Abstract: To provide a translucent substrate which sufficiently improves the power generation efficiency of a solar cell, and a solar cell module. A translucent laminated film to be provided on the light receiving surface side of a photoelectric conversion layer, which comprises, in order from the light receiving surface side of the photoelectric conversion layer, a translucent substrate which protects the photoelectric conversion layer, a substrate front side wavelength conversion film having a wavelength conversion function to convert a light in a wavelength region in which the photoelectric conversion efficiency is low, which includes a light in a wavelength region in which the transmittance through at least the translucent substrate is low, into a light in a wavelength region in which the photoelectric conversion efficiency is high, and an antireflection film which reduces reflection of the received light.

Abstract: A disclosed glass plate is formed by converging flow streams of molten glass, which have a same composition and are caused to flow downward along left and right surfaces respectively of a forming body, in a vicinity of a root of the forming body, wherein neither front nor back surface of the glass plate is polished, wherein a convergent plane between the flow streams deviates to one side from a center plane lying at a center between the front surface of the glass plate and the back surface of the glass plate.

Abstract: To provide a non-aqueous electrolyte solution for secondary batteries, which has long-term nonflammability and practically sufficient conductivity and which is capable of suppressing a decrease of battery capacity due to charge and discharge at a high rate, and a secondary battery using such a non-aqueous electrolyte solution. A non-aqueous electrolyte solution for secondary batteries, comprising a lithium salt and a solvent for dissolving the electrolyte salt, containing a specific hydrofluoroether, a specific ether other than such a hydrofluoroether, and a predetermined amount of a cyclic carbonate compound which is a compound having a ring made of carbon atoms and oxygen atoms, said ring containing a bond represented by —O—C(?O)—O—, and which contains no carbon-carbon unsaturated bond in its molecule; and a secondary battery comprising such non-aqueous electrolyte solution for secondary batteries, a positive electrode and a negative electrode.

Abstract: A shape measuring apparatus includes: an image pick-up section that captures an image of two reflection spot groups of a pattern reflected in a first surface M1 and a second surface of a transparent flat plate and generates an image containing two reflection images separated in a direction perpendicular to a direction of extending; a first surface reflection spot group estimating section that estimates from the image a first surface reflection spot group of the pattern generated by the first surface of the transparent flat plate; an inclination angle calculating section that calculates an inclination angle of the first surface of the transparent flat plate at an estimated position of the first surface reflection spot group; and a surface shape determining section that determines a shape of the first surface of the transparent flat plate based on the calculated inclination angle.

Abstract: To provide a process for producing a glass substrate provided with an aluminum oxide-containing silicon oxide film. (1) A process for producing a glass substrate provided with an aluminum oxide-containing silicon oxide film, which comprises applying a coating liquid containing an organopolysiloxane and an organic aluminum complex to a glass substrate within a temperature range of from 400 to 650° C. to form an aluminum oxide-containing silicon oxide film on the glass substrate, and (2) a process for producing a glass substrate comprising forming molten glass into a glass ribbon, annealing the glass ribbon and cutting it to produce a glass substrate, wherein a coating liquid containing an organopolysiloxane and an organic aluminum complex is applied to the glass ribbon at a position where the glass ribbon is within a temperature range of from 400 to 650° C. to form an aluminum oxide-containing silicon oxide film on the glass ribbon.

Abstract: To provide a process for producing a glass substrate provided with an inorganic fine particle-containing silicon oxide film. (1) A process for producing a glass substrate provided with an inorganic fine particle-containing silicon oxide film, which comprises applying a coating liquid containing an organopolysiloxane having an exothermic peak temperature of at most 500° C. and inorganic fine particles to a glass substrate within a temperature range of from 400 to 650° C., or (2) a process for producing a glass substrate, comprising forming molten glass into a glass ribbon, annealing the glass ribbon and cutting it to produce a glass substrate, wherein a coating liquid containing an organopolysiloxane having an exothermic peak temperature of at most 500° C. and inorganic fine particles is applied to the glass ribbon at a position where the glass ribbon is within a temperature range of from 400 to 650° C.

Abstract: To provide a plasma display device whereby it is possible to improve the image quality and at the same time to reduce warpage of a thin cover glass plate having a large area. A plasma display device 10 is provided which comprises a plasma display panel 20 provided with glass substrates 21, 22, and a cover glass plate 30 bonded to the display side of the plasma display panel 20, wherein the cover glass plate 30 has a diagonal length of at least 81 cm and a thickness of at most 1.5 mm, and the average thermal expansion coefficient of the cover glass plate 30 is from 80 to 120% of the average thermal expansion coefficient of the glass substrates 21, 22 within a range of from 50 to 350° C.

Abstract: The present invention provides a technology capable of measuring three-dimensional shapes by applying a stereo method even in the case that an object has a specular surface. A shape measuring apparatus 1 is equipped with a pattern position specification section 20 (before-movement pattern position specification section, after-movement pattern position specification section), an image capturing position calculation section 30 (before-movement image capturing position calculation section, after-movement image capturing calculation section), a pixel area specification section 40 (second pixel area specification section), an inclination angle calculation section 50 (before-movement inclination angle calculation section, after-movement inclination angle calculation section), a height-direction coordinate determination section 60, and an output section 80.

Abstract: There are provided an organic thin-film solar cell having high charge transport efficiency and increased photoelectric conversion efficiency, and a method for producing the organic thin-film solar cell. An organic thin-film solar cell including in series a transparent substrate 2, a cathode 3, a photoelectric conversion layer 7 having a regular phase-separated structure composed of an electron donor layer 5, and an electron acceptor layer 6, at least one of the electron acceptor layer 6 and the electron donor layer 5 having a liquid crystalline organic material containing oriented liquid crystalline molecules, an anode 9, and a substrate 10.

Abstract: To provide a process for producing a fluoroalkyl iodide, whereby the selectivity for a fluoroalkyl iodide having a desired degree of polymerization is high and the productivity is high. A process for producing a fluoroalkyl iodide (2) represented by RfCF2CF2I (wherein Rf is a fluoroalkyl group having at most 4 carbon atoms), which comprises reacting a fluoroalkyl iodide (1) represented by RfI with tetrafluoroethylene in the presence of a radical initiator, wherein a first reaction step of supplying and reacting tetrafluoroethylene and a radical initiator to the fluoroalkyl iodide (1), is followed by repeating (n?1) times (provided that n is an integer of at least 3) a subsequent reaction step of supplying and reacting a radical initiator, or a radical initiator and tetrafluoroethylene, to a reaction mixture (1) formed in the first reaction step.

Abstract: To provide a water/oil repellent agent and a water/oil repellent composition which are capable of imparting sufficient water/oil repellency to the surface of an article and which have low environmental impact. One comprising a reaction product obtained by reacting a fluorinated alcohol or amine having a polyfluoroalkyl moiety having at most 6 carbon atoms with a polyisocyanate compound, which is, when applied to an article, capable of imparting sufficient water/oil repellency, while presenting little environmental impact. When applied to an article, the water/oil repellent composition of the present invention is capable of imparting a high quality water/oil repellency to the article.

Abstract: An oxide ceramics sintered compact comprises three kinds of phases of cordierite, mullite, and sapphirine as crystal phases is characterized in that, with a sum of contents of MgO, Al2O3, and SiO2 being 100 mass %, it contains MgO of not less than 12 mass % and 14 mass % or less, Al2O3 of not less than 34 mass % and 39 mass % or less, and SiO2 of not less than 47 mass % and 51 mass % or less, and a content of a substance except MgO, Al2O3, and SiO2 is less than 1.5 mass % of the whole sintered compact.

Abstract: A GIGS type solar cell comprising; an insulative supporting substrate; a rear surface electrode layer provided on the insulative supporting substrate; a GIGS layer provided on the rear surface electrode layer; a buffer layer provided on the GIGS layer; and a transparent front surface electrode layer provided on the buffer layer; the solar cell further comprising an alkali metal supply layer provided between the insulative supporting substrate and the rear surface electrode layer or provided between the rear surface electrode layer and the GIGS layer, or between the insulative supporting substrate and the rear surface electrode layer and between the rear surface electrode layer and the GIGS layer; and the alkali metal supply layer containing at least one compound selected from the group consisting of a LiNbO3 compound, a NaNbO3 compound and a KNbO3 compound.

Abstract: To provide a wavelength conversion film which is capable of maintaining an optical wavelength converting function for a long term as compared with conventional wavelength conversion films. A wavelength conversion film 1 comprising a single layered film consisting of a resin composition containing a thermoplastic resin 10, a wavelength converting material 12 and a specific nickel(II) dialkyldithiocarbamate 14, or a laminated film having a wavelength converting layer consisting of the resin composition, wherein the alkyl group of the specific nickel(II) dialkyldithiocarbamate 14 is an ethyl group or a butyl group, and the content of the specific nickel(II) dialkyldithiocarbamate 14 is from 20 to 250 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of the wavelength converting material 12.

Abstract: There are provided a coating solution for forming an ultraviolet-absorbing film that has mechanical durability such as abrasion resistance, sufficiently secures colorlessness and transparency, and has less deterioration of ultraviolet-absorbing ability caused by long-time light exposure, and an ultraviolet-absorbing glass article having an ultraviolet-absorbing film that is formed by using the coating solution, has mechanical durability such as abrasion resistance, sufficiently secures colorlessness and transparency, and has less deterioration of ultraviolet-absorbing ability caused by long-time light exposure. A coating solution for forming an ultraviolet-absorbing film including: a silicon oxide-based matrix material component consisting of at least one selected from hydrolyzable silicon compounds; an ultraviolet absorber; an acid having a primary proton pKa from of 1.0 to 5.0; and a water and an ultraviolet-absorbing glass article obtained by using it.

Abstract: In a process for cutting a work piece 10 by irradiating a front surface 11 of the work piece 10 with first heating light 43 and second heating light 44 and moving the irradiation regions 100 and 200 of each light along a planned cutting line 12 on the front surface 11, the first heating light 43 has a width W1 extending in a direction orthogonal to the moving direction thereof on a certain area of the front surface 11, the width of the first heating light being set so as to be smaller than a width W2 of the second heating light 44 extending in a direction orthogonal to the moving direction of the second heating light, and the irradiation region 100 of the first heating light 43 being moved in tandem with the irradiation region 200 of the second heating light 44, which precedes the first irradiation region.

Abstract: Provided is a compound represented by the formula (1): wherein R1 and R2 are each independently a hydrogen atom or a straight chain alkyl group having a carbon number of 1-3, R3 is a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having a carbon number of 1-4, an alkoxyalkyl group, an aryl group, a halogen atom or a haloalkyl group, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, which has, unlike known PGI2 analogs, a selective EP4 agonist action, and a medicament containing the compound, which is useful for the prophylaxis and/or treatment of immune diseases, diseases of the digestive tract, cardiovascular diseases, cardiac diseases, respiratory diseases, neurological diseases, ophthalmic diseases, renal diseases, hepatic diseases, bone diseases, skin diseases and the like.

Abstract: A glass antenna for a vehicle that has a first element elongated in a first direction, a second element elongated in a second direction, a third element including first, second and third partial elements that are each elongated in specific directions, and a fourth element elongated in the second direction but detours the second element in the second direction.

Abstract: To provide a process for producing a polyoxyalkylene polyol having a high primary hydroxylation rate of the terminal hydroxyl groups, in spite of a low degree of total unsaturation and a low content of oxyethylene groups. A process for producing a polyoxyalkylene polyol, which comprises: a first polymerization step of subjecting an alkylene oxide to ring-opening addition polymerization to an initiator in the presence of a DMC catalyst (a1) to obtain a first intermediate polyol; a second polymerization step of subjecting, propylene oxide to ring-opening addition polymerization in the presence of a polymerization catalyst (a2) made of an alkali metal hydroxide and/or an alkali metal alcoholate compound to obtain a second intermediate polyol; and a third polymerization step of subjecting, ethylene oxide to ring-opening addition polymerization in the presence of a polymerization catalyst (a2) to obtain a polyoxyalkylene polyol (A1).

Abstract: To provide an adhesive laminate of which the change with time of high speed peel property is small. An adhesive laminate comprising a substrate layer and an adherence substance layer, wherein the adherence substance layer is a layer obtained by curing a curable composition containing the following silyl group-containing polymer (S) and an organosilicate compound: Silyl group-containing polymer (S): a silyl group-containing polymer having a polyether chain, a polyester chain and/or a polycarbonate chain in its main chain and having a hydrolyzable silyl group at its molecular terminal. The adhesive laminate has appropriate properties as a surface protective sheet.