A transparent heat-resistant resin optical materials having excellent heat resistance and dynamic characteristics, having negative birefringence and exhibiting a high refractive index and a high Abbe number, especially optical compensating members such as films, sheets and retardation films for LCD display element. The transparent heat-resistant resin optical material is made of a copolymer containing a specific olefin residue unit and a specific N-phenyl-substituted maleimide residue unit and having a weight average molecular weight, as reduced into standard polystyrene, of from 5×10
3
to 5×10
6
, the transparent heat-resistant resin optical material exhibiting negative birefringence; and a retardation film having a relationship of three-dimensional refractive indexes of nz≧ny>nx, nz>ny≧nx, or nz>nx≧ny.
一种具有优异耐热性和动态特性的透明耐热
树脂光学材料,具有负双折射率并表现出高折射率和高阿贝数,特别是用于液晶显示元件的光学补偿元件,如薄膜、片材和减速膜。透明耐热
树脂光学材料由含有特定烯烃残基单元和特定N-苯基取代马来
酰亚胺残基单元的共聚物制成,其重量平均分子量在标准聚
苯乙烯中降低至5×103至5×106之间,透明耐热
树脂光学材料表现出负双折射率;以及具有三维折射率关系的减速膜,其中nz≧ny>nx,nz>ny≧nx,或nz>nx≧ny。