Abstract: A method of producing a mold having an uneven structure and a mold for an optical element are provided. The method includes forming on a nickel substrate a mixed film using nickel and a material which phase separates from nickel simultaneously, the mixed film including a plurality of cylinders including nickel as a component thereof and a matrix region including the material which phase separates from nickel as a component thereof and surrounding the plurality of cylinders; and removing the matrix portion from the mixed film by etching to give a mold including nickel or a nickel alloy. The uneven structure is disposed in plurality on the substrate, and a pitch of the uneven structure is within a range of 30 nm or more and 500 nm or less and a depth of the uneven structure is within a range of 100 nm or more.

Abstract: A position detector includes a photodetector having photodetecting elements; and a scintillator crystal having uniaxial optical anisotropy. The scintillator crystal is continuous in a uniaxial direction, is disposed on the photodetector such that the uniaxial direction is not perpendicular to the normal to a photodetecting surface, and has a length at least three times the pitch of the photodetecting elements. The uniaxial anisotropy allows at least 4% of scintillation light emitted from a region farthest above the photodetecting surface to reach the photodetecting elements, and allows from 4% to 35% of scintillation light emitted from a region closest to the photodetecting surface to reach the photodetecting elements.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a radiation-detecting device including spaced first columnar scintillators, second columnar scintillators which are located between the neighboring first columnar scintillators and which are spaced from the first columnar scintillators, and photodetecting elements overlapping with the first columnar scintillators includes a step of preparing the substrate such that the substrate has a surface having an uneven section having protruding portions and a plurality of spaced flat sections surrounded by the uneven section and also includes a step of forming the first columnar scintillators and the second columnar scintillators on the flat sections and the protruding portions, respectively, by depositing a scintillator material on the substrate having the uneven section and the flat sections. The uneven section has recessed portions and satisfies the following inequality: h/d?1 where h is the depth of each recessed portion and d is the distance between the protruding portions.

Abstract: A process for producing a scintillator including the steps of producing a CsI columnar film formed of columnar CsI crystals by a deposition method, and adding an emission center to the CsI columnar film by disposing the CsI columnar film and an emission center material in a non-contact state in a closed space, heating the CsI columnar film in the range of not less than a sublimation temperature or evaporation temperature of the emission center material and not more than a temperature at which a columnar shape of the CsI columnar film can be maintained, and heating the emission center material at a temperature of not less than a sublimation temperature or evaporation temperature thereof.

Abstract: The invention provides a structured material composed by including a noble metal, in which an oriented layer is formed on a layer containing a Group 4A metal. The invention enables to form an oriented layer, which has required a high temperature for formation, by a low temperature process.

Abstract: A magnetic recording medium is provided which is contaminated less and improved in magnetic properties. The process for producing a magnetic recording medium having a recording layer constituted of magnetic granule portions dispersed in a nonmagnetic matrix portion comprises a first step of forming, on a base body, a nonmagnetic matrix portion, and Cu or Ag granule portions dispersed therein by a gas-phase deposition method, a second step of laminating magnetic granule portions on the Cu or Ag granule portions and laminating an additional nonmagnetic matrix portion on the nonmagnetic matrix portion formed in the first step, and a third step of heat-treating the laminate.

Abstract: To provide patterned media having novel structure. Plural convex members 2991 are provided in an array form on a substrate 2990. The convex member has a shape such that the cross section at each plane in parallel to the substrate tapers toward the substrate. Magnetic recording layers 2992 are provided on upper parts 2993 of the convex members so that they are not in contact with each other between the adjacent upper surface parts.

Abstract: The present invention provides a new method for producing a structure having a three-dimensional network skeleton. The method includes providing a film including a first material and a second material and removing the second material contained in the film by dry etching. The first material contains a noble metal and is dispersed in the second material.

Abstract: A stable FePt plating solution is provided. Further, a process for electroplating is provided for producing an FePt magnetic material having an especially strong coercive force and excellent properties by using the plating solution. The plating solution contains ionic Fe, ionic Pt, and a complex agent, at a molar ratio (Fe/Pt) of the ionic Fe to the ionic Pt ranging from 0.75 to 3.

Abstract: There is provided a novel magnetic recording medium which less damages the recording layer and of which recording tracks are fully magnetically spaced apart and manufacturing method therefor. The present invention provides the magnetic recording medium having a recording layer on a member with concave and convex portions, wherein the recording layer is provided on the concave and convex portions, and the recording layers on the concave and convex portions are different in magnetic properties with each other.

Abstract: The invention provides a structured material composed by including a noble metal, in which an oriented layer is formed on a layer containing a Group 4A metal. The invention enables to form an oriented layer, which has required a high temperature for formation, by a low temperature process.

Abstract: A magnetic recording-reproducing apparatus for recording or reproducing information on or from a magnetic recording medium constituted of plural recording areas containing sectors joined together, comprises a memorizing unit for memorizing information on positional deviation of the sectors at the boundary between adjacent recording areas, and a controlling unit for controlling movement of a magnetic recording head in accordance with the information on positional deviation in the memorizing unit when the magnetic recording head moves between the sectors at the boundary between adjacent recording areas.

Abstract: The invention provides a structured material composed by including a noble metal, in which an oriented layer is formed on a layer containing a Group 4A metal. The invention enables to form an oriented layer, which has required a high temperature for formation, by a low temperature process.

Abstract: A cooling water communication passage extending in a cylinder disposition direction is provided at a cylinder block-integrated crankcase of an engine with parallel multiple cylinders loaded by being tilted forward, and cooling water is supplied to a water jacket from the cooling water communication passage. The cooling water communication passage is adjacently disposed below the water jacket at a rear side of the cylinder bank, a water pump is placed at a crankcase side wall located at a rear side from a crankshaft, and a downstream side cooling water pipe through which the cooling water discharged from the water pump is passed is connected to an intermediate portion of the cooling water communication passage.

Abstract: Provided are electron-emitting devices improved in durability during concentration of an electric field and thus rarely suffering chain discharge breakdown. An electron-emitting device has an electroconductive film, a layer placed on the electroconductive film and containing aluminum oxide as a main component, a pore placed in the layer containing aluminum oxide as a main component, and an electron emitter placed in the pore and containing a material of the electroconductive film, and the electron emitter is porous and is electrically connected to the electroconductive film.

Abstract: To provide a filmy structure of a nanometer size having a phase-separated structure effective for the case where a compound can be formed between two kinds of materials. A structure constituted by a first member containing a compound between an element A except both Si and Ge and SinGe1-n (where 0?n?1) and a second member containing one of the element A and SinGe1-n (where 0?n?1), in which one of the first member and the second member is a columnar member, formed on a substrate, whose side face is surrounded by the other member, the ratio Dl/Ds of an average diameter Dl in the major axis direction to an average diameter Ds in the minor axis direction of a transverse sectional shape of the columnar member is less than 5, and the element A is one of Li, Na, Mg, K, Ca, Sc, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Rb, Sr, Y, Zr, Nb, Mo, Ru, Rh, Pd, Cs, Ba, La, Hf, Ta, W, Re, Os, Ir, Pt, Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb, Lu, and B.

Abstract: A magnetic recording-reproducing apparatus for recording or reproducing information on or from a magnetic recording medium constituted of plural recording areas containing sectors joined together, comprises a memorizing unit for memorizing information on positional deviation of the sectors at the boundary between adjacent recording areas, and a controlling unit for controlling movement of a magnetic recording head in accordance with the information on positional deviation in the memorizing unit when the magnetic recording head moves between the sectors at the boundary between adjacent recording areas.

Abstract: To provide a filmy structure of a nanometer size having a phase-separated structure effective for the case where a compound can be formed between two kinds of materials. A structure constituted by a first member containing a compound between an element A except both Si and Ge and SinGe1-n (where 0?n?1) and a second member containing one of the element A and SinGe1-n (where 0?n?1), in which one of the first member and the second member is a columnar member, formed on a substrate, whose side face is surrounded by the other member, the ratio Dl/Ds of an average diameter Dl in the major axis direction to an average diameter Ds in the minor axis direction of a transverse sectional shape of the columnar member is less than 5, and the element A is one of Li, Na, Mg, K, Ca, Sc, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Rb, Sr, Y, Zr, Nb, Mo, Ru, Rh, Pd, Cs, Ba, La, Hf, Ta, W, Re, Os, Ir, Pt, Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb, Lu, and B.

Abstract: To provide patterned media having novel structure. Plural convex members 2991 are provided in an array form on a substrate 2990. The convex member has a shape such that the cross section at each plane in parallel to the substrate tapers toward the substrate. Magnetic recording layers 2992 are provided on upper parts 2993 of the convex members so that they are not in contact with each other between the adjacent upper surface parts.

Abstract: A method of forming a film, including the steps of preparing a base plate having a first region and a second region comprised of mutually different materials wherein at least one of the materials is an oxide and selectively conducting a film deposition on either one of the first region and the second region by a bias sputtering. Both the first and second regions can be formed of an oxide. Further, provided is a vapor film deposition method including irradiating a substrate having a plurality of regions of different constituent element groups composed of at least one element with a source material element group composed of at least one element to be deposited and ionized elements.