Abstract: A device for manufacturing an organic semiconductor film, including a coating member disposed to face a substrate surface while spaced therefrom for forming the film, and forming a liquid reservoir of an organic semiconductor solution between the coating member and the substrate; a supply portion that supplies the solution; and a cover portion that covers at least a crystal growth portion of the solution. The cover portion includes a guide that guides a deposit formed of an evaporated solvent of the solution to a film-unformed region of the organic semiconductor film. While the solution is supplied between the coating member and the substrate surface by the supply portion, the coating member is moved in a first direction parallel to the substrate surface in a state of being in contact with the solution, to form the film with the crystal growth portion as a starting point.

Abstract: A touch pad includes a flat portion and a convex type three-dimensional portion having a hemispherical shape. An outer circumferential surface of the three-dimensional portion constitutes a spherical operation area. A second recognition unit of the touch-pad controller recognizes a gesture operation of at least two fingers to be the same gesture operation as a pinch-in operation in a planar operation area, in a case where movement trajectories of the at least two fingers in the spherical operation area are arc-shaped movement trajectories which are bulged outwardly in a case where the spherical operation area is viewed in a plan view.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing an organic semiconductor film, including a step of moving a coating blade surface positioned to face a substrate surface in a first direction parallel to the substrate surface, while in contact with an organic semiconductor solution supplied to a portion between the blade surface and the substrate surface to form the organic semiconductor film in the first direction. The coating blade is disposed to have first and second gaps having different separation gap sizes with the substrate surface in a region where the blade surface and the organic semiconductor solution are in contact. The first gap is positioned on an upstream side of the first direction and the second gap, which is smaller than the first gap, is provided on a downstream side. A second gap size is a minimum distance between the substrate surface and the blade surface and is 40 ?m or less.

Abstract: Provided are a coating solution for a non-light-emitting organic semiconductor device having high carrier mobility that contains a compound represented by Formula (2) and a solvent having a boiling point of equal to or higher than 100° C., an organic transistor, a compound, an organic semiconductor material for a non-light-emitting organic semiconductor device, a material for an organic transistor, a method for manufacturing an organic transistor, and a method for manufacturing an organic semiconductor film. (In Formula (2), R11 and R12 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an alkynyl group, or an alkoxy group and may have a substituent, and an aromatic portion in Formula (2) may be substituted with a halogen atom.

Abstract: A sensing system includes an electronic tag and a reading device that transmits and receives information to and from the electronic tag. The reading device includes a transmission unit that sends an alternating-current radio wave including a high-frequency component and a low-frequency component. The electronic tag does not include a power supply and includes a receiving unit that obtains a power supply voltage from the high-frequency component of the alternating-current radio wave and obtains a clock signal from the low-frequency component and a return unit that maintains a maximum amplitude of the clock signal and sends a combination of information and the clock signal as a return signal. The reading device further includes a processing unit that decodes the return signal sent from the electronic tag on the basis of the clock signal.

Abstract: Provided are a coating solution for a non-light-emitting organic semiconductor device having high carrier mobility that contains a compound represented by Formula (2) and a solvent having a boiling point of equal to or higher than 100° C., an organic transistor, a compound, an organic semiconductor material for a non-light-emitting organic semiconductor device, a material for an organic transistor, a method for manufacturing an organic transistor, and a method for manufacturing an organic semiconductor film. (In Formula (2), R11 and R12 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an alkynyl group, or an alkoxy group and may have a substituent, and an aromatic portion in Formula (2) may be substituted with a halogen atom.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a compound which, when used for organic semiconductor films in organic thin-film transistors, makes the organic thin-film transistors exhibit a high carrier mobility, a material for an organic thin-film transistor for which the compound is used, a composition for an organic thin-film transistor, an organic thin-film transistor and a method for manufacturing the same, and an organic semiconductor film. An organic thin-film transistor of the present invention contains a compound represented by General Formula (1) in an organic semiconductor film (organic semiconductor layer) thereof.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an organic thin film transistor having excellent carrier mobility and excellent atmospheric stability, a novel compound, an organic thin film transistor material, an organic semiconductor film, an organic thin film transistor composition, and a method of manufacturing an organic thin film transistor using this. The organic thin film transistor according to the present invention has an organic semiconductor film containing a compound represented by Formula (1) or (2).

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a compound which, when used for organic semiconductor films in organic thin-film transistors, makes the organic thin-film transistors exhibit a high carrier mobility, a material for an organic thin-film transistor for which the compound is used, a composition for an organic thin-film transistor, an organic thin-film transistor and a method for manufacturing the same, and an organic semiconductor film. An organic thin-film transistor of the present invention contains a compound represented by General Formula (1) in an organic semiconductor film (organic semiconductor layer) thereof.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an organic thin film transistor that has an organic semiconductor film manufactured by using a compound having excellent solubility to an organic solvent and that has excellent carrier mobility, a novel compound, an organic thin film transistor material, an organic semiconductor film, an organic thin film transistor composition, and a method of manufacturing an organic thin film transistor using this. The organic thin film transistor according to the present invention has an organic semiconductor film containing a compound represented by Formula (1).

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an organic thin-film transistor which has an organic semiconductor film produced using a compound having an excellent solubility in organic solvents and has an excellent carrier mobility, a compound, a material for an organic thin-film transistor for which the compound is used, a composition for an organic thin-film transistor, a method for manufacturing an organic thin-film transistor, and an organic semiconductor film. An organic thin-film transistor of the present invention contains a compound which is represented by General Formula (1) or General Formula (2) in an organic semiconductor film (organic semiconductor layer) thereof and has a molecular weight of 3,000 or less. In General Formula (1) and General Formula (2), at least one of R5, . . . , or R8 is a group other than a hydrogen atom.

Abstract: According to the present invention, provided is a system for irradiating a target object selectively with specific circularly polarized light, comprising a polarization-state control member that controls the polarization state of light to thereby generate circularly polarized light; and a circularly polarized light-reflecting member, wherein the circularly polarized light-reflecting member is disposed at a position on which the circularly polarized light emitted from the polarization-state control member can be incident; the circularly polarized light-reflecting member generates reflected light that selectively comprises circularly polarized light of the same sense as the incident circularly polarized light from the polarization-state control member; and the circularly polarized light-reflecting member is disposed such that the target object can be irradiated with at least a part of the reflected light.

Abstract: An information display system includes: a tag including a signal receiving unit, a data code, and an image-memory-type display medium that displays a display image on the basis of an image display signal; and a reader/writer including a contact electrode unit that comes into contact with the signal receiving unit, an information recognition unit that recognizes the data code and the display image of the image-memory-type display medium, a memory that stores image display information corresponding to information included in the data code and information of a data code, and a writing unit that transmits an image display signal based on the image display information through the contact electrode unit. The information recognition unit reads the data code to obtain the information included in the data code and compares the information included in the read data code with the information of the data code stored in the memory.

Abstract: An information display system includes: a tag including a signal receiving unit, an image-memory-type display medium that displays a display image on the basis of an image display signal, and a storage unit including a first storage region in which identification information and the image display signal are stored and a second storage region in which recording information indicating a storage state of the image display signal in the first storage region is stored; and a reader/writer including a contact electrode unit that comes into contact with the signal receiving unit, an information recognition unit that reads the identification information and the recording information, a memory that stores image display information corresponding to the identification information and identification information, and a writing unit that transmits an image display signal based on the image display information and a write signal for changing the recording information to indicate that the image display signal has been stored

Abstract: The present invention provides an illuminating device that makes it possible to reduce the number of members for regulating a polarization state and can irradiate light having natural color shades without decreasing energy efficiency of light irradiation, and a plant growth regulation method using the illuminating device. The illuminating device of the present invention includes a light-emitting light source and a polarization state regulation member that regulates a polarization state of the light-emitting light source, in which the polarization state of a wavelength region of a portion of emission wavelengths is changed to circular polarization, and a degree of circular polarization of light in a wavelength band for regulation among the light rays to be irradiated is 0.3 or higher. In a preferable embodiment, a width of at least one wavelength band for regulation of the polarization state regulation member is from 60 nm to 250 nm.

Abstract: In a matrix device having two or more systems of electrode groups such as X and Y systems, the one or more electrode groups are grouped into groups each consisting of a plurality of pixel electrodes, connection wires are branched off and connected to the pixel electrodes so that the same signal is not supplied to the pixel electrodes of the same group but the same signal is supplied to one pixel electrode of two or more groups, switching elements are provided corresponding to the individual pixel electrodes, and a gate electrode and a gate insulating film of the switching elements are used in common in the same group. Accordingly, in the matrix device and manufacturing of the matrix device, the number of connection wires and driver ICs is reduced.

Abstract: An electronic circuit device includes a plurality of logic circuit elements which output an output signal by performing a preset operation on an input signal. Transistors constituting the logic circuit elements each have a gate electrode provided on a substrate, an insulating layer electrically insulating the gate electrode, a source electrode, a drain electrode, and a semiconductor layer. Input signal wiring, to which the input signal is applied, is connected to the gate electrode and provided inside the insulating layer on the substrate. Output signal wiring, from which the output signal is taken out, is connected to the source electrode or the drain electrode and provided inside the insulating layer on the substrate. An electronic circuit performing a preset processing is constituted with the plurality of logic circuit elements.

Abstract: The present invention provides a circular polarization illumination device which can irradiate right-circularly polarized light at a large light amount from a light source of right-circularly polarized light with a high efficiency and can irradiate left-circularly polarized light at a large light amount from a light source of left-circularly polarized light with a high efficiency, and a plant growth regulation method that can efficiently regulate the promotion or inhibition of the growth of plants by using the circular polarization illumination device. Moreover, the illumination device includes a light-emitting light source, a reflective polarizing plate, reirradiation unit, and circular polarization conversion unit.

Abstract: Objects of the present invention is to provide an organic semiconductor element having high mobility and to provide a composition for forming an organic semiconductor film with which an organic semiconductor film having high mobility can be formed, a method of manufacturing an organic semiconductor element formed from the composition for forming an organic semiconductor film, and a method of manufacturing an organic semiconductor film. The organic semiconductor element according to the present invention has a semiconductor active layer including a compound that is represented by Formula 1 and has a molecular weight of 3,000 or less. The composition for forming an organic semiconductor film according to the present invention contains a compound that is represented by Formula 1 and has a molecular weight of 3,000 or less, and a solvent.

Abstract: The present invention provides an illumination apparatus for plant cultivation, including a unit configured to change light in any wavelength region of 300 nm or higher and 600 nm or lower (wavelengths of 452 nm to 474 nm, for example) to light in the wavelength region having dominantly a right-circularly polarized light component. The illumination apparatus of the present invention enables irradiation with light that is capable of giving a specific effect in plant cultivation.