator (D), and a solvent (E), wherein the pigment is included at 40 mass % to 70 mass % with respect to the total solids of the colored curable composition, and the contact angle of water to a coated layer obtained from coating the colored curable composition on a substrate and drying is 60° or greater. The colored curable composition is excellent in pigment dispersibility and dispersion stability, even when a fine pigment is included therein, is capable of forming a highly uniform colored layer, with excellent cleanability and solubility of the dried colored layer. The composition can also suppress the generation of foreign matter and the like in slit coating.

Abstract: A structure for pattern formation adapted for optically forming a pattern, characterized by comprising: a photocatalyst-containing layer provided on a substrate, the photocatalyst-containing layer containing a material of which the wettability is variable through photocatalytic action upon pattern-wise exposure.

Abstract: The invention provides a heat-resistant flexible color filter, including: a flexible transparent substrate, wherein the forming material thereof includes nano silica and polyimide, and the nano silica is present in an amount of about 20-70 wt %, based on 100 wt % of the forming material; and a heat-stable color photoresist material coated on the flexible transparent substrate, wherein the heat stable color photoresist material includes: a base soluble resin system about 30-90 wt %; a photosensitive system about 5-60 wt %; and a pigment coated with an inorganic alkoxide about 10-50 wt %.

Abstract: A polymerizable composition including at least a polymerizable compound, a binder polymer, a photopolymerization initiator, and a titanium black dispersion, wherein the mass ratio of the content of the polymerizable compound to the content of the binder polymer is more than 1.

Abstract: A colored curable composition with which a coating film having excellent uniformity and surface planarity can be formed even when the support (substrate) has irregularities, and which exhibits excellent developability, and which is capable of forming a high-resolution colored pattern, is provided. The colored curable composition includes: (A) a polymer that contains a structural unit having a carboxyl group bonded to a main chain thereof via a linking group containing an ester group; (B) a photopolymerization initiator; (C) a polymerizable compound; (D) a pigment; and (E) a dispersant containing a phosphoric acid group.

Abstract: A color filter including a substrate, a plurality of first single-layer filter units and a plurality of first multilayer filter units is provided. The substrate has a plurality of first regions and a plurality of second regions. The first single-layer filter units is disposed on the substrate and located in the first regions respectively. The first multilayer filter units is disposed on the substrate and located in the second regions respectively. A manufacturing method for a color filter is also provided.

Abstract: A colored photopolymerizable composition including a pigment, a dispersant, a solvent, a polymerizable compound and a photopolymerization initiator, the solvent further including a solvent (A) having a boiling temperature of from 100° C. to 200° C. and a solvent (B) having a boiling temperature of from 150° C. to 330° C. and an SP value according to the Okitsu method of from 9.5 (cal/cm3)1/2 to 11(cal/cm3)1/2, the solvent (B) being included in an amount of at least 5 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass of the colored photopolymerizable composition; a color filter using the colored photopolymerizable composition; and a method for producing a color filter.

Abstract: A color filter and a fabrication method thereof are provided. In the method, color filter ink that includes wax beads is ejected by an inkjet printing process. A black matrix defining R/G/B pixels is formed on a first surface of a substrate and transparent electrodes are formed on a second surface of the substrate opposite to the first surface at positions corresponding to the R/G/B pixels. The fabricated color filter ink is injected into an inkjet head, and the color filter ink is ejected from the inkjet head into each of the R/G/B pixels. A predetermined voltage is applied between the inkjet head and the transparent electrode such that the ejected color filter ink is precisely injected into each of the R/G/B pixels.

Abstract: Provided are a method of adjusting a photonic bandgap of a photonic crystal, a method of manufacturing a reflective color filter using the same, and a display device including the reflective color filter. The method of adjusting a photonic bandgap of a photonic crystal includes forming the photonic crystal having a photonic bandgap on a substrate, and changing the photonic bandgap by irradiating light onto the photonic crystal. In addition, the display device includes a backlight, a transflective liquid crystal panel including liquid crystal cells sealed between first and second substrates. Each liquid crystal cell corresponding to a pixel includes a transmissive area and a reflective area. A transmissive color filter is formed on the first substrate, which faces the backlight, and a reflective color filter is formed on each reflective area.

Abstract: The invention provides a dye-containing negative working curable composition comprising at least a dye, a photopolymerization initiator, a polymerizable monomer, and a colorless compound having a number average molecular weight of 1,000 to 5,000, wherein the ratio of an alkali-soluble resin to the total solid content of the composition is 10% by mass or less.

Abstract: The present invention provides a production method for a color filter including forming a first colored layer on a support, forming a photoresist layer on the first colored layer, forming an image on the first colored layer by removing the photoresist layer in the form of an image pattern, etching the first colored layer in the form of the image formed in the forming the image by use of a dry etching process that uses a mixed gas in which a fluorine-based gas and oxygen (O2) are mixed at a mixing ratio (fluorine-based gas/O2), by flow rate ratio, in the range of from 2/1 to 8/1, and removing the photoresist layer remaining after the etching.

Abstract: The present invention provides a dye-containing photosensitive composition that includes at least phthalocyanine, a photosensitive compound, and a transition metal complex of which the molar absorption coefficient ? in a visible light region is less than 5000.

Abstract: An organic EL device includes a substrate body, a plurality of organic functional layers arranged on the substrate body in a given pattern and a partition for partitioning the plural organic functional layers. The partition includes at least a first partition part with a substantially trapezoidal cross-section provided on the substrate body and a second partition part with a substantially trapezoidal cross-section provided on the first partition part. The partition is formed so that a lower base of the cross-section of the second partition part can be shorter than an upper base of the cross-section of the first partition part.

Abstract: A dye polymer prepared by polymerizing one or more pigment monomer represented by formula (I), or a dye polymer prepared by copolymerizing one or more pigment monomer represented by formula (I) and one or more monomer having one ethylene group.

Abstract: A method of applying to a display substrate color elements and addressing busbars in a defined alignment relative to each other includes: forming said color elements and said busbars on a surface of a transfer carrier; 10 adhering said color elements and said busbars to said display substrate; and removing said transfer carrier.

Abstract: A color filter of the present invention includes a substrate having light transmissivity, a color layer provided on the lower surface of the substrate and including a plurality of color pattern layers, each transmitting visible light of different color, and a phase difference control layer including a plurality of phase difference pattern layers and optically isotropic layers and provided on the lower surface of the color layer, wherein a color differentiation region includes a color pattern layer and a phase difference pattern layer and an optically isotropic layer that are provided on the lower surface of the color pattern layer is formed for each color of the color pattern layer, and the thickness of the phase difference pattern layer and the thickness of the color pattern layer are respectively different for each color differentiation region.