Panasonic Corporation

Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Toshiyuki Aoyama

Masaru Odagiri

Masayuki Ono

Kenji Hasegawa

Shogo Nasu

Eiichi Satoh

Reiko Taniguchi

Kenya Hori

Kazushige Takagi

Daisuke Kajita

Tetsuo Fukami

Kumio Nago

Masafumi Shimotashiro

Masaru Higashionji

Manabu Inoue

Hiroyuki Kado

Shuji Inoue

Naoki Kosugi

Hisao Nagai

Masato Murayama

Yukako Doi

Takahito Nakayama

Akira Tokai

Shigeo Kasahara

Provided is a display panel including: a plurality of pixel electrodes divided into a plurality of groups; and a plurality of common electrodes arranged at a ratio of one to a plurality of pixel electrodes included in one of the plurality of groups. Each of a plurality of sensor electrode lines overlaps with corresponding one of a plurality of data signal lines in plan view. The plurality of sensor electrode lines and each of the plurality of common electrodes overlap each other in plan view. The each of the plurality of common electrodes is electrically connected to the plurality of sensor electrode lines. At least one insulating film is formed between each of a region between the data signal lines and the sensor electrode lines, a region between the sensor electrode lines and the common electrodes, and a region between the common electrodes and the pixel electrodes.

Display panel with touch detection function

An input device which is a capacitive coupling type and can reduce visibility of wiring patterns of electrodes and interference fringes is provided. The input device is included in a display device including a plurality of pixels, and is configured to detect a contact position of a user. The input device includes a plurality of first electrodes, a plurality of second electrodes disposed so as to cross the first electrodes, and a plurality of third electrodes disposed between the second electrodes. Slits extending obliquely with respect to an extension direction of the second electrodes are formed between the third electrodes.

Input device and display device

Provided is a method of manufacturing a TFT substrate for preventing characteristics of a native oxide layer in a boundary between a microcrystal semiconductor layer and an amorphous semiconductor layer from being degraded. The method includes forming a gate electrode, forming a gate insulating film, modifying the formed first amorphous silicon thin film into a first crystalline silicon thin film, removing a silicon oxide layer on the surface of the first crystalline silicon thin film, forming the second amorphous silicon thin film, and dry etching the first crystalline silicon thin film and the second amorphous silicon thin film, and it is determined whether or not the in-process TFT substrate after the dry etching is returned to the processes after the dry etching by measuring the emission intensity of radicals in plasma during the dry etching and detecting the presence or absence of the silicon oxide layer in the boundary.

Method of manufacturing thin-film transistor substrate

A display device is provided with a pair of a first electrode and a second electrode, at least one electrode of the first and second electrodes being transparent or translucent and a phosphor layer provided as being sandwiched between the first electrode and the second electrode, and at least one buffer layer provided as being sandwiched between the first or second electrode and the phosphor layer, and the phosphor layer has a plurality of pixel regions that are selectively allowed to emit light in a predetermined range thereof and non-pixel regions that divide at least one portion of the pixel regions, and wherein the buffer layer is sandwiched between the first or second electrode and the phosphor layer so that the size of an electric potential barrier between the first or second electrode and the phosphor layer via the buffer layer is made smaller than the size of a Schottky barrier between the first or second electrode and the phosphor layer that are directly made contact with each other without the buffer layer therebetween.

Display device

This light-emitting device includes a first electrode, a second electrode disposed opposite to the first electrode and a phosphor layer which is sandwiched between the first electrode and the second electrode and constituted by dispersing n-type semiconductor particles in a p-type semiconductor medium. A light-emitting device in another embodiment includes a first electrode, a second electrode disposed opposite to the first electrode and a phosphor layer which is sandwiched between the first electrode and the second electrode wherein a p-type semiconductor is segregated among the n-type semiconductor particles.

Light-emitting device and display

A display is provided with: a substrate; a plurality of parallel scan wires extending over the substrate in a first direction; a plurality of parallel data wires extending parallel to a surface of the substrate in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction; at least one switching element per intersection between the scan wires and the data wires; pixel electrodes connected to the switching elements; at least one phosphor layer provided above the pixel electrodes; and common electrodes provided above the phosphor layer, and the phosphor layer has a polycrystalline structure made of a first semiconductor material and a second semiconductor material segregated between grain boundaries in the polycrystalline structure, which is different from the first semiconductor material.

Display apparatus

A display device is provided with a pair of a first electrode and a second electrode at least one of which is transparent or translucent and a phosphor layer formed so as to be sandwiched between the first electrode and the second electrode, and the phosphor layer has a polycrystal structure made of a first semiconductor substance in which a second semiconductor substance different from the first semiconductor substance is segregated on a grain boundary of the polycrystal structure, and the phosphor layer has a plurality of pixel regions that are selectively allowed to emit light in a predetermined range thereof and non-pixel regions that divide at least one portion of the pixel regions.

Display device having a polycrystal phosphor layer sandwiched between the first and second electrodes

A fuel cell body has an anode having an anode-side separator with projections and depressions formed on its surface, a cathode, and a membrane electrode assembly disposed between the anode and the cathode, and the fuel cell body is disposed in a container for storing liquid fuel so that at least the anode side is immersed therein. Fuel passageways through which the liquid fuel flows are formed by regions surrounded by the projections and depressions on the surface of the separator and the membrane electrode assembly. By this, the downsized, simplified and lower power consuming structure of auxiliary equipment such as a fuel feed system is achieved.

Fuel cell

This light emitting device includes a pair of electrodes at least one of which is transparent or translucent, and a phosphor layer that is sandwiched between the electrodes and has a polycrystalline structure made of a first semiconductor material, and in this structure, a second semiconductor material different from the first semiconductor material is segregated on a grain boundary of the polycrystalline structure. The first semiconductor material and the second semiconductor material preferably have semiconductor structures of conduction types that are different from each other. Moreover, the first semiconductor material preferably has an n-type semiconductor structure, and the second semiconductor material preferably has a p-type semiconductor structure. Furthermore, in the case where the first semiconductor material is a zinc-based material containing zinc, at least one of the paired electrodes is preferably made of a material containing zinc.

Light emitting element and display device

A phosphor element () includes an electron hole injection electrode () and an electron injection electrode () disposed opposite to each other, an electron hole transport layer (), a phosphor layer (), and an electron transport layer () stacked in this order from the side of the electron hole injection electrode toward the side of the electron injection electrode. The stacked layers are sandwiched between the electron hole injection electrode and the electron injection electrode, and. The phosphor layer is formed of an inorganic phosphor material () in which at least one part of the surface is covered with an organic material ().

Light emitting element and display device having an inorganic phosphor layer

There is provided a display device: a display unit including a plurality of scan electrodes arranged to extend in parallel to each other along a first direction, a plurality of data electrodes arranged to extend in parallel to each other along a second direction crossing the scan electrodes, and a plurality of pixels, each pixel at which a pair of the scan electrode and the data electrode cross each other, each pixel having a light emitting layer and a dielectric layer interposed between the scan electrode and the data electrode from a direction vertical to a face; and an erasing pulse supplying unit operable to supply attenuation voltage pulse, to the light emitting layer of each pixel, which starts at a voltage not more than an emission starting voltage at which the light emitting layer starts emission and in which polarity is alternately reversed between positive and negative.

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Osaka, Japan

Toshiyuki Aoyama