Abstract: This semiconductor device (100A) includes: a transparent conductive layer (3); an insulating layer (5) which is formed to cover the transparent conductive layer (3) and which has a hole (5u) that overlaps at least partially with the transparent conductive layer (3); a metal layer (7d) formed on the insulating layer (5) and inside the hole (5u); and a contact portion (90) connecting the transparent conductive layer (3) and the metal layer (7d) together. In the contact portion (90), a refractory metal nitride layer (20) is arranged between the transparent conductive layer (3) and a portion of the metal layer (7d) which is located inside the hole (5u). The refractory metal nitride layer (20) is in contact with the upper surface of the transparent conductive layer (3).

Abstract: A wavelength converting device, a method for manufacturing the device and a lighting unit using the device can emit various color lights. The converting device can include a substrate, a filter disposed on the substrate and the wavelength converting layer including a plurality of wavelength converting chips disposed on the filter, and can be manufactured by almost cutting process. The lighting unit using the device includes a laser device, a movable mirror and a controller, which enables the laser device to generate a pulsed laser beam and enables the movable mirror to scan the pulsed laser beam into a respective one of the wavelength converting chips. Thus, the disclosed subject matter can provide the wavelength converting device, which can form various colored light distribution patterns including a white light to use for a headlight and the like, and can provide methods for efficiently manufacturing such the devices with high accuracy.

Abstract: A polymer micelle pharmaceutical composition is provided and includes: a block copolymer unit ? having a hydrophilic polymer chain segment and a hydrophobic polymer chain segment; and a block copolymer unit ? having a hydrophilic polymer chain segment and a hydrophobic polymer chain segment, wherein: the block copolymer unit ? and the block copolymer unit ? are radially arranged in the state in which the hydrophilic polymer chain segments are directed outward and the hydrophobic polymer chain segments are directed inward; and the hydrophobic polymer chain segment of the block copolymer unit ? is constituted of repeating units having side chains, at least one of the side chains having a hydrophilic group.

Abstract: A light emitting device can include a head portion including a surface including a convex portion, a back surface on the opposite side, and a through hole penetrating a tip surface of the convex portion and the back surface; a light-transmitting member including a surface and a back surface on the opposite side, the back surface including a first recess to be fitted to the convex portion; an adhesive bonding part of the surface of the head portion around the convex portion to the back surface of the light-transmitting member while the convex portion is fitted to the first recess and the first recess covers the through hole; a semiconductor light emitting element that emits light passing through the through hole for irradiation of the light-transmitting member; and an optical system condensing the light from the semiconductor light emitting element and locally irradiates the light-transmitting member with the light.

Abstract: An active matrix substrate includes: a first inorganic insulating film (first insulating layer) provided on a gate insulating film (insulating film); an organic insulating film (second insulating layer) provided on the first inorganic insulating film and having a thermal expansion coefficient different from that of the first inorganic insulating film; and a second inorganic insulating film (third insulating layer) provided in such a manner as to cover the organic insulating film and partially contacting the first inorganic insulating film. A notch is provided above the gate insulating film and in a portion of the second inorganic insulating film where the organic insulating film is not present.

Abstract: A light emitting apparatus with a combination of a plurality of LED chips and a phosphor layer is provided and can be configured to significantly reduce variations in chromaticity and luminance. The plurality of semiconductor light emitting devices (LED chips) are disposed with a gap therebetween, and the phosphor layer is formed on the upper surface thereof to bridge over the gaps between the LED chips. The phosphor layer may be uniform in thickness, but can be less in thickness over the gaps between the LED chips than on the upper surface of the LED chips. The phosphor layer can be continuously formed on the upper surface of the array of the chips with no phosphor layer present in between the chips. This configuration allows for reducing variations in luminance and chromaticity which may result from the gaps or the phosphor layer present in between the gaps.

Abstract: This semiconductor device (100A) includes: a transparent conductive layer (3); an insulating layer (5) which is formed to cover the transparent conductive layer (3) and which has a hole (5u) that overlaps at least partially with the transparent conductive layer (3); a metal layer (7d) formed on the insulating layer (5) and inside the hole (5u); and a contact portion (90) connecting the transparent conductive layer (3) and the metal layer (7d) together. In the contact portion (90), a refractory metal nitride layer (20) is arranged between the transparent conductive layer (3) and a portion of the metal layer (7d) which is located inside the hole (5u). The refractory metal nitride layer (20) is in contact with the upper surface of the transparent conductive layer (3).

Abstract: A liquid crystal display element disclosed includes: a first substrate; a second substrate; a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the first substrate and the second substrate; a first transparent electrode provided at a display region of the first substrate; and a second transparent electrode provided at a display region of the second substrate, at least one of d1 and d2 being not larger than 60 nm, where d1 represents a thickness of the first transparent electrode and d2 represents a thickness of the second transparent electrode.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel 10 includes a first substrate 20 and a second substrate 40 facing each other; a liquid crystal layer 50 formed between the pair of substrates; and a sealing portion 60 located so as to surround the liquid crystal layer. An insulating film is formed on a surface of the first substrate which faces the liquid crystal layer. The insulating film has a stacking structure including at least an organic insulating film 33 and an inorganic insulating film 38 located on the organic insulating film. In a peripheral portion of the insulating film which surrounds the liquid crystal layer, an inorganic insulating film non-formed portion 35 in which the inorganic insulating film is not formed is provided. A surface of the sealing portion which faces the first substrate is entirely located in the inorganic insulating film non-formed portion and entirely adheres to the organic insulating film.

Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display panel that, when subjected to laser repair for repairing defects, can avoid degradation of members other than the target of the laser repair.

Abstract: A light emitting element in use for an LED array comprises an electrode layer, a semiconductor light emitting layer consisting of a p-type semiconductor layer, an active layer and an n-type semiconductor layer, a first wiring layer formed along and in parallel to one side of the semiconductor light emitting layer, and a plurality of second wiring layers extending from the first wiring layer to the semiconductor light emitting layer and electrically connected to the n-type semiconductor layer on a surface of the semiconductor light emitting layer, wherein a plane shape of the semiconductor light emitting layer comprises two short sides including a portion inclined from a line perpendicular to a upper and a lower sides, and a vertical line from a vertex where the upper side and the short side meet crosses the lower side of the adjacent light emitting element.

Abstract: A semiconductor light emitting device can include a base having a cavity provided for housing an LED chip and a resin spacer therein. The resin spacer can be composed of at least two layers of spacers including a transparent resin spacer and a wavelength conversion spacer mixed with a fluorescent material and formed to have an almost constant thickness. The wavelength conversion spacer can include a metallic radiation mesh or radiation wire disposed therein.

Abstract: A semiconductor light source apparatus can include a clad layer, a phosphor layer surrounded by the clad layer and a laser diode emitting a laser light. The phosphor layer can include a cavity having an opening for receiving the laser light, a phosphor material and a light-emitting surface of the apparatus. The laser light entering into the cavity can repeatedly reflect on an inner surface of the phosphor layer many times, each and every time most of the laser light entering into the phosphor layer. The laser light can be efficiently wavelength-converted by the phosphor material and the wavelength converted light can be emitted from the light-emitting surface having various shapes exposed from the clad layer. Therefore, the disclosed subject matter can include providing semiconductor light source apparatuses having a high light-emitting efficiency and high light-emitting density such that the devices can be used for a headlight, general lighting, etc.

Abstract: The invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition comprising factor VII encapsulated in micelles formed from block copolymer molecules containing (i) a hydrophilic polymer segment consisting of a polyalkylene glycol and (ii) a hydrophobic polymer segment consisting of a polyamino acid, with said polyamino acid comprising exclusively amino acid residues selected from the group consisting of histidine, lysine, aspartic acid and glutamic acid residues, wherein a part of said amino acid residues is substituted with a hydrophobic group.

Abstract: A light emitting device can include a head portion including a surface including a convex portion, a back surface on the opposite side, and a through hole penetrating a tip surface of the convex portion and the back surface; a light-transmitting member including a surface and a back surface on the opposite side, the back surface including a first recess to be fitted to the convex portion; an adhesive bonding part of the surface of the head portion around the convex portion to the back surface of the light-transmitting member while the convex portion is fitted to the first recess and the first recess covers the through hole; a semiconductor light emitting element that emits light passing through the through hole for irradiation of the light-transmitting member; and an optical system condensing the light from the semiconductor light emitting element and locally irradiates the light-transmitting member with the light.

Abstract: A light emitting apparatus with a combination of a plurality of LED chips and a phosphor layer is provided and can be configured to significantly reduce variations in chromaticity and luminance. The plurality of semiconductor light emitting devices (LED chips) are disposed with a gap therebetween, and the phosphor layer is formed on the upper surface thereof to bridge over the gaps between the LED chips. The phosphor layer may be uniform in thickness, but can be less in thickness over the gaps between the LED chips than on the upper surface of the LED chips. The phosphor layer can be continuously formed on the upper surface of the array of the chips with no phosphor layer present in between the chips. This configuration allows for reducing variations in luminance and chromaticity which may result from the gaps or the phosphor layer present in between the gaps.

Abstract: The present invention provides an active targeting polymer micelle encapsulating a drug, preventing an inappropriate release of a drug which may damage a normal cell. A polymer micelle 100 includes a backbone polymer unit 10 that has a target binding site 11 and a backbone polymer unit 20 that has a drug 14 and is free from the target binding site 11, such polymer units 10 and 20 being disposed in a radial arrangement in a state where the target binding site 11 is directed outward and the drug 14 is directed inward, in which: i) when the micelle is bound to a target 40 while maintaining the radial arrangement, the micelle is taken up into a cell 50 supplying the target 40 through endocytosis, and the drug 14 is released into the cell 50 by collapse of the radial arrangement in the cell 50; and ii) when the radial arrangement collapses in blood 60 before the micelle is bound to a target 40, the unit 20 is excreted through metabolism, to thereby prevent a normal cell from being damaged by the drug 14.

Abstract: A vehicle light is provided which can form a light distribution pattern having a clear cut-off line. The vehicle light can include a semiconductor light emitting device as a light source. The semiconductor light emitting device can include a semiconductor light emitting element having a light emission surface thereof having a first end and a second end and at least one light extracting layer deposited on the light emission surface and including a wavelength conversion layer, and the light extracting layer includes an optical characteristic that can change from the first end to the second end in a direction parallel to the light emission surface so that the semiconductor light emitting device forms a luminance distribution with a maximum luminance at the first end and a minimum luminance at the second end.

Abstract: A light emitting apparatus with a combination of a plurality of LED chips and a phosphor layer is provided and can be configured to significantly reduce variations in chromaticity and luminance. The plurality of semiconductor light emitting devices (LED chips) are disposed with a gap therebetween, and the phosphor layer is formed on the upper surface thereof to bridge over the gaps between the LED chips. The phosphor layer may be uniform in thickness, but can be less in thickness over the gaps between the LED chips than on the upper surface of the LED chips. The phosphor layer can be continuously formed on the upper surface of the array of the chips with no phosphor layer present in between the chips. This configuration allows for reducing variations in luminance and chromaticity which may result from the gaps or the phosphor layer present in between the gaps.

Abstract: A pharmaceutical composition or combination drug, which contains, as active ingredients, (a) a coordination compound composed of a block copolymer represented by the following formula I or formula II and cisplatin, and (b) gemcitabine hydrochloride. In the formulae I and II, R1, A, R2, R3, m and n are as defined in the description.