Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Jun Sakuma

Yasushi Asaoka

Tsuyoshi Kamada

Makoto Yamada

Tetsuya Ide

Sho Ochi

Hiroka Hamada

Sentaro Kida

Shigeru Aomori

Takahiro Adachi

Makoto Kitagawa

A method of manufacturing a display device includes: a) a step of preparing a substrate including an electrode and another electrode; b) a step of forming a photosensitive resin material layer on the substrate; c) a step of forming a charge transport material layer and a light-emitting material layer on the substrate; and d) a step of patterning the photosensitive resin material layer, the charge transport material layer, and the light-emitting material layer into a photosensitive resin layer, a charge transport layer, and a light-emitting layer respectively by retaining, without lifting off, non-lift-off portions of the photosensitive resin material layer, the charge transport material layer, and the light-emitting material layer, the non-lift-off portions being provided at least on a part of the electrode, and lifting off lift-off portions of the photosensitive resin material layer, the charge transport material layer, and the light-emitting material layer.

Method of manufacturing display device

A display device includes: a substrate; a flattened layer; at least one first light-emitting element; at least one second light-emitting element; at least one first drive circuit; and at least one second drive circuit, wherein light emitted by the first light-emitting element is taken out through the substrate, light emitted by the second light-emitting element is taken out from a direction opposite to a direction in which the light emitted by the first light-emitting element is taken out, the first light-emitting element is provided in an opening provided in the flattened layer, the second light-emitting element is provided in a layer above the flattened layer and overlaps the flattened layer, and the first drive circuit and the second drive circuit are provided closer to the substrate than the second light-emitting element.

Display device

A display device includes at least the following: a single contact hole; n TFTs, where n is a natural number equal to or greater than two; and n electrodes, wherein the n electrodes are electrically connected to the respective n TFTs via the single contact hole.

A light-emitting element includes a first light-emitting layer including a first quantum dot and a second light-emitting layer including a second quantum dot provided between the cathode electrode and an anode electrode in order from the cathode electrode, the first quantum dot has a core-shell structure including a first core and a first shell, the second quantum dot has a core-shell structure including a second core and a second shell, and an energy level at a lower end of a conduction band of the first core is higher than an energy level at a lower end of a conduction band of the second core.

Light-emitting element, light-emitting device

A method for manufacturing a functional element including a pixel, the method includes: applying a coating containing a curable material and a functional material; curing the coating applied by the applying the coating; and adjusting a film thickness of the coating cured by the curing the coating to decrease the film thickness of the coating.

Method for manufacturing light-emitting element inlcuding quantum dots

Provided is a display element according to an aspect of the disclosure including a flattening film and, on the flattening film, a plurality of banks each having a linear shape, a plurality of active layers each having a linear shape and formed between adjacent banks, and an upper transparent electrode formed on each of the plurality of active layers. A cut line having a locally reduced height with reference to the flattening film is formed in each the plurality of banks, and the upper transparent electrode formed on one of the adjacent active layers and the upper transparent electrode formed on the other of the adjacent active layers are electrically connected via a conductive electrode formed in the cut line.

Display element

An air conditioning apparatus according to an aspect of the invention includes: an air conditioner that has a heat pump; a humidity controller of a wet desiccant type; an air transport flow path through which air discharged from the air conditioner is transported to the humidity controller; and a control unit that includes an air conditioner temperature control unit controlling a temperature of air discharged from the air conditioner and a humidity controller humidity control unit controlling a humidity of air discharged from the humidity controller. The air conditioner supplies the air, the temperature of which is controlled, to the humidity controller via the air transport flow path and the humidity controller discharges the air, the humidity of which is controlled, into a room.

Air conditioning apparatus and air conditioning method

Provided is a humidity conditioning method that enables absorption and desorption of moisture with low power consumption. The humidity conditioning method includes: an adjustment step of adjusting a moisture amount of hygroscopic liquid; and a measurement step of measuring concentration of a hygroscopic substance contained in the hygroscopic liquid, in which at the adjustment step, at least either moisture absorption processing of causing moisture contained in air to be absorbed by the hygroscopic liquid or regeneration processing of separating the moisture from the hygroscopic liquid is performed, the regeneration processing includes atomization processing of irradiating at least a part of the hygroscopic liquid with an ultrasonic wave to generate an atomized droplet from the hygroscopic liquid and perform removal, the atomized droplet contains a first droplet and a second droplet whose particle size is larger than a particle size of the first droplet, a concentration region of the hygroscopic substance relative to total mass of the hygroscopic liquid includes a first concentration region in which the first droplet is generated, and a second concentration region in which the second droplet is generated and in which concentration is lower than that in the first concentration region, and the moisture amount of the hygroscopic liquid is adjusted so that the concentration is included in the first concentration region on a basis of a measurement result obtained in at least the measurement step.

Humidity conditioning device and humidity conditioning method

A humidity conditioning method includes: the humidity-absorbing step of bringing a hygroscopic liquid containing a hygroscopic material into contact with a first mass of air so that the hygroscopic liquid absorbs moisture in the first mass of air; and the regeneration step of separating moisture from the hygroscopic liquid having absorbed moisture, wherein the regeneration step retains the hygroscopic liquid having absorbed moisture, bombards at least some of the retained hygroscopic liquid with ultrasound to generate misty droplets from the hygroscopic liquid having absorbed moisture, and removes the misty droplets to separate moisture from the hygroscopic liquid.

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Jun Sakuma