Sony Corporation

Sony Group Corporation

Mari Ichimura

Akio Yasuda

Shinichiro Tamura

Tadashi Ishibashi

Noriyuki Kishii

Kenzo Machida

Ichinori Takada

Naoyuki Ueda

Hidemi Tomita

Masanobu Tanaka

Tetsuya Komine

Atsushi Yamada

Minoru Takeda

Toshiki Moriwaki

Mitsuhiro Kashiwabara

Kazuhiro Nakagawa

Takuya Kishimoto

Michihiro Ohnishi

Kazumine Ito

Tetsuo Shibanuma

Naohisa Sakamoto

Tomoteru Abe

Yukinari Sakamoto

Takuro Yamamoto

Eri Igarashi

Yoshihisa Miyabayashi

Mayumi Shiono

Nobuhiko Umezu

Provided is a wave control medium capable of controlling waves while decreasing the size of a metamaterial or the like and increasing the bandwidth of the metamaterial or the like. A wave control mediumis formed by combining at least two among a coiland a coilwhich are three-dimensional microstructures formed into a spiral structure, the coiland the coilincluding any one of a metal, a dielectric material, a magnetic material, a semiconductor, and a superconductor, or a material selected from a plurality of combinations of these materials, and having functions of a capacitor and an inductor. The coiland the coilform a capacitor between the lateral face of the coiland the lateral face of the coilfacing each other, and form an inductor by forming a three-dimensional multiple resonance structure by the coiland the coilhaving a spiral structure.

Wave control medium, wave control element, wave control device, and method for manufacturing wave control medium

An electronic device includes a first electrode, a light emitting/light receiving layerformed on the first electrode, and a second electrodeformed on the light emitting/light receiving layer. The light emitting/light receiving layerand/or the second electrodeis covered by an insulating layerincluding a metal oxide that contains, as a main component, zinc oxide, while containing, as accessory components, at least two materials selected from the group consisting of aluminum oxide, magnesium oxide, niobium oxide, titanium oxide, molybdenum oxide and hafnium oxide.

Insulating material, electronic device and imaging apparatus

Provided is a microbead analysis method for a microbead. The microbead is formed in a columnar shape having a top surface and a bottom surface facing each other, as placed almost in parallel, and a side surface extending therefrom, and carries an identification pattern formed on at least one of the top surface and the bottom surface and a substance immobilized on a surface thereof having affinity to an analyte substance. The method includes detecting fluorescence emitted from the microbead surface due to interaction of the analyte substance with the substance having affinity to the analyte substance from a region including a region of the top surface and the bottom surface where there is no identification pattern formed and the side surface.

Microbead analysis method and microbead analyzer

In one example embodiment, a method fabricates microbeads, which can supply a bead set containing a various types of microbeads and having distinct populations of the respective types of microbeads. In one example embodiment, the method includes forming a hydrophilic layer made of a hydrophilic organic material on a substrate. In one example embodiment, the method includes laminating on the hydrophilic layer a thin film capable of being peeled off in the form of microbeads. In one example embodiment, the method includes forming the thin film in a given configuration by photolithography. In one example embodiment, the method includes solid-phasing a given substance on the post-formed thin films. In one example embodiment, the method includes peeling off the post-formed thin films, which have been solid-phased with the substance, from the substrate along with at least a part of the hydrophilic layer to obtain microbeads.

Method for fabricating microbeads and microbeads

A microbead automatic recognition method includes the steps of: acquiring an image of a circular surface of a cylindrical microbead having a recognition pattern created on the circular surface and a plurality of reference points also created on the circular surface; and acquiring information on the rear/front and/or orientation of the cylindrical microbead from the acquired image on the basis of the positions of the reference points.

Microbead automatic recognition method and microbead

The present application provides a process for the preparation of microbeads, including the steps of: patterning a thin film, which has been formed on a substrate, into microbead regions of at least one predetermined shape by photolithography; immobilizing a predetermined substance on the thus-patterned microbead regions; and stripping off, from the substrate, the thus-patterned microbead regions with the substance immobilized thereon.

Preparation process of microbeads, and microbeads

An aromatic amine compound is represented by general formula [I]: wherein Xand Xeach represent a group selected from an alkyl group, an aryl group, an allyl group, an alkoxy group, and an aryloxy group, Xand Xmay be the same or different, Arand Areach represent an arylene group, n&#x2267;1, at least one of substituents Y is a substituent selected from a trifluoromethyl group, a cyano group, and a halogen group, and other substituents Y are groups each selected from a hydro group, an alkyl group, an aryl group, an allyl group, an alkoxy group, and an aryloxy group.

Aromatic amine compound, organic electroluminescent element including the same, and display device including organic electroluminescent element

A labeled compound is so designed that an aromatic tertiary amine compound is bondable with a biomolecule. One of Sand Scontains a group bound with a molecular chain 10 (e.g. an oligonucleotide) capable of binding with a biomolecule or a reactive group covalently binding with a reactive group present in the biomolecule, n is 0 or 1, Ris a phenyl group or a naphthyl group, Aris a phenylene group or a naphthylene group, and Aris any of a phenylene group, a naphthylene group, an anthrylene group, and a phenanthrene group. The detection of a fluorescence emitted by excitation of the labeled compound bound to a biomolecule ensures the biomolecule being detected at high sensitivity and a high SN ratio.

Labeled compound and detection method using the same

The present invention provides an organic electroluminescent element which is superior in luminance, reliability, and thermal stability and is capable of selectively emitting light with comparative long wavelengths such as red and good color purity and a light-emitting device or display device incorporated therewith. The organic electroluminescent element consists of a glass substrate (), an anode (), a hole transporting layer (), an emitting layer (), an electron transporting layer (), and a cathode (), which are sequentially laminated on top of the other. The emitting layer () is formed from a mixture composed of at least one species of the styryl compound represented by the general formula [I] below and a material with charge transporting capability.Y&#x2014;CH&#x2550;CH&#x2014;X &#x2003;&#x2003;General formula [I](where X denotes an aryl group (such as phenyl group) which has a substituent group (such as cyano group and methyl group), and Y denotes a group having a skeleton of aminophenyl group or the like.)

Organic electroluminescent element and light-emitting device or display device incorporated therewith

An organic electroluminescent device includes an anode, a cathode, and an organic layer having a light-emitting area and arranged between the anode and the cathode. The organic layer contains in at least a part thereof at least one aminostyrylnaphthalene compound represented by the following formula [I], [II] or [III]: 

Organic electroluminescent devices, aminostyrylnaphthalene compounds and synthesis intermediates thereof, and production processes of the same

Organic electroluminescent devices and aminostyrylnaphthalene compounds

This invention provides an organic electroluminescent element which emits red light with high color purity, high luminance, and high reliability, owing to the compound used therein which has high fluorescence yields and good thermal stability. The organic electroluminescent element which is made up of a glass substrate (), an ITO transparent electrode (), a hole transfer layer (), an electron transfer layer (), and a metal electrode () (which are laminated in the order mentioned), with the hole transfer layer () and/or the electron transfer layer () being formed of a mixture containing at least one species of the aminostyryl compound represented by the following general formula [I], and a hole blocking layer () is interposed between the hole transfer layer () and the electron transfer layer ().Y&#x2014;CH&#x2550;CH&#x2014;X&#x2014;CH&#x2550;CH&#x2014;YGeneral formula [I][where, in the general formula [I] above, Xdenotes any aryl group such as a phenyl group having a substituent groups such as a nitro group, and Yand Yeach is a group having an aminophenyl group in the skeleton.]

Organic electroluminescent element and luminescent apparatus employing the same

An organic electroluminescence device including an organic layer having a light emission region and being disposed between an anode and a cathode is provided. The organic layer contains, as an organic light-emitting material, a compound represented by the following formula (1): 

Organic electroluminescence device

A bis(aminostyryl)anthracene compound represented by the general formula [I] or the like below. (where Rand Reach denotes an unsubstituted aryl group; Rand Reach denotes an aryl group having a specific substituent such as methoxy group; and Rand Reach denotes a cyano group or the like.) A process for producing a bis(aminostyryl)anthracene compound represented by the general formula [I] by condensation of, for example, 4-(N,N-diarylamino)benzaldehyde with diphosphonic ester or diphosphonium. The bis(aminostyryl)anthracene compound emits intense yellow or red light. The process permits efficient production of the bis(aminostyryl)anthracene compound. The bis(aminostyryl)anthracene compound emits intense yellow or red light. The process permits efficient production of the bis(aminostyryl)anthracene compound.

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Mari Ichimura