IP Library Granted Patent US 12,253,650
Granted Patent B2
US 12,253,650 · App. 17/771,214 · Granted Mar 18, 2025

Anti-reflective film

Inventors: Jinseok Byun (Daejeon, KR); Kyung Moon Ko (Daejeon, KR); Yeongrae Chang (Daejeon, KR)
Assignee: LG CHEM, LTD.
G02B1/115G02B1/111G02B1/14H10K50/865G02B5/0242H10K2102/331
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Patent No.
US 12,253,650
App. No.
17/771,214
Granted
Mar 18, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present disclosure relates to an anti-reflective film comprising: a hard coating layer; and a low refractive index layer, wherein a particle-mixed layer containing both hollow inorganic nanoparticles and solid inorganic nanoparticles and having a thickness of 1.5 nm to 22 nm exists in the low refractive index layer, and wherein the anti-reflective film has a ratio of the reflectance at a wavelength of 400 nm to the reflectance at a wavelength of 550 nm of 1.3 to 2.7, and a polarizing plate, a display device, and an organic light emitting diode display device comprising the anti-reflective film.

Claims (42)

1. An anti-reflective film comprising:

a hard coating layer; and a low refractive index layer,

wherein a particle-mixed layer containing both hollow inorganic nanoparticles and solid inorganic nanoparticles and having a thickness of 1.5 nm to 22 nm exists in the low refractive index layer, and

wherein the anti-reflective film has a ratio of the reflectance at a wavelength of 400 nm to the reflectance at a wavelength of 550 nm of 1.3 to 2.7.

2. The anti-reflective film according to claim 1 ,

wherein the anti-reflective film has a reflectance of more than 0.5% and 1.5% or less at a wavelength of 550 nm.

3. The anti-reflective film according to claim 1 ,

wherein the anti-reflective film has a reflectance of 1.0% to 3.5% at a wavelength of 400 nm.

4. The anti-reflective film according to claim 1 ,

wherein the particle-mixed layer has a thickness of 2.0 nm to 20 nm.

5. The anti-reflective film according to claim 1 ,

wherein the thickness of the particle-mixed layer is determined by fitting a polarization ellipticity measured by an ellipsometry method to a diffusion layer model.

6. The anti-reflective film according to claim 1 ,

wherein the low refractive index layer is formed on one surface of the hard coating layer, and

the particle-mixed layer is located at a distance of 15 nm to 60 nm from the one surface of the hard coating layer.

7. The anti-reflective film according to claim 6 ,

wherein a region between the one surface of the hard coating layer and the particle-mixed layer has a refractive index of 1.46 to 1.65 at a wavelength of 550 nm.

8. The anti-reflective film according to claim 1 ,

wherein the low refractive index layer has a thickness of 20 nm to 240 nm.

9. The anti-reflective film according to claim 1 ,

wherein the hard coating layer has a surface energy of more than 34 mN/m.

10. The anti-reflective film according to claim 1 ,

wherein the low refractive index layer is formed on one surface of the hard coating layer,

the low refractive index layer comprises hollow inorganic nanoparticles and solid inorganic nanoparticles dispersed in a binder resin, and

50% by volume or more of the entire solid inorganic nanoparticles in the low refractive index layer exist between the one surface of the hard coating layer and the particle-mixed layer.

11. The anti-reflective film according to claim 10 ,

wherein in the low refractive index layer, 50% by volume or more of the entire hollow inorganic nanoparticles exist in a region from the particle-mixed layer to one surface of the low refractive index layer opposite from the hard coating layer.

12. The anti-reflective film according to claim 11 ,

wherein the region from the particle-mixed layer to one surface of the low refractive index layer opposite from the hard coating layer has a refractive index of 1.0 to 1.40 at a wavelength of 550 nm.

13. The anti-reflective film according to claim 1 ,

wherein the solid inorganic nanoparticles have a diameter of 0.5 to 100 nm, and

the hollow inorganic nanoparticles have a diameter of 1 to 200 nm.

14. The anti-reflective film according to claim 1 ,

wherein a difference in density between the solid inorganic nanoparticles and the hollow inorganic nanoparticles is 0.50 g/cm 3 to 3.00 g/cm 3 .

15. The anti-reflective film according to claim 1 ,

wherein the low refractive index layer comprises a binder resin, and hollow inorganic nanoparticles and solid inorganic nanoparticles dispersed in the binder resin, and

the binder resin included in the low refractive index layer comprises a crosslinked (co) polymer between a (co) polymer of a photopolymerizable compound and a fluorine-containing compound including a photoreactive functional group.

16. The anti-reflective film according to claim 1 ,

wherein the hard coating layer comprises a binder resin including a photocurable resin, and organic or inorganic fine particles dispersed in the binder resin.

17. A polarizing plate comprising the anti-reflective film of claim 1 and a polarizer.

18. A display device comprising the anti-reflective film of claim 1 .

19. An organic light emitting diode display device comprising the anti-reflective film of claim 1 .

Assignments (3)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 24, 2025
From: LG CHEM, LTD.
To: XINMEI FONTANA HOLDING (HONG KONG) LIMITED
Reel/Frame 070608/0517 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 23, 2025
From: LG CHEM, LTD
To: XINMEI FONTANA HOLDING (HONG KONG) LIMITED
Reel/Frame 070609/0245 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 22, 2022
From: BYUN, JINSEOK; KO, KYUNG MOON; CHANG, YEONGRAE
To: LG CHEM, LTD.
Reel/Frame 059679/0589 →
Priority Claims (4)
KR 10-2020-0032251 · Mar 16, 2020 · national
KR 10-2020-0032253 · Mar 16, 2020 · national
KR 10-2021-0033696 · Mar 16, 2021 · national
KR 10-2021-0033702 · Mar 16, 2021 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20230003921A1 · Jan 5, 2023
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