Abstract: The optical thin film is provided on a substrate and includes, in order, from the substrate side, an interlayer, a silver-containing metal layer, and a dielectric layer, in which an anchor region including an oxide of an anchor metal is provided in an interface region of the silver-containing metal layer on a side close to the interlayer, a cap region including an oxide of the anchor metal is provided in an interface region of the silver-containing metal layer on a side close to the dielectric layer, a film thickness of the silver-containing metal layer is 6 nm or less, the silver-containing metal layer contains a high standard electrode potential metal, and a peak position of a concentration distribution of the high standard electrode potential metal in a film thickness direction of the silver-containing metal layer is positioned closer to the interlayer than a peak position of a silver concentration distribution.

Abstract: An antireflection film is provided on a substrate and includes an interlayer, a silver-containing metal layer containing silver, and a dielectric layer, which are laminated in this order on a side of a substrate, in which the interlayer is a multilayer film having at least two layers in which a layer of high refractive index having a relatively high refractive index and a layer of lower refractive index having a relatively low refractive index are alternately laminated, the dielectric layer has a surface exposed to air, and the dielectric layer is a multilayer film including a silicon-containing oxide layer, a magnesium fluoride layer, and an adhesion layer provided between the silicon-containing oxide layer and the magnesium fluoride layer and configured to increase adhesiveness between the silicon-containing oxide layer and the magnesium fluoride layer.

Abstract: An acoustic lens (7) for an ultrasound transducer that is disposed in a front end portion of an ultrasound transducer (1) has a concave front surface (C1) and is formed from a base material (B) in which a plurality of fine particles (G) are dispersed. As a degree of dispersion of the fine particles (G) is higher from a central portion toward both end portions in an elevation direction, acoustic velocity is lower from the central portion toward both end portions in the elevation direction.

Abstract: The antireflection film includes a dielectric multilayer film arranged on the substrate side and a fine uneven layer containing an alumina hydrate as a main component and provided to be laminated on the dielectric multilayer film. The dielectric multilayer film includes alternating layers of layers of high refractive index having a relatively high refractive index and layers of low refractive index having a relatively low refractive index, the dielectric multilayer film includes a barrier layer containing silicon nitride as one of the layer of high refractive index and the layer of low refractive index, and the barrier layer has a density of 2.7 g/cm3 or more and a thickness of 15 nm or more and 150 nm or less.

Abstract: The optical thin film is provided on a substrate and includes, in order, from the substrate side, an interlayer, a silver-containing metal layer, and a dielectric layer, in which an anchor region including an oxide of an anchor metal is provided in an interface region of the silver-containing metal layer on a side close to the interlayer, a cap region including an oxide of the anchor metal is provided in an interface region of the silver-containing metal layer on a side close to the dielectric layer, a film thickness of the silver-containing metal layer is 6 nm or less, the silver-containing metal layer contains a high standard electrode potential metal, and a peak position of a concentration distribution of the high standard electrode potential metal in a film thickness direction of the silver-containing metal layer is positioned closer to the interlayer than a peak position of a silver concentration distribution.

Abstract: Provided are a laminate including a substrate; and a laminated structure including two or more kinds of layers having different specific acoustic impedances which is disposed on the substrate, in which the number of the layers constituting the laminated structure is 10 or more, a thickness of a layer having the largest thickness among the layers constituting the laminated structure is 8 nm or less, and in the laminated structure, a CV value defined by a standard deviation of a layer thickness/average layer thickness is 0.05 or more, and a building material, a window material, and a radiation cooling device including the laminate.

Abstract: An antireflection film is provided on a substrate and includes an interlayer, a silver-containing metal layer containing silver, and a dielectric layer, which are laminated in this order on a side of a substrate, in which the interlayer is a multilayer film having at least two layers in which a layer of high refractive index having a relatively high refractive index and a layer of lower refractive index having a relatively low refractive index are alternately laminated, the dielectric layer has a surface exposed to air, and the dielectric layer is a multilayer film including a silicon-containing oxide layer, a magnesium fluoride layer, and an adhesion layer provided between the silicon-containing oxide layer and the magnesium fluoride layer and configured to increase adhesiveness between the silicon-containing oxide layer and the magnesium fluoride layer.

Abstract: Provided is an optical member which includes: a substrate; and a laminated structure including two or more kinds of layers having different materials which are disposed on the substrate, in which the number of layers constituting the laminated structure is 10 or more, the maximum layer thickness of the layers constituting the laminated structure is 8 nm or less, and the minimum transmittance in a wavelength range of 400 nm to 800 nm or in a wavelength range of 6 ?m to 12 ?m is 10% or more.

Abstract: An optical thin film formed by laminating, from the substrate side, an interlayer, a silver-containing metal layer that contains silver, and a dielectric layer, in which an anchor metal diffusion control layer provided between the interlayer and the silver-containing metal layer, an anchor region which includes an oxide of the anchor metal and has a surface energy that is less than the surface energy of the silver-containing metal layer and larger than the surface energy of the anchor metal diffusion control layer is provided between the anchor metal diffusion control layer and the silver-containing metal layer, a cap region which includes an oxide of the anchor metal is provided between the silver-containing metal layer and the dielectric layer, and the total film thickness of the silver-containing metal layer, the anchor region, and the cap region is 6 nm or less.

Abstract: A radiative cooling device including: a heat insulating container having an opening portion, and being configured to house an object to be cooled at an interior thereof and thermally insulates the object from an exterior thereof; a far-infrared radiator that is arranged between the object and the opening portion in the heat insulating container, that thermally contacts the object, and that radiates far-infrared rays in a wavelength range of from 8 ?m to 13 ?m; a far-infrared transmitting window member that closes at least part of the opening portion of the heat insulating container and that transmits the far-infrared rays radiated from the far-infrared radiator; and an intermediate heat insulating member that is arranged between the far-infrared transmitting window member and the far-infrared radiator, that thermally insulates the far-infrared transmitting window member and the far-infrared radiator from each other, and that transmits the far-infrared rays radiated from the far-infrared radiator.

Abstract: An antireflection film includes an uneven structure layer that has an uneven structure and has an alumina hydrate as a main component, and an intermediate layer that is disposed between the uneven structure layer and a substrate. The uneven structure layer has a spatial frequency peak value of the uneven structure of 8.5 ?m?1 or greater and has a film thickness of 200-250 nm, and the intermediate layer comprises a plurality of layers including at least a first layer, a second layer, a third layer, and a fourth layer.

Abstract: An optical thin film formed by laminating, from the substrate side, an interlayer, a silver-containing metal layer that contains silver, and a dielectric layer, in which an anchor metal diffusion control layer provided between the interlayer and the silver-containing metal layer, an anchor region which includes an oxide of the anchor metal and has a surface energy that is less than the surface energy of the silver-containing metal layer and larger than the surface energy of the anchor metal diffusion control layer is provided between the anchor metal diffusion control layer and the silver-containing metal layer, a cap region which includes an oxide of the anchor metal is provided between the silver-containing metal layer and the dielectric layer, and the total film thickness of the silver-containing metal layer, the anchor region, and the cap region is 6 nm or less.

Abstract: Provided is an optical member which includes: a substrate; and a laminated structure including two or more kinds of layers having different materials which are disposed on the substrate, in which the number of layers constituting the laminated structure is 10 or more, the maximum layer thickness of the layers constituting the laminated structure is 8 nm or less, and the minimum transmittance in a wavelength range of 400 nm to 800 nm or in a wavelength range of 6 ?m to 12 ?m is 10% or more.

Abstract: Provided are a laminate including a substrate; and a laminated structure including two or more kinds of layers having different specific acoustic impedances which is disposed on the substrate, in which the number of the layers constituting the laminated structure is 10 or more, a thickness of a layer having the largest thickness among the layers constituting the laminated structure is 8 nm or less, and in the laminated structure, a CV value defined by a standard deviation of a layer thickness/average layer thickness is 0.05 or more, and a building material, a window material, and a radiation cooling device including the laminate.

Abstract: An antireflection film includes an uneven structure layer that has an uneven structure in which a distance between protrusions is shorter than a wavelength of light of which reflection is to be suppressed and has an alumina hydrate as a main component, and an intermediate layer that is disposed between the uneven structure layer and a substrate. The uneven structure layer has a spatial frequency peak value of the uneven structure of 6.5 ?m?1 or greater and a film thickness of 250 nm or more, and the intermediate layer is constituted of a plurality of layers including at least a first layer, a second layer, a third layer, a fourth layer, a fifth layer, a sixth layer, a seventh layer, and an eighth layer in this order from the uneven structure layer side to the substrate side.

Abstract: A first light-shied-coating formation step that forms a light shield coating only in a part of an area of a transparent-substrate in which a light shield coating is to be formed, a step that deposits an optical thin film including, as its outermost layer, a layer to be hydrothermally treated, which will become a fine uneven pattern coating by being hydrothermally treated, in an area in which an antireflection coating is to be formed, a second light-shield-coating formation step that forms a light shield coating in all of the area in which the light shield coating is to be formed, but the light shield coating was not formed in the first light-shield-coating formation step, and a step that forms the fine uneven pattern coating in the area in which the antireflection coating is to be formed by hydrothermally treating the layer to be hydrothermally treated are performed in this order.

Abstract: A radiative cooling device including: a vacuum heat insulating container that has an opening portion, that is configured to house an object to be cooled therein and thermally vacuum insulates the object from an exterior thereof; a far-infrared radiator that is arranged between the object and the opening portion in the vacuum heat insulating container, that is thermally vacuum insulated from the exterior of the vacuum heat insulating container, that thermally contacts the object, and that radiates far-infrared rays in a wavelength range of from 8 ?m to 13 ?m; and a far-infrared transmitting window member that closes the opening portion of the vacuum heat insulating container and that transmits the far-infrared rays radiated from the far-infrared radiator.

Abstract: A radiative cooling device including: a heat insulating container having an opening portion, and being configured to house an object to be cooled at an interior thereof and thermally insulates the object from an exterior thereof; a far-infrared radiator that is arranged between the object and the opening portion in the heat insulating container, that thermally contacts the object, and that radiates far-infrared rays in a wavelength range of from 8 ?m to 13 ?m; a far-infrared transmitting window member that closes at least part of the opening portion of the heat insulating container and that transmits the far-infrared rays radiated from the far-infrared radiator; and an intermediate heat insulating member that is arranged between the far-infrared transmitting window member and the far-infrared radiator, that thermally insulates the far-infrared transmitting window member and the far-infrared radiator from each other, and that transmits the far-infrared rays radiated from the far-infrared radiator.

Abstract: According to an embodiment of the invention, there is provided a laminated structure including, in this order from a side nearer to an object to be cooled: a radiative cooling layer which contains a bubble-containing resin and radiates far-infrared rays to cool the object to be cooled; and a heat insulating layer which contains a bubble-containing resin and has a porosity of 70% or more and in which the number of bubbles contained in a layer thickness direction is 8 or less.

Abstract: The antireflection film is provided on a surface of a light-transmitting substrate and includes a thin multi-layer film and a fine unevenness layer that are laminated in this order from the substrate side. The thin multi-layer film includes multiple layers. The fine unevenness layer has a structure in which an uneven structure having a shorter average pitch than a wavelength of used light is provided and in which a refractive index to the used light changes continuously depending on a continuous change in a space occupation of the uneven structure in a thickness direction of the thin multi-layer film. The multiple layers include: an oxide film having a relatively high refractive index that is formed of at least two metal elements or is formed of silicon and at least one metal element; and an oxynitride film having a relatively low refractive index.