Sony Corporation

Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation

Takuya Ito

Hiroatsu Kazama

Kouta Tanaka

Hideaki Mogi

Yuta Hasegawa

Yuichi Arisaka

Junichi Tachibana

Takakiyo Toba

Nobutoshi Hamasaki

Ken Kobayashi

Hiroshi Mizuno

Toru Udaka

Masaki Murata

Osamu Enoki

Rui Morimoto

Yoh Iwasaki

Koichiro Saga

Hiroto Sasaki

Sae Miyaji

Noriyuki Obara

Miki Sudou

Masayoshi Aonuma

A photoelectric conversion element according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a first electrodeand a second electrodefacing each other; and a photoelectric conversion layerprovided between the first electrodeand the second electrode, and including a first quinacridone derivative represented by a formula (1). 

Photoelectric conversion element and solid-state imaging device

To provide a photo-electric conversion element in which responsiveness and external quantum efficiency are improved. Provided is an organic photo-electric conversion element including: an organic photo-electric conversion layer sandwiched by a first electrode and a second electrode. The organic photo-electric conversion layer contains organic molecules of a quinacridone (QD) derivative and a subphthalocyanine (SubPc) derivative, and at least the quinacridone derivative out of the organic molecules is in random orientation.

Photo-electric conversion element, solid-state imaging element, and electronic apparatus

To further improve reliability as an element for the memory element. Provided is a memory element including: a plurality of magnetoresistive elements having an MTJ structure that are arrayed on a substrate. There is a region in which magnetism is neutralized in a region of a magnetic material layer that functions as a storage layer in the magnetoresistive element other than a region that functions as the magnetoresistive element, and the region in which magnetism is neutralized includes an alloy containing a first element constituting the magnetic material layer and a second element having an fcc structure when forming an alloy with the first element.

Memory element and manufacturing method of memory element

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

A document feeding device has: a document placement stand on which documents of different sizes can be placed; a conveying section separating, one-by-one, documents of a document stack placed on the document placement stand, and conveying a separated document to a discharging section; a first document width sensing unit sensing a maximum document width of the document stack placed on the document placement stand; a second document width sensing unit sensing a document width of a document separated from the document placement stand by the conveying section; and a controller that, in a case in which a mixed size document mode that permits conveying of documents of different sizes is not set, causes the conveying section to restartably interrupt conveying of the document when the maximum document width sensed by the first document width sensing unit and the document width sensed by the second document width sensing unit differ.

Document feeding device and image forming device and image forming method

A replaceable unit includes a feeding roller that feeds a sheet from a sheet accommodation portion that accommodates the sheet; a conveyance roller that conveys the sheet fed by the feeding roller downstream; a first frame body that supports the feeding roller and the conveyance roller so as to be rotatable; and a second frame body that supports the first frame body so as to be movable and is removably mounted at a position at which the feeding roller can touch against the sheet accommodated at the sheet accommodation portion.

Replaceable unit, sheet conveyance apparatus and image forming device

The sheet transport apparatus comprise a sheet supply tray, a separation roll, a support body and a separation roll accommodation portion. The sheet supply tray has a plurality of sheets. The separation roll separates out the sheets one by one by applying a transport resistance to the sheets transported from the sheet supply tray. The support body rotatably supports the separation roll. The separation roll accommodation portion is formed in a transport path along which the sheets are transported, and it accommodates the separation roll and the support body such that they may be detached from a transport surface side of the transport path.

Sheet transport apparatus and image forming apparatus

A document transport device includes a transport unit that transports documents one by one to a position where an image is read by an image reading unit and transports the document at a speed at which the image reading unit can read the image at the image reading position, and a controller that determines, based on an instruction from an image forming apparatus to which the document transport device is mounted, the number of sheets transported per unit time when plural documents are transported by the transport unit, and controls the transport unit to transport the documents at the determined number of sheets transported per unit time.

Document transport device and image forming apparatus

Provided is a magnetic recording medium capable of achieving higher density recording. The magnetic recording medium comprises a magnetic layer formed on a non-magnetic base through vacuum oblique evaporation. The magnetic layer includes a plurality of columns in which 3 to 7 ferromagnetic particles with an average diameter of 5 to 10 nm are arranged in a line, and non-magnetic particles are disposed between columns so as to separate the columns from one another. A value Y/X defined as a ratio of an average value Y of a distance between the centers of adjacent columns in a film in-plane direction to an average value X of a distance between the centers of adjacent columns in a film thickness direction is preferably 0.5 or more.

Magnetic recording medium with columar magnetic layer

A method of producing a magnetic recording medium comprising the step of forming a magnetic layer on a non-magnetic base film running at a constant speed by continuous oblique evaporation depositing metal vapor of volatilized metal incident obliquely to a surface of the non-magnetic base film, wherein the evaporation is conducted at a film forming rate, defined as an average deposition rate of the magnetic layer at a part of the non-magnetic base film exposed to the incident metal vapor, of not less than a predetermined rate to form an internal microstructure of the magnetic layer comprising columns each having a diameter of not more than about 15 nm constituted by magnetic particles having a size of not more than about 10 nm connected in chains in a direction substantially perpendicular to the magnetic layer and non-magnetic particles packed between the columns and separating the columns from each other, and a magnetic recording medium produced by the above method.

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Takuya Ito