Abstract: A light emitting device is constituted by flip-chip mounting a GaN-based LED chip. The GaN-based LED chip includes a light-transmissive substrate and a GaN-based semiconductor layer formed on the light-transmissive substrate, wherein the GaN-based semiconductor layer has a laminate structure containing an n-type layer, a light emitting layer and a p-type layer in this order from the light-transmissive substrate side, wherein a positive electrode is formed on the p-type layer, the electrode containing a light-transmissive electrode of an oxide semiconductor and a positive contact electrode electrically connected to the light-transmissive electrode, and the area of the positive contact electrode is half or less of the area of the upper surface of the p-type layer.

Abstract: There is provided an aromatic polycarbonate resin composition exhibiting excellent mechanical strength, transfer property, light transmittance, thermal stability and moldability which is capable of being molded into thin-wall products and large-size products, as well as a light guide plate produced from the resin composition. The present invention relates to an aromatic polycarbonate resin composition for light guide plates, comprising an aromatic polycarbonate resin having a viscosity-average molecular weight of 13,000 to 15,000, and a ratio of a weight-average molecular weight to a number-average molecular weight (Mw/Mn) of 1.5 to 2.7 in terms of polystyrene as measured by gel permeation chromatography; and a stabilizer and a releasing agent blended in the aromatic polycarbonate resin, as well as a light guide plate produced from the resin composition.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a GaN-based light emitting diode element having a great emission efficiency and suitable for an excitation light source for a white LED. The GaN-based light emitting diode element includes an n-type conductive m-plane GaN substrate, a light emitting diode structure which is formed of a GaN-based semiconductor, on a front face of the m-plane GaN substrate, and an n-side ohmic electrode formed on a rear face of the m-plane GaN substrate, wherein a forward voltage is 4.0 V or less when a forward current applied to the light emitting diode element is 20 mA.

Abstract: The invention relates to a cleaning liquid for semiconductor device substrates, which is for use in a step of cleaning a semiconductor device substrate to be conducted after a chemical mechanical polishing step in semiconductor device production, the cleaning liquid including the following components (A) to (D): (A) an organic acid; (B) a sulfonic acid type anionic surfactant; (C) at least one polymeric coagulant selected from polyvinylpyrrolidone and polyethylene oxide-polypropylene oxide block copolymers; and (D) water.

Abstract: A carbon material for nonaqueous-electrolyte secondary-battery negative electrode is provided, which satisfies the followings (1) and (2): (1) the carbon material has an aspect ratio of 10 or less; (2) the amount of CO eliminated from the carbon material during heating to 1,000° C., as determined with a temperature programmed decomposition mass spectrometer (TPD-MS), is 2-15 ?mmol/g.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a nonaqueous electrolyte solution comprising a lithium salt and a nonaqueous organic solvent, wherein the nonaqueous electrolyte solution comprises a specific sulfonic acid ester.

Abstract: Provided are a nonaqueous electrolyte solution having improved durability properties in terms of cycling, storage and the like and improved discharge characteristic at a high current density, and a nonaqueous electrolyte battery that uses that nonaqueous electrolyte solution. The nonaqueous electrolyte solution containing a lithium salt and a nonaqueous solvent that dissolves the lithium salt, wherein the nonaqueous electrolyte solution contains a compound represented by formula (1) and at least one compound selected from the group consisting of a compound having a cyano group, a cyclic ester compound having a sulfur atom and a compound having an isocyanate group.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a phosphor comprising a nitride or an oxynitride, comprising an X-ray powder diffraction pattern comprising at least one Region having at least one peak with an intensity ratio I of 8% or less, the X-ray powder diffraction pattern measured in the 2? range from 10° to 60° using a CuK? line (1.54184 {acute over (?)}), wherein the Region is the 2? range from 41.5° to 47°, the intensity of each peak is a value obtained after background correction, and the intensity ratio I is defined by the formula (Ip×100)/Imax(%), where Imax represents the height of the most intense peak present in the 2? range from 34° to 37° and Ip represents the height of each peak.

Abstract: The present invention provides an organic electroluminescent device exhibiting a long life, a high luminance, and a high efficiency. An organic electroluminescent device comprising on a substrate an anode, a hole transport layer, an organic light-emitting layer, and a cathode, wherein the organic light-emitting layer contains an organic compound having a pyridine ring, a pyrazine ring, or a triazine ring as a partial structure and the hole transport layer contains a monoamine compound represented by the following formula (I): wherein R1 to R9 represent a hydrogen atom, an aryl group, or an alkyl group; R1 to R9 may be the same or different from each other; and R1 to R9 may further have an aryl group or an alkyl group as a substituent in the case where R1 to R9 are an aryl group or an alkyl group.

Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor, an electrophotographic photoreceptor cartridge, and an image forming apparatus, which are excellent in electrical characteristics such as a responsivity and at the same time, excellent in the crack resistance, are provided. Two kinds of charge transport substances each having a specific structure and a polycarbonate resin having a specific structure are combined, whereby the electrical characteristics such as responsivity and the crack resistance can be improved at the same time.

Abstract: The present invention is aimed to provide a method for producing a polyester with reduced CD content and elution amount, in which even after the production method, a reduction in physical properties of the polyester is small, and furthermore, a polyester having good moldability can be produced, and the present invention is concerned with a method for producing a polyester including an esterification reaction step of allowing an aliphatic diol and an aliphatic dicarboxylic acid to react with each other; a step of pelletizing a polyester obtained through the esterification reaction step; and a contact treatment step of bringing the obtained polyester pellets into contact with a mixed solution containing ethanol and water, wherein the mixed solution contains water in an amount of 10% by mass or more and not more than 99% by mass relative to the whole of the mixed solution.

Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor, an electrophotographic photoreceptor cartridge, and an image forming apparatus, which are excellent in electrical characteristics such as a responsivity and at the same time, excellent in the crack resistance, are provided. Two kinds of charge transport substances each having a specific structure and a polyester resin having a specific structure are combined, whereby the crack resistance can be improved.

Abstract: The invention provides a glittering resin composition which includes: a polycarbonate resin that contains structural units derived from a dihydroxy compound having the portion represented by the following general formula (1) as a part of the structure thereof; and glittering particles in an amount of 0.1 parts by weight or more and 10 parts by weight or less per 100 parts by weight of the polycarbonate resin, wherein the glittering particles are inorganic particles (excluding metal particles) coated with a metal or a metal oxide or are metal particles: provided that a case where the portion represented by general formula (1) is a part of —CH2—O—H is excluded.

Abstract: A non-aqueous electrolyte solution is provided that realizes a large capacity, exhibits high storage characteristics and cycle characteristics, and is capable of inhibiting gas generation. The non-aqueous electrolyte solution comprises a lithium salt and a non-aqueous solvent, and further comprises: a cyclic carbonate compound having an unsaturated bond in a concentration of 0.01 weight % or higher and 8 weight % or lower; and a compound expressed by general formula (Ia) in a concentration of 0.01 weight % or higher and 5 weight % or lower. (in the formula (Ia), R11 and R12 represent, independently of each other, an organic group that is composed of one or more carbon atoms and hydrogen atoms and may optionally contain one or more oxygen atoms but excludes unsaturated bonds, provided that at least either R11 or R12 has an ether linkage. The total number of carbon atoms of R11 and R12 is between 3 and 18, and the total number of oxygen atoms contained in R11 and R12 is between 1 and 6.

Abstract: The light-emitting apparatus includes: a first light-emitting source which emits light of a first chromaticity from a first light-emitting surface; a second light-emitting source which has a second light-emitting surface provided adjacently to the first light-emitting surface and which emits light of a second chromaticity different from the first chromaticity, from the second light-emitting surface; and a lens member having a light-entering surface which is arranged facing the first light-emitting surface and the second light-emitting surface and on which depressions and projections that mix light entering from the first light-emitting source and the second light-emitting source are formed, and a light-exiting surface which radiates light from the first light-emitting source and the second light-emitting source that has entered from the light-entering surface.

Abstract: The invention relates to an ink which comprises: a low-polarity solvent having a relative permittivity of 3 or less at a measuring frequency of 1 kHz; and a specific heterocyclic azo dye.

Abstract: A method of controlling an illumination apparatus includes a malfunction detecting step for detecting a malfunction of an organic electroluminescence element based on its electrical characteristic, a short-circuit malfunction restoration step for applying a short-circuit malfunction restoration pulse to an element that is determined to be a short-circuit malfunction, a short-circuit malfunction restoration determination step for determining whether the element that is determined to be the short-circuit malfunction is restored, a malfunctioning element determination step for storing into a storage, when an element that is determined to be the short-circuit malfunction is not restored, individual information including identification information on the element as a malfunctioning element, and a turn-on control step for controlling the turn-on state of a light-emitting surface based on a state of distribution of the malfunctioning organic electroluminescence elements.

Abstract: The invention relates to a cleaning liquid for semiconductor device substrates comprising the following components (A) to (D) and a method of cleaning semiconductor device substrates: (A) at least either one of a polycarboxylic acid and a hydroxycarboxylic acid; (B) a sulfonic acid type anionic surfactant; (C) a carboxylic acid type anionic surfactant; and (D) water.

Abstract: A first LED emits visible light of an emission color such that with respect to a CIE(1976)L*u*v* color space chromaticity diagram, the chromaticity is exterior to a prescribed white light region wherein the absolute value of a deviation duv from the blackbody radiation locus is at most 0.02 and the color temperature is within a range of from 2,500K to 10,000K, and the deviation duv from the blackbody radiation locus is larger than 0.02, and a second LED emits visible light of an emission color such that with respect to the above chromaticity diagram, the chromaticity is exterior to the prescribed white light region, and the deviation duv from the blackbody radiation locus is smaller than ?0.02.

Abstract: To provide an antibacterial agent effective against gram-positive bacteria, particularly an antibacterial agent that is safe even when added to foods and the like, and a disinfecting method. An antibacterial agent comprising as an active ingredient either one or both of compounds represented by the following formula (1) and (2) contained in a labiatae plant extract: This antibacterial agent has antibacterial activity against gram-positive bacteria belonging to the genus Staphylococcus, the genus Lactobacillus, the genus Listeria, the genus Alicyclobacillus or the genus Bacillus.