Abstract: An examination marker for use in diagnostic imaging using microwaves. The examination marker includes a marker main body to be attached to an examination target. The marker main body is capable of displaying, on the marker main body, an index for use in scanning the examination target marker and is deformable following the shape of the examination target. The marker main body has a relative permittivity of 10 or less to microwaves at a frequency of 1 GHz.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a wiring board, including a step A of forming a laser-modified portion in a glass substrate by applying laser light to the glass substrate from a first surface to an opposite surface of the glass substrate; a step B of forming a first surface wiring layer including a MIM capacitor on the first surface of the glass substrate; a step C of performing an etching process on a surface of the glass substrate opposite to the first surface to form a through via in the laser-modified portion and form a second surface of the glass substrate opposite to the first surface; and a step D of forming a through electrode in the through via and forming, on the second surface, a second surface wiring layer that is connected to the first surface wiring layer via the through electrode.

Abstract: An optical film includes a transparent substrate having opposite first and second surfaces, a colored layer formed to face the first surface of the substrate, and an optical function layer. A colorant in the colored layer contains at least one of a first coloring material having a maximum absorption wavelength in a range of 470 to 530 nm and an absorption spectral half width of 15 to 45 nm, a second coloring material having a maximum absorption wavelength in a range of 560 to 620 nm and an absorption spectral half width of 15 to 55 nm, and a third coloring material having the lowest transmittance in a wavelength range of 400 to 800 nm is in a range of 650 to 800 nm. A transmittance in one of the absorption wavelength bands of the colorant is 1% or more and less than 50%, and ?E*ab.

Abstract: A Cd-free chalcopyrite-based quantum dot with a narrow fluorescence FWHM and a high fluorescence quantum yield. The quantum dot contains ZnAgInxGa1-xSySe1-y (0?x<1 and 0?y?1), and exhibits fluorescence properties that can include a fluorescence full width at half maximum of less than or equal to 33 nm, and a fluorescence quantum yield of greater than or equal to 70% in a green wavelength range to a red wavelength range. The quantum dot has a core-shell structure including a core and a shell covering the core, and the shell preferably contains Zn.

Abstract: Provided is a display device containing quantum dots. A display device includes a display area. The display area includes a light emitting device in which a first electrode, a first layer between the first electrode and an emitting layer, the emitting layer, a second layer between the emitting layer and a second electrode, and the second electrode are stacked in that order on a substrate. The emitting layer is formed of an inorganic layer containing quantum dots, and the light emitting device is a top emission device. An electron transport layer or an electron injection layer is provided in the first layer between the first electrode and the emitting layer, or in the second layer between the emitting layer and the second electrode. The electron transport layer or the electron injection layer comprises SnO.

Abstract: Provided are an optical film that can reduce reflectance, increase luminance, reduce thickness, and improve color reproducibility a display device, and a display device using the same. An optical film characterized by comprising a transparent substrate, a colored layer laminated on one surface side of the transparent substrate and containing a dye, and a functional layer laminated on the other surface side of the transparent substrate, wherein the dye contains a first coloring material having a maximum absorption wavelength of 470 to 530 nm and a half width of the absorption spectrum of 15 to 45 nm, and a second coloring material having a maximum absorption wavelength of 560 to 620 nm and a half width of the absorption spectrum of 15 to 55 nm, and the transparent substrate has an ultraviolet shielding rate of 85% or more according to JIS L 1925.

Abstract: Decorative sheets having improved or even excellent adhesiveness and heat and moisture resistance. A decorative sheet includes at least a substrate layer, an adhesive layer, and a transparent resin layer, which are laminated in this order. The adhesive layer contains a polyester resin and a bisphenol A epoxy resin. The polyester resin contains, as components, phthalic acid, a linear dicarboxylic acid, and an alkylenediol. The polyester resin and the bisphenol A epoxy resin are contained in the adhesive layer in a mass ratio (polyester resin/bisphenol A epoxy resin) of 50/50 to 90/10.

Abstract: A resin composition including a resin R including a repeating unit having a partial structure of Formula (I) or (II): where QA is an ester bond shown in the Formula (I), RA is a substituent group, n1 is any of integers 1 to 5, * is a bonding site with a remainder of the repeating unit, and ** is a bonding site with a phenyl group in the Formula (I); where QB is a linking group or a single bond other than the ester bond of QA in Formula (I), RB is a substituent group, with at least one RB being a hydroxyl group, n2 is any of integers 1 to 5, and * is a bonding site with a remainder of the repeating unit.

Abstract: Provided are an optical film that can reduce reflectance, increase luminance, and reduce thickness of a display device, a display device using the optical film, and a composition for forming ultraviolet absorbing layer used for producing the optical film. An optical film characterized in that having a transparent substrate, a colored layer laminated on one side of the transparent substrate and containing a dye, and a functional layer laminated on the colored layer, in which the dye contains a first coloring material having a maximum absorption wavelength within the range of 470 to 530 nm, and a second coloring material having a maximum absorption wavelength in the range of 560 to 620 nm, and the functional layer includes an ultraviolet absorbing layer having an ultraviolet shielding rate of 85% or more, and the pencil hardness of the surface under a load of 500 g is H or higher.

Abstract: An image processing method includes acquiring an image in which a cell structure having a stained vascular network structure is imaged, applying a wavelet transform to the image such that a contour image in which contours of the vascular network structure are extracted is generated, and repeatedly excluding object pixels from object boundaries recognized in the contour image such that a skeleton image in which skeletons having a line width of a predetermined number of pixels are extracted is generated.

Abstract: A decorative sheet includes a primary film layer and a surface protection layer disposed on one surface of the primary film layer, wherein the surface protection layer includes on a surface thereof a ridged portion protruding in a shape of a ridge and thus has an uneven shape formed on the surface, the uneven shape of the surface protection layer has a ratio RSm/Ra in a range of 10 or more and 300 or less, the surface protection layer contains an ionizing radiation-curable resin as a main material, the ionizing radiation-curable resin contains as a main component an acrylic resin having a repeating structure, the acrylic resin has a dipentaerythritol structure, the repeating structure is one of structures of ethylene oxide, propylene oxide, and ?-caprolactone, and a number of repeating units of the repeating structure is 12 or more.

Abstract: A gas barrier film includes a base material containing a polyethylene as a main resin component and an inorganic oxide layer formed on a first surface side of the base material. The birefringence ?N of the first surface calculated based on measurement by a parallel Nicol rotation method is 0 or more and 0.007 or less, and the proportion of the polyethylene in the entire gas barrier film is 90 mass % or more.

Abstract: A quantum dot having a narrow fluorescence half-width and a high fluorescence quantum yield has a core-shell structure including a core formed from ZnSe or ZnSeTe, and a shell that covers the core and is formed from ZnS, wherein a particle diameter of the quantum dot is 5 nm or more and 20 nm or less, and wherein a surface of the core-shell structure is modified with a zinc halide. The quantum dot has a fluorescence quantum yield of 75% or more and a fluorescence half-width of 25 nm or less. The fluorescence lifetime can be made 50 ns or less.

Abstract: An infrared cut-off filter, including a cyanine dye and a copolymer. The cyanine dye includes tris(pentafluoroethyl) trifluorophosphate and a cation having a polymethine and a nitrogen-containing heterocycle at each end of the polymethine. The copolymer includes a first repeating unit from a first monomer and a second repeating unit from a second monomer different from the first monomer. The first monomer includes a phenolic hydroxyl group.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a filter for a solid-state imaging element, including forming a color filter on a semiconductor substrate, forming an etching stopper layer on the semiconductor substrate and the color filter, forming an infrared cut precursor layer on the etching stopper layer, forming a resist pattern that covers a portion on the color filter in the infrared cut precursor layer, and forming an infrared cut filter by dry etching the infrared cut precursor layer using the resist pattern. The dry etching of the infrared cut precursor layer is conducted at an etching rate different from an etching rate of the etching stopper layer.

Abstract: A gas barrier laminate including: a substrate layer which contains a polyolefin resin; a metal oxide-containing layer which contains a metal oxide; and an overcoat layer which contains a polyvinyl alcohol resin, the overcoat layer having a surface, the overcoat layer having a surface which has a softening temperature of 100 to 170° C., as measured by local thermal analysis.

Abstract: A gas barrier laminate including a gas barrier layer and a sealing layer laminated on a substrate in this order, wherein the gas barrier layer is a layer formed by applying and heat-drying a coating solution containing a water-soluble polymer and at least one of a metal alkoxide represented by a general formula M(OR1)n(where M is a metal element, R1 is an alkyl group, and n is the oxidation number of the metal element) and a hydrolyzate of the metal alkoxide, a content of the water-soluble polymer is 50 wt % or more relative to a total mass of a solid content in the coating solution, a total content of the metal alkoxide and the hydrolyzate thereof is 5 to 50 wt % relative to the total mass of the solid content in the coating solution, and the sealing layer contains an aqueous heat seal varnish.

Abstract: A terminal resin film of at least seven layers, with at least a layer A, a layer B, a layer C, and a layer D, and a structure being layer A, the layer B, the layer A, and the layer C or the layer D; or, the structure being layer A, the layer B, and the layer A, and Layer A: A layer formed from a resin composition including an acid-modified polyolefin resin and having an MFR of 2.0 to 50 g/10 mins; Layer B: A layer formed from a resin composition including a polyolefin resin and having an MFR of 0.05 g/10 mins or more and less than 2.0 g/10 mins; Layer C: A layer formed from a resin composition including an unmodified polyolefin resin and having an MFR of 0.05 to 50 g/10 mins; and, Layer D: An adhesive layer including a resin having a cross-linked structure.

Abstract: High gas barrier properties can be achieved without requiring strict control for preventing entry of moisture. A coating liquid for producing a gas barrier laminate contains a carboxy group-containing polymer, polyvalent metal-containing particles, a surfactant, and an organic solvent. In the coating liquid, the carboxy group-containing polymer has a number average molecular weight of 100,000 or less.

Abstract: A flexible wiring board includes an insulating layer having a support surface extending in a first direction; a first sheet adhesive terminal positioned on the support surface; and a second sheet adhesive terminal positioned on the support surface. The shape of the first sheet adhesive terminal and the shape of the second sheet adhesive terminal are point-symmetric about a point on a straight fold line on which straight guide lines extending in the first direction lie.