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A process for fabricating a highly stable and reliable semiconductor, comprising: coating the surface of an amorphous silicon film with a solution containing a catalyst element capable of accelerating the crystallization of the amorphous silicon film, and heat treating the amorphous silicon film thereafter to crystallize the film.

The present invention relates to a method of producing thick-walled brushes, in particular toothbrushes, with a grip piece and a brush head supporting bristle filaments. In order to increase the productivity, the method mentioned at the start is further developed by the present invention in that a core produced in a first injection molding cycle is coated with a plastic component in at least one subsequent injection molding cycle so as to form a multi-layered grip piece.

A cutting tool holding apparatus (10), including in combination a cutting tool holder (14); a retainer (18) adapted to be positioned adjacent to the tool holder (14), the retainer including an aperture (18c), a base (16) including an aperture (16c) linked to the retainer aperture (18c), the base (16) adapted to support the holder (14) and the retainer (18), and a fastener (20) adapted to be inserted through the linked apertures, wherein securing the fastener in the linked apertures wedges the holder, retainer and base together and wherein at least two components of the tool holder, retainer and base contact via mating curved faces.

A simple silicone-rubber bonded object is provided in which non-flowable substrates, i.e., a three-dimensional silicone rubber elastic substrate molded beforehand and an adherend substrate, were able to be tenaciously bonded to each other without using a flowable curable adhesive or pressure-sensitive adhesive and which is inexpensive and has high productivity. The silicone-rubber bonded object comprises a three-dimensional silicone rubber elastic substrate having hydroxyl groups on the surface and an adherend substrate having hydroxyl groups on the surface, the substrates having been laminated to each other through covalent bonding between the hydroxyl groups of both. The elastic substrate and/or the adherend substrate has undergone corona discharge treatment and/or plasma treatment, whereby the hydroxyl groups have been formed on the surface thereof.

A photoelectric conversion device taking the form of a thin film and having a substrate exhibiting poor thermal resistance. The device prevents thermal deformation which would normally be caused by local application of excessive heat to the substrate. The device has output terminals permitting the output from the device to be taken out. The output terminals are formed on the surface of the substrate opposite to the photoelectric conversion device. The device further includes electrical connector portions for electrically connecting the electrodes of the device with the output terminals. The present invention also provides a method of treating a substrate having poor thermal resistance with a plasma with a high throughput. The substrate is continuously supplied into a reaction chamber and treated with a plasma. This supply operation is carried out in such a way that the total length of the substrate existing in a plasma processing region formed by electrodes is longer than the length of the electrodes.

A novel method of producing an optical film is disclosed. The method comprises steps (1) to (3) in this order: (1) preparing, on a surface of an alignment film, a layer of a polymerizable composition comprising a polymerizable liquid crystal compound and a dichroic polymerization initiator; (2) aligning molecules of said polymerizable liquid crystal compound in said layer in a first alignment state; and (3) irradiating said layer with polarized ultraviolet light to carry out polymerization of said polymerizable liquid crystal compound and fix molecules of said polymerizable liquid crystal compound in a second alignment state thereby to form an optically anisotropic layer,

• • wherein a percentage of polarized ultraviolet light having an extinction ratio ranging from 1 to 8 is not greater than 15% with respect to an energy density of polarized ultraviolet light per unit area (J/cm²).

A manufacturing method of an optical film provided with a convexoconcave structure, comprises the steps of: coating a resin solution including a first resin solved by a solvent onto an endless or roll-like mold provided with a convexoconcave structure, and forming a resin solution layer on the mold; laminating a film substrate onto the resin solution layer to make a laminated film before the solvent in the resin solution layer is completely dried, the film substrate including a second resin, which is capable of absorving the solution or is soluble by the solvent; and peeling the laminated film from the mold before the solvent in the laminated film is completely dried.

A sputtering method is for forming, in a vacuum chamber, an initial layer on a film formation target object and then further forming a second layer on the initial layer therein, and the method includes: in the vacuum chamber, arranging surfaces of a pair of targets to face each other while distanced apart from each other at a preset distance and to be inclined toward the film formation target object placed at a lateral position between the targets, and then sputtering the targets by generating a magnetic field space on the facing surfaces of the pair of targets, and thus forming the initial layer on the film formation target object by using particles sputtered by the sputtering; and further forming the second layer on the film formation target object at a higher film forming rate than a film forming rate of the initial layer.

A process for solvent casting which comprises, casting a dope from a casting die onto a casting support, drying the cast dope on the casting support to form film, stripping off the film from the casting support, and further drying the film, wherein the dope has a solid matter content of from 17 mass % to 30 mass %, and a mean drying rate between the casting of the dope and the stripping off is more than 300 mass %/minute and not more than 1000 mass %/minute is proposed. The process for solvent casting for producing a film comprising the steps of casting a dope from a casting die to a casting support, forming the film by drying the dope to some extent, stripping off the film from the casting support and further drying the film while conveying the film with carrying it at both side edges of the film by a tenter under a specified condition is also proposed. The high-speed solution film forming methods enable to produce the film having good quality with stable conveying and with stable drying especially in the conveying of the film by the tenter machine in the drying steps after stripping off from the casting support.

A disclosed semiconductor device having MPS-C2 (Metal Post Solder-Chip Connection) structure can be mounted on a PCB by an SMT mounter. A chip is disposed on a substrate. The substrate has a plurality of connecting pads and a plurality of accessory pads, and the chip has a plurality of corresponding metal posts and a plurality of accessory bumps. The dimensions on the soldered flat tops of the accessory bumps are corresponding to the soldered areas of the accessory pads where each soldered flat top has a plurality of angular corners and an edge between two adjacent angular corners where the length of the edge is twice greater than the pad pitch. Therefore, the displaced or rotational displaced metal posts can be pulled back and self-aligned during reflow processes so that an SMT mounter with poor alignment accuracy can be implemented for flip-chip bonding the semiconductor device having MPS-C2 structure to replace the conventional expensive flip-chip die bonder and to achieve higher productivity. Furthermore, the shape of the flat top surfaces of the metal posts does not have to match with the shape of the connecting pads.

To provide a functional device suitable for dye-sensitized solar cells and the like and having a structure suited for thickness reduction, and a method for making the same with good productivity. A dye-sensitized photovoltaic device 10 is constituted by a transparent substrate 1 formed of glass or the like, a transparent conductive layer 2 formed of FTO or the like, semiconductor electrode layers (negative electrodes) 3 supporting a photosensitizing dye, an electrolyte layer 4, a film-shaped counter electrode (positive electrode) 5, a film-shaped packaging member 6 replacing a counter substrate of the related art, a sealing member 7, power-collecting wiring 8, a wiring protecting layer 9, and the like. As the material of the film-shaped packaging member 6, a material that has high barrier property of suppressing passage of solvents, gasses, water, and the like and excellent resistance to organic solvents and heat is preferred. The device 10 is sealed by joining the transparent substrate 1 to the film-shaped packaging member 6 but a part 11b of a joint 11 is left unjoined before introduction of an electrolytic solution so as to function as an introduction port and joined after the introduction of the electrolytic solution, thereby requiring no end seal.

The object of the present invention is carbon nanofibers mainly characterized by their high specific volume of mesopores, their high gas adsorption capacity and presenting a graphitic hollow structure. A second object of this invention is a procedure for obtaining such carbon nanofibers, which makes use of a metallic nickel catalyst and specific process furnace parameters that combined with the chemical composition of the furnace atmosphere and the fluidodynamic conditions of the gas stream inside the furnace, result in a faster growth of the carbon nanofibers and also in a higher quality of the carbon nanofibers obtained.

A semiconductor device in which a semiconductor layer is formed over a gate electrode with a large aspect ratio, thereby obtaining a channel length of a transistor which hardly causes a short-channel effect even when the transistor is miniaturized. A lower electrode is provided under the gate electrode with an insulating layer provided therebetween so that the electrode overlaps with the semiconductor layer. A potential (electric field) of the lower electrode imparts a conductivity type to the semiconductor layer overlapping with the lower electrode, so that a source region and a drain region are formed in the semiconductor layer. The gate electrode serves as a shield, so that a region in the semiconductor layer, which faces the gate electrode with the gate insulating layer provided therebetween, is not influenced by the electric field from the lower electrode.

A light emitting element for flip-chip mounting having a flat mounting surface which allows a decrease in the width of the streets of a wafer. In the light emitting element, the insulating member filling around the bumps and flattening the upper surface is formed with a margin of a region with a width which is equal to or larger than the width of the streets on the dividing lines, so that at the time of dividing the wafer along the dividing lines, the insulating member is not processed, which allows designing of the streets with a small width.

A transporting device includes steering rollers, a center roller which is disposed between the steering rollers and deflection-detecting sensors that are positioned downstream from the steering rollers. When a sheet of paper has a width which is narrower than a width of a reference sheet of paper, the positional deflection of the sheet of paper is corrected by transporting the sheet of paper to a shift roller with the sheet of paper being nipped by the center roller and thrusting a forward end of the sheet of paper against a shift roller. When a sheet of paper has a width which exceeds the width of the reference sheet of paper, the positional deflection of the sheet of paper is corrected by rotating the steering rollers separately based on a detected result of the sensors with the sheet of paper being nipped by the steering rollers.

A flexible solar cell sheet includes plural through incisions provided between solar cell strings in a direction along the solar cell strings. The solar cell sheet is bonded to a transparent curved surface substrate having three-dimensional curvature. Stress generated inside a surface of the solar cell sheet when the sheet is bonded along the curved surface of the transparent curved surface substrate can be alleviated by the through incisions, and bonding can be performed while suppressing twists and wrinkles occurring in the solar cell sheet.

A method and an apparatus for producing toner are provided. A fluid comprising a resin and a colorant is supplied to a retention member that includes a film on which multiple discharge openings are formed. The fluid which is supplied to the retention member is resonated so that liquid droplets thereof are discharged from the multiple openings. The liquid droplets which are discharged from the multiple openings are solidified to form mother particles of a toner.

When mirror polishing is performed on a glass substrate by bringing a polishing pad into contact with the surface of the glass substrate while supplying a polishing liquid containing polishing grains to the substrate surface, the pH of the polishing liquid is maintained within a certain range or the agglomeration degree or dispersion degree of the polishing liquid is controlled. Consequently, an adequate mirror polishing rate can be maintained and there can be obtained a glass substrate having a good end shape.

A cutting head having a tapered shaft portion, a helical flute, and a flat shoulder surface is fastened to a shank having a front end surface, a tapered hole, and a helical flute through a fastening attachment in the form of a helical coil. The fastening attachment has a sectional shape substantially analogous in shape to a space defined between the helical flutes. The fastening attachment is fitted in one of the helical flutes, and is threaded into the other of the helical flutes until the shoulder surface is brought into close contact with the front end surface of the shank, and the outer peripheral surface of the tapered shaft portion is brought into close contact with the inner surface of the tapered hole, thus fastening the cutting head to the shank.

Metal gate high-k capacitor structures with lithography patterning are used to extract gate work function using a combinatorial workflow. Oxide terracing, together with high productivity combinatorial process flow for metal deposition can provide optimum high-k gate dielectric and metal gate solutions for high performance logic transistors. The high productivity combinatorial technique can provide an evaluation of effective work function for given high-k dielectric metal gate stacks for PMOS and NMOS transistors, which is critical in identifying and selecting the right materials.

An apparatus including a chamber, a cooler, a circulating path, a first path, a second path, a first shut-off valve, and a second shut-off valve. The cooler cools an inert gas to be supplied to the chamber. The inert gas flows through the chamber and the cooler in the circulating path. The first path, connected to the circulating path at a first position downstream of an outlet port of the cooler and upstream of the chamber, introduces air to the circulating path. The second path, connected to the circulating path at a second position downstream of the chamber and upstream of an inlet port of the cooler, exhausts gas in the chamber. The first shut-off valve, arranged in the circulating path upstream of the first position and downstream of the outlet port of the cooler, closes before the introduction of the air. The second shut-off valve, arranged in the circulating path downstream of the second position and upstream of the inlet port of the cooler, closes, to prevent the air from flowing to the cooler.

A graphical user interface (GUI) tool analysis system helps determine whether to purchase or license automated testing tools. The system provides guidance, e.g., to test managers, for making decisions on expenditures for the automated test tools. As a result, the test managers need not make purchasing decisions ad hoc, based on their own personal experience and perceived benefits of implementing a tool based automatic testing approach versus a manual testing approach.

A method for manufacturing a color filter, the color filter having a plurality of pixels surrounded by partition walls on a substrate, including: forming the partition wall having a liquid repellence on the substrate; forming a lyophilic layer by ejecting a lyophilic liquid droplet which develops a lyophilic characteristic in the pixel; and coating a coloring droplet over the pixel on which the lyophilic layer has been formed.

A pinch grip type bottle-shaped container (10) has opposed finger-receiving recesses (11) at sidewall regions of a container main body part, respectively, to thereby form a grip part (G) of the container (10), by the entire region including the recesses and a back surface region of the body part between the recesses. The container according to the invention is provided, at bottom surfaces of the recesses that can be touched and held (11), with multiple projections (14) projecting inwardly or outwardly of the container, thereby improving mold-releasability after the molding process.

An abrasion brush in which a width of each of bristle implanting portions is 1.1 to 2.2 times a stack width of stacked glass substrates (a thickness of each of the glass substrates when the glass substrates are stacked without using a spacer. or a sum of the thickness of the glass substrates and a spacer when the glass substrates are stacked using spacers) is used for an inner periphery end surface polishing of a magnetic recording medium glass substrate. By performing the inner periphery end surface polishing using the abrasion brush, scratches remaining in a chamfering portion of the glass substrate can be removed reliably with a high productivity, and it is possible to provide the magnetic recording medium glass substrate without pit defects in the chamfering portion.

There is provided an image forming apparatus having an image forming section for forming an unfixed image on a transfer medium and a fixing device for fixing the unfixed image by sandwiching and heating the transfer medium that holds the unfixed image, wherein, the fixing device includes a fixing roller that contacts with the unfixed image, a press roller that contacts with the fixing roller, a heat belt that contacts with the fixing roller and heats the fixing roller, a plurality of support rollers for supporting the heat belt in such a manner that the heat belt is wound around the support rollers, a heat source for heating the heat belt, and a press member for pressing the heat belt against the fixing roller in a portion of the contact area where the fixing roller and the heat belt contact with each other.

Provided are nitrogen-doped carbon quantum dots as pyrolysis product of fumaronitrile. The carbon quantum dots may be formed in such a manner that nitrogen may be doped in an amount of 3-10 wt % based on the total weight of the carbon quantum dots with no need for a separate doping process. As a result, the carbon quantum dots have excellent properties, such as optical property, electroconductivity and thermal safety, and thus may be useful for photocatalysts or organic solar cells, or the like.

To provide a substrate for information recording medium having various properties, in particular higher fracture toughness, required for application of the substrate for information recording medium of the next generation such as perpendicular magnetic recording system, etc. and a material with excellent workability for such purpose. A crystallized glass substrate for information recording medium, consisting of a crystallized glass which comprises one or more selected from RAl₂O₄ and R₂TiO₄ as a main crystal phase, in which R is one or more selected from Zn, Mg and Fe, and in which the main crystal phase has a crystal grain size in a range of from 0.5 nm to 20 nm, a degree of crystallinity of 15% or less, and a specific gravity of 3.00 or less.

A perpendicular magnetic recording medium includes a substrate, an underlayer formed on the substrate, and containing at least one element selected from the group A consisting of Pt, Pd, Rh, Ag, Au, Ir and Fe, and at least one element or compound selected from the group B consisting of C, Ta, Mo, W, Nb, Zr, Hf, V, Mg, Al, Zn, Sn, In, Bi, Pb, Cd, SiO₂, MgO, Al₂O₃, TaC, TiC, TaN, TiN, B₂O₃, ZrO₂, In₂O₃ and SnO₂, and a magnetic layer formed on the underlayer, containing at least one element selected from the group consisting of Fe, Co, and Ni, and at least one element selected from the group consisting of Pt, Pd, Au and Ir, and containing crystal grains having an L1₀ structure.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a crystallized glass which has various properties required for employing the substrate for information recording medium of the next generation, and also has significantly low specific gravity; and a crystallized glass substrate for information recording medium. A crystallized glass containing, as a crystal phase, one or more selected from RAl₂O₄ and R₂TiO₄ (wherein R is one or more selected from Mg and Fe), the crystallized glass comprising the components of SiO₂ of 50% to 70%, Al₂O₃ of 10% to 26%, TiO₂ of 1 to 15%, MgO of 2.5% to 25%, FeO of 0% to 8%, and ZnO of 0% to less than 2%, expressed in terms of mass percentage on an oxide basis, wherein the value of (Al₂O₃+MgO)/SiO₂ is 0.30 or more and 0.65 or less, and a specific gravity is less than 2.63.