Abstract: To provide a photoelectric conversion element that can improve image quality. Provided is a photoelectric conversion element including at least a first electrode, a work function control layer, a photoelectric conversion layer, an oxide semiconductor layer, and a second electrode in this order, and further including a third electrode, in which the third electrode is provided apart from the second electrode and is provided facing the photoelectric conversion layer via an insulating layer, and the work function control layer contains a larger amount of oxygen than an amount of oxygen satisfying a stoichiometric composition.

Abstract: A photoelectric conversion element according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a first electrode; a second electrode that is opposed to the first electrode; and an organic photoelectric conversion layer that is provided between the first electrode and the second electrode, and includes, as a first organic semiconductor material, a benzothienobenzothiophene-based compound represented by a general formula (1).

Abstract: For example, a pulse transmission circuit includes: a constant current source configured to generate a constant current; a capacitor configured to be charged using the constant current (e.g., a charge current generated by mirroring the constant current); and a discharge switch configured to pass a discharge current from the capacitor to a transformer according to a pulse edge in an input pulse signal, thereby to pulse-drive the transformer.

Abstract: A sheet laminator includes a fuser pressure member, a conveyor, and a guide. The fuser pressure member thermally fixes a two-ply sheet and a sheet medium inserted between two sheets of the two-ply sheet. The conveyor conveys the two-ply sheet toward the fuser pressure member in a sheet conveyance direction. The guide guides the two-ply sheet in a sheet conveyance passage between the conveyor and the fuser pressure member. At least one of the fuser pressure member or the conveyor is operable to guide the two-ply sheet outside the sheet conveyance passage in response to an occurrence of an abnormal stop of the sheet laminator.

Abstract: A negative electrode active material for a secondary battery includes composite particles each including a matrix, and a silicon phase dispersed in the matrix. Each of the composite particles is coated with a coating layer. The coating layer is a mixture of a carbon material and a fluorine-containing material.

Abstract: A line narrowing gas laser device includes a line narrowing device, an output coupling mirror, a laser chamber arranged on an optical path of an optical resonator, a first holder which supports the output coupling mirror, a second holder which supports the first holder to be rotatable about a rotation axis of the first holder, and an adjustment device supported by the second holder and being in contact with the first holder to rotate the first holder about the rotation axis. The line narrowing device has a characteristic of changing, into a first direction, beam pointing of laser light output toward the output coupling mirror when temperature inside the line narrowing device rises. The second holder and the adjustment device rotate the first holder in a direction in which a change in the first direction in the beam pointing of the laser light is suppressed by thermal expansion.

Abstract: A sheet laminator includes a thermal fixing roller pair, a first heater, a second heater, multiple temperature detectors, and a driver. The thermal fixing roller pair includes a first thermal fixing roller and a second thermal fixing roller facing the first thermal fixing roller. The thermal fixing roller pair thermally fixes and conveys a two-ply sheet and a sheet medium nipped between two sheets of the two-ply sheet. The first heater heats the first thermal fixing roller. The second heater heats the second thermal fixing roller. The multiple temperature detectors are at different positions along an axial direction of the thermal fixing roller pair. The multiple temperature detectors detect a surface temperature of the thermal fixing roller pair. The driver drives the thermal fixing roller pair.

Abstract: An imaging element according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a first electrode; a second electrode disposed to be opposed to the first electrode; an organic layer provided between the first electrode and the second electrode and at least including a photoelectric conversion layer; and a first semiconductor layer provided between the second electrode and the organic layer and having an electron affinity of 4.5 eV or more and 6.0 eV or less, the first semiconductor layer including a first carbon-containing compound and a second carbon-containing compound, the first carbon-containing compound having an electron affinity greater than 4.8 eV or an electron affinity greater than a work function of the second electrode, the second carbon-containing compound having an ionization potential greater than 5.5 eV.

Abstract: An imaging element according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a first electrode; a second electrode that is disposed to be opposed to the first electrode; and an organic layer that is provided between the first electrode and the second electrode. The organic layer includes a compound represented by a general formula (1).

Abstract: A seal member has a first seal layer which is opposite a container main body; and a second seal layer which is opposite a cap member and the compression slip resistance ? [N] of the first seal layer, the compression rate k [%] of the first seal layer, the thickness T1 [mm] of the first seal layer, the compression residual strain ?1[%] of the first seal layer, the thickness T2 [mm] of the second seal layer, the compression residual strain ?2[%] of the second seal layer, the thickness Tn [mm] of the seal layer other than the first seal layer and the second seal layer and the compression residual strain ?n [%] of the seal layer other than the first seal layer and the second seal layer satisfy 0<?/k<0.3 and 0.04<T2?2/(T1?1+T2?2+ . . . Tn?n)<0.48.

Abstract: Provided is an operation confirmation device for an electric actuator for an emergency stop device that can improve maintainability of an electric device portion. The operation confirmation device for the electric actuator for the emergency stop device confirms operation of an electric actuator (10). The electric actuator actuates a drive mechanism that drives the elevator emergency stop device, and includes a movable element (34a, 34b, 34c) mechanically connected to the drive mechanism, an electromagnet (35a, 35b) facing the movable element, and a mechanism portion (36, 41) configured to convert rotation of a motor (37) into linear movement of the electromagnet. The operation confirmation device includes: a position detector (109) configured to detect a position of the movable element; and a controller (7) configured to detect a failure of the motor based on a position detection signal from the position detector.

Abstract: A solid-state imaging element with pixel transistors and wires capable of efficiently outputting and transferring a pixel signal from a stacked photoelectric conversion film while suppressing an increase in manufacturing cost, and a manufacturing method thereof are provided.

Abstract: In order to obviate the need for measurement by a distance sensor in an unloaded state when measuring the volume of a load, this volume measurement device comprises: a first distance data acquisition unit for acquiring first distance data from above; a second distance data acquisition unit for acquiring second distance data associated with a back surface part and a side surface part of the bed, as well as the ground surface; a first identifying unit for identifying a frame of the bed using the first distance data; a second identifying unit for identifying the position of a bottom surface part of the bed using the second distance data; and a volume measurement unit for measuring the volume of a load on the bed on the basis of the results of identification by the first identifying unit and the second identifying unit.

Abstract: An optical detection device including a through electrode is provided. The optical detection device includes a first semiconductor layer having a photoelectric conversion region, a first surface, and a second surface that is a light entrance surface, a second semiconductor layer with a third surface and a fourth surface, a second wiring layer overlapped with the third surface, a third wiring layer overlapped with the fourth surface, a first wiring layer with one surface overlapped with the first surface and another surface overlapped with one of the second wiring layer and the third wiring layer, a first conductor that has a first width, includes a first material, and penetrates the second semiconductor layer in a thickness direction, and a second conductor that has a second width smaller than the first width, includes a second material different from the first material, and penetrates the second semiconductor layer in the thickness direction.

Abstract: A first semiconductor element according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a first electrode; a second electrode disposed to be opposed the first electrode; and an organic semiconductor layer that is provided between the first electrode and the second electrode, and including an organic semiconductor material, the organic semiconductor material having a crystal density of greater than 1.26 g/cm3 and less than 1.50 g/cm3 in powder form by X-ray structure analysis, and a molecular weight of 1200 or less, and being available for vacuum deposition film formation.

Abstract: A sheet laminator includes a thermal fixing roller pair, a first heater, a second heater, multiple temperature detectors, and a driver. The thermal fixing roller pair includes a first thermal fixing roller and a second thermal fixing roller facing the first thermal fixing roller. The thermal fixing roller pair thermally fixes and conveys a two-ply sheet and a sheet medium nipped between two sheets of the two-ply sheet. The first heater heats the first thermal fixing roller. The second heater heats the second thermal fixing roller. The multiple temperature detectors are at different positions along an axial direction of the thermal fixing roller pair. The multiple temperature detectors detect a surface temperature of the thermal fixing roller pair. The driver drives the thermal fixing roller pair.

Abstract: Embodiments provide a resin composition, an adhesive member including a polymer derived from the resin composition, and a display device including the adhesive member. The resin composition includes a (meth)acrylate polymer that is synthesized with a first monomer, a photoinitiator, a (meth)acrylate monomer, and a urethane (meth)acrylate oligomer.

Abstract: There is provided a solid-state image sensor, a solid-state imaging device, an electronic apparatus, and a method of manufacturing a solid-state image sensor capable of improving characteristics. There is provided a solid-state image sensor including a stacked structure that includes a semiconductor substrate, a first photoelectric converter provided above the semiconductor substrate and converting light into charges, and a second photoelectric converter provided above the first photoelectric converter and converting light into charges, where the first photoelectric converter and the second photoelectric converter include a photoelectric conversion stacked structure in which a common electrode a photoelectric conversion film, and a readout electrode are stacked so that the first photoelectric converter and the second photoelectric converter are in a line-symmetrical relationship with each other with a vertical plane perpendicular to a stacking direction of the stacked structure as an axis of symmetry.

Abstract: A photoelectric conversion device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a first electrode (11); a second electrode disposed to face the first electrode (11); a photoelectric conversion layer (13) provided between the first electrode (11) and the second electrode, the photoelectric conversion layer (13) including fullerenes or fullerene derivatives; a first electric charge block layer (12A) provided between the first electrode (11) and the photoelectric conversion layer (13), the first electric charge block layer (12A) including an organic material having an HOMO level that is deeper by 1 eV or higher and an LUMO level ranging from 3.7 eV to 4.8 eV inclusive, with respect to a work function of the first electrode (11); and a second electric charge block layer (12B) provided between the first electric charge block layer (12A) and the photoelectric conversion layer (13), the second electric charge block layer (12B) including the fullerenes or the fullerene derivatives.

Abstract: An embodiment includes a main body holding pin groups and partition walls partitioning adjacent signal pins from each other, each of the signal pins has a fixing part located on a mount part side and fixed to a substrate, tip parts located on an insertion-extraction part side and serving as a free end, and a contact part provided between the fixing part and the tip parts and configured to be in electrical contact with electrodes of a device, and the adjacent tip parts are located via an opening.