Abstract: A method for making an adsorption device includes: providing and etching a substrate to form a plurality of receiving grooves spaced apart from each other; forming a magnetic film in each of the plurality of receiving grooves; and forming a magnet in each of the plurality of receiving grooves. Each receiving groove includes a bottom wall and a side wall coupling the bottom wall. The magnetic film covers the bottom wall and the side wall of each of receiving groove.

Abstract: A transferring method includes providing an adsorption device, using the adsorption device to attract and hold a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs), providing a target substrate with a plurality of spots of anisotropic conductive adhesive on a surface of the target substrate; moving the adsorption device or the target substrate wherein each of the plurality of LEDs adsorbed by the adsorption device becomes in contact with one of the plurality of spots of anisotropic conductive adhesive; and curing the plurality of spots of anisotropic conductive adhesive on the target substrate and moving away the adsorption device.

Abstract: An adsorption device includes a substrate and a magnetic film on a surface of the substrate. The substrate has magnetic properties and is capable of generating magnetic field. The magnetic film partially covers the surface. The magnetic film generates a magnetic field having a direction that is opposite to a direction of the magnetic field generated by the substrate. Portions of the surface of the substrate not covered by the magnetic film form positions to attract and adsorb target objects, and other portion of the surface of the substrate covered by the magnetic film is not able to attract any target object.

Abstract: A device to attract and hold microscopic items such as micro LEDs magnetically rather than by static electricity includes a substrate and a plurality of magnetic units on a surface of the substrate. The magnetic units are spaced apart from each other and are constrained in the size and direction of their individual magnetic fields. Each of the magnetic units includes a magnet and a cladding layer partially covering the magnet. The cladding layer is made of a magnetic material. A side of the magnet away from the substrate is exposed from the cladding layer to attract and hold one micro LED.

Abstract: A transferring method includes providing an adsorption device, using the adsorption device to attract and hold a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs), providing a target substrate with a plurality of spots of anisotropic conductive adhesive on a surface of the target substrate; moving the adsorption device or the target substrate wherein each of the plurality of LEDs adsorbed by the adsorption device becomes in contact with one of the plurality of spots of anisotropic conductive adhesive; and curing the plurality of spots of anisotropic conductive adhesive on the target substrate and moving away the adsorption device.

Abstract: An adsorption device includes a magnetic plate and a limiting layer. A surface of the magnetic plate includes a first region and a plurality of second regions spaced apart from each other. The first region and each second region do not overlap with each other. The first region forms a magnetic pole of the magnetic plate, and each second region forms the opposite magnetic pole of the magnetic plate. The limiting layer covers the first region. Each second region is exposed to the limiting layer and configured for adsorbing a small-scale LED as a target object.

Abstract: A method for making an adsorption device includes: providing and etching a substrate to form a plurality of receiving grooves spaced apart from each other; forming a magnetic film in each of the plurality of receiving grooves; and forming a magnet in each of the plurality of receiving grooves. Each receiving groove includes a bottom wall and a side wall coupling the bottom wall. The magnetic film covers the bottom wall and the side wall of each of receiving groove.

Abstract: An adsorption device includes a substrate, a plurality of magnetic films, and a plurality of magnets. The substrate defines a plurality of receiving grooves spaced apart from each other. Each receiving groove defines a bottom wall and a side wall. Each magnetic film is in one receiving groove and covers the bottom wall and the side wall. The magnetic films are made of magnetic material. Each magnet is in one receiving groove. Each magnetic film is between the substrate and one magnet, a large number of magnetized LEDs of very small size are attracted on a one-to-one basis to the receiving grooves for transfer and placement of the LEDs onto a display panel which is in the course of being manufactured.

Abstract: An adsorption device includes a substrate, a plurality of magnetic films, and a plurality of magnets. The substrate defines a plurality of receiving grooves spaced apart from each other. Each receiving groove defines a bottom wall and a side wall. Each magnetic film is in one receiving groove and covers the bottom wall and the side wall. The magnetic films are made of magnetic material. Each magnet is in one receiving groove. Each magnetic film is between the substrate and one magnet, a large number of magnetized LEDs of very small size are attracted on a one-to-one basis to the receiving grooves for transfer and placement of the LEDs onto a display panel which is in the course of being manufactured.

Abstract: An adsorption device includes a magnetic plate and a limiting layer. A surface of the magnetic plate includes a first region and a plurality of second regions spaced apart from each other. The first region and each second region do not overlap with each other. The first region forms a magnetic pole of the magnetic plate, and each second region forms the opposite magnetic pole of the magnetic plate. The limiting layer covers the first region. Each second region is exposed to the limiting layer and configured for adsorbing a small-scale LED as a target object.

Abstract: A device to attract and hold microscopic items such as micro LEDs magnetically rather than by static electricity includes a substrate and a plurality of magnetic units on a surface of the substrate. The magnetic units are spaced apart from each other and are constrained in the size and direction of their individual magnetic fields. Each of the magnetic units includes a magnet and a cladding layer partially covering the magnet. The cladding layer is made of a magnetic material. A side of the magnet away from the substrate is exposed from the cladding layer to attract and hold one micro LED.

Abstract: An adsorption device includes a substrate and a magnetic film on a surface of the substrate. The substrate has magnetic properties and is capable of generating magnetic field. The magnetic film partially covers the surface. The magnetic film generates a magnetic field having a direction that is opposite to a direction of the magnetic field generated by the substrate. Portions of the surface of the substrate not covered by the magnetic film form positions to attract and adsorb target objects, and other portion of the surface of the substrate covered by the magnetic film is not able to attract any target object.

Abstract: An illumination optical system which illuminates an illumination objective surface with a light from a light source. The illumination optical system includes a spatial light modulator which includes a plurality of optical elements arranged within a predetermined plane and controlled individually, and which forms a light intensity distribution in an illumination pupil of the illumination optical system; and a polarization unit which is arranged in a position optically conjugate with the predetermined plane, and which polarizes an incident light beam having a first and second partial light beams, coming into the polarization unit such that the first and second partial light beams have polarization states different from each other, and emits the polarized incident light beam as an outgoing light beam, wherein the polarization unit changes, in a cross section of the outgoing light beam, a ratio between a cross sectional areas of the first and second partial light beams.

Abstract: An illumination optical system can form a pupil intensity distribution with a desired beam profile. The illumination optical system for illuminating an illumination target surface with light from a light source is provided with a spatial light modulator which has a plurality of optical elements arrayed on a predetermined surface and individually controlled and which variably forms a light intensity distribution on an illumination pupil of the illumination optical system; a divergence angle providing member which is arranged in a conjugate space including a surface optically conjugate with the predetermined surface and which provides a divergence angle to an incident beam and emits the beam; and a polarizing member which is arranged at a position in the vicinity of the predetermined surface or in the conjugate space and which changes a polarization state of a partial beam of a propagating beam propagating in an optical path.

Abstract: A supported bi-metallic non-platinum catalyst that is capable of oxidizing hydrazine to produce, as by-products of energy production, nitrogen, water, and zero or near-zero levels of ammonia is described. The catalyst is suitable for use in fuel cells, particularly those that utilizes an anion-exchange membrane and a liquid fuel such as hydrazine.

Abstract: An illumination optical system which illuminates an illumination objective surface with a light from a light source. The illumination optical system includes a spatial light modulator which includes a plurality of optical elements arranged within a predetermined plane and controlled individually, and which forms a light intensity distribution in an illumination pupil of the illumination optical system; and a polarization unit which is arranged in a position optically conjugate with the predetermined plane, and which polarizes an incident light beam having a first and second partial light beams, coming into the polarization unit such that the first and second partial light beams have polarization states different from each other, and emits the polarized incident light beam as an outgoing light beam, wherein the polarization unit changes, in a cross section of the outgoing light beam, a ratio between a cross sectional areas of the first and second partial light beams.

Abstract: A power generation system includes: a heat source having a temperature being changed over time; a flow passage through which a heat medium heated by the heat source passes; a power generation device including a power generation element and a first electrode, the power generation element being electrically polarized by temperature change thereof depending on temperature change of the heat medium, the first electrode extracting electric power from the power generation element; a temperature detection device being disposed on an upstream side relative to the power generation device in the flow passage and detecting the temperature of the heat medium; a voltage application device that applies voltage to the power generation element; and a control device that activates the voltage application device when the temperature increase of the heat medium has been detected and deactivates the voltage application unit when the temperature decrease of the heat medium has been detected.

Abstract: An illumination optical system which illuminates an illumination objective surface with a light from a light source. The illumination optical system includes a spatial light modulator which includes a plurality of optical elements arranged within a predetermined plane and controlled individually, and which forms a light intensity distribution in an illumination pupil of the illumination optical system; and a polarization unit which is arranged in a position optically conjugate with the predetermined plane, and which polarizes an incident light beam having a first and second partial light beams, coming into the polarization unit such that the first and second partial light beams have polarization states different from each other, and emits the polarized incident light beam as an outgoing light beam, wherein the polarization unit changes, in a cross section of the outgoing light beam, a ratio between a cross sectional areas of the first and second partial light beams.

Abstract: A power-generating system includes a heat source which is able to produce temporal temperature variation; a first device which is able to produce temporal temperature variation based on the temperature change of the heat source and in which polarization occurs; a second device for taking out a net generating power from the first device; a temperature sensor that detects the temperature of the first device; a voltage application device that applies a voltage to the first device; and a control unit for activating the voltage application device on detecting an increase in temperature of the first device and for stopping the voltage application device on detecting a decrease in temperature of the first device by the temperature sensor.

Abstract: A display device a display region arranged with a plurality of pixels in a matrix shape, wherein each of the plurality of pixels includes a first electrode including a first conducting layer on the first conducting layer and comprised from Mo or a Mo alloy, a second conducting layer comprised from Ag or an Ag alloy, and a third conducting layer on the second conducting layer and comprised from a metal oxide having conducting properties, the first electrode being arranged corresponding to each of the pixels respectively, a light emitting layer above the third conducting layer and emitting light according to a current supply, and a second electrode above the light emitting layer and allowing at least a part of the light from the light emitting layer to pass through.