FILM WITH TRANSPARENT ELECTROCONDUCTIVE MEMBRANE AND ITS USE

• US 20090291293A1
• Filed: 07/13/2007
• Published: 11/26/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 07/14/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Company Limited
• Inventors: Sakakura, Osamu
• Application Number:
  US12/373,529
• Publication Number:
  US 20090291293A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 428/323
• CPC Class Codes: C09K 2323/061 Inorganic, e.g. ceramic, metallic or glass
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133305 Flexible substrates, e.g. plastics, organic film
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/1334 based on polymer dispersed liquid crystals, e.g. microencapsulated liquid crystals
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/13439 characterised by their electrical, optical, physical properties; materials therefor; method of making
• CPC Class Codes: H01B 13/0026 Apparatus for manufacturing conducting or semi-conducting layers, e.g. deposition of metal
• CPC Class Codes: H01B 5/14 comprising conductive layers or films on insulating-supports
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 2102/101 comprising transparent conductive oxides [TCO]
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 50/81 Anodes
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 50/844 Encapsulations
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 77/111 Flexible substrates
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 10/549 Organic PV cells
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/24372 Particulate matter
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/25 Web or sheet containing structurally defined element or component and including a second component containing structurally defined particles

Abstract

This invention provides a film with a transparent electroconductive membrane, which can provide a display having a good surface flatness and possessing a high luminescence brightness, and a substrate for a display, a display, a liquid crystal display device, and an organic EL element using the film with a transparent electroconductive membrane. More specifically, this invention provides a film with a transparent electroconductive membrane, comprising a transparent base material and a transparent electroconductive membrane, the transparent electroconductive membrane having on its surface crystalline secondary particles having an average particle diameter of 0.1 to 1 μm in an amount of 1 to 100 particles/μm², and a substrate for a display, a display, a liquid crystal display device, and an organic EL element using the film with a transparent electroconductive membrane.

Claims

1. A film with a transparent electroconductive membrane, comprising a transparent base material and a transparent electroconductive membrane, the transparent electroconductive membrane having on its surface crystalline secondary particles having an average particle diameter of 0.1 to 1 μ

m in an amount of 1 to 100 particles/μ

m².

2. The film with a transparent electroconductive membrane according to claim 1, wherein the transparent electroconductive membrane contains crystalline secondary particles having an average particle diameter of 0.1 to 1 μ

m in an amount of 150 to 10000 particles/μ

m³.

3. The film with a transparent electroconductive membrane according to claim 1, wherein, in the transparent electroconductive membrane, the half value width at the maximum peak angle in a crystal phase is 1.5 to 9.5.

4. The film with a transparent electroconductive membrane according to claim 1, which has an extinction coefficient against light with a wavelength of 550 nm of not more than 0.05 and a yellowness (YI) of 0.5 to 3.0.

5. A substrate for a display comprising a film with a transparent electroconductive membrane according to claim 1.

6. A display comprising a substrate for a display according to claim 5.

7. A liquid crystal display device comprising a substrate for a display according to claim 5.

8. An organic EL element comprising a substrate for a display according to claim 5.

9. A film with a transparent electroconductive membrane, comprising a transparent base material and a transparent electroconductive membrane, the extinction coefficient against light with a wavelength of 550 nm and the yellowness (YI) of the film with a transparent electroconductive membrane being not more than 0.05 and 0.5 to 3.0, respectively.

10. The film with a transparent electroconductive membrane according to claim 9, wherein the total light transmittance is not less than 75%.

11. The film with a transparent electroconductive membrane according to claim 9, wherein the transparent electroconductive membrane has been formed by repeating a plurality of times the step of conducting any one of plasma treatment, ion bombardment, glow discharge treatment, arc discharge treatment, and spray treatment in an oxidizing gas every time when each 0.3 to 10 nm-thick transparent electroconductive membrane is formed, and accumulating the transparent electroconductive thin film formed in each treatment.

12. The film with a transparent electroconductive membrane according to claim 9, which further comprises a first gas barrier layer.

13. The film with a transparent electroconductive membrane according to claim 12, which further comprises a first smoothing layer.

14. The film with a transparent electroconductive membrane according to claim 13, which further comprises a second gas barrier layer.

15. The film with a transparent electroconductive membrane according to claim 14, which further comprises a second smoothing layer.

16. The film with a transparent electroconductive membrane according to claim 13, wherein the first smoothing layer is formed of an ionization radiation cured resin.

17. The film with a transparent electroconductive membrane according to claim 14, wherein the first gas barrier layer and/or the second gas barrier layer are formed of any one material selected from the group consisting of inorganic oxides, inorganic oxynitrides, inorganic oxycarbides, or inorganic oxynitrocarbides.

18. The film with a transparent electroconductive membrane according to claim 15, wherein the first smoothing layer and/or the second smoothing layer are a layer containing a cardo polymer, a layer containing a polymer having an acryl skeleton, a layer, which is a coating film formed from a coating composition comprising as components at least a silane coupling agent containing an organic functional group and a hydrolyzable group, and a crosslinkable compound containing an organic functional group reactive with the organic functional group contained in the silane coupling agent, or a layer containing a polymer having an epoxy skeleton.

19. The film with a transparent electroconductive membrane according to claim 12, which has a water vapor permeability of not more than 0.05 g/m²/day.

20. A substrate for a display comprising a film with a transparent electroconductive membrane according to claim 9.

21. A display comprising a substrate for a display according to claim 20.

22. A liquid crystal display device comprising a substrate for a display according to claim 20.

23. An organic EL element comprising a substrate for a display according to claim 20.