Abstract: Provide are: a method for producing a laminate having an adhesive layer on one surface of a semiconductor wafer, with the adhesive layer being less likely to foam during wafer bonding under reduced pressure, curing of an adhesive being less likely to occur, and also allowing a tact time to be shortened; and an adhesive layer forming device to be used in the method. The adhesive layer forming device for forming an adhesive layer by removing a solvent in a coating film coated and formed on one surface of a semiconductor wafer includes: a lower plate on which the semiconductor wafer is placed; an upper cover configured to form a closed space together with the lower plate, the closed space having a volume of 10 liters or less; and pressure reducing means for reducing pressure in the closed space.

Abstract: Provided is a photocatalytic coating film that can develop excellent photocatalytic activity and exhibit superior adhesion to an adherend surface. The photocatalytic coating film is obtained by applying and drying a photocatalytic coating composition containing at least rod-like or needle-like titanium oxide particles and a binder component so that the photocatalytic coating film contains the titanium oxide particles in a content of 0.5 g/m2 or more. The photocatalytic coating film contains the titanium oxide particle in a content per unit volume (1 m2 by 1 ?m thick) of less than 3.0 g. The titanium oxide particles preferably have an aspect ratio of 1.5 or more, the aspect ratio specified as the ratio of a long side length to a short side length of particle. The compositional ratio (by weight) of the titanium oxide particles to the binder component in the photocatalytic coating film is preferably from 1:6 to 30:1.

Abstract: Provided is a cationically polymerizable resin which is rapidly cured upon irradiation with light and forms a cured product excellent in flexibility and thermal stability. The cationically polymerizable resin is obtained through radical polymerization of an oxetane-ring-containing (meth)acryloyl compound represented by following Formula (1) alone or in combination with another radically polymerizable compound. In the formula, R1 represents hydrogen atom or methyl group; R2 represents hydrogen atom or an alkyl group; and “A” represents a linear or branched chain alkylene group having 2 to 20 carbon atoms.

Abstract: Disclosed is a cationically polymerizable resin composition which includes an oxetane-ring-containing vinyl ether compound (A) and/or an alicyclic-epoxy-containing vinyl ether compound (B); and an oligomer or polymer (C) having a molecular weight of 500 or more, being liquid at 0° C., and containing at least one of structures represented by following Formulae (1a) to (1f), wherein Rx represents hydrogen atom or methyl group; R1 to R3 each independently represent a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms; “a” is an integer of from 0 to 5; and “b” is 1 or 2. This cationically polymerizable resin composition has a low viscosity, is easy to work, cures extremely rapidly upon irradiation with light, and can give a cured object excellent in flexibility, thermal stability, and bendability after heat treatment.

Abstract: Provided is a radical-polymerizable resin capable of giving a cured material which is satisfactorily flexible, can relax stress upon usage as an adhesive, and does not cause disadvantages such as separation at the adhesive interface or breakage of an adherend, which stress occurs between the adhesive and the adherend upon heating or cooling and is caused by difference in coefficient of thermal expansion between them. The radical-polymerizable resin is obtained through cationic polymerization of a compound represented by any of following Formulae (1a) and (1b) and a compound represented by any of following Formulae (2a), (2b), (2c), (2d), (2e), and (2f). The radical-polymerizable resin is liquid at 0 ° C. and has a weight-average molecular weight of 500 or more. Symbols in the formulae are as defined in the description.

Abstract: Provided is a photocatalytic coating film that can develop excellent photocatalytic activity and exhibit superior adhesion to an adherend surface. The photocatalytic coating film is obtained by applying and drying a photocatalytic coating composition containing at least rod-like or needle-like titanium oxide particles and a binder component so that the photocatalytic coating film contains the titanium oxide particles in a content of 0.5 g/m2 or more. The photocatalytic coating film contains the titanium oxide particle in a content per unit volume (1 m2 by 1 ?m thick) of less than 3.0 g. The titanium oxide particles preferably have an aspect ratio of 1.5 or more, the aspect ratio specified as the ratio of a long side length to a short side length of particle. The compositional ratio (by weight) of the titanium oxide particles to the binder component in the photocatalytic coating film is preferably from 1:6 to 30:1.

Abstract: An apparatus produces an optical fiber by applying light to a photocurable composition and thereby curing the composition. The apparatus includes a nozzle for discharging the photocurable composition; a light irradiator for applying light to the fibrous photocurable composition discharged from the nozzle; and a controller that controls a light irradiation intensity at the nozzle orifice to 0.2 mW/cm2 or less. The nozzle is preferably a double-tube nozzle having an outer tube; and an inner tube arranged inside the outer tube.

Abstract: Provided is a radically polymerizable resin which has a low viscosity, has excellent workability, and is rapidly cured upon application of heat and/or light to form a cured product having excellent flexibility and thermal stability. The radically polymerizable resin composition is obtained by cationic polymerization of an oxetane-ring-containing (meth)acrylic ester compound represented by following Formula (1) alone or in combination with another cationically polymerizable compound. In Formula (1), R1 represents hydrogen atom or methyl group; R2 represents hydrogen atom or an alkyl group; and “A” represents a linear or branched chain alkylene group having 4 to 20 carbon atoms.

Abstract: Provided is a radical-polymerizable resin capable of giving a cured material which is satisfactorily flexible, can relax stress upon usage as an adhesive, and does not cause disadvantages such as separation at the adhesive interface or breakage of an adherend, which stress occurs between the adhesive and the adherend upon heating or cooling and is caused by difference in coefficient of thermal expansion between them. The radical-polymerizable resin is obtained through cationic polymerization of a compound represented by any of following Formulae (1a) and (1b) and a compound represented by any of following Formulae (2a), (2b), (2c), (2d), (2e), and (2f). The radical-polymerizable resin is liquid at 0° C. and has a weight-average molecular weight of 500 or more. Symbols in the formulae are as defined in the description.

Abstract: To provide a composition (e.g., a coating composition) useful for forming an organic semiconductor having excellent conductivity, solvent resistance, heat resistance, durability, and other properties, and an organic semiconductor formed with the composition. The composition comprises an aromatic polycarbonyl compound having a carbonyl group as a reactive site, and at least one aromatic reactive component selected from an aromatic polyamine having an amino group as a reactive site, and an aromatic heterocyclic compound having a plurality of unmodified ?-carbon positions, as reactive sites, each of which is adjacent to a hetero atom of a heterocycl thereof. When the aromatic reactive component is an aromatic heterocyclic compound, the aromatic polycarbonyl compound is an aromatic polyaldehyde compound.

Abstract: Provided is a cationically polymerizable resin which is rapidly cured upon irradiation with light and forms a cured product excellent in flexibility and thermal stability. The cationically polymerizable resin is obtained through radical polymerization of an oxetane-ring-containing (meth)acryloyl compound represented by following Formula (1) alone or in combination with another radically polymerizable compound. In the formula, R1 represents hydrogen atom or methyl group; R2 represents hydrogen atom or an alkyl group; and “A” represents a linear or branched chain alkylene group having 2 to 20 carbon atoms.

Abstract: Disclosed is a cationically polymerizable resin composition which includes an oxetane-ring-containing vinyl ether compound (A) and/or an alicyclic-epoxy-containing vinyl ether compound (B); and an oligomer or polymer (C) having a molecular weight of 500 or more, being liquid at 0° C., and containing at least one of structures represented by following Formulae (1a) to (1f), wherein Rx represents hydrogen atom or methyl group; R1 to R3 each independently represent a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms; “a” is an integer of from 0 to 5; and “b” is 1 or 2. This cationically polymerizable resin composition has a low viscosity, is easy to work, cures extremely rapidly upon irradiation with light, and can give a cured object excellent in flexibility, thermal stability, and bendability after heat treatment.

Abstract: Provided is a cationically polymerizable resin composition which has a low viscosity, is easy to work, and is extremely rapidly cured upon irradiation with light to give a cured product excellent in optical transparency, flexibility, thermal stability, and post-heating bendability. The cationically polymerizable resin composition includes an oxetane-ring-containing vinyl ether compound (A) and/or an alicyclic-epoxy-group-containing vinyl ether compound (B); an oligomer or polymer (C) containing, in the molecule, at least one selected from oxetane group, epoxy group, hydroxyl group, vinyl ether group, and an aliphatic or alicyclic unsaturated hydrocarbon group and having a molecular weight of 500 or more; and an oxetane compound (D) containing no vinyl ether group and having 6 or more carbon atoms.

Abstract: Disclosed is an oxetane-containing vinyl ether compound including one or more aromatic or non-aromatic carbocycles and/or two or more vinyl ether structures, such as a compound of Formula: wherein Ring Z1 is non-aromatic carbocycle; Ra is vinyl group of Formula: wherein each of R1, R2, and R3 is hydrogen or C1-C4 alkyl; Wa is single bond or organic group having a valence of (m+1); X1 is, for example, hydrocarbon; “m” and “q” are each 1 or 2; and “p” is 0 to 5. Also disclosed is an alicyclic epoxy-containing vinyl ether compound of Formula: wherein Ring Z2 is non-aromatic carbocycle; Rb is vinyl group of Formula: wherein R4, R5 and R6 are each hydrogen or C1-C4 alkyl; Wb is single bond or organic group having a valence of (r+1); Rc and Rd are hydrogen or alkyl; and “r” and “s” are 1 or 2.

Abstract: A polyol compound for photoresists has at least one aliphatic group and at least one aromatic group bound to each other alternately, in which the aromatic group has at least one aromatic ring and two or more hydroxyl groups bound to the aromatic ring. The polyol compound for photoresists can be prepared through an acid-catalyzed reaction, such as a Friedel-Crafts reaction, between an aliphatic polyol and an aromatic polyol. The aliphatic polyol is preferably an alicyclic polyol. The aromatic polyol is preferably hydroquinone. By protecting phenolic hydroxyl group(s) thereof with a protecting group capable of leaving with an acid, the polyol compound for photoresists gives a compound for photoresists. A photoresist composition containing this compound can form a resist pattern which shows less line edge roughness (LER), excels in resolution and etching resistance, and is fine and sharp.

Abstract: An N-substituted benzimidazole-containing bridged alicyclic compound is provided.

Abstract: Disclosed is an oxetane-containing vinyl ether compound including one or more aromatic or non-aromatic carbocycles and/or two or more vinyl ether structures, such as a compound of Formula: wherein Ring Z1 is non-aromatic carbocycle; Ra is vinyl group of Formula: wherein each of R1, R2, and R3 is hydrogen or C1-C4 alkyl; Wa is single bond or organic group having a valence of (m+1); X1 is, for example, hydrocarbon; “m” and “q” are each 1 or 2; and “p” is 0 to 5. Also disclosed is an alicyclic epoxy-containing vinyl ether compound of Formula: wherein Ring Z2 is non-aromatic carbocycle; Rb is vinyl group of Formula: wherein R4, R5 and R6 are each hydrogen or C1-C4 alkyl; Wb is single bond or organic group having a valence of (r+1); Rc and Rd are hydrogen or alkyl; and “r” and “s” are 1 or 2.

Abstract: A prepolymer is a reaction product of a compound A and a compound B, in which the compounds A and B each have two or more functional groups or sets of functional groups in one molecule and are capable of undergoing polymerization as a result of binding of the functional groups or sets of functional groups of one compound with the functional groups or sets of functional groups of the other compound to thereby form a high-molecular-weight polymer with a porous structure. The prepolymer has a weight-average molecular weight of about 200 to about 100000. The functional groups or sets of functional groups of the compound A are preferably each a carboxyl group or an amino group, and the functional groups or sets of functional groups of the compound B are preferably two amino groups, an amino group and a hydroxyl group, an amino group and a mercapto group, or two carboxyl groups.

Abstract: A material for dielectric films is a polymerizable composition containing an organic solvent, and an adamantanepolycarboxylic acid derivative represented by following Formula (1): wherein X is hydrogen atom, a hydrocarbon group or R4; R1, R2, R3 and R4 and are each independently a protected or unprotected carboxyl group, etc.; and Y1, Y2, Y3 and Y4 are each independently a single bond or a bivalent aromatic cyclic group; and an aromatic polyamine derivative represented by following Formula (2): wherein Ring Z is a monocyclic or polycyclic aromatic ring; and R5, R6, R7 and R8 are each a substituent bound to Ring Z and are each independently a protected or unprotected amino group, etc., dissolved in the organic solvent.

Abstract: A material for dielectric films is a polymerizable composition containing an adamantanepolycarboxylic acid represented by following Formula (1): wherein X is a hydrogen atom, a carboxyl group or a hydrocarbon group; and Y1, Y2, Y3 and Y4 are the same as or different from one another and are each a single bond or a bivalent aromatic cyclic group; an aromatic polyamine represented by following Formula (2): wherein Ring Z is a monocyclic or polycyclic aromatic ring; and R1 and R2 are each a substituent bound to Ring Z, are the same as or different from each other and are each an amino group, a mono-substituted amino group, a hydroxyl group or a mercapto group; and a solvent other than ketones and aldehydes, in which the adamantanepolycarboxylic acid and aromatic polyamine are dissolved in the solvent.