Abstract: A coated article is provided so as to include a coating (e.g., low-E coating, or the like) having at least one layer of or including niobium zirconium (NbZr). The NbZr layer may be metallic in certain example embodiments. Alternatively, an oxide and/or nitride of NbZr may be provided in other example embodiments. The NbZr inclusive layer may be provided as any suitable layer of the multi-layer coating, but in certain example instances may be used as a contact layer adjacent to an infrared (IR) reflecting layer. Coated articles herein may be used in the context of insulating glass (IG) window units, laminated windows, architectural or residential monolithic window units, vehicle window units, and/or the like.

Abstract: A wall is formed by adding a predetermined amount of binding agent and water to volcanic ash sediment, which is comprised of mineral silicate including at least silicic acid and aluminum oxide, kneading them, and applying to an arbitrary plane. Through a natural reaction of positive ions included within mineral silicate and moisture included within the atmospheric air, thereby exchanging ions, minus ions are generated on an application plane. The amount of minus ions generated is, in a unit volume, between three and six times as many as that of the minus ions generally included in the atmospheric air. The combination of this application plane and humidity control apparatus is used as a minus ion generation system through adjustment of amount of moisture included within the atmospheric air so as to control the ion exchanging rate. In the case where said volcanic ash sediment includes titanium oxide, it reacts with hydrogen or oxygen generating active oxygen species or oxygen free radical.

Abstract: An article includes a substrate, a functional coating deposited over at least a portion of the substrate, and a protective (barrier) coating deposited over at least a portion of the functional coating. The barrier coating is stable to oxygen-containing gases and limits the transmission of oxygen-containing gases to materials over which it is deposited when subjected to conditioning steps such as heating, bending, and/or tempering.

Abstract: An organic light-emitting device (OLED) in which an iptycene derivative is used as the emissive layer and/or one or more of the charge transport layers, or as a host material for one or more of these layers.

Abstract: The present invention provides a substrate with a transparent conductive layer comprising at least one layer stacked on a supporting substrate, wherein the surface of the transparent conductive layer has a distribution of inclination arctan (df/dx) in the range of sampling length dx between 20 nm and 100 nm when a distance of the surface of said transparent conductive layer from the surface of said supporting substrate is regarded as f being a normal distribution having a kurtosis of ?1.2 to 0.5 around 0° and a standard deviation of 20° to 55°, and a photovoltaic element using the substrate. The substrate can be produced at a high yield and a low cost suitable for practical use and has a high reliability. In addition, a photovoltaic element having a high photoelectric conversion efficiency is obtained when the substrate is used in manufacturing it.

Abstract: This invention relates to a surface treatment method comprising the steps of providing a treating solution containing a specific ammonium compound or aqueous ammonia, and magnesium silicofluoride, heating the treating solution to a temperature of 70 to 100° C., and soaking aluminum or an aluminum alloy in the treating solution; a piston having a surface coated with a film consisting of a mixture of NH4MgAlF6 and MgAlF5.1.5H2O or a mixture of NH4MgAlF6 and MgAl2F8.2H2O; and a sliding member made of aluminum or the like wherein the whole surface of the sliding member or the sliding surface thereof is coated with a film which consists of either of the aforesaid mixtures, has a cubic crystal structure, and shows no crystalline orientation.

Abstract: A fibrous core material is disposed between and bonded to metal skins to form a structural laminate having comparable strength to steel sheets of greater weight.

Abstract: The present invention provides an application material capable of forming a thin layer of high quality having controlled refractive index, a coating layer formed by using said application material, an antireflection coating using said coating layer, an antireflection film and image display to which said antireflection coating is applied. A coating layer formed from a coating composition comprising (1) rutile type titanium oxide coated with an inorganic compound decreasing or eliminating a photocatalyst activity and an organic compound and/or organometal compound having an anionic polar group, and having a primary particle size in the range from 0.01 to 0.

Abstract: An artificial grass surface (10) suited for bordering a runway (12) of an airfield in order to reduce the presence of birds in the airfield. The artificial grass surface (10) includes a pile fabric (14) having a plurality of pile elements (20) extending from a backing mat (18) and resembling grass. A water barrier (24) is provided for preventing water from percolating to the compacted soil surface. An infilled particulate material (22) is dispersed among the pile elements (20). A stabilizer is provided to resist dislodgment of the infilled particulate material (22) at the edges of the runways by the thrust of jet engines and to keep the particulate material (22) in the pile elements (20) when the edges of the runways are vacuumed to remove silt.

Abstract: A method for making aerospace face seal rotors reinforced by rhenium metal, alloy, or composite in combination with silicon carbide or other ceramic. The resulting rotor also is disclosed. Ceramic grains, preferably silicon carbide (SiC), are mixed with powdered metallic (PM) binder that may be based on a refractory metal, preferably rhenium. The mixture is applied to a rotor substrate. The combined ceramic-metal powder mixture is heated to sintering temperature under pressure to enable fusion of the ceramic in the resulting metal-based substrate. A load may then be applied under an elevated temperature. The resulting coated rotor can exhibit high hot hardness, increased durability and/or high hot wear resistance, as well as high thermal conductivity.

Abstract: The dielectric material is, for example, a ferroelectric single crystal having a uniform thickness, and its one surface is used for a recording and reproducing surface on which a probe for recording and reproducing works. LiTaO3 is used as the dielectric material. The conductive thin film, which is, for example, about 1000 to 2000 ? thick, is placed on a surrounding portion of a recording and reproducing surface, a back surface, and a side surface of the dielectric material. This conductive thin film, to which aluminum is added by a method of deposition, is connected to a common electrode of a recording and reproducing apparatus. The substrate is intended to preserve the dielectric material, which is thin, and it uses silicon or the like in a predetermined thickness, for example. A conductive paste is a material for sticking to the substrate the dielectric material having the conductive thin film thereon, and indium and silver paste are used for it.

Abstract: The invention belongs to polarizing devices and can be used in lighting equipment, manufacturing construction-material glasses, and in displays. The proposed dichroic polarizer includes a substrate and at least one layer dichroically absorbing electromagnetic radiation, into which two reflecting coatings are introduced, at least one of which is made partially transmitting. The layer dichroically absorbing electromagnetic radiation is located between the reflecting coatings. The materials and thicknesses of layers of both the dichroically absorbing electromagnetic radiation and the reflecting coatings are selected from the requirements to obtain, at the exit of the dichroic polarizer, an interference minimum for the absorbing component of electromagnetic radiation for, at least, one wavelength value.

Abstract: An electroluminescent media assembly that can be fed into an inkjet printer and is capable of recording high quality images. The media assembly includes an electroluminescent substrate for generating light, and an ink receiving layer. The media assembly can also include feedability controlling layers. Intermediate adhesion layers or adhesion treatments can also be employed. Electrical contacts are provided to make the correct electrical connection to the assembly to excite the electroluminescence characteristics.

Abstract: The invention relates to glass-ceramic plates, hotplates incorporating them and their fabrication process. The glass-ceramic plate of the invention is of the type having a bottom substrate layer and a top coating layer and is characterized in that the top coating layer covers at least the external top surface of the bottom glass-ceramic layer and is a layer of a hard substrate material chosen from the group constituted by silicon carbide, silicon oxycarbide, silicon nitride, silicon oxynitride and hydrogenated amorphous carbons. The invention finds an application in the fabrication of coated glass-ceramic plates and in particular in the fabrication of glass-ceramic hotplates.

Abstract: Coated articles are provided with an anti-reflection system(s) which enables high visible transmission and/or low visible reflection. Neutral color is also attainable in certain example embodiments. In certain example embodiments, the anti-reflection system(s) is used in conjunction with a double silver (Ag) layer stack which provides low sheet resistance and/or emissivity.

Abstract: A radiation-curable anti-reflective coating is disclosed. The coating may be deposited on a substrate by spinning, dipping or rolling. The anti-reflective coating may have two layers in which case the anti-reflective coating has a V-shaped reflectance pattern in the visible wavelength spectrum. The anti-reflective coating may have three layers in which case the anti-reflective coating has a broadband reflectance pattern in the visible wavelength spectrum.

Abstract: A particle, includes a semiconductor nanocrystal. The nanocrystal is doped.

Abstract: A titanium dioxide film (2) having at least photocatalytic activity, whose light linear transmittance corresponding to light having a wavelength of 550 nm is not less than 50% and whose thickness is 0.1 to 5 ?m or so, is formed on a transparent substrate (1) constituted by a glass plate or the like. Preferably, a precoat film (3), which has optical transmissivity and is constituted by a SiO2 film having a thickness of 0.02 to 0.2 ?m or so, is provided between the transparent substrate (1) and the titanium dioxide film (2). Thereby, excellent photocatalytic action and optical transmissivity can be obtained. Moreover, members composing various structures such as a glass window, which are especially required to have optical transparency, can be further provided with photocatalytic activities.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of depositing rutile type titanium dioxide, and a substrate and glass flakes having rutile type titanium dioxide obtained using the method fixed thereto. An object of the present invention is to make heating essentially unnecessary and simplify the manufacturing process, thus reducing costs, and also enable rutile type titanium dioxide to be fixed easily even to a substrate having low heat resistance. This object is attained by depositing rutile type crystals from a titanium-containing solution through a neutralization reaction under conditions of a temperature in a range of 55 to 85° C. and a pH of not more than 1.3.

Abstract: An optical recording medium having at least a recording layer 11 and a light transmitting layer 13 formed on a substrate 10, in which the recording layer 11 is made of an organic material for absorbing an incident light of wavelength of 360 nm to 460 nm, and inducing physical change or chemical change to vary the refractive index, the light transmitting layer 13 is 10 ?m to 177 ?m in thickness, the relation between absorption coefficient “k” and pyrolysis temperature Tdec of organic material is 950(° C.)<(Tdec (° C.)?20)/k<4100° C.??(1), and the absorption coefficient “k” is k>0.0.