Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Sharp Corporation

Shigeo Nakajima

Masaru Yoshida

Yoshikazu Yoshimoto

Tomonari Suzuki

Koichi Tanaka

Hiroshi Wada

Akiyoshi Mikami

Kouji Taniguchi

Kousuke Terada

Yoshiyuki Higashigaki

Toshio Inoguchi

Takuo Yamashita

Katsushi Okibayashi

Takashi Ogura

Hideaki Tanaka

Hiroaki Nakaya

Yoshimitsu Tajima

Motoo Mohri

Michiyo Kasahara

Shoei Kataoka

Yoshitaka Tomomura

Masahiko Kitagawa

Satoshi Yamaue

Nobuhiro Yanagisawa

Tatsuo Morita

Kazuhiro Emoto

Mitsuhiko Yoshikawa

Keiichi Uno

Eizo Ohno

Yoshiharu Nakajima

Yoshiki Murakami

A method for preparing a graphite intercalation compound having a metal or a metal compound inserted between adjacent graphite layers, comprising simultaneously introducing a mixture of a vapor of both a hydrocarbon compound and an organo metallic compound together with a carrier gas into a reactor, and decomposing said hydrocarbon compound and said organo metallic compound on a single-crystalline substrate at a relatively low temperature.

Method for preparing a graphite intercalation compound having a metal or

A process for preparing an electroluminescent film which comprises causing a substrate held at a high temperature to simultaneous contact two kinds of vapors of (a) Group II element and a Group VI element or a compound thereof, capable of forming a Group II-VI compound semiconductor, and (b) a halide of an element capable of acting as luminescent centers in the Group II-VI compound semiconductor, in the presence of flowing hydrogen or an inert gas, whereby a thin electroluminescent film comprising the Group II-VI compound semiconductor and containing the element forming the luminescent centers is formed on the surface of the substrate.

Process for preparing an electroluminescent film

Disclosed is an electroluminescent device including a substrate and an electroluminescent film on the substrate wherein the electroluminescent film is composed of a II-VI group compound semiconductor matrix and an electroluminescent center element; the improvement being present in that the electroluminescent film has a crystal structure of a hexagonal system, and contains the electroluminescent center element in a concentration (Ci) of 0.5 to 4 at. % within a thickness of 0.2 micrometer from the side of the substrate and in a concentration (Cr) of 0.15 to 0.7 at. % at the residual portion, and Ci is larger than Cr, and the process for preparing the same.

Method of manufacturing an electroluminescent device

A thermoelectric material is provided which consists of an oxide with a perovskite structure, wherein the oxide is of the formula (Ln.sub.1-x A.sub.x).sub.2 MO.sub.4 with 0.01.ltoreq.x.ltoreq.0.05, where Ln is a rare earth element, A is an alkali earth metal element, and M is a transition metal element. The thermoelectric material is particularly useful for Peltier cooling elements to produce low temperatures below room temperature.

Thermoelectric material

A vapor deposition apparatus for depositing thin film on substrates in which solid starting materials are used. In this apparatus, a carrier gas flows up and down in the same direction as gas convection, such that the effect of gas convection is minimized and film thickness and impurity concentration are uniform over the substrate surface. This uniformity is achieved by orienting a main reaction tube in a vertical direction, attaching two branch reaction tubes at the top of the main reaction tube, and venting carrier gas out the bottom of the main reaction tube. Alternately, the main reaction tube can be oriented horizontally, with the substrates being carried on a holder within a container having pores on its top and bottom.

Vapor deposition apparatus for using solid starting materials

The disclosure is directed to a method for converting between heat energy and electric energy which is characterized in that a carbon intercalation compound is employed as a thermoelectric material by utilizing a temperature difference in a direction perpendicular to the structure of carbon layers, or a method for producing a light-heat converting material which is characterized in that a thin metallic layer like a translucent mirror is caused to adhere to the inner surface of a light transmissive hollow tube by pyrolytically decomposing at a temperature approximately below 1000.degree. C., with hydrocarbons being introduced into the hollow tube at the rate of a predetermined amount per hour.

Materials for thermoelectric and light-heat conversion

An organic electroluminescent device for white luminescence, which includes a pair of opposite electrodes at least one of which is transparent, a hole transport layer and a luminescent layer. The layers are stacked in that order between the electrodes, the hole transport layer being formed from bis-di(p-tolyl)aminophenyl-1, 1-cyclohexane, and the luminescent layer being formed from a material having a luminescent peak at 460-480 nm and a thickness of 100-300 .ANG..

Organic electroluminescent device for white luminescence

A method for preparing graphite intercalation compounds having metal or metal compounds. The method consists of the simultaneous thermal decomposition of two kinds of starting materials by a CVD (Chemical Vapor Deposition) method in which hydrocarbon as a source material for the host graphite and other organometal reagents or metal halides for guest metal species or metal compound are decomposed simultaneously in a reactor in order to intercalate the metal species or metal compound into carbon being deposited on the substrate.

Method for producing graphite intercalation compound

A thin-film electroluminescence (EL) device capable of displaying multiple colors has a laminated structure wherein back electrodes in stripes, a lower dielectric layer, a luminescence layer, an upper dielectric layer and transparent electrodes in stripes are sequentially formed on a transparent substrate in this order. The back electrodes intersect the transparent electrodes at right angles, and areas of the device where the back electrodes confront the transparent electrodes form picture elements. This device also has at least first and second color filters. The first and second filters are placed not only in corresponding picture-element areas of the transparent electrodes, but also in non-picture-element areas of the transparent electrodes and an upper dielectric layer such that the first color filter overlaps the second color filter in the non-picture-element areas. The first and second color filters in combination have transmissivities to visible lights similar to those of a black filter, thereby restraining external light coming to the non-picture-element areas from being reflected. Further, the device can include a groove in a transparent sealing plate formed above the transparent electrode. The transparent sealing plate is bonded to the transparent substrate with an adhesive and the groove captures excess adhesive to avoid interference between the adhesive and the picture elements.

Thin-film electroluminescence device for displaying multiple colors with

An apparatus for vapor deposition including a vapor deposition section to which at least one semiconductor material supply passage and at least one alkoxide material supply passage are connected, first heating means provided for the vapor deposition section and capable of maintaining the temperature thereof higher than that of the alkoxide supply passage, second heating means provided for the semiconductor material supply passage and capable of maintaining the temperature thereof higher than that of the vapor deposition section, and third heating means provided for the alkoxide material supply passage and capable of maintaining the temperature thereof constant, and a process for continuously forming a multilayered film on a substrate.

Apparatus for vapor deposition

A thin film EL panel emits its light in response to the application of an electric field so as to make it possible to correspondingly create a multi-color display. The display created is higher in light emission efficiency, lower in power consumption, higher in function and higher in quality with the electrodes being sufficient in a heat resisting property with respect to the main thermal process.

Thin film EL panel with opaque electrode

A process is provided for preparing uniform and homogeneous thin films such as ZnS:M film on the substrates having a large area by CVD under a reduced pressure, wherein as many plural substrates as possible can be subjected to the CVD treatment in the same apparatus without decreasing a growth rate of the film. Accordingly, EL displays having a large area which possess a high quality and can be manufactured efficiently.

Process for preparing an electroluminescent thin film

A process for preparing a carbon electrode comprising the steps of subjecting a hydrocarbon to pyrolysis in vapor phase to form a pyrolytic carbon having a specific half-width in X-ray diffractogram, subjecting the pyrolytic carbon to be in lithium vapor to obtain a lithium-intercalated pyrolytic carbon and forming the carbon electrode by utilizing the lithium-intercalated pyrolytic carbon as an electrode material.

Process for preparing carbon electrode

Disclosed is an improvement of the chemical vapor deposition (CVD) process for preparing an electroluminescent device having a large area and a large size. The process includes forming a luminescent layer on a substrate by a reduced-pressure chemical vapor deposition method wherein a source material gas is introduced into a reaction chamber. The reaction chamber includes a screening means which screens the source material gas flow in the chamber to form a first area in which the gas is flowing and a second area in which the gas substantially does not flow. The screening means has apertures for connecting the first area and second area. the substrate is placed in the second area, to which the source material is supplied by means of gas diffusion.

Process for preparing a thin film electroluminescent device

Disclosed is a thin film EL panel having a high reliability. The thin film El panel is thin, light, and is made at a low cost. The present invention provides in a thin film electroluminescent (EL) panel comprising a light permeable base plate, a thin film EL element formed on the base plate and a moisture-proof sheet covered thereon, an improvement residing in that a moisture-absorption sheet is placed between said thin film EL element and said moisture-proof sheet, and said moisture-absorption sheet comprises an organic polymer sheet with silica gel powder dispersed therein at a certain surface density. The present invention also provides in a thin film electroluminescent (EL) panel comprising a light permeable base plate, a thin film EL element formed on the base plate and a moisture-proof sheet covered thereon, an improvement residing in that a moisture-absorption layer is formed on the inside surface of the moisture-proof sheet by coating powder thereon having moisture absorption properties.

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Nara, Japan

Shigeo Nakajima