Abstract: An elastic member for use in a substrate holding apparatus includes an elastic member and a first reinforcing member. The first reinforcing member has a higher rigidity than the elastic membrane and reinforces substantially an entire area of the contact portion of the elastic membrane. The contact portion of the elastic member has a contact portion for contact with the substrate. The first peripheral wall portion of the elastic membrane is coupled to a peripheral end of the contact portion and extends upwardly. The second peripheral wall portion of the elastic member defines a first chamber on an outer side thereof and a second chamber on an inner side thereof. The first reinforcing member is embedded in substantially the entire area of the contact portion of the elastic membrane.

Abstract: A silver-based magnesium alloy thin film is provided for the semi-reflective coating layer of optical discs. This alloy has moderate to high reflectivity and reasonable corrosion resistance in the ambient environment.

Abstract: There is provided an optical recording medium including a substrate, an information recording layer that is formed on the substrate and has a single film structure formed by an oxide including W and Ru, and a light transmissive layer that is formed on the information recording layer.

Abstract: The invention relates to a carbon nanoring and a method for preparing the same. The carbon nanoring according to the present invention is composed of monolayered or multilayered coaxial carbon rings, wherein the carbon ring has a structure similar to that of a closed ring system formed by graphite sheet being rolled, and each of an axial dimension and a radial dimension of the carbon nanoring is nanoscale with the axial dimension being smaller than the radial dimension. The invention further provides a method for preparing the above carbon nanoring including calcinating in an inert atmosphere or a reducing atmosphere a layered double hydroxides obtained by intercalating a long-chain alkyl anion and a carbon source molecule, growing a carbon nanoring within a confined region between layers under the catalysis of the metal element in layers, and removing the metal and the metal oxide by dissolving in an acid to obtain the carbon nanoring.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide (i) a stiffener-integrated flexible printed circuit board in which a defect such as a blistering is not generated during a reflow process even though a stiffener is attached to a photosensitive resin composition, and (ii) a method for manufacturing the stiffener-integrated flexible printed circuit board. The object can be attained by causing a stiffener-integrated flexible printed circuit board to have a structure in which (A) a stiffener (6), (B) a bonding material (5), (C) a cured film obtained by curing a photosensitive resin composition (4), and (D) a flexible printed circuit board (1) are laminated in this order.

Abstract: An optical information recording medium includes a recording film, which contains germanium, bismuth, and at least 50 at % tellurium, and has a first recording film component formed in the planar direction and having a bismuth content of at least 15 at %, a second recording film component formed in the planar direction on the side to be irradiated with a light beam and having a bismuth content that is at least 10 at % lower than that of the first recording film component, and an intermediate recording film component provided between the first and second recording film component to moderate the change in the bismuth content in the film thickness direction between the first and second recording film component, and having a bismuth content greater than the bismuth content of the second recording film component and less than the bismuth content of the first recording film component.

Abstract: A surface treatment agent for hydraulic transfer to perform hydraulic transfer decoration with high adhesion onto an olefin-type substrate with poor adhesion. They are provided by a surface treatment agent for hydraulic transfer to a polyolefin-type substrate to be used in a hydraulic transfer method for forming a decorative layer, by coating an activator to a dried print pattern on a water-soluble film to recover adhesion of said print pattern, and then by hydraulic transferring said print pattern onto the surface of a surface treatment layer of the polyolefin-type substrate treated with the surface treatment agent, characterized in that said surface treatment agent for hydraulic transfer is consisted of a resin composition including a modified polyolefin (a), a polyfunctional isocyanate (b) and a solvent (c), and a blending ratio of (b)/(a) is 0.005 to 0.5, in weight ratio.

Abstract: A housing for an electronic device includes a substrate made of plastic, a base paint layer, a pattern layer, a tin layer, a silicon oxide layer, and a top paint layer. The substrate has an outer surface and an inner surface opposite to the outer surface and facing the interior of the electronic device. The base paint layer is formed on the outer surface. The pattern layer is directly formed on the base paint layer and partially covers the base paint layer. The tin layer is directly formed on the pattern layer and covers the pattern layer and portions of the base paint layer not covered by the pattern layer. The silicon oxide layer is directly formed on the entire tin layer. The top paint layer is formed on the silicon oxide layer. A method for making the housing is also described.

Abstract: There are provided a phosphor film, a method of manufacturing the same, and a method of coating an LED chip with a phosphor layer. The phosphor film includes: a base film; a phosphor layer formed on the base film and obtained by mixing phosphor particles in a partially cured resin material; and a cover film formed on the phosphor layer to protect the phosphor layer.

Abstract: A recording material produced by using an ultraviolet-curable composition for inkjet that includes a polymerized compound and a glittering powder includes a recording medium and a print layer formed on the recording medium. The thickness of the print layer is T (?m). When an area that is thickness 0.5T (?m) from an outer surface in the print layer is a first area and an area that is thickness 0.5T (?m) from a contact surface contacting the recording medium in the print layer is a second area, a ratio of the glittering powder included in the first area of the print layer is more than 70 percent by volume and less than 95 percent by volume, and a ratio of the glittering powder included in the second area of the print layer is more than 5 percent by volume and less than 30 percent by volume.

Abstract: A wafer article includes a substrate, two or more hydrophilic areas disposed on the substrate, hydrophobic areas surrounding the hydrophilic areas, and a eutectic bonding material disposed on the substrate. A wafer apparatus including two wafers having complimentary hydrophilic regions and eutectic bonding material is disclosed and a method of forming a bonded wafer articles is disclosed.

Abstract: The embodiments disclose a method of creating two-sided template from a single recorded master, including fabricating a first template using a single recorded master, wherein the first template has a changed duty cycle and an unchanged servo arc orientation, creating a replicate of the first template, wherein the replicate has a mirrored servo arc orientation and a changed duty cycle and fabricating a second template using the replicate to produce a predetermined mirrored servo arc orientation and a predetermined duty cycle for imprinting on a second side of a patterned stack.

Abstract: This invention relates to DVDs made from polycarbonate and a special UV curable bonder material consisting of A) an urethane acrylate oligomer as binder, which is the reaction product of i) one or more polyisocyanates and ii) one or more hydroxyfunctional lactone ester (meth)acrylates having a number average molecular weight of from 200 g/mol to 2000 g/mol and having the formula: CH2?C(R1)—C(O)—O—R2—[O—C(O)—R3]n—OH wherein, n is an integer from 1 to 5, R1 is hydrogen or methyl, R2 represents an alkylene group or substituted alkylene group having from 2 to 10 carbon atoms and R3 represents a straight or branched chain alkylene group of from 3 to 8 carbon atoms, and which may be substituted with one or more alkyl groups having from 1 to 12 carbon atoms, B) a reactive thinner, comprising of mono functional acrylates and/or (meth)acrylates C) a photo initiator and D) optional additives which offers improved performance at high data transfer rates.

Abstract: An ultraviolet-curable composition for inkjet, which is discharged by an inkjet method, includes a polymerized compound, a metal powder, and a dispersant. The metal powder is treated by a surface preparation with a fluorinated silane compound and/or a fluorinated phosphate ester as a surface preparation agent. The dispersant has a polymeric structure in a basic.

Abstract: A method for producing a floor panel comprising a carrier board, a cork layer, a primer and a decorative layer is disclosed. To achieve qualitatively improved decorative layers, a method is disclosed in which the cork layer is applied to the carrier board, in which, in order to form the primer, a coating system having a proportion of volatile components is applied to the cork layer, and in which the decorative layer is printed onto the primer.

Abstract: An optical recording medium including a substrate and two or more recording layers that contain Pd, O, and M (M comprises at least one of Zn, Al, In, and Sn), where O is contained in an amount greater than a stoichiometric composition thereof when M is completely oxidized (into ZnO, Al2O3, In2O3, and SnO2). An nth recording layer of the two or more recording layers, as counted from an opposite side of an incident side of recording light, has a Pd content that is less than that of an (n?1)th recording layer.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a recordable optical recording medium whose characteristics do not deteriorate when recording is conducted in a high-temperature environment. The present invention provides a recordable optical recording medium comprising a substrate as well as at least a reflection layer, recording layer, and light transmission layer provided on the substrate, wherein the recording layer of said optical recording medium contains (a) an azo metal complex dye and (b) another dye whose decomposition temperature is 240° C. to 360° C.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a recordable optical recording medium whose characteristics do not deteriorate when recording is conducted in a high-temperature environment. The present invention provides a recordable optical recording medium comprising a substrate as well as at least a reflection layer, recording layer and light transmission layer provided on the substrate, wherein the recording layer of said optical recording medium contains (a) an azo metal complex dye and (b) ionic organic compound containing a heteroaromatic quaternary ammonium ion.

Abstract: A method is used for producing an SiC volume monocrystal by sublimation growth. Before the beginning of growth, an SiC seed crystal is arranged in a crystal growth region of a growth crucible and powdery SiC source material is introduced into an SiC storage region of the growth crucible. During the growth, by sublimation of the powdery SiC source material and by transport of the sublimated gaseous components into the crystal growth region, an SiC growth gas phase is produced there. The SiC volume monocrystal having a central center longitudinal axis grows by deposition from the SiC growth gas phase on the SiC seed crystal. The SiC seed crystal is heated substantially without bending during a heating phase before the beginning of growth, so that an SiC crystal structure with a substantially homogeneous course of lattice planes is provided in the SiC seed crystal.

Abstract: A transparent conductive element includes a base having a first surface and a second surface, and a transparent electrode pattern part and a transparent insulating pattern part formed on at least one of the first surface and the second surface. The transparent electrode pattern part and the transparent insulating pattern part are laid alternately on a base surface. Plural pore portions are randomly formed apart in the transparent electrode pattern part and. Plural island portions are randomly formed apart in the transparent insulating pattern part.