The present invention provides a circularly polarizing plate capable of reducing the amount of change in tint and a difference in reflectivity while achieving thinning of a display device and a display device having the same. The circularly polarizing plate of the present invention includes a polarizer, a transparent support, an optically anisotropic layer including a liquid crystal compound in this order, in which the optically anisotropic layer satisfies Expression (1) and the transparent support has a thickness of 50 μm or less and satisfied Expression (2), 100≦Re(550)≦180 nm . . . (1) and 1.00≦R≦1.20 . . . (2), in Expression (1), Re(550) represents an in-plane retardation of the optically anisotropic layer at a wavelength of 550 nm and in Expression (2), R represents a ratio between a maximum value and a minimum value of modulus of elasticity of the transparent support.

The present invention provides a circularly polarizing plate that makes it possible to realize a bendable display device having reduced reflectivity and reflective tint and has excellent bending resistance, and a display device including a circularly polarizing plate. The circularly polarizing plate of the present invention is a circularly polarizing plate used for a bendable display device and includes a polarizer, and a phase difference film that is arranged on one side of the polarizer. The phase difference film includes a λ/2 plate and a λ/4 plate, the λ/2 plate and the λ/4 plate each include a liquid crystal compound, and a slow axis direction of the phase difference film is adjusted to define an angle of 75 to 105 degrees with respect to a bending direction of the display device.

Penetration of moisture and propagation of cracks is prevented in a polarizer. An adhesive is provided to cover one or more edges of the polarizer to seal the side section of the polarizer. The adhesive fills initial cracks to prevent the initial crack from being propagated to the inside of the polarizer. A protective film and the adhesive include a material having a hydrophobic characteristic. In a method of fabricating a polarizer, a polarizing film is shaped to form a polarizing layer, and a protective film is then attached by applying an adhesive onto the edges of the polarizing layer. Then, the adhesive is cured, and the protective film having the polarizing layer attached is processed, thereby dividing the protective film into a plurality of polarizers. The adhesive can firmly fix the crack since the adhesive is fills in cracks in the polarizing layer.

Method for fabrication of vector vortex waveplates of improved quality due to reduced singularity size and widened spectral band, the method comprising creating a boundary condition for vortex orientation pattern of a liquid crystal polymer on a substrate using materials with reversible photoalignment, equalizing exposure energy over the area of the waveplate by redistributing the energy of radiation used for photoalignment from the center of the beam to its peripheries, and using vector vortex waveplate as a linear-to-axial polarization converter. Fabrication of spectrally broadband vector vortex waveplates further comprises two or more liquid crystal polymer layers with opposite sign of twist.

Provided are an optical member for enhancing luminance and an organic light-emitting display device having the same. An optical member includes: a linear polarizer, a blue cholesteric liquid crystal (CLC) layer configured to transmit light, the light having only one of: a left-handed circularly polarized light component and a right-handed circularly polarized light component, and a quarter wave plate configured to convert the transmitted light, having the left-handed circularly polarized light component or right-handed circularly polarized light component, into linear polarized light, wherein the blue cholesteric liquid crystal (CLC) layer and the quarter wave plate are located on a same side of the linear polarizer.

Devices and systems to perform optical alignment by using one or more liquid crystal layers to actively steer a light beam from an optical fiber to an optical waveguide integrated on a chip. An on-chip feedback mechanism can steer the beam between the fiber and a grating based waveguide to minimize the insertion loss of the system.

A liquid crystal device comprising a first substrate, a second substrate and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between said first and second substrate; wherein an electrode structure is deposited on at least one of said first and second substrates, said electrode structure comprising: a first electrode layer; an insulating layer; a second electrode layer; wherein said electrode structure comprises holes extending through said second electrode layer and said insulating layer, such that said insulating layer is discontinuous, and wherein each hole is adapted to generate local fringe fields with azimuthal degenerate direction.

A pancake lens assembly includes a partially reflective mirror, a reflective polarizer, a quarter waveplate, a polarization-dependent optical device, and at least one polarization controller. When a light beam is introduced into the pancake lens assembly along an optical axis in a Z direction to pass through the polarization controller in a first state, a polarization direction of the light beam is converted by the polarization controller. When the light beam is introduced into the pancake lens assembly along the optical axis to pass through the polarization controller in a second state, the polarization direction of the light beam is prevented from being converted by the polarization controller.

A method of making an optical article having a gradient tint and a gradient polarization. The method includes providing an optical element including a coating having at least one alignment zone. A dye composition is contacted with the coating. The dye composition includes at least one of: a dichroic dye, a photochromic-dichroic dye, or a combination thereof to diffuse at least a portion of the dye composition into the coating at a predetermined concentration gradient along at least a portion of the coating to provide the gradient tint and the gradient polarization. A kit for making an optical article having a gradient tint and a gradient polarization. An optical article prepared from a method for making an optical article having a gradient tint and a gradient polarization.

A film stack comprises an oriented first layer comprising polyvinyl alcohol disposed on an oriented second layer comprising naphthalene dicarboxylate containing copolyester resin. The oriented second layer has in-plane birefringence Δnxy<0.02.