1-9. (canceled)
10. A substrate at least partially coated with a coating composition comprising:
(a) a film-forming resin,
(b) a radiation cure initiator,
(c) a colorant, and
(d) a diluent,
wherein the coating composition is substantially free of radiation curable material.
11. The substrate of claim 10, wherein the substrate comprises a porous substrate.
12. The porous substrate of claim 11, wherein the substrate comprises wood.
13. A substrate at least partially coated with a multi-layer composite coating system, wherein the multi-layer composite coating system comprises:
(a) a colorant layer deposited from a coating composition comprising:
(1) a film-forming resin,
(2) a radiation cure initiator,
(3) a colorant, and
(4) a diluent,
wherein the coating composition is substantially free of radiation curable material, and
(b) at least one of a sealer and topcoat deposited from a radiation curable composition, applied over at least a portion of the stain layer andor the toner layer.
14. The substrate of claim 13, wherein either:
(i) the colorant later is deposited from a composition that comprises a cationic photoinitiator when the at least one of a sealer and topcoat are deposited from a radiation curable composition comprising a radiation curable material susceptible to cationic cure, or
(ii) colorant later is deposited from a composition that comprises a free radical photoinitiator when the at least one of a sealer and topcoat are deposited from a radiation curable composition comprising a radiation curable material susceptible to free radical cure.
15. A porous substrate at least partially coated with a multi-layer composite coating system, wherein the multi-layer composite coating system comprises:
(a) a toner layer,
(b) a stain layer deposited over at least a portion of the toner,
(c) a sealer deposited from a radiation curable composition, wherein the sealer is deposited over at least a portion of the stain layer, and
(d) a topcoat deposited from a radiation curable composition, wherein the topcoat is deposited over at least a portion of the sealer, and
wherein at least one of the toner layer and the stain layer are deposited from a coating composition comprising:
(1) a film-forminq resin,
(2) a radiation cure initiator,
(3) a colorant, and
(4) a diluent,
wherein the coating composition is substantially free of radiation curable material.
16. The substrate of claim 15, wherein the sealer and topcoat radiation curable compositions comprise a polymer comprising an alkyd portion and a free radical curable portion.
17-20. (canceled)
21. The substrate of claim 10, wherein the coating composition comprises a stain or a toner.
22. The substrate of claim 10, wherein the film-forming resin comprises an alkyd resin or a cellulosic resin.
23. The substrate of claim 10, wherein the coating composition is completely free of radiation curable material.
24. The substrate of claim 10, wherein the radiation cure initiator comprises a photoinitiator selected from a cationic photoinitiator andor a free radical photoinitiator.
25. The substrate of claim 24, wherein the photoinitiator comprises 2,4,6-trimethylbenzoyldiphenylphosphine oxide.
26. The substrate of claim 10, wherein the coating composition further comprises an additive comprising an organo-silicon andor organo-fluorine containing molecule andor polymer.
27. The substrate of claim 26, wherein the organo-silicon containing molecule andor polymer comprises an organo silane.
28. The substrate of claim 27, wherein the organo silane comprises an amino silane, an epoxy silane, or a mixture thereof.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. An organic EL display comprising:
an organic EL display panel to have a metal electrode;
a first polarizing plate on the organic EL display panel; and
a second polarizing plate on the first polarizing plate to have a polarization characteristic of absorbing light in a high light efficiency wavelength range more than light in a low light efficiency wavelength range,
wherein the first polarizing plate is converting a linearly polarized light into a circularly polarized or converting a circularly polarized light into a linearly polarized light and
wherein polarization efficiency and transmittance of the second polarizing plate are differently set per a red wavelength, a green wavelength and a blue wavelength, respectively and the second polarizing plate has high transmittance and low polarization efficiency in a blue wavelength rather than the green and red wavelengths.
2. The organic EL display of claim 1, wherein the first polarizing plate is a \u03bb4 retarder.
3. The organic EL display of claim 1, wherein the second polarizing plate is a dichroic dye based polarizing plate fabricated by aligning dichroic dye in one direction by extension wherein the dichroic dye has a light absorption characteristic differing according to a light wavelength and a polarized direction.
4. The organic EL display of claim 1, wherein a maximum value of polarization efficiency of the second polarizing plate is tuned to a wavelength corresponding to a maximum value of a visual curve.
5. The organic EL display of claim 1, wherein a maximum value of polarization efficiency of the second polarizing plate is tuned to a wavelength corresponding to a maximum value of an external light.
6. An organic EL display comprising:
a substrate;
an anode on one surface of the substrate;
an organic EL layer on the anode;
a metal cathode on the organic EL layer;
a \u03bb4 retarder on the other surface of the substrate; and
a dichroic dye based polarizing plate on the \u03bb4 retarder to have a polarization characteristic of absorbing light in a high light efficiency wavelength range more than light in a low light efficiency wavelength range, wherein the dichrioc dye based polarizing plate is fabricated by aligning dichrioc dye in one direction by extension,
wherein the \u03bb4 retarder is converting a linearly polarized light from the dichroic dye based polarizing plate into a circularly polarized light to the substrate and converting a circularly polarized light from the substrate into a linearly polarized light to the dichroic dye based polarizing plate and
wherein the dichroic dye based polarizing plate has high transmittance and low polarization efficiency in a blue wavelength rather than the red and green wavelengths.
7. The organic EL display of claim 6, wherein the dichroic dye has a light absorption characteristic differing according to a light wavelength and a polarized direction.
8. The organic EL display of claim 6, wherein a maximum value of polarization efficiency of the dichroic dye based polarizing plate is tuned to a wavelength corresponding to a maximum value of a visual curve.
9. An organic EL display comprising:
an organic EL display panel to have a metal electrode;
a first polarizing plate on the organic EL display panel; and
a second polarizing plate on the first polarizing plate to have a polarization characteristic of absorbing light in a high light efficiency wavelength range more than light in a low light efficiency wavelength range,
wherein the first polarizing plate is converting a linearly polarized light into a circularly polarized or converting a circularly polarized light into a linearly polarized light and
wherein the second polarizing plate has high transmittance and low polarization efficiency in blue and red wavelengths rather than a green wavelength.