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Optical Properties of PVA Polarizing Films Surface-modified by UV Irradiation  

Koo, Gwang-Hoe (Dept. of Textile and Fashion Engineering, School of Advanced Materials and System Engineering, Kumoh National Institute of Technology)
Jang, Jin-Ho (Dept. of Textile and Fashion Engineering, School of Advanced Materials and System Engineering, Kumoh National Institute of Technology)
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Textile Coloration and Finishing / v.18, no.6, 2006 , pp. 49-56 More about this Journal
Abstract
Surface treatment using UV irradiation was carried out to improve optical properties of polarizing films. The effects of UV energy of the UV-treated PVA films were investigated by measuring reflectance, surface roughness, contact angles, ESCA, and ATR. Reflectance decreased at wavelength of 450 nm or less and surface roughness increased with increasing UV energy. Water contact angle increased in the irradiated PVA films and surface energy decreased with increase in w energy. An analysis showed that the OH groups were broken and some new groups were introduced such as C=C and C=O bonds together with increased $O_{1s}/C_{1s}$, resulting in the observed surface modification effect. Surface modified PVA polarizing films showed improvement in light transmittance of polarizing films at high wavelength region without deteriorating polarization efficiency, which was not affected by UV irradiation sequence during manufacturing processes such as coloring and drawing.
Keywords
PVA; polarizing film; UV irradiation; surface modification; roughness; transmittance;
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