Abstract: The display device includes: a flexible display panel including a display portion in which scanning lines and signal lines cross each other; a supporting portion for supporting an end portion of the flexible display panel; a signal line driver circuit for outputting a signal to the signal line, which is provided for the supporting portion; and a scanning line driver circuit for outputting a signal to the scanning line, which is provided for a flexible surface of the display panel in a direction which is perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to the supporting portion.

Abstract: An e-book reader in which destruction of a driver circuit at the time when a flexible panel is handled is inhibited. In addition, an e-book reader having a simplified structure. A plurality of flexible display panels each including a display portion in which display control is performed by a scan line driver circuit and a signal line driver circuit, and a binding portion fastening the plurality of display panels together are included. The signal line driver circuit is provided inside the binding portion, and the scan line driver circuit is provided at the edge of the display panel in a direction perpendicular to the binding portion.

Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus includes: (a) a process tube including a cylindrical portion which is closed at an upper end and accommodates at least one substrate therein; (b) a supply buffer provided on a sidewall of the cylindrical portion to protrude outward from the sidewall; (c) at least one first injector provided inward of the supply buffer to extend along an axial direction of an axis of the cylindrical portion; and (d) a plurality of exhausters formed in the sidewall of the cylindrical portion to exhaust a precursor gas, the plurality of exhausters including a pair of exhausters open such that both sides of the pair of exhausters sandwich a virtual plane set to pass through a circumferential center of the cylindrical portion and the axis of the cylindrical portion at a boundary between the supply buffer and the cylindrical portion in a plan view.

Abstract: There is provided a technique that includes: (a) mounting a substrate on a mounting stage in which at least a part of a surface is constituted by a first member; (b) forming films by supplying a first gas, the films including a first film formed on a surface of the substrate and a second film having a portion continuous with the first film and formed on a surface of the first member; and (c) generating stress attributable to a difference in thermal deformation amount between the first member and the substrate, inside the second film, and making at least a part of the second film discontinuous.

Abstract: According to one aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a substrate processing method including: forming a film containing a predetermined element on a substrate by performing a first cycle a first predetermined number of times, the first cycle including: forming a first layer containing the predetermined element by performing a second cycle a second predetermined number of times, wherein a surface of the first layer is halogen-terminated and wherein the second cycle includes: supplying a first gas containing the predetermined element and a halogen element to the substrate; and removing the first gas; and forming a second layer containing the predetermined element by supplying a second gas containing the predetermined element to the substrate.

Abstract: A technique includes at least one chamber including a process chamber that is capable of processing a substrate and a shower head arranged in an upstream of the process chamber; a gas supplier that is capable of supplying a gas into the process chamber via the shower head; a first exhaust pipe communicating with the shower head; a second exhaust pipe communicating with the process chamber; a first exhaust controller installed in the first exhaust pipe; a first heater installed in the first exhaust pipe; and a controller configured to be capable of: (a) controlling the gas supplier so as to supply a processing gas as the gas to the shower head, and (b) controlling the gas supplier so as to supply a non-processing gas as the gas to the shower head.

Abstract: An electronic component according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes an element body and a terminal electrode. The element body includes an outer surface provided with a depression. The terminal electrode is disposed on the element body. The terminal electrode includes a first electrode portion and a second electrode portion. The first electrode portion is disposed in the depression. The second electrode portion protrudes from the depression. The second electrode portion is thicker than the first electrode portion.

Abstract: There is provided a technique that includes: (a) forming a first film containing a Group 14 element on a substrate at a film-forming temperature; (b) performing a crystal growth of the first film by performing a heat treatment to the first film at a first temperature; and (c) moving the Group 14 element contained in at least part of the first film toward the substrate to crystallize the first film by performing the heat treatment to the first film at a second temperature higher than the first temperature.

Abstract: There is provided a technique for suppressing interference between processes respectively performed in the plurality of reactors. According to one aspect thereof, a substrate processing apparatus includes: a first vessel including a transfer port and a process chamber; a second vessel adjacent to the first vessel and communicating with the first vessel via the transfer port; a lid for closing the transfer port; a seal arranged between the transfer port and the lid; and a controller for controlling the inner pressure of the first vessel to be lower than the inner pressure of the second vessel with the transfer port closed by the lid while the substrate is processed in the process chamber and the inner pressure of the first vessel to be higher than the inner pressure of the second vessel after the substrate is processed and before the first vessel comes into communication with the second vessel.

Abstract: There is provided a technique that includes: etching a portion of a first film formed on a surface of a substrate by performing a cycle a predetermined number of times, the cycle including: supplying an etching gas into a process chamber while raising an internal pressure of the process chamber in a state in which the substrate having the first film formed on the surface of the substrate is accommodated in the process chamber; and lowering the internal pressure of the process chamber by exhausting an interior of the process chamber in a state in which supply of the etching gas into the process chamber is stopped.

Abstract: There is provided a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, comprising forming a film on a substrate in a process chamber by performing a cycle a predetermined number of times. The cycle includes alternately performing supplying a halogen-based first process gas to the substrate in the process chamber, and supplying a non-halogen-based second process gas to the substrate in the process chamber. Further, an internal pressure of the process chamber in the act of supplying the first process gas is set to be higher than an internal pressure of the process chamber in the act of supplying the second process gas.

Abstract: There is provided a technique that includes partially etching a film formed on a surface of a substrate by performing a cycle a predetermined number of times, the cycle including: (a) setting a temperature of the substrate having the first film formed on the surface to a first temperature; (b) stabilizing an in-plane temperature of the substrate at the first temperature; and (c) lowering the temperature of the substrate having the in-plane temperature stabilized at the first temperature from the first temperature to a second temperature that is lower than the first temperature, wherein in (c), an etching gas is supplied to the substrate for a predetermined period.

Abstract: The present invention provides a technology that can reduce erroneous detection and detect a suspicious person from an image at high accuracy. A suspicious person detection device according to one example embodiment of the present invention includes: an eye direction detection unit that detects an eye direction of a subject; a face direction detection unit that detects a face direction of the subject; an environment information acquisition unit that acquires environment information indicating arrangement of an object around the subject; and a determination unit that, based on the face direction, the eye direction, and the environment information, determines whether or not the subject is showing suspicious behavior.

Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus including a detection unit that detects a difference from a previously detected marker in a predetermined marker, by image recognition processing on an image obtained by image-capturing an arrangement place of an article; and an execution unit that executes a process in accordance with the difference.

Abstract: An electronic component according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes an element body and a terminal electrode. The element body includes an outer surface provided with a depression. The terminal electrode is disposed on the element body. The terminal electrode includes a first electrode portion and a second electrode portion. The first electrode portion is disposed in the depression. The second electrode portion protrudes from the depression. The second electrode portion is thicker than the first electrode portion.

Abstract: There is provided a technique that includes: etching a portion of a first film formed on a surface of a substrate by performing a cycle a predetermined number of times, the cycle including: supplying an etching gas into a process chamber while raising an internal pressure of the process chamber in a state in which the substrate having the first film formed on the surface of the substrate is accommodated in the process chamber; and lowering the internal pressure of the process chamber by exhausting an interior of the process chamber in a state in which supply of the etching gas into the process chamber is stopped.

Abstract: There is provided a technique that includes (a) pre-etching a surface of a substrate made of single crystal silicon by supplying a first etching gas to the substrate; (b) forming a silicon film on the substrate with the pre-etched surface, by supplying a first silicon-containing gas to the substrate; (c) etching a portion of the silicon film by supplying a second etching gas, which has a different molecular structure from a molecular structure of the first etching gas, to the substrate; and (d) forming an additional silicon film on the etched silicon film by supplying a second silicon-containing gas to the substrate.

Abstract: There is provided a technique that includes partially etching a film formed on a surface of a substrate by performing a cycle a predetermined number of times, the cycle including: (a) setting a temperature of the substrate having the first film formed on the surface to a first temperature; (b) stabilizing an in-plane temperature of the substrate at the first temperature; and (c) lowering the temperature of the substrate having the in-plane temperature stabilized at the first temperature from the first temperature to a second temperature that is lower than the first temperature, wherein in (c), an etching gas is supplied to the substrate for a predetermined period.

Abstract: There is provided a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, comprising forming a film on a substrate in a process chamber by performing a cycle a predetermined number of times. The cycle includes alternately performing supplying a halogen-based first process gas to the substrate in the process chamber, and supplying a non-halogen-based second process gas to the substrate in the process chamber. Further, an internal pressure of the process chamber in the act of supplying the first process gas is set to be higher than an internal pressure of the process chamber in the act of supplying the second process gas.

Abstract: The present invention provides a technology that can reduce erroneous detection and detect a suspicious person from an image at high accuracy. A suspicious person detection device according to one example embodiment of the present invention includes: an eye direction detection unit that detects an eye direction of a subject; a face direction detection unit that detects a face direction of the subject; an environment information acquisition unit that acquires environment information indicating arrangement of an object around the subject; and a determination unit that, based on the face direction, the eye direction, and the environment information, determines whether or not the subject is showing suspicious behavior.