Abstract: According to one embodiment, an optical control element includes a plurality of lens forming regions along a first direction and a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, each of the lens forming regions includes an annularly shaped second electrode and a circularly shaped first electrode provided on an inner side of the second electrode, a plurality of first wiring lines connected to the first electrodes each include a first stem portion extending in a zigzag shape along the second direction and a plurality of first branch portions extending from the first stem, and each of the first branch portions overlap the plurality of first electrodes, respectively.

Abstract: A method for inspecting a reflecting device, which has a plurality of reflecting elements arrayed in a matrix, each of the plurality of reflecting elements comprises a patch electrode, a common electrode on a back side of the patch electrode, and a liquid crystal layer between the patch electrode and the common electrode, a first voltage V1 is applied between one of the plurality of patch electrodes and the common electrode, and whether the reflecting element is good or bad is determined based on changes in a frame region that appears around a periphery of one of the plurality of patch electrodes in a top view when a voltage is applied between one of the plurality of patch electrodes and the common electrode.

Abstract: It is possible to reduce a size of a lower frame region to ensure a wiring corrosion margin equivalent to that of a conventional technique. In a display device, a video signal wiring arranged in the lower frame region includes, in a region between a terminal section (terminal) and a video signal line, a first wiring formed on a first wiring layer and having one end connected to the terminal section to which a video signal line driving circuit is connected, a second wiring formed on a second wiring layer different from the first wiring layer and having one end connected to the other end of the first wiring, and a third wiring formed on the first wiring layer and having one end connected to the other end of the second wiring. The other end of the third wiring is connected to the video signal line via a fourth wiring formed on the second wiring layer, and the first wiring layer is formed on the side closer to an array substrate than to the second wiring layer.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a flexible substrate including, an insulating base including first strip portions, second strip portions, and island-shaped portions each located at an intersection between the first strip portions and the second strip portions, electrical elements overlapping the island-shaped portions, respectively, scanning lines extending while overlapping the first strip portions, respectively, signal lines extending while overlapping the second strip portions, respectively, a first organic insulating film, a second organic insulating film, a stopper layer located between the first and second organic insulating film, and a barrier layer located on the second organic insulating film.

Abstract: The incident surface is the inner surface of a recess including a bottom surface and an inwardly convex inner side. A tangent line on the free-form curve forms a smaller angle with the optical axis at a point closer to the bottom surface and a larger angle with the optical axis at a point farther from the bottom surface. The free-form curve has a curvature that is not constant. The curvature is maximized at a depth of one-third or less of a depth of the recess. The light enters the bottom surface only at a light distribution angle of three degrees. The light enters the inner side at a light distribution angle of more than three degrees. Light incident on the bottom surface exits through the emitting surface. Light incident on the inner side reflects off the outer side and exits through the emitting surface.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes an array substrate, a first cover member and a first adhesive layer. The array substrate includes first and second main surfaces and a first side surface. The first cover member includes third and fourth main surfaces and a second side surface. The first adhesive layer attaches the first and third main surfaces. The array substrate further includes a display area and a mounting area between the first side surface and the display area. The first cover member includes a protruding portion which protrudes relative to the first side surface.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for inspecting a light-emitting element, the method including: forming a buffer layer over an amorphous substrate; forming, over the buffer layer, an n-type cladding layer, an emission layer, and a p-type cladding layer each including an inorganic semiconductor to form a plurality of semiconductor layers arranged in a matrix form having a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns; forming an anode and a cathode over each of the plurality of semiconductor layers to form a plurality of light-emitting elements; and acquiring at least one of a photoluminescence property or an electroluminescence property of the plurality of light-emitting elements using a first detector and a second detector. The buffer layer has a function to promote crystallization of the semiconductor layers. The photoluminescence property is acquired before forming the anode and the cathode. The electroluminescence property is acquired after forming the anode and the cathode.

Abstract: A display device includes a first pixel including a transistor having an oxide semiconductor layer, a first gate wiring, and a first source wiring. The first gate wiring includes a first part of a first conductive, and extends in a first direction. The first source wiring includes a first part of a second conductive layer and a first part of a third conductive layer connected to the first part of the second conductive layer, and extends in a second direction intersecting the first direction. A thickness of the second conductive layer is thinner than a thickness of the first conductive layer and thinner than a thickness of the third conductive layer.

Abstract: A reflecting device includes a plurality of first patch electrodes, a plurality of second patch electrodes having a size different from a size of the first patch electrodes, a ground electrode opposing the plurality of first patch electrodes and the plurality of second patch electrodes and separated from the plurality of first patch electrodes and the plurality of second patch electrodes, and a liquid crystal layer between the plurality of first patch electrodes and the plurality of second patch electrodes and the ground electrode, wherein the plurality of first patch electrodes and the plurality of second patch electrodes are arranged alternately in a first direction or a second direction intersecting the first direction, and each first patch electrode is adjacent to each second patch electrode in the first direction or the second direction.

Abstract: A film formation apparatus includes a vacuum chamber, a substrate support portion for supporting a substrate, a target support portion for supporting a target containing nitrogen and gallium, a sputtering gas supply unit for supplying a sputtering gas, a sputtering power source for applying a voltage to the target, a first radical supply source for supplying nitrogen radicals and hydrogen radicals, and a control unit. The control unit controls the sputtering gas supply unit, the sputtering power source, and the first radical supply source so that a first period in which the sputtering gas, the nitrogen radicals, and the hydrogen radicals are supplied to the vacuum chamber and a voltage is applied to the target and a second period in which the nitrogen radicals and the hydrogen radicals are not supplied to the vacuum chamber and a voltage is applied to the target are repeated.

Abstract: A driving method of an intelligent reflecting surface having a plurality of reflecting elements arranged in a matrix, the method includes dividing the plurality of reflecting elements arranged in the matrix into a first region that controls an amount of phase change for each row of the plurality of reflecting elements arrayed in a row direction and a second region that controls an amount of phase change for every two adjacent rows of a plurality of reflecting elements arrayed in the row direction, and driving each of the plurality of reflecting elements belonging to the first region

Abstract: A film formation apparatus includes a vacuum chamber, a substrate support portion and a target support portion provided in the vacuum chamber, a sputtering gas supply unit for supplying a sputtering gas to the vacuum chamber, a sputtering power supply, a first radical supply source connected to the vacuum chamber and configured to be capable of supplying at least one of nitrogen radicals generated from an N2 gas and hydrogen radicals generated from an H2 gas to the vacuum chamber, a second radical supply source connected to the vacuum chamber and configured to be capable of supplying SiH3 radicals to the vacuum chamber, and a control unit configured to control the sputtering gas supply unit, the sputtering power supply, the first radical supply source, and the second radical supply source.

Abstract: According to an aspect, a liquid crystal display panel includes an extending portion. The extending portion is metal wiring provided on the same plane as a plane parallel to a surface of a TFT substrate on which a scan line extends in the X-direction, and is electrically conductive metal extending from the scan line. The extending portion partially overlaps a space, but does not overlap an opening area, in the Z-direction.

Abstract: Provided is a mounting structure for a transparent liquid crystal display device that is placed in a glass window in which a periphery of a first glass plate is accommodated in and held by a first frame member. In the mounting structure, the transparent liquid crystal display device is affixed to the first glass plate by a transparent adhesive sheet and has a display region and a terminal region. The terminal region is accommodated in the first frame member, and a light source including an LED and a driver IC are placed in the terminal region. A heat conduction sheet is placed between the light source and the driver IC on one hand and the first frame member on the other hand and is acted upon by pressure by which the heat conduction sheet is pressed against the light source and the driver IC.

Abstract: According to an aspect, an electro-optical device includes: a first substrate; a first electrode disposed on the first substrate; a second substrate disposed facing the first substrate; a second electrode disposed on the second substrate and facing the first electrode; and a liquid crystal layer provided between the first electrode and the second electrode. The second electrode includes a plurality of divided electrodes arranged in a first direction. Two divided electrodes adjacent to each other among the divided electrodes are disposed with a slit interposed between the two divided electrodes.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device comprises a display panel and a polarizing plate. The display panel comprises a display area, a non-display area surrounding the display area, and a light-shielding layer arranged in the display area and the non-display area. The polarizing plate is provided on a surface of the display panel, and including an end portion located in the non-display area. In this display device, the light-shielding layer opposite to the end portion of the polarizing plate is at least partially removed.

Abstract: A display device includes a display region having a plurality of pixels, a driver IC provided in a frame region on an outer side of the display region and configured to drive the pixels, a first power source wiring line and a second power source wiring line each electrically coupled to the driver IC, and a first electrode that is arranged so as to face the first power source wiring line and the second power source wiring line via a first insulating layer, and is electrically coupled to the first power source wiring line.

Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel; a light source configured to emit light toward one surface side of the display panel; a liquid crystal panel interposed between the display panel and the light source and provided to be able to change a transmission degree of light between the display panel and the light source; and a controller configured to control a potential difference between two electrodes facing each other with liquid crystal interposed therebetween. The liquid crystal panel in operation is makes a transmission degree of light tilted toward one side in a longitudinal direction of the display panel in a rectangular shape and a transmission degree of light tilted toward the other side in the longitudinal direction to be different from each other. The potential difference corresponds to an angle of tilt with a smaller transmission degree of light when the liquid crystal panel is in operation.

Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a pixel and a drive circuit configured to drive the pixel, a light source device configured to emit emitted light toward the display panel, a color separation element placed between the display panel and the light source device, the color separation element being configured to disperse the emitted light and to emit, to the pixel, a plurality of rays of separated light with wavelengths different from each other, and a light-shielding member placed in the display panel, the light-shielding member being configured to block the emitted light heading toward the drive circuit.

Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device includes: a first substrate; a second substrate facing the first substrate; a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate; a light source disposed so that light is incident on a side surface of the first substrate or a side surface of the second substrate; a first electrode provided on the first substrate; and second electrodes provided on the second substrate. The liquid crystal layer includes polymer-dispersed liquid crystals including a polymer network formed in a mesh shape and liquid crystal molecules held in a dispersed manner in gaps of the polymer network. A plurality of first slits of the second electrodes that are provided for each pixel are arranged at predetermined intervals in a first direction, and the first slits extend in a second direction intersecting the first direction.