Abstract: An industrially useful p-type oxide semiconductor with an enhanced semiconductor characteristic and a method of forming the p-type oxide semiconductor is provided. By using a metal oxide (for example, iridium oxide) gas as a raw material and conducting a crystal growth on a base with a corundum structure (for example, a sapphire substrate) until a film thickness to be equal to or more than 50 nm, a p-type oxide semiconductor film with a corundum structure includes a film thickness of equal to or more than 50 nm and a surface roughness of equal to or less than 10 nm is obtained.

Abstract: A cooling structure includes a power storage stack including power storage cells, first and second end plates, a refrigerant supply path for supplying refrigerant, and first paths each provided in a clearance between two of the adjacent power storage cells. The first end plate is configured to form a second path communicating with the refrigerant supply path in a clearance between a first end of the power storage stack and the first end plate. The second end plate is configured to form a third path communicating with the refrigerant supply path in a clearance between a second end of the power storage stack and the second end plate. The power storage stack is cooled to have a temperature distribution in which the power storage cells disposed on the second end side have temperatures higher than the temperatures of the power storage cells disposed on the first end side.

Abstract: An erasing unit according to an embodiment of the present disclosure is a unit that performs erasing of information written on a reversible recording medium. This erasing unit includes: a light source section including one or a plurality of laser devices; and a controller that controls the light source section to cause the light source section to emit a smaller number of laser light beams having emission wavelengths than the number of the recording layers included in the reversible recording medium.

Abstract: A gas vent duct includes a lower case, an upper case, and a valve element. The valve element includes a shaft at its upper part and pivots on the shaft from a blocking position so that the gas vent pathway communicates with the outside of the vehicle compartment. The blocking position is a position in which the valve element blocks the ventilation pathway. The lower case includes a support supporting the shaft so that the valve element is pivotable. The support covers the shaft from above. A recess is defined by a portion of the inner surface of the upper case that is located above the support, the recess being recessed upward. When the recess and the support are seen from above, at least a part of the support is located within the recess.

Abstract: Disposing a functional device such as a camera on a display surface widens a frame. A display device (2) includes a display panel (DP) including a first substrate (5). The display panel has a transparent section (TS) from which display light does not go out and which has a partial region (5s) of the first substrate. In plan view, the transparent section which is larger than a pixel (PX) is disposed on an inner side of an edge of a display area (3) or is disposed to cut out the display area. The display panel has a back surface on which a functional device (FD) configured to perform at least one of light reception or light emission is disposed to overlap the transparent section.

Abstract: A light source device, a projector, and a chromaticity adjustment method, which are resistant to a change in the color of emitted light even if used for a long period of time, includes: an excitation light source that emits excitation light; a phosphor wheel that is irradiated with excitation light to convert a part of excitation light into fluorescent light and that emits mixed color light including the fluorescent light and a remaining part of excitation light; motor that rotates phosphor wheel; and an adjustment unit that adjusts the rotational frequency of motor so that the chromaticity of mixed color light emitted from phosphor wheel becomes a predetermined value.

Abstract: A crystalline oxide film with excellent crystalline qualities that is useful for semiconductors requiring heat dissipation is provided. A crystalline oxide film including a first crystal axis, a second crystal axis; a metal oxide as a major component that includes gallium, a first side; and a second side that is shorter than the first side, a linear thermal expansion coefficient of the first crystal axis is smaller than a linear thermal expansion coefficient of the second crystal axis, a direction of the first side is parallel and/or substantially parallel to a direction of the first crystal axis, and a direction of the second side is parallel and/or substantially parallel to a direction of the second crystal axis.

Abstract: A crystalline oxide semiconductor with excellent crystalline qualities that is useful for semiconductors requiring heat dissipation is provided. A crystalline oxide semiconductor including a first crystal axis, a second crystal axis, a first side, and a second side that is shorter than the first side, a linear thermal expansion coefficient of the first crystal axis is smaller than a linear thermal expansion coefficient of the second crystal axis, a direction of the first side is parallel and/or substantially parallel to a direction of the first crystal axis, and a direction of the second side is parallel and/or substantially parallel to a direction of the second crystal axis.

Abstract: A projector that can increase the brightness of an image, includes: first and second image forming elements that each include micromirrors; a projection lens that projects images formed on the first and second image forming elements; and a light source/optical unit that irradiates the first and second image forming elements with first blue light and second blue light in a first display period, and irradiates the first image forming element with the green light and irradiates the second image forming element with the red light in a second display period.

Abstract: A highly accurate pulse height spectrum is generated within a short amount of time, further cost of a radiation imaging apparatus being reduced by employing a detector that performs calibration using the pulse height spectrum. Provided is a pulse height spectrum acquisition device of a radiation detector including multiple counting units for counting a detected signal obtained by detecting incident X-rays, when a value of the detected signal is equal to or larger than a threshold, and for outputting a count value of each counting unit.

Abstract: A semiconductor device with an enhanced semiconductor characteristics that is useful for power devices. A semiconductor device including: a semiconductor region; a barrier electrode arranged on the semiconductor region; and two or more adjustment regions of barrier height that are on a surface of the semiconductor region and arranged between the semiconductor region and the barrier electrode, the adjustment regions are configured such that barrier height at an interface between the adjustment regions and the barrier electrode is higher than barrier height at an interface between the semiconductor region and the barrier electrode.

Abstract: A reversible recording medium according to an embodiment of the present disclosure is a reversible recording medium that includes recording layers and heat-insulating layers that are alternately stacked, in which the recording layers each include a reversible heat-sensitive color developing composition and a first light-heat converting agent. In this reversible recording medium, the recording layers are different from each other in a developing color of their respective reversible heat-sensitive color developing compositions and are different from each other in an absorption wavelength of their respective first light-heat converting agents. This reversible recording medium further includes a heat-generating layer that includes a second light-heat converting agent having an absorption wavelength that is different from the absorption wavelength of the first light-heat converting agent included in each of the recording layers.

Abstract: In a first aspect of a present inventive subject matter, a layered structure includes a base layer, and a crystalline oxide film including a corundum structure and including an r-plane as a principal plane. The crystalline oxide film is directly arranged on the base layer or through at least one layer that is adjacently arranged to the base layer, and the crystalline oxide film is with a full width at half maximum (FWHM) of rocking curve that is 0.1° or less by ?-scan X-ray diffraction (XRD) measurement.

Abstract: A light source device includes: a fluorescent rod that contains a fluorescent substance; at least one light-guide element including a first end face, a second end face having a smaller area than that of the first end face, and a side surface portion that reflects incident light from the first end face to condense on the second end face, the second end face being optically joined to a surface of the fluorescent rod except for the emission surface; a plurality of excitation light sources arranged to face the first end face of the light-guide element; and a dichroic film provided on the surface of the fluorescent rod expect for the emission surface and having the properties of transmitting excitation light and reflecting fluorescent light.

Abstract: An advertisement consideration calculating system according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a receiving section that receives location information and time information of a moving body; and a determining section that determines a consideration for advertisement posting on the moving body on the basis of the location information and the time information received by the receiving section.

Abstract: A biometric-information measuring electrode includes a conductive bundle including a plurality of conductive wires and having a distal end which is one end and a rear end which is another end, a terminal electrically connected to the conductive bundle, a support portion located adjacent to the distal end of the conductive bundle and movably supporting the conductive bundle, and a protrusion mechanism (a first protrusion mechanism) configured to protrude the conductive bundle toward the distal end. The distal end of the conductive bundle is capable of coming into contact with a living organism. The support portion keeps a relative position of the conductive bundle to the terminal in a state in which the protrusion mechanism is not performing an operation to protrude the conductive bundle. This allows the electrode to be repeatedly used even if the electrode is soiled.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to make a photon-counting CT apparatus capable of more accurate data acquisition. Such apparatus is provided with a reference detection unit and a time measuring instrument to measure temporal fluctuations in a rotational direction of an X-ray irradiation unit. The apparatus corrects temporal fluctuations in the rotational direction involved in data measured by the reference detection unit, using time measurement data which is output by the time measuring instrument. Using corrected measurement data measured by the reference detection unit, the apparatus makes corrections of fluctuations pertaining to the X-ray tube of the X-ray irradiation unit and pile-up. Data corrections with high accuracy are thus enabled.

Abstract: An object of this invention is to create an actuator in which the amount of deformation is maintained and no displacement in the reverse direction occurs, even when a constant voltage is continuously applied for a long period of time. As a means for achieving the above object, the invention provides a conductive thin film comprising a polymer gel containing at least one organic molecule selected from the group consisting of electron-donating organic molecules and electron-withdrawing organic molecules, a nano-carbon material, an ionic liquid, and a polymer.

Abstract: A crystalline oxide semiconductor film with an enhanced electrical property is provided. By use of a mist CVD apparatus, a crystalline oxide semiconductor film with a corundum structure and a principal plane that is an a-plane or an m-plane was obtained on a crystalline substrate by atomizing a raw-material solution containing a dopant that is an n-type dopant to obtain atomized droplets, carrying the atomized droplets by carrier gas onto the crystalline substrate that is an a-plane corundum-structured crystalline substrate or an m-plane corundum-structured crystalline substrate placed in a film-formation chamber, and the atomized droplets were thermally reacted to form the crystalline oxide semiconductor film on the crystalline substrate.

Abstract: A reversible recording medium according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a first layer that reversibly changes between an achromatic state and a transparent state, and a second layer that reversibly changes between a chromatic state and a transparent state.