The present invention aims to provide a colored luminescent sheet that enables production of a colored glass providing better aesthetic appearance, and a colored luminescent glass including the colored luminescent sheet. Provided is a colored luminescent sheet including: a thermoplastic resin; a colorant; and a luminescent material that emits visible light having a wavelength of 380 to 750 nm under excitation light.

The present invention aims to provide a colored luminescent sheet that enables production of a colored glass providing better aesthetic appearance, and a colored luminescent glass including the colored luminescent sheet. Provided is a colored luminescent sheet including: a thermoplastic resin; a colorant; and a luminescent material that emits visible light having a wavelength of 380 to 750 nm under excitation light.

There is provided an interlayer film for laminated glass with which laminated glass having a gradation pattern with suppressed color irregularity can be prepared. The interlayer film for laminated glass according to the present invention is provided with a dark color part, a gradation part and a transparent part, allows laminated glass prepared with two sheets of clear glass to have a parallel light transmittance in a portion of the dark color part less than or equal to 30%, allows the parallel light transmittance in a portion of the gradation part to be continuously increased from the dark color part side to the transparent part side, allows the laminated glass to have a parallel light transmittance in a portion of the transparent part greater than or equal to 60%, allows each of the dark color part, the gradation part and the transparent part to have a first resin layer and allows each of the dark color part and the gradation part to have a second resin layer or allows each of the dark color part, the gradation part and the transparent part to have a second resin layer and allows each of the gradation part and the transparent part to have a first resin layer, and furthermore, allows the thickness of the second resin layer in the gradation part to be continuously decreased from the dark color part side to the transparent part side.

A composite system for light diffusion comprises a matrix of a material that is transparent to light; the matrix contains a dispersion of scattering elements having a core that is a nanocluster of inorganic nanoparticles, and a shell comprising silane compounds and dispersing agents; the nanocluster having average dimensions in the range of 20 nm to 300 nm.

There is provided an interlayer film for laminated glass with which laminated glass having a gradation pattern with suppressed color irregularity can be prepared. The interlayer film for laminated glass according to the present invention is provided with a dark color part, a gradation part and a transparent part, allows laminated glass prepared with two sheets of clear glass to have a parallel light transmittance in a portion of the dark color part less than or equal to 30%, allows the parallel light transmittance in a portion of the gradation part to be continuously increased from the dark color part side to the transparent part side, allows the laminated glass to have a parallel light transmittance in a portion of the transparent part greater than or equal to 60%, allows each of the dark color part, the gradation part and the transparent part to have a first resin layer and allows each of the dark color part and the gradation part to have a second resin layer or allows each of the dark color part, the gradation part and the transparent part to have a second resin layer and allows each of the gradation part and the transparent part to have a first resin layer, and furthermore, allows the thickness of the second resin layer in the gradation part to be continuously decreased from the dark color part side to the transparent part side.

Light systems are disclosed that comprise a translucent laminate diffuser, positioned adjacent a multipoint LED light source. The translucent laminate diffuser comprises a poly(vinyl butyral) polymer layer provided with one or more diffusion agents, and a stiff, transparent layer on each side of the poly(vinyl butyral) polymer layer. The translucent laminate diffuser exhibits suitable visible light transmission and diffusivity.

Transparent displays enable many useful applications, including heads-up displays for cars and aircraft as well as displays on eyeglasses and glass windows. Unfortunately, transparent displays made of organic light-emitting diodes are typically expensive and opaque. Heads-up displays often require fixed light sources and have limited viewing angles. And transparent displays that use frequency conversion are typically energy inefficient. Conversely, the present transparent displays operate by scattering visible light from resonant nanoparticles with narrowband scattering cross sections and small absorption cross sections. More specifically, projecting an image onto a transparent screen doped with nanoparticles that selectively scatter light at the image wavelength(s) yields an image on the screen visible to an observer. Because the nanoparticles scatter light at only certain wavelengths, the screen is practically transparent under ambient light. Exemplary transparent scattering displays can be simple, inexpensive, scalable to large sizes, viewable over wide angular ranges, energy efficient, and transparent simultaneously.

There is provided an interlayer film for laminated glass with which laminated glass having a gradation pattern with suppressed color irregularity can be prepared. The interlayer film for laminated glass according to the present invention includes a first resin layer containing a thermoplastic resin and a plasticizer and a second resin layer containing a thermoplastic resin, a plasticizer and inorganic particles, and the first resin layer being arranged on a first surface side of the second resin layer, wherein a gradation part being a region where the parallel light transmittance is greater than 30% and less than 60% and being a region where the thickness of the second resin layer is continuously decreased in the direction orthogonal to the thickness direction of the interlayer film at the time of preparing the laminated glass exists, and the complex viscosity at 200 C. of the second resin layer is greater than or equal to 0.7 times and less than or equal to 2 times the complex viscosity at 200 C. of the first resin layer.

Provided herein is a translucent white polymer composition suitable for use as a safety glass interlayer. The translucent white polymer composition comprises a pigment and a polymeric resin that comprises an ionomer of an ethylene acid copolymer. Alumina (Al.sub.2O.sub.3) and alumina trihydrate (Al(OH).sub.3; ATH) are preferred pigments. The translucent white polymer composition is useful in various molded articles. The translucent white polymer composition is particularly useful as an interlayer in glass laminates, including safety glass laminates and structural glass laminates. Further provided herein are methods of making the translucent white polymer composition, the articles and the glass laminates.

A solar module includes an encapsulant and solar cells in the encapsulant. The encapsulant includes a colored encapsulant on one side of the solar cells and a transparent encapsulant on the other side of the solar cells. An interface between the colored encapsulant and the transparent encapsulant is located more on the one side than a main surface of the other side of the solar cells and located more on the other side than a center in a thickness direction of the solar cells.