Abstract: There is provided a new and improved master manufacturing method, master, and optical body enabling more consistent production of optical bodies having a desired haze value, the master manufacturing method including: forming a first micro concave-convex structure, in which an average cycle of concavities and convexities is less than or equal to visible light wavelengths, on a surface of a base material body that includes at least a base material; forming an inorganic resist layer on the first micro concave-convex structure; forming, on the inorganic resist layer, an organic resist layer including an organic resist and filler particles distributed throughout the organic resist; and etching the organic resist layer and the inorganic resist layer to thereby superimpose and form on the surface of the base material a macro concave-convex structure and a second micro concave-convex structure.

Abstract: There is provided a new and improved master manufacturing method, master, and optical body enabling more consistent production of optical bodies having a desired haze value, the master manufacturing method including: forming a first micro concave-convex structure, in which an average cycle of concavities and convexities is less than or equal to visible light wavelengths, on a surface of a base material body that includes at least a base material; forming an inorganic resist layer on the first micro concave-convex structure; forming, on the inorganic resist layer, an organic resist layer including an organic resist and filler particles distributed throughout the organic resist; and etching the organic resist layer and the inorganic resist layer to thereby superimpose and form on the surface of the base material a macro concave-convex structure and a second micro concave-convex structure.

Abstract: There is provided a new and improved master manufacturing method, master, and optical body enabling more consistent production of optical bodies having a desired haze value, the master manufacturing method including: forming a first micro concave-convex structure, in which an average cycle of concavities and convexities is less than or equal to visible light wavelengths, on a surface of a base material body that includes at least a base material; forming an inorganic resist layer on the first micro concave-convex structure; forming, on the inorganic resist layer, an organic resist layer including an organic resist and filler particles distributed throughout the organic resist; and etching the organic resist layer and the inorganic resist layer to thereby superimpose and form on the surface of the base material a macro concave-convex structure and a second micro concave-convex structure.

Abstract: There is provided a new and improved master manufacturing method, master, and optical body enabling more consistent production of optical bodies having a desired haze value, the master manufacturing method including: forming a first micro concave-convex structure, in which an average cycle of concavities and convexities is less than or equal to visible light wavelengths, on a surface of a base material body that includes at least a base material; forming an inorganic resist layer on the first micro concave-convex structure; forming, on the inorganic resist layer, an organic resist layer including an organic resist and filler particles distributed throughout the organic resist; and etching the organic resist layer and the inorganic resist layer to thereby superimpose and form on the surface of the base material a macro concave-convex structure and a second micro concave-convex structure.

Abstract: There is provided a new and improved master manufacturing method, master, and optical body enabling more consistent production of optical bodies having a desired haze value, the master manufacturing method including: forming a first micro concave-convex structure, in which an average cycle of concavities and convexities is less than or equal to visible light wavelengths, on a surface of a base material body that includes at least a base material; forming an inorganic resist layer on the first micro concave-convex structure; forming, on the inorganic resist layer, an organic resist layer including an organic resist and filler particles distributed throughout the organic resist; and etching the organic resist layer and the inorganic resist layer to thereby superimpose and form on the surface of the base material a macro concave-convex structure and a second micro concave-convex structure.

Abstract: There is provided a new and improved master manufacturing method, master, and optical body enabling more consistent production of optical bodies having a desired haze value, the master manufacturing method including: forming a first micro concave-convex structure, in which an average cycle of concavities and convexities is less than or equal to visible light wavelengths, on a surface of a base material body that includes at least a base material; forming an inorganic resist layer on the first micro concave-convex structure; forming, on the inorganic resist layer, an organic resist layer including an organic resist and filler particles distributed throughout the organic resist; and etching the organic resist layer and the inorganic resist layer to thereby superimpose and form on the surface of the base material a macro concave-convex structure and a second micro concave-convex structure.

Abstract: A transfer sheet includes a supporting substrate, a photothermal conversion layer disposed on the supporting substrate, and a passive layer disposed on the photothermal conversion layer.

Abstract: A transfer sheet includes a supporting substrate, a photothermal conversion layer disposed on the supporting substrate, and a passive layer disposed on the photothermal conversion layer.

Abstract: A transfer sheet includes a supporting substrate, a photothermal conversion layer disposed on the supporting substrate, and a passive layer disposed on the photothermal conversion layer.

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 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: A transfer sheet includes a supporting substrate, a photothermal conversion layer disposed on the supporting substrate, and a passive layer disposed on the photothermal conversion layer.

Abstract: Provided is a magnetic recording medium capable of achieving higher density recording. The magnetic recording medium comprises a magnetic layer formed on a non-magnetic base through vacuum oblique evaporation. The magnetic layer includes a plurality of columns in which 3 to 7 ferromagnetic particles with an average diameter of 5 to 10 nm are arranged in a line, and non-magnetic particles are disposed between columns so as to separate the columns from one another. A value Y/X defined as a ratio of an average value Y of a distance between the centers of adjacent columns in a film in-plane direction to an average value X of a distance between the centers of adjacent columns in a film thickness direction is preferably 0.5 or more.

Abstract: Provided is a magnetic recording medium capable of achieving higher density recording. The magnetic recording medium comprises a magnetic layer formed on a non-magnetic base through vacuum oblique evaporation. The magnetic layer includes a plurality of columns in which 3 to 7 ferromagnetic particles with an average diameter of 5 to 10 nm are arranged in a line, and non-magnetic particles are disposed between columns so as to separate the columns from one another. A value Y/X defined as a ratio of an average value Y of a distance between the centers of adjacent columns in a film in-plane direction to an average value X of a distance between the centers of adjacent columns in a film thickness direction is preferably 0.5 or more.

Abstract: A method of producing a magnetic recording medium comprising the step of forming a magnetic layer on a non-magnetic base film running at a constant speed by continuous oblique evaporation depositing metal vapor of volatilized metal incident obliquely to a surface of the non-magnetic base film, wherein the evaporation is conducted at a film forming rate, defined as an average deposition rate of the magnetic layer at a part of the non-magnetic base film exposed to the incident metal vapor, of not less than a predetermined rate to form an internal microstructure of the magnetic layer comprising columns each having a diameter of not more than about 15 nm constituted by magnetic particles having a size of not more than about 10 nm connected in chains in a direction substantially perpendicular to the magnetic layer and non-magnetic particles packed between the columns and separating the columns from each other, and a magnetic recording medium produced by the above method.

Abstract: A method of producing a magnetic recording medium comprising the step of forming a magnetic layer on a non-magnetic base film running at a constant speed by continuous oblique evaporation depositing metal vapor of volatilized metal incident obliquely to a surface of the non-magnetic base film, wherein the evaporation is conducted at a film forming rate, defined as an average deposition rate of the magnetic layer at a part of the non-magnetic base film exposed to the incident metal vapor, of not less than a predetermined rate to form an internal microstructure of the magnetic layer comprising columns each having a diameter of not more than about 15 nm constituted by magnetic particles having a size of not more than about 10 nm connected in chains in a direction substantially perpendicular to the magnetic layer and non-magnetic particles packed between the columns and separating the columns from each other, and a magnetic recording medium produced by the above method.

Abstract: The present invention provides a metal thin film type magnetic recording medium including a non-magnetic substrate made from a polyamide film whose surface configuration is controlled so as to obtain an optimal fine configuration of a magnetic layer surface, enabling to simultaneously obtain a preferable electro-magnetic conversion characteristic and preferable running characteristic. The non-magnetic substrate is made from an aromatic polyamide film formed in such a manner that fine protrusions having an average height of 5 to 50 nm are formed in a range of 103 to 105 thousand pieces/mm2 on a surface where a ferromagnetic metal thin film is to be formed.

Abstract: A magnetic recording medium, comprising a nonmagnetic substrate on the surface of which is deposited a magnetic layer. In one embodiment, the magnetic layer is formed of two thin films of magnetic metal and a layer of nonmagnetic material sandwiched therebetween, the layer of nonmagnetic material having a thickness no greater than 20% of the thickness of the magnetic layer, with the magnetic layer having an energy product of at least 100 gauss.multidot.cm.multidot.Oe as the product of its residual magnetic flux density, thickness and coercive force, and a surface roughness no greater than 0.003 .mu.m in center line average height. In another embodiment, the magnetic layer, which may be a single layer of magnetic metal film or may be of the aforementioned multiple layer construction, is vacuum deposited onto the substrate at an incident angle in the range of 30.degree. to 70.degree..

Abstract: A method for magnetically recording digital video signals includes the steps of: converting input digital video signals into data segmented into blocks each composed of a plurality of pixel data; compression-coding the blocks of pixel data block-by-block; converting the compression-coded data into channel-encoded data; and supplying the channel-encoded data to magnetic heads on a rotary drum for recording by such heads on a magnetic recording medium constituted by a nonmagnetic base having thereon a magnetic layer of at least one thin magnetic metal film which has an energy product of at least 75 G.cm.Oe, with the surface roughness of said magnetic recording medium being at most 0.003 .mu.m in center line average height Ra, and with the surface roughness of said magnetic recording medium being at most 0.04 .mu.m in ten point average height Rz.

Abstract: A magnetic recording medium comprised of a nonmagnetic support; a magnetic metal thin film formed on one major surface of the nonmagnetic support; and a protective film of a corrosion-resistant metal or a multilayer protective film structure consisting of a corrosion-resistant metal film and a durable protective film of a hard material. A multilayer protective film structure is formed by sputtering a corrosion-resistant protective film and a durable protective film over the magnetic metal thin film while the nonmagnetic support travels along the circumference of a cooling cylinder by using at least one target of a corrosion-resistant metal and at least one target of a hard material, or by using a composite target composed of at least one corrosion-resistant metal and one hard material. The protective film suppresses the corrosion of the magnetic metal thin film and improves the corrosion resistance and durability of the magnetic recording medium.