Abstract: An adherent device capable of holding and releasing an object with a simple structure, and a transfer technique using the same are provided. An adherent device has a support member with at least one aperture, and a polymer material layer provided on a first principal surface side of the support member, in which an adhesive strength on a second principal surface of the support member on a side opposite the first principal surface changes by applying an external force.

Abstract: An optical device and a fabrication method thereof are provided. The optical characteristics of the optical device are adjustable with a simple structure. An optical device has a first electrode layer, a second electrode layer, and a polymer layer provided between the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer, wherein the polymer layer deforms by application of a voltage and forms a light scatterer on a surface of the optical device.

Abstract: An optical device that can adjust the optical characteristics by a simple structure and a fabrication method thereof are provided. The optical device (10A) has a first electrode layer (12A), a second electrode layer (14A), a polymer layer (11) provided between the first electrode layer (12A) and the second electrode layer (14A), and a spacer layer (13A) positioned between the polymer layer and the second electrode layer to provide a prescribed space (17) between the polymer layer (11) and the second electrode layer (14A), the spacer layer being an electrical insulator, wherein the polymer layer (11) deforms into one or more light scatterers (15) in the prescribed space by applying voltage.

Abstract: A transparent gas barrier film that has excellent gas barrier properties and includes a transparent gas barrier layer having a very low internal stress, and a method for producing the same. The transparent gas barrier film according to the present invention includes: a resin substrate; and a transparent gas barrier layer formed over the resin substrate. The transparent gas barrier layer includes at least one kind selected from the group consisting of metals and metalloids. The transparent gas barrier layer includes a plurality of layers each having a density that changes continuously from high density to low density or from low density to high density and then cycles alternatively from low density to high density or high density to low density, respectively, once or two or more times.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescence device 1 of the present invention includes a support substrate 2, an organic electroluminescence element 3 provided on the support substrate 2, a moisture absorbing layer 41 which is provided on the organic electroluminescence element 3 and which contains a boron compound, and a moisture barrier layer 51 which is provided on the moisture absorbing layer 41 and which contains a nitrogen compound. In this organic electroluminescence device, a moisture barrier layer and a moisture absorbing layer are hardly peeled off.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescence device 1 includes a support substrate 2, an organic electroluminescence element 3, a moisture absorbing layer 4, a moisture-barrier layer 5 provided on the moisture absorbing layer 4, and a concentration gradient layer 6 provided between the moisture absorbing layer 4 and the moisture-barrier layer 5, wherein the moisture absorbing layer 4 contains a component having moisture absorption, the moisture-barrier layer 5 contains a component having moisture barrier, and the concentration gradient layer 6 contains a component having moisture absorption and a component having moisture barrier, and has a portion in which the content of the component having moisture absorption continuously decreases toward the moisture-barrier layer 5 side from the moisture absorbing layer 4 side.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescence device 1 of the present invention includes a support substrate 2, an organic electroluminescence element 3, a moisture absorbing layer 4 which contains a component having moisture absorption, and a moisture-barrier layer 5 which is provided on the moisture absorbing layer 4 and which contains a component having moisture barrier, wherein a plurality of mixed layers 61, 62, and 63, each of which contains a component having moisture absorption and a component having moisture barrier, exists between the moisture absorbing layer 4 and the moisture-barrier layer 5, and among the plurality of mixed layers, a mixed layer 61 on the moisture absorbing layer 4 side has a higher content of the component having moisture absorption as compared to a mixed layer 63 on the moisture-barrier layer 5 side.

Abstract: A method for producing a transparent gas barrier film of the present invention is performed using a roll-to-roll method. The method includes depositing a plurality of layers on a long belt-shaped resin substrate 8 by alternately passing the long belt-shaped resin substrate 8 through a deposition area in which a material containing at least one of metals and semimetals is deposited by generating a plasma and a non-deposition area in which the material is not deposited, wherein a transparent gas barrier layer including the plurality of layers each continuously changing in density in the thickness direction is formed on the resin substrate 8 by changing a distance between the resin substrate 8 and a plasma source 52 in the deposition area.

Abstract: A method for producing a transparent gas barrier film is performed using a roll-to-roll method. The method includes laminating a plurality of thin films of two or more types having different components on a long belt-shaped resin substrate 8 while feeding the resin substrate 8, wherein a plurality of evaporation sources 91 and 92 are disposed in the thin film formation area, the number of evaporation sources being the same as the number of types of the thin films, and the long belt-shaped resin substrate 8 is passed through the thin film formation area and a non-formation area alternately, and materials included in the plurality of evaporation sources 91 and 92 are each deposited on the resin substrate 8 in the thin film formation area to form on the resin substrate 8 a transparent gas barrier layer having the plurality of laminated thin films of two or more types.

Abstract: A transparent gas barrier film that has excellent gas barrier properties and includes a transparent gas barrier layer having a very low internal stress, and a method for producing the same. The transparent gas barrier film according to the present invention includes: a resin substrate; and a transparent gas barrier layer formed over the resin substrate. The transparent gas barrier layer includes at least one kind selected from the group consisting of metals and metalloids. The transparent gas barrier layer includes a plurality of layers each having a density that changes continuously from high density to low density or from low density to high density and then cycles alternatively from low density to high density or high density to low density, respectively, once or two or more times.

Abstract: There is a huge demand for increase in the luminance of electroluminescent elements and decrease in the electric power consumption. An objective of the present invention is to provide such an electroluminescent element as to satisfy the demand, as well as lightening equipment and display devices with high performance by utilizing the element. Provided is an electroluminescent element comprising a transparent substrate, and a first electrode layer, a light-emitting layer, and a second electrode layer, which layers are layered on the substrate in this order, wherein a surface of the transparent substrate on the side of the first electrode layer has a light-directional structure. A lightening device and a display device including this electroluminescent element are also provided.

Abstract: A layered product comprising: sealing film comprising a laminate of at least one organic film and at least one inorganic film, and transparent resin substrate; in which the organic film is made from fluorine compound or alicyclic structure containing polymer and metallic simple substance or metallic compound as raw material, and in which the inorganic film is made from metallic simple substance or metallic compound as raw material. A luminescence device comprising: substrate, and lower electrode layer, luminescent-material layer, upper electrode layer and sealing film which are laminated in turn on the substrate; in which the substrate and the sealing layer comprises the layered product.

Abstract: There is a huge demand for increase in the luminance of electroluminescent elements and decrease in the electric power consumption. An objective of the present invention is to provide such an electroluminescent element as to satisfy the demand, as well as lightening equipment and display devices with high performance by utilizing the element. Provided is an electroluminescent element comprising a transparent substrate, and a first electrode layer, a light-emitting layer, and a second electrode layer, which layers are layered on the substrate in this order, wherein a surface of the transparent substrate on the side of the first electrode layer has a light-directional structure. A lightening device and a display device including this electroluminescent element are also provided.

Abstract: A dye-sensitized solar cell of a polymer resin type is provided, which is excellent in sealability. A counter electrode substrate provided with an electrically conductive transparent electrode layer and a working electrode substrate provided with an electrically conductive transparent electrode layer are opposed to each other with the electrode layers facing inward. A space defined between the substrates is sealed with a seal member disposed along peripheries of inner surfaces of the substrates. An electrolyte solution is filled in the sealed space. The substrates are each made of a polymer resin material. Inorganic layers are provided between the substrates and the electrode layers. The seal member is composed of a material obtained by curing a photopolymerizable composition essentially comprising a specific hydrogenated elastomer derivative. The inorganic layers each have a portion coated with a (meth)acryloxyalkylsilane silane coupling agent in contact with the seal member.

Abstract: There is a huge demand for increase in the luminance of electroluminescent elements and decrease in the electric power consumption. An objective of the present invention is to provide such an electroluminescent element as to satisfy the demand, as well as lightening equipment and display devices with high performance by utilizing the element. Provided is an electroluminescent element comprising a transparent substrate, and a first electrode layer, a light-emitting layer, and a second electrode layer, which layers are layered on the substrate in this order, wherein a surface of the transparent substrate on the side of the first electrode layer has a light-directional structure. A lightening device and a display device including this electroluminescent element are also provided.

Abstract: A planar light source device is provided which has high light extraction efficiency and in which a change in color tone at different viewing angles is small. The planar light source device includes, on a light emitting surface, a concavo-convex structure layer made of a resin composition. In this planar light source device, the concavo-convex structure layer has a cone, pyramid, or prism shape, and the resin composition contains a transparent resin and particles. In particular, in the planar light source device, variations in any of x- and y-chromaticity coordinates in any directions in a hemisphere on the light emitting surface are within ±0.1, the diameter of the particle is 10 ?m or less, and the amount of the particles is 1 to 40 wt % based on the total amount of the resin composition. In addition, the difference in refractive index between the particles and the transparent resin is 0.05 to 0.5.

Abstract: A planar light source device is provided which has high light extraction efficiency and in which a change in color tone at different viewing angles is small. The planar light source device includes, on a light emitting surface, a concavo-convex structure layer made of a resin composition. In this planar light source device, the concavo-convex structure layer has a cone, pyramid, or prism shape, and the resin composition contains a transparent resin and particles. In particular, in the planar light source device, variations in any of x- and y-chromaticity coordinates in any directions in a hemisphere on the light emitting surface are within ±0.1, the diameter of the particle is 10 ?m or less, and the amount of the particles is 1 to 40 wt % based on the total amount of the resin composition. In addition, the difference in refractive index between the particles and the transparent resin is 0.05 to 0.5.

Abstract: A layered product comprising: sealing film comprising a laminate of at least one organic film and at least one inorganic film, and transparent resin substrate; in which the organic film is made from fluorine compound or alicyclic structure containing polymer and metallic simple substance or metallic compound as raw material, and in which the inorganic film is made from metallic simple substance or metallic compound as raw material. A luminescence device comprising: substrate, and lower electrode layer, luminescent-material layer, upper electrode layer and sealing film which are laminated in turn on the substrate; in which the substrate and the sealing layer comprises the layered product.

Abstract: There is a huge demand for increase in the luminance of electroluminescent elements and decrease in the electric power consumption. An objective of the present invention is to provide such an electroluminescent element as to satisfy the demand, as well as lightening equipment and display devices with high performance by utilizing the element. Provided is an electroluminescent element comprising a transparent substrate, and a first electrode layer, a light-emitting layer, and a second electrode layer, which layers are layered on the substrate in this order, wherein a surface of the transparent substrate on the side of the first electrode layer has a light-directional structure. A lightening device and a display device including this electroluminescent element are also provided.