Abstract: An optical element includes: a first optical layer having a concavo-convex surface; a wavelength-selective reflective layer provided on the concavo-convex surface of the first optical layer; a second optical layer provided on the concavo-convex surface on which the wavelength-selective reflective layer is provided so as to fill the concavo-convex surface, and in the optical element described above, the wavelength-selective reflective layer includes a metal layer, a protective layer provided on the metal layer and containing a metal oxide as a primary component, and a high refractive index layer provided on the protective layer and containing a metal oxide other than zinc oxide as a primary component, and the wavelength-selective reflective layer selectively directionally reflects light in a specific wavelength band while transmitting light other than that in the specific wavelength band.

Abstract: A coating/developing apparatus includes a process section including processing units to perform a series of processes for resist coating and development; an interface section disposed between the process section and immersion light exposure apparatus; and a drying section disposed in the interface section to dry the substrate immediately after the immersion light exposure process. The drying section includes a process container configured to accommodate the substrate, a substrate support member configured to place the substrate thereon, a temperature-adjusted gas supply mechanism configured to supply a temperature-adjusted gas into the process container, and an exhaust mechanism configured to exhaust the process container. The drying section is arranged to dry the substrate by supplying the temperature-adjusted gas into the process container with the substrate placed on the substrate support member, while exhausting the process container.

Abstract: A light-emitting device allowed to obtain polarized light without increasing the number of components or the thickness thereof, and a display including the light-emitting device are provided. The light-emitting device includes: a light-emitting element including, on a substrate, a first electrode, a light-emitting layer and a second electrode in order from the substrate. The substrate has, on a surface facing the first electrode, a first concavo-convex structure including a plurality of strip-shaped protrusion sections with a width equal to or smaller than an upper wavelength limit of visible light, and the first electrode, the light-emitting layer and the second electrode each have, on a surface opposite to a surface facing the substrate, a second concavo-convex structure imitating the protrusion sections of the first concavo-convex structure.

Abstract: A photoelectric transfer material, manufacturing method thereof, photoelectric transfer element and manufacturing method thereof are provided. In an organic photoelectric transfer element of an organic solar cell or other like device, the photoelectric transfer material is composed of a conductive polymer such as MEH-PPV, electronic acceptor such as a fullerene derivative and antenna porphyrin aggregate. The photoelectric transfer material can be made by coating a mixed solution of the conductive polymer, electron acceptor and antenna porphyrin aggregate by spin coating, for example. This photoelectric transfer material and a photoelectric transfer element using the material exhibit high photoelectric transfer efficiency because of small electric resistance and high sunlight usage efficiency, and simultaneously exhibit stability.

Abstract: An optical element is provided includes an optical layer having a flat incident surface on which light is incident and a wavelength-selective reflective layer disposed in the optical layer. Of light incident on the incident surface at an incident angle (?, ?), the optical element selectively directionally reflects light in at least one specific wavelength range in at least one direction other than a specular reflection direction (??, ?+180°) while transmitting light in at least one wavelength range other than the specific wavelength range, and is transparent to light in at least one wavelength range other than the specific wavelength range.

Abstract: A light emitting device having high light extraction efficiency and a display device having the same are provided. The light emitting device includes a light-emitting element having, on a substrate, a first electrode, a light-emitting layer, and a second electrode in order from the substrate side. The substrate has a first three-dimensional structure including a plurality of projections in nano order on the surface on the first electrode side. At least the first electrode out of the first electrode, the light-emitting layer, and the second electrode has a second three-dimensional structure modeled on the projections in the first three-dimensional structure on the surface on the side opposite to the substrate one another.

Abstract: An organic EL light-emitting material and an organic EL light-emitting element using the same are provided. Between an anode and a cathode, there are provided a hole transport layer, a light-emitting layer constituted of an organic EL light-emitting material including at least one kind of metal pyrazole complex constituted of a metal ion that is a monovalent cation of a d10 group element and a pyrazole ligand that has a predetermined substituent at the whole or a part of 3, 4 and 5 sites, and an electron transport layer, in this order from the anode side.

Abstract: Disclosed is a manufacturing method of a polarization plate. The manufacturing method includes forming a coating layer on a polarization element by coating a coating liquid obtained by dissolving polysilazane and an organic resin into a solvent, and forming an organic-inorganic hybrid layer by subjecting the coating layer to reaction curing.

Abstract: A coating/developing apparatus includes a process section including processing units to perform a series of processes for resist coating and development; an interface section disposed between the process section and immersion light exposure apparatus; and a drying section disposed in the interface section to dry the substrate immediately after the immersion light exposure process. The drying section includes a process container configured to accommodate the substrate, a substrate support member configured to place the substrate thereon, a temperature-adjusted gas supply mechanism configured to supply a temperature-adjusted gas into the process container, and an exhaust mechanism configured to exhaust the process container. The drying section is arranged to dry the substrate by supplying the temperature-adjusted gas into the process container with the substrate placed on the substrate support member, while exhausting the process container.

Abstract: A cleaning apparatus for immersion light exposure includes a cleaning apparatus main body including a mechanism configured to perform a cleaning process on the substrate, and a control section configured to control respective components of the cleaning apparatus main body. The control section is arranged to fabricate a new process recipe in response to input of a surface state of a film formed on a substrate, such that the new process recipe contains hardware conditions and/or process conditions corresponding to the surface state, with reference to relationships stored therein between parameter values representing a surface state of a film formed on a substrate and hardware conditions and/or process conditions for performing suitable cleaning for the parameter values; and to control the cleaning apparatus main body to perform a cleaning process in accordance with the new process recipe.

Abstract: An optical film, a liquid crystal panel, and liquid crystal display apparatus are provided. The liquid crystal display apparatus irradiates a rear surface of a liquid crystal panel with light and displays a screen. The liquid crystal display apparatus has viewing angle improvement means for decreasing light at angles equal to or greater than a predetermined value in a normal direction of the liquid crystal panel from light emitted from a light source and diffusing light at angles smaller than the predetermined value in the normal direction of the liquid crystal panel on a display surface side of the liquid crystal panel.

Abstract: An optical/electrical conversion element used for a photosensor or a solar battery. An optical/electrical conversion layer, composed of an assembly of a light-absorbing dendrimer structure (1), operating as an electron donor, and fine metal particles (2), operating as an electron receptor, are self-collectively formed by imparting chemical affinity to the dendrimer structure and to the fine metal particles. With the present optical/electrical conversion element, in which the light-absorbing substance has a dendrimer structure, the electrons, excited on light absorption, migrate over a long distance via molecular chain to get to the fine metal particles (2) operating as an electron receptor. The electrons are routed quickly to outside as current via contact among the fine metal particles and/or between the fine metal particles and an electrode.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an ion conductive polymer which is expressed by a below-described chemical formula and has at least one or more kinds of stereospecific structures of a syndiotactic or isotactic structure. (In the above described formula, n designates an integer of 2 or more, R designates an organic residue having 1 to 20 carbon atoms or an organic residue having 1 to 20 carbon atoms and hetero atoms such as N, O, P, S, etc., X designates an anion part, and Y designates an alkali metal, an alkaline earth metal, a transition metal, a rare-earth element, an ammonium or a hydrogen.

Abstract: The present invention realizes forming of a hard coat having excellent leveling without lowering physical properties. An information signal portion is formed on a substrate. A light transmitting sheet is bonded to the substrate with a bonding layer disposed therebetween to form a light transmitting layer. There is obtained a composition for hard coat by adding a low molecular-weight reactive diluent to a solvent-type hard coat agent. The composition for hard coat is coated on the light transmitting layer uniformly by a spin coating method. The coated composition for hard coat is cured to be a hard coat.

Abstract: A photoelectric transfer material, manufacturing method thereof, photoelectric transfer element and manufacturing method thereof are provided. In an organic photoelectric transfer element of an organic solar cell or other like device, the photoelectric transfer material is composed of a conductive polymer such as MEH-PPV, electronic acceptor such as a fullerene derivative and antenna porphyrin aggregate. The photoelectric transfer material can be made by coating a mixed solution of the conductive polymer, electron acceptor and antenna porphyrin aggregate by spin coating, for example. This photoelectric transfer material and a photoelectric transfer element using the material exhibit high photoelectric transfer efficiency because of small electric resistance and high sunlight usage efficiency, and simultaneously exhibit stability.

Abstract: A photoelectric transducer having a relatively simple structure and capable of reducing the loss of light energy of incident light and conductor loss due to electrical resistance. A photoelectric transducer 16A includes a conductive layer 2; a electrolytic layer 3 that is in contact with the conductive layer 2; a charge separating layer 4; a transparent conductive layer 5 and a metal lines 7, which are in contact with the charge separating layer 4; and convex lenses 8 converging incident light 15 on openings 20 provided between the metal lines 7, the incident light 15 being converged on the charge separating layer 4 by the convex lenses 8. Electrons generated by photoelectric conversion move to the exterior through an external circuit 17 having a low resistivity.

Abstract: With respect to a photoelectric conversion device comprising a semiconductor electrode composed of semiconductor fine particles and a metal film to be an opposite electrode, a polyethylene dioxythiophene (PEDOT)/polystyrenesulfonic acid (PSS) film is formed by spin coating on a transparent electrode of a metal oxide such as ITO to remarkably improve the adhesion property of the metal film to the metal oxide film and the pollution by the different type metal of the metal film to be the opposite electrode can be prevented in the photoelectric conversion device. Further, a semiconductor electrode composed of semiconductor fine particles can be formed well on the metal oxide film by low temperature process while elution of the metal oxide film is prevented to obtain the photoelectric conversion device.

Abstract: A water-soluble acrylic resin which is prepared by neutralizing with a neutralizing agent an acrylic copolymer formed by copolymerizing (a) an alkylene oxide group-containing (meth)acrylate, (b) a cyclic saturated hydrocarbon group-containing (meth)acrylate, (c) a hydroxyl group-containing unsaturated monomer other than the monomer (a), and (d) other unsaturated monomer; a resin composition used for a water-based coating composition and containing, as a vehicle component, the above water-soluble acrylic resin; a water-based coating composition containing, as major components, (A) at Least one resin selected from the group consisting of a water-soluble resin and a water-dispersible resin and (B) a pigment, said pigment (B) being subjected to dispersion treatment; with a water-soluble acrylic resin (C), which is prepared by neutralizing with a neutralizing agent an acrylic copolymer formed by copolymerizing (a) an alkylene oxide group-containing (meth)acrylate, (b) a cyclic saturated hydrocarbon group-containin