Provided is an antireflection film including: a substrate layer; and a coating layer formed on at least one surface of the substrate layer, in which the coating layer includes a cured material of a composition containing a photo-curable (meth)acrylic acid ester resin; inorganic nanoparticles; a silicone-acrylate graft polymer including a polyacrylate main chain and a silicone side chain; and a solvent.

According to one or more embodiments described herein, a coated article may comprise a transparent substrate and an optical coating. The transparent substrate may have a major surface, and the optical coating may be disposed on the major surface of the transparent substrate and form an air-side surface. The optical coating may comprise one or more layers of deposited material and one or more light-altering features which may reduce oscillations in the reflectance spectrum of the coated article. The coated article may exhibit a maximum hardness of about 8 GPa or greater, have an average photopic transmittance of about 50% or greater, and exhibit an angular color shift of less than about 10 from a reference illumination angle in a range of 0-10 degrees to an incident illumination angle in a range of 30-60 degrees relative to the air-side surface.

A coating composition which contains a fluorinated polymer having a unit (1) represented by —[CX.sup.1X.sup.2—CY.sup.1(Rf.sup.1—COOM.sup.1)]— and a fluorinated compound represented by CX.sup.3X.sup.4═CY.sup.2(Rf.sup.2—COOM.sup.2), wherein the content of the fluorinated compound is from 0.1 to 8.0 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of the fluorinated polymer. X.sup.1, X.sup.2, X.sup.3 and X.sup.4 are H, F or Cl, Y.sup.1 and Y.sup.2 are H, F, Cl, a methyl group or a trifluoromethyl group, Rf.sup.1 and Rf.sup.2 are a perfluoroalkylene group which may contain an etheric oxygen atom between carbon-carbon atoms, or an oxyperfluoroalkylene group which may contain an etheric oxygen atom between carbon-carbon atoms, —COOM.sup.1 is —COOH or —COOZ.sup.1, and —COOM.sup.2 is —COOH or —COOZ.sup.2 (wherein Z.sup.1 and Z.sup.2 are an ammonium ion in which the hydrogen atom may be substituted). The coating composition is suitable for forming a thin antireflection coating layer without increasing its refractive index.

An antireflection film, comprising a film including: hollow particles; and a binder bonding the particles, wherein: the binder contains voids; and the binder contains 10 or less voids each having a cross-sectional area of 1,000 nm.sup.2 or more with respect to 1 μm.sup.2 of a cross-sectional area of the binder. A method of producing the film, comprising: forming a paint into a film by applying the paint onto a substrate, the paint containing hollow particles, a binder, and a solvent, in which a content of the particles is 50-85 wt % and a content of the binder is 15-40 wt % with respect to a total weight of a solid content of the paint, and the paint has a viscosity of 1.3-2 mPa.Math.s at its film-forming temperature; and drying the film.

The invention relates to a coated glass substrate or glass ceramic substrate with resistant, multi-functional surface properties, including a combination of anti-microbial, anti-reflective and anti-fingerprint properties, or a combination of anti-microbial, anti-reflective and anti-fingerprint properties where the substrate is chemically pre-stressed, or a combination of anti-microbial and anti-reflective properties where the substrate is chemically pre-stressed. The coated glass substrate or glass ceramic substrate exhibits a unique combination of functions which are permanently present and do not exert a negative effect on each other.

This disclosure relates to the field of projection display technology, and particularly to a projection screen and a projection display system so as to improve the uniformity of brightness throughout the projection screen. There is an anti-reflection coating arranged in a target area on a light incidence side surface of the projection screen to increase transmittivity in the target area, where the target area refers to an area where an incidence angle of projected light beams on the projection screen is above an angle threshold, and the projected light beams are light beams emitted by a projector.

A resist underlayer film-forming composition including: (A) component: an isopoly or heteropoly acid, or a salt thereof, or a combination thereof; and (B) component: polysiloxan, poly hafnium oxide or zirconium oxide, or a combination thereof, wherein an amount of the (A) component is 0.1 to 85% by mass of a total amount of the (A) component and the (B) component; and polysiloxan is a hydrolysis-condensation product of hydrolyzable silane of Formula (1):
R.sup.1.sub.aR.sup.2.sub.bSi(R.sup.3).sub.4−(a+b)  Formula (1)
and a hydrolyzable silane whose (a+b) is 0 is contained in a proportion of 60 to 85 mol % of a total hydrolyzable silane in Formula (1); the poly hafnium oxide is a hydrolysis-condensation product of hydrolyzable hafnium of Formula (2):
Hf(R.sup.4).sub.4  Formula (2)
and the zirconium oxide is a hydrolysis-condensation product of hydrolyzable zirconium of Formula (3) or Formula (4):
Zr(R.sup.5).sub.4  Formula (3)
ZrO(R.sup.6).sub.2  Formula (4)
or a hydrolysis-condensation product of a combination thereof.

A processing system for forming an optical coating on a substrate is provided, wherein the optical coating including an anti-reflective coating and an oleophobic coating, the system comprising: a linear transport processing section configured for processing and transporting substrate carriers individually and one at a time in a linear direction; at least one evaporation processing system positioned in the linear transport processing system, the evaporation processing system configured to form the oleophobic coating; a batch processing section configured to transport substrate carriers in unison about an axis; at least one ion beam assisted deposition processing chamber positioned in the batch processing section, the ion beam assisted deposition processing chamber configured to deposit layer of the anti-reflective coating; a plurality of substrate carriers for mounting substrates; and, means for transferring the substrate carriers between the linear transport processing section and the batch processing section without exposing the substrate carrier to atmosphere.

The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of fluorinated compounds, to novel compounds containing fluorinated end groups, to the use thereof and to compositions comprising novel compounds containing fluorinated end groups.

An antireflection coating film for an optical element is provided on a surface of a substrate of an optical material and includes first particles having a refractive index (nd) of at least 2.2 or more for the d-line and an average particle size of 10 to 70 nm, second particles of at least one of silica and sericite and having an average particle size of 1 to 11 μm, a colorant of an organic substance and soluble in an organic solvent, and a resin, in which the first particle content is in the range of 10% to 35% by weight, and second particle content is in the range of 1% to 11% by weight. The antireflection coating film has a high effect of preventing surface reflection, a high effect of preventing inner-surface reflection, satisfactory absorption of visible light, and low levels of reflection and scattering in the film.