Abstract: An organic electroluminescent device including an organic thin-film transistor element having at least an active layer made of an organic material; and an organic electroluminescent element driven by the organic thin-film transistor element.

Abstract: A photovoltaic converter device includes a photovoltaic conversion layer containing a plurality of nanoparticles in a first material in a dispersed state, wherein the nanoparticles include a second material in particles and a third material that coats the second material, the third material having a band gap E3 that is greater than a band gap E1 of the first material, and greater than a band gap E2 of the second material.

Abstract: A metal particle dispersion liquid comprises: a compound including a sulfur atom; metal particles whose diameter ranges from 1 to 100 nm and made of a material including a precious metal material; and a dispersion medium. The metal particles is covered by the compound.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescent device including an organic thin-film transistor element having at least an active layer made of an organic material; and an organic electroluminescent element driven by the organic thin-film transistor element.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescent device comprising: an organic thin-film transistor element including at least an active layer made of an organic material; and an organic electroluminescent element driven by the organic thin-film transistor element.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an organic thin film element that includes an organic thin film between a pair of thin film electrodes and at least one electrode being a transparent electrode includes forming a transparent electrode by spraying a material liquid containing a transparent electrode formation material on a base material, and forming an organic thin film on the transparent electrode. This method allows for the manufacture of the organic thin film element by which an organic thin film element with high light-extraction efficiency is simply provided. A method for manufacturing an electro-optic device and a method for manufacturing electronic equipment that utilize the method for manufacturing an organic thin film element are described.

Abstract: A metal particle dispersion liquid comprises: a compound including a sulfur atom; metal particles whose diameter ranges from 1 to 100 nm and made of a material including a precious metal material; and a dispersion medium. The metal particles is covered by the compound.

Abstract: A metal particle dispersion liquid comprises: a compound including a sulfur atom; metal particles whose diameter ranges from 1 to 100 nm and made of a material including a precious metal material; and a dispersion medium. The metal particles is covered by the compound.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a photoelectric transducer, comprising: forming a first electrode on a substrate; forming a first conductivity-type semiconductor layer on the first electrode; forming an I type semiconductor layer on the first conductivity-type semiconductor layer; forming on the I type semiconductor layer a second conductivity-type semiconductor layer that is different from the first conductivity-type; and forming a second electrode on the second conductivity-type semiconductor layer, wherein the forming of the I type semiconductor layer includes: forming a precursor film of the I type semiconductor layer on the first conductivity-type semiconductor layer by arranging droplets containing a silicon compound in an island shape; and converting the precursor film into the I type semiconductor layer by carrying out heat treatment or photoirradiation treatment to the precursor film.

Abstract: An electro-optical device includes an effective display region including a pixel, the pixel including a first electrode, a second electrode, and a light-emitting layer between the first electrode and the second electrode; and a wiring line connected to the second electrode at a position to the periphery of the effective display region, the wiring line including a first wiring layer and a second wiring layer that are electrically connected to each other and that overlap each other, the first wiring layer and the second wiring layer both extending in a direction in which an edge of the effective display region extends, the first wiring layer and the second wiring layer extending in the direction a distance that is longer than a distance in which the edge of the effective display region extends in the direction.

Abstract: A method for forming a conductive layer pattern by selectively depositing droplets containing conductive material onto a porous receiving layer. Much of the conductive material is left on the surface for forming wiring patterns but some of it permeates the pockets or voids in the receiving layer and can be used, for example, to provide interlayer connections in laminated wiring boards. Preferably, the conductive material is provided by fine conductive particles, organometallic compounds or mixtures thereof.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescent device comprising: an organic thin-film transistor element including at least an active layer made of an organic material; and an organic electroluminescent element driven by the organic thin-film transistor element.

Abstract: A method of producing a multilayered wiring board having at least two wiring layers (wiring patterns 17, 31), polyamide 22 (an interlayer insulation film) between the wiring layers, and an interlayer conducting post (a conductor post) 18 for conducting between the wiring pattern 17 and the wiring pattern 31, wherein the polyimide 22 is disposed around the interlayer conducting post 18 using a liquid drop discharge system.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a high order silane composition that contains a polysilane having a higher molecular weight than conventionally, this being from the viewpoints of wettability when applying onto a substrate, boiling point and safety, and hence in particular enables a high-quality silicon film to be formed easily, and also a method of forming an excellent silicon film using the composition. The present invention attains this object by providing a high order silane composition containing a polysilane obtained through photopolymerization by irradiating a solution of a photopolymerizable silane or a photopolymerizable like-liquid silane with ultraviolet light. Moreover, the present invention provides a method of forming a silicon film comprising the step of applying such a high order silane composition onto a substrate.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescent device comprising: an organic thin-film transistor element including at least an active layer made of an organic material; and an organic electroluminescent element driven by the organic thin-film transistor element.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a high order silane composition that contains a polysilane having a higher molecular weight than conventionally, this being from the viewpoints of wettability when applying onto a substrate, boiling point and safety, and hence in particular enables a high-quality silicon film to be formed easily, and also a method of forming an excellent silicon film using the composition. The present invention attains this object by providing a high order silane composition containing a polysilane obtained through photopolymerization by irradiating a solution of a photopolymerizable silane or a photopolymerizable like-liquid silane with ultraviolet light. Moreover, the present invention provides a method of forming a silicon film comprising the step of applying such a high order silane composition onto a substrate.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device 100 comprises a thin film transistor T, a source (data) line 26, a color filter 23, a pixel electrode 24 and the like. After a gate electrode 13, a gate insulating film 16, and a channel region 18 are formed on the glass substrate 10, a polyimide film 20 is formed to surround the peripheries of the region for forming the source/drain regions 22, the color filter 23, the pixel electrode 24, and the source line 26, respectively. A liquid material is applied to the regions surrounded with the wall made of the polyimide film 20 and a thermal treatment is performed to form the element of the color filter 23, the pixel electrode 24 and the like. The polyimide film 20 has a property of light-shielding and then has a function as a black matrix for shielding the surroundings of the pixel region.

Abstract: In this method of manufacturing a device, when discharging the liquid drops upon the substrate, a bit map made up from a plurality of pixels against which liquid drops are discharged is established upon the substrate. When establishing the pixels, when the interval of the discharge nozzles of the liquid drop discharge head 1 is taken as “a”, and the size in the Y axis direction of the pixels is taken as by, the pixels are established so that the condition by=a/n is satisfied, where n is a positive integer.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a method for fixing a functional material with good accuracy in a prescribed position on a fixing surface. In order to attain this object, the present invention provides a method for fixing a functional material, comprising a droplet ejection step of ejecting a droplet of a functional material dispersed in a solvent onto a fixing surface, and a drying step of locally heating the droplet ejected on the fixing surface and gasifying part of the droplet by irradiating the droplet with a laser beam. According to this method, the droplet can be dried rapidly, heating of the entire substrate is suppressed, and loss of alignment or breakage of wiring or the like caused by the expansion of substrate can be avoided.

Abstract: A pixel portion 100 of a liquid crystal display device comprises a thin film transistor T comprising a channel region 18, and source/drain regions 22, a source (data) line 26 for supplying current to the thin film transistor T, a color filter 23, and a pixel electrode 24. In forming the pixel portion 100, a gate electrode 13, a gate insulating film 16 and the channel region 18 are first formed on a glass substrate 10. On the glass substrate 10 after the formation of the channel region 18 is formed, a wall made of a polyimide film 20 surrounding the peripheries of the regions for forming the source/drain regions 22, the color filter 23, the pixel electrode 24 and the source line 26. Liquid materials are applied to the regions surrounded with a wall made of the polyimide film 20, and a heat treatment is carried out to form films, thereby forming elements such as the color filter 23 or the pixel electrode 24.