Anti-reflective film, comprising hard coating layer, having superb optical characteristics

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9606267-B2
Application number	US-201314443645-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 14, 2013
Priority date	Nov 21, 2012
Publication date	Mar 28, 2017
Grant date	Mar 28, 2017

Abstract

Provided is an anti-reflective film having a stacked structure comprising a transparent substrate, a hard coating layer, a high refraction layer and a low refraction layer, and more specifically, the low refraction layer may comprise, as a binder, a siloxane compound synthesized by reacting alkoxysilane and organosilane having a fluoroalkyl group.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An anti-reflective film having a laminate structure of a transparent substrate, a hard coating layer, a high refractive-index layer, and a low refractive-index layer,
wherein the hard coating layer has a thickness of 50 nm to 200 nm,
wherein the low refractive-index layer comprises:
a binder prepared by polymerization of a silane compound represented by Formula 1 with an organosilane compound represented by Formula 2; and
hollow silica particles,
wherein the organosilane compound represented by Formula 2 is present in an amount of 0.1 parts by weight to about 7.8 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of the silane compound represented by Formula 1, and wherein the low refractive-index layer has an index of refraction of 1.2 to 1.25, and

wherein the anti-reflective film has a color value a* of −1<a*<0.28 and a color value b* of 0.34<b*<1 for reflected light upon irradiation with white light,
R 1 x Si(OR 2 ) 4-x   [Formula 1]

where R 1 is a C 1 to C 10 alkyl group, a C 6 to C 10 aryl group, or a C 3 to C 10 alkenyl group; R 2 is a C 1 to C 6 alkyl group; and x is an integer satisfying 0≦x<4;
R 3 y Si(OR 4 ) 4-y   [Formula 2]

where R 3 is a C 1 to C 12 fluoroalkyl group; R 4 is a C 1 to C 6 alkyl group; and y is an integer satisfying 0≦y<4.

2. The anti-reflective film according to claim 1 , wherein the silane compound represented by Formula 1 comprises at least one compound selected from the group consisting of tetramethoxysilane, tetraethoxysilane, tetrapropoxysilane, tetraisopropoxysilane, tetra-n-butoxysilane, tetra-sec-butoxysilane, tetra-tert-butoxysilane, trimethoxysilane, triethoxysilane, methyltrimethoxysilane, methyltriethoxysilane, ethyltrimethoxysilane, ethyltriethoxysilane, propyltrimethoxysilane, propyltriethoxysilane, isobutyltriethoxysilane, cyclohexyltrimethoxysilane, phenyltrimethoxysilane, phenyltriethoxysilane, vinyltrimethoxysilane, vinyltriethoxysilane, allyltrimethoxysilane allyltriethoxysilane, dimethyldimethoxysilane, dimethyldiethoxysilane, diphenyldimethoxysilane, diphenyldiethoxysilane, and combinations thereof.

3. The anti-reflective film according to claim 1 , wherein the organosilane compound represented by Formula 2 comprises at least one compound selected from the group consisting of trifluoromethyltrimethoxysilane, trifluoromethyltriethoxysilane, trifluoropropyltrimethoxysilane, trifluoropropyltriethoxysilane, nonafluorobutylethyltrimethoxysilane, nonafluorobutylethyltriethoxysilane, nonafluorohexyltrimethoxysilane, nonafluorohexyltriethoxysilane, tridecafluorooctyltrimethoxysilane, tridecafluorooctyltriethoxysilane, heptadecafluorodecyltrimethoxysilane, heptadecafluorodecyltriethoxysilane, and combinations thereof.

4. The anti-reflective film according to claim 1 , wherein the hollow silica particles have a number average diameter of 1 nm to 1,000 nm.

5. The anti-reflective film according to claim 1 , wherein the binder is present in an amount of 10 parts by weight to 120 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of the hollow silica particles.

6. The anti-reflective film according to claim 1 , wherein the hard coating layer has an index of refraction of 1.5 to 1.6.

7. The anti-reflective film according to claim 1 , wherein the hard coating layer comprises inorganic nanoparticles, a UV-curable resin, a curing initiator, and a solvent.

8. The anti-reflective film according to claim 1 , wherein the high refractive-index layer has an index of refraction of 1.6 to 1.7.

9. The anti-reflective film according to claim 1 , wherein the anti-reflective film has a pencil hardness of B to H.

10. The anti-reflective film according to claim 1 , wherein the anti-reflective film has a water contact angle of about 70° or less.

11. The anti-reflective film according to claim 1 , wherein the anti-reflective film has a reflectance of less than 0.5% as measured at a wavelength of 380 nm to 780 nm.

Assignees

• Lg Hausys Ltd

Inventors

• Yang Ji-Yeon
• Cho Hong-Kwan
• Hong Jin-Ki
• Kim Won-Kook

Classifications

• G02B1/14

  Protective coatings, e.g. hard coatings · CPC title

• G02B1/111 Primary

  using layers comprising organic materials · CPC title

• B32B2307/412

  Transparent · CPC title

• B32B27/08

  of synthetic resin · CPC title

• G02B1/10

  Optical coatings produced by application to, or surface treatment of, optical elements (G02B1/08 takes precedence) · CPC title