Abstract: A manufacturing method of an alignment layer and a manufacturing method of a display substrate are provided. The manufacturing method of the alignment layer includes: providing a display substrate on which a patterned structure is formed; applying the entire display substrate with wetting fluid, wherein the wetting fluid can be fused with alignment liquid; transferring the alignment liquid on the display substrate applied with the wetting fluid by a transfer roller; and curing the alignment liquid to form an alignment layer. The manufacturing method is used for producing the alignment layer on the display substrate.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a sealant and a liquid crystal layer. The first substrate includes a switching element and a pixel electrode. The second substrate includes a first organic insulating film in which a first trench portion is formed, a projection formed beneath the first organic insulating film, and a first barrier layer. The first barrier layer is formed continuously from an inside of the first trench portion to under the projection.

Abstract: A smart window, and production method therefor, uses glass beads made from glass material instead of a polymer matrix of the conventional smart window. This makes the liquid crystal's size, shape and arrangement constant by placing the liquid crystal outside the glass beads, thereby securing high stability and chemical resistance, avoiding haze, having low operating voltage, and having improved optical, for example, broad variable range of light transmittance between OFF (light impermeable) and ON (light permeable) states.

Abstract: A display panel and a manufacturing method thereof, a mask and a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device. The display panel includes a first display substrate and a second display substrate arranged to be opposed to each other, and main spacers and assistant spacers arranged between the first display substrate and the second display substrate. The main spacers and the assistant spacers are both arranged on the first display substrate. The main spacers have a height equal to a distance from the first display substrate to the second display substrate to support the first display substrate and the second display substrate. The assistant spacers have a height smaller than that of the main spacers. An end surface of a suspending end of at least one of the assistant spacers is planar and/or an end surface of a suspending end of at least one of the assistant spacers is convex.

Abstract: A display panel includes: a color filter substrate including a first base substrate, a black matrix disposed on the first base substrate, and a plurality of spacers disposed on the black matrix a pillow layer provided at least part of the spacers and the black matrix; an array substrate cell-assembled with the color filter substrate, wherein at least part of spacers disposed on the pillow layer is in contact with the array substrate by pressing.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first substrate including a first pixel electrode disposed in a red color pixel, a second pixel electrode disposed in a green color pixel, and a third pixel electrode disposed in a blue color pixel, a second substrate including a common electrode having a first slit opposed to the first pixel electrode, a second slit opposed to the second pixel electrode, and a third slit opposed to the third pixel electrode, and a liquid crystal layer held between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein at least one of an area and an area ratio of the third slit is greater than that of the first slit and the second slit.

Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device that is capable of achieving good display characteristics even if the pixel size is reduced. A liquid crystal display device of the present invention includes a first substrate, a second substrate and a liquid crystal layer that is sandwiched between the first substrate and the second substrate. The liquid crystal layer contains a liquid crystal material that has negative dielectric anisotropy. The first substrate has a first hook-like electrode and a second hook-like electrode, which are independent from each other. When the first substrate is seen in a plan view, the inner profile line of the first hook-like electrode and the inner profile line of the second hook-like electrode face each other.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate and a second substrate. The first substrate includes a first gate line and a second gate line extending in a first direction, respectively. A first source line and a second source line extend in a second direction orthogonally crossing the first direction. A pixel electrode includes a first main pixel electrode in the shape of a belt located on an edge of the first source line and extending in the second direction, and a second main pixel electrode in the shape of a belt located on an edge of the second source line and extending in the second direction. A second substrate includes a main common electrode located between the first main pixel electrode and the second main pixel electrode and extending in the second direction.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a stacked conductive layer. The stacked conductive layer includes a first conductive layer formed of material containing aluminum, and a second conductive layer provided on the first conductive layer, formed of material different from material of which the first conductive layer is formed, and having a higher visible-light absorptivity than that of the first conductive layer. The first conductive layer includes a side wall formed of an oxide film.

Abstract: A display substrate includes a base substrate including a display area in which signal lines and pixels are arranged and a peripheral area surrounding the display area, pads disposed in the peripheral area and receiving an electrical signal, fan-out lines connecting the pads and the signal lines, and static electricity breakup circuits comprising a breakup line that crosses the fan-out lines, and static electricity prevention circuits respectively connected to the fan-out lines. Parts of the static electricity prevention circuits are connected to adjacent fan-out lines and are commonly connected to the one of the breakup lines through a common contact part.

Abstract: A color filter substrate is provided. The color filter substrate includes an underlying substrate, a first light-shielding structure, a second light-shielding structure and an electrical conductive transparent layer configured for transferring electrostatic charge An outer edge of the first light-shielding structure is spaced apart by a first distance from an outer edge of the non-displaying portion of the underlying substrate. A vertical projection of a non-displaying portion of the underlying substrate on a first plane is entirely covered by a combination of a vertical projection of the first light-shielding structure on the first plane and a vertical projection of the second light-shielding structure on the first plane, the first plane being a plane perpendicular to a propagation direction of light emitted toward the non-displaying region of the color filter substrate.

Abstract: An array substrate, a display panel, a display device and a method of repairing a display panel are provided. The array substrate includes a functional layer and a photochromic layer disposed on the functional layer, and upon the array substrate suffering from light leakage, the photochromic layer in a light leakage area is irradiated by light to form a light blocking part in the light leakage area, thereby repairing light leakage of the array substrate.

Abstract: A display device includes a first light shielding part provided between a filter film and a first electrode, and a second light shielding part provided on a second substrate. First and second filter films each have long sides that extend in a first direction in which a video signal line extends, and the first and the second filter films are arranged adjacent to each other in a second direction different from the first direction. The first light shielding part overlaps the video signal line in a plan view. The second light shielding part overlaps a metal electrode in the plan view.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a gate electrode, a first insulating film, an element layer, a first transparent electrode, and a second transparent electrode. The first insulating film includes a part that covers the gate electrode. The element layer is directly disposed on the first insulating film, includes a channel region that faces the gate electrode across the first insulating film, and is made of a transparent oxide. The first transparent electrode is directly disposed on the first insulating film while being separated from the element layer, and has the same metal composition as the metal composition of the element layer. The second transparent electrode forms a storage capacitance with the first transparent electrode by facing the first transparent electrode while being electrically insulated from the first transparent electrode.

Abstract: A transistor includes a gate electrode over a substrate, an oxide semiconductor film overlapping with the gate electrode, a gate insulating film in contact with one surface of the oxide semiconductor film, and a pair of conductive films in contact with the oxide semiconductor film. A capacitor includes a metal oxide film over the gate insulating film and in contact with one of the pair of conductive films, an inorganic insulating film, and a first light-transmitting conductive film over the inorganic insulating film. A first gate line serving also as a gate electrode is connected so as to be able to select three sub-pixels of four sub-pixels, and a second gate line is connected so as to be able to select the remaining one of the four sub-pixels and also one sub-pixel in the next row.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a plurality of pixel regions. Each of the pixel regions includes a thin-film transistor, a transparent conductive pixel electrode connected to the thin-film transistor, a first common electrode, a first insulating film disposed between the pixel electrode and the first common electrode, a second insulating film, a second common electrode that includes a plurality of slits, and a third insulating film. A space between two closely adjacent boundaries of a pair of pixel electrodes that are adjacent to each other in a longitudinal direction of the plurality of gate lines overlaps the first common electrode and the second common electrode in a plan view.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an array substrate, including steps of forming a semiconductor pattern, a gate electrode and a first insulation pattern sequentially on a base substrate at different layers, an orthogonal projection of the semiconductor pattern onto the base substrate covering an orthogonal projection of the first insulation pattern onto the base substrate, and the orthogonal projection of the first insulation pattern onto the base substrate covering an orthogonal projection of the gate electrode onto the base substrate, and subjecting the semiconductor pattern to ion implantation through a single ion implantation process using the first insulation pattern and the gate electrode as a mask plate, so as to form an active layer, a heavily-doped source electrode region, a lightly-doped source electrode region, a heavily-doped drain electrode region, and a lightly-doped drain electrode region.

Abstract: An electrochromic device may be switchable between a transparent state and at least one reflective state. A lithium-containing reflective feature may form when the electrochromic device is switched from the transparent state to the reflective state. Various products and methods may involve the electrochromic device.

Abstract: Embodiments include a head-worn computer, comprising: a removable lens, wherein the removable lens comprises an electrochromic layer adapted to transition between at least two states of transparency level dependent on an electrical condition applied to the electrochromatic layer; a variable-power magnetic-electrode mounted on the head-worn computer; and a magnetic element mounted in the removable lens, wherein the magnetic element is positioned behind the electrochromic layer and aligned to mate with the variable-power magnetic-electrode such that, when the lens is mounted, the variable-power magnetic-electrode and the magnetic element physically attract to one another making an electrical connection between the variable-power magnetic-electrode and an electrically conductive layer of the electrochromic layer.

Abstract: A display panel comprises a first substrate and a second substrate which are assembled to form a cell and a control unit. The first substrate is provided with a plurality of first light-emitting units which are double-sided light emitting devices thereon, and the second substrate is provided with a plurality of second light-emitting units which are double-sided light emitting devices thereon. The control unit is configured to control the first light-emitting units and the second light-emitting units to emit light or not to emit light. The display panel further comprises a grating-function layer interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The grating-function layer comprises controllable light blocking regions and controllable light transmissive regions, and the light blocking regions and the light transmissive regions cooperate with the first light-emitting units and the second light-emitting units to realize single-sided display or double-sided display.

Abstract: A substantially planar waveguide for dynamically controlling the out-of-plane angle at which a light beam exits the waveguide. Generally, liquid crystal materials may be disposed within a waveguide in a cladding proximate or adjacent to a core layer of the waveguide. In one example, the waveguide may contain one or more taper regions such that the light beam exits the waveguide and propagates out-of-the-plane of the waveguide into an out-coupling medium at a propagation angle. In one example, the waveguide may contain one or more electrodes onto which one or more voltages may be applied. The magnitude of the propagation angle may be electronically controlled by altered by controlling or altering the magnitude of the one or more applied voltages.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a TMOS with a high extinction ratio based on slab PhCs which comprises an upper slab PhC and a lower slab PhC connected as a whole; the upper slab PhC is called as a first square-lattice slab PhC, wherein the unit cell of the first square-lattice slab PhC includes a high-refractive-index rotating-square pillar, three first flat dielectric pillars and a background dielectric, and the first flat dielectric pillars includes a high-refractive-index dielectric pipe and a low-refractive-index dielectric, or of 1 to 3 high-refractive-index flat films, or of a low-refractive-index dielectric; the lower slab PhC is a second square-lattice slab PhC with a complete bandgap, the unit cell of the second square-lattice slab PhC includes a high-refractive-index rotating-square pillar, three second flat dielectric pillars and a background dielectric is a low-refractive-index dielectric and an normalized operating frequency of the TMOS is 0.4057 to 0.406.

Abstract: Systems and methods implementing a stack on a substrate, where the stack includes a plurality of films structured as layers to convert radiation incident to the stack to radiation of a nonlinear optical signal different from the incident radiation or to a harmonic of the incident radiation, can be used in a variety of applications. The stack can be structured having parameters selected with respect to conversion efficiency and bandwidth the converted radiation. Additional systems and methods can be used in a variety of applications.

Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus (1) for producing short synchronous radiation pulses at different wavelengths, particularly to an optically parametric oscillator, comprising at least one pump radiation source (2), preferably a pump laser, for outputting radiation at a pump wavelength, and a resonator (3) having a wavelength-dependent effective resonator length, wherein the resonator (3) has a non-linear wavelength converter (4) for producing radiation at a first and a second wavelength; a dispersive element (5) having a strong wavelength-dependent delay characteristic; and a coupling-out element (6) for at least partially coupling-out the radiation from the resonator (3). In addition, the invention relates to a method for producing short radiation pulses by means of an apparatus (1), particularly an optically parametric oscillator.

Abstract: A camera apparatus is described that includes a frame housing and a camera module affixed to the frame housing. The camera module may include a lens and an image sensor. The camera apparatus may include a reflective element and a motor. The reflective element may be disposed within the frame housing, the reflective element being movable relative to the lens to select a direction from which the lens collects light. The motor may be adapted to move the reflective element in response to detecting a magnetic field change generated by at least one magnet disposed within the frame housing.

Abstract: A system for parallax correction includes a first lens having a first pin extending radially therefrom and a second lens positioned parallel to the first lens. A moving platform has a first slot for accepting the first pin therein. The first slot is angled relative to the lenses to correct for parallax between the first and second lenses. The system can include an actuator for extending and retracting the moving platform towards and away from an object to focus on the object.

Abstract: An injection molded mounting plate with removably attached suction cups, lower connector, and retention strap which securely hold an electronic device within a mounting system for action video recording. The mounting plate is preferably an injection-molded part with multiple suction cup slots to allow suction cups to be inserted therein for securing the electronic device in a horizontal position with an elastic retention strap securing mechanism to wrap around the mounting plate and the electronic device. An elastic strap extends from an upending portion of the mounting plate, extends through a slot in the mounting plate, wraps around the electronic device, and fastens back upon itself via hook and loop fasteners to capture the device. The design of the mounting plate and preferred length of the retention strap fit “most” smartphone designs. This universal mount can be affixed to a stationary object, or wearable in nature.

Abstract: A document camera includes a base, a first arm assembled to the base, a second arm assembled to the first arm, and a camera head assembled to the second arm. The first arm is pivotable between a parallel extending position and a raised position. The second arm is pivotable between a juxtaposed position and a raised position and between the raised position and a parallel extending position. The camera head is pivotable between a juxtaposed position and a position where the camera head is raised from the second arm. When the document camera is to be folded, the first arm is set to the parallel extending position, the second arm and the camera head are to the respective juxtaposed positions. When the document camera has been folded, upper surfaces of the first and second arms and the camera head are substantially coplanar.

Abstract: A camera mounting system has an upper mount component, a lower mount component, and a base mount component. The upper mount component secures the camera and has a ball protrusion that reciprocally couples with a socket of the lower mount component. The upper mount component can rotate 360 degrees relative to the lower mount, and can pivot 90 degrees or more relative to the lower mount component. The lower mount component couples with the base mount component in a plurality of orientations. This camera mounting system allows for a large range of motion for the camera relative to the mounting system.

Abstract: An image projection apparatus includes: an illumination optical system; a projection optical system assembled integrally with the illumination optical system; and a frame fixed to only one system, that has a larger weight, of the illumination optical system and the projection optical system.

Abstract: A projector laser light source includes two laser point sources, two lens groups, a color wheel, a reflector, a yellow reflector, a green reflector, and an integration rod. The color wheel includes a yellow phosphor layer, a reflective layer, and a green phosphor layer. The integration rod collects light focused on a third position. The positions of yellow phosphor layer and the reflective layer respectively correspond to a fourth position in a first timing and a second timing. Laser emitted by the laser point sources is focused on the third position and the fourth position by two optical Fourier transforms performed by the lens groups, and the laser point sources and the lens groups are combined with the specially designed optical configuration of the green phosphor layer, the reflector, the yellow reflector, and the green reflector. Therefore, two sets of three primary light sources are focused on the third position.

Abstract: A light source device is disclosed. An embodiment of the light source device includes: an excitation light source configured to emit irradiation light of a color component to be used as excitation light and projection light; a fluorescent member disposed in an excitation light path and configured to generate fluorescence of a color component different from the color component of the irradiation light when being irradiated with the irradiation light; a light path merger unit configured to merge a fluorescence light path through which the fluorescence generated with irradiation of the irradiation light is delivered, and a projection light path through which the projection light is delivered; and a light path switch disk configured to switch the irradiation light between the excitation light path and the projection light path.

Abstract: There is provided a light source unit including a light source case into which a plurality of optical members are incorporated, wherein the light source case has fixing portions for fixing the optical member which are provided in a position on a main body bottom plate of the light source case and in both side positions of the optical member above the main body bottom plate, and an upper fastening plate which presses down the optical member accommodated in the light source case, and wherein the fixing portions include a lower fixing portion where a primary positioning portion is formed on the main body bottom plate and side fixing portions where a pair of secondary positioning portions are formed which are brought into abutment with a surface of the optical member which is opposite to a surface thereof which is brought into abutment with the primary positioning portion.

Abstract: Improvements in a variable aspect ratio media screen frame are disclosed. The variable aspect ratio media screen frame includes a frame or chassis consisting of a fixed central portion and one or more movable side, top and bottom wings. The movable wing(s) nests inside the center frame. The movable wing(s) nest(s) inside said fixed central portion for a smaller aspect ratio, and at least partially exists outside the fixed central portion for a larger aspect ratio. The variable aspect ratio media screen frame allows the viewing media to deploy from the front of the viewing area, into a storage area encased, out of view, in the movable frame. The current embodiment employs an overlapping “U” shaped roller channel to move the screen from the front to the back of the frame, and springs and tension bars to maintain even tension on the viewing media at all times.

Abstract: Apparatus for the automatic positioning of at least two, or for the automatic selection from at least three cameras (K), coupled for three-dimensional image recording, including a device for distance measurement (EM), which is configured to measure the distances of relevant points (0) in the object space (OR) relative to the recording apparatus (A) and to supply corresponding output signals, wherein the relevant points (0) can be selected manually or automatically; a computer unit (RE), which is configured to calculate the parameters such as stereo base, swivel angle, correction parameters and internal parameters of the cameras (K) and/or a positioning device (P), to adjust the cameras (K) depending on the calculated parameters; and a switching apparatus (S), which together with the computer unit (RE) can form a single unit which can effect a selection of camera bundles depending on the size of the stereo base.

Abstract: A method for preparing photoactive perovskite materials. The method comprises the steps of: introducing a lead halide and a first solvent to a first vessel and contacting the lead halide with the first solvent to dissolve the lead halide to form a lead halide solution, introducing a Group 1 metal halide a second solvent into a second vessel and contacting the Group 1 metal halide with the second solvent to dissolve the Group 1 metal halide to form a Group 1 metal halide solution, and contacting the lead halide solution with the Group 1 metal halide solution to form a thin-film precursor ink. The method further comprises depositing the thin-film precursor ink onto a substrate, drying the thin-film precursor ink to form a thin film, annealing the thin film; and rinsing the thin film with a salt solution.

Abstract: In a photomask blank comprising a transparent substrate, a resistance layer, and a conductive layer, the resistivity and thickness of the conductive layer and the resistivity and thickness of the resistance layer are selected so as to meet a specific equation (1). In EB lithography, a ground can be established at a necessary fully low resistance value, and EB writing be carried out at a high accuracy.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a semiconductor lithography system. The lithography system includes a projection optics component. The projection optics component includes a curved aperture. The lithography system includes a photo mask positioned over the projection optics component. The photo mask contains a plurality of elongate semiconductor patterns. The semiconductor patterns each point in a direction substantially perpendicular to the curved aperture of the projection optics component. The present disclosure also provides a method. The method includes receiving a design layout for a semiconductor device. The design layout contains a plurality of semiconductor patterns each oriented in a given direction. The method includes transforming the design layout into a mask layout. The semiconductor patterns in the mask layout are oriented in a plurality of different directions as a function of their respective location.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a master mold, a master mold manufactured by the method, a method for manufacturing a transparent photomask, a transparent photomask manufactured by the method, and a method for manufacturing a conductive mesh pattern by using the transparent photomask.

Abstract: A pellicle includes a pellicle frame, a pellicle membrane, and an attaching element, a first surface of the attaching element having exposed pores.

Abstract: A method of performing an imprint process on each of a plurality of shot regions of a substrate, wherein each shot region includes at least one of at least one valid chip area and at least one invalid chip area, the invalid chip area including an inhibited area in which resin coating is inhibited, the imprint process for a shot region including both the invalid chip area and the valid chip area includes coating the valid chip area of the shot region with the resin, bringing a pattern surface of a mold into contact with the resin, and curing the resin, and in the step of coating, at least the inhibited area of the invalid chip area is not coated with the resin.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an imprint pattern forming method includes providing a substrate with a pattern formation region and a peripheral region, the peripheral region having a surface lower than a surface of the pattern formation region, located at a periphery of the pattern formation region. The method includes forming an auxiliary pattern with a predetermined height on at least a portion of the peripheral region, providing a resist layer on at least the pattern formation region, and imprinting the resist layer using a template by locating the template in a region which includes a portion of the pattern formation region and a portion of the peripheral region.

Abstract: The present invention provides a photoresist composition and a color filter manufacturing method. The photoresist composition of the present invention includes a first solvent, a second solvent, a photo initiator, a monomer, a polymer, an additive, and a pigment. After heating, phase separation occurs between the first solvent and the second solvent. After the phase separation, the first solvent is located above the second solvent. At least one of the photo initiator, the monomer, the polymer, and the additive has solubility in the second solvent that is higher than that in the first solvent so as to alleviate the wrinkling issue caused by different degrees of solidification between upper and lower layers of the photoresist during a manufacturing process of a color filter.

Abstract: A salt represented by formula (I): wherein Q1 and Q2 independently represent a fluorine atom or a C1 to C6 perfluoroalkyl group, R1 and R2 in each occurrence independently represent a hydrogen atom, a fluorine atom or a C1 to C6 perfluoroalkyl group, z represents an integer of 0 to 6, X1 represents *—CO—O—, *—O—CO— or —O—, * represents a binding position to C(R1)(R2) or C(Q1)(Q2), A1 represents a C4 to C24 hydrocarbon group having a C4 to C18 divalent alicyclic hydrocarbon moiety, A2 represents a C2 to C12 divalent hydrocarbon group, R3 and R4 independently represent a hydrogen atom or a C1 to C6 monovalent saturated hydrocarbon group, R5 represents a hydrogen atom, a fluorine atom, or a C1 to C6 alkyl group where a hydrogen atom may be replaced by a fluorine atom, and Z+ represents an organic cation.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a photo-curable and thermo-curable resin composition which can form a DFSR having micro unevenness on the surface without a separate treatment such as plasma treatment and the like and a DFSR. The photo-curable and thermo-curable resin composition includes an acid-modified oligomer having a carboxyl group (—COOH) and a photo-curable unsaturated functional group; a polyimide-based resin; a photo-polymerizable monomer having two or more photo-curable unsaturated functional groups; a thermo-curable binder having a thermo-curable functional group; and a photoinitiator.

Abstract: A radiation-sensitive resin composition comprising a binder resin (A), radiation-sensitive compound (B), cross-linking agent (C), and silane coupling agent (D) represented by the following general formula (1) is provided. In the general formula (1), R1 to R3 respectively independently are a monovalent alkyl group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms. R4 is a divalent alkylene group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, R5 is a hydrogen atom or monovalent alkyl group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms, and R6 to R10 are a hydrogen atom or monovalent alkyl group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms.

Abstract: Polymeric reaction products of certain substituted tetraarylmethane monomers are useful as underlayers in semiconductor manufacturing processes.

Abstract: A composition for forming a coating type silicon-containing film, containing one or more silicic acid skeletal structures represented by the formula (1) and one or more silicon skeletal structures represented by the formula (2), wherein the composition contains a coupling between units shown in the formula (2). There can be provided a composition capable of forming a silicon-containing film that has excellent adhesiveness in fine patterning, and can be easily wet etched by a removing liquid which does not cause damage to a semiconductor substrate and a coating type organic film or a CVD film mainly of carbon which is required in the patterning process.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a developing solution processing device and processing method that solve problems that accompany the occurrence of scum, improve product defect rate, increase the utilization ratio of manufacturing devices, and contribute considerably to reduced manufacturing costs and other factors through highly efficient recovery of noble metals. The present invention provides a developing solution processing device provided with: a centrifuge for separating a clarified liquid and a residue by centrifugally separating out developing solution after development processing; and a defoaming device for defoaming and discharging the clarified liquid.

Abstract: There is provided a pattern formation method comprising: a step (i) for forming a first negative type pattern by performing the specific steps on a substrate; a step (iii) for forming a lower layer by embedding the specific resin composition (2) which contains a second resin in a region of the substrate in which no film part with the first negative type pattern is formed; a step (iv) for forming an upper layer on the lower layer using the specific actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive resin composition (3); a step (v) for exposing the upper layer to light; a step (vi) for developing the upper layer using a developer which includes an organic solvent and forming a second negative type pattern on the lower layer; and a step (vii) for removing a portion of the lower layer, in the stated order.