ELLIPTICAL POLARIZING PLATE, METHOD FOR PRODUCTION OF THE SAME, AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE USING THE SAME

摘要

Disclosed is an elliptical polarizing plate which has a simplified layered structure and therefore is free from disadvantages including delamination even under high-temperature/high-humidity conditions. The elliptical polarizing plate comprises a light-transmittable protection film, a polarizing element and an optically anisotropic element laminated in this order. In the elliptical polarizing plate, the optically anisotropic element has a homeotropically aligned liquid crystal layer which is prepared by homeotropically aligning at least a liquid crystalline composition having a positive uniaxiality in a liquid crystalline state and then fixing the alignment.