3m Innovative Properties Company

Adam D Haag

Matthew B Johnson

Timothy J Nevitt

Martin E Denker

Carl A Stover

Encai Hao

Robert D Taylor

Brianna N Wheeler

William Blake Kolb

Zhaohui Yang

Fei Lu

Michelle Lund Toy

Seong Taek Lee

Sun-Yong Park

John Allen Wheatley

Michael F Weber

Gilles J Benoit

Michael Benton Free

Michael L Steiner

Sergey Lamansky

William F Edmonds

Kristy A Gillette

Andrew John Ouderkirk

Takashi Fujita

Kenneth A Epstein

Stephen A Johnson

Eric Wayne Nelson

Ryan T Fabick

Quinn D Sanford

Jason S Petaja

Stephan J Pankratz

Brianna N Nieson

John F VanDerlofske, Iii

Song-Geun Lee

Jody L Peterson

Albert I Everaerts

Zhisheng Yun

Timothy L Wong

Robert L Brott

Philip Edwin Watson

William D Coggio

Craig R Schardt

Michael A Johnson

Kui Chen-Ho

Yongshang Lu

Bing Hao

Scott Melvyn Tapio

Kristopher J Derks

Lan Hong Liu

Keith Michael Kotchick

David T Yust

Charles David Hoyle

Robert F Kamrath

John D Le

Mark B O'Neill

Brian W Ostlie

Jeffrey A Peterson

James E Lockridge

Keith R Bruesewitz

David A Rosen

Jonah Shaver

Soemantri Widagdo

Lin Zhao

Jeffrey W Hagen

Fuguo Xu

Seo-Hern Lee

Eileen M Franey

Michael J Schiesl

Stephen J Willet

Richard John Pokorny

Mark J Pellerite

Gary Timothy Boyd

Gregg A Ambur

Tri Dinh Pham

David G Freier

William A Tolbert

Jo Anne Etter

Robert M Biegler

David J W Aastuen

Arthur L Kotz

Edward J Kivel

Bert T Chien

Karissa L Eckert

Nathaniel K Naismith

William B Black

Stephen J Etzkorn

Nicholas C Erickson

Huijie Xie

Jingfei Chen

Fan Long

Ghidewon Arefe

Hang K Loi

Zhe Hu

Stephen M Menke

Hiroki Matsuda

Myeong-Kyun Kang

Tze Yuan Wang

Steven H C Kong

Robert L Endres

A display includes a plurality of blue, green, and red light emitting elements having respective blue, green, and red emission spectra including respective blue, green, and red emission peaks at respective blue, green, and red peak wavelengths with respective blue, green, and red full width at half maxima (FWHMs). The display includes a display panel and an optically collimating film. For a substantially collimated incident light and for each of mutually orthogonal polarization states, an optical transmittance of the optically collimating film includes substantially distinct blue, green, and red transmission bands having respective blue, green, and red FWHMs that overlap at least 30% of the respective blue, green, and red FWHMs at a first incident angle of less than about 10 degrees and overlap less than 15% of the respective blue, green, and red FWHMs at a second incident angle of greater than about 30 degrees.

Display and display system

Optical films are disclosed that include a plurality of interference layers. Each interference layer reflects or transmits light primarily by optical interference. The total number of the interference layers is less than about 1000. For a substantially normally incident light in a predetermined wavelength range, the plurality of interference layers has an average optical transmittance greater than about 85% for a first polarization state, an average optical reflectance greater than about 80% for an orthogonal second polarization state, and an average optical transmittance less than about 0.2% for the second polarization state.

High contrast optical film and devices including the same

An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display includes a pixelated OLED display panel and a color-correction component disposed on the pixelated OLED display panel. The pixelated OLED display panel has a ratio of blue-to-red color mixing weights at 30 degrees of β, and a ratio of blue-to-red color mixing weights at 45 degrees of β, where β≥β≥1.05 and 1.5≥β≥1.1. The color-correction component is configured such that a ratio of blue-to-red color mixing weights at 45 degrees of the display is βand a ratio of blue-to-red color mixing weights at 30 degrees of the display is β, where β−0.1≥β≥2.1−βand β−0.05≥β≥2.05−β. Methods of making OLED displays are described.

Organic light emitting diode display with color-correction component having different color mixing weights

An optical stack includes a reflective polarizer, an absorbing polarizer, and a half-wave retarder. The half-wave retarder is disposed between the reflective and absorbing polarizers. For substantially normally incident light and a first polarization state, the reflective polarizer reflects at least about 60% of the incident light for at least a first wavelength less than a cut-off wavelength and transmits at least about 50% of the incident light for at least a second wavelength greater than the cut-off wavelength. For substantially normally incident light, the half-wave retarder has a first retardance of less than about 250 nanometers (nm) at the first wavelength and a second retardance at the second wavelength. A deviation of the first retardance from a first half-wave retardance corresponding to the first wavelength is less than a deviation of the second retardance from a second half-wave retardance corresponding to the second wavelength.

Optical stack having absorbing polarizer, half-wave retarder, and reflective polarizer

A glass laminate including first and second glass layers, a reflective film having opposed first and second major surfaces and disposed between the first and second glass layers with the first and second major surfaces facing the respective first and second glass layers, a first adhesive layer disposed between and bonding together the first glass layer and the reflective film, and a second adhesive layer disposed between and bonding together the second glass layer and the reflective film is described. The second adhesive layer is thicker than the first adhesive layer such that the first major surface of the reflective film is separated from an outermost major surface of the first glass layer by a distance d1, the second major surface of the reflective film is separated from an outermost major surface of the second glass layer by a distance d2, and 0.05≤d1/d2≤0.9.

Glass laminate including reflective film

A reflective polarizer has substantially distinct blue, green and red-infrared reflection bands for substantially normally incident light. A display system includes a display panel including blue, green and red light emitting pixels having respective blue, green and red peak wavelengths and respective blue, green and red FWHMs; and the reflective polarizer disposed on the light emitting pixels. The reflective polarizer: reflects at least about 60% of the incident light for each of the blue and green peak wavelengths and at least about 40% of the incident light for the red peak wavelength for a first polarization state; transmits at least about 60% of the incident light for each of the blue, green and red peak wavelengths for an orthogonal second polarization state; and has an absorption peak at a wavelength between the green and red FWHMs.

Reflective polarizer and display system

An optical stack () includes an optical diffuser () and a first reflective polarizer () disposed on the optical diffuser (). For substantially normally incident light and for nonoverlapping first and second wavelength ranges, the optical diffuser () has a first scattering rate Rfor at least one wavelength in the first wavelength range, and a second scattering rate Rfor at least one wavelength in the second wavelength range, such that R/Ris greater than or equal to 2. The first reflective polarizer () may transmit at least 40% of light for a first polarization state for each wavelength in the first wavelength range, may reflect at least 70% of light for an orthogonal second polarization state for each wavelength in the first wavelength range, and transmit at least 40% of light for each of the first and second polarization states and for each wavelength in the second wavelength range.

Optical diffuser with high infrared clarity

An optical system includes an extended illumination source configured to emit light from an extended emission surface thereof toward a display panel. The emitted light includes substantially distinct blue, green and red emission spectra having respective blue, green and red peaks at respective blue, green and red peak wavelengths, and corresponding blue, green and red full widths at half maxima (FWHMs). The blue FWHM extends from a smaller blue wavelength to a longer blue wavelength. The optical system further includes reflective polarizer disposed on the emission surface of the extended illumination source. The reflective polarizer includes a plurality of first polymeric layers. The optical system also includes an optical filter disposed between the reflective polarizer and the emission surface of the extended illumination source.

Optical system and optical combination

A display system includes a display panel configured to emit polarized light having a first polarization state and substantially distinct blue, green and red emission spectra having respective blue, green and red full widths at half maxima (FWHMs). The display system includes a reflective polarizer configured to reflect the polarized image light as a first reflected polarized image light. For substantially normally incident light and for the first polarization state, the reflective polarizer has a reflectance of greater than about 60% across each of the blue and red FWHMs, and a transmittance of at least about 50% for at least a first wavelength between the FWHMs of the blue and green emission spectra, and for at least a second wavelength between the FWHMs of the green and red emission spectra.

Display system for vehicle

A display system includes a display panel including a plurality light emitting pixels and a reflective polarizer disposed on the light emitting pixels. The reflective polarizer can have a reflection band having a lower overlap with an emission spectrum of red light emitting pixels for substantially normally incident light and a higher overlap with the emission spectrum of the red light emitting pixels for at least one incident angle greater than about 40 degrees. The reflective polarizer can have a reflection band overlapping an emission spectrum of blue light emitting pixels for substantially normally incident light.

An optical film includes a plurality of alternating first and second polymeric layers, such that the first polymeric layers have a smaller average in-plane index of refraction than the second polymeric layers and the first polymeric layers have a glass transition temperature of at least 107 deg. C. The optical film may be a reflective polarizer. An optical stack includes a linear absorbing polarizer and the reflective polarizer disposed on, and bonded to, the absorbing polarizer. The reflective polarizer has an optical reflectance of at least 60% for a first polarization state and an optical transmittance of at least 60% for an orthogonal second polarization state. When heated at 105 deg. C. for 15 minutes, a difference in shrinkage of the reflective polarizer and the absorbing polarizer along the first and second polarization states is greater than about zero and 0.2%, respectively.

Optical film and optical stack

An optical system () includes an emissive display () and a reflective polarizer () disposed on the display (). The display () includes a blue pixel () emitting light having a peak at a wavelength λ. For substantially normally incident light: for the wavelength λ, the reflective polarizer () reflects at least 30% of the incident light having a first polarization state (b) and transmits at least 75% of the incident light having an orthogonal second polarization state(a); and for at least one wavelength λgreater than λ, λ-λ≤50 nm, the reflective polarizer () transmits at least 75% of the incident light for each of the first and second polarization states. For the wavelength λ, the reflective polarizer () has a maximum optical transmittance Tfor light incident at a first incident angle, and an optical transmittance T/2 for light incident at a second incident angle greater than the first incident angle by less than about 50 degrees.

Reflective polarizer and optical system

A film stack includes co-stretched first and second layers. The first layer is stained with iodine and has a glass transition temperature of at least 5° C. greater than a glass transition temperature of the second layer. The second layer has in-plane birefringence of less than 0.02 and a retardance of less than 100 nm.

Film stacks for thin circular polarizers

Optical films are described. In particular, optical films including a reflective polarizer portion and an infrared portion, with no adhesive between these two portions, are described. These optical films may be particularly suitable for combiner applications, including automotive heads up display applications with demanding ambient environments.

Optical film including infrared reflector and multilayer reflective polarizer with crystalline low index layers

A multilayer partial mirror includes a plurality of alternating first a second polymeric layers numbering at least 50 in total, disposed between, and integrally formed with, opposing first and second polymeric skin layers. For a visible wavelength range extending from about 420 nm to about 680 nm and an incident light propagating in an incident plane that includes a x-direction, and for an s-polarized incident light, the multilayer partial mirror has an average reflectance Rs1 for a first incident angle of less than about 10 degrees, and an average reflectance Rs2 for a second incident angle of greater than about 45 degrees, and for a p-polarized incident light, the multilayer partial mirror has an average reflectance Rp1 for the first incident angle, and an average reflectance Rp2 for the second incident angle. Each of Rs2/Rs1 and Rp2/Rp1 is greater than about 1.15.

Multilayer partial mirror, backlight, and display system

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Woodbury, MN, United States of America

Adam D Haag