Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Imec Vzw

Panasonic Holdings Corporation

Hidekazu Arase

Mamoru Soga

Masaichiro Tatekawa

Yasuhito Yuasa

Tsutomu Matsuda

Hiroyuki Matsuo

Tomoyuki Komori

Tohru Nakagawa

Keishi Taniguchi

Yuriko Kaneko

Takamichi Enomoto

Shigeru Kusakata

Masashi Ito

Masahisa Maeda

Maki Hiraoka

Masashi Itoh

Naoya Sakata

Katsuhiko Asai

Atsushi Omote

Philippe M Vereecken

Hiroki Yabe

Masashi Morita

Hiroyuki Masuda

Maarten Mees

Akihiko Sagara

Knut Bjarne Gandrud

Xubin Chen

Kenji Tagashira

Takuma Takasu

Takatoshi Minoda

Masako Yokoyama

Ryotaro Matsuda

Akihiro Hori

Kota Ando

A photoresponsive oxygen storage material includes a plurality of unit cells. Each of the plurality of unit cells has a shape of a cube having eight corners and six faces. Each of the plurality of unit cells includes a plurality of zirconium-oxo clusters each located at a corresponding corner of the eight corners, and a plurality of ligands each located on a corresponding face of the six faces and each having a porphyrin skeleton and including greater than or equal to 1 and less than or equal to 4 carboxy groups. A molybdenum ion is located at a center of the porphyrin skeleton, and at least some of the plurality of unit cells are empty.

Photoresponsive oxygen storage material

A recording medium includes a recording layer. The recording layer includes an aliphatic polymer, and a multiphoton absorption compound containing at least one bond selected from the group consisting of a carbon-carbon double bond, a carbon-nitrogen double bond, and a carbon-carbon triple bond, and having a multiphoton absorption characteristic. When the thickness of the recording layer is 100 μm, the transmittance of the recording layer in the thickness direction with respect to light having a wavelength of 405 nm is greater than or equal to 80%.

Recording medium, information recording method, information reading method, and composition for producing recording layer

A solid electrolyte of the present disclosure includes: a porous dielectric having a plurality of pores interconnected mutually; and an electrolyte including a metal salt and at least one selected from the group consisting of an ionic compound and a bipolar compound and at least partially filling an interior of the plurality of pores. Inner surfaces of the plurality of pores of the porous dielectric are at least partially modified by a functional group containing a halogen atom.

Solid electrolyte, electrode, power storage device, and method for producing solid electrolytes

The present invention provides an actuator device comprising an actuator wire; a net-shaped electric heating element which covers a side surface of the actuator wire and comprises heating wires; and a controller for supplying electric power to the net-shaped electric heating element to heat the net-shaped electric heating element. The actuator wire is capable of being contracted by application of heat and restored by release of heat. The side surface of the actuator wire is formed of polymer. One end and the other end of the net-shaped electric heating element is connected to one end and the other end of the actuator wire, respectively. The net-shaped electric heating element is in contact with the side surface of the actuator wire, when the net-shaped electric heating element is not heated. The net-shaped electric heating element is moved outward from the side surface of the actuator wire due to contraction of the actuator wire, when the net-shaped electric heating element is heated.

Actuator device

The present invention provides an actuator, comprising a fiber and a temperature regulator capable of at least one of heating and cooling the fiber. The fiber is twisted around a longitudinal axis thereof. The fiber is folded so as to have a shape of a cylindrical coil. The fiber is formed of linear low-density polyethylene. The following mathematical formula (I) is satisfied: D/d&#x3c;1 (I), where D represents a mean diameter of the cylindrical coil; and d represents a diameter of the fiber.

Actuator

A solar cell element includes: a transparent body; a MgAglayer (0.001&#x2266;x&#x2266;0.045) having a thickness (2-13 nm); a ZnO layer having an arithmetical mean (Ra: 20-870 nm); and a transparent conductive layer. A photoelectric conversion layer including n-type and p-type layers further includes n-side and p-side electrodes. The ZnO layer is composed of ZnO columnar crystal grains grown on the MgAglayer, and each ZnO grain has a longitudinal direction along a normal line of the body, has a width increasing from the MgAglayer toward the transparent conductive layer, has a width which appears by cutting each ZnO grain along the normal line, and has a R2/R1 ratio (1.1-1.8). R1 represents the width of one end of the ZnO grain, and the one end is in contact with the surface of the MgAglayer, and R2 represents the width of the other end of the ZnO grain.

Solar cell element

A solar cell element having a transparent substrate body, a NaAg, layer, a ZnO layer, a transparent conductive layer, and a photoelectric conversion layer including an n-type semiconductor layer and a p-type semiconductor layer. The transparent substrate body, the NaAglayer, the ZnO layer, the transparent conductive layer, and the photoelectric conversion layer are stacked in this order, x represents a value of not less than 0.001 and not more than 0.02, the NaAglayer has a thickness of 2-15.2 nanometers, and the ZnO layer has an arithmetical mean roughness of not less than 20-750 nanometers. The ZnO layer is composed of a plurality of ZnO columnar crystal grain, each ZnO columnar crystal grain has a longitudinal direction along a normal line direction of the transparent substrate body, and each ZnO columnar crystal grain has a R2/R1 ratio of 1.1-1.6.

Solar cell element and method for manufacturing same

In order to provide a novel method for producing a chip having a water-repellent obverse surface and a hydrophilic reverse surface, the characteristic of the present disclosure lies in that the obverse surface of the chip having a hydroxyl group is brought into contact with an organic solvent in which R&#x2014;Si(OR)or R&#x2014;SiYis dissolved in a second hydrophobic solvent, while the reverse surface of the chip is protected by the water film, so as to form a water-repellent film on the obverse surface of the chip.

Method for fabricating a chip having a water-repellent obverse surface and a hydrophilic reverse surface

The purpose of the present invention is to provide a method for disposing a photoelectric conversion element accurately on the focal point of a condenser lens. The method of the present invention comprises a step of forming a focal point on the reverse surface of the condenser lens to be a hydrophilic region, a step of removing the remained photoresist to obtain the condenser lens having the reverse surface where the hydrophilic region is surrounded by a water-repellent region formed of the fluoroalkylsilane film and a step of disposing the photoelectric conversion element on the hydrophilic region to obtain the solar cell comprising the condenser lens and the photoelectric conversion element.

Method for fabricating solar cell comprising condenser lens and photoelectric conversion element

Provided is a method for disposing a component on a substrate (), the method comprising steps of: a step (a) of preparing the substrate (), a first liquid, and a component-dispersing liquid; a step (b) of applying the first liquid to the substrate () along the +X direction continuously to dispose the first liquid on hydrophilic lines () and hydrophilic body regions () along the +X direction alternately; a step (c) of bringing the component-dispersing liquid in contact with the first liquid disposed on the hydrophilic region (); and a step (d) of removing the first liquid and the second liquid from the substrate () to dispose the component on the hydrophilic region ().

Method for disposing a component

In order to increase the probability that the component is disposed on the hydrophilic region, used is a substrate comprises a water-repellant region, a hydrophilic region, and a hydrophilic line, wherein the water-repellant region surrounds the hydrophilic region and the hydrophilic line, the hydrophilic region and the hydrophilic line are disposed along the +X direction in this order, the value of D/Dis not less than 0.1 and not more than 1.2, the value of Dis not less than 5 micrometers, the value of Dis less than the minimum length of the component.

A method for disposing a component comprises: a step of preparing a substrate and a first liquid; a step of preparing a component-containing liquid containing the components and a second liquid; a step of disposing the first liquid in a hydrophilic region; a step of bringing the component-containing liquid into contact with the first liquid disposed on the hydrophilic region; a step of removing the first liquid and the second liquid to dispose the component on the hydrophilic region. The hydrophilic region is composed of a component-disposing region and a liquid-capturing region formed on the periphery of the component-disposing region. The liquid-capturing region comprises a surface represented by X&#x2014;(CH)S-(substrate) or Y&#x2014;(CH)&#x2014;S-(substrate), where X represents NRQ(Q represents Cl, Br, or I), OR, or halogen atom, R represents lower alkyl group, n represents a natural number of not less than 1 and not more than 3, Y represents COOH or OH, and m represents a natural number of not less than 1 and not more than 22.

A method for disposing a component comprises: a step of preparing a substrate and a first liquid; preparing a component-containing liquid containing the components and a second liquid; a step of disposing the first liquid in a hydrophilic region; a step of bringing the component-containing liquid into contact with the first liquid disposed on the hydrophilic region; a step of removing the first liquid and the second liquid to dispose the component on the hydrophilic region. The hydrophilic region is composed of a component-disposing region and a liquid-capturing region formed on the periphery of the component-disposing region. The liquid-capturing region comprises a surface represented by the following chemical formula I. 

A method includes steps of () preparing a hydrophilic first liquid, () preparing a component-dispersing liquid where the component is dispersed in a second liquid, () preparing a substrate having a hydrophilic region and a water-repellant region, () disposing the first liquid to the hydrophilic region, () bringing the component-dispersing liquid in contact with the first liquid disposed on the hydrophilic region, and () removing the first liquid and the second liquid from the substrate to dispose the component on the hydrophilic region. The hydrophilic region includes a component-mounting region and a liquid-capturing region surrounding the component-mounting region. The surface of the liquid-capturing region has a material represented by X&#x2014;(CH)&#x2014;Si-(substrate), where X represents NRQ(Q represents Cl, Br, or I), OR, or halogen atom, R represents lower alkyl group with a carbon number of 1-4, and n represents a natural number of 1, 2, or 3.

Method for mounting a component

A toner or two-component developer is obtained by mixing, aggregating, and heating resin particles, colorant particles, and wax particles in an aqueous medium. A gel permeation chromatography (GPC) measurement of the resin particles shows that a weight-average molecular weight is 10000 to 60000, and the ratio of the weight-average molecular weight to a number-average molecular weight is 1.5 to 6. The wax particles include at least a first wax and a second wax. An endothermic peak temperature (melting point Tmw(&#xb0; C.)) of the first wax based on a DSC method is 50&#xb0; C. to 90&#xb0; C. An endothermic peak temperature (melting point Tmw(&#xb0; C.)) of the second wax based on the DSC method is at least 5&#xb0; C. to 50&#xb0; C. higher than Tmw. Thus, the toner can have a smaller particle size and a sharp particle size distribution without requiring a classification process, can achieve a longer life, and can suppress transfer voids or scattering during transfer.

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