Four thermally stable and solvent soluble dyes were prepared from diketopyrrolopyrrole pigment via an Nalkylation reaction. To improve the thermal stability of the dyes, a hydroxyl functional group that could react with blocked polyisocyanates was introduced into the dyes. The prepared dyes had absorption maxima near 500 nm, and the chromaticity diagrams of all synthesised dyes exhibited smaller x and y values than those of CI Pigment Red 254, indicating that the colour of the synthesised dyes was close to an orange shade. The dyes reacting with blocked polyisocyanates showed extremely high thermal stability compared with analogous dyes not reacting with polyisocyanates.
In this study, seven quenchers (derived from either anthraquinone, phthalimidylazo, or dipyrromethene chromophores) were prepared as candidates for additives to suppress fluorescence in blue colour filters and thus improve their contrast ratio. To reduce fluorescence effectively, quenchers must have typical properties such as spectral compatibility by which the absorbance spectrum of the quencher overlaps the fluorescence emission spectrum, exhibit high molar extinction coefficients, and exert little influence on the colour of the blue filter. The seven quenchers possessed absorption maxima of approximately 570-620 nm and reduced fluorescence (by more than 24%). Those quenchers tested in filter coatings increased their contrast ratios by about 50%. They thus effectively quenched fluorescence of the blue filter but without greatly affecting the chromaticity coordinates of the filters.
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