Abstract: A specimen box for an electron microscope capable of observing a general specimen or a live cell is formed of a housing. The housing includes a receiving chamber formed therein and at least one view hole formed on each of a top side thereof and a bottom side thereof and communicating with the receiving chamber and coaxially aligned with the other. The distance between a bottom end of the view hole located on the top side of the housing and a top end of the view hole located on the bottom side of the housing is smaller than 50 ?m. The housing is ultra-thin to enable penetration of the electron beam therethrough even though a liquid specimen is injected into the housing. A general specimen or a live cell can be put into the housing for the microscopic observation under the electron microscope.

Abstract: An ultra-thin liquid control plate and a combination of a box-like member and the control plat include a plate-like member having at least one view hole. The joint surface combined with a sidewall of the view hole and a surface of the plate-like member is provided with at least one more-hydrophilic section and at least one less-hydrophilic section, wherein the more-hydrophilic section has a height smaller than 50 ?m. While combined with the box-like member, the plate-like member is mounted in the box-like member. The box-like member has at least one through hole running through each of a top side and a bottom side thereof and coaxially aligned with the view hole. After a liquid is placed into the view hole, the more-hydrophilic section adsorbs the liquid to form a liquid layer and the less-hydrophilic section is hydrophobic to adsorb no liquid.

Abstract: A method of observing a live unit under an electron microscope includes the steps of (A) preparing a live environment inside the electron microscope, wherein the live environment is provided with at least one live unit and a predetermined environmental condition keeping basic physiology of the live unit functional, at least one pair of view windows is located opposite to each other, and the live unit includes at least two objects that can bear different critical charge densities respectively; and (B) irradiating the live unit with a particle beam of predetermined intensity through the view windows, and then display the live unit on an imaging device of the electron microscope, wherein the product of the predetermined intensity of the particle beam and the predetermined duration equals the predetermined charge density that is smaller than or equal to the critical charge density of the object of the live unit.

Abstract: A method of operating liquid in a vacuum or low-pressure environment and observing the operation and a device for the operation and the observation respectively, including the steps of preparing a housing, putting the housing in the vacuum or low-pressure environment and keep a predetermined temperature difference between liquid, vapor, and buffer chambers, infusing vapor into the vapor chamber through a gas inlet and control the vapor pressure inside the vapor chamber to be equal to the saturated vapor pressure of a liquid specimen inside the liquid chamber under the same temperature to prevent the inside liquid from volatilization, and evacuating the buffer chamber through the pumping port to pump out the vapor and prevent the vapor from exhausting through outer apertures out of the housing. A probing source can pass through the outer, inner, and vapor apertures for observation and analysis of the liquid specimen inside the liquid chamber.

Abstract: A nanoimprint lithography method of fabricating a nanoadhesive includes steps of (a) preparing a substrate and a transfer stamp, said transfer stamp having a transfer face and nanometer-scale features formed on said transfer face, said nanometer-scale features having a plurality of convexities and concavities, said substrate having an etched layer; (b) proceeding a staining process to enable either of said convexities and concavities to be stained with a photoresist; (c) proceeding a transfer process to enable said nanometer-scale features to touch said etched layer to transfer said photoresist onto said etched layer; and (d) proceeding an etching process to enable parts of said etched layer that are not stained with the photoresist to be each etched for a predetermined depth. As the steps indicated above, the nanoadhesive can be produced with mass production and low cost.

Abstract: A method of operating liquid in a vacuum or low-pressure environment and observing the operation and a device for the operation and the observation respectively, including the steps of preparing a housing, putting the housing in the vacuum or low-pressure environment and control liquid, vapor, and buffer chambers under the same temperature, infusing vapor into the vapor chamber through a gas inlet and control the vapor pressure inside the vapor chamber to be equal to the saturated vapor pressure of a liquid specimen inside the liquid chamber under the same temperature to prevent the inside liquid from volatilization, and evacuating the buffer chamber through the pumping port to pump out the vapor and prevent the vapor from exhausting through outer apertures out of the housing. A probing source can pass through the outer, inner, and vapor apertures for observation and analysis of the liquid specimen inside the liquid chamber.

Abstract: A nanoimprint lithography method of fabricating a nanoadhesive includes steps of (a) preparing a substrate and a mold under the vacuum environment, wherein at least one of the substrate and the mold is transparent, the mold is located over the substrate and has an oppressing portion having nanometer-scale features and a mold release agent located on the surface of the nanometer-scale features; (b) coating a liquid resist cast on the substrate, wherein the resist cast can be hardened by ultraviolet rays; (c) having the mold is pressed on the substrate to enable the resist cast to fill between the nanometer-scale features and the substrate; (d) irradiating the resist cast by the ultraviolet rays for hardening; and (e) releasing the mold from the substrate to enable the resist cast to produce a contrast pattern thereon corresponding to the nanometer-scale features, wherein the resist cast with the contrast pattern is the nanoadhesive.

Abstract: A device for operating gas in the vacuum or low-pressure environment and for observation of the operation includes a housing. The housing has a thinner part formed at a side thereof, and at least one spacer mounted therein for partitioning off its inside into a gas chamber and at least one buffer chamber outside the gas chamber. The gas chamber has two inner apertures provided on the spacers above and below the gas chamber. The housing has two outer apertures provided respectively on a top side thereof and a bottom side thereof. All of the inner and outer apertures are coaxial with one another and located on the thinner part. The housing has a pumping port for communication with the buffer chamber, and a gas inlet for communication with the gas chamber.

Abstract: A method of operating a high-pressure chamber in a vacuum or low-pressure environment and observing the operation, and a device for the operation and the observation respectively, employs a housing, which includes a chamber, a vapor room, at least one buffer room, at least one spacer, and all of vapor, inner, and outer apertures formed on the spacer and coaxially aligned with one another. Infusing a fluid of higher pressure into the chamber with a pressurizer and applying multilayered depressurization to the outside of the chamber and controlling the pressure difference between the chamber and the vapor room to prevent the fluid from exhausting like liquid through the vapor aperture and instead ensure the fluid to be held inside the chamber. The coaxial relationship of the vapor, inner, and outer apertures enables a probing source to penetrate through the fluid for observation and analysis.

Abstract: A device for operating gas in the vacuum or low-pressure environment and for observation of the operation includes a housing. The housing has a thinner part formed at a side thereof, and at least one spacer mounted therein for partitioning off its inside into a gas chamber and at least one buffer chamber outside the gas chamber. The gas chamber has two inner apertures provided on the spacers above and below the gas chamber. The housing has two outer apertures provided respectively on a top side thereof and a bottom side thereof. All of the inner and outer apertures are coaxial with one another and located on the thinner part. The housing has a pumping port for communication with the buffer chamber, and a gas inlet for communication with the gas chamber.

Abstract: Due to lights with different wavelengths having different indexes of refraction in a liquid crystal, a retardation between lights with different wavelengths occurs and causes the problem of viewing angle of the liquid crystal display. The present invention provides a manufacturing method of light-guiding apparatus of a liquid crystal display to form light-guiding pillars having a characteristic of total reflection as a fiber. The light from back light module through the light-guiding pillars enters the liquid crystal at an incident angle smaller than 150 for reducing the retardation between lights with different wavelengths.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing spacers of a liquid crystal display (LCD) is described. A stamp having relief geometries is formed and then a spacer material is applied thereon. Then, the spacer material is left onto a surface of a substrate by the stamp. The spacer material is cured and the stamp is removed; spacers are thus formed on the substrate.

Abstract: The present invention provides a polarizer manufacturing method. A dip-pen is stained by dichroic molecule material or birefringent material. The stained dip-pen is brought into contact with a polarizer base to transfer the materials to the polarizer base by capillarity between the dip-pen and this base.

Abstract: The present invention provides a mixed liquid crystal binary mixture with V-shaped switching electro-optical response characteristic, which is produced by achiral swallow-tailed material doped with the antiferroelectric liquid crystal material or with the ferroelectric liquid crystal material. The achiral swallow-tailed compound as the main material that is doped with the antiferroelectric liquid crystal material or with the ferroelectric liquid crystal material to produce the binary mixture, wherein the mixed liquid crystal binary mixture exhibits the electro-optical response of V-shaped switching in the antiferroelectric phase or in the ferroelectric phase.

Abstract: The present invention provides a polarizer manufacturing method. Dichroic molecule material is printed over the polarizer substrate by microcontact printing. A shear force generated from the microcontact printing process can arrange the Dichroic molecule in a particular direction.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a diffuser for a backlight module is disclosed. The method includes providing a transparent substrate; forming a first transparent photoresist layer on the transparent substrate; spreading a plurality of masking particles on the first transparent photoresist layer; exposing and developing the first transparent photoresist layer; removing the masking particles; etching the exposed region of the first transparent photoresist layer to form a first scattering array; and optionally forming a passivation layer on the first transparent photoresist layer.

Abstract: Due to lights with different wavelengths having different indexes of refraction in a liquid crystal, a retardation between lights with different wavelengths occurs and causes the problem of viewing angle of the liquid crystal display. The present invention provides a manufacturing method of light-guiding apparatus of a liquid crystal display to form light-guiding pillars having a characteristic of total reflection as a fiber. The light from back light module through the light-guiding pillars enters the liquid crystal at an incident angle smaller than 150 for reducing the retardation between lights with different wavelengths.

Abstract: A method for forming a non-rubbing alignment film is provided. A polymer film is formed on a substrate. A plurality of microgroove structure is then formed on the surface of the polymer film by the molecular imprint method to prevent electrostatic damage and micro particle contamination produced by the conventional rubbing method.

Abstract: A chiral swallow-tailed liquid crystal is provided. The present chiral swallow-tailed liquid crystal is synthesized from a chiral material. The present chiral swallow-tailed liquid crystal is composed of the compound of (N,N′-diethyl (s)-2-{6-[4-(4′-alkoxyphenyl)benzoyloxy]-2-naphthyl}propanamide or the compound of (N,N′-dipropyl(s)-2-{6-[4-(4′-alkoxyphenyl)benzoyloxy]-2-naphthyl}propanamide. The chiral center of the present chiral compound is directly linked to its rigid core, and the chiral tail of this compound is linked with a swallow-tailed group. The chiral center and swallow-tailed group are arranged at the same side in the molecular structure. This structural characteristic enables the chiral compound to have the same property of thresholdless antiferroelectricity, and the advantage of simple manufacturing process. The present chiral compound shows an optimum application effect in liquid crystal displays.