| abstract |
An optical film whose retardation distribution is uniform, whose rainbow-like irregularity is suppressed, whose color is transparent and whose optical characteristics are extremely good is provided. A birefringent material containing a non-liquid crystal polymer is dissolved in methyl isobutyl ketone so as to prepare a coating solution. This coating solution is applied onto a transparent film, thus forming a coating film. By drying the coating film, an optical film having a birefringent layer formed on the transparent film is obtained. As the non-liquid crystal polymer, it is possible to use polyimide that has a birefringence (Δn xyz ) in a thickness direction when formed into a film of at least 0.03 and is soluble in methyl isobutyl ketone. |