Hologram medium and optical element

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11307494-B2
Application number	US-201916764421-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 10, 2019
Priority date	Sep 14, 2018
Publication date	Apr 19, 2022
Grant date	Apr 19, 2022

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to a hologram medium comprising: a polymer substrate including a polymer resin in which a silane-based functional group is located in a main chain or a branched chain, wherein a fine pattern is formed on at least one surface of the polymer substrate, and an optical element.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A hologram medium comprising: a polymer substrate having a fine holographic relief pattern formed on at least one surface,
wherein the polymer substrate comprises a cross-linked product between (1) a polymer matrix including a (meth)acrylate-based (co)polymer having a silane-based functional group in a branched chain and a silane crosslinking agent; and (2) a photoreactive monomer, and
wherein the silane crosslinking agent includes a linear polyether main chain having a weight average molecular weight of 100 to 2000 and a silane functional group bonded to a terminal or branched chain of the main chain.

2. The hologram medium according to claim 1 ,
wherein the fine holographic relief p ern has two or more fine protrusions in which a maximum value of the height and a minimum value of the height are alternately repeated based on a cross section of the polymer substrate, and
wherein a standard error of the distance in a cross-sectional direction of the polymer substrate between the maximum value of the height of one fine protrusion and the minimum value of the height of an adjacent fine protrusion is 20 nm or less.

3. The hologram medium according to claim 2 ,
wherein the distance in the cross-sectional direction of the polymer substrate between the maximum value of the height of the one fine projection and the minimum value of the adjacent fine projection is 0.2 μm to 2 μm.

4. The hologram medium according to claim 2 ,
having an amplitude of 5 to 50 nm, the amplitude being defined as a difference between the maximum value of the height of the one fine projection and the minimum value of the height. of the adjacent fine projection.

5. The hologram medium according to claim 1 ,
wherein the (meth)acrylate-based (co)polymer comprises the silane-based functional group having an equivalent weight of 300 g/eq to 2000 g/eq.

6. The hologram medium according to claim 1 ,
wherein the polymer matrix includes 10 parts by weight to 90 parts by weight of the silane crosslinking agent based on 100 parts by weight of the (meth)acrylate-based (co)polymer.

7. The hologram medium according to claim 1 ,
wherein a bond between the silane-based functional group and the polyether main chain is a urethane bond.

8. The hologram medium according to claim 1 ,
wherein the silane crosslinking agent comprises a silane-based functional group in an equivalent weight of 200 g/eq to 1000 g/eg.

9. The hologram medium according to claim 1 ,
wherein the photoreactive monomer comprises a polyfunctional (meth)acrylate monomer or a monofunctional (meth)acrylate monomer.

10. The hologram medium according to claim 1 ,
wherein the photoreactive monomer has a refractive index of at least 1.5.

11. The hologram medium according to claim 1 ,
wherein the substrate further comprises a fluorine-based compound.

12. The hologram medium according to claim 11 ,
wherein the fluorine-based compound includes at least one functional group selected from an ether group, an ester group and an amide group, and at least two difluoromethylene groups.

13. The hologram medium according to claim 11 ,
wherein the fluorine-based compound has a refractive index of less than 1.45.

14. The hologram medium according to claim 1 ,
wherein the polymer matrix has a refractive index of 1.46 to 1.53.

15. An optical element comprising the hologram medium of claim 1 , wherein the fine holographic relief pattern includes a holographic image of the optical element.

16. The optical element according to claim 15 , wherein the optical element includes a hologram display device.

17. The optical element according to claim 15 , wherein the optical element includes optical lenses, mirrors, deflecting mirrors, filters, diffusing screens, diffraction elements, light guides, waveguides, holographic optical elements having at least one function of projection screen and mask functions, medium of optical memory system and light diffusion plate, optical wavelength multiplexers, reflection type color filters or transmission type color filters.

Assignees

• Lg Chemical Ltd

Inventors

• Kim Heon
• Jang Seokhoon
• Kwon Se Hyun
• Chang Yeongrae
• Byun Jinseok

Classifications

• C08G65/33348

  containing isocyanate group · CPC title

• C08K5/02

  Halogenated hydrocarbons {(C08K5/0091 takes precedence)} · CPC title

• G03H1/0244

  Surface relief holograms (replicating hologram without interference recording G03H1/0276) · CPC title

• G11B7/24044 Primary

  for storing optical interference patterns, e.g. holograms; for storing data in three dimensions [3D], e.g. volume storage (G11B7/24038 takes precedence) · CPC title

• G03F7/0037

  Production of three-dimensional images · CPC title