According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first substrate having a first transparent substrate and a pixel electrode, a second substrate having a second transparent substrate, a first common electrode, a second common electrode, and an insulating film disposed between the first common electrode and the second common electrode, and a liquid crystal layer. The first common electrode is disposed between the liquid crystal layer and the insulating film, and includes a first opening and a first electrode portion. The second common electrode is disposed between the insulating film and the second transparent substrate, and includes a second electrode portion overlapping the first opening.

A display device includes a light-emitting element layer and a light control layer. The light control layer may include a plurality of separated partition wall parts including a partition wall part, a color control part between the partition wall parts, the color control part including quantum dots and a first scattering particle, and a coating layer covering a side of the partition wall part adjacent to the color control part. The coating layer includes at least one selected from a substitution dispersant and a substitution scattering particle, and each of the substitution dispersant and the substitution scattering particle may include at least one substituent selected from an amine group and a carboxyl group. The amine groups and the carboxyl groups included in the coating layer may be different in number from each other.

A multilayer film includes a single-crystal silicon layer, a first layer containing Zr, a second layer containing ZrO.sub.2, and a third layer containing a perovskite oxide having an electrooptic effect. The first layer, the second layer, and the third layer are provided in this order above the single-crystal silicon layer, and the multilayer film is transparent to a wavelength to be used.

A display unit that includes an image display part and a light-transmitting protective part arranged on the image display part. A cured resin layer is arranged between the display part and the protective part. The cured resin layer can have a transmittance of 90% or higher in the visible range and a storage modulus at 25° C. of 1×10.sup.7 Pa or less. The cured resin layer can be formed from a resin composition that has a cure shrinkage of 5% or less.

A backlight unit for a liquid crystal display device, the backlight unit including: an light emitting diode (“LED”) light source; a light conversion layer disposed separate from the LED light source to convert light emitted from the LED light source to white light and to provide the white light to the liquid crystal panel; and a light guide panel disposed between the LED light source and the light conversion layer, wherein the light conversion layer includes a semiconductor nanocrystal and a polymer matrix, and wherein the polymer matrix includes a first polymerized polymer of a first monomer including at least two thiol (—SH) groups, each located at a terminal end of the first monomer, and a second monomer including at least two unsaturated carbon-carbon bonds, each located at a terminal end of the second monomer.

A laminate includes a substrate, a self-healing layer on the substrate and having a thickness of greater than or equal to about 50 micrometers, a protective layer between the substrate and the self-healing layer, and a surface layer on the self-healing layer and having a thickness of about 20 nanometers to about 300 nanometers, wherein the self-healing layer has a first elastic modulus and the protective layer has a second elastic modulus, wherein the second elastic modulus is about 1.2 times to about 50 times greater than the first elastic modulus, and wherein the surface layer has a friction coefficient of less than or equal to about 1.

An electro-optic media includes either a plurality of microcapsules in a binder, a polymeric sheet containing sealed microcells, or droplets in a continuous polymeric phase. Each of the microcapsules, microcells, or droplets contain a dispersion that includes a plurality of charged composite particles and a suspending fluid, and the charged particles move through the suspending fluid under the influence of an electric field. The composite particles include one or more types of pigment particles that are at least partially coated with a polymeric material. Each of the binder, polymeric sheet, continuous polymeric phase, the charged composite particles, and the suspending fluid have an index of refraction, and a difference between the index of refraction of the composite particles and at least one of the binder, polymeric sheet, continuous polymeric phase, and solvent is less than or equal to 0.05 at 550 nm.

A display device includes a base layer, a first pixel transistor, a first gate line, a first data line electrically connected to the first pixel transistor, a first pixel electrode electrically connected to the first pixel transistor and overlapping the first data line in a plan view, and a porous layer. The porous layer is disposed between the first data line and the first pixel electrode and includes a matrix including a polymer resin and a plurality of void portions defined in the matrix. The display device is capable of displaying a sharp image because the porous layer alleviates or prevents a crosstalk between the first data line and the first pixel electrode.

The display device includes a liquid crystal panel including a polymer dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) layer and a light source, the PDLC layer containing a polymer network and liquid crystal components dispersed in the polymer network, the light source being apart from the liquid crystal panel with an air layer, and configured to emit light toward the liquid crystal panel from an oblique direction, the end portion and the central portion of the PDLC layer each having, in the scattering state, an angle dependence which changes a transmittance of light to be emitted from a front surface based on an angle at which light is incident on a back surface of the PDLC layer, with the angle dependence of the end portion being different from the angle dependence of the central portion, the light source irradiating the end portion and the central portion with light at different angles.

A polarizing component and a display panel are provided in embodiments of the disclosure, the polarizing component comprising: a first polarizer on a light-incident side thereof, and configured to polarize a light incident thereon into a first linearly polarized light; a wave plate layer on a surface of the first polarizer facing away from the light-incident side; and a second polarizer on a surface of the wave plate layer facing away from the light-incident side, on a light-emergent side opposite to the light-incident side, and configured to polarize a light incident thereon into a second linearly polarized light; the wave plate layer comprises a phase delay portion configured to delay a phase of the first linearly polarized light incident thereon in a direction different from a direction of an optical axis of the phase delay portion such that a polarized light exiting the phase delay portion comprises a first polarized light in a first polarization direction and a second polarized light in a second polarization direction, without incurring any phase delay of the first linearly polarized light incident on the phase delay portion in a direction consistent with the direction of the optical axis of the phase delay portion.