Abstract: Provided is a raw material supply device and a device for processing electronic and electrical device part scraps, which can control dropping positions of a raw material containing substances having different shapes and specific gravities, as well as a method for processing electronic and electrical device part scraps using those devices.

Abstract: In this photoelectric conversion element wherein group III-IV compound semiconductor single crystals containing zinc as an impurity are used as a substrate, the substrate is increased in size without lowering conversion efficiency. A heat-resistant crucible is filled with raw material and a sealant, and the raw material and sealant are heated, thereby melting the raw material into a melt, softening the encapsulant, and covering the melt from the top with the encapsulant. The temperature inside the crucible is controlled such that the temperature of the top of the encapsulant relative to the bottom of the encapsulant becomes higher in a range that not equal or exceed the temperature of bottom of the encapsulant, and seed crystal is dipped in the melt and pulled upward with respect to the melt, thereby growing single crystals from the seed crystal.

Abstract: Provided is a rolled copper foil for a lithium ion battery current collector, which has good adhesion to a negative electrode active material, generates less metal powder during ultrasonic welding, and has a rust prevention property. In the rolled copper foil for a lithium ion battery current collector, a surface of the copper foil has a BTA film, the BTA film has a thickness of 0.6 nm or more and 4.6 nm or less, and the rolled copper foil satisfies the following relationships: 40?wet tension [mN]/m]+thickness of BTA film [nm]×10?80; 0.01?arithmetic average roughness Ra [?m]?0.25; and wet tension [mN/m]?35.

Abstract: Provided is a Corson alloy having improved bending workability and also having high dimensional accuracy after press-working. A copper alloy strip which is a rolling material, the rolling material containing from 0 to 5.0% by mass of Ni or from 0 to 2.5% by mass of Co, the total amount of Ni+Co being from 0.2 to 5% by mass; from 0.2 to 1.5% by mass of Si, the balance being copper and unavoidable impurities, wherein the rolling material satisfies the relationship: A0/A?1.000, in which A0 represents a projected area of an indentation remaining after carrying out a Vickers hardness test by maintaining a square pyramidal indenter for 10 seconds while applying a test force with a load of 1 kg to a surface of a base material and releasing the test force; and A represents an area connecting vertices of the indenter, and wherein the rolling material satisfies the relationship: 0.1?I(200)/I0(200)<1.

Abstract: A sputtering target comprising a flat part and a tapered part on a sputter surface, wherein of the tapered part includes a crystal distortion having an average KAM value of 0.5° or more. It is possible to lower the ignition failure rate of ignition (plasma ignition), and start the sputter process stably. Because the downtime of the device can thereby be shortened, it is possible to contribute to the improvement in throughput and cost performance.

Abstract: A titanium copper according to the present invention contains from 1.5 to 5.0% by mass of Ti, the balance being of Cu and inevitable impurities, wherein the titanium copper has a layered structure of Cu and Ti where in a Ti concentration curve obtained by analyzing a cross section parallel to a rolling direction along a thickness direction by STEM-EDX, a lower concentration Ti layer having a Ti concentration less than an average value of Ti concentrations in the Ti concentration curve and a higher concentration Ti layer having a Ti concentration equal to or higher than the average value of the Ti concentrations in the Ti concentration curve are alternately present in the thickness direction, and wherein in the cross section parallel to the rolling direction, a number of higher concentration Ti layers is 5 layers per 500 nm in the thickness direction.

Abstract: Provided is a tantalum sputtering target that contributes to improvement of film thickness uniformity during a high-power sputtering. A tantalum sputtering target having a purity of 99.99% by mass or more and an average value of Vickers hardness on a sputtering surface of from 85 to 110 Hv, the tantalum sputtering target satisfying both of the following conditions (1) and (2): (1) when a cross section perpendicular to the sputtering surface is measured by EBSP, an average value of Kernel Average Misorientation values (KAM values) is from 0.2° to 2.8°; and (2) when a cross section perpendicular to the sputtering surface is measured by EBSP, an average value of orientation area ratios of a {100} plane oriented at a misorientation of within 15° relative to a normal direction of the sputtering surface is 20% or more.

Abstract: A titanium copper according to the present invention contains from 1.5 to 5.

Abstract: (Technical problems to be solved) Providing a method for selecting an mineral of molybdenum. (Means for solving the problems) A peptide comprising an amino acids sequence according the following formula (1) and/or (2): (1) (ALRKNMD-FCPQSETGWHYIV)-(LIVFA)-(HPWRK)-(TSNQ)-(TSNQ)-(LIVFA)-(TSNQ)-(TSNQ)-(LIVFA)-(FYW)-(LIVFA)-(HPWRK) (2) (LIVFA)-(RHK)-(TSNQ)-(LIVFA)-(LIVFA)-(TSNQ)-(LIVFA)-(LIVFA)-(LIVFA)-(RHK)-(RHK)-(HPW) wherein one amino acid is respectively selected from each group defined by paired parentheses.

Abstract: The present invention provides a corrosion-resistant CuZn alloy, the alloy having a Zn content of from 15 to 55% by mass, the balance being Cu and inevitable impurities, wherein a total content of Zn and Cu is 99.995% by mass or more, and wherein a number of pores is 1/cm2 or less based on optical microscopic observation.

Abstract: Provided is a method for producing lithium carbonate from lithium ion battery waste, the lithium ion battery waste including battery positive material components containing Li and at least one metal selected from the group consisting of Co, Ni and Mn, wherein, after subjecting the lithium ion battery waste to a wet process, thereby separating the at least one metal of the battery positive material components from the lithium ion battery waste to obtain crude lithium carbonate, the method includes: a dissolution step of dissolving the crude lithium carbonate in a liquid while feeding a carbon dioxide gas; and a decarbonization step of heating a lithium dissolved solution obtained in the dissolution step to release carbonic acid, and wherein when dissolving the crude lithium carbonate in the liquid in the dissolution step, the liquid is stirred in a reaction vessel using a stirrer, and a ratio of a diameter (d) of a stirring blade of the stirrer to an inner diameter (D) of the reaction vessel (d/D) is from 0.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for treating at least one lithium ion battery enclosed in a housing containing aluminum, comprising heating the lithium ion battery using a combustion furnace in which a combustion object is incinerated by flames, while preventing the flames from being directly applied to the housing of the lithium ion battery.

Abstract: Provided is a high purity tin (Sn) having an extremely low oxygen content. A high purity tin having a tin purity of 5N (99.999% by mass, provided that carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and hydrogen are excluded) or more, wherein the high purity tin has an oxygen content of less than 10 ppb by mass, as measured by elemental analysis using Dynamic-SIMS.

Abstract: Provided is high purity tin having purity of 5N (99.999% by mass), which can suppress generation of particles. According to the high purity tin, the number of particles each having a particle diameter of 0.5 ?m or more is 50,000 or less per a gram.

Abstract: A rare-earth thin film magnet is provided which includes Nd, Fe and B as essential components, characterized by including a Si substrate having an oxide film present on a surface thereof, a Nd base film formed as a first layer over the Si substrate, and a Nd—Fe—B film formed as a second layer on the first layer. The rare earth thin film magnet and a production process therefor provides a rare earth thin film magnet suffering neither film separation nor substrate breakage and having satisfactory magnetic properties even when the second layer has composition in the range of 0.120 ?Nd/(Nd+Fe)<0.150, which corresponds to a compositional range in the vicinity of a stoichiometric composition.

Abstract: The present invention is intended to provide a rolled copper foil for a secondary battery negative electrode current collector which can satisfactorily suppress rupture of the copper foil caused by stress generation or the like due to volume change of an active material. A rolled copper foil for a secondary battery negative electrode current collector, wherein a tensile strength in a direction parallel to the rolling direction is 600 MPa or more, and a breaking elongation in the direction parallel to the rolling direction is 2.0% or more; and wherein a tensile strength in a direction orthogonal to the rolling direction is 640 MPa or more, and a breaking elongation in the direction orthogonal to the rolling direction is 3.5% or more.

Abstract: Provided is a rare earth thin film magnet having Nd, Fe and B as essential components, which is characterized in that a Nd—Fe—B base film is formed on a Si substrate having an oxide film formed on a surface thereof and has a composition in which the Nd content is higher than that of a stoichiometric composition and that a film (nano composite film) is formed on the base film and has a texture in which an ?-Fe phase and Nd2Fe14B are alternately arranged and three-dimensionally dispersed. The rare earth thin film magnet provided is less susceptible to the occurrence of film separation and substrate breakage and exhibits favorable magnetic properties.

Abstract: A Cr:YAG sintered body including Al, Y, Cr, Ca, Mg, Si, and O, and component contents in the sintered body satisfying conditional expressions of 1) to 3) below, provided in the Conditional expression, each chemical symbol represents a component content (atppm). |(Y+Ca)/(Al+Cr+Si+Mg)?0.6|<0.001;??1) 0?(Ca+Mg)?(Cr+Si)?50 atppm; and??2) 50?Si?500 atppm??3) The embodiment of the present invention is to provide a Cr:YAG sintered body which exhibits high transparency and has a high Cr4+ conversion ratio, and its production method.

Abstract: Provided is a laminate of a sintered body produced by sintering a copper powder paste and a ceramic substrate, which has improved adhesion between the sintered body and the ceramic substrate. A laminate with a copper powder paste sintered body laminated on a non-metal layer, wherein the copper powder paste sintered body has a crystal grain diameter of copper of 10 ?m or less, as determined from an EBSD map image, based on Area Fraction method, and has an average reliability index (CI value) of 0.5 or more in an analysis area.

Abstract: There is provided a BN-containing ferromagnetic material sputtering target which is capable of suppressing generation of particles during sputtering. A sputtering target containing from 1 to 40 at. % of B and from 1 to 30 at. % of N and comprising a structure including at least one ferromagnetic metal-containing metal phase and at least one nonmagnetic material phase, wherein an X-ray diffraction profile obtained by analyzing the structure with an X-ray diffraction method exhibits a diffraction peak derived from cubic boron nitride.