Sumitomo Bakelite Company Limited

Wataru Oka

Takeshi Ito

Sumio Shibahara

Hisashi Ito

There is provided a transparent hybrid sheet having superior transparency and thermal resistance and having smaller linear expansion coefficient and optical anisotropy and higher degree of flatness. In a transparent hybrid sheet obtained by curing a hybrid composition including an epoxy resin composition containing alicyclic epoxy compound and a curing agent and curing a glass filler together, the alicyclic epoxy compound contains, as a principal component thereof, a diepoxybicyclohexyl compound represented by Formula (1) below, with amounts of isomers of the diepoxybicyclohexyl compound being 20% or less, of a sum of the diepoxybicyclohexyl compound and the isomers, in terms of a ratio of its peak area determined by a gas chromatography. 

Transparent hybrid sheet

A transparent composite composition is provided which comprises an epoxy resin (a) and a glass filler (b) and in which the epoxy resin (a) comprises at least one epoxy resin whose refractive index after curing is lower than the refractive index of the glass filler (b) and at least one epoxy resin whose refractive index after curing is higher than the refractive index of the glass filler (b). The transparent composite composition of the invention has a low coefficient of linear expansion and is excellent in transparency, heat resistance and solvent resistance, among others and, therefore, is judiciously used, for example, in the form of liquid crystal display device substrates and organic EL device substrates (in particular of the active matrix type) and, further, transparent sheets, optical lenses, color filter substrates, solar cell substrates, touch panels, optical devices, optical waveguides, LED sealing materials and so forth.

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