Abstract:
Provided is a compound which is capable of reducing a tilt angle of a liquid crystal molecule, and a polymerizable composition, a cured product, an optical film, a polarizing plate, and an image display device, each using the compound. The compound is represented, for example, by Formula (I), P-Sp-Z-G1-(X1-Cy1)n-(X2-A1)m-X3-A2.
Abstract:
An object of the present invention is to provide a transmission decorative film having transparency and capable of applying different visual effects on observation surfaces. The transmission decorative film includes: a linear polarization plate; a first λ/4 plate laminated on one main surface of the linear polarization plate; a first cholesteric liquid crystalline layer laminated on the first λ/4 plate; a second λ/4 plate laminated on the other main surface of the linear polarization plate; and a second cholesteric liquid crystalline layer laminated on the second λ/4 plate, in which the first cholesteric liquid crystalline layer and the second cholesteric liquid crystalline layer respectively have wavelength selective reflectivity and reflect light which is right circularly polarized light or left circularly polarized light at a selective reflection wavelength.
Abstract:
The half mirror includes a retardation layer, a circularly polarized light reflecting layer, and a front panel that are disposed in this order. The retardation layer has a front phase difference as measured at a wavelength of 500 nm of 107 to 127 nm and a front phase difference as measured at a wavelength of 475 nm of 110 to 130 nm. The circularly polarized light reflecting layer includes three cholesteric liquid crystal layers. The three cholesteric liquid crystal layers have different selective reflection center wavelengths λ1, λ2, and X,3. The center wavelengths λ1, λ2, and λ3 satisfy 380 nm
Abstract:
A vehicle mirror with an image display function includes a half mirror and an image display device, the half mirror includes an nλ/4 retardation film and a reflection layer, n is 1, 3, 5, or 7, the nλ/4 retardation film, the reflection layer, and the image display device are disposed in this order in the mirror with an image display function, and the reflection layer is a linear polarization reflection layer or a circular polarization reflection layer.
Abstract:
Provided are a half mirror for displaying a projected image having visible light transmittance including a layer formed by immobilizing a cholesteric liquid crystalline phase (for example, three or more layers formed by immobilizing a cholesteric liquid crystalline phase which exhibit different center wavelengths of selective reflection), in which an antireflection layer may be included on the outermost surface on a projected image display side, and a projected image display system including the half mirror for displaying a projected image and a projector, in which the light emission wavelength of a light source of the projector is in a selective reflection band of the layer formed by immobilizing the cholesteric liquid crystalline phase. The half mirror for displaying a projected image of the present invention is useful as a combiner of a head up display or the like.
Abstract:
An object of the present invention is to provide a liquid crystal display device having excellent color reproducibility. A liquid crystal display device of the present invention is a liquid crystal display device including a non-white light source, a rear polarizer, a liquid crystal layer, and a front-side polarizer in this order, in which a light conversion layer that converts a wavelength of light transmitted through the front-side polarizer is provided on a viewer side of the front-side polarizer.
Abstract:
According to the present invention, there are provided a polarization filter and a sensor system. The polarization filter includes a circularly polarized light-separating layer having a cholesteric liquid crystalline phase fixed therein, in which the circularly polarized light-separating layer is a layer which selectively transmits one of the left-hand circularly polarized light and the right-hand circularly polarized light in the specific wavelength band, a λ/4 phase difference layer for light in the specific wavelength band is disposed on one of the surfaces of the circularly polarized light-separating layer, and the λ/4 phase difference layer includes a first phase difference region and a second phase difference region of which slow axis directions are orthogonal to each other. The sensor system includes the polarization filter, a light source which emits light having a wavelength in the specific wavelength band, and a light-receiving element which can detect light having a wavelength in the specific wavelength band. The polarization filter of the present invention can improve the sensitivity of a sensor system using polarized light, and the sensor system of the present invention has high sensitivity and is extremely cost effective.
Abstract:
A liquid crystal composition containing an optically active compound represented by the following formula (1) and a liquid crystal compound shows a cholesteric liquid crystal phase having an excellent alignment state: K1 and K2 represent benzene, cyclohexane or cyclohexene; X1 to X12 represent hydrogen, halogen, alkyl, alkynyl, alkenyl or alkyloxy.
Abstract translation:含有下式(1)表示的光学活性化合物和液晶化合物的液晶组合物显示出具有优异取向状态的胆甾型液晶相:K1和K2表示苯,环己烷或环己烯; X 1至X 12表示氢,卤素,烷基,炔基,烯基或烷氧基。
Abstract:
A liquid crystal composition includes: at least one of a compound represented by Formula (I) or a compound represented by Formula (II); and a rod-like liquid crystal compound having a polymerizable group that does not correspond to both of Formula (I) and Formula (II)
Abstract:
Provided are a cholesteric liquid crystal layer having an excellent reflection anisotropy, a low haze, and a high circular polarization degree of reflected light, and a method for producing the same. In addition, provided are a laminate, an optically anisotropic body, and a reflective film, each of which including the cholesteric liquid crystal layer. A cholesteric liquid crystal layer formed using a liquid crystal compound, in which, in at least one main plane out of a pair of main planes of the cholesteric liquid crystal layer, a direction of a molecular axis of the liquid crystal compound changes while continually rotating along at least one in-plane direction, the molecular axis of the liquid crystal compound is tilted with respect to the main plane of the cholesteric liquid crystal layer, and an arrangement direction of bright portions and dark portions derived from the cholesteric liquid crystalline phase, as observed under a scanning electron microscope in a cross section perpendicular to the main plane, is tilted with respect to the main plane of the cholesteric liquid crystal layer.