摘要 |
<p>A method of manufacturing a colour filter for a liquid crystal cell comprises forming a plurality of patterns, each of a respective dye intermediate material, on a carrier element. The patterns of dye intermediate materials are then brought into contact with a substrate layer, supported on a glass substrate, under the application of heat and pressure. The substrate layer, such as a polyacrylonitrile layer, contains free acid groups which interact with the dye intermediate materials to form the colours of the colour filter in the substrate layer. The method permits the actual formation of the colours on the substrate to be effected in a single alignment step, minimising wastage of the relatively expensive glass substrates. Furthermore, as the dyes providing the colours of the filter are chemically part of the substrate layer, they are very resistant to leaching by the liquid crystal materials. <IMAGE></p> |