Color filter array element with protective overcoat layer and method of forming same

摘要

A color filter array element, preferably for use in a color electro-optical display device such as a color liquid crystal display device, comprises a support having thereon a thermally transferred image comprising a repeating pattern of colorants and, overlying the transferred image, a protective overcoat layer that is produced by polymerization of an overcoat layer containing a cycloaliphatic epoxide compound and a photoinitiator that is an onium salt of a Lewis acid.