Abstract: A photothermographic imaging material containing a support having thereon photosensitive silver halide grains, light-insensitive organic silver salt grains, a reducing agent for silver ions and polymer, wherein and average particle size of the photosensitive silver halide grains is 0.005 to 0.1 ?m, and the polymer dissolves both in water and in an organic solvent.

Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material having a support containing a filler and/or an undercoat layer containing a clay compound coated with an organic substance between the support and an emulsion layer or between the support and a back layer. The silver halide photographic light-sensitive material shows good dimensional stability in a processing system.

Abstract: A photographic element comprises a silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith a dye forming coupler and a compound of the following Formula I1: wherein L is a linking moiety; X is a heteroatom group selected from O, S, or NR? where R? is H or a substituent; w is 0 or 1; R is hydrogen or a substituent group; n is an integer from 0 to 5; and ST represents a stabilizer selected from the group consisting of: A. a thiomorpholine dioxide; B. a dialkoxy aromatic group linked through a phenolic oxygen; C. a dialkoxy aromatic group linked through the aromatic ring; D. a sulfonamido group; E. a hydroxyphenyl benzotriazole group; and F. a phenolic group.

Abstract: A silver salt photothermographic dry imaging material including non-photosensitive aliphatic carboxylic acid silver salts; a photosensitive emulsion containing photosensitive silver halide grains; a silver ion reducing agent; a binder; and a cyan coloring leuco dye. A percentage of the photosensitive silver halide grains having a mean particle size of 0.01 or more ?m and 0.04 ?m or less is 5% or more by mass and 50% or less by mass of total photosensitive silver halide grains by conversion into a silver amount.

Abstract: A photothermographic material is disclosed, comprising on a support a light-sensitive layer comprising a light-insensitive silver salt of an aliphatic carboxylic acid, light-sensitive silver halide grains, a reducing agent for silver ions and a binder, wherein the light-sensitive layer further comprises nonaqueous dispersion particles insoluble in organic solvents.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material having, on a support, a yellow dye-forming light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, a magenta dye-forming light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and a cyan dye-forming light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, and a light-insensitive hydrophilic colloid layer that does not develop a color, wherein a total amount of a hydrophilic binder on the emulsion layer-coating side of the support is 6.0 g/m2 or less, and at least one of said silver halide emulsion layers contains at least one compound selected from metal complexes represented by formula (I) set forth below and a silver halide emulsion of a 90 mole % or more silver chloride content with a silver bromide-containing phase formed in a layer form.

Abstract: This invention relates to semiconductor devices, microelectronic devices, micro electro mechanical devices, microfluidic devices, photonic devices, and more particularly to a lithographic template, a method of forming the lithographic template and a method for forming devices with the lithographic template. The lithographic template (10) is formed having a substrate (12), a transparent conductive layer (16) formed on a surface (14) of the substrate (12) by low pressure sputtering to a thickness that allows for preferably 90% transmission of ultraviolet light therethrough, and a patterning layer (20) formed on a surface (18) of the transparent conductive layer (16).

Abstract: A silver halide color photosensitive material comprising a support and, superimposed thereon, at least one blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, wherein (i) the specified speed of the photosensitive material is 350 or higher, (ii) the coating amount of silver in the photosensitive material is 7 g/m2 or less, and (iii) any of the color-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers is composed of two or more silver halide emulsion layers of different photographic speeds, of which the silver halide emulsion layer with the highest photographic speed contains tabular silver halide grains of 8 or greater aspect ratio in a ratio of 70% or more based on the total projected area and regular-crystal silver halide grains of 0.1 to 0.5 ?m equivalent sphere diameter in a ratio of 0.5 to 5% based on the total projected area.

Abstract: This invention relates to semiconductor devices, microelectronic devices, micro electro mechanical devices, microfluidic devices, and more particularly to an improved lithographic template including a repaired defect, a method of fabricating the improved lithographic template, a method for repairing defects present in the template, and a method for making semiconductor devices with the improved lithographic template. The lithographic template (10) is formed having a relief structure (26) and a repaired gap defect (36) within the relief structure (26). The template (10) is used in the fabrication of a semiconductor device (40) for affecting a pattern in device (40) by positioning the template (10) in close proximity to semiconductor device (40) having a radiation sensitive material formed thereon and applying a pressure to cause the radiation sensitive material to flow into the relief structure present on the template.

Abstract: A silver salt photothermographic material is disclosed, comprising on a support a light-insensitive silver salt of an aliphatic carboxylic agent, light-sensitive silver halide grains, a reducing agent for silver ions and a binding agent, wherein the silver halide grains are those which are capable being converted from a surface latent image formation type to internal latent image formation type upon thermal development, and the photothermographic material further comprises a dye microcapsule dispersion or a dye compound containing at least two chromophores.

Abstract: The addition of certain aliphatic and non-aromatic carbocyclic polycarboxylic acids provides an improvement in natural age keeping properties of organic-solvent based photothermographic materials. This improvement is particularly useful in organic-based photothermographic materials containing phosphors in the photothermographic emulsion layer. Phosphor-containing materials can be particularly useful for direct radiographic imaging using X-radiation.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic material including at least one methine dye represented by the following general formula (I) and at least one coupler represented by the following general formula (XX): wherein X1 and X2 each represents an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom, a selenium atom, a tellurium atom, or a nitrogen atom; Y1 represents a furan, pyrrole or thiophene ring which may be condensed with another 5- or 6-membered carbon ring or heterocycle or may have a substituent group; Y2 represents an atomic group necessary for forming a benzene ring or a 5- or 6-membered unsaturated heterocycle, which may be further condensed with another 5- or 6-membered carbon ring or heterocycle or may have a substituent group; a bond between two carbon atoms by which Y1 and Y2 are each condensed with the carbon ring or the heterocycle may be a single bond or a double bond; R1 and R2 each represents a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, aryl or heterocyclic group; L1, L2 and L3 each represents a methine group; n1 represents 0 o

Abstract: The present invention provides a photothermographic material including at least a photosensitive silver halide, a non-photosensitive silver-supplying compound, a reducing agent and a binder on at least one surface of a support. The photothermographic material further includes at least one kind of halogen releasing compound having a water-solubilizing group and at least one kind of halogen releasing compound having no water-solubilizing group, and a gradation of a characteristic curve is 2.5 to 4.0. The photothermographic material of the invention is excellent in storability, and particularly excellent in storability of high quality images used for image recording for medical diagnosis.

Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide photographic material containing a non ionic fluorine compound of formula (1) and an anionic fluorine compound of formula (2). The silver halide photographic material has good static resistance and excellent anti static properties. (1): C4F9—CH2CH(OH)CH2—(OCH2CH2)m—OCnH2n+1 wherein m is 15–40; n is 8–24; (2): wherein R11–R13 are H or substitutent; n1 and n2 are 4–8; L11 and L12 are alkylene, alkyleneoxy, or linking group; m11 is 0–1; M1 is cation.

Abstract: A phase shift mask blank is composed of a transparent substrate and a phase shift film thereon. The phase shift film is made of at least two types of layer stacked in alternation, each type having a different composition and containing at least one element selected from among metals, silicon, oxygen and nitrogen. The alternately layered film enables a high-quality phase shift mask blank having improved chemical resistance to be achieved.

Abstract: The invention relates to a laminate consisting of a multilayer transparent film and a multilayer opaque film, which has an intermediate layer. The base layer of the transparent film contains a pigment, which absorbs illumination in the wavelength range of a laser. The laminate can be marked and inscribed using a laser.

Abstract: There is provided a method which forms master masks used when a pattern of size larger than a region which can be exposed at one time is exposed on a to-be-exposed object. The pattern of the size larger than the region which can be exposed at one time is divided into a region of low repetitiveness and a region of high repetitiveness. A pattern of the region of low repetitiveness is drawn on at least one first master mask. Further, a pattern of the region of high repetitiveness is drawn on at least one second master mask.

Abstract: A silver halide color photosensitive material composing respectively at least one red-, green-, and blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, the color photosensitive material containing a magenta dye which is fixed in the specific layer and is not colored by a coupling reaction with developing agent oxidation products, and/or containing a cyan dye which is fixed in the specific layer and is not colored by a coupling reaction with developing agent oxidation products, and containing an ultraviolet absorptive polymer latex represented by the formula (I) which is impregnated with a non high molecular weight ultraviolet absorptive compound. wherein a phenyl ring or a benzo ring may be optionally substituted, either of m or n is 1 and another is 0, and M and K are represented by the following formula (II): wherein R3 is H or an alkyl group, L is a divalent binding group, and p is 0 or 1.

Abstract: A method has been disclosed for preparing a co-precipitated microcrystalline dye dispersion, the absorption spectrum of which exceeds the summoned spectra of individually dispersed dyes, which comprises, as consecutive preparation steps: adding to one vessel, an amount of at least one pentamethine oxonol-type barbituric acid filter dye having ionizable sites in its molecular structure; adding thereto an aqueous alkaline solution in an amount sufficient to completely dissolve the said filter dye while stirring the solution thus formed; adding in another vessel, to an amount of at least one pyrrole type filter dye, an amount of water, followed by adding of an aqueous alkaline solution and a surfactant; followed, after having completely dissolved (under stirring conditions) the said pyrrole type filter dye, by adding to the solution thus formed in the other vessel, the solution formed in the one vessel; adding an aqueous acidic solution up to a pH of less than 3.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a photomask blank having at least a film for forming a mask pattern on a transparent substrate comprises the steps of causing a sputtering atmosphere to contain at least a helium gas to form a film for forming the mask pattern by sputtering, and heating the transparent substrate during or after the film forming step.