A display device is disclosed and includes a display panel, a circular polarization cover disposed over the display panel, and a polarization module disposed between the display panel and the circular polarization cover, wherein light emitted from the display panel toward the polarization module is formed into circularly polarized light or elliptically polarized light via the circular polarization cover.

A photoluminescent liquid crystal display includes: a liquid crystal panel including a lower substrate, an upper substrate, a liquid crystal layer interposed between the upper and lower substrates, and a photoluminescent color filter layer disposed between the upper substrate and the liquid crystal layer; an optical device disposed on the upper substrate; a polarizing plate disposed under the lower substrate; and a backlight unit disposed under the polarizing plate and which emits blue light, where the photoluminescent color filter layer includes a first color filter which emits polarized red light, a second color filter which emits polarized green light, and a third color filter which emits polarized blue light, and the first color filter and the second color filter include a semiconductor nanocrystal-polymer composite.

A foldable electronic device module that includes a glass cover element having a thickness from about 25 μm to about 200 μm, an elastic modulus from about 20 GPa to about 140 GPa. The module further includes: a stack having a thickness from about 50 μm to about 600 μm; and a first adhesive joining the stack to a second primary surface of the cover element, the adhesive having a shear modulus from about 0.01 MPa to about 1 GPa and a glass transition temperature of at least 80 C. Further, the device module includes a flex-bond residual stress region through the thickness, and within a central region, of the cover element that ranges from a maximum compressive residual stress at the second primary surface to a maximum tensile residual stress at a first primary surface of the element along a central bend axis of the cover element.

The Kerr effect depends very strongly on the temperature and is associated with high operating voltages. The present invention relates to an electrically controllable optical element which comprises a cell (D) filled with a starting mixture (K) and having two substrates (1a, 1b) and a conductive layer (2a, 2b) applied onto the inner surface of the respective substrate (1a, 1b), wherein the starting mixture (K) comprises a mixture of dipolar, rod-shaped molecules (5) and semi-mesogenes (4) as active constituents, and wherein the starting mixture (K) forms a thin layer having a wide-meshed, anisotropic network (9) produced by photo-polymerization between the structured or/and flat conductive layers (2a, 2b), which are applied onto a substrate (1a, 1b), in a thin-film cell (D). According to the invention, an optically active surface profile (O) is incorporated on the inner surface of a substrate (1a or 1b) or into the substrate (1a or 1b) or both substrates (1a and 1b).

A polarizer protective film, a polarizing plate including the same, and a display device including the polarizing plate are provided. In the polarizer protective film, when a refractive index in an in-plane slow axis direction is defined as n.sub.x and a refractive index in an in-plane fast axis direction is defined as n.sub.y, an (n.sub.x−n.sub.y) value is in a range of about 0 to less than about 0.01.

A method of applying an alignment film on a substrate of a liquid crystal panel, the method includes: forming a surface having high wettability and a surface having low wettability, with respect to a material of the alignment film; bringing uniformly the material of the alignment film into contact with the surface having high wettability and the surface having low wettability when the material of the alignment film on the substrate is applied by using a transfer plate; and separating the transfer plate and the surface of the substrate such that the material of the alignment film is left on the surface having high wettability and the material of the alignment film is not left on the surface having low wettability.

The present disclosure relates to a cover window for a flexible display device and a flexible display device including the cover window, wherein the cover window includes a polymer substrate including a polyamideimide block copolymer; and a hard coating layer formed on at least one surface of the polymer substrate and having a pencil hardness of 5H or more under a load of 750 g, and no crack occurs when wound on a mandrel having a diameter of 3 mm.

A foldable display device may include a display panel, a window disposed on a first surface of the display panel, a metal plate disposed on a second surface of the display panel opposite to the first surface, and a functional member disposed between the display panel and the metal plate, the functional member including a first functional layer in which a plurality of holes are formed and a filler filling each of the holes. An elastic modulus of the filler may be greater than an elastic modulus of the first functional layer.

A coextruded biaxially oriented composite film comprising a polyester substrate layer and disposed on one or both surfaces thereof a strippable sacrificial layer, wherein said strippable sacrificial layer comprises an ethylene-methacrylic acid (EMAA) copolymer.

An article includes a substrate; a first layer disposed on the first major surface of the substrate, wherein the first layer has an adherence to the substrate of greater than or equal to 4B according to a cross hatch adhesion test set forth in ASTM D3359-17; and at least one ink layer disposed on the first layer having a surface roughness Ra greater than or equal 50 nm to provide a textured surface. Also disclosed is an article a substrate a coating disposed on the first major surface, wherein the coating has an adherence to the substrate of greater than or equal to 4B according to a cross hatch adhesion test set, a gauge hardness greater than or equal to 4H according to a pencil test, and a scratch hardness greater than or equal to 3H according to a pencil test set.