Abstract: To provide an X-ray microscopic inspection apparatus capable of performing non-destructive inspection with high resolving power equal to or less than 0.1 ?m in a very short period, and largely contributing to the nano-technology field. In the X-ray microscopic inspection apparatus having X-ray generating means for generating an X-ray by allowing an electron beam from an electron source to impinge on a target for X-ray generation, for inspecting an object to be inspected by utilizing the X-ray, a magnetic field superposition lens having a magnetic field generating portion disposed in the vicinity of an electron generating portion of an electron gun is included as a component element of the X-ray generating means. Further, the apparatus includes a liquid metal electron source using liquid metal or a thermal field emission electron source as the electron source, as a component element of the X-ray generating means.

Abstract: A method and device for cooling and electrically-insulating a high-voltage, heat-generating component, for example, an x-ray tube (1105) for analyzing fluids by means of x-ray fluorescence. The device includes an x-ray source (1100) including an x-ray tube (1105) having improved heat-dissipating properties due to the thermal coupling of the x-ray tube with a thermally-conductive, dielectric material (1150). The device may include a base assembly (1135) mounted to the component for conducting heat away from the component while electrically isolating the component. In one aspect of the invention, the base assembly includes two copper plates (1140, 1145) separated by a dielectric plate (1150). The dielectric plate minimizes or prevents the leakage of current through the base assembly (1135). One aspect of the disclosed invention is most amenable to the analysis of sulfur in petroleum-based fuels.

Abstract: To minimize the variability in the emitted light color and improve the unevenness of color tone, a light emitting device comprises a light emitting element and a fluorescent substance that is excited by the light emitting element, wherein the light emitting element has an emission spectrum in a region from ultraviolet to visible light of short wavelengths, and the fluorescent substance has an emission spectrum that includes two or more emission peaks with at least two peaks of the two or more peaks being in the relation of complementary colors of each other.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to an air-cooled radiographic apparatus, and its method of manufacture, that utilizes a single integral housing for providing an evacuated envelope for an anode and cathode assembly. The integral housing is preferably formed from a substrate material that has a radiation shielding layer comprising a powder metal that is deposited with a plasma spray process. The powder metal includes, for example, tungsten and iron, so that the radiation shield layer provides sufficient radiation blocking and heat transfer characteristics such that an additional external housing is not required. In one alternative embodiment, the integral housing is composed of a solidified, integrated mixture of metallic powders that function together as both the integral housing wall and the radiation shielding. In another alternative embodiment, chromium is intermixed into the mixture of metallic powders to form a thermally emissive surface upon firing the housing in a wet hydrogen environment.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescence display device is provided. The OEL device includes a substrate, a first electrode layer, a second electrode layer, an organic functional layer and at least one electrochromic medium layer. The first electrode layer is disposed on the substrate, the second electrode layer is disposed over the first electrode layer, and the organic functional layer and the electrochromic medium layer are disposed between the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer. Accordingly, the electrochromic medium layer is provided as a selective light valve to improve the reflection of the external light, and thus the contrast ratio of the organic electroluminescence display device is enhanced.

Abstract: An electron-emitting device contains an emitter seed layer patterned into multiple laterally separated sections situated between the electron-emissive elements, on one hand, and emitter electrodes, on the other hand. Sections of the seed layer are spaced apart along each emitter electrode to electrically decouple electron emission elements disposed on the seed layer.

Abstract: A plasma display device comprises display electrodes that are opposingly formed for each display line on a front substrate with a discharge gap interposed, a dielectric layer formed in a manner covering the display electrodes, and a phosphor layer that emits light due to discharge between the display electrodes. At least one recess is formed on a surface of each of discharge cells on a side of a discharge space of the dielectric layer, and discharge electrodes that constitute the display electrodes are formed in a manner projecting out toward a discharge gap so that they face each other with the discharge gap interposed in a bottom region of the at least one recess.

Abstract: A compact self-ballasted fluorescent lamp includes an arc tube formed by a glass tube double-spirally wound from its middle to both ends around a spiral axis, and a cylindrical holding member having a closed bottom and holding the arc tube, a case fit to cover a circumferential wall of the holding member, and the like. End-vicinity parts of the glass tube are formed to have a larger gap with glass tube parts adjacent in the direction of the spiral axis. The arc tube is held in a state where the distance L1 between a first point that is on an outer surface of a glass tube part adjacent to one of the ends of the glass tube in the direction of the spiral axis and a second point on a surface of the end wall facing the first point is about 1.5 mm.

Abstract: To provide an antistatic film that requires low power consumption and provides satisfactory electric contact, as a measure for preventing an insulating substrate surface having an electronic device formed thereon from being charged. The electronic device includes: an insulating substrate; a conductor; and a resistance film connected with the conductor, the conductor and the resistance film being formed on the insulating substrate, characterized in that the resistance film has a larger thickness in a connection region with the conductor than a thickness in portions other than the connection region.

Abstract: A gas discharge panel having a plasma display panel includes a pair of substrates facing each other for forming a discharge space; an electrode formed on at least one the substrate; and a dielectric layer for covering the electrode; wherein the dielectric layer contains SiO2 as a main component and is composed of a material containing hydrogen of 5×1021 atom/cm3 or less.

Abstract: An organic light emitting device is provided. The device includes an anode, an organic layer disposed over the anode, a layer comprising an alkaline metal compound disposed over the organic layer, a layer comprising Mg or a Mg-metal alloy disposed over the layer comprising an alkaline metal compound, and a layer comprising a transparent conductive metal oxide disposed over the layer comprising Mg or Mg-metal alloy. A method of fabricating an organic light emitting device is also provided. An organic layer is deposited over an anode. An electron injection enhancement layer consisting essentially of an alkaline metal compound is deposited over the organic layer. A transparent cathode, including a layer of Mg or Mg-metal alloy and a layer of metal oxide, is deposited over the layer of alkaline metal compound. A device fabricated by this process is also provided.

Abstract: A plasma display panel is provided, in which a false discharge between adjacent discharge cells is prevented, and generation of an address discharge between a scanning electrode and a data electrode is ensured, thereby enabling the panel to display a quality picture. A discharge cell includes a recess in a dielectric layer that overlaps a display electrode consisting of a scanning electrode and a sustain electrode, wherein a dimension where the recess overlaps the scanning electrode is made larger than a dimension where the recess overlaps the sustain electrode. A discharge area is restricted within the recess for preventing a false discharge to occur between adjacent discharge cells, thereby stabilizing address discharge between the scanning electrode and a data electrode.

Abstract: A light-emitting unit, including LEDs mounted on both sides of a substrate, simulates a spherical light source. The LED on each side of the substrate is enclosed by a lens made of a material containing light-dispersing particles. The substrate is provided with a wiring pattern connected to the LEDs. Each of the light-dispersing lenses has a circular periphery which is adjacent to an edge of the substrate.

Abstract: A shutter-shield system for radiation protection is applied to a an x-ray generator in a shielded station for inspecting products moving through the station on a conveyor. Deployed in a sliding attachment on a collimator housing of the x-ray generator, a shutter plate is made movable by an actuator and is configured with an aperture that, in the absence of power applied to the actuator, is made to align with a fixed aperture of the collimator so as to allow emission of the x-ray beam as required for normal inspection purposes. Whenever an anomaly in the product loading on the conveyer creates a gap that could otherwise cause an increase in environmental radiation levels, powering the actuator moves the shutter plate to an offset location that offsets the apertures to an effectively closed state to initiate a standby condition wherein x-ray radiation is substantially confined to the interior region of the collimator, without having to shut down the x-ray generator itself.

Abstract: By hiding at least blackened portions from outside to make visual confirmation thereof impossible, a fluorescent lamp keeps its clean outward appearance until its service life expires and insufficiency of luminance on ends of the fluorescent lamp is dissolved. The fluorescent lamp comprising a plurality of discharging electrodes in a glass tube, and wherein the glass tube comprises an illuminating glass tube portion coated at inner wall surfaces thereof with a fluorescent substance and functioning as an illuminating body, and auxiliary glass tube portions provided contiguous to the illuminating glass tube portion and hidden from outside by shielding members, and wherein the discharging electrodes are not provided in the illuminating glass tube portion but mounted in the auxiliary glass tube portions.

Abstract: A computed tomography imaging scanner (10) acquires helical cone beam projection data for a volume of interest (46) using at least two source trajectory helices. A reconstruction processor (62) reconstructs the projection data for each helix to generate a corresponding time skewed image representation. A voxel time processor (66) computes an acquisition time for each voxel in each time skewed image representation. A voxel interpolator (68) computes an interpolated voxel value for each voxel based on values of the voxel in the time skewed image representations and corresponding voxel acquisition times. In an electronic embodiment, the computed tomography scanner (10) includes an x-ray source (12) with an axially oriented cylindrical anode (92), an electron source (961, 962) irradiating the cylindrical anode (92) to produce an x-ray beam (120, 122, 124, 126), and an electron beam deflector (98, 100) that deflects the electron beam along the anode (92) to axially sweep the x-ray beam.

Abstract: A flat-panel display device having a transparent first plate and a second plate which are disposed in parallel with each other and cooperate to define therebetween an air-tight space in which light is generated for emission through the first plate, the display device including a sealing material for air-tightly sealing the air-tight space along a periphery of the first and second plates, and metallic thin sheets bonded with the sealing material to end faces of the first and second plates such that the metallic thin sheets cover the end faces.

Abstract: An OLED display having an ambient contrast ratio greater than ten at an ambient illumination greater than 6,000 lux at an average power of 100 milliwatts per centimeter squared.

Abstract: A dual-type organic EL display including: a main organic EL device including a main substrate, strip-shaped main substrate scan lines, a main substrate organic light-emitting portion, and main substrate data lines formed on the main substrate; a sub organic EL device opposite to and facing the main organic EL device, including a sub substrate, strip-shaped sub substrate scan lines, a sub substrate organic light-emitting portion, and sub substrate data lines formed on the sub substrate; a sealant including a conductive spacer, sealing the main and sub substrates and hermetically sealing the main and sub substrate organic light-emitting portions in a state in which the main and sub organic El devices face each other; and at least one flexible printed cable (FPC) formed on the main or sub substrate and connected to electrode lines of the main and/or sub substrates.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for generating x-ray beams are described. In one embodiment, the method includes operating a cathode to operating a cathode to generate an electron beam, directing the electron beam from the cathode through a selectable shaped aperture in an accelerating electrode, and impinging the electron beam at a low angle on an anode surface to form a focal spot on the anode surface.