Abstract:
An optical member and an image display device including an optical member having a support, an underlayer, and a wavelength selective reflection portion in this order, in which the wavelength selective reflection portion has wavelength selective reflecting properties, the wavelength selective reflection portion has a cholesteric structure which has a stripe pattern including bright portions and dark portions in a cross-sectional view of the wavelength selective reflection portion when observed with a scanning electron microscope, the underlayer absorbs invisible light, and a wavelength range where the wavelength selective reflection portion has wavelength selective reflecting properties overlaps a wavelength range of invisible light absorbed by the underlayer. In the optical member, a Signal/Noise ratio is high which is a ratio of a reflectance of the wavelength selective reflection portion to a reflectance of the underlayer in a wavelength range where the wavelength selective reflection portion has wavelength selective reflecting properties.
Abstract:
Provided are an on-press development type lithographic printing plate precursor having a support and an image-recording layer on the support in which the image-recording layer contains a coloring compound capable of having a coloring reaction with a decomposition product generated by exposure of the image-recording layer, and an on-press development type lithographic printing plate precursor having a support and an image-recording layer on the support in which the image-recording layer contains a compound represented by Formula 1C or Formula 2C and an electron-donating polymerization initiator. In Formula 1C and Formula 2C, R1C to R4C each independently represent a monovalent organic group, L1C and L2C each independently represent a divalent organic group, AC represents OH or NR5CR6C, and R5C and R6C each independently represent a monovalent organic group.
Abstract:
A polarized light irradiation device of the present disclosure has: a light source unit which continuously emits polarized light; a light shaping unit which shapes the polarized light emitted from the light source unit into a preset shape to irradiate an irradiation target object with the shaped polarized light; a transport mechanism which transports the irradiation target object relative to the light source unit; and an interlocking mechanism which periodically and continuously changes a direction of linearly polarized light applied to the irradiation target object or an azimuthal angle of elliptically polarized light applied to the irradiation target object according to an amount of transport of the irradiation target object relative to the light source unit by the transport mechanism.
Abstract:
Provided are a reflective sheet including a cholesteric liquid crystal layer and having excellent reflection wavelength range, diffuse reflectivity, reflectivity, hardness, and scratch resistance; and a transfer film for a reflective sheet that is used for the reflective sheet. The reflective sheet includes a substrate, an adhesive layer, a cholesteric liquid crystal layer, and a hard coat layer in this order, in which in a cross-section of the cholesteric liquid crystal layer observed, at least a part of bright portions and dark portions has a flapping structure, the cholesteric liquid crystal layer has a pitch gradient structure in which a helical pitch changes in a thickness direction, and the helical pitch on the adhesive layer side is larger than that on the hard coat layer side.
Abstract:
A laminate has a first polarizer, a first patterned optical anisotropic layer, a second patterned optical anisotropic layer, and a second polarizer, in which an angle formed between transmission axes of the polarizers is 90°+5°; each of the patterned optical anisotropic layers has three or more phase difference regions, which have different slow axis directions and in which the slow axis directions continuously change, in a plane of each of the first patterned optical anisotropic layer and the second patterned optical anisotropic layer; a transmission display state and a light-blocking display state are switched with each other by changing an angle formed between the slow axis direction of each of the phase difference regions of the first patterned optical anisotropic layer and the slow axis direction of each of the phase difference regions of the second patterned optical anisotropic layer that is superposed on each of the phase difference regions of the first patterned optical anisotropic layer; a combination of the patterned optical anisotropic layers is a combination of a +A plate and −A plate; and at least one of the polarizers is a reflective-type polarizer.
Abstract:
Provided are a transparent film that allows scenery to be observed without color unevenness in a state where light is not irradiated, a transparent screen and an image display system including the transparent film, and a transparent poster. The transparent film includes: a support; a dot array that is formed on one surface of the support and in which dots obtained by immobilizing a cholesteric liquid crystalline phase are two-dimensionally arranged; and an overcoat layer that covers the dots and is laminated on the support, in which areas of the dots and distances between the dots are made to be irregular. As a result, the object is achieved.
Abstract:
Provided is a member for displaying a projected image, including: a first base material; a second base material; and an optical member, in which at least one optical member is disposed on a surface of the first base material or the second base material, the optical member includes a plurality of cholesteric liquid crystal dots, the cholesteric liquid crystal dot is formed of a liquid crystal material having a cholesteric structure, the cholesteric structure imparts a striped pattern formed of bright portions and dark portions in a cross-sectional image of the cholesteric liquid crystal dot taken by a scanning electron microscope in a direction perpendicular to a substrate, the dot includes a portion where the height thereof successively increases to the maximum height thereof from an end portion toward the center thereof, an angle between a normal line with respect to a line formed by the first dark portion from the surface of the dot on a side opposite to the substrate and a line representing the surface of the is in a range of 70° to 90° in this portion of the cross-sectional image, and a reflection center wavelength of the dot is in a range of 400 to 1000 nm.
Abstract:
An optical member includes: a substrate; and a dot formed on a surface of the substrate. The dot has wavelength selective reflecting properties, and a cholesteric structure which has a stripe pattern including bright and dark portions in a cross-sectional view of the dot when observed with a scanning electron microscope. A surface shape of the dot opposite to the substrate in a cross-section of the dot in a thickness direction has at least one inflection point. In the cross-section, an angle between a normal line perpendicular to a line, formed using a first dark portion from a surface of the dot opposite to the substrate, and the surface of the dot, is in a range of 70° to 90°. A proportion of a retroreflective area of the optical member is high when observed after light irradiation from an oblique direction to a normal direction perpendicular to the optical member.
Abstract:
The optical member of the present invention includes: a substrate; and a dot that is in contact with a surface of the substrate, in which the dot has wavelength selective reflecting properties, the dot is formed of a liquid crystal material having a cholesteric structure, the cholesteric structure has a stripe pattern including bright portions and dark portions in a cross-sectional view of the dot when observed with a scanning electron microscope, the dot includes a portion having a height which continuously increases to a maximum height in a direction moving from an end portion of the dot to the center of the dot, in the portion, an angle between a normal line perpendicular to a line, which is firmed using a first dark portion from a surface of the dot, and the surface is in a range of 70° to 90°, and the liquid crystal material includes a surfactant.
Abstract:
An optical member having a base and an underlayer with a region A of surface energy AE and a region B of surface energy BE (BE-AE>0 mN/m), in which a dot of a wavelength-selective reflective cholesteric structure is disposed on the region B, has high pattern position accuracy for the patterns formed with the dots.