Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Kyoto University

Shintaro Miyanishi

Kunio Kojima

Yoshiteru Murakami

Hiroshi Fuji

Hiroshi Sugimura

Naoyasu Iketani

Tomoki Ono

Hiroyuki Katayama

Mototaka Taneya

Susumu Noda

Masayuki Fujita

Noboru Iwata

Yasushi Ogimoto

Yoshinori Tanaka

Yuhji Yashiro

Tatsuhiro Morita

Hiroaki Shigeta

Yuhsuke Tsuda

Norihide Momose

Takahiro Kurauchi

Kousuke Innami

A solar battery cell, comprises a substrate; a first electrode provided on the substrate; a photoelectric conversion layer provided on the first electrode; a second electrode provided on the photoelectric conversion layer; and a barrier layer so provided as to cover a side portion of the photoelectric conversion layer, wherein the photoelectric conversion layer has an electron transport layer, a light absorption layer provided on the electron transport layer, and a hole transport layer provided on the light absorption layer, the light absorption layer includes a compound having a perovskite crystal structure, and the barrier layer is a dense inorganic material layer.

Solar battery cell, solar battery, solar battery module, and solar battery array

The image forming apparatus includes a photoreceptor, a charger that charges a surface of the photoreceptor, an exposer that irradiates the charged surface of the photoreceptor with light to form an electrostatic latent image, a developer that develops the electrostatic latent image to form a toner image, a transferer that transfers the toner image onto a recording medium, a cleaner that removes residual toner on the surface of the photoreceptor, and an inductor. The photoreceptor includes a conductive substrate and a photoreceptive layer provided on the conductive substrate. The conductive substrate is connected to a ground via the inductor.

Image forming apparatus including photoreceptor connected to ground via an inductor

A hybrid particle according to the present invention includes an inorganic core particle, an electron transport layer covering a surface of the inorganic core particle, and a light absorption layer covering the electron transport layer. The light absorption layer contains a compound having an organic-inorganic hybrid perovskite crystal structure or a metal complex. The compound or the metal complex is grown in a crystalline form on a surface of the electron transport layer.

Hybrid particle, photoelectric conversion element, photosensitive body, and image forming apparatus

A method for producing a photoelectric conversion element includes forming a hole transport layer containing a hole transport material by causing the hole transport material to adhere to one of a light-absorbing layer and a conductive layer; melting the hole transport layer by heating the hole transport layer to a temperature that is higher than or equal to a melting point of the hole transport material and is in a range of 120&#xb0; C. or higher and 170&#xb0; C. or lower; and bonding the light-absorbing layer and the conductive layer with the hole transport layer disposed therebetween by performing cooling while bringing the other of the light-absorbing layer and the conductive layer into contact with the melted hole transport layer under pressure. The light-absorbing layer contains a compound represented by general formula (1), where A represents an organic molecule, B represents a metal atom, and X represents a halogen atom.ABX&#x2003;&#x2003;(1)

Method for producing photoelectric conversion element

A solar cell () of the present invention includes a photoelectric conversion layer () and a photonic crystal provided inside the photoelectric conversion layer () in order to have a photonic band gap. The photonic crystal has defects () in order to provide a defect level in the photonic band gap. Qwhich is a Q value representing a magnitude of a resonance effect yielded by coupling between the photonic crystal and an outside is substantially equal to Qwhich is a Q value representing a magnitude of a resonance effect yielded by a medium of the photoelectric conversion layer ().

Solar cell, solar cell panel, and device comprising solar cell

Examples of an electromagnetic field detecting element according to the present invention includes a substrate, a pair of electrodes, three insulation layers disposed on the substrate and between the electrodes. The three insulation layers are designed to have two or three different dielectric breakdown strength. At least two ballistic current paths are formed between the electrodes. With this structure, it is possible to perform at a room temperature a highly efficient electromagnetic field detection utilizing Aharonov-Bohm effect or Aharonov-Casher effect.

Electromagnetic field detecting element utilizing ballistic current paths

A magnetic sensing section is constituted by a magneto-resistive device in which a fixed magnetization layer, a non-magnetic layer, and a magnetization-free layer are deposited in that order on a first buffer layer that is deposited on a magnetic layer. A second buffer layer sandwiches the magnetic sensing section, and a biasing layer which covers right and left sides of the magnetic sensing section. The second buffer layer is deposited on the magnetic layer with a nonconductor layer interposed therebetween. A near field light generation section constituted by a second magnetic layer, a dielectric layer, and a metal layer is formed on a surface of the second buffer layer not adjacent to the nonconductor layer. The resultant magnetic sensor device can efficiently perform photo-assisted reproduction of information from a magnetic recording medium using a magnetic reproduction head or a magnetic reproducer.

Magnetic sensor device having near field light generation section employing a dielectric layer between a protruding metal layer and magnetic layer

An opening () is formed on a surface of a metal film (), a plurality of axes () cross each other substantially perpendicularly at the opening (), a plurality of periodic grooves () are provided for respective axes (), and each of the periodic grooves () includes a plurality of grooves (---, and-) substantially perpendicular to the axis for which each periodic groove is provided, and the periodic grooves () is positioned point-symmetrically with respect to the opening ().

Slider, integrated slider, and hybrid storage device

An electromagnetic field generating element restrains magnetic field attenuation or magnetic field delay in a high frequency recording/reproducing head for thermally assisted magnetic field recording/reproduction using a near field. An information recording/reproducing head and an information recording/reproducing apparatus carry out high frequency magnetic recording/reproduction. The electromagnetic field generating element includes: (i) a substrate, (ii) conductors each provided on the substrate and each serving as a supporting section, (iii) a plate-like-shaped conductor provided on the conductors and (iv) a semiconductor laser element provided on the substrate. The semiconductor laser element irradiates laser light to the plate-like-shaped conductor substantially parallel to an extending flat surface of the plate-like-shaped conductor. This causes generation of a near field in the plate-like-shaped conductor. In addition, a magnetic field is generated by supplying a current to the plate-like-shaped conductor.

Electromagnetic field generating element, information recording/reproducing head and information recording/reproduction apparatus

Electromagnetic field generating element, information recording/reproducing head, and information recording/reproducing apparatus

To realize an electromagnetic field generating element, an information recording and reproducing head and an information recording and reproducing device for high frequency magnetic recording and reproducing by the optically assisted magnetic recording and reproduction using near field, which permit attenuation or delay of a magnetic field to be suppressed, the electromagnetic field generating element of the present invention generates a magnetic field in a direction parallel to the surface of a constricting section by supplying current in the conductive member, and applying a laser beam from the side of the substrate to the constricting section, and a surface plasmon is excited by an magnetic field vector vertical to the surface of the constricting section, thereby generating near field from the surface facing the interface between the substrate and the constricting section.

Electro magnetic field generating element, information recording and reproducing head and information recording and reproducing device

An aperturefor producing an evanescent wave is provided at an n-Au electrode. The apertureis directed roughly perpendicularly to a direction in which end facesof an active layerof an optical device oppose to each other, and therefore, laser light generated in the active layeris made incident in the form of the p-polarized light. By the incidence of the p-polarized laser light, an evanescent wave of a comparatively great intensity is obtained from the aperture. With this arrangement, an optical device capable of obtaining an evanescent wave of a comparatively great intensity is provided.

Optical device and optical sensor

A light emitting device for focusing a laser beam without adopting an optical lens system is provided, as well as a composite magnetic recording head and a magnetic recording device, which realize a smaller laser spot diameter and a sharp magnetic field distribution, whereby an optical-assisted high density magnetic recording can be realized, and which also realize a simplified head structure, and improvements in productivity and costs. The composite magnetic recording head is prepared by integrally forming a magnetic coil layer for use in magnetic recording at around the center of the surface-emitting laser aperture, and further, a shielding plate is formed at the center of the laser aperture. As a result, a laser beam can be focused on the irradiation surface of the magnetic recording medium at portion right below the shielding member so as to locally heat the irradiated portion, and further a magnetic field for magnetic recording is applied in the laser heated portion, thereby realizing a high density magnetic recording.

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Ikoma-gun, Japan

Shintaro Miyanishi