Seiko Epson Corporation

Shinshu University

Yoshiharu Ajiki

Yuji Shinohara

Katsuya Teshima

Shuji Oishi

Hirotsuna Miura

Shigeo Kondo

Yasumasa Takeuchi

Shuhei Yamada

Yasunori Yamazaki

A secondary battery that can avoid reduction in battery capacity over the lapse of charge-discharge cycles and can exhibit high performance is provided. The secondary battery includes a first electrode layer, a second electrode layer, and an electrolyte layer provided between the first and second electrode layers, the electrolyte layer including electrolyte particles, wherein at least one of the first and second electrode layers includes a base member having a major surface on which a plurality of concave portions are formed and an electrode material filled in at least the concave portions, the major surface facing to the electrolyte layer.

Secondary battery and a method for manufacturing the secondary battery

A photoelectric conversion device provided with an electron transport layer having an excellent electron transport ability and having an excellent photoelectric conversion efficiency, and electronic equipment provided with such a photoelectric conversion device and having a high reliability are provided. A solar cell, to which the photoelectric conversion device is applied, has a first electrode provided on a substrate, a second electrode arranged opposite to the first electrode and retained on a facing substrate, an electron transport layer provided between these electrodes and positioned on the side of the first electrode, a dye layer being in contact with the electron transport layer, and an electrolyte layer provided between the electron transport layer and the second electrode and being in contact with the dye layer. The electron transport layer includes particles of sodium trititanate.

Photoelectric conversion device and electronic equipment

A photoelectric conversion device provided with an electron transport layer having an excellent electron transport ability and having an excellent photoelectric conversion efficiency, and electronic equipment provided with such a photoelectric conversion device and having a high reliability are provided. A solar cell, to which the photoelectric conversion device is applied, has a first electrode provided on a substrate, a second electrode arranged opposite to the first electrode and retained on a facing substrate, an electron transport layer provided between these electrodes and positioned on the side of the first electrode, a dye layer being in contact with the electron transport layer, and an electrolyte layer provided between the electron transport layer and the second electrode and being in contact with the dye layer. The electron transport layer is constituted of a monocrystalline material of multiple oxide as a main component thereof. Further, it is preferred that the monocrystalline material of multiple oxide has a layer structure in a crystal structure thereof.

A battery device includes a photoelectric conversion device and a secondary battery. The photoelectric conversion device includes a first positive electrode, a first negative electrode, and a photoelectric conversion layer provided between the first positive electrode and the first negative electrode, the photoelectric conversion layer including an inorganic semiconductor and a pigment. The secondary battery includes a second positive electrode, a second negative electrode, and an electrolyte layer provided between the second positive electrode and the second negative electrode. Here, one of a first electrode pair and a second electrode pair is adhered directly, the first electrode pair including the first and the second positive electrodes, and the second electrode pair including the first and the second negative electrodes.

Battery device and electronic apparatus

A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer, and a first transistor and a second transistor that are formed using the semiconductor layer, wherein each conductance of the first and second transistors changes complementarily to each other according to a curvature of the semiconductor layer.

Semiconductor device, electro-optic device, and electric device

A booster circuit includes a first transistor performing a first on-off operation based on a first control signal and a second transistor performing a second on-off operation based on the first control signal. The first on-off operation and the second on-off operation are reversed. A third transistor performs the first on-off operation based on a second control signal. The second control signal has a phase opposite the first control signal. A fourth transistor is included in a metal oxide semiconductor capacitor.

Semiconductor device and booster circuit

A semiconductor device, includes: a field-effect transistor that configures a charge-pump circuit; and a supporting substrate that supports the field-effect transistor so that the field-effect transistor provided on the supporting substrate becomes warpable in a channel direction.

Semiconductor device and boost circuit

A first gas flow path is formed in a first substrate. The first substrate is processed in an ejection device to form a first collector layer, a first gas diffusion layer, a first reactive layer, and an electrolyte membrane. Similarly, the first substrate is processed to form a second reactive layer, a gas diffusion layer, and a second collector layer. A second substrate which has been processed to form a second gas flow path is then disposed on the first substrate to complete production of a fuel cell having a gas flow path formed therein the opening width of which is smaller than the particle diameter of the material constituting the gas diffusion layer.

Fuel cell and process for the production thereof

A semiconductor device includes a transistor that is used for a charge pump circuit, being configured with a fully depleted silicon-on-insulator transistor.

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Yoshiharu Ajiki