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A voltage variable material (“VVM”) including an insulative binder that is formulated to intrinsically adhere to conductive and non-conductive surfaces is provided. The binder and thus the VVM is self-curable and applicable in a spreadable form that dries before use. The binder eliminates the need to place the VVM in a separate device or to provide separate printed circuit board pads on which to electrically connect the VVM. The binder and thus the VVM can be directly applied to many different types of substrates, such as a rigid FR-4 laminate, a polyimide, a polymer or a multilayer PCB via a process such as screen or stencil printing. In one embodiment, the VVM includes two types of conductive particles, one with a core and one without a core. The VVM can also have core-shell type semiconductive particles.

Certain spin-coatable liquids and application techniques are described, which can be used to form nanotube films or fabrics of controlled properties. A spin-coatable liquid containing nanotubes for use in an electronics fabrication process includes a solvent containing a plurality of nanotubes. The nanotubes are at a concentration of greater than 1 mg/L. The nanotubes are pretreated to reduce the level of metallic and particulate impurities to a preselected level, and the preselected metal and particulate impurities levels are selected to be compatible with an electronics manufacturing process. The solvent also is selected for compatibility with an electronics manufacturing process.

Disclosed are compositions formed by a method for exchanging the water in an optionally substituted polythiophene dispersion with a specific mixture of organic solvents. The resulting compositions exhibit improved electrical conductivity, optical transparency, environmental stability, excellent adhesion to a variety of substrates and processing characteristics. Also disclosed are methods for making and using such compositions.

A laminated-type varistor includes a laminated structure and a pair of external electrodes disposed on a surface of the laminated structure. The laminated structure includes effective sintered body layers and internal electrodes. The internal electrodes are connected to the external electrodes and are disposed apart from each other in the direction perpendicular to lamination surfaces. Each of the internal electrodes has a multilayer electrode structure in which a plurality of electrode layers are arranged in layers while an ineffective sintered body layer is disposed therebetween. The laminated-type varistor has increased maximum peak current and maximum energy and reduction in clamping voltage.

Disclosed herein is an electrically conductive composition comprising an organic polymer; and a carbon nanotube composition, wherein the carbon nanotube composition comprises carbon nanotubes that can rope and have greater than or equal to about 0.1 wt % production related impurities, based on the total weight of the carbon nanotube composition, and wherein the composition has a bulk volume resistivity less than or equal to about 10¹² ohm-cm, and a notched Izod impact strength of greater than or equal to about 5 kilojoules/square meter.

A polymeric composite comprises a polymeric resin; an electrically conductive filler; and a polycyclic aromatic compound, in an amount effect to increase the electrical conductivity of the polymeric composition relative to the same composition without the polycyclic aromatic compound. The addition of the polycyclic aromatic compound in addition to a conductive filler imparts improved electrical and mechanical properties to the compositions.

The invention provides a method of functionalizing the sidewalls of a plurality of carbon nanotubes with oxygen moieties, the method comprising: exposing a carbon nanotube dispersion to an ozone/oxygen mixture to form a plurality of ozonized carbon nanotubes; and contacting the plurality of ozonized carbon nanotubes with a cleaving agent to form a plurality of sidewall-functionalized carbon nanotubes.

A method of reinforcing a polymeric material with nanosize materials is provided in which materials such as vapor grown carbon nanofibers, carbon nanotubes, layered silicates, nanosize sphered silica, or graphite nanoparticles are combined with a polymer and a solvent to form a substantially homogeneous mixture, followed by removal of the solvent by evaporation or coagulation. Depending on the nanosize materials used, the resulting polymeric nanocomposite material exhibits high electrical and thermal conductivity, enhanced mechanical strength, abrasion resistance, reduced gas permeation, and/or dimensional stability.

Disclosed is a coating liquid for forming a transparent conductive film, comprising conductive fine particles having an average particle diameter of 1 to 200 nm, silica particles having an average particle diameter of 4 to 200 nm and a polar solvent. The silica particles are in the form of chain silica particles having 2 to 10 silica particles on an average being connected. The content of an alkali in the silica particles is not more than 1000 ppm in terms of an alkali metal M. Also disclosed is a substrate with a transparent conductive film, comprising a substrate, a transparent conductive fine particle layer formed on the substrate and containing conductive fine particles having an average particle diameter of 1 to 200 nm and silica particles having an average particle diameter of 4 to 200 nm and/or chain silica particles having 2 to 10 silica particles on an average being connected, and a transparent film provided on the transparent conductive fine particle layer and having a refractive index lower than that of the transparent conductive fine particle layer. A display device using the substrate with a transparent conductive film is further disclosed. The coating liquid for forming a transparent conductive film is capable of forming a transparent conductive film having low surface resistance, excellent antistatic properties, excellent electromagnetic blocking properties, high film strength and excellent adhesion to a substrate.

A nonvolatile memory device includes a semiconductor substrate, a first electrode on the semiconductor substrate, a resistive layer on the first electrode, a second electrode on the resistive layer and at least one tunneling layer interposed between the resistive layer and the first electrode and/or the second electrode. The resistive layer and the tunneling layer may support transition between first and second resistance states responsive to first and second voltages applied across the first and second electrodes. The first and second voltages may have opposite polarities.

The invention provides a proton conductive membrane which, even when reduced in thickness, does not allow penetration of an electrode to prevent a short circuit between electrodes and which permits sufficient generating performance. A proton conductive composition capable of forming the membrane is also provided. The proton conductive composition includes a nonconductive filler and a polyarylene having a sulfonic group. The proton conductive membrane, comprising the composition, contains the nonconductive filler in an amount of 3 to 50% by volume, and the nonconductive filler particles have diameters ranging from 3 to 90% the thickness of the membrane.

An electrical resistor structure overlies a substrate and comprises a composite resistor having a first resistor of relatively low resistance and a second resistor of relatively high resistance overlying the first resistor. First and second electrodes make contact with the composite resistor at spaced locations, and a bond pad overlies the second resistor at a position between the electrodes. A metallized fiber is soldered a to a metal bond pad by providing a stacked resistor structure beneath the bond pad, disposing a solder preform over the bond pad, disposing the metallized fiber over the bond pad, and flowing a current through the stacked resistor structure. The stacked resistor structure, when subjected to a current flowing generally along a first axis, is characterized by a temperature profile that has first and second peaks on either side of the bond pad. The fiber is disposed along a second axis in the region of the bond pad where the second axis is at a non-zero angle (possibly, but not necessarily a right angle) with respect to the first axis.

The present invention provides a proton conductive membrane having capabilities of self-generating water and maintaining water, excellent ion conductivity and excellent effect of inhibiting crossover and usable for solid polymer electrolyte type fuel cells and also provides a proton conductive composition used for preparing the proton conductive membrane. The proton conductive composition comprises 100 parts by weight of a polyarylene having a sulfonic group and 0.01 to 80 parts by weight of at least one metal catalyst selected from the group consisting of platinum, gold, palladium, rhodium, iridium and ruthenium, or comprises 100 parts by weight of a polyarylene having a sulfonic group, 0.01 to 80 parts by weight of the metal catalyst, and 0.01 to 50 parts by weight of metal oxide fine particles and/or fibers in total.

A conductive silver paste according to the present invention comprises epoxy resin, flake-shaped silver powders having an average particle diameter of 0.5 to 50 μm, and spherical silver powders, each having its surface coated with organic matter, having an average particle diameter of not more than 1 μm, and a conductive film according to the present invention is formed by printing or applying the conductive silver paste on a surface of a base material, followed by drying, and then thermosetting the epoxy resin.

A device to protect against a surge voltage includes a body having a hexahedron shape and filled with a varistor material, a pair of input signal electrodes attached to a first side surface of the body along upward and downward directions, a pair of output signal electrodes attached to a second side surface of the body that faces the first side surface of the body in the upward and downward directions, a ground electrode attached to an upper surface of the body, at least one pair of signal connection electrode plates to connect the input signal electrodes and the output signal electrodes, and a ground plate to be connected to the ground electrode. Thus, the device can protect an electronic circuit from a surge voltage and match an impedance of a transmission line.

The present invention provides a conductor composition that can be formed into a film conductor having a resistance to soldering heat of a sufficient level in practical use without using a large amount of expensive precious metals such as Pd and without performing a Ni plating treatment or other treatments separately. This conductor composition is provided in the form of paste or ink having metal powder as the main component. This metal powder is constituted substantially by particulates of Ag or an Ag based alloy whose surface is coated with an organic metal compound. The organic metal compound is preferably an organic acid metal salt, metal alkoxide or a chelate compound having as a main constituent metal element any one selected from the group consisting of Al, Zr, Ti, Y, Ca, Mg and Zn.

An insulator 6 for holding electrode wires 4 is provided between a thermistor element 3 and a sheathed pin 5 which is a wiring, and the electrode wires 4, which are inserted into hole portions 6a of the insulator 6, are held therein not bonded to the insulator, whereby the vibration resistance of the electrode wires of the thermistor element is improved so that breaking of the electrode wires is prevented.

An alkali development type photocurable composition comprises (A) an alkali-soluble macromolecular binder having a weight-average molecular weight in the range of 5,000 to 100,000 and an acid value in the range of 50 to 150 mg KOH/g and obtained by causing (d) a compound possessing one glycidyl group in its molecule to react with a carboxyl group of (A-1) a copolymer of (a) an ethylenically unsaturated bond-containing compound possessing one carboxyl group in its molecule with (b) an ethylenically unsaturated bond-containing compound possessing neither hydroxyl group nor acidic group in its molecule, or a carboxyl group of (A-2) a copolymer of the compounds (a) and (b) mentioned above and (c) an ethylenically unsaturated bond-containing compound possessing a hydroxyl group and then causing (e) a polybasic acid anhydride to react with a hydroxyl group caused by the above reaction, (B) an inorganic powder, (C) a photopolymerizable monomer, (D) a photopolymerization initiator, and (E) an organic solvent. By using this composition, such calcined patterns as a conductor pattern and a dielectric pattern of high fineness may be formed by the photolithographic technique.

Electrically conducting polymer compositions are provided. The compositions comprise homopolymers and copolymers of polythiophene, polypyrrole, polyaniline, and polycyclic heteroaromatics, and combinations of those, in admixture with an organic solvent wettable fluorinated acid polymer. The acid polymers are fluorinated or highly fluorinated and have acidic groups including carboxylic acid groups, sulfonic acid groups, sulfonimide groups, phosphoric acid groups, phosphonic acid groups, and combinations thereof. The compositions may be used in organic electronic devices (OLEDs).

A conductive composition capable of producing a conductive paint with excellent flexibility and a high conductivity comparable to that of metallic silver, without using high temperatures as film forming conditions. The conductive composition includes a particulate silver compound and a binder, and optionally a reducing agent and a binder. Silver oxide, silver carbonate and silver acetate and the like are used as the particulate silver compound. Ethylene glycol, diethylene glycol, and ethylene glycol diacetate and the like are used as the reducing agent, and a fine powder of a thermosetting resin such as a polyvalent phenol compound, phenol resin, alkyd resin or polyester resin, or a thermoplastic resin such as a styrene resin or polyethylene terephthalate, with an average particle diameter from 20 nm to 5 μm is used as the binder. Furthermore, the average particle diameter of the particulate silver compound is preferably from 0.01 to 10 μm.

The present invention provides a secured document including a composition capable of anti-Stokes fluorescence containing an ion capable of absorption of electromagnetic radiation, an ion capable of emitting electromagnetic radiation, and a matrix composition comprising gadolinium, yttrium, lanthanum, and luetium, wherein the wavelength of the emitted electromagnetic radiation is shorter than the wavelength of the absorbed electromagnetic radiation, and wherein the concentrations of the absorbing and emitting ions are adjusted to achieve concentration quenching of anti-Stokes luminescence.

In a temperature sensor having a temperature sensitive element, a sheath pin connected to the temperature sensitive element, and a cover case. The cover case, filled with a filler, accommodates the temperature sensitive element and the sheath pin. A hardening temperature of the filler is not less than an actual usage environment of the temperature sensor. Another temperature sensor has a temperature sensitive element exposed at a high temperature of not less than 750° C., a thermistor element, a sheath pin, an anti-vibration filler, and a metal cover case fixed to an end part of the sheath pin. The metal cover case accommodates the sheath pin and the thermistor element. The filler is made of a porous insulation material having a pore ratio within a range of 30 to 70% and filled around the thermistor element in the metal cover case.