Abstract: A filter circuit includes a voltage-current conversion portion that converts a voltage signal input to an input terminal to a current signal, a first capacitor unit formed by a plurality of capacitors, and in which a current signal output from the voltage-current conversion portion is sequentially input to the capacitors, the unit adding and outputting electric charges of a group of capacitors to which the current signal is input, a second capacitor unit formed by a plurality of capacitors, and in which a current signal output from the first capacitor unit is sequentially input to the capacitors, the unit adding and outputting electric charges of a group of capacitors to which the current signal is input, and a plurality of connection nodes that respectively connect a given capacitor in the first capacitor unit and a capacitor in the second capacitor unit.

Abstract: There is provided a filter circuit that includes a flying capacitor and a capacitor that is provided in parallel with the flying capacitor, between an input terminal and an output terminal of the flying capacitor. As the capacitor that has a predetermined capacity is provided between the input terminal and the output terminal of the flying capacitor, it is possible to provide steep attenuation characteristics in the filter circuit provided with the flying capacitor.

Abstract: An organic light-emitting transistor having a source electrode layer; a drain electrode layer facing the source electrode layer; an organic light-emitting layer formed between the source electrode layer and the drain electrode layer; a semiconductor layer formed between the organic light-emitting layer and the source electrode layer; and a gate electrode layer deposited to face through a gate insulation film to one face of the source electrode layer opposite to the other face facing the drain electrode layer. The organic light-emitting transistor further comprises: a charge-carrier suppression layer formed between the organic light-emitting layer and the source electrode layer to have an aperture; and a relay region formed between the charge-carrier suppression layer and the source electrode layer to relay charge-carriers from the source electrode layer to the aperture.

Abstract: An amplifier is provided which includes: a first variable capacitance device of which capacitance is variable, a second variable capacitance device of which capacitance is variable, electrically connected to the first variable capacitance device, and of an inverse conductivity type from the first variable capacitance device, and a first input unit for selectively inputting a bias voltage and a voltage signal to the first variable capacitance device and the second variable capacitance device, wherein, in the event that the bias voltage and the voltage signal are input to the first variable capacitance device and the second variable capacitance device, the capacitance of the first variable capacitance device and the second variable capacitance device is taken as a first value, and wherein the voltage signal is amplified with the capacitance of the first variable capacitance device and the second variable capacitance device as a second value smaller than the first value.

Abstract: To provide a charge sampling filter circuit and a charge sampling method. A charge sampling filter circuit includes a first capacitor that samples an input signal, and in which at least a portion of electric charge stored in the first capacitor by sampling is output to a second capacitor that is connectable with the first capacitor. The charge sampling filter circuit is characterized by including a switching portion that switches a circuit mode including a sampling mode that causes the first capacitor to sample the input signal, and an output mode that causes the first capacitor and the second capacitor to be connected. A capacitance value of the first capacitor in the output mode is set to be lower than the capacitance value in the sampling mode.

Abstract: There is provided a signal generating apparatus including: a multiphase oscillating portion for generating a number of base signals having the same frequency and a predetermined phase difference of which the signal level transitions between a first level and a second level, and where periods during which the signal level of any given base signal is at the first level and the signal level of the next base signal having the predetermined phase delay relative to the given base signal is at the first level overlap; and a transition time point changing portion for generating a pulse signal by changing the time point when each base signal transitions from the first level to the second level to a time point before the next base signal transitions from the second level to the first level.

Abstract: A charge domain filter circuit includes a first signal output portion, at least one second signal output, portion, a third signal output portion, and an adder portion. The first signal output portion outputs a first signal that is sampled at a specified time interval. Each second signal, output portion outputs a second signal that is sampled after a specified delay after the first signal is sampled. Where a plurality of the second signal output portions is included, the second signals are sampled in succession. The third signal output portion outputs a third signal that is sampled after a specified delay after the last second signal is sampled. The adder portion adds the first, second, and third signals together and outputs the result. The capacitance ratio of the sampling capacitors in the first signal output portion and the second signal output portion is one of continuously or discretely varied.

Abstract: The invention is an organic luminescence transistor device including: a substrate; a first electrode layer provided on a side of an upper surface of the substrate; a layered structure provided locally on a side of an upper surface of the first electrode layer, the layered structure covering an area of a predetermined size in a plan view, the layered structure including an insulation layer, an assistance electrode layer and an electric-charge-injection inhibiting layer in this order; an organic EL layer provided on the side of an upper surface of the first electrode layer at least at an area not provided with the layered structure; and a second electrode layer provided on a side of an upper surface of the organic EL layer.

Abstract: There is provided a signal processing apparatus including a variable capacitor and a switching portion for switching the circuit mode between a sampling mode, in which the variable capacitor samples an input signal, a holding mode, in which a charge gained by sampling the input signal is held in the variable capacitor, and an output mode for outputting the charge stored in the variable capacitor, wherein the variable capacitor is provided with an input terminal through which the input signal is inputted in the sampling mode, a control terminal to which a first control signal which decreases the capacitance of the variable capacitor to a value below the capacitance in the sampling mode is inputted in the output mode, and a second control signal having a predetermined reference voltage is inputted in the holding mode, where an insulating layer is provided between the control terminal and the input terminal.

Abstract: A filter circuit includes a voltage-current conversion portion that converts a voltage signal input to an input terminal to a current signal, a first capacitor unit formed by a plurality of capacitors, and in which a current signal output from the voltage-current conversion portion is sequentially input to the capacitors, the unit adding and outputting electric charges of a group of capacitors to which the current signal is input, a second capacitor unit formed by a plurality of capacitors, and in which a current signal output from the first capacitor unit is sequentially input to the capacitors, the unit adding and outputting electric charges of a group of capacitors to which the current signal is input, and a plurality of connection nodes that respectively connect a given capacitor in the first capacitor unit and a capacitor in the second capacitor unit.

Abstract: A switched capacitor circuit includes a capacitor that performs sampling, a first switch that is provided between the capacitor and an input terminal, and a second switch that is provided between the capacitor and an output terminal. The first switch and the second switch receive an input of a clock signal and turn on and off. The capacitor is a variable capacitance element in which the value of the capacitance changes in synchronization with the clock signal.

Abstract: A filter circuit according to the present invention includes a voltage-current conversion unit that converts a voltage signal input to an input end to a current signal, a capacitor group that is made up of a plurality of capacitors, where the current signal output from the voltage-current conversion unit is sequentially input to each capacitor at every cycle, a first switch that connects a set of capacitors to which the current signal is input with each other and adds charges accumulated in the set of capacitors together, and a second switch that connects at least one capacitor of the set of capacitors to an output end after charges are added by the first switch.

Abstract: Disclosed is an organic light-emitting transistor device comprising a substrate, a first electrode layer formed on the upper side of the substrate, a multilayer structure formed locally on the upper side of the first electrode layer in a predetermined size and sequentially having an insulating layer, an auxiliary electrode layer and a charge injection-suppressing layer in this order, an organic EL layer formed on the upper side of the first electrode layer where at least the multilayer structure is not formed, and a second electrode layer formed on the upper side of the organic EL layer. This organic light-emitting transistor device is characterized in that the charge injection-suppressing layer is formed larger than the auxiliary electrode when viewed in plan.

Abstract: The invention is an organic luminescence transistor device including: a substrate; an assistance electrode layer provided on a side of an upper surface of the substrate; an insulation film provided on a side of an upper surface of the assistance electrode layer; a first electrode provided locally on a side of an upper surface of the insulation film, the first electrode covering an area of a predetermined size; an electric-charge-injection inhibiting layer provided on an upper surface of the first electrode, the electric-charge-injection inhibiting layer having a shape larger than that of the first electrode in a plan view; an electric-charge injection layer provided on the side of an upper surface of the insulation film at an area not provided with the first electrode or the electric-charge-injection inhibiting layer and on an upper surface of the electric-charge-injection inhibiting layer; a luminescent layer provided on an upper surface of the electric-charge injection layer; and a second electrode layer pr

Abstract: There is provided a filter circuit that includes a flying capacitor and a capacitor that is provided in parallel with the flying capacitor, between an input terminal and an output terminal of the flying capacitor. As the capacitor that has a predetermined capacity is provided between the input terminal and the output terminal of the flying capacitor, it is possible to provide steep attenuation characteristics in the filter circuit provided with the flying capacitor.

Abstract: There is provided a filter circuit that includes: a flying capacitor which maintains polarity when switching from an input terminal to an output terminal, and the polarity of which is reversed when switching from the output terminal to the input terminal; a first capacitor that is provided in parallel with the flying capacitor, at the input terminal of the flying capacitor; and a second capacitor that is provided in parallel with the flying capacitor, at the output terminal of the flying capacitor. The flying capacitor is switched from the input terminal to the output terminal with a delay of a predetermined time after the switching from the output terminal to the input terminal, and the flying capacitor is switched from the output terminal to the input terminal with a delay of a predetermined time after the switching from the input terminal to the output terminal.

Abstract: There is provided a filter circuit that includes: a flying capacitor which maintains polarity when switching from an input terminal to an output terminal, and the polarity of which is reversed when switching from the output terminal to the input terminal; a first capacitor that is provided in parallel to the flying capacitor, at the input terminal of the flying capacitor; and a second capacitor that is provided in parallel to the flying capacitor, at the output terminal of the flying capacitor. The flying capacitor includes a variable capacity element such that capacity becomes smaller when switching from the input terminal to the output terminal and capacity becomes larger when switching from the output terminal to the input terminal.

Abstract: [Problems] To perform predetermined processing such as annealing and coating application of a semiconductor material with high accuracy on a number of semiconductor formation areas formed over a wide region on a surface of a substrate having elasticity such as a plastic substrate even when the substrate expands and contracts.

Abstract: An organic light-emitting transistor having a source electrode layer; a drain electrode layer facing the source electrode layer; an organic light-emitting layer formed between the source electrode layer and the drain electrode layer; a semiconductor layer formed between the organic light-emitting layer and the source electrode layer; and a gate electrode layer deposited to face through a gate insulation film to one face of the source electrode layer opposite to the other face facing the drain electrode layer. The organic light-emitting transistor further comprises: a charge-carrier suppression layer formed between the organic light-emitting layer and the source electrode layer to have an aperture; and a relay region formed between the charge-carrier suppression layer and the source electrode layer to relay charge-carriers from the source electrode layer to the aperture.

Abstract: A solid-state image sensing device includes a pixel unit that includes pixels, each of pixels outputting the pixel signal to a signal line connected thereto; and an amplifying unit that includes amplifiers connected to the corresponding signal lines. The amplifier includes a first variable capacitance element, a second variable capacitance element, and an input unit that selectively inputs the pixel signal to the first variable capacitance element and the second variable capacitance element. The amplifier sets the capacitances of the first variable capacitance element and the second variable capacitance element to a first value when the pixel signal is input to the first variable capacitance element and the second variable capacitance element. And the amplifier changes the capacitances of the first variable capacitance element and the second variable capacitance element to a second value that is smaller than the first value, thereby amplifying the pixel signal.