Abstract: A solid electrolyte material includes a first crystal phase. The first crystal phase has a composition that is deficient in Li as compared with a composition represented by the following composition formula (1).

Abstract: A solid electrolyte material contains Li, M, and X. M contains Y, and X is at least one selected from the group consisting of Cl, Br, and I. A first converted pattern, which is obtained by converting the X-ray diffraction pattern of the solid electrolyte material to change its horizontal axis from the diffraction angle to q, includes its base peak within the range in which q is 2.109 ??1 or more and 2.315 ??1 or less. A second converted pattern, which is obtained by converting the X-ray diffraction pattern to change its horizontal axis from the diffraction angle to q/q0, where q0 is the q corresponding to the base peak in the first converted pattern, includes a peak within each of the range in which q/q0 is 1.28 or more and 1.30 or less and the range in which q/q0 is 1.51 or more and 1.54 or less.

Abstract: A solid electrolyte material contains Li, Y, at least one selected from the group consisting of Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba, Zn, Sc, La, Sm, Bi, Zr, Hf, Nb, and Ta, and at least one selected from the group consisting of Cl, Br, and I. An X-ray diffraction pattern of the solid electrolyte material obtained by using Cu-K? radiation as the X-ray source includes peaks within the range in which the diffraction angle 2? is 25° or more and 35° or less, and also includes at least one peak within the range in which the diffraction angle 2? is 43° or more and 51° or less.

Abstract: Provided is a solid electrolyte material composed of Li, M, and X, where M is at least one kind of element selected from the group consisting of metalloid elements and metallic elements other than Li, and X is at least one kind of element selected from the group consisting of F, Cl, Br and I. In the solid electrolyte material, the mathematical formula FWHM/2?p?0.015 is satisfied, where FWHM represents a half bandwidth of an X-ray diffraction peak having the highest intensity within a range of a diffraction angle 2? of not less than 25 degrees and not more than 35 degrees in an X-ray diffraction pattern provided by an X-ray diffraction measurement of the solid electrolyte material; the X-ray diffraction measurement using a Cu-K? ray; and 2?p represents a diffraction angle of a center of the X-ray diffraction peak. A value rCA provided by dividing a sum of ionic radii of Li and M by a sum of ionic radii of X is more than 0.261 and less than 0.306.

Abstract: Provided is a solid electrolyte material represented by the following composition formula (1): Li3?3d(Y1?xMx)1+dX6 Formula (1) where M is an element having an ionic radius larger than that of Y; X is at least one kind of element selected from the group consisting of F, Cl, Br and I; 0<x?1; and ?0.15?d?0.15.

Abstract: A thermoelectric generator system according to the present disclosure includes first and second thermoelectric generator units, each including tubular thermoelectric generators. Each of the generators has a flow path defined by its inner peripheral surface, and generates electromotive force in an axial direction thereof based on a temperature difference between its inner and outer peripheral surfaces. Each unit further includes: a container housing the generators inside; and electrically conductive members providing electrical interconnection for the generators. The container has fluid inlet and outlet ports through which a fluid flows inside, and openings into which the generators are inserted. A buffer vessel is arranged between the first and second units, and has a first opening communicating with the flow paths of the generators in the first unit and a second opening communicating with the flow paths of the generators in the second unit.

Abstract: A solid electrolyte material according to an aspect of the present disclosure is represented by the following Compositional Formula (1): Li6-3zYzX6 where, 0<z<2 is satisfied; and X represents Cl or Br.

Abstract: A stage apparatus includes a plate-like stage plate having a spread in a first direction and a second direction intersecting with the first direction and a plate member having a linear expansion coefficient different from that of the stage plate. The stage apparatus includes: a first holding unit configured to hold the plate member on the stage plate; a second holding unit configured to hold the plate member on the stage plate, allow relative deformation caused between the stage plate and the plate member in the first direction, and constrain the relative deformation in the second direction; and a third holding unit configured to hold the plate member on the stage plate, constrain the deformation in the first direction, and allow the deformation in the second direction.

Abstract: An adapter which controls rotation of a microscope on which a slide is placed and an imaging unit and which easily performs correction of a rotation shift is provided. The adapter includes a first connection member connected to a microscope, a second connection member connected to an imaging unit, a rotation member arranged between the first and second connection members and configured to rotate the second connection member relative to the first connection member using optical axes of the microscope and the imaging unit at a center, a control member configured to be fixed on one of the first and second connection members and control the rotation of the connection member, and a driving member configured to be engaged with the first connection member or the second connection member and change a position of the second connection member relative to the first connection member around the optical axes.

Abstract: A thermoelectric generator system according to the present disclosure includes first and second thermoelectric generator units, each including tubular thermoelectric generators. Each of the generators has a flow path defined by its inner peripheral surface, and generates electromotive force in an axial direction thereof based on a temperature difference between its inner and outer peripheral surfaces. Each unit further includes: a container housing the generators inside; and electrically conductive members providing electrical interconnection for the generators. The container has fluid inlet and outlet ports through which a fluid flows inside, and openings into which the generators are inserted. A buffer vessel is arranged between the first and second units, and has a first opening communicating with the flow paths of the generators in the first unit and a second opening communicating with the flow paths of the generators in the second unit.

Abstract: A slide used for observation by a microscope includes a label area configured to arrange a label, a cover glass area configured to arrange an observation object and a cover glass, a position reference mark arranged in a vacant area between the label area and the cover glass area and configured to specify a reference position of the slide and an X-axis direction and a Y-axis direction that are orthogonal to each other, and focus reference marks in which a predetermined pattern is repetitively arranged along two opposing sides of four sides of a periphery of the cover glass area, the focus reference marks being configured to specify a Z-axis direction orthogonal to the X-axis direction and the Y-axis direction.

Abstract: A microscope system includes an observation optical system including an objective lens, an imaging unit configured to capture an image of an observation object obtained by the observation optical system, and a stage movable in an X-axis direction, a Y-axis direction, and a Z-axis direction, on which a slide of the observation object is placed. The microscope system obtains position information defined by the X-axis direction, the Y-axis direction, and the Z-axis direction, and stores the obtained position information and the image of the observation object obtained by capturing the observation object by the imaging unit in a storage in association with each other.

Abstract: A microscope system includes a microscope body, a camera connected to an observation optical system of the microscope body, and an XY stage on which a slide of an observation object is placed and which is configured to move in an X-axis direction and a Y-axis direction that are orthogonal to each other. The XY stage includes an XY two-dimensional scale plate. The XY two-dimensional scale plate includes a first mark configured to provide X-axis direction axis information and Y-axis direction axis information of the stage, and a second mark which is provided within an observable region of the camera on the same plane as the first mark and which is available for recognizing a position of an XY plane of the first mark in a Z-axis direction at each of a plurality of points by focus detection of the camera.

Abstract: The present invention provides a thermoelectric conversion material represented by the following chemical formula Mg3+mAaBbD2-eEe. The element A represents at least one selected from the group consisting of Ca, Sr, Ba and Yb. The element B represents at least one selected from the group consisting of Mn and Zn. The value of m is not less than ?0.39 and not more than 0.42. The value of a is not less than 0 and not more than 0.12. The value of b is not less than 0 and not more than 0.48. The element D represents at least one selected from the group consisting of Sb and Bi. The element E represents at least one selected from the group consisting of Se and Te. The value of e is not less than 0.001 and not more than 0.06. The thermoelectric conversion material has a La2O3 crystalline structure. The thermoelectric conversion material is of n-type. The present invention provides a novel thermoelectric conversion material.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for reducing carbon dioxide electrochemically to generate ethylene selectively. In the present method, a carbon dioxide reduction catalyst comprising a crystalline copper phthalocyanine is used to generate ethylene selectively by reducing carbon dioxide electrochemically on a cathode electrode.

Abstract: An exemplary thermoelectric generator unit according to the present disclosure includes a plurality of tubular thermoelectric generators. Each generator generates electromotive force in an axial direction based on a difference in temperature between its inner and outer peripheral surfaces. The unit further includes a container housing the generators inside and a plurality of electrically conductive members providing electrical interconnection among the generators. The container has fluid inlet and outlet ports through which a fluid flows inside the container, and a plurality of openings into which the respective generators are inserted. In one implementation, the unit includes a baffle, which is provided between the fluid inlet port and the generators and changes the flow direction of the fluid that has flowed into the container through the fluid inlet port.

Abstract: A thermoelectric power generation system of the present disclosure includes first and second thermoelectric power generation units. Each of the thermoelectric power generation units includes a plurality of tubular thermoelectric generators. The first and second thermoelectric power generation units are electrically connected to each other such that a first impedance caused by the tubular thermoelectric generator included in the first thermoelectric power generation unit is matched with a second impedance caused by the tubular thermoelectric generator included in the second thermoelectric power generation unit.

Abstract: An n-type thermoelectric conversion material expressed in a chemical formula X3-xX?xT3-yCuySb4 (0?x<3, 0?y<3.0, and x+y>0), the X includes one or more element(s) of Zr and Hf, the X? includes one or more element(s) of Nb and Ta, and the T includes one or more element(s) selected from Ni, Pd, and Pt, while including at least Ni, the n-type thermoelectric conversion material expressed in the chemical formula X3-xX?xT3-yCuySb4 has symmetry of a cubic crystal belonging to a space group I-43d.

Abstract: A thermoelectric conversion material expressed by a chemical formula X3T3-yT?ySb4 (0.025?y?0.5), wherein the X includes one or more elements selected from Zr and Hf, the T includes one or more elements selected from Ni, Pd, and Pt, while including at least Ni, and the T? includes one or more elements selected from Co, Rh, and Ir.

Abstract: A thermoelectric generation unit according to the present disclosure includes a plurality of thermoelectric generation tubes. Each tube has a flow path defined by its inner peripheral surface, and generates an electromotive force in an axial direction based on a temperature difference between its inner peripheral surface and outer peripheral surface. The thermoelectric generation unit includes a container housing the tubes inside, and a plurality of electrically conductive members providing electrical interconnection for the tubes. The container includes a shell surrounding the tubes and a pair of plates being fixed to the shell and having a plurality of openings, with channels being formed so as to house the electrically conductive members and interconnect at least two of the openings. The respective ends of the tubes are inserted in the openings of the plates. The tubes are connected electrically in series by the electrically conductive members housed in the channels.