Abstract: There is provided a solid-state imaging device including: a first semiconductor layer including a photoelectric converter and an electric charge accumulation section for each pixel, the electric charge accumulation section in which a signal electric charge generated in the photoelectric converter is accumulated; a pixel separation section that is provided in the first semiconductor layer, and partitions a plurality of the pixels from each other; a second semiconductor layer that is provided with a pixel transistor and is stacked on the first semiconductor layer, the pixel transistor that reads the signal electric charge of the electric charge accumulation section; and a first shared coupling section that is provided between the second semiconductor layer and the first semiconductor layer, and is provided to straddle the pixel separation section and is electrically coupled to a plurality of the electric charge accumulation sections.

Abstract: The combustor for a rocket engine includes a combustion room configured to cause a combustion reaction between a fuel and an oxidant, an injector configured to inject the fuel and the oxidant into the combustion room, and a nozzle skirt configured to inject combustion gas generated by the combustion reaction to an outside, and an inertance increasing portion configured to increase an equivalent inertance in a vibration equivalent circuit of the combustor for the rocket engine.

Abstract: The solenoid coil includes a coil having a first end surface and a second end surface on its both ends in an axial direction, a member which is in contact with the first end surface, and has a groove through which the wire material of the coil passes, and an insulating resin formed to coat at least an outer circumferential surface and the second end surface of the coil. The resin with a substantially U-shaped section is continuously coated on at least a part of an inner circumferential surface of the coil via an area from the outer circumferential surface to the second end surface.

Abstract: A semiconductor storage device includes a first conductive layer that extends in a first direction; a second conductive layer that extends in the first direction and is arranged with the first conductive layer in a second direction; a first insulating layer that is provided between the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer; a semiconductor layer that extends in the second direction and faces the first conductive layer, the second conductive layer, and the first insulating layer in a third direction; a first charge storage layer that is provided between the first conductive layer and the semiconductor layer; a second charge storage layer that is provided between the second conductive layer and the semiconductor layer; a first high dielectric constant layer that is provided between the first conductive layer and the first charge storage layer; and a second high dielectric constant layer provided between the second conductive layer and the second charge storage layer.

Abstract: The present invention provides a non-cryopreservation method that enables inexpensive and stable storage of feces. More specifically, the present invention provides: (A) a storage method of feces, the storage method including drying the feces in the presence of a solid desiccant; (B) a hermetic container including: (a) a solid desiccant; and (b) feces under the non-contact state with the solid desiccant; and (C) a feces fixing article including: (a) one or more members containing or fixing a solid desiccant; and (b) feces under the contact state with the solid desiccant. As the solid desiccant, a water absorbing solid desiccant such as silica gel is preferred.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a plurality of nonvolatile memory chips and a controller. The controller manages whether each of the nonvolatile memory chips is in a busy state or not. When one or more requests issued by a host are stored in at least one queue of the host, the controller identifies, from the one or more requests, a first request for a first nonvolatile memory chip that is not in the busy state. The controller executes a process in accordance with the identified first request.

Abstract: A random number generator includes an input receiving unit configured to receive an input for designating a probability distribution of random numbers, a model generation unit configured to generate, based on the probability distribution, an Ising model using n binary variables (n is an integer equal to or greater than 2) each of which is assigned to a respective one of n subintervals obtained by dividing a numerical range of random numbers, an annealing result acquisition unit configured to acquire values of the n binary variables, the values being an execution result of quantum annealing for the Ising model, and a random number output unit configured to output, as a random number, a value included in the subinterval assigned to the binary variable whose value, which has been obtained as the execution result, is equal to a predetermined value.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a semiconductor storage device includes a plurality of electrode films on a substrate, spaced from one another in a first direction. A charge storage film is provided on a side face the electrode films via a first insulating film. A semiconductor film is provided on a side face of the charge storage film via a second insulating film. The charge storage film includes a plurality of insulator regions contacting the first insulating film, a plurality of semiconductor or conductor regions provided between the insulator regions and another insulator region.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a first conductive layer between first and second insulating layers with an oxide semiconductor column extending in the first direction through these layers. A third insulating layer covers the column. The column has a first semiconductor portion at a first position matching the first insulating layer, a second semiconductor portion at a second position matching second insulating layer, and a third semiconductor portion at a third position matching the first conductive layer. The first semiconductor portion is continuous along a second direction between the third insulating layer, the second semiconductor portion is continuous along the second direction between the third insulating layer, but the third semiconductor portion is not continuous between the third insulating layer.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer containing metal atoms, a charge storage layer provided on a surface of the semiconductor layer via a first insulating film, and an electrode layer provided on a surface of the charge storage layer via a second insulating film. The thickness of the first insulating film is 5 nm or more and 10 nm or less. The concentration of the metal atoms in the semiconductor layer is 5.0×1017 [EA/cm3] or higher and 1.3×1020 [EA/cm3] or lower.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a substrate, insulating films and first films alternately stacked on the substrate, at least one of the first films including an electrode layer and a charge storage layer provided on a face of the electrode layer via a first insulator, and a semiconductor layer provided on a face of the charge storage layer via a second insulator. The device further includes at least one of a first portion including nitrogen and provided between the first insulator and the charge storage layer with an air gap provided in the first insulator, a second portion including nitrogen, provided between the charge storage layer and the second insulator, and including a portion protruding toward the charge storage layer, and a third portion including nitrogen and provided between the second insulator and the semiconductor layer with an air gap provided in the first insulator.

Abstract: A semiconductor device of embodiments includes: a semiconductor layer containing silicon (Si); a first insulating layer provided in a first direction of the semiconductor layer; a second insulating layer surrounded by the semiconductor layer in a first cross section perpendicular to the first direction and containing silicon (Si) and oxygen (O); a third insulating layer surrounded by the second insulating layer in the first cross section and containing a metal element and oxygen (O); and a conductive layer surrounded by the first insulating layer in a second cross section perpendicular to the first direction, provided in the first direction of the third insulating layer, and spaced from the semiconductor layer.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a semiconductor storage device includes a stacked body in which a plurality of conducting layers are stacked through a plurality of insulating layers in a first direction, a semiconductor layer penetrating the stacked body, extending in the first direction and including metal atoms, and a memory film including a first insulator, a charge storage layer and a second insulator that are provided between the stacked body and the semiconductor layer. The semiconductor layer surrounds a third insulator penetrating the stacked body and extending in the first direction, and at least one crystal grain in the semiconductor layer has a shape surrounding the third insulator.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes: a first semiconductor layer; first and second insulating layers in contact with the first semiconductor layer; a second semiconductor layer in contact with the first insulating layer; a third semiconductor layer in contact with the second insulating layer; a first conductor; a third insulating layer in contact with the first conductor; a fourth insulating layer provided between the second semiconductor layer and the third insulating layer; a first charge storage layer provided between the second semiconductor layer and the fourth insulating layer; and a fifth insulating layer provided between the second semiconductor layer and the first charge storage layer. The second semiconductor layer, the first conductor, the third to fifth insulating layers, and the first charge storage layer function as a first memory cell.

Abstract: A semiconductor device of an embodiment includes a first electrode, a second electrode, a first oxide semiconductor layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, the first oxide semiconductor layer containing in, Zn, and a first metal element, and the first metal element being at least one metal of Ga, Mg, or Mn, a second oxide semiconductor layer between the first oxide semiconductor layer and the second electrode, the second oxide semiconductor layer containing In, Zn, and the first metal element, a third oxide semiconductor layer between the first oxide semiconductor layer and the second oxide semiconductor layer, the third oxide semiconductor layer containing in, Zn, and a second metal element, the second metal element being at least one metal of Al, Hf, La, Sn, Ta, Ti, W, Y, or Zr, a gate electrode facing the third oxide semiconductor layer, and a gate insulating.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device of an embodiment includes: forming a first film on a semiconductor layer containing silicon (Si), the first film containing a metal element and oxygen (O) and having a first thickness; and forming a second film between the semiconductor layer and the first film using radical oxidation, the second film containing silicon (Si) and oxygen (O) and having a second thickness larger than the first thickness.

Abstract: A semiconductor memory device includes a first semiconductor layer, first conductive layers, electric charge accumulating portions, a first conductivity-typed second semiconductor layer, a first wiring, a second conductivity-typed third semiconductor layer, and a second conductive layer. The first semiconductor layer extends in a first direction. First conductive layers are arranged in the first direction and extend in a second direction. Electric charge accumulating portions are disposed between the first semiconductor layer and first conductive layers. The second semiconductor layer is connected to one end of the first semiconductor layer. The first wiring is connected to the first semiconductor layer via the second semiconductor layer. The third semiconductor layer is connected to a side surface in a third direction of the first semiconductor layer. The second conductive layer extends in the second direction and is connected to the first semiconductor layer via the third semiconductor layer.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a semiconductor storage device includes a stacked body in which a plurality of conducting layers are stacked through a plurality of insulating layers in a first direction, a semiconductor layer penetrating the stacked body, extending in the first direction and including metal atoms, and a memory film including a first insulator, a charge storage layer and a second insulator that are provided between the stacked body and the semiconductor layer. The semiconductor layer surrounds a third insulator penetrating the stacked body and extending in the first direction, and at least one crystal grain in the semiconductor layer has a shape surrounding the third insulator.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer containing metal atoms, a charge storage layer provided on a surface of the semiconductor layer via a first insulating film, and an electrode layer provided on a surface of the charge storage layer via a second insulating film. The thickness of the first insulating film is 5 nm or more and 10 nm or less. The concentration of the metal atoms in the semiconductor layer is 5.0×1017 [EA/cm3] or higher and 1.3×1020 [EA/cm3] or lower.

Abstract: A semiconductor storage device includes a first conductive layer that extends in a first direction; a second conductive layer that extends in the first direction and is arranged with the first conductive layer in a second direction; a first insulating layer that is provided between the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer; a semiconductor layer that extends in the second direction and faces the first conductive layer, the second conductive layer, and the first insulating layer in a third direction; a first charge storage layer that is provided between the first conductive layer and the semiconductor layer; a second charge storage layer that is provided between the second conductive layer and the semiconductor layer; a first high dielectric constant layer that is provided between the first conductive layer and the first charge storage layer; and a second high dielectric constant layer provided between the second conductive layer and the second charge storage layer.