Abstract: In applying a coating liquid including a solute and a solvent onto a given area on a substrate so as to allow the coating liquid to be solidified on the substrate by volatizing the solvent, an atmosphere in a vicinity of a coated area of the substrate is kept under an atmosphere that reduces volatilization of the solvent until applying the coating liquid onto the given area of the substrate is finished.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an apparatus of processing a substrate includes a treatment chamber, a holder, a feed device, and a temperature control device. The holder is provided in the treatment chamber and is configured to rotatably hold the substrate. The feed device includes a nozzle configured to eject an etching solution to a surface of the substrate held by the holder. The temperature control device includes first and second devices, and a controller. The first device is configured to heat and/or cool an atmosphere inside the treatment chamber. The second device is configured to heat and/or cool the etching solution. The controller is configured to control operation of the first and second devices such that a temperature of the atmosphere is higher than that of the etching solution in the nozzle and that difference between the temperature of the atmosphere and that of the etching solution is maintained constant.

Abstract: A nozzle plate includes: a first silicon layer; a glass layer; a second silicon layer provided between the first silicon layer and the glass layer, the second silicon layer being bonded to the glass layer; and a silicon oxide layer provided between the first silicon layer and the second silicon layer. A nozzle hole passing through the first silicon layer and discharging a droplet is formed. A channel passing through the silicon oxide layer and the second silicon layer and communicating with the nozzle hole is formed. A liquid chamber formed in the glass layer and communicating with the channel is formed.

Abstract: An ink jet system according to the present invention is provided with an air bubble removing unit including: an ink jet body having a plurality of ink supply path; a nozzle plate connected to an end of the ink jet body and having a plurality of spaced nozzle holes therein; and a cap configured to cover the nozzle holes formed in the nozzle plate wherein a first ink channel space is formed continuous to the nozzle holes and the plurality of ink supply path, and a second ink channel space is formed between a recess of the cap and a surface of the nozzle plate, so that the second ink channel space and the first ink channel space are continuous through the nozzle holes.

Abstract: In a fluorescer solution, a plurality of types of fluorescent particles are contained in a resin liquid. Average particle sizes of these fluorescent particles decrease as densities of the types increase. In other words, average settling rates vs of the types of the fluorescent particles ascertained by v s = D p 2 × ( ? p - ? f ) × g 18 × ? are equal to each other, where Dp is an average particle size of each of the types of fluorescent particles, pp is a density of each of the types of fluorescent particles, pf is a density of the resin liquid, ? is a viscosity of the resin liquid, g is the acceleration due to gravity, and vs is an average settling rate of each of the types of fluorescent particles.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an organic light emitting device includes: a base material having flexibility; an organic light emitting element provided on the base material; and a protection film that covers the organic light emitting element. The protection film includes: a first inorganic layer that is provided on the organic light emitting element, and covers the organic light emitting element; a flexible layer that is provided on the first inorganic layer, contains an organic polymer, and has flexibility; and a second inorganic layer that is provided on the flexible layer, and covers the flexible layer.

Abstract: According one embodiment, a film forming apparatus includes a stage, a coating section, a vapor supply section, a blower section, and a controller. On the stage, an coating target is placed. The coating section applies a material to a predetermined region on the coating target placed on the stage to form a coating film. The vapor supply section generates solvent vapor capable of dissolving the coating film. The blower section blows the solvent vapor generated by the vapor supply section onto the coating film on the coating target placed on the stage. The controller controls an amount of the solvent vapor to be blown by the blower section so that: the coating film is dissolved; viscosity in a part of the coating film on a surface layer side is lower than that in a part thereof on the coating target side; and the viscosity in the part on the surface layer side and the viscosity of the coating target side take such values that prevent the coating film on the coating target from spreading.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a light emitting device includes a package member, a light emitting element provided in the package member, a first phosphor layer and a second phosphor layer. A first phosphor layer is provided on the light emitting element and has a first phosphor. A second phosphor layer is provided on the first phosphor layer and has a second phosphor. A luminescent efficiency of the first phosphor is higher than a luminescent efficiency of the second phosphor.

Abstract: A polishing cloth used in the chemical mechanical polishing treatment comprises a molded body of (meth)acrylic copolymer having an acid value of 10 to 100 mg KOH/g and a hydroxyl group value of 50 to 150 mg KOH/g.

Abstract: By using an ink-jet application method, a solid content having a desired thickness contained in an application solution is formed in a desired region of a substrate by repeating an applying process and a drying process more than once. In the applying process, the application solution is sprayed and applied on the substrate. In the drying process, the application solution is dried to generate the solid content.

Abstract: An ultrasonic cleaning apparatus which cleans a material at a surface by supplying an ultrasonic wave from an ultrasonic wave application head to a cleaning liquid on the surface, and cleans the surface, wherein the ultrasonic wave application head has an ultrasonic wave transmission member which is provided opposite the surface, and has a curved portion on a first plane placed close to the surface, an ultrasonic transducer which is provided on a second plane placed opposite the first plane of the ultrasonic wave transmission member, and generates and applies an ultrasonic wave to a cleaning liquid on the surface through the ultrasonic wave transmission member, and a preventive portion which is provided in the ultrasonic wave transmission member, and prevents the ultrasonic wave applied to the cleaning liquid and reflected on the surface from entering the ultrasonic transducer through the ultrasonic wave transmission member.

Abstract: A photocatalyst dispersing element includes: a photocatalyst material; and a solvent. A hydrogen-ion exponent of the solvent is in a range of pH 2.1 or more and pH 5.7 or less. A method for manufacturing a photocatalyst dispersing element includes: adjusting a hydrogen-ion exponent in a solvent to be in a range of inhibiting aggregation of a photocatalyst material and of suppressing lowering of a degree of catalytic activity of the photocatalyst material; and mixing the photocatalyst material with the solvent.

Abstract: In a fluorescer solution, a plurality of types of fluorescent particles are contained in a resin liquid. Average particle sizes of these fluorescent particles decrease as densities of the types increase. In other words, average settling rates vs of the types of the fluorescent particles ascertained by v s = D p 2 × ( ? p - ? f ) × g 18 × ? are equal to each other, where Dp is an average particle size of each of the types of fluorescent particles, pp is a density of each of the types of fluorescent particles, pf is a density of the resin liquid, ? is a viscosity of the resin liquid, g is the acceleration due to gravity, and vs is an average settling rate of each of the types of fluorescent particles.

Abstract: A coater (1) includes: a droplet jet part (4) which ejects droplets of a first solution toward an object to be coated (2) to apply the droplets to the object to be coated (2); and a remoisturizing-drying part (6) which gives a residue of the first solution applied on the object to be coated (2) a solvent capable of dissolving the residue to form an applied body with a second solution containing the residue as a solute, and which dries the formed applied body with the second solution.

Abstract: A method of producing a low-molecular luminous material dispersant having: inserting a coat agent in gas phase and an inner gas into a vacuum atmosphere, wherein the coat agent has a strong affinity for a solvent when the coat agent is in liquid phase; heating and vaporizing a low-molecular luminous material in the vacuum atmosphere so as to obtain a mix gas comprising the low-molecular luminous material and inner gas; cooling the mix gas so as to obtain a coat agent in liquid phase; and recovering the coat agent in liquid phase and adding the coat agent in liquid phase into the solvent so as to obtain the low-molecular luminous material dispersant.

Abstract: One aspect of the present invention is directed to a method of forming a pattern. A first layer which comprises a polymerization initiator is selectively formed on a second layer of a substrate. A polymer layer is selectively formed on the first layer by subjecting an organic monomer to living radical polymerization using the polymerization initiator. The second layer is selectively etched using the polymer layer as a mask.

Abstract: A weakly alkali cleaning liquid suitable for use in the case of cleaning and removing inks adhered to a nozzle plate, in an ink jet printer using inks in which inorganic pigments and metal oxides are mixed into polymers, is provided. In the cleaning liquid, carbonates are added to the weakly alkali solution of pH 8 to pH 12.

Abstract: A photocatalyst dispersing element includes: a photocatalyst material; and a solvent. A hydrogen-ion exponent of the solvent is in a range of pH 2.1 or more and pH 5.7 or less. A method for manufacturing a photocatalyst dispersing element includes: adjusting a hydrogen-ion exponent in a solvent to be in a range of inhibiting aggregation of a photocatalyst material and of suppressing lowering of a degree of catalytic activity of the photocatalyst material; and mixing the photocatalyst material with the solvent.

Abstract: An ink jet system according to the present invention is provided with an air bubble removing unit including: an ink jet body having a plurality of ink supply path; a nozzle plate connected to an end of the ink jet body and having a plurality of spaced nozzle holes therein; and a cap configured to cover the nozzle holes formed in the nozzle plate wherein a first ink channel space is formed continuous to the nozzle holes and the plurality of ink supply path, and a second ink channel space is formed between a recess of the cap and a surface of the nozzle plate, so that the second ink channel space and the first ink channel space are continuous through the nozzle holes.

Abstract: An ultrasonic-wave washing unit comprising an ultrasonic-wave vibrating plate to which an ultrasonic-wave vibrator is fixed by adhesive bonding, an ultrasonic-wave transmission plate opposed to the vibrating plate, a liquid supply means which supplies a liquid to a space defined between the vibrating plate and the transmission plate, and a liquid discharge means for discharging the liquid from the space.