Abstract: A film formation apparatus according to an embodiment includes a first chamber capable of accommodating a substrate therein and a second chamber capable of accommodating a substrate therein. A first oxygen supply system supplies oxygen to the first and second chambers simultaneously. A second oxygen supply system selectively switches a chamber, in which oxygen is supplied, at least between the first chamber and the second chamber.

Abstract: There is provided a laser scanning microscope apparatus including a first moving part equipped with an objective lens and configured to move the objective lens in a first direction, and a second moving part configured to be movable in a second direction orthogonal to the first moving part and equipped with the first moving part and a reflecting mirror that guides laser light radiated to an observation object and returning light of the observation object in a predetermined direction.

Abstract: An aluminum alloy brazing sheet having high corrosion resistance is provided, which develops the sacrificial anticorrosion effect in both surfaces of the sheet, which has the brazing function in one of both the surfaces, and which prevents the occurrence of preferential corrosion. A channel forming component for a vehicular heat exchanger is also provided by utilizing the aluminum alloy brazing sheet. An aluminum alloy brazing sheet having high corrosion resistance includes an aluminum alloy core, a filler material clad on one surface of the core, and a sacrificial anode material clad on the other surface of the core, wherein the filler material, the sacrificial anode material, and the core have respective predetermined alloy compositions. A channel forming component for a vehicular heat exchanger is manufactured using the aluminum alloy brazing sheet having high corrosion resistance.

Abstract: An aluminum-alloy brazing sheet having good corrosion resistance is provided. The aluminum-alloy brazing sheet comprises a core made of an aluminum alloy, a brazing filler metal made of an Al—Si based alloy and clad on one surface of the core, and a sacrificial anode material clad on the other surface of the core, the sacrificial anode material containing Zn: 1.0 to 6.0 mass %, Si: 0.5 to 1.5 mass %, Fe: 0.5 to 1.5 mass %, and Ti: 0.05 to 0.20 mass %, the core containing Si: 0.5 to 1.2 mass %, Fe: 0.05 to 0.60 mass %, Cu: 0.3 to 1.0 mass %, Mn: 0.5 to 1.6 mass %, and Ti: 0.05 to 0.20 mass %, and Vickers hardness of the sacrificial anode material after heating conducted in the same way as the brazing of the brazing sheet being not less than 30 Hv. A method of manufacturing the aluminum-alloy brazing sheet is also provided.

Abstract: A nonvolatile memory device includes: a substrate; a stacked structure member including a plurality of dielectric films and a plurality of electrode films alternately stacked on the substrate and including a through-hole penetrating through the plurality of the dielectric films and the plurality of the electrode films in a stacking direction of the plurality of the dielectric films and the plurality of the electrode films; a semiconductor pillar provided in the through-hole; and a charge storage layer provided between the semiconductor pillar and each of the plurality of the electrode films. At least one of the dielectric films includes a film generating one of a compressive stress and a tensile stress, and at least one of the electrode films includes a film generating the other of the compressive stress and the tensile stress.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes: a substrate; a stacked body including a plurality of electrode layers and a plurality of insulating layers, both of them being alternately stacked on the substrate; a cap film provided in contact with the electrode layer within a hole formed to penetrate the stacked body; an insulating film provided on a side wall of the cap film and including a charge accumulation film; and a channel body provided on a side wall of the insulating film. The cap film includes a protrusion portion protruding toward the insulating film. In the cap film, a film thickness of a portion where the protrusion portion is provided in a direction in which the protrusion portion protrudes is larger than a film thickness of the other portions where the protrusion portion is not provided.

Abstract: A fine particle measuring device includes an optical filter that is divided into a plurality of areas and is disposed on an optical path on which light emitted from a fine particle, which is irradiated with light, is guided to an optical detector. In the fine particle measuring device, the optical filter includes a first area having wavelength selectivity by which the first area blocks reflected light from the fine particle and an unnecessary scattered light component and transmits fluorescence, and a second area that is disposed around at least the first area and has no wavelength selectivity so as to transmit a necessary scattered light component.

Abstract: A method and system for appearance inspection of a core of a heat exchanger provided with fins and tubes, performing averaging and dynamic binarization on the imaging data to extract an image of only a tube, then calculating, with respect to the extracted tube image, a center axis across a long direction of the tube comprised of the center coordinates of the tube width direction, comparing the discovered center axis with a reference value to find the maximum displacement across the long direction of the tube, and judging the tube is a defect when the maximum displacement is greater than a predetermined threshold.

Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus including a correction unit that corrects at least position coordinates used to specify a position of an enlarged-image group generated in accordance with a scanning method of a microscope that scans a sample in vertical, horizontal, and depth directions and generates an image data group corresponding to the enlarged-image group of the sample, and a stereoscopic image generation unit that generates a stereoscopic image of the enlarged-image group by giving parallax to the corrected image data group.

Abstract: A minute particle analyzing device includes: a light source; a first condenser lens for condensing light from the light source to a first end of a multimode optical fiber; a second condenser lens for condensing the light emerging from a second end of the multimode optical fiber to a minute particle; and a detector for detecting light generated from the minute particle by the application of the light from the light source.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a microparticle analysis device including: a light source configured to irradiate a microparticle with light; an acousto-optic modulator configured to diffract fluorescence generated from the microparticle due to the light irradiation; a slit configured to allow transmission of only diffracted light in a diffraction center wavelength region among diffracted light beams from the acousto-optic modulator; and a detector configured to detect the diffracted light in the diffraction center wavelength region transmitted through the slit.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a light detection device including, at least, a substrate provided with a plurality of detection regions where to perform detection of fluorescent light emitted from the inside of a sample upon irradiation of the sample with light, a light irradiation section operable to perform the irradiation with light, an optical control section configured to irradiate the detection regions with the light radiated from the light irradiation section, and a light detection section operable to detect the fluorescent light.

Abstract: A technique for recording data onto a hologram recording medium using spatial light phase modulation corresponding to the recording data, and a technique for reproducing recorded data by properly reading information on phases recorded on a hologram recording medium. A signal beam having a phase modulation pattern corresponding to recording data and a reference beam having a specific phase modulation pattern are applied to the recording medium. Thus, recording data can be recorded onto the hologram recording medium using phase information. In addition, at the time of reproduction, a reference beam and a direct current (DC) beam, whose phase difference with respect to the reference beam is ?/2, are applied to the hologram recording medium. By reading the reproduction beam to which the DC beam is added, recorded information on phases can be correctly read, and recorded data can be reproduced in accordance with the phase information.

Abstract: A nonvolatile memory device includes: a substrate; a stacked structure member including a plurality of dielectric films and a plurality of electrode films alternately stacked on the substrate and including a through-hole penetrating through the plurality of the dielectric films and the plurality of the electrode films in a stacking direction of the plurality of the dielectric films and the plurality of the electrode films; a semiconductor pillar provided in the through-hole; and a charge storage layer provided between the semiconductor pillar and each of the plurality of the electrode films. At least one of the dielectric films includes a film generating one of a compressive stress and a tensile stress, and at least one of the electrode films includes a film generating the other of the compressive stress and the tensile stress.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a recording and reproducing device including: a light source; an intensity modulating section; a polarization beam splitter; a selective polarization direction controlling section; a linearly polarized light/circularly polarized light converting section; and a driving controlling section.

Abstract: An aluminum alloy brazing sheet having high strength comprising: a core alloy; an Al—Si-based filler alloy cladded on one side or both sides of the core alloy, wherein the core alloy is composed of an aluminum alloy containing 0.3-1.2% (mass %, the same applies the below) Si, 0.05-0.4% Fe, 0.3-1.2% Cu, 0.3-1.8% Mn, 0.05-0.6% Mg, and containing one or more elements selected from the group consisting of 0.02-0.3% Ti, 0.02-0.3% Zr, 0.02-0.3% Cr and 0.02-0.3% V, the balance of Al and unavoidable impurities; and wherein, after the aluminum alloy brazing sheet is subjected to brazing, the core alloy features a metallic structure in which a density of intermetallic compounds having a grain diameter of at least 0.1 ?m is at most ten grains per ?m2.

Abstract: A fin inspection method comprising a step of having an imaging device capture an image of the core and inputting into an image processing device the image data for storage, a step of setting a first region in the image data in which an image of the entire core is captured and setting a second region in which an image of at least a portion of all of the tubes is captured so as to identify position information of the tubes, a step of setting a third region for fin detection between adjacent tubes based on the identified position information of the tubes, a step of performing binarization and noise removal in the third region to obtain an image of the fins and identifying from the image of the fins the edge position information of the fins along a long direction of the tubes, and a step of performing statistical processing of the pitch intervals based on the edge position information of the fins and judging fin defects.

Abstract: A hologram recording and reconstruction apparatus records and reconstructs a hologram in a recording layer of a holographic recording medium using a signal light beam and a reference light beam. The apparatus includes an objective lens, a spatial light modulator on which a reference light beam pattern for generating a reference light beam is displayed, a temperature sensor for detecting the temperature of the holographic recording medium, and a control unit for controlling the spatial light modulator to reduce a reference light beam pattern so that the reference light beam passes through the more inner portion of the objective lens or enlarge the reference light beam pattern so that the reference light beam passes through the more outer portion of the objective lens in accordance with the temperature.

Abstract: A nonvolatile memory device includes: a substrate; a stacked structure member including a plurality of dielectric films and a plurality of electrode films alternately stacked on the substrate and including a through-hole penetrating through the plurality of the dielectric films and the plurality of the electrode films in a stacking direction of the plurality of the dielectric films and the plurality of the electrode films; a semiconductor pillar provided in the through-hole; and a charge storage layer provided between the semiconductor pillar and each of the plurality of the electrode films. At least one of the dielectric films includes a film generating one of a compressive stress and a tensile stress, and at least one of the electrode films includes a film generating the other of the compressive stress and the tensile stress.

Abstract: A fine particle measuring device includes an optical filter that is divided into a plurality of areas and is disposed on an optical path on which light emitted from a fine particle, which is irradiated with light, is guided to an optical detector. In the fine particle measuring device, the optical filter includes a first area having wavelength selectivity by which the first area blocks reflected light from the fine particle and an unnecessary scattered light component and transmits fluorescence, and a second area that is disposed around at least the first area and has no wavelength selectivity so as to transmit a necessary scattered light component.