An optical film transfer body including a substrate film, and an optically anisotropic layer that is formed on the substrate film by curing a composition containing a photopolymerizable liquid crystal compound, wherein the optically anisotropic layer contains 25% by weight or less of the photopolymerizable liquid crystal compound; an optical film including, in this order, an adherend, an adhesive layer, and an optically anisotropic layer, wherein the adhesive layer is a layer formed by curing a photocurable adhesive, the optically anisotropic layer is a layer formed by curing a composition containing a photopolymerizable liquid crystal compound, and the optically anisotropic layer contains 25% by weight or less of the photopolymerizable liquid crystal compound; as well as a method for producing an optical film and an organic electroluminescent display device.

Provided is a liquid crystal composition and a use thereof. The liquid crystal composition has a reverse-wavelength dispersion property and excellent high-temperature durability, and the liquid crystal composition can be applied to a retardation layer, a circularly polarizing plate, or a display device, for example, an organic light emitting display device.

A laminate which has a phase difference layer and has excellent thermal durability; a liquid crystal display device; and an organic electroluminescent device. The laminate is a laminate having two substrates, and a polarizing plate disposed between the two substrates, in which the polarizing plate has a polarizer and a phase difference layer, the phase difference layer is a layer formed of a composition containing a reciprocal wavelength dispersible liquid crystal compound, one of the two substrates is a glass substrate having a Na.sub.2O content of 5% by mass or less, and the other of the two substrates is a glass substrate having a Na.sub.2O content of 5% by mass or less, an inorganic compound film having a moisture permeability of 10.sup.−3 g/m.sup.2.Math.day or less and a thickness of less than 1 μm, or an organic-inorganic hybrid film having a moisture permeability of 10.sup.−3 g/m.sup.2.Math.day or less.

Light emitting electrochemical cell devices comprising chiral liquid crystalline materials. The chiral liquid crystalline material mixtures of the devices function as both electrolytes and as light emitting materials. The chiral liquid crystalline material mixtures also form photonic crystal structures creating a photonic stop band. The presence of the photonic stop band enables the light emitting electrochemical cell devices to emit light with improved energy efficiency.

The purpose of the present invention is to provide an organic semiconductor material having liquid crystallinity and high electron mobility. The present invention is an organic semiconductor material having at least a charge-transporting molecular unit (A) having a structure of an aromatic fused ring system and a cyclic structural unit (B) bonded to the aforementioned unit via a single bond, wherein the unit (A) and/or the unit (B) has a side chain composed of a unit (C), and wherein the organic semiconductor material exhibits a liquid crystal phase that is different from an N-phase, an SmA-phase or an SmC-phase.

A device includes first and second electrodes that are at least partially transparent in a spectral domain; an electroluminescent layer that lies between the first and second electrodes suitable for emitting electromagnetic radiation in the spectral domain, the electromagnetic radiation being circularly polarized in a first polarization direction; a structured substrate, the first electrode lying between the structured substrate and the electroluminescent layer, the structured substrate including features that are reflective in the spectral domain, and that possess a hollow geometric shape configured so that electromagnetic radiation that passes through the first electrode is reflected from the reflective features while preserving the first polarization direction, a filler material that is transparent in the spectral domain and that is arranged to fill the reflective features so that the structured substrate has a planar surface.

A method for manufacturing a photoelectric conversion device, that includes: forming a laminate structure of a substrate, a transparent electrode, an active layer produced by wet-coating, and a counter electrode, stacked in this order; and thereafter forming a cavity by: (a) pressing an adhesive material just against a defect formed on the surface of said counter electrode, and then peeling off said adhesive material together with said defect and the peripheral part thereof; or (b) sucking a defect formed on the surface of said counter electrode, so as to remove said defect and the peripheral part thereof, where said cavity penetrates through the counter electrode and unreached to the transparent electrode.

An object of the present invention is to provide Provided is a light absorption anisotropic film, a laminate, an image display device, and a liquid crystal composition with excellent adhesiveness and a high alignment degree. The light absorption anisotropic film of the present invention is a light absorption anisotropic film is formed of a liquid crystal composition that contains a liquid crystal compound, a dichroic substance, and a boronic acid compound containing a polymerizable group, in which the liquid crystal compound is horizontally aligned.

An electronic switching element is described having, in sequence, a first electrode, a molecular layer bonded to a substrate, and a second electrode. The molecular layer contains compounds of formula I, R.sup.1-(A.sup.1-Z.sup.1).sub.rB.sup.1(Z.sup.2-A.sup.2).sub.s-Sp-G, wherein A.sup.1, A.sup.2, B.sup.1, Z.sup.1, Z.sup.2, Sp, G, r, and s are as defined herein, in which a mesogenic radical is bonded to the substrate via a spacer group, Sp, by means of an anchor group, G. The switching element is suitable for production of components that can operate as a memristive device for digital information storage.

Disclosed herein is a light emitting device and method of manufacturing such a device comprised of a series of photopolymerizable, chiral liquid crystalline layers that can be solvent cast on a substrate. The mixture of chiral materials in each successive layer may be blended in such a way that each layer has the same chiral pitch. Further the chiral materials in each layer may also be blended so that the ordinary and extraordinary refractive indices in each layer match the other layers such that the complete assembly of layers will optically function as a single relatively thick layer of chiral liquid crystal. The chiral nematic material in each layer can spontaneously adopt a helical structure with a helical pitch. The light emitting layers of the light emitting device can further comprise electroluminescent material that emits light into the band edge light propagation modes of the photonic crystal.