Abstract: An antenna connected to a circuit portion and configured to effect transmission and reception of information by radio communication, the antenna including a driven meander line portion which has a feed section connected to the circuit portion and which is a line conductor formed in a meandering pattern, and a parasitic meander line portion which does not have a feed section connected to the circuit portion and which is a line conductor formed in a meandering pattern, the parasitic meander line portion being positioned relative to the driven meander line portion, so as to influence an input impedance of the driven meander line portion, wherein the driven and parasitic line portions have respective extensions of the line conductors formed at respective opposite longitudinal ends of the antenna. Also disclosed in a transponder in the form of a radio-frequency identification tag including the antenna and capable of radio communication with an interrogator.

Abstract: An antenna connected to a circuit portion and configured to effect transmission and reception of information by radio communication, the antenna including a driven meander line portion which has a feed section connected to the circuit portion and which is a line conductor formed in a meandering pattern, and a parasitic meander line portion which does not have a feed section connected to the circuit portion and which is a line conductor formed in a meandering pattern and positioned relative to the driven meander line portion, so as to influence an input impedance of the driven meander line portion. Also disclosed is a radio-frequency identification tag including the antenna.

Abstract: An antenna connected to a circuit portion and configured to effect transmission and reception of information by radio communication, the antenna including a driven meander line portion which has a feed section connected to the circuit portion and which is a line conductor formed in a meandering pattern, and a parasitic meander line portion which does not have a feed section connected to the circuit portion and which is a line conductor formed in a meandering pattern, the parasitic meander line portion being positioned relative to the driven meander line portion, so as to influence an input impedance of the driven meander line portion, wherein the driven and parasitic line portions have respective extensions of the line conductors formed at respective opposite longitudinal ends of the antenna. Also disclosed in a transponder in the form of a radio-frequency identification tag including the antenna and capable of radio communication with an interrogator.

Abstract: An antenna connected to a circuit portion and configured to effect transmission and reception of information by radio communication, the antenna including a driven meander line portion which has a feed section connected to the circuit portion and which is a line conductor formed in a meandering pattern, and a parasitic meander line portion which does not have a feed section connected to the circuit portion and which is a line conductor formed in a meandering pattern and positioned relative to the driven meander line portion, so as to influence an input impedance of the driven meander line portion. Also disclosed is a radio-frequency identification tag including the antenna.

Abstract: Provided a method for treating hardly-decomposable-substance-containing water, in which hardly decomposable substances such as dioxins, contained in contaminated water (treatment raw water) are concentrated and rendered harmless by providing the steps of (B) adding an adsorbent to water containing a hardly decomposable substance (treatment raw water) to cause the hardly decomposable substance to be adsorbed on the adsorbent (adsorption treatment step), (C) separating a permeated liquid through a filter membrane to concentrate the adsorbent adsorbing the hardly decomposable substance (membrane filtering treatment step), and (D) chemically decomposing the hardly decomposable substance adsorbed on the concentrated adsorbent with a peroxide without any operation of desorption from the adsorbent (chemical decomposition step), and the method can be applied to water containing a reducing substance such as bisulfate that neutralize free chlorine and can render the hardly decomposable substances harmless efficiently a

Abstract: A second harmonic wave generating device comprising a LiNbO.sub.3 thin film waveguide layer formed on a LiTaO.sub.3 substrate, in which the fundamental wavelength (.lambda..mu.m), the thickness (T .mu.m) of the LiNbO.sub.3 thin film waveguide layer, the ordinary refractive index (n.sub.oS1) of the LiTaO.sub.3 substrate at the fundamental wavelength (.lambda..mu.m), the ordinary refractive index (n.sub.oF1) of the LiNbO.sub.3 thin film waveguide layer at the fundamental wavelength (.lambda..mu.m), the extraordinary refractive index (n.sub.eS2) of the LiTaO.sub.3 substrate at a second harmonic wavelength (.lambda..mu.m/2), and the extraordinary refractive indes (n e F 2) of the LiNbO.sub.3 thin film waveguide layer at the second harmonic wavelength (.lambda..mu.m/2) are individually within the following specific ranges:.lambda.=0.68 to 0.94 .mu.mT=0.3 to 16 .mu.mn.sub.oF1 =2.22 to 2.38n.sub.oS1 =2.10 to 2.25n.sub.eF2 =2.24 to 2.43n.sub.eS2 =2.22 to 2.

Abstract: A second harmonic wave generating device comprising a LiNbO.sub.3 thin film waveguide layer formed on a LiTaO.sub.3 substrate, in which the LiTaO.sub.3 substrate has an ordinary refractive index (n.sub.oS1) of 2.10 to 2.20 at the fundamental wavelength (.lambda..mu.m) and an extraordinary refractive index (n.sub.eS2) of 2.22 to 2.28 at the second harmonic wavelength (.lambda..mu.m/2), and the ordinary refractive index (n.sub.oF1) at the fundamental wavelength (.lambda..mu.m) of the LinBO.sub.3 thin film waveguide layer, the extraordinary refractive index (n.sub.eS2) at the second harmonic wavelength (.lambda..mu.m/2) of the LiTaO.sub.3 substrate, and the extraordinary refractive index (n.sub.eF2) at the second harmonic wavelength (.lambda..mu.m/2) of the LiNbO.sub.

Abstract: A tapered optical waveguide is disclosed, which comprises a substrate having a plane surface for forming a waveguide layer, whose refractive index is higher than that of the substrate, which substrate is transparent with respect to guided light, and a waveguide layer formed on the plane surface of the substrate, in which light taken out on the substrate side is focused so as to form a small spot at a position distant from the interface between the waveguide layer and the substrate.