Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Eiji Takeuchi

Takeo Tsukamoto

Isamu Shimizu

Takuto Moriguchi

Masaaki Hirooka

Mitsuyuki Niwa

Akira Sakai

Masahiro Kanai

Shunichi Ishihara

Yasushi Fujioka

Takahiro Sato

Tsutomu Murakami

Kozo Arao

Junichi Hanna

Yoshio Hotta

Tamaki Kobayashi

Jun-Ichi Hanna

Takayoshi Arai

Yusuke Miyamoto

Yuu Nishimura

Masao Ueki

Provided are a highly reliable probe including a light reflecting layer, which is resistant to the falling off of the light reflecting layer, and an information obtaining apparatus using the same. The probe includes: an element including at least one cell, each cell including a first electrode provided on a substrate, and a vibration membrane including a second electrode provided across a gap from the first electrode; an acoustic impedance matching layer disposed above the element; and a light reflecting layer. The light reflecting layer is fixed to the substrate via an adhesive layer.

Probe and subject information obtaining apparatus using the same

A probe capable of reducing positional displacement of an acoustic lens from a capacitive transducer is provided. The probe includes a transducer having elements and extraction electrodes of the elements, flexible wiring boards having wiring electrically connected to the extraction electrodes, and an acoustic lens having stepped portions which is provided on the elements. The acoustic lens is butted against end portions of the flexible wiring boards at the stepped portions and fixed.

Probe, subject information acquisition apparatus, and method for manufacturing the probe

The present invention provides an electron beam apparatus provided with an electron-emitting device which has a simple structure, shows high electron-emitting efficiency and stably works. This electron beam apparatus has an insulating member and a gate formed on a substrate, a recess portion formed in the insulating member, a protruding portion that protrudes from an edge of the recess portion toward the gate and is provided on an end part of a cathode opposing to the gate, which is arranged on the side face of the insulating member; and makes an electric field converge on an end part in the width direction of the protruding portion to make an electron emitted therefrom.

Electron beam apparatus and image display apparatus using the same

An electron-emitting device has a pair of device electrodes formed on a substrate and an electroconductive film connected to the device electrodes. The electroconductive film has a first gap between the device electrodes and has a carbon film having a second gap at least in the first gap. The substrate is formed by stacking a nitrogen-contained activation suppressing layer and an activation accelerating layer having a nitrogen containing ratio smaller than that of the activation suppressing layer onto a base and has nitrogen containing ratio distribution in the activation suppressing layer in a film thickness direction. The nitrogen containing ratio of the activation suppressing layer at the activation accelerating layer side is smaller than that at the base side.

Highly-efficient electron-emitting device and image display apparatus having a substrate with a distribution of nitrogen containing ratio

An electron-emitting device manufacturing method includes a first step of forming a conductive film on an insulating layer having an upper surface and a side surface connected to the upper surface via a corner portion so as to extend from the side surface to the upper surface and cover at least a part of the corner portion, and a second step of etching the conductive film in a film thickness direction. At the first step, the conductive film is formed so that film density of the conductive film on the side surface of the insulating layer becomes the same as or higher than film density of the conductive film on the upper portion of the insulating film.

Method of manufacturing electron-emitting device and method of manufacturing image display apparatus

There is described a device for forming a deposited film on a substrate in a vacuum chamber through utilization of reaction between a gasifiable starting material for formation of a deposited film and a gaseous halogenic oxidizing agent having the property of oxidization action for the gasifiable starting material which has a gas introducing means comprising a pipe for introducing said gasifiable starting material and a pipe for introducing said gaseous halogenic oxidizing agent where the pipes are arranged in a multi-concentric structure and at least one of the pipes except the outermost pipe is constituted of a porous pipe or has a hole opened through the wall thereof and the outermost pipe has at least one opening oriented toward the substrate.

Device for forming a deposited film

A reflective solar cell substrate comprising a base member composed of a metallic material provided with irregularities at the surface thereof and a buffer layer disposed on said base member so as to cover the entire of said irregularities at the surface of said base member, said buffer layer being composed of a substantially transparent or translucent and conductive material, said buffer layer being provided with irregularities at the surface thereof, and said irregularities at the surface of said buffer layer comprising a plurality of thickened convex portions and a plurality of thinned concave portions, said portions being alternately arranged. The reflective solar cell substrate reflects light reaching the substrate without being absorbed by the optically active layer at an effective angle, whereby the solar cell exhibits improved photovoltaic characteristics.

Substrate having an uneven surface for solar cell and a solar cell

A photosensor has a photoconductive member. The photoconductive member has a structure comprising a laminated product consisting of functional thin films superposed on one another. The laminated product comprises at least two functional thin films. The functional thin film containing 10 atomic % or less of hydrogen. The band gaps and conduction types and/or conductivity of the functional thin films are controlled to provide high photo sensitivity.

Non-single crystalline photosensor with hydrogen and halogen

A method for forming deposited film by introducing into a reaction space a gaseous starting material for formation of a deposited film and a gaseous halogenic oxidizing agent having the property of oxidation action for said starting material to effect chemical contact therebetween to thereby form a plural number of precursors including precursors under excited state, and forming said deposited film on a substrate previously position in a film forming space spatially communicated with said reaction space with the use of at least one precursor of these precursors as the feeding source for the constituent element of said deposited film, said method comprising the step of increasing the proportion of the amount of said gaseous starting material introduced relative to the amount of said gaseous halogenic oxidizing agent introduced in said reaction space.

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Atsugi, Japan

Eiji Takeuchi