Disclosed herein are a retardation film for IPS mode, a polarizing plate including the same, and a liquid crystal display including the same. The retardation film for IPS mode has an out-of-plane retardation at a wavelength of 450 nm (Rth (450) of about −80 nm to 0 nm, an out-of-plane retardation at a wavelength of 550 nm (Rth (550) of about −60 nm to 10 nm, an out-of-plane retardation at a wavelength of 650 nm (Rth (650) of about −60 nm to 10 nm, and an in-plane retardation (Re) at a wavelength of 550 nm of about 0 nm to 10 nm.

An adhesive composition includes 0.1 to 1 part by weight of nano panicles, 50 to 95 parts by weight of acrylate resin, and 5 to 50 parts by weight of a monomer or oligomer of acrylate or acrylic acid containing multi-functional groups, and the acrylate resin and the monomer or oligomer of acrylate or acrylic acid containing multi-functional groups have a total weight of 100 parts by weight, in which the acrylate resin has a weight average molecular weight of 100,000 to 1,500,000. The nano particle has a shell covering parts of the surface of the core, and acrylate groups grafted to the surface of the core.

In the case of an embossing lacquer based on a UV-polymerizable prepolymer composition containing at least one acrylate monomer, the prepolymer composition—in addition to the acrylate monomer—contains at least one thiol selected from the group: 3-Mercaptopropianates, mercaptoacetates, thioglycolates, and alkylthiols as well as potentially a surface-active anti-adhesive additive selected from the group of anionic surfactants, such as polyether siloxanes, fatty alcohol ethoxylates, such as polyoxyethylene (9) lauryl ethers, monofunctional alkyl (meth)acrylates, polysiloxane (meth)acrylates, perfluoroalkyl (meth)acrylates, and perfluoropolyether (meth)acrylates as well as a photoinitiator, as well as a method for imprinting substrate surfaces coated with an embossing lacquer.

The present, invention provides a liquid crystal display device that can exhibit excellent retardation stability against heat and that can prevent reduction in contrast ratio due to scattering even when the liquid crystal display device includes a retardation layer formed by polymerization of a reactive monomer, and a method for producing a liquid crystal display device suitable for production of the liquid crystal display device. The liquid crystal display device of the present invention includes paired substrates and a liquid crystal layer provided between the paired substrates. At least one of the paired substrates includes a retardation layer formed from a polymer of at least one type of monomer. The at least one type of monomer includes a photo-aligning monomer that is to be aligned by polarized light.

A film stack includes a plurality of first films and a plurality of second films alternately stacked. At least one second film of the plurality of second films includes a solid crystal including crystal molecules aligned in a predetermined alignment direction. At least one first film of the plurality of first films includes an alignment structure configured to at least partially align the crystal molecules of the solid crystal in the predetermined alignment direction.

A photo-alignment polymer has a repeating unit represented by Formula (1), in Formula (1), R.sup.1 represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent, X represents —O—, —S—, or —NR.sup.2—, in which R.sup.2 represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent, L.sup.1 represents a single bond or a divalent linking group, P represents a photo-aligned group, and A represents an acid-cleavage group which is decomposed by an action of acid to produce a polar group

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Regioselectively substituted cellulose esters having a plurality of pivaloyl substituents and a plurality of aryl-acyl substituents are disclosed along with methods for making the same. Such cellulose esters may be suitable for use in films, such as +A optical films, and/or +C optical films. Optical films prepared employing such cellulose esters have a variety of commercial applications, such as, for example, as compensation films in liquid crystal displays and/or waveplates in creating circular polarized light used in 3-D technology.

The invention relates to an acrylic adhesive composition, more particularly, to an adhesive composition which: specifies the contents of a (meth)acrylic ester-based monomer and an aromatic group-containing monomer of an acrylic copolymer as a composition having little or no difference of birefringence; has excellent durability; and can reduce light leakage due to flexure by mixing a crosslinkable functional group-containing acrylic copolymer (A) and an acrylic copolymer (B) which does not contain the crosslinkable functional group, in a ratio of 1:9 to 5:5.

The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device that includes a horizontal alignment film, stabilizes liquid crystal alignment by the PSA technique, can suppress the increase in power consumption, reduction in contrast, and image sticking in display, and has long-term reliability. The present invention is a liquid crystal display device including a pair of substrates, a liquid crystal layer interposed between the pair of substrates, a horizontal alignment film formed on at least one of the pair of substrates, and a polymer layer which is formed on the horizontal alignment film and controls the alignment of adjacent liquid crystal molecules, wherein the polymer layer is formed by the polymerization of at least one or more kinds of monomers added into the liquid crystal layer, and at least one of the one or more kinds of monomers is polymerized by itself functioning as a polymerization initiator by being irradiated with light.

Regioselectively substituted cellulose esters having a plurality of aryl-acyl substituents and a plurality of alkyl-acyl substituents are disclosed along with methods for making the same. Such cellulose esters may be suitable for use in optical films, such as optical films having certain Nz values, −A optical films, and/or +C optical films. Optical films prepared employing such cellulose esters have a variety of commercial applications, such as, for example, as compensation films in liquid crystal displays and/or waveplates in creating circular polarized light used in 3-D technology.