Abstract: A secondary battery that can avoid reduction in battery capacity over the lapse of charge-discharge cycles and can exhibit high performance is provided. The secondary battery includes a first electrode layer, a second electrode layer, and an electrolyte layer provided between the first and second electrode layers, the electrolyte layer including electrolyte particles, wherein at least one of the first and second electrode layers includes a base member having a major surface on which a plurality of concave portions are formed and an electrode material filled in at least the concave portions, the major surface facing to the electrolyte layer.

Abstract: A battery device includes a photoelectric conversion device and a secondary battery. The photoelectric conversion device includes a first positive electrode, a first negative electrode, and a photoelectric conversion layer provided between the first positive electrode and the first negative electrode, the photoelectric conversion layer including an inorganic semiconductor and a pigment. The secondary battery includes a second positive electrode, a second negative electrode, and an electrolyte layer provided between the second positive electrode and the second negative electrode. Here, one of a first electrode pair and a second electrode pair is adhered directly, the first electrode pair including the first and the second positive electrodes, and the second electrode pair including the first and the second negative electrodes.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer, and a first transistor and a second transistor that are formed using the semiconductor layer, wherein each conductance of the first and second transistors changes complementarily to each other according to a curvature of the semiconductor layer.

Abstract: A semiconductor device, comprises: a semiconductor substrate; a buried oxide (BOX) layer formed on the semiconductor substrate; a semiconductor layer formed on the BOX layer; a plurality of metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) capacitors formed on the semiconductor layer; and a switching element formed on the semiconductor substrate, wherein the switching element switches a first condition in which the plurality of MOS capacitors are connected parallel so that a direct current voltage is applied in common to the plurality of MOS capacitors, and a second condition in which the plurality of MOS capacitors connected parallel is connected in series.

Abstract: A semiconductor device, includes: a field-effect transistor that configures a charge-pump circuit; and a supporting substrate that supports the field-effect transistor so that the field-effect transistor provided on the supporting substrate becomes warpable in a channel direction.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a transistor that is used for a charge pump circuit, being configured with a fully depleted silicon-on-insulator transistor.

Abstract: A method is provided for manufacturing a semiconductor device wherein a protective film is removed substantially without etching a compound film. A titanium film and a titanium nitride film are formed on a silicon layer in this order. A titanium silicide film is then formed by heat treating an SOI substrate. Subsequently, the titanium nitride film and the titanium film remaining unreacted are removed. The titanium film is formed to have a predetermined thickness so that the titanium film remains unreacted on the entire surface of the titanium silicide film after forming the titanium silicide film with a desired thickness. The nitride film and the titanium film remaining unreacted are removed by a wet etching method using a hydrofluoric acid solution.

Abstract: The invention provides a fuel cell manufacturing apparatus having improved productivity and a fuel cell manufacturing method that uses the fuel cell manufacturing apparatus. The invention provides on a first substrate that is transferred by use of a belt conveyer that is driven by a driver based on a signal from a controller, by use of discharge devices, a first gas flow path for supplying a first reaction gas is formed. Subsequently, on the first substrate that is transferred by the belt conveyer, by use of discharge devices, a first current collecting layer and a first reaction layer are formed, respectively. In the next place, on the first substrate, by use of a discharge device, an electrolyte film is formed. Similarly, by use of discharge devices, a second reaction layer and a second current collecting layer are formed, respectively.

Abstract: The invention provides a fuel cell having a gas flow path formed therein provided with a space through which a reactive gas flows and a process for the production thereof. More particularly, in ejection devices, a first gas flow path is formed in a first substrate which has been conveyed by a belt conveyor driven by a driving device according to signal from a controlling device. Subsequently, the first substrate which has been conveyed by the belt conveyor is processed in an ejection device to form a first collector layer thereon and processed in an ejection device to form a first gas diffusion layer thereon. Subsequently, the first substrate which has been conveyed by the belt conveyor is processed in an ejection device to form a first reactive layer thereon and processed in an ejection device to form an electrolyte membrane thereon.