Dexerials Corporation

Shigeshi Sakakibara

Akio Takada

Kazuyuki Shibuya

Toshiaki Sugawara

Yusuke Matsuno

Nobuyuki Koike

Takahiro Kimura

Hideto Sagawa

Seiji Kumagai

Shintaro Futakami

Yuusuke Matsuno

Katsunobu Endo

Yuji Kaneko

Kazuhiro Shinoda

A polarizing plate having excellent optical properties includes: a transparent substrate that is transparent to light in a used wavelength band; grid-shaped protrusions arranged on the transparent substrate at a pitch shorter than the wavelength of light in the used band, extending in a predetermined direction, and has a reflective layer and a reflection control layer; and a groove which is recessed between the grid-shaped protrusions and whose width in a direction orthogonal to the predetermined direction is reduced to zero in the depth direction. This improves transmittance and reflectance properties, thereby achieving excellent optical properties.

Polarizing plate

A polarizing plate may have high transmittance characteristics and suppressed reflected light. An optical device may be provided with the polarizing plate. The polarizing plate may have a wire grid structure that includes a transparent substrate and grid-like projection portions arranged on the transparent substrate at a pitch shorter than the wavelength of light in a used bandwidth and extending in a predetermined direction. The grid-like projection portions may each have a reflective layer and a dielectric layer in order from the transparent substrate side. When viewed from the predetermined direction, the reflective layer has may have a step on the side thereof and may have the largest bottom width on the transparent substrate side.

Polarizing plate, manufacturing method thereof, and optical device

Provided is a structural birefringence-type inorganic wave plate having excellent heat resistance and durability, and a fine pattern. Also provided is a manufacturing method for an inorganic wave plate by which, even in the case of a fine pattern, productivity is high, and a desired phase difference is easily achieved and stably obtained. This inorganic wave plate is obtained by utilizing a selective interaction between a polymer having a repeating unit containing a carbonyl group, and a metallic oxide precursor, the inorganic wave plate having a wire grid structure provided with a transparent substrate, and grid-shaped protruding portions arranged at a pitch shorter than the wavelength of light in a used band on at least one surface of the transparent substrate and extending in a predetermined direction, the main component of the grid-shaped protruding portion being a metallic oxide.

Inorganic wave plate and manufacturing method therefor

Provided is a wire grid polarization plate that has heat resistance and excellent polarization properties, and has durability even in a thin wire structure with a small pitch, and an optical apparatus and a manufacturing method of a polarization plate. A periodic lamellar structure is formed with a material forming arrangement by self-assembling performance, and then, is metallized, and thus, metal wires arranged at a small pitch are prepared, and the obtained wires are fixed by a dielectric material.

Wire grid polarization plate having dielectric layer with concave portions

This polarizer is a polarizer having a wire grid structure that includes a transparent substrate, a dielectric film which extends across one surface of the transparent substrate and has a lower refractive index than the transparent substrate, and a plurality of projections which extend in a first direction on top of the dielectric film and are arrayed periodically at a pitch that is shorter than the wavelength of the light in the used light region, wherein the transparent substrate has a thermal conductivity of at least 10 W/m&#xb7;K but not more than 40 W/m&#xb7;K, the plurality of projections each have, in order from the side closer to the dielectric film, a first dielectric layer, a reflective layer and a functional layer, the reflective layer contains a metal or a metal compound, and the functional layer is formed from a material different from the reflective layer.

Polarizer and optical apparatus

A polarizing plate includes a substrate and a plurality of projections which protrude with respect to the substrate, in which the plurality of projections are formed by periodically arraying projections extending in a first direction in plan view, each of the projections includes a reflective layer and a tip end portion, the tip end portion is arranged at a position further away from the substrate than the reflective layer, the tip end portion is continuously widened from a first end portion, which is a tip end, to a second end portion on a side close to the substrate in a first cut plane perpendicular to the substrate and the first direction, and a first surface of the tip end portion includes a continuous first curved surface.

Polarizing plate and optical apparatus having tip portions with continuous curved surface

Provided is a polarizing plate that is a polarizing plate having a wire grid structure, and includes a transparent substrate and a plurality of protrusions that extend in a first direction on the transparent substrate and are periodically arranged at a pitch shorter than a wavelength of light in a use band. Each of the protrusions includes a reflective layer, a multilayer film, and an optical property improving layer located between the reflective layer and the multilayer film. The optical property improving layer contains an oxide that contains a constituent element of which the reflective layer is composed. An etching rate of the optical property improving layer with respect to a chlorine-based gas is no less than 6.7 times and no more than 15 times an etching rate of the multilayer film.

Polarizing plate, optical apparatus and method of manufacturing polarizing plate

To provide a polarizing plate and an optical apparatus capable of improving durability while maintaining excellent optical characteristics. Provided is a polarizing platewith a wire grid structure, including: a transparent substrate; and a grid-shaped convex portionwhich is arranged on the transparent substrateat a pitch P shorter than a wavelength of light of a use band, extends in a predetermined direction, and includes a reflection layerformed of a light reflective material, wherein a surface of the grid-shaped convex portionand a surface of a bottom surface portion of a groove formed between the grid-shaped convex portionsare provided with a protection filmwhich covers the surfaces thereof and the protection filmis formed by two kinds or more of protection films including an organic film formed of an organic material.

Polarizing plate and optical apparatus including the same

Provided are a pattern formation method and a method for manufacturing a polarizing plate using the pattern formation method, the pattern formation method having: a step for forming, on a substrate, a linear guide pattern which is arranged at a predetermined pitch and is compatible with a portion of block chains of a block copolymer, and a neutral pattern embedded in the pattern of the guide pattern; a step for forming a layer including a block copolymer on the guide pattern and the neutral pattern; a step for heat-treating the layer including the block copolymer and forming a lamellar structure in which lamellar boundaries are arranged perpendicular to the substrate by microphase separation of the block copolymer; and a step for selectively removing a portion of the block chains of the block copolymer and thereby forming a line-and-space-shaped fine pattern having a smaller pitch than the guide pattern.

Pattern formation method and method for manufacturing polarizing plate

Provided is a polarizing plate having an appropriate reflectance characteristic formed from an inexpensive material by an inexpensive production device. In a polarizing plate having a wire grid structure including: a transparent substrate; and a grid-like projection that is arranged on the transparent substrate at a pitch smaller than a wavelength of light in a used band and extends in a predetermined direction, an absorption layer constituting the grid-like projection contains an impurity semiconductor obtained by adding a minute amount of a specific element to an intrinsic semiconductor.

Polarizing plate, production method thereof and optical apparatus

Provided is an inorganic polarizing plate having a wire grid structure including: a transparent substrate; and grid-shaped protrusions arranged on the transparent substrate at a pitch shorter than a wavelength of light in a use band, in which the grid-shaped-protrusion includes, in order from the transparent substrate side, a reflection layer and a reflection suppressing layer which includes a dielectric material and a non-dielectric material and of which a content of the non-dielectric material increases as a separation from the reflection layer increases. In addition, provided are a method of manufacturing the inorganic polarizing plate and an optical instrument including the inorganic polarizing plate.

Inorganic polarizing plate, method of manufacturing the same, and optical instrument

A small reactor, which contains an inorganic transparent substrate, which contains: a reaction channel configured to allow a chemical reaction to proceed therein; a supply channel, which is connected to one end of the reaction channel, and is configured to supply samples to be reacted in the reaction channel; and a discharge channel, which is connected to the other end of the reaction channel, and is configured to discharge a reaction product from the reaction channel, wherein the inorganic transparent substrate is in the shape of an arc-shaped curve.

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Shigeshi Sakakibara