Optical element and method for manufacturing master for producing optical element

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9664821-B2
Application number	US-25291308-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 16, 2008
Priority date	Oct 30, 2007
Publication date	May 30, 2017
Grant date	May 30, 2017

Abstract

An optical element has a plurality of structures including convex portions or concave portions arranged on a base member surface, wherein the arrangement pitch of the structures is 380 nm to 680 nm and the aspect ratio of the structure is 0.62 to 1.09.

First claim

The invention is claimed as follows:

1. An optical element comprising:
a plurality of structures including convex portions or concave portions arranged on a base member surface and having an anti-reflection property, wherein:
the structures are arranged to constitute a quasi-hexagonal lattice pattern having a plurality of tracks on the base member surface,
a first arrangement pitch of the structures in the same track is larger than a second arrangement pitch of the structures between adjacent two tracks,
each arrangement pitch of all structures is between 380 nm to 680 nm, and
an aspect ratio of all structures is 0.64 to 0.75, wherein the aspect ratio is defined by a height (H) of one structure and an arrangement pitch (P) between one structure and an adjacent structure, and calculated based on equation 1 as follows:
aspect ratio= H/P   (equation 1).

2. The optical element according to claim 1 , wherein the structures are arranged to constitute a plurality of arc-shaped tracks.

3. The optical element according to claim 2 , wherein the structures are in the shape of an elliptical cone or the shape of an elliptical truncated cone, in which a direction of a major axis is a circumferential direction of the plurality of arc-shaped tracks.

4. The optical element according to claim 3 , wherein regarding the shape of an elliptical cone or the shape of an elliptical truncated cone, the slope of the top portion is gentle and the slope becomes sharp from the middle portion toward the bottom portion gradually.

5. The optical element according to claim 2 , wherein the height or a depth of the structures in a circumferential direction of an arc-shaped track is smaller than the height or the depth of the structures in a radius direction of the arc-shaped track.

6. The optical element according to claim 1 , wherein the aspect ratio of the structures is 0.65 to 0.75.

7. The optical element according to claim 1 , wherein each arrangement pitch of the structures is between 400 nm to 650 nm.

8. The optical element according to claim 1 , wherein a difference between the first arrangement pitch of structures in a first track and the second arrangement pitch of structures in adjacent tracks is 30 nm.

9. A method for manufacturing a master for producing an optical element in which a plurality of structures including convex portions or concave portions are arranged on a substrate surface, the method comprising:
preparing a substrate provided with a resist layer on a surface;
forming a latent image by applying laser light to the resist layer intermittently while the substrate is rotated and the laser light is moved relatively in a direction of the rotation radius of the substrate;
forming a resist pattern on the surface of the substrate by developing the resist layer;
forming concave and convex structures on the surface of the substrate by conducting an etching treatment while the resist pattern is used as a mask;
the structures being arranged to constitute a quasi-hexagonal lattice pattern having a plurality of tracks on the surface;
a first arrangement pitch of the structures on a same track being larger than a second arrangement pitch of the structures between adjacent tracks, wherein:
in the forming of a latent image, the latent image is formed in such a way that each arrangement pitch of all structures is between 380 nm to 680 nm, and
in the forming concave and convex structures, the etching treatment is conducted such that an aspect ratio of all structures ranges from 0.64 to 0.75, wherein the aspect ratio is defined by a height (H) of one structure and an arrangement pitch (P) between adjacent structures, and calculated based on equation 1 as follows:
aspect ratio= H/P   (equation 1).

10. The method according to claim 9 , wherein a difference between a first arrangement pitch of structures in a first track and the second arrangement pitch of structures in adjacent tracks is 30 nm.

Assignees

• Endoh Sohmei
• Hayashibe Kazuya
• Nagai Tooru
• Dexerials Corp

Inventors

• Endoh Sohmei
• Hayashibe Kazuya
• Nagai Tooru

Classifications

• G02B5/0231

  the surface having microprismatic or micropyramidal shape (macroscopic prism arrays G02B5/045) · CPC title

• G02B3/0012 Primary

  characterised by the manufacturing method · CPC title

• G02B5/045

  Prism arrays · CPC title

• B29D11/00365

  Production of microlenses (lenticular sheets B29D11/00278) · CPC title