Abstract: It is an object to provide a semiconductor device including a thin film transistor with favorable electric properties and high reliability, and a method for manufacturing the semiconductor device with high productivity. In an inverted staggered (bottom gate) thin film transistor, an oxide semiconductor film containing In, Ga, and Zn is used as a semiconductor layer, and a buffer layer formed using a metal oxide layer is provided between the semiconductor layer and a source and drain electrode layers. The metal oxide layer is intentionally provided as the buffer layer between the semiconductor layer and the source and drain electrode layers, whereby ohmic contact is obtained.

Abstract: A highly reliable display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes a first light-emitting element, a second light-emitting element, a first insulating layer, and a second insulating layer. The first light-emitting element includes a first pixel electrode, a first EL layer over the first pixel electrode, and a common electrode over the first EL layer. The second light-emitting element includes a second pixel electrode, a second EL layer over the second pixel electrode, and the common electrode over the second EL layer. The first insulating layer covers the side surface and part of the top surface of the first EL layer and the side surface and part of the top surface of the second EL layer.

Abstract: A payment system includes: a merchandise reading unit that reads merchandise; a merchandise information acquisition unit that obtains a merchandise information about the read merchandise; a confirmation information output unit that outputs a confirmation information for confirming with a customer an intention of payment of the merchandise; a receiving unit that receives an input from the customer for the confirmation information; a face acquisition unit that obtains a face image of the customer; an iris acquisition unit that obtains an iris image of the customer; and a payment processing unit that performs a payment process for the merchandise on the basis of the input from the customer and on the basis of at least one of the face image and the iris image. According to such a payment system, the payment process for the merchandise can be properly performed.

Abstract: It is an object to provide a semiconductor device including a thin film transistor with favorable electric properties and high reliability, and a method for manufacturing the semiconductor device with high productivity. In an inverted staggered (bottom gate) thin film transistor, an oxide semiconductor film containing In, Ga, and Zn is used as a semiconductor layer, and a buffer layer formed using a metal oxide layer is provided between the semiconductor layer and a source and drain electrode layers. The metal oxide layer is intentionally provided as the buffer layer between the semiconductor layer and the source and drain electrode layers, whereby ohmic contact is obtained.

Abstract: An embodiment is to include an inverted staggered (bottom gate structure) thin film transistor in which an oxide semiconductor film containing In, Ga, and Zn is used as a semiconductor layer and a buffer layer is provided between the semiconductor layer and a source and drain electrode layers. The buffer layer having higher carrier concentration than the semiconductor layer is provided intentionally between the source and drain electrode layers and the semiconductor layer, whereby an ohmic contact is formed.

Abstract: As a display device has higher definition, the number of pixels is increased and thus, the number of gate lines and signal lines is increased. When the number of gate lines and signal lines is increased, it is difficult to mount IC chips including driver circuits for driving the gate lines and the signal lines by bonding or the like, whereby manufacturing cost is increased. A pixel portion and a driver circuit for driving the pixel portion are provided on the same substrate, and at least part of the driver circuit comprises a thin film transistor including an oxide semiconductor sandwiched between gate electrodes. A channel protective layer is provided between the oxide semiconductor and a gate electrode provided over the oxide semiconductor. The pixel portion and the driver circuit are provided on the same substrate, which leads to reduction of manufacturing cost.

Abstract: An inspection jig includes a rod-shaped probe, a first support portion that supports one end portion side of the probe, a second support portion that supports the other end portion side of the probe, and a separation holding member that holds the first support portion and the second support portion to be separated from each other. The first support portion includes a support plate in which a through hole through which the probe is inserted is formed. A reinforcing plate having bending strength stronger than that of the support plate is disposed on a surface of the support plate facing the second support portion.

Abstract: A probe has a substantially bar shape, and includes a tip end, a base end, and a body portion that is located between the tip end and the base end and has a thickness in a thickness direction orthogonal to an axial direction of the substantially bar shape thinner than the tip end. The body portion includes a slope surface that is continuous with the tip end and is inclined with respect to the axial direction in a direction in which the thickness becomes gradually thinner with increasing distance from the tip end. A first region having a surface shape that bulges outward is provided in at least a part of the slope surface.

Abstract: A probe has a substantially bar shape, and includes a tip end, a base end, and a body portion that is located between the tip end and the base end and has a thickness in a thickness direction orthogonal to an axial direction of the substantially bar shape thinner than the tip end. The body portion includes a slope surface that is continuous with the tip end and is inclined with respect to the axial direction in a direction in which the thickness becomes gradually thinner with increasing distance from the tip end. A first region having a surface shape that bulges outward is provided in at least a part of the slope surface.

Abstract: This inspection jig is provided with: an inspection-side support member having a counter plate (51) provided with a facing surface (F) disposed to face the substrate; and an electrode-side support member (6) having supporting plates (61-63) disposed to face an electrode plate (9) located on the side opposite to the facing surface (F) of the counter plate (51) A probe supporting hole (23), into and by which the rear end portion of the probe (Pr) is inserted and supported, is provided in the supporting plates (61-63), and the probe supporting hole (23) is provided with a restricting surface which is formed along a supporting line (V) inclined at a certain angle (?) with respect to a reference line (Z), and which restricts the rear end portion of the probe (Pr) from moving in the direction perpendicular to the inclined direction of the supporting line (V).

Abstract: The inspection jig includes a rod-shaped probe in which one end portion is brought into press contact with an inspection target; and a plate-shaped first support having a support hole which supports the probe. The support hole includes a first taper hole portion having a diameter that increases from a side of one wall surface of the first support toward a side of a plate-thickness-direction middle portion of the first support.

Abstract: A probe structure is provided with: a holding plate which has a first surface and a second surface in which at least the first surface is insulated; a plurality of electrodes which are formed on the first surface of the holding plate in such a state that the plurality of electrodes is separated from each other; and carbon nanotube structures which are erected on the electrodes 3. The holding plate is provided with through holes which correspond to the electrodes, respectively.

Abstract: A culture container has a first inflow port and a first outflow port. The first flow path connects the first outflow port to the first inflow port. A storage container is provided within the first flow path and has a second inflow port which is connected to the first outflow port and a second outflow port which is connected to the first inflow port. A second flow path connects a first region within the first flow path, and a second region within the first flow path. A division processing portion is provided within the second flow path, performs a division process of dividing a cell aggregation flowing in from the first flow path, and allows the cells subjected to the division process to flow out into the first flow path via the second region. A medium supply portion supplies a medium to the inside of the first flow path.

Abstract: This inspection jig is provided with: an inspection-side support member having a counter plate (51) provided with a facing surface (F) disposed to face the substrate; and an electrode-side support member (6) having supporting plates (61-63) disposed to face an electrode plate (9) located on the side opposite to the facing surface (F) of the counter plate (51) A probe supporting hole (23), into and by which the rear end portion of the probe (Pr) is inserted and supported, is provided in the supporting plates (61-63), and the probe supporting hole (23) is provided with a restricting surface which is formed along a supporting line (V) inclined at a certain angle (?) with respect to a reference line (Z), and which restricts the rear end portion of the probe (Pr) from moving in the direction perpendicular to the inclined direction of the supporting line (V).

Abstract: There is provided a cell culture bag including: plural tubular portions having gas permeability in which a tube axis direction is directed to a first direction and which are arranged side by side in a second direction intersecting with the first direction and are separated from each other using a partition wall; and communication portions having gas permeability which allow communication between two mutually adjacent tubular portions of the plural tubular portions in an intermediate region R between one end and the other end of the tubular portions.

Abstract: A culture container has a first inflow port and a first outflow port. The first flow path connects the first outflow port to the first inflow port. A storage container is provided within the first flow path and has a second inflow port which is connected to the first outflow port and a second outflow port which is connected to the first inflow port. A second flow path connects a first region within the first flow path, and a second region within the first flow path. A division processing portion is provided within the second flow path, performs a division process of dividing a cell aggregation flowing in from the first flow path, and allows the cells subjected to the division process to flow out into the first flow path via the second region. A medium supply portion supplies a medium to the inside of the first flow path.

Abstract: There is provided a cell culture bag including: plural tubular portions having gas permeability in which a tube axis direction is directed to a first direction and which are arranged side by side in a second direction intersecting with the first direction and are separated from each other using a partition wall; and communication portions having gas permeability which allow communication between two mutually adjacent tubular portions of the plural tubular portions in an intermediate region R between one end and the other end of the tubular portions.

Abstract: Disclosed is a film which is able to suppress agglutination by being continuously adhered to an adhesion target portion in a biological body while suppressing a position shift. A film includes an adhesive and an adhesion inhibiting layer. The adhesive layer absorbs and maintains a liquid in a plurality of pores which are opened in one film surface and has a capillary force for adhering the adhesive layer to a first-cell group. The adhesive layer is formed of a biodegradable polymer. The adhesion inhibiting layer configures the other film surface, and inhibits adhesion between a second-cell group which is different from the first-cell group and the adhesive layer. In the adhesive layer, the pore is formed not to be penetrated in a thickness direction of the film, and thus the first-cell group and the second-cell group are separated into the one film surface side and the other film surface side.

Abstract: A solution of polymer uniformly dissolved into a solvent is prepared in a solution preparing step. The solvent contains good and poor solvent components for the polymer. The solution is discharged from a coating die to a support to be a coating film thereon in a primary body forming step. A water drop generating step and a fluidity decreasing step are performed in parallel with each other while wet air is applied to the coating film. Water drops are generated on a surface of the coating film in the water drop generating step. The good solvent component is evaporated from the coating film to decrease fluidity of the solution for forming the coating film in the fluidity decreasing step. In the water drop evaporating step, dry air is applied to the coating film. The solvent and the water drops are evaporated from the coating film to obtain the porous film.

Abstract: In a coating zone, a cylindrical tube is soaked in and taken out from a solution, such that a coating film is formed on a curved surface of the tube. In a wet gas zone, while a first gas feeding nozzle having a gas outlet moves in a state where the gas outlet faces an outer peripheral surface of the tube, wet gas is blown toward the coating film through the gas outlet. Water drops are generated on the coating film and grown up. In a dry gas zone, as in the case of the first gas feeding nozzle, while a second gas feeding nozzle having a gas outlet moves, dry gas is blown toward the coating film through the gas outlet. Solvent and water drops are evaporated from the coating film. Pores form from the water drops as a template for the porous material on the coating film.