Abstract: A composition for a coating agent, which contains a fluoropolymer (component A) containing units (A2) having a compound represented by formula (1) reacted with units based on a hydroxy group-containing monomer and units (A1) based on a fluoroolefin, and component B represented by formula (2), wherein the proportion of the component A is from 10 to 90 mass % to the total content of the component A and the component B; wherein formula (1) is OCN(CH2)mSiXnR3-n, such that R is a hydrogen atom or a monovalent hydrocarbon group, X is an alkoxy group, n is an integer of from 1 to 3, and m is an integer of from 1 to 5; formula (2) is (R1)4-aSi(OR2)a, such that each of R1 and R2 which are independent of each other, is a monovalent hydrocarbon group, and “a” is an integer of from 1 to 4.

Abstract: A sealing material paste and a process for producing an electronic device are provided, which realize suppressing with good reproducibility generation of bubbles in a sealing layer when a rapid heating-rapid cooling process with a temperature-rising speed of at least 100° C./min is applied to seal two glass substrates together. The sealing material paste, wherein the amount of water is at most 2 volume %, is applied on a sealing region of a glass substrate 2, and such a coating film 8 is fired to form a sealing material layer 7. The glass substrate 2 is laminated with another glass substrate via a sealing material layer 7, and they are heated with a temperature-rising speed of at least 100° C./min to be sealed together.

Abstract: This invention relates to a glass substrate having a high glass transition temperature, a thermal expansion coefficient near that of soda-lime glass, and a low specific gravity, which is not prone to yellowing, and which also has good solubility and high productivity. The glass substrate has a composition in mass % in terms of oxide amount which is SiO2: 55-65%, Al2O3: 4-8%, MgO: 6-9%, CaO: 0.1-5%, SrO: 0.5-6%, BaO: 0-2%, MgO+CaO+SrO+BaO: 6.6-19%, Na2O: 0-5%, K2O: 9.5-21%, Na2O+K2O: 10-22%, ZrO2: 0.5-5%, and Fe2O3: 0.06-0.15%, has a specific gravity of 2.7 or less, an average thermal expansion coefficient at 50-350° C. of 80×10?7/° C. to 90×10?7/° C., and a glass transition temperature of at least 640° C., wherein, defining ? as viscosity, the temperature satisfying log ?=2 is at most 1550° C., and the yellow coloring b* of the glass surface is at most 8.

Abstract: Provided are a section for defining voxel data obtained by dividing an analysis domain including an object into plural rectangular parallelepipeds, giving voxel attributes to respective voxels, and storing the voxel attributes in a voxel data storage section; a section for generating initial point data which are smaller in number than the voxels using center points of the voxels, and storing the generated initial point data in an initial point data storage section; a section for defining divisional regions which are plural ones of the voxels based on the voxel attributes and the initial point data, and storing divisional region data of the defined divisional regions in divisional region data storage section; and a section for generating boundary surface data of each divisional region on the basis of the divisional region data, and storing the generated boundary surface data in calculation data storage section as calculation data.

Abstract: To provide a reflective mask blank for EUV lithography having an absorber layer having optical constants suitable for reducing the thickness. A mask blank for EUV lithography comprising a substrate, and a reflective layer for reflecting EUV light and an absorber layer for absorbing EUV light formed in this order on the substrate, wherein the absorber layer contains tantalum (Ta) and palladium (Pd), and in the absorber layer, the content of tantalum (Ta) is from 10 to 80 at %, the content of palladium (Pd) is from 20 to 90 at %, and the total content of Ta and Pd is from 95 to 100 at %.

Abstract: This invention relates to a vacuum degassing vessel wherein even if bubbles of molten glass come into contact with an inner wall of an upper space of a vacuum degassing vessel to produce a molten glass flowing along the inner wall, a molten glass can be discharged to the outside of the vacuum degassing vessel, thereby performing vacuum degassing without deteriorating composition homogeneity of the molten glass.

Abstract: A glass substrate for a CIGS solar cell, having high cell efficiency and high glass transition temperature is provided. The glass substrate for a vapor-deposited CIGS film solar cell has a glass transition temperature of at least 580° C. and an average thermal expansion coefficient of from 70×10?7 to 100×10?7/° C., wherein the ratio of the average total amount of Ca, Sr and Ba within from 10 to 40 nm in depth from the surface of the glass substrate to the total amount of Ca, Sr and Ba at 5,000 nm in depth from the surface of the glass substrate is at most 0.35, and the ratio of the average Na amount within from 10 to 40 nm in depth from the surface of the glass substrate after heat treatment to such average Na amount before the heat treatment is at least 1.5.

Abstract: To provide a liquid crystal alignment film having a sufficient alignment-regulating power and high resistance against blue laser beam and having, at the same time, excellent adhesion, and an optical element using it. A liquid crystal alignment film obtainable by bonding, by chemisorption to a substrate, an alignment-regulating precursor which undergoes anisotropic decomposition by irradiation with polarized ultraviolet light, and irradiating the alignment-regulating precursor bonded to the substrate, with polarized ultraviolet light, to let it undergo anisotropic decomposition and exhibit an alignment-regulating power.

Abstract: A method for producing a metamaterial including an electromagnetic wave resonator resonating with an electromagnetic wave. The method includes the steps of: (a) forming a support by a nanoimprint method or a photolithography method, the support including a portion on which an electromagnetic wave resonator is to be formed; and (b) vapor-depositing a material which can form the electromagnetic wave resonator on the portion of the support to thereby arrange the electromagnetic wave resonator on the support.

Abstract: Provided is an electronic device wherein at a time of laser-sealing a space between two glass substrates, it is possible to suppress generation of a crack or a breakage etc. in the glass substrates or a sealing layer. When a cross-section of the sealing layer 6 of the electronic device is observed, the sum total of perimeter lengths of the low expansion filler and the laser absorbent present in a unit area (fluidity inhibition value) is from 0.7 to 1.3 ?m?1, and the sum total (thermal expansion value) of a value obtained by multiplying the area ratio of the sealing glass by the thermal expansion coefficient, and a value obtained by multiplying the sum total of the area ratios of the low expansion filler and the laser absorbent by the thermal expansion coefficient of the low expansion filler, is from 50 to 90×10?7/° C.

Abstract: A front panel for a touch sensor, which comprises a transparent substrate, and a high resistance layer and an insulating layer having electrical insulating properties stacked in this order on the transparent substrate, wherein the surface resistivity of the high resistance layer is from 1 to 100 M?/?, and the luminous transmittance of the front plate for a touch sensor is at least 85%.

Abstract: Provision of a laminate excellent in weather resistance and gas barrier property and also excellent in adhesion between layers and its durability; and a process for producing such a laminate. A laminate which comprises a substrate sheet containing a fluororesin, and a gas barrier layer containing, as the main component, an inorganic compound composed of a metal and at least one member selected from the group consisting of oxygen, nitrogen and carbon, the gas barrier layer being directly laminated on at least one surface of the substrate sheet; wherein in a C1s spectrum of a surface of the substrate sheet on which the gas barrier layer is laminated, that is measured by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, the position of the highest peak present within a binding energy range of from 289 to 291 eV is present within a range of from 290.1 to 290.6 eV.

Abstract: To provide a laminate excellent in weather resistance, moisture-proof property, adhesion between layers and its long-term stability, and a process for its production. A laminate comprising a substrate sheet containing a fluororesin, an adhesive layer, and a moisture-proof layer containing, as the main component, at least one inorganic compound selected from the group consisting of an inorganic oxide, an inorganic nitride and an inorganic oxynitride, laminated in this order, wherein the adhesive layer contains, as the main component, at least one metal oxide selected from the group consisting of zirconium oxide, tantalum oxide and hafnium oxide.

Abstract: This invention relates to a support substrate that is to be attached to a substrate to be supported to thereby support the substrate to be supported, including: a support substrate main body having an attachment surface that is to be attached to the substrate to be supported; and a conductive film mainly including a fluorine-doped tin oxide, which has been formed on at least a surface opposite to the attachment surface among surfaces of the support substrate main body.

Abstract: To provide a water repellent composition which is capable of imparting sufficient water repellency and alcohol repellency to a hydrophobic substrate without significantly decreasing the antistatic property imparted to the hydrophobic substrate by an antistatic agent, and which presents a low environmental impact, its production method, a hydrophobic substrate treating agent composition and an article. A water repellent composition comprising a fluorinated copolymer having structural units based on a monomer (a) having a C1-6 polyfluoroalkyl group, structural units based on a monomer (b) having a C1-6 alkyl group and structural units based on a monomer (c) (halogenated olefin), and a medium, wherein the proportion of the structural units based on the monomer (a) is from 50 to 90 mass % of the structural units (100 mass %) based on all the monomers.

Abstract: To provide a coating composition with which a coating film excellent in the moisture resistance, the weather resistance and the corrosion resistance can be formed by a single application and removal of an organic solvent, a method for producing such a coating film, and a coated article having a coating film obtainable by it. A coating composition comprising an organic solvent, a coating resin soluble or dispersible in the organic solvent, and a leafing aluminum pigment, wherein the surface tension of the organic solvent at 20° C. is from 10 to 22 mN/m, and a method for producing a coating film, which comprises applying the coating composition to a substrate, and removing the organic solvent in the coating composition.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a TiO2-containing quartz glass substrate for an imprint mold having a main surface and a side surface, in which the side surface has an arithmetic average roughness (Ra) of 1 nm or less, and the side surface has a root mean square (MSFR_rms) of concaves and convexes in the wavelength region of from 10 ?m to 1 mm being 10 nm or less.

Abstract: A process for producing a metamaterial excellent in productivity is provided. The present invention relates to a process for producing a metamaterial including an electromagnetic wave resonator resonating with an electromagnetic wave, the process including: vapor-depositing a material which can form the electromagnetic wave resonator to a support having a shape corresponding to a shape of the electromagnetic wave resonator to thereby arrange the electromagnetic wave resonator on the support.

Abstract: The present invention provides a glass composition and a light extracting member using the same, where the glass composition does not substantially contain a lead oxide and an alkali metal oxide and has a glass transition temperature of 530° C. or less and acid resistance property. The present invention relates to an alkali-free cover glass composition which does not substantially contain a lead oxide and an alkali metal oxide; has a refractive index (nd) of 1.7 to 2.3; has a glass transition temperature of 530° C. or less; has a dissolution depth of less than 1.3 ?m as measured by an acid dipping weight loss measurement method; and contains 8 to 25% of Nb2O5 in terms of mol % on the basis of an oxide thereof.

Abstract: To provide a glass ceramic composition with which a substrate for a light emitting element having a high reflectance and a high thermal conductivity can be obtained, and which can suppress breakage at the time of production of the substrate for a light emitting element. A glass ceramic composition to be used for production of a substrate on which a light emitting element is to be mounted, which comprises from 30 to 45 mass % of a glass powder, from 35 to 50 mass % of an alumina powder and from 10 to 30 mass % of a zirconia powder, to the total amount of the glass powder, the alumina powder and the zirconia powder, wherein the average particle size of the zirconia powder is at most ¼ of the average particle size of the alumina powder.