The present disclosure relates to a retarder plate with adjustable dispersion of retardation. The retarder can form a quarter-wave plate that exhibits a reverse or flat dispersion of retardation.

The present invention relates to a liquid crystal alignment composition that not only exhibits high degree of imidization and excellent film strength when manufacturing a liquid crystal alignment film, but also can realize improved alignment property and electrical properties, a method for preparing a liquid crystal alignment film using the same, a liquid crystal alignment film and a liquid crystal display using the same.

There is provided a liquid crystal composition that exhibits a sufficiently low viscosity (η), a sufficiently low rotational viscosity (γ1), and a large elastic modulus (K.sub.33) without decreasing the refractive index anisotropy (Δn) and the nematic phase-isotropic liquid phase transition temperature (T.sub.ni) and without increasing the solid phase-nematic phase transition temperature (T.sub.cn). The liquid crystal display element that uses this liquid crystal composition satisfactorily obtains a pretilt angle and has a high voltage holding ratio (VHR) and high-speed response. Thus, a liquid crystal display element that has no or less alignment defects and display defects such as image sticking, and has high display quality and high response speed is obtained.

The present invention relates to a glass member including a glass and a reflection sheet, in which the glass includes: a first surface; a second surface opposite to the first surface; at least one first end surface that is provided between the first surface and the second surface; and at least one second end surface that is provided between the first surface and the second surface and is different from the first end surface, the glass has an effective optical path length of 5 cm to 200 cm, the glass has an average internal transmittance of at least 80% in a visible light region over the effective optical path length, the second end surface has a surface roughness Ra of not higher than 0.8 μm, and the reflection sheet is disposed on the second end surface, and relates to a glass for use in the glass member.

The present application relates to a liquid crystal aligning agent, a liquid crystal alignment film and a method for producing the same, as well as a liquid crystal display device. The liquid crystal aligning agent comprises (i) a first polyamic acid having a photoreactive group without a liquid crystal group; (ii) a second polyamic acid having a liquid crystal group without a photoreactive group; (iii) a third polyamic acid having both a liquid crystal group and a photoreactive group; (iv) a fourth polyamic acid having neither a photoreactive group nor a liquid crystal group. The liquid crystal display device using the liquid crystal alignment film formed by the liquid crystal aligning agent provided by the present disclosure has a high display contrast and an improved AC residual image.

The present invention relates to a visibility improving film for a display panel and a display device including the same. More specifically, the present invention relates to a visibility improving film for a display panel capable of exhibiting excellent physical and optical properties particularly while improving the visibility of a laser pointer, by including fine metal particles dispersed in the photocurable resin layer, and to a display device including the same.

Ligand-capped scattering nanoparticles, curable ink compositions containing the ligand-capped scattering nanoparticles, and methods of forming films from the ink compositions are provided. Also provided are cured films formed by curing the ink compositions and photonic devices incorporating the films. The ligands bound to the inorganic scattering nanoparticles include a head group and a tail group. The head group includes a polyamine chain and binds the ligands to the nanoparticle surface. The tail group includes a polyalkylene oxide chain.

An object of the invention is to provide a novel laminate and a novel image display device which have both of a gas barrier function and a polarizer function and have a reduced thickness as compared to those in the related art. A laminate of the invention has a laminate which has a substrate, an inorganic layer, and an organic layer, and the organic layer contains an organic dichroic pigment.

The present disclosure provides a display panel, a manufacturing method thereof, and a transfer printing device. In the embodiments of the present disclosure, at least one groove is defined in a transfer printing plate of the transfer printing device, through holes corresponding to blind holes can be formed in an area corresponding to the grooves, thereby preventing blocking effect of an original alignment film on light passing through the blind holes, increasing light transmittance of the blind holes, and improving an overall performance of devices with the blind holes.

A display device includes: a display module including a first area and a second area at least partially surrounding the first area in a plan view; an external member disposed on the display module; and an adhesive layer configured to couple the display module to the external member, wherein a coupling strength between the second area and the adhesive layer is greater than a coupling strength between the first area and the adhesive layer.