Sony Corporation

Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation

Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

Sae Miyaji

Masato Kanno

Yosuke Saito

Osamu Enoki

Yuta Hasegawa

Miki Kimijima

Keisuke Shimizu

Masaki Murata

Toru Udaka

Hideaki Mogi

Takuya Ito

Takashi Kawashima

Rui Morimoto

Yasuharu Ujiie

Toshio Nishi

Go Sudo

Yuki Negishi

Hideyuki Kumita

Tatsuya Furuya

Hajime Kobayashi

Hiroto Sasaki

Masamitsu Suzuki

Yu Kato

Keiko Furukawa

Miki Sudou

Shinnosuke Hattori

Go Hirano

Harumi Shibata

Masayoshi Aonuma

Yuta Inaba

To provide a photoelectric conversion element capable of further improving performance in a photoelectric conversion element using an organic semiconductor material. The photoelectric conversion element includes a first electrode and a second electrode arranged to face each other, and a photoelectric conversion layerprovided between the first electrode and the second electrode, in which the photoelectric conversion layerincludes a first organic semiconductor material and a second organic semiconductor material, and at least one of the first organic semiconductor material or the second organic semiconductor material is an organic molecule having a HOMO volume fraction of 0.15 or less or a LUMO volume fraction of 0.15 or less.

Photoelectric conversion element

A first photoelectric conversion element according to an embodiment of the present disclosure incudes: a first electrode; a second electrode disposed to be opposed to the first electrode; and a photoelectric conversion layer provided between the first electrode and the second electrode and including a chromophore, fullerene or a fullerene derivative, and a hole-transporting material, in which the chromophore and the fullerene or the fullerene derivative are bonded to each other at least partially via a crosslinking group in the photoelectric conversion layer.

Photoelectric conversion element and method of manufacturing photoelectric conversion element

[Problem] Provided are a photoelectric conversion device and an imaging apparatus capable of improving quantum efficiency and a response speed. [Solving means] A first photoelectric conversion device according to one embodiment of the present disclosure includes a first electrode, a second electrode opposed to the first electrode, and a photoelectric conversion layer. The photoelectric conversion layer is provided between the first electrode and the second electrode and includes at least one type of one organic semiconductor material having crystallinity. Variation in a ratio between horizontally-oriented crystal and vertically-oriented crystal in the photoelectric conversion layer is three times or less between a case where film formation of the one organic semiconductor material is performed at a first temperature and a case where the film formation of the one organic semiconductor material is performed at a second temperature. The second temperature is higher than the first temperature.

Photoelectric conversion device and imaging apparatus

A glass-ceramic includes an oxide containing lithium (Li), silicon (Si), and boron (B) and has an X-ray diffraction spectrum with two or more peaks appearing in the range 20&#xb0;&#x2264;2&#x3b8;&#x2264;25&#xb0; and with two or more peaks appearing in the range 25&#xb0;&#x3c;2&#x3b8;&#x2264;30&#xb0;.

Glass-ceramic, lithium ion conductor, battery, electronic device, and method for producing electrode

A solid-state image pickup unit of the invention includes a plurality of pixels, each of which includes a photoelectric conversion element. The photoelectric conversion element includes a photoelectric conversion layer; and first and second electrodes provided with the photoelectric conversion layer in between, the photoelectric conversion layer including a first organic semiconductor of a first conductive type and a second organic semiconductor of a second conductive type, and being configured by addition of a third organic semiconductor made of a derivative or an isomer of one of the first and second organic semiconductors.

Photoelectric conversion device, solid-state image pickup unit, and electronic apparatus including ternary system of organic semiconductors

Disclosed herein is a method for evaluation of an oxide semiconductor electrode, the method comprising: performing Raman spectrometry on a porous oxide semiconductor layer having a dye adsorbed thereto, thereby acquiring a Raman spectrum having a peak attributable to the dye and a peak attributable to the oxide semiconductor; obtaining from the Raman spectrum a parameter for dye adsorption quantity which is defined by the formula:Parameter for dye adsorption quantity=(Peak intensity attributable to dye)/(Peak intensity attributable to oxide semiconductor);and estimating the amount of the dye adsorbed to the porous oxide semiconductor layer on the basis of the thus obtained parameter for dye adsorption quantity.

Method for evaluation of oxide semiconductor electrode, apparatus for evaluation of oxide semiconductor electrode, and apparatus for production of oxide semiconductor electrode

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Sae Miyaji