Abstract: A probe medium for being placed on a substrate comprising a probe which can specifically bond to a target substance, and a substance having a site which can bond to the probe and a substance having a site which can bond to a substrate surface. A process for manufacturing a substrate an immobilized probe comprising the steps of providing a substrate, and providing the substrate with a probe medium comprising a probe which can specifically bond to a target substance and a substance having a site which can bond to the probe and a substance having a site which can bond to a substrate surface. Probe medium comprises a probe which can specifically bond to a target substance, a water-soluble polymer material, and a high boiling solvent. A process for immobilizing a probe comprising the steps of providing a substrate, and providing the substrate with probe medium comprising the probe which can specifically bond to a target substance, a water-soluble polymer material and a high boiling solvent.

Abstract: A particle film deposition apparatus and method are provided, with which ultra fine particles are generated by arc heating. The generated ultra fine particles can be efficiently sucked up into a transfer tube regardless of an arc voltage, and the resulting film can be stable in shape. An evaporation material 8 to be evaporated by arc heating and to generate ultra fine particles is connected to an electrode. As other electrodes, a plurality of rods 17 each having a discharge section at the tip thereof are provided. These rods 17 are so arranged as to be directed in each different direction with respect to the evaporation material 8.

Abstract: In a thin-film formation process and system, a target and a substrate are placed in a sputtering space and a film-forming space, respectively, the pressure in the film-forming space is maintained at a pressure lower than the pressure in the sputtering space and a pressure sufficient for sputtered particles to move in the film-forming space with their mean free path which is longer than the distance between the grid plate and the substrate, and the target is sputtered to form a thin film on the substrate.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing an electron-emitting device having excellent electron emission characteristics is provided in which fibers comprising carbon as the main composition are fixed (bonded) to a substrate in a desired area and at a desired density with simple processes and inexpensive manufacture cost, and a manufacture method for an electron source, a light-emitting apparatus and an image forming apparatus using such electron-emitting devices is provided. A method of manufacturing an electron-emitting device made of material comprising carbon as main composition by an aerosol type gas deposition method in which the material comprising carbon as the main composition is aerosolized and transported together with gas, and tightly attached (bonded) to a substrate via a nozzle.

Abstract: An electrode plate is formed by a substrate and a plurality of patterned electrodes formed on the substrate. Each patterned electrode has a laminate structure including a first layer of nickel metal formed on the substrate and a second layer of copper formed thereon. The electrode plate may be prepared by a process including a step of etching such a multi-layer metal electrode-forming film formed on a substrate by spraying an etchant downwardly and uniformly onto the substrate while rotating the substrate at a rotation speed sufficient to allow quick liberation of the etchant from the substrate. The metal electrodes can be formed with good adhesion onto the substrate and with good width and thickness accuracy. By incorporating the electrode plate as a pair of substrates sandwiching a liquid crystal, a liquid crystal device free from transmission delay and rounding of voltage waveforms can be provided.

Abstract: A carrier having indexes in a probe non-fixing region is used and solutions containing probes are applied to respective specific positions on the carrier by referring to said indexes and fixed. The position of a target compound that is specifically bonded to a probe fixed to a probe carrier manufactured by a method according to the invention can be accurately and quickly detected by referring to the indexes.

Abstract: Ambient humidity for a plurality of nozzles of a liquid ejection device for ejecting droplets of solutions containing probes to the surface of a carrier is controlled to 50% or more, preferably 60% or more. Part of solution supply passages to the plurality of nozzles are constructed from gas permeable membranes permitting gas-liquid separation under reduced pressure. These gas permeable membrane portions are gathered and altogether placed under reduced pressure to remove air bubbles from the respective solutions supplied to the plural nozzles and decrease the amount of a dissolved gas causing air bubble generation.

Abstract: A method for appropriately managing quality and distribution of probe carrier is provided. Probe carriers manufactured by a probe carrier manufacturing apparatus having ejecting portions for ejecting probe solutions, each containing a probe which can be specifically coupled with a target substance, for applying the probe solution on a carrier, and a plurality of probe tanks storing mutually different probe solutions for supplying ejecting portions. Each probe tanks are labeled with the bar-code. The labeled bar-code is read by the bar-code reader. On the basis of the read bar-code, the probe solution stored in the probe tank is identified. On the other hand, the probe tank is mounted on the ejecting portion.

Abstract: A display apparatus is constituted by a planar optical modulation device comprising a transparent substrate and a plurality of pixels disposed thereon so as to be each capable of optical modulation thereat, and a masking member disposed on the transparent substrate and with spacings. The making member includes a layer of a metal compound containing C, O and a metal element. The masking member is effective in reducing a degree of reflection of external light (from a viewer side) while maintaining a sufficient light-interrupting property, thus resulting in a display apparatus exhibiting good display performances.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes a planar optical modulation device having a transparent substrate and a plurality of pixels disposed thereon so as to be each capable of optical modulation thereat, and a masking member disposed on the transparent substrate and including spacings. The making member includes a layer of a metal compound containing C, O and a metal element. The masking member is effective in reducing a degree of reflection of external light (from a viewer side) while maintaining a sufficient light-interrupting property, thus resulting in a display apparatus exhibiting good display performances.

Abstract: In a thin-film formation process and system, a target and a substrate are placed in a sputtering space and a film-forming space, respectively, the pressure in the film-forming space is maintained at a pressure lower than the pressure in the sputtering space and a pressure sufficient for sputtered particles to move in the film-forming space with their mean free path which is longer than the distance between the grid plate and the substrate, and the target is sputtered to form a thin film on the substrate.

Abstract: The present invention relates, in a camera including multiple points type focus detecting means, to the camera for carrying out the proper control for a time for accumulation when detecting a focus by adopting fill-in light. In particular, the invention provides a camera which is designed in such a way that in the control for the time for accumulation for the focus detection without the emission of the fill-in light, the maximum time for the accumulation is determined in accordance with the accumulation time in a sensor in which the accumulation operation control has been most early completed, while for the focus detection in a state in which the fill-in light is being applied to an object, the maximum time for the accumulation is determined irrespective of the accumulation time in a sensor in which the accumulation operation control has been most early completed.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a process for producing a color filter substrate for picture device constructed by selectively arranging light-shielding members and a plurality of coloring members different in spectral characteristics from each other on a transparent base, which comprises the steps of forming a water-repellent layer composed of a silane coupling agent on the base on which the light-shielding members are partially formed, exposing the surface of the base to oxygen plasma, and arranging a plurality of the coloring members different in spectral characteristics from each other on transparent regions of the base.

Abstract: An electrode plate, suitable for constituting a liquid crystal device, includes a light-transmissive substrate, a plurality of first electrodes disposed on the light-transmissive substrate and a plurality of second electrodes disposed on the first electrodes. Each first electrode comprises a layer of metal nitride and is electrically connected with an associated second electrode, and each second electrode comprises a transparent electrode. The electrode plate is effective in improving an adhesiveness between the first electroded and the light-transmissive substrate and an antioxidizing property of the first electrodes while ensuring a good electrical connection state between the first electrodes and the second electrodes.

Abstract: An electrode plate, suitable for constituting a liquid crystal device, includes at least a light-transmissive substrate, a plurality of metal electrodes disposed on the light-transmissive substrate and with spacings therebetween, and an insulating layer disposed at the spacings. Each of the metal electrodes includes a first layer, disposed on the light-transmissive substrate comprising a metal or alloy selected from the group consisting of titanium, chronium, molybdenum, tungsten, aluminum, tantalum and nickel, a second layer comprising copper or silver dispersed on the first layer; and a third layer comprising a metal or alloy selected from the group consisting of molybdenum, tantalum, tungsten, titanium, chromium, nickel, aluminum and zinc and disposed on the second layer.

Abstract: An electrode plate, suitable for constituting a liquid crystal device, includes at least a light-transmissive substrate, a plurality of metal electrodes disposed on the light-transmissive substrate and with spacings therebetween, and an insulating layer disposed at the spacings. Each of the metal electrodes includes a first layer, disposed on the light-transmissive substrate comprising a metal or alloy selected from the group consisting of titanium, chronium, molybdenum, tungsten, aluminum, tantalum and nickel, a second layer comprising copper or silver dispersed on the first layer; and a third layer comprising a metal or alloy selected from the group consisting of molybdenum, tantalum, tungsten, titanium, chromium, nickel, aluminum and zinc and disposed on the second layer.

Abstract: A glass circuit substrate wherein nuclei of Pd (palladium) are placed on a glass substrate and a plating layer of Pd--P (palladium--phosphorus) is placed on the nuclei. A fabrication method of the glass circuit substrate comprises steps of forming nuclei of Pd on a glass substrate; and therefore forming a plating layer of Pd--P on the nuclei.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes a planar optical modulation device having a transparent substrate and a plurality of pixels disposed thereon so as to be each capable of optical modulation thereat, and a masking member disposed on the transparent substrate and including spacings. The making member includes a layer of a metal compound containing C, O and a metal element. The masking member is effective in reducing a degree of reflection of external light (from a viewer side) while maintaining a sufficient light-interrupting property, thus resulting in a display apparatus exhibiting good display performances.

Abstract: An electrode plate is formed by a substrate and a plurality of patterned electrodes formed on the substrate. Each patterned electrode has a laminate structure including a first layer of nickel metal formed on the substrate and a second layer of copper formed thereon. The electrode plate may be prepared by a process including a step of etching such a multilayer metal electrode-forming film formed on a substrate by spraying an etchant downwardly and uniformly onto the substrate while rotating the substrate at a rotation speed sufficient to allow quick liberation of the etchant from the substrate. The metal electrodes can be formed with a good adhesion onto the substrate and with good accuracies of width and thickness. By incorporating the electrode plate as a pair of substrates sandwiching a liquid crystal, a liquid crystal device showing free from transmission delay and rounding of voltage waveforms can be provided.

Abstract: In formation of thin films on both surfaces of a substrate such as a lens or the like, a pair of cluster beam evaporation sources are provided in mutually separate manner in a film forming chamber. The substrate is disposed between the pair of cluster beam evaporation sources. The cluster beam evaporation source includes a crucible which is arranged to be inclined toward the substrate, or which has a nozzle on a lateral face opposed to the substrate.