Nippon Sheet Glass Company, Limited

Yasunori Taninaka

Etsuo Ogino

Masahiro Ikadai

Ayako Soejima

Kazuhiko Fujimaki

Koji Nakanishi

Terufusa Kunisada

Chihiro Sakai

Katsuhisa Enjoji

The high refractive dielectric film which can be used stably as a constituent material of an optical multi-layer film, namely, and which does not cause change over time in optical properties and has small film stress, is an amorphous material having no columnar structure, obtained by adding to a main component titanium oxide (TiOx: 1&#x2266;x&#x2266;2) another metal oxide (MOw: M represents a metal such as niobium, tantalum, 1&#x2266;w). Though titanium oxide is a material which tends to manifest a crystalline structure even in the form of a thin film, a mixed high refractive dielectric film can be obtained, containing titanium oxide causing little change over time in optical properties by rendering the resulting thin film amorphous by inhibiting growth of a crystal of titanium oxide by adding another metal oxide.

Dielectric film having high refractive index and method for preparation thereof

A face panel for a cathode-ray tube is coated with an antireflection film by forming, on the outer surface thereof in this order, a 44.9 nm-thick praseodymium titanate film as a first layer, a 4.9 nm-thick film of a nickel-iron alloy as a second layer, a 53.4 nm-thick praseodymium titanate film as a third layer, a 3.9 nm-thick film of a nickel-iron alloy as a fourth layer, a 20.6 nm-thick praseodymium titanate film as a fifth layer, and an 84.7 nm-thick magnesium fluoride film as a sixth layer. This coated face panel is free from the problem that conventional cathode-ray tube face panels coated on the outer surface with an antireflection film comprising superposed metal films and transparent dielectric films make the cathode-ray tubes exhibit double images although effective in diminishing the reflection of external light on the surface of the cathode-ray tubes and in enhancing display contrast. The cathode-ray tube using the face panel coated with the specific antireflection film does not exhibit double images, is prevented from suffering static buildup on its surface or from reflecting external light thereon, and can attain higher image contrast.

Optical articles and cathode-ray tube using the same

In a conductive antireflection film having predetermined optical characteristics, of the layers of the conductive antireflection film, two layers located on the transparent substrate side are replaced with a three-layered film having a metal oxide film as an intermediate layer thereof. In this three-layered film when k.sub.i =4n.sub.i d.sub.i .lambda..sub.0 (where n.sub.i is the refractive index of the ith layer, di is the geometric thickness of the ith layer, and .lambda..sub.0 is a middle wavelength in design), the metal oxide film as the second layer satisfies k.sub.2 .gtoreq.0.01, and an ITO film as the first layer satisfies k.sub.1 .gtoreq.0.1.

Conductive antireflection film and conductive antireflection glass

In a conductive antireflection film having predetermined optical characteristics, of the layers of the conductive antireflection film, two layers located on the transparent substrate side are replaced with a three-layered film having a metal oxide film as an intermediate layer thereof. In this three-layered film, when k.sub.i =4n.sub.i d.sub.i /.lambda..sub.0 (where n.sub.i is the refractive index of the ith layer, di is the geometric thickness of the ith layer, and .lambda..sub.0 is a middle wavelength in design), the metal oxide film as the second layer satisfies k.sub.2 .gtoreq.0.01, and an ITO film as the first layer satisfies k.sub.1 .gtoreq.0.1.

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Yasunori Taninaka