Laminated film and flexible electronic device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10054487-B2
Application number	US-201515508823-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 28, 2015
Priority date	Sep 30, 2014
Publication date	Aug 21, 2018
Grant date	Aug 21, 2018

Abstract

An object of the present invention is to provide a gas barrier laminated film having high adhesion under a high-temperature working environment. The laminated film includes a flexible substrate, an organic layer disposed in contact with at least one surface of the substrate, and a thin film layer disposed in contact with the surface of the organic layer; the organic layer containing an acrylate resin; the thin film layer containing Si, O, and C; and the laminated film satisfying all of the following requirements (i) to (iii) in a silicon distribution curve, oxygen distribution curve, and carbon distribution curve in the thin film layer:
(i) the atomic number ratio of Si, the atomic number ratio of O, and the atomic number ratio of C satisfy the requirement represented by the following formula (1) in 90% or more of the area of the thin film layer in the film thickness direction of the thin film layer;

(Atomic number ratio of O)>(Atomic number ratio of Si)>(Atomic number ratio of C)
(ii) the carbon distribution curve has at least one extreme value; and (iii) the absolute value of a difference between the maximum value and the minimum value of the atomic number ratio of carbon in the carbon distribution curve is 0.05 or more.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A laminated film comprising a flexible substrate, an organic layer disposed in contact with at least one surface of the substrate, and a thin film layer disposed in contact with a surface side of the organic layer;
the organic layer containing an acrylate resin, and the organic layer having an average surface roughness of 0.1 to 5.0 nm on the surface side in contact with the thin film layer;
the thin film layer containing a silicon atom, an oxygen atom, and a carbon atom; and
the laminated film satisfying all of the following requirements (i) to (iii) in a silicon distribution curve, oxygen distribution curve, and carbon distribution curve each indicating a relationship between a distance from a surface of the thin film layer in a film thickness direction of the thin film layer and ratios of silicon atoms (atomic number ratio of silicon), oxygen atoms (atomic number ratio of oxygen), and carbon atoms (atomic number ratio of carbon) to a total number of silicon atoms, oxygen atoms, and carbon atoms contained in the thin film layer at a position corresponding to the distance:
(i) the atomic number ratio of silicon, the atomic number ratio of oxygen, and the atomic number ratio of carbon satisfy a requirement represented by the following formula (1) in 90% or more of an area of the thin film layer in the film thickness direction of the thin film layer;
(Atomic number ratio of oxygen) >(Atomic number ratio of silicon) >(Atomic number ratio of carbon)  (1)

(ii) the carbon distribution curve has at least one extreme value; and
(iii) an absolute value of a difference between a maximum value and a minimum value of the atomic number ratio of carbon in the carbon distribution curve is 0.05 or more.

2. The laminated film according to claim 1 , wherein the organic layer may include a filler component, and a weight ratio of W 1 /W 0 that is a ratio of a weight W 1 of the acrylate resin component to a weight W 0 calculated by excluding a weight of the filler component contained in the organic layer from a total weight of the organic layer is in a range defined by the following formula (2):
0.60 ≤W 1 /W 0 ≤1.00  (2).

3. The laminated film according to claim 1 , wherein a weight ratio of W 2 /W 0 that is a ratio of a weight W 2 of the organic silicon compound component to the weight W 0 calculated by excluding the weight of the filler component contained in the organic layer from the total weight of the organic layer is in a range defined by the following formula (3):
W 2 /W 0 ≤0.10  (3).

4. The laminated film according to claim 1 , wherein an ratio of an intensity (I 2 ) of a peak at 1240 to 1290 cm −1 to an intensity (I 1 ) of a peak at 950 to 1050 cm −1 in a range defined by the following formula (4) when the surface of the thin film layer is subjected to infrared spectrometry:
0.01 ≤I 2 /I 1 <0.05  (4).

5. The laminated film according to claim 1 , wherein a ratio of an intensity (I 3 ) of a peak at 770 to 830 cm −1 to the intensity (I 1 ) of a peak at 950 to 1050 cm −1 is in a range defined by the following formula (5) when the surface of the thin film layer is subjected to infrared spectrometry:
0.25 ≤I 3 /I 1 ≤0.50  (5).

6. The laminated film according to claim 1 , wherein a ratio of an intensity (I 4 ) of a peak at 870 to 910 cm −1 to the intensity (I 3 ) of a peak at 770 to 830 cm −1 is in a range defined by the following formula (6) when the surface of the thin film layer is subjected to infrared spectrometry:
0.70 ≤I 4 /I 3 <1.00  (6).

7. The laminated film according to claim 1 , wherein the thin film layer is formed by a plasma CVD process.

8. A flexible electronic device comprising the laminated film according to claim 1 as a substrate.

9. The laminated film according to claim 1 , wherein the thin film layer is formed by a plasma CVD process after the pressure in the vacuum chamber being set to 1×10 −3 Pa or less.

Assignees

• Sumitomo Chemical Co

Inventors

• Li Guan
• Yamashita Yasuhiro
• Nodono Mitsunori

Classifications

• B32B15/08

  of synthetic resin · CPC title

• C23C16/50

  using electric discharges {(generation and control of plasma in discharge tubes for surface treatment H01J37/32, H01J37/34)} · CPC title

• B32B27/16 Primary

  specially treated, e.g. irradiated · CPC title

• C23C16/30

  Deposition of compounds, mixtures or solid solutions, e.g. borides, carbides, nitrides · CPC title

• B32B9/00

  Layered products comprising a {layer of a} particular substance not covered by groups B32B11/00 - B32B29/00 · CPC title