Abstract: An electroluminescent device which has an anode (4) and a cathode (10) and arranged between the anode (4) and the cathode (10) a light emissive layer (8). Also included between the light emissive layer and the anode is a dielectric layer, a carbon or amorphous silicon layer, or a layer of conductive oxide such as tin oxide, vanadium oxide, molybdenum oxide and nickel oxide.

Abstract: To provide a current output type semiconductor circuit, a drive device for display, a display device, and a current output method that can control an increase in a circuit size to be lower even if the number of output bits of a current driver is increased. A current output type semiconductor circuit, including first current source groups 241a and 241b, includes first unit transistors of outputting a predetermined current and output lower order N (N is a natural number) bits; and second current source groups 242a, 242b, 242c, 242d, 242e, and 242f that include second unit transistors of outputting a current larger than that of the first unit transistors and output higher order M (M is a natural number, (N+M)?3) bits.

Abstract: A display apparatus with a plurality of display pixel sections includes glass substrate, which are formed to have a thickness that permits bending of the display apparatus, and polarizer plates, which are disposed on the glass substrates, respectively. The polarizer plates are thicker than the glass substrates.

Abstract: A gate electrode of a thin film transistor is composed by a three layer structure obtained by laminating a titanium nitride layer as an upper layer on an aluminum layer as a base layer and by laminating an unalloyed titanium layer as a lower layer under the base layer. An ion implantation is used as an ion doping into a source region and drain region as an active layer of the thin film transistor. The source region and the drain region are annealed at a low temperature of 350° C. to 450° C. to be activated. A chemical reaction between the base layer and the upper layer and between the base layer and the lower layer can be suppressed. The rise of the resistance value in the gate electrode can be suppressed. The resistance of the gate electrode can be reduced. The fluctuation of the threshold voltage of the thin film transistor can be suppressed.

Abstract: A color filter layer is formed on a glass substrate of a counter substrate. A bank pattern is formed of the same material as a red color-filter portion, a green color filter portion and a blue color filter portion of the color filter layer at the outside of the color filter layer on the glass substrate in the same step. A light shielding material is coated in a bank between the bank pattern and the color filter layer to form a light shielding layer. The light shielding layer can be formed so as to be continuous with the peripheral edge of the color filter layer. The light shielding layer is less likely to overlap with the inside of a display frame portion of the liquid crystal panel, and the aperture ratio is less likely to be reduced. The number of manufacturing steps of the light shielding layer is reduced.

Abstract: A display device comprising: a light switching unit comprising an array of pixels each operable to vary the transmission of light therethrough; and a backlight comprising a first series of regions of organic light-emissive material having a first emission color and a second series of regions of organic light-emissive material having a second emission color, each region of organic material being located so as to lie behind a plurality of pixels of the array in the viewing direction for backlighting those pixels; and at least one of the regions of organic light-emissive material being formed by a process of ink-jet deposition.

Abstract: An optical device comprising an anode, a cathode, an organic semiconducting material between the anode and the cathode, and an electron transport layer between the cathode and the organic semiconducting material wherein the organic semiconducting material comprises sulfur and the electron transport layer containing barium.

Abstract: An electroluminescent device comprising: a first charge carrier injecting layer for injecting positive charge carriers; a second charge carrier injecting layer for injecting negative charge carriers; and a light-emissive layer located between the charge carrier injecting layers and comprising a mixture of: a first component for accepting positive charge carriers from the first charge carrier injecting layer; a second component for accepting negative charge carriers from the second charge carrier injecting layer; and a third, organic light-emissive component for generating light as a result of combination of charge carriers from the first and second components; at least one of the first, second and third components forming a type II semiconductor interface with another of the first, second and third components.

Abstract: The invention provides a plane display device having a display area divided into a plurality of processing blocks, the processing blocks each having a plurality of photosensor pixels 27, and the plane display device includes a precharge signal supply unit for supplying precharge signals to the respective photosensor pixels 27, a reading unit for acquiring reading signals outputted from the respective photosensor pixels 27 according to intensities of light beams irradiated on the respective photosensor pixels 27 in a state in which the precharge signals are supplied to the respective photosensor pixels 27, and a storage unit for storing data relating to the precharge signals for the plurality of photosensor pixels 27 in the corresponding processing blocks, and the precharge signal supply unit supplies the precharge signals to the respective photosensor pixels 27 on the basis of the data.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device which prevents a reflecting sheet from contacting the electrically continuing part of a flexible print wiring board (FPC) is disclosed. In the liquid crystal display device furnished with a light guiding plate 1 serving to emit the light of a light source in a prescribed direction, a reflecting sheet 2 so disposed as to lie parallel to the back of the light guiding plate 1, a second frame part 4 so disposed as to fix the light guiding plate 1, and a flexible print wiring board (FPC) 5 intended to effect electric connection, a leading terminal 2a of the reflecting sheet 2 is so disposed as to be positioned on the inner side of the second frame part 4a.

Abstract: A flat display device includes pixels, thin-film transistors, gate electrodes, source electrodes, storage capacitance elements, first storage capacitance electrodes, and second storage capacitance electrodes. A first compensation voltage that is applied to each of the first storage capacitance electrodes and a second compensation voltage that is applied to each of the second storage capacitance electrodes have mutually different voltage polarities. A polarity of a video signal voltage, which is applied via the source electrode to a source terminal of the thin-film transistor, which is included in the thin-film transistors connected to the same gate electrode and is connected to the first storage capacitance electrode, is set to be opposite to a polarity of a video signal voltage, which is applied via the source electrode to a source terminal of the thin-film transistor that is connected to the second storage capacitance electrode.

Abstract: An electroluminescent device comprising: a first charge carrier injecting layer for injecting positive charge carriers; a second charge carrier injecting layer for injecting negative charge carriers; and a light-emissive layer located between the charge carrier injecting layers and comprising a mixture of: a first component for accepting positive charge carriers from the first charge carrier injecting layer; a second component for accepting negative charge carriers from the second charge carrier injecting layer; and a third, organic light-emissive component for generating light as a result of combination of charge carriers from the first and second components; at least one of the first, second and third components forming a type II semiconductor interface with another of the first, second and third components.

Abstract: An adjustable anti-theft security tag includes an engagement member having a first and second end securable within a housing for attachment to an article. The housing supports an electronic article surveillance marker and may include one or more channels for receiving and securing at least one stationary crimping member. The at least one stationary crimping member is sized to receive one end of the engagement member. The one or more crimping members may be disc shaped, including a plurality of fingers for securing one end of the engagement member, or may be tubular. The disc shaped members allow the engagement member to be moved downward, but not upward, so as to make the engagement loop smaller.

Abstract: The surface of an amorphous silicon film formed on a glass substrate is cleaned by hydrofluoric acid in a spin clean unit. The glass substrate is conveyed to a waiting unit where the glass substrate is made to wait for about 15 minutes. Active fluoride adhered on the amorphous silicon film is sublimated. The glass substrate in which the active fluoride is sublimated is conveyed into a laser annealing device where the amorphous silicon film is excimer laser annealed to reform the amorphous silicon film into a polysilicon film. The residuals of the charges in the polysilicon film generated by excimer laser annealing the surface of the amorphous silicon film with the active fluoride adhered to the surface of the amorphous silicon film can be prevented. A thin film transistor having desired TFT characteristics can be manufactured.

Abstract: Area light source 10 used for LCD device 1 includes light guide 12 and LED devices 18 and 19 disposed at a side portion of light guide 12. A light receiving portion at a side edge portion of light guide 12 is provided with prisms 24 and 25 of saw-tooth prism group 22. Apex angles of prisms 24 and 25 are set to be more acute up to the middle point of prisms 24 and 25 as prisms 24 and 25 are farther from LED devices 18 and 19, respectively.

Abstract: A polymer for use in an optical device comprising one or more regions, where each region comprises (i) a first structural unit having general formula I: where m=1 or 2 and which contains at least one substituent selected from the group consisting of alkyl, alkoxy, aryl, aryloxy, heteroaryl, and heteroaryloxy groups, each of which may be further substituted; and (ii) a second structural unit Ar selected from the group consisting of heteroaryl, triarylamine and 2,7-fluorenyl; such that where m=1 each region comprises a unit having general formula II: first structural unit—Ar??(II) wherein, the substituent has a molecular weight of less than 300.

Abstract: To provide a current output type semiconductor circuit and a display device which are capable of realizing a reduction in cost by reducing the number of output stages and reducing a chip area. [Solution] A display device includes three reference current generating units 61 which generate reference currents corresponding to three display colors and outputs the reference currents, a selector 471 which outputs an optimum reference current among the outputs of the three reference current generating units 61 according to a display color of display data 473 in response to a changing display color switching signal 475, a current output unit 255 which outputs a current corresponding to a value of the display data 473 with respect to a current per one gradation determined by the reference currents, and a selector 472 for distributing the output of the current output unit 255 to respective source signal lines corresponding to the display color.

Abstract: Each pixel of an array substrate is provided with a reflective region and a transmittance region. A first color filter layer is provided between each pixel electrode and a gate insulating film of the array substrate. The first color filter layer of each pixel has spectral characteristics corresponding to the second color filter layer that is provided in association with the reflective region of the pixel. Each reflective region is a region where image display is enabled by light that passes through the corresponding second color filter layer and is reflected by its reflection layer. Each transmittance region is a region where image display is enabled by light that is emitted from a backlight and passes through the corresponding first color filter layer. Spectral separation by the first color filter layers and the second color filter layers enables the liquid crystal element to display an image.

Abstract: A polymer comprising a first repeat unit of formula (I), wherein each Ar is independently selected from optionally substituted aryl or heteroaryl and the group of formula (I) is present in a molar ratio of less than or equal to 10%, and, optionally, a second, optionally substituted repeat unit having a single nitrogen atom in its backbone of formula —Ar—N(Ar)—Ar— in a molar ratio of no greater than 5%.

Abstract: A voltage with a predetermined pattern is applied to liquid crystals to drive the liquid crystals during a unit drive period of the liquid crystals and an application pattern according to the gradation data is set taking into account a value obtained by integrating the amount of transmitted light of liquid crystals at various points in time when each application pattern is applied to the liquid crystals. This allows a fine gradation display even if the liquid crystals are driven by only ON/OFF of a maximum rated voltage. As a result, it is possible to drive the liquid crystals at high speed and produce a multi-gradation display.