Abstract: A method for producing an organic EL device and the organic EL device, capable of enhancing reliability of the organic EL device by suppressing peeling caused by stress concentration to each layer end through reduction in the stress concentration even in the case of using a roll-to-roll process. The method includes: supplying a substrate from a delivery roll to a wind-up roll; forming a first electrode layer over the substrate; forming an organic EL layer over the first electrode layer; and forming a second electrode layer over the organic EL layer. The first electrode layer s formed using a shadow mask. At least a part of a side surface of the first electrode layer is a tapered surface of inwardly sloping from a lower side toward an upper side. An angle formed between the tapered surface and the surface of the substrate on the side over which the first electrode layer is formed is 1° or less.

Abstract: A light source device includes a first light source, a second light source having an emission wavelength that is different from the first light source, and a phosphor that is disposed to be distant from the first light source and the second light source and absorbs light in a predetermined excitation wavelength band to emit fluorescence. The phosphor is disposed on an emission light optical path that is shared by the first light source and the second light source. The emission wavelength of the first light source is in the predetermined excitation wavelength band. The emission wavelength of the second light source is outside of the predetermined excitation wavelength band.

Abstract: An image capturing apparatus includes: a light irradiation section that irradiates a subject with a plurality of irradiation light rays resulting from combining light rays having respectively different spectrum forms in respectively different combinations, at respectively different timings; and an image capturing section that captures a plurality of images of the subject irradiated with the plurality of irradiation light rays, at respectively different timings.

Abstract: In a process for producing an oriented inorganic crystalline film, a non-monocrystalline film containing inorganic crystalline particles is formed on a substrate by a liquid phase technique using a raw-material solution which contains a raw material and an organic solvent, where the inorganic crystalline particles have a layered crystal structure and are contained in the raw material. Then, the non-monocrystalline film is crystallized by heating the non-monocrystalline film to a temperature equal to or higher than the crystallization temperature of the non-monocrystalline film so that part of the inorganic crystalline particles act as crystal nuclei.

Abstract: There is provided a defect detection apparatus including: a light illumination section; a group of lenses including an object lens and a focusing lens; a light splitter section that splits the light passing through the lens group into two beams; a deflecting section; a phase shifting section that shifts the phase of the at least one of the beams from the two beams; a wave combining section that wave combines the two beams phase shifted by the phase shifting section; and an imaging section that captures an optical image of light wave combined by the wave combining section, wherein the object lens and the focusing lens are disposed such that two beams that have passed through the focusing lens are parallel to each other and the main axes of the two beams that have passed through the focusing lens are parallel to each other.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes a light source unit that selectively outputs white light and light in a different wavelength band to an observation target, an imaging unit including an imaging device, and a spectral image formation circuit that generates a spectral image signal for a specified wavelength by an operation using an image signal based on an output from the imaging unit and predetermined matrix data. The imaging unit selectively obtains an image of the observation target for each of first, second and third light components in a visible light region and an image for each of at least fourth and fifth light components in a near-infrared region. Further, the imaging unit includes first spectral devices that make only the first and fourth light components enter first pixels of the imaging device and second spectral devices that make only the second and fifth light components enter second pixels thereof.

Abstract: An image forming method in which a planographic printing plate precursor having, on a support, an image recording layer containing (A) a polymerization initiator, (B) a polymerizable compound, and (C) a binder polymer, and having photosensitivity in a wavelength range of 250 nm to 420 nm, is subjected to exposure using laser light in the wavelength range of 250 nm to 420 nm, and a one-pixel drawing time is one millisecond or less, a planographic printing plate precursor having the image recording layer which further contains (D) a compound having a polymerizable group and a support adsorptive group, or (F) a filler, and a planographic printing method including development-on-machine, are provided.

Abstract: The invention provides an image recording method and a lithographic printing method in which both high image quality and good fine line reproducibility can be achieved, and high sensitivity and safety under white light can be obtained, and the image recording method for a lithographic printing plate, which comprises imagewise exposing with an imaging time per pixel of 1 millisecond or less using a laser light with an emission wavelength of from 250 nm to 420 nm, wherein the lithographic printing plate precursor comprises a support and an image recording layer, in which the image recording layer contains (A) a polymerization initiator and (B) a polymeric compound and has an image recording layer which is photosensitive in a wavelength of from 250 nm to 420 nm, and the support has an anodized film with sealed micropores on the surface; and a lithographic printing method utilizing the same.

Abstract: A light source device includes a first light source 33, a second light source 35 having an emission wavelength that is different from the first light source 33, and a phosphor 43 that is disposed to be distant from the first light source 33 and the second light source 35 and absorbs light in a predetermined excitation wavelength band to emit fluorescence. The phosphor 43 is disposed on an emission light optical path that is shared by the first light source 33 and the second light source 35. The emission wavelength of the first light source 33 is in the predetermined excitation wavelength band. The emission wavelength of the second light source 35 is outside of the predetermined excitation wavelength band.

Abstract: An image capturing apparatus includes: a light irradiation section that irradiates a subject with a plurality of irradiation light rays resulting from combining light rays having respectively different spectrum forms in respectively different combinations, at respectively different timings; and an image capturing section that captures a plurality of images of the subject irradiated with the plurality of irradiation light rays, at respectively different timings.

Abstract: In a process for producing an oriented inorganic crystalline film, a non-monocrystalline film containing inorganic crystalline particles is formed on a substrate by a liquid phase technique using a raw-material solution which contains a raw material and an organic solvent, where the inorganic crystalline particles have a layered crystal structure and are contained in the raw material. Then, the non-monocrystalline film is crystallized by heating the non-monocrystalline film to a temperature equal to or higher than the crystallization temperature of the non-monocrystalline film so that part of the inorganic crystalline particles act as crystal nuclei.

Abstract: In a process for producing a thin-film device, a thermal-buffer layer is formed over a substrate which contains a resin material as a main component, and a light-cutting layer is formed over at least a region of the substrate over which a non-monocrystalline film to be annealed is not to be formed, where the light-cutting layer prevents damage from short-wavelength light to the substrate by reducing a proportion of the short-wavelength light which reaches the substrate. Thereafter, the non-monocrystalline film which is to be annealed is formed in a pattern over the substrate having the thermal-buffer layer, and an inorganic film is formed by irradiating the non-monocrystalline film with the short-wavelength light so as to anneal the non-monocrystalline film.

Abstract: In a process for producing a thin-film device having an inorganic film formed over a resin-based substrate, a thermal-buffer layer is formed over a substrate which contains a resin material as a main component, and a light-cutting layer is formed over the thermal-buffer layer, where the light-cutting layer prevents damage from short-wavelength light to the substrate by reducing the proportion of the short-wavelength light which reaches the substrate. Thereafter, a non-monocrystalline film which is to be annealed is formed over the light-cutting layer, where the non-monocrystalline film transmits the short-wavelength light to such a degree that the short-wavelength light can damage the substrate. Then, an inorganic film is formed by irradiating the non-monocrystalline film with the short-wavelength light so as to anneal the non-monocrystalline film.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes a light source unit that selectively outputs white light and light in a different wavelength band to an observation target, an imaging unit including an imaging device, and a spectral image formation circuit that generates a spectral image signal for a specified wavelength by an operation using an image signal based on an output from the imaging unit and predetermined matrix data. The imaging unit selectively obtains an image of the observation target for each of first, second and third light components in a visible light region and an image for each of at least fourth and fifth light components in a near-infrared region. Further, the imaging unit includes first spectral devices that make only the first and fourth light components enter first pixels of the imaging device and second spectral devices that make only the second and fifth light components enter second pixels thereof.

Abstract: An image exposing apparatus two-dimensionally scans a printing plate precursor with a light beam modulated based on an image signal to carry out image exposure on the printing plate precursor. The image exposing apparatus includes exposing device for emitting a light beam in a pulsed form with a predetermined pulse repetition period onto the printing plate precursor; branching device for branching at least a part of the light beam emitted from the exposing device; a pulse stretcher for stretching a pulse width of a branch beam branched by the branching device; synchronous signal generator for generating a synchronous signal synchronized with the pulse repetition period of the light beam from the branch beam having the pulse width stretched by the pulse stretcher; and modulating device for modulating the light beam emitted from the exposing device with an image exposure period synchronized with the synchronous signal.

Abstract: In a laser annealing process for transforming a noncrystalline semiconductor film into a laterally-crystallized film: irradiation of a region with laser light and a shift of the position of the region to be irradiated are repeated, where the shift is made so that each region to be irradiated contains a subregion of granular crystals produced by previous irradiation and a subregion of noncrystalline semiconductor material which has not yet been crystallized, and the shifted region is irradiated under such a condition that the granular crystals and the noncrystalline semiconductor material which are contained in the second region are transformed into lateral crystals without melting one or more regions of lateral crystals produced in the semiconductor film by previous irradiation.

Abstract: An image forming method in which a planographic printing plate precursor having, on a support, an image recording layer containing (A) a polymerization initiator, (B) a polymerizable compound, and (C) a binder polymer, and having photosensitivity in a wavelength range of 250 nm to 420 nm, is subjected to exposure using laser light in the wavelength range of 250 nm to 420 nm, and a one-pixel drawing time is one millisecond or less, a planographic printing plate precursor having the image recording layer which further contains (D) a compound having a polymerizable group and a support adsorptive group, or (F) a filler, and a planographic printing method including development-on-machine, are provided.

Abstract: The invention provides an image recording method and a lithographic printing method in which both high image quality and good fine line reproducibility can be achieved, and high sensitivity and safety under white light can be obtained, and the image recording method for a lithographic printing plate, which comprises imagewise exposing with an imaging time per pixel of 1 millisecond or less using a laser light with an emission wavelength of from 250 nm to 420 nm, wherein the lithographic printing plate precursor comprises a support and an image recording layer, in which the image recording layer contains (A) a polymerization initiator and (B) a polymeric compound and has an image recording layer which is photosensitive in a wavelength of from 250 nm to 420 nm, and the support has an anodized film with sealed micropores on the surface; and a lithographic printing method utilizing the same.

Abstract: The image recording method and apparatus are used to record an image formed by a group of light source elements disposed in a two-dimensional manner corresponding to recording pixels on a recording medium. In the image recording method and apparatus, an image recording position on the recording medium by the group of light source elements is moved in a direction that contains a component in at least one of two-dimensional disposing directions of the group of light source elements during the recording while modulating, in response to the movement, each recording pixel of the group of light source elements in accordance with an image to be recorded to thereby record the image on the recording medium. The image recording position is moved in accordance with a set magnification for changing the resolution par recording pixel of the group of light source elements.

Abstract: The image recording method and image recording apparatus synchronize phase of a light deflector with rotation of a drum in response to the drum start point detection signal generated each time the drum rotates once, expose the two-dimensional image of one frame formed by a group of light sources disposed two-dimensionally onto the recording medium while causing the image at rest on the recording medium relatively thereto, thereafter move the optical system in the auxiliary scanning direction by an integral multiple of a pixel pitch forming one frame as well as deflect an angle of the light deflector in the main scanning direction by one frame so as to expose the next frame and on for one rotation of the drum.