Nitto-Denko Corporation

Daisuke Nakamura

Hironobu Machinaga

Naoki Nagaoka

Manami Kurose

Taketo Ishikawa

Takahiro Shimizu

Takahiko Yanagitani

The occurrence of cracking in a functional layer is suppressed, while maintaining flexibility of a layered structure. The layered structure includes a polymer substrate, and a crystalline functional layer formed on the first surface of the substrate. The surface roughness of the first surface of the substrate is 3 nm or less in terms of arithmetic mean roughness (Ra).

Layered structure, piezoelectric device using the same, and method of manufacturing piezoelectric device

A piezoelectric device having a high conversion efficiency between electrical energy and mechanical energy is provided. The piezoelectric device has first electrode, a second electrode, and a piezoelectric layer provided between the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein the piezoelectric layer is formed of a ZnO-based material having a wurtzite crystal structure to which a metal that does not cause the piezoelectric layer to exhibit conductivity is added, and wherein a squared value of a electromechanical coupling coefficient in thickness vibration mode is 6.5% or more.

Piezoelectric device and method of manufacturing the same

A piezo electric device having a configuration that can suppress the formation of a leakage path between electrodes that sandwich a piezoelectric layer and also reduce deterioration in the piezoelectric characteristics, is provided. The piezoelectric device has a first electrode, a piezoelectric layer, and a second electrode stacked in this order on a substrate. The first electrode and the second electrode are arranged so as not to overlap each other in the stacking direction.

Piezoelectric device and method of manufacturing piezoelectric device

For a piezoelectric device, an optical characteristic and/or a piezoelectric characteristic is improved. A piezoelectric device has a first electrode layer, a second electrode layer, and a piezoelectric layer provided between the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer, wherein the piezoelectric layer is formed of a wurtzite crystal material as a main component, to which one or more elements is/are added, said one or more elements being transparent when turned into an oxide, and wherein a haze value is 3% or less, and transmittance with respect to light having a wavelength of 380 nm is 50% or more.

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Ibaraki, Japan

Daisuke Nakamura