Abstract: A storage element including a storage layer configured to hold information by use of a magnetization state of a magnetic material, with a pinned magnetization layer being provided on one side of the storage layer, with a tunnel insulation layer, and with the direction of magnetization of the storage layer being changed through injection of spin polarized electrons by passing a current in the lamination direction, so as to record information in the storage layer, wherein a spin barrier layer configured to restrain diffusion of the spin polarized electrons is provided on the side, opposite to the pinned magnetization layer, of the storage layer; and the spin barrier layer includes at least one material selected from the group composing of oxides, nitrides, and fluorides.

Abstract: A terminal includes: a receiver, which, in operation, receives downlink control information and downlink data; circuitry, which, in operation, determines, based on the downlink control information and an offset, a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource used for transmission of a response signal for the downlink data; and a transmitter, which, in operation, transmits the response signal using the determined PUCCH resource. A first offset is used as the offset when the terminal is configured in a coverage enhancement mode, in which the response signal is allowed to be transmitted repeatedly for one of plural repetition levels in a plurality of subframes, where the first offset is configured for each of the plural repetition levels. The first offset is different from a second offset, which is used when the terminal is not configured in the coverage enhancement mode.

Abstract: In the present invention, a terminal is provided with: a control circuit that determines data size on the basis of information relating to the number of repetitions of a transmission signal, and/or to a scheduling coefficient of the unit data size of the repetition, and a transmission circuit that transmits a transmission signal on the basis of the data size.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescence device includes an organic electroluminescence element, and a protective layer that protects the organic electroluminescence element, wherein the protective layer includes a first insulating film, a second insulating film, a third insulating film, a fourth insulating film, and a fifth insulating film, a density of the second insulating film is higher than a density of each of the first insulating film, the third insulating film, and the fifth insulating film, a density of the fourth insulating film is higher than the density of each of the first insulating film, the third insulating film, and the fifth insulating film, and each of the first insulating film, the second insulating film, the third insulating film, the fourth insulating film, and the fifth insulating film includes an inorganic material including silicon and nitrogen.

Abstract: A communication apparatus includes at least a processor and at least a memory. The at least memory contains instructions that, when executed by the at least processor, cause the at least processor to perform operations comprising performing a determination process and performing a setting process. The determination process determines whether the communication apparatus operates as a leader apparatus in communication or operates as a follower apparatus in the communication. The setting process, based on a result of the determination process, sets the communication apparatus to be a time master apparatus that is a provider of a reference clock for implementing time synchronization with one or more other communication apparatuses or to be a time slave apparatus that adjusts time in accordance with the reference clock.

Abstract: This terminal comprises: a control unit which determines, on the basis of the unit of second symbol in which a plurality of first symbols in at least one of uplink first channel and second channel are associated with one unit, whether to transmit uplink control information on any one of the first channel and the second channel; and a transmission circuit which transmits the uplink control inforrrration,by using the determined charnel

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to produce a high quality hydrogenated polysilane compound by reducing process troubles using the halosilane raw material and the reducing agent. A method for producing a hydrogenated polysilane compound (CX) of the present invention contains a reducing step (P1) in which a halosilane raw material (C0) selected from a polyhalosilane compound (C1) comprising a Si—Si bond and a Si—X bond (X represents a halogen atom) in the same molecule, a salt of the polyhalosilane compound (C2), and a complex of the polyhalosilane compound (C3) is contacted with a reducing agent (R2) to reduce the halosilane raw material (C0), and a removing step in which a reaction solution of the reducing step (P1) is subjected to one or more steps selected from the following (T1) to (T4) to remove the reducing agent (R2) and/or a resulting material of the reducing agent (R2) contained in the reaction solution.

Abstract: A communication apparatus includes circuitry that determines a number of resource blocks forming a resource block group, which is a unit used to allocate a resource to the communication apparatus, in a first band or in a second band that is an expanded band to which the first band is expanded, and a subcarrier spacing for the second band is same or different from a subcarrier spacing for the first band; and a transceiver that is coupled to the circuitry and that communicates with a base station using the resource. One of the number of resource blocks set for the first band and the number of resource blocks set for the second band is an integer multiple of the other, and the number of resource blocks set for the first band and the number of resource blocks set for the second band are values that are a power of two.

Abstract: Provided is a terminal capable of transmitting an uplink signal appropriately in an unlicensed band. In a terminal (100), a resource allocating unit (107) allocates uplink signals to each of a plurality of bands into which a prescribed frequency band has been divided. Each of the plurality of bands is a unit for determining whether a resource is being used by another device. A radio transmitting unit (109) transmits the uplink signals.

Abstract: Provided is a terminal that can appropriately transmit an uplink signal. In a terminal (200), a control unit (211) determines a processing mode with respect to uplink data and uplink control information according to a requirement for at least one of uplink data and uplink control information when transmission of an uplink data channel that includes the uplink data and transmission of an uplink control channel that includes the uplink control information temporally overlap. A transmission unit (218) transmits the at least one of the uplink data and the uplink control information on the basis of the determined processing mode.

Abstract: At a base station, a control unit selects one combination from multiple combinations of parameters regarding uplink control channel (PUCCH) resources. A transmission unit indicates a terminal of resource settings (Semi-static resource configuration) including the multiple combinations by higher layer signaling, and indicates the terminal of the one combination that has been selected by dynamic signaling (DCI).

Abstract: Provided is a polymer composition containing (A) a modified conjugated diene-based polymer which includes a monomer unit derived from a conjugated diene compound and has a molecular weight distribution Mw/Mn of 1.50 to 3.00 and in which some or all of the molecules are modified, the molecular weight distribution being represented by a ratio of polystyrene-equivalent weight-average molecular weight Mw to number-average molecular weight Mn measured by gel permeation chromatography, and (B) a surfactant having HLB of 9.0 or less and having an oxypropylene group, the polymer composition further containing (C) an extender oil as an optional component, in which a total amount of the modified conjugated diene-based polymer (A), the surfactant (B) and the extender oil (C) is 95 mass % or more based on the entire composition.

Abstract: In the present invention, regarding a narrowband used in a subframe for transmitting uplink data, if a switch is made from a first narrowband used in a first subframe to a second narrowband that is different from the first narrowband, with respect to a second subframe continuing to the first subframe, a final one symbol of the first subframe and an initial one symbol of the second subframe are punctured and set as a retuning time to transmit the uplink data in the first narrowband and the second narrowband.

Abstract: A detecting device includes a substrate and a plurality of detecting elements arranged in a matrix at the substrate. Each of the plurality of detecting elements includes a light emitting portion that emits light toward a living body, a light receiving portion that can receive light incident from the living body based on the light emitted from the light emitting portion, and a contact detecting portion that detects contact with the living body. The light emitting portion in each of the plurality of detecting elements emits light when the contact detecting portion in the same detecting element has detected contact with the living body.

Abstract: The present invention improves the efficiency of downlink retransmission control. This terminal comprises: a control circuit which in units of code block groups including at least one among code blocks in any one or more among a plurality of transport blocks, controls retransmission for the plurality of transport blocks; and a communication circuit which performs communication according to retransmission control.

Abstract: The present invention achieves an improvement in channel estimation accuracy using a reference signal. This terminal comprises: a control circuit for setting a first upper limit value of a frequency interval at which a first reference signal is placed in a first bandwidth such that the first upper limit value is smaller than a second upper limit value of a frequency interval at which a second reference signal is placed in a second bandwidth wider than the first bandwidth; and a transmission circuit for transmitting the first reference signal on the basis of the first upper limit value.

Abstract: A terminal is provided with a reception circuit for receiving information from a second node that pertains to the determination of the parameter used for open-loop control for a first node, and a control circuit for exercising open-loop control on the basis of the information.

Abstract: A base station selects, from among a plurality of code sequences orthogonal to one another, one code sequence by which an uplink signal including a demodulation reference signal repeated in a plurality of subframes is multiplied and transmits, to a terminal for which transmission of the repeated uplink signal is configured, information indicating the selected code sequence by using a field for indicating a cyclic shift and an orthogonal sequence used for the demodulation reference signal. A terminal receives information indicating one of a plurality of code sequences orthogonal to one another using a field for indicating a cyclic shift and an orthogonal sequence used for a demodulation reference signal and multiplies an uplink signal including the demodulation reference signal repeated in a plurality of subframes by the code sequence indicated by the information.

Abstract: When a plurality of the subcarrier spacing values are applied, a reference signal is generated by using a sequence having a sequence length corresponding to a first ratio of a first subcarrier spacing set for transmission data to the maximum settable subcarrier spacing. The sequence of the reference signal is mapped to a frequency resource at mapping intervals in accordance with a second ratio which is the reciprocal of the first ratio, and the transmission data and the reference signal are transmitted.

Abstract: Provided are a user equipment, base station and wireless communication methods related to resource determination for UCI in case of BWP switching in NR. A user equipment comprises: a receiver operative to receive, from a base station in a slot, a Downlink Control Information (DCI) for Bandwidth Part (BWP) switching from a first BWP to a second BWP; circuitry operative to drop a Uplink Control Information (UCI) to be transmitted in a BWP switching period of the first BWP, and to determine the earliest available slot of the second BWP or a third BWP, the BWP switching period being from the slot where the DCI for BWP switching is received until starting the second BWP to which the first BWP is switched according to the DCI; and a transmitter operative to transmit the dropped UCI in the determined earliest available slot of the second BWP or the third BWP to the base station.