Abstract: A surface acoustic wave device includes a piezoelectric single crystal substrate and an electrode. The piezoelectric single crystal substrate is made of LiTaO3 or LiNbO3. The electrode includes a titanium film formed on the piezoelectric single crystal substrate and an aluminum film or a film containing aluminum as a main component. The aluminum film or the film is formed on the titanium film. The aluminum film or the film containing aluminum as the main component is a twin crystal film or a single crystal film, the aluminum film or the film has a (111) plane that is non-parallel to a surface of the piezoelectric single crystal substrate with an angle ?, and the aluminum film or the film has a [?1, 1, 0] direction parallel to an X-direction of a crystallographic axis of the piezoelectric single crystal substrate.

Abstract: A surface acoustic wave device includes a piezoelectric single crystal substrate and an electrode. The piezoelectric single crystal substrate is made of LiTaO3 or LiNbO3. The electrode includes a titanium film formed on the piezoelectric single crystal substrate and an aluminum film or a film containing aluminum as a main component. The aluminum film or the film is formed on the titanium film. The aluminum film or the film containing aluminum as the main component is a twin crystal film or a single crystal film, the aluminum film or the film has a (111) plane that is non-parallel to a surface of the piezoelectric single crystal substrate with an angle ?, and the aluminum film or the film has a [?1, 1, 0] direction parallel to an X-direction of a crystallographic axis of the piezoelectric single crystal substrate.

Abstract: The disclosure provides a piezoelectric device includes a piezoelectric vibrating piece and a coating layer. The piezoelectric vibrating piece includes an electrode and an exposed portion. The coating layer is constituted of a material with a sputtering rate lower than a sputtering rate of a material of the electrode, the coating layer covering the exposed portion.

Abstract: A piezoelectric device includes a piezoelectric vibrating piece, a base, a first lid, and a second lid. The piezoelectric vibrating piece includes an electrode. The base holds the piezoelectric vibrating piece. The first lid is bonded to the base. The first lid houses the piezoelectric vibrating piece in a cavity. The first lid has an opening portion that opens the cavity. The second lid is bonded to a front surface of the first lid so as to cover the opening portion. The opening portion is fabricated at a position overlapping a portion including a region of the piezoelectric vibrating piece excluding the electrode, or a portion including a region excluding the piezoelectric vibrating piece in plan view.

Abstract: A magnetoresistance device is provided for improving thermal stability of a magnetoresistance element by preventing inter-diffusion between a conductor (such as a via and an interconnection) for connecting the magnetoresistance element to another element and layers constituting the magnetoresistance element. A magnetoresistance device is composed of a magnetoresistance element, a non-magnetic conductor providing electrical connection between the magnetoresistance element to another element, and a diffusion barrier structure disposed between the conductor and the magnetoresistance element, the magnetoresistance element including a free ferromagnetic layer having reversible spontaneous magnetization, a fixed ferromagnetic layer having fixed spontaneous magnetization, and a tunnel dielectric layer disposed between the free and fixed ferroelectric layers.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of manufacturing a substrate for an organic EL device, the method comprising the step of: filling grooves of the optical element with sol-gel coating solution or organic metal cracking solution when a diffraction grating 12 is formed on the glass substrate 11, wherein an encapsulation member 5 is mounted to the glass substrate 11 in order to fill the groove 12a with the coating solution, and the coating solution is injected into a gap between the encapsulation member 5 and the diffraction grating 12, so that the organic EL device can be stably manufactured with low variation between optical properties according to positions of the substrate and with improved luminous efficiency.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of manufacturing a substrate for an organic EL device, the method comprising the step of: filling grooves of the optical element with sol-gel coating solution or organic metal cracking solution when a diffraction grating 12 is formed on the glass substrate 11, wherein an encapsulation member 5 is mounted to the glass substrate 11 in order to fill the groove 12a with the coating solution, and the coating solution is injected into a gap between the encapsulation member 5 and the diffraction grating 12, so that the organic EL device can be stably manufactured with low variation between optical properties according to positions of the substrate and with improved luminous efficiency.

Abstract: Provided is a substrate for a light-emitting device having good light emitting efficiency and light-emitting device using the substrate. A light transparent substrate 10 is layered with a first layer 30 having a refractive index higher than that of the light transparent substrate 10 and a second layer 40 having a refractive index lower than that of the first layer. The refractive index of the first layer 30 is set to be 1.35 times as high as that of the second layer 40. With this layer structure, in an emitting layer of the light-emitting device, a wave front of a spherical wave form exited from a point light source in the front direction is converted into that of a plane wave form, and exited outside the substrate at a high efficiency.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an organic electroluminescent device. There is provided an organic electroluminescent device with a good luminescence property and high luminous efficiency in which the organic electroluminescent device has a diffraction grating 2 on the surface of the substrate 1 and an organic EL layer 5 including an emission layer between an anode 4 an a cathode 6 via an intermediate layer 3.

Abstract: In order to provide a surface acoustic wave device provided with a pseudo-single crystal aluminum electrode film, having excellent power durability, easy to manufacture, and possible to grow with good reproducibility, a titanium buffer film 4 and an electrode film composed of an aluminum film or an aluminum alloy film are formed on a piezoelectric substrate 2 composed of lithium tantalate or lithium niobate. The electrode film 5 comprises a pseudo-single crystal film composed of two (111) domains. Each of the <111> directions of two (111) domains tilts in the range of 0 to 10 degrees to the substrate surface, and the <11-2> directions in the respective (111) domain planes are 1 to 15 degrees apart.

Abstract: A magnetoresistance device is provided for improving thermal stability of a magnetoresistance element by preventing inter-diffusion between a conductor (such as a via and an interconnection) for connecting the magnetoresistance element to another element and layers constituting the magnetoresistance element. A magnetoresistance device is composed of a magnetoresistance element, a non-magnetic conductor providing electrical connection between said magnetoresistance element to another element, and a diffusion barrier structure disposed between said conductor and said magnetoresistance element, the magnetoresistance element including a free ferromagnetic layer having reversible spontaneous magnetization, a fixed ferromagnetic layer having fixed spontaneous magnetization, and a tunnel dielectric layer disposed between said free and fixed ferroelectric layer.

Abstract: Provided is a substrate for a light-emitting device having good light emitting efficiency and light-emitting device using the substrate. A light transparent substrate 10 is layered with a first layer 30 having a refractive index higher than that of the light transparent substrate 10 and a second layer 40 having a refractive index lower than that of the first layer. The refractive index of the first layer 30 is set to be 1.35 times as high as that of the second layer 40. With this layer structure, in an emitting layer of the light-emitting device, a wave front of a spherical wave form exited from a point light source in the front direction is converted into that of a plane wave form, and exited outside the substrate at a high efficiency.

Abstract: A magnetoresistance device is provided for improving thermal stability of a magnetoresistance element by preventing inter-diffusion between a conductor (such as a via and an interconnection) for connecting the magnetoresistance element to another element and layers constituting the magnetoresistance element. A magnetoresistance device is composed of a magnetoresistance element, a non-magnetic conductor providing electrical connection between said magnetoresistance element to another element, and a diffusion barrier structure disposed between the conductor and said magnetoresistance element, the magnetoresistance element including a free ferromagnetic layer having reversible spontaneous magnetization, a fixed ferromagnetic layer having fixed spontaneous magnetization, and a tunnel dielectric layer disposed between said free and fixed ferroelectric layer.

Abstract: Provided is a substrate for a light-emitting device having good light emitting efficiency and light-emitting device using the substrate. A light transparent substrate 10 is layered with a first layer 30 having a refractive index higher than that of the light transparent substrate 10 and a s second layer 40 having a refractive index lower than that of the first layer. The refractive index of the first layer 30 is set to be 1.35 times as high as that of the second layer 40. With this layer structure, in an emitting layer of the light-emitting device, a wave front of a spherical wave form exited from a point light source in the front direction is converted into that of a plane wave form, and exited outside the substrate at a high efficiency.

Abstract: A magneto-resistance device is composed of an anti-ferromagnetic layer (5), a pinned ferromagnetic layer (20), a tunnel insulating layer (9) and a free ferromagnetic layer (21). The pinned ferromagnetic layer (20) is connected to the anti-ferromagnetic layer (5) and has a fixed spontaneous magnetization. The tunnel insulating layer (9) is connected to the pinned ferromagnetic layer (20) and is non-magnetic. The free ferromagnetic layer (21) is connected to the tunnel insulating layer (9) and has a reversible free spontaneous magnetization. The pinned ferromagnetic layer (20) has a first composite magnetic layer (6) to prevent at lest one component of the anti-ferromagnetic layer (5) from diffusing into tunnel insulating layer (9).

Abstract: In a magnetoresistive effect transducer including a pinning layer, a pinned layer, a free layer and a non-magnetic layer inserted between the pinned layer and the free layer, a longitudinal bias layer is connected directly to a part of the free layer to apply a bias magnetic field to the free layer, thus biasing a magnetization direction of the free layer so that the magnetization direction of the free layer coincides with that of the longitudinal bias layer.

Abstract: The present invention uses a substrate for an optical element comprising a light scattering unit that scatters visible light, and a light transmissive opening that transmits the visible light in a light transparent substrate transmitting the visible light, as a light extraction substrate of the organic electroluminescence element. With this, a substrate for an optical element, an organic electroluminescence element, and an organic electroluminescence display device are provided that improves the light extraction efficiency to outside of the substrate and also improves the light extraction efficiency by obtaining a high luminance organic electroluminescence element.

Abstract: A laminated ferrimagnetic thin film consists of two ferromagnetic layers and a non-magnetic intermediate layer sandwiched therebetween. The respective ferromagnetic layers are magnetically coupled in an anti-ferromagnetic manner through the non-magnetic intermediate layer. Each ferromagnetic layer consists of a plurality of layers. In each ferromagnetic layer, a layer which is in contact with the non-magnetic intermediate layer is formed of Co or an alloy including Co while at least one layer is formed of Ni or an alloy including Ni, and its film thickness is determined to be at least 60% or more of a film thickness of each ferromagnetic layer.

Abstract: A laminated ferrimagnetic thin film consists of two ferromagnetic layers and a non-magnetic intermediate layer sandwiched therebetween. The respective ferromagnetic layers are magnetically coupled in an antiferromagnetic manner through the non-magnetic intermediate layer. Each ferromagnetic layer consists of a plurality of layers. In each ferromagnetic layer, a layer which is in contact with the non-magnetic intermediate layer is formed of Co or an alloy including Co while at least one layer is formed of Ni or an alloy including Ni, and its film thickness is determined to be at least 60% or more of a film thickness of each ferromagnetic layer.

Abstract: In order to provide a surface acoustic wave device provided with a pseudo-single crystal aluminum electrode film, having excellent power durability, easy to manufacture, and possible to grow with good reproducibility, a titanium buffer film 4 and an electrode film composed of an aluminum film or an aluminum alloy film are formed on a piezoelectric substrate 2 composed of lithium tantalate or lithium niobate. The electrode film 5 comprises a pseudo-single crystal film composed of two (111) domains. Each of the <111> directions of two (111) domains tilts in the range of 0 to 10 degrees to the substrate surface, and the <11-2> directions in the respective (111) domain planes are 1 to 15 degrees apart.