Abstract: A method of manufacturing a storage apparatus includes preparing a first substrate on which a plurality of row lines are arranged in parallel, preparing a second substrate on which a plurality of column lines are arranged in parallel, dispensing as a droplet a solution, in which particles are dispersed in a solvent, from a solution supply port to which an electric field is applied, toward a surface of the first substrate or a surface of the second substrate, and arranging the surfaces of the first and second substrates to face each other with a gap such that the column lines cross the row lines, thereby making the particles at crossing portions to be movable between the row lines and the column lines facing each other and between the crossing portions adjacent to each other.

Abstract: A recording medium includes a substrate, and a recording layer formed on the substrate having (a) a recording track band, and (b) recording cells regularly arrayed in the recording track band to form a plurality rows of sub-tracks. The recording cells included in each sub-track are formed apart from each other at a pitch P in the track direction. Nearest neighboring two recording cells, each positioned on adjacent two sub-tracks in the track band, are formed apart from each other at a pitch P/n in the track direction, where 2?n?5.

Abstract: A pattern forming material contains a block copolymer or graft copolymer and forms a structure having micro polymer phases, in which, with respect to at least two polymer chains among polymer chains constituting the block copolymer or graft copolymer, the ratio between N/(Nc?No) values of monomer units constituting respective polymer chains is 1.4 or more, where N represents total number of atoms in the monomer unit, Nc represents the number of carbon atoms in the monomer unit, No represents the number of oxygen atoms in the monomer unit.

Abstract: A recording medium includes a substrate, and a recording layer formed on the substrate having (a) a recording track band, and (b) recording cells regularly arrayed in the recording track band to form a plurality rows of sub-tracks. The recording cells included in each sub-track are formed apart from each other at a pitch P in the track direction. Nearest neighboring two recording cells, each positioned on adjacent two sub-tracks in the track band, are formed apart from each other at a pitch P/n in the track direction, where 2?n?5.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescent device is provided, which includes an emission portion comprising a first electrode and a second electrode and an organic layer sandwiched between the first and second electrodes, and a diffraction grating disposed neighboring on the emission portion, the diffraction grating having first regions and a second region, the first regions comprising a plurality of pair of recessed and projected portions, the plurality of pair of recessed and projected portions being periodically arranged and provided with a primitive translation vector of a direction, the second region comprising an aggregate of the first regions and located parallel with an emission surface of the organic electroluminescent device.

Abstract: A pattern forming material contains a block copolymer or graft copolymer and forms a structure having micro polymer phases, in which, with respect to at least two polymer chains among polymer chains constituting the block copolymer or graft copolymer, the ratio between N/(Nc?No) values of monomer units constituting respective polymer chains is 1.4 or more, where N represents total number of atoms in the monomer unit, Nc represents the number of carbon atoms in the monomer unit, No represents the number of oxygen atoms in the monomer unit.

Abstract: A pattern forming material contains a block copolymer or graft copolymer and forms a structure having micro polymer phases, in which, with respect to at least two polymer chains among polymer chains constituting the block copolymer or graft copolymer, the ratio between N/(Nc-No) values of monomer units constituting respective polymer chains is 1.4 or more, where N represents total number of atoms in the monomer unit, Nc represents the number of carbon atoms in the monomer unit, No represents the number of oxygen atoms in the monomer unit.

Abstract: A recording medium includes a substrate, and a recording layer formed on the substrate having (a) a recording track band, and (b) recording cells regularly arrayed in the recording track band to form a plurality rows of sub-tracks. The recording cells included in each sub-track are formed apart from each other at a pitch P in the track direction. Nearest neighboring two recording cells, each positioned on adjacent two sub-tracks in the track band, are formed apart from each other at a pitch P/n in the track direction, where 2?n?5.

Abstract: A mask used for exposing a porous substrate to form a first region and a second region, the first region being filled with a conductive material piercing through the entire thickness of the porous substrate to constitute an interfacial conductive portion, the second region being filled with a conductive material not piercing the entire thickness of the porous substrate to constitute a non-interfacial conductive portion. The mask includes a first light-transmitting region for exposing the first region, and a second light-transmitting region for exposing the second region, said second light-transmitting region including an aggregation of fine patterns of which an average aperture ratio is not more than 50% of an average aperture ratio of the first light-transmitting region and a size of said fine patterns of the second light-transmitting region being in the range of 0.1 ?m to 10 ?m.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of manufacturing a composite member having a conductive pattern, comprising (1) forming on a surface of an insulating body a photosensitive layer containing both a photosensitive compound forming an ion-exchange group upon irradiation with an energy beam and a crosslinkable compound having a crosslinkable group, (2) forming a pattern of ion-exchange groups by selectively exposing the photosensitive layer to an energy beam so as to form an ion-exchange group in the exposed portion, (3) crosslinking the crosslinkable compound contained in at least the exposed portion of the photosensitive layer, (4) allowing metal ions, or a metal colloid to be adsorbed on the pattern of ion-exchange groups formed by the selectively exposing, and (5) forming a composite member having conductive pattern by depositing a conductive material on the pattern of ion-exchange groups having the metal ions, or the metal colloid adsorbed thereon using an electroless plating.

Abstract: A recording medium includes a substrate, and a recording layer formed on the substrate having (a) a recording track band, and (b) recording cells regularly arrayed in the recording track band to form a plurality rows of sub-tracks. The recording cells included in each sub-track are formed apart from each other at a pitch P in the track direction. Nearest neighboring two recording cells, each positioned on adjacent two sub-tracks in the track band, are formed apart from each other at a pitch P/n in the track direction, where 2?n?5.

Abstract: According to one aspect of the invention, a contact sheet for testing electronic parts, comprising an insulating porous layer; and a connection electrode which is disposed on the insulating porous layer and electrically connect the electrode or terminal of the electronic parts and the terminal of a test apparatus; wherein the connection electrode is embedded below at least one main surface of the insulating porous layer.

Abstract: The present invention provides a composite material such as a passive element, a passive element composite component, a substrate with a built-in passive element and a composite wiring substrate which are free from, for example, a layer peeling problem and enables high density packaging with ease. In the present invention, a porous base material is divided into plural functional regions and a material having different electromagnetic characteristics is filled in a pore of the porous base material of each functional region, to form a passive element or a wiring substrate. Among the aforementioned plural functional regions, at least one functional region is a conductive material region filled with a conductive material and other regions are filled with a high-dielectric material, a high-permeability material or a low-dielectric material.

Abstract: A semiconductor test unit comprises a test circuit for inputting/outputting a test signal to/from an examined electronic product, a test signal wiring electrically connected to the test circuit, a contact board electrically connected to an electrode of the examined electronic product and provided with an electrically conductive via to which the test signal is transmitted, a multilayer circuit board electrically connected to the conductive via and the test signal wiring, located under the bottom face of the contact board, and provided with at least one through-hole, and a vacuum attachment mechanism for attaching thereto and holding the examined electronic product, the contact board, and the multilayer circuit board by vacuum. The contact board is made of an insulative material, has top and bottom faces, and is provided with at least one through-hole.

Abstract: Disclosed is a wiring member comprising a sheet-like porous substrate provided with a large number of open-cells which are three-dimensionally branched and opened to a first major surface as well as to a second major surface of the porous substrate, and a conductive portion formed on the first major surface of the porous substrate and formed at least partially an inter-penetrating structure together with the porous substrate at an interface of the porous substrate. The apertures of the open-cells on the first major surface have an average diameter and an average number of the apertures, at least one of which is smaller than that of the second major surface.

Abstract: An electronic device module comprises a wiring substrate having an insulating substrate with a porous structure including continuous pores and wiring conductors selectively formed in the porous structure; and an electronic device directly connected to said wiring conductors formed in the porous structure.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of manufacturing a composite member in which a conductive portion is selectively formed in an insulator. The method comprises the steps of forming a photosensitive composition layer containing a compound forming an ion-exchange group upon irradiation with light having a wavelength not shorter than 280 nm within or on the surface of an insulator, exposing selectively the photosensitive composition layer to light having a wavelength not shorter than 280 nm, forming an ion-exchange group in the exposed portion, and bonding a metal or metal ions to the ion-exchange group formed in the exposed portion of the photosensitive composition layer.

Abstract: A pattern forming material contains a block copolymer or graft copolymer and forms a structure having micro polymer phases, in which, with respect to at least two polymer chains among polymer chains constituting the block copolymer or graft copolymer, the ratio between N/(Nc−No) values of monomer units constituting respective polymer chains is 1.4 or more, where N represents total number of atoms in the monomer unit, Nc represents the number of carbon atoms in the monomer unit, No represents the number of oxygen atoms in the monomer unit.

Abstract: An electronic device connecting method according to a first aspect of the present invention includes: mounting an electronic device having at least one electrode portion on a sheet-like porous member having a hole therein so that the electrode portion is close to the porous member; selectively irradiating a predetermined region of the porous member, on which the electronic device is mounted, with energy lines to form a latent image in an irradiated or non-irradiated portion of the porous member, the predetermined region including a portion close to the electrode portion; after irradiating with the energy lines, filling a conductive material in a hole of the latent image of the porous member to form a conductive portion; and bonding and integrating the porous member, in which the conductive portion is formed, to and with the electronic device.

Abstract: A pattern forming material contains a block copolymer or graft copolymer and forms a structure having micro polymer phases, in which, with respect to at least two polymer chains among polymer chains constituting the block copolymer or graft copolymer, the ratio between N/(Nc−No) values of monomer units constituting respective polymer chains is 1.4 or more, where N represents total number of atoms in the monomer unit, Nc represents the number of carbon atoms in the monomer unit, No represents the number of oxygen atoms in the monomer unit.