Abstract: The component placement substrate of the present invention can be produced easily with suppressed cracks in a thin film formed on a pattern film of the substrate. The present invention provides a component placement substrate provided with one or more pattern films on a substrate, wherein at least one of the pattern film(s) has a cross-sectional shape composed of a semi-elliptical circular upper part, and one of a forward taper shaped lower part and a approximately vertical taper shaped lower part and the average thickness of the lower part is 50 ? or larger and 3,000 ? or smaller.

Abstract: A composition for forming an aluminum fine particle dispersed film, which comprises a complex of an amine compound and aluminum hydride and a polymer component having film formability is prepared, and a film formed therefrom is heated or exposed to light to manufacture an aluminum fine particle dispersed film. The above composition can provide an Al fine particle dispersed film which can be used in electronic devices or optical devices, an Al wiring pattern film and an Al mirror film.

Abstract: A display includes in each of display areas: a reflective area containing a non-light-emitting display element for effecting a display by means of a liquid crystal display element reflecting external light; and a light-emitting area containing a light-emitting display element for effecting a display by means of an organic EL element directly modulating external light, the reflective area and the light-emitting area being ordered in some manner. The display further includes a first substrate and a second substrate positioned opposite to each other, and the light-modulating element and the light-emitting element are both provided between the first substrate and the second substrate. Thus, a display and a method of manufacturing thereof can be offered which allows for reduction in size and cost and delivers excellent visibility from outdoors to indoors.

Abstract: A pattern forming method of the present invention includes the steps of forming, on a substrate before droplets are ejected onto the substrate, a water repelling area, in which a contact angle between the droplet and the target surface is a first contact angle, and a water attracting line, which is adjacent to the water repelling area and in which a second contact angle is smaller than the first contact angle and which is to be the pattern to be formed; and landing droplets onto the target surface such that part of the droplet landed is in a water repelling area and part of the droplet landed is in a water attracting line, the equation (1) is satisfied, D?L×{1+2(cos ?2?cos ?1)}??(1) where D is a droplet diameter, L is a pattern width, ?1 is a first contact angle, and ?2 is a second contact angle. By decreasing the number of discharged droplets, it is possible to prevent increase of a tact time and decrease of an inkjet operating life.

Abstract: A TFT array substrate includes a thin film transistor section in which a gate electrode is formed on a substrate, and a semiconductor layer is formed on the gate electrode via a gate insulation layer. The semiconductor layer of this TFT array substrate has a shape formed by dropping a droplet. Accordingly, it is possible to directly forming a semiconductor layer, or a resist layer for forming the semiconductor layer, by dropping a droplet(s). On this account, the present invention allows the use of an inkjet method, thus reducing costs and numbers of manufacturing processes.

Abstract: A manufacturing method of a thin film transistor of the present invention includes the steps of (i) forming an electrode formation area in which a source electrode and a drain electrode are formed by applying a droplet of an electrode raw material, (ii) applying the droplet of the electrode raw material on drop-on positions located off a forming area of a semiconductor layer and in the electrode formation area, and (iii) forming the source electrode and the drain electrode in the electrode formation area. With this arrangement, it is possible to surely prevent adherence of a splash droplet on a channel section between each electrode, in forming the source electrode and the drain electrode by applying the droplet of the electrode raw material.

Abstract: A conductive ink composition is obtained by dispersing, in an organic solvent, a solid material made from metal fine particles each coated with protective colloids each made of at least two organic compounds, the metal fine particles consisting of an alloy containing at least a noble metal. Each of the protective colloids is made from, e.g., a raw material containing an (A) amine and a (B) carboxylic acid. By applying and baking the conductive ink composition, grain growth is restrained. This allows acquirement of a metal film whose surface smoothness is excellent, and whose adhesiveness to an application target is improved as compared with that of a metal film made from a conventional conductive ink composition.

Abstract: A pattern formation substrate comprising a substrate having thereon a hydrophobic region exhibiting repellency to liquid drops and a hydrophilic line exhibiting affinity with liquid drops. The hydrophilic line has such a surface treatment that upon landing of a liquid drop thereon, the liquid drop moves in the arrowed direction. Thus, attachment of liquid drops to regions to which liquid drops should not be adhered can be prevented, thereby enabling forming a pattern of desired characteristics.

Abstract: A pattern forming method of the present invention includes the steps of forming, on a substrate before droplets are ejected onto the substrate, a water repelling area, in which a contact angle between the droplet and the target surface is a first contact angle, and a water attracting line, which is adjacent to the water repelling area and in which a second contact angle is smaller than the first contact angle and which is to be the pattern to be formed; and landing droplets onto the target surface such that part of the droplet landed is in a water repelling area and part of the droplet landed is in a water attracting line, the equation (1) is satisfied, D?Lx{1+2(cos ?2?cos ?1)}??(1) where D is a droplet diameter, L is a pattern width, ?1 is a first contact angle, and ?2 is a second contact angle. By decreasing the number of discharged droplets, it is possible to prevent increase of a tact time and decrease of an inkjet operating life.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate placed to face the first substrate, and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first and second substrates. The liquid crystal layer further includes: a splay-aligned region in which a transformation from splay alignment to bend alignment or from bend alignment to splay alignment occurs according to a voltage applied; and a nucleation region serving as a nucleation site for initiating the transformation to occur in the splay-aligned region. A plurality of first splay-aligned regions include two first splay-aligned regions connected to each other via one of a plurality of second splay-aligned regions.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes two substrates, a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the substrates and two alignment films, each being provided on one surface of associated one of the substrates so as to face the liquid crystal layer. The device defines multiple picture elements. At least one of the two alignment films is made of a polymer material that includes a main chain, an atomic group having a bond that is selectively cut when exposed to an actinic ray and a side chain bonded to the main chain via the atomic group. The polymer material with the side chain can give a pretilt angle of greater than 85 degrees but 90 degrees or less to liquid crystal molecules. The polymer material without the side chain can give a pretilt angle of 2 degrees to 15 degrees to the liquid crystal molecules.

Abstract: A circuit substrate of the present invention uses as component materials for gate lines and gate electrodes, silver alloy material containing silver as a main component, and at least one element selected from the group consisting of tin, zinc, lead, bismuth, indium, and gallium. It is especially preferable that the silver alloy material mainly consisting of silver and containing indium is used for the gate lines and the gate electrodes. With this, it is possible to provide silver alloy material whose resistance value, adhesion, plasma resistance, and reflection characteristics can be appropriately adjusted by the adjustment of the content of indium. Further, it is also possible to apply the alloy in accordance with the characteristic required for each part of the circuit substrate.

Abstract: The present invention provides a wiring material for forming wiring on a substrate by causing coalescence of conductive particles through heating, and including a binder layer and a wiring layer. The binder layer contains metal particles and having a binder function to be adhered to the substrate; and the wiring layer contains metal particles and laminated on the binder layer. The metal particles of the binder layer and the metal particles of the wiring layer are in contact with each other. With this arrangement, it is possible to provide a wiring material allowing use of a larger variety of materials, while also ensuring low resistance of wiring and improvement of adhesion between the wiring and the substrate.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device comprises: a layer of a chiral liquid crystal material disposed between first and second substrates; and means for applying a voltage across the liquid crystal layer. A first region of the liquid crystal layer is an active region for display and a second region of the liquid crystal layer is a nucleation region for generating a desired liquid crystal state in the first region when a voltage is applied across the liquid crystal layer. The ratio of the thickness d of the liquid crystal layer to the pitch p of the liquid crystal material has a first value (d/p)A in the first region of the liquid crystal layer and has a second value (d/p)N different from the first value in the second region of the liquid crystal layer.

Abstract: A reflector includes a substrate, a plurality of convex/concave portions formed on the substrate, and a thin reflective film formed over the convex/concave portions. When light is incident upon the reflector from a certain direction, an intensity of reflected light in a viewing angle range of about −45° to +45° with respect to a regular reflection direction of the incident light 10 is about 60% or more of an intensity of light which is incident upon a standard white plate from a direction inclined by about 30° from a direction normal to the plate and is reflected to the direction normal to the plate.

Abstract: The liquid crystal display device of the present invention includes a first substrate, a second substrate placed to face the first substrate, and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first and second substrates. The liquid crystal layer includes: a splay-aligned region in which a transformation from splay alignment to bend alignment or from bend alignment to splay alignment occurs according to a voltage applied; and a nucleation region serving as a nucleation site for initiating the transformation to occur in the splay-aligned region. The nucleation region includes a plurality of first nucleation regions each extending in a first direction and a plurality of second nucleation regions each extending in a second direction different from the first direction. The splay-aligned region includes a plurality of first splay-aligned regions having a first width in the second direction and a plurality of second splay-aligned regions having a second width smaller than the first width in the second direction.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes two substrates, a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the substrates and two alignment films, each being provided on one surface of associated one of the substrates so as to face the liquid crystal layer. The device defines multiple picture elements. At least one of the two alignment films is made of a polymer material that includes a main chain, an atomic group having a bond that is selectively cut when exposed to an actinic ray and a side chain bonded to the main chain via the atomic group. The polymer material with the side chain can give a pretilt angle of greater than 85 degrees but 90 degrees or less to liquid crystal molecules. The polymer material without the side chain can give a pretilt angle of 2 degrees to 15 degrees to the liquid crystal molecules.

Abstract: In a 3-D image display device, a parallax barrier having a plurality of apertures is provided in front of an LCD element. Each aperture is equipped with a color filter of any one of red, green, and blue colors. The LCD element conducts monochromatic display, and hence, no color filters are provided therein. In the LCD element, regarding each color, a pixel group is provided at each position corresponding to the color filter of the color, the pixel group being composed of a plurality of pixels which are driven in response to an image signal corresponding to the color. With this arrangement, when the number of parallax images for a 3-D image is increased so that a fine 3-D image is obtained, the yield of the display element, and further, the yield of the 3-D image display device, can be improved. Besides, the cost of the device can be lowered.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device comprises: a layer of a chiral liquid crystal material disposed between first and second substrates; and means for applying a voltage across the liquid crystal layer. A first region of the liquid crystal layer is an active region for display and a second region of the liquid crystal layer is a nucleation region for generating a desired liquid crystal state in the first region when a voltage is applied across the liquid crystal layer. The ratio of the thickness d of the liquid crystal layer to the pitch p of the liquid crystal material has a first value (d/p)A in the first region of the liquid crystal layer and has a second value (d/p)N different from the first value in the second region of the liquid crystal layer.

Abstract: In a two-dimensional image detecting device, an active-matrix substrate which is provided with an electrical charge storage capacity and TFT(thin-film transistor) and an opposing substrate which is provided with a semiconductive substrate are bonded to each other by using connecting members with conductivity and bonding property that are patterned in accordance with pixel electrodes of the electrical charge storage capacity. With this arrangement, it is not necessary to form a semiconductive layer onto the active-matrix substrate, the TFT having been already formed on the active-matrix substrate; thus, it is possible to form the semiconductive substrate of the opposing substrate that is made of a material selected from the group consisting of CdTe and CdZnTe, etc. Consequently, the two-dimensional image detecting device is superior in response and is capable of dealing with moving image as well.