| 摘要 |
A phase difference compensation element comprises at least one birefringent laminate, which contains a light transmissive base material and “a” number, where a≧2, of inorganic oblique incidence vacuum deposited films varying in direction of oblique evaporation and having been laminated on a surface of the light transmissive base material. The birefringent laminate satisfies the conditions represented by Formula (i) and Formula (ii): Re(1)<Re(a)  (i) Re(b−1)≦̸Re(b)  (ii) where b is an arbitrary integer satisfying the condition 2≦̸b≦̸a wherein Re(i) represents the retardation value d·&Dgr;n of the inorganic oblique incidence vacuum deposited film which has been formed at an i-th stage of film formation among the stages of forming the “a” number of the inorganic oblique incidence vacuum deposited films, respectively, where 1≦̸i≦̸a, d represents the film thickness, and &Dgr;n represents the birefringent index.
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