Abstract: Disclosed is a functional curtain fabric with an anhydrous coating layer. The functional curtain fabric is manufactured by method comprising step S1, preprocessing a fabric substrate; step S2, placing the preprocessed fabric substrate in step S1 into vacuum chamber of magnetron sputtering machine for coating: sputtering a metal onto the fabric substrate by using magnetron sputtering technology, so as to form a nano-metal film on the fabric substrate; and step S3, performing anti-oxidation treatment on the fabric substrate covered with the nano-metal film. The functional curtain fabric with an anhydrous coating layer can serve as an effective heat shield against exterior sunlight while having good light transmission. In addition, the functional curtain fabric with an anhydrous coating layer has good antimicrobial properties due to use of a metal coating of silver and titanium, and also has a degree of water resistance due to the nano-metal layer of silver and titanium.

Abstract: The present disclosure is provided with a measuring element (M) and a measuring device. The measuring element includes a base body, a diaphragm and a permeation resistant layer, the diaphragm is fixedly connected to the base body, with a sealed cavity being defined between the diaphragm and the base body. The permeation resistant layer is arranged on an inner side surface, facing the sealed cavity, of the diaphragm, and extended continuously on the inner side surface of the diaphragm at least beyond a connection region of the diaphragm with the base body. The measuring device includes the measuring element (M).

Abstract: A wiring substrate includes an insulating layer having a front surface and a back surface and at least two wiring parts that are disposed at least on the front surface of the insulating layer and that are insulated from each other. At least one of the wiring parts is electrically isolated on the insulating layer. Each of the wiring parts includes a conductive base layer disposed on the front surface of the insulating layer, a conductive layer disposed on a front surface of the conductive base layer, and a conductive covering layer arranged to cover at least a portion of a front surface of the conductive layer, at least a portion of a side surface of the conductive base layer, and at least a portion of a side surface of the conductive layer. The conductive base layer and the conductive layer overlap and coincide with each other in plan view.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a medical product, comprising an antibacterial hard material coating, which is applied to a main body and which comprises biocide. Said hard material coating includes at least one inner layer and one outer layer, wherein the biocide concentration in the outer layer is substantially constant and greater than the biocide concentration in the inner layer and the biocide concentration in the inner layer is greater than or equal to 0.2 at %.

Abstract: Surface having properties for reducing diffuse light due to water condensation, wherein the antifog means consist in atomic aggregates adhered to and dispersed over the surface, wherein the aggregates are selected among the transition metals and the silicon. It is also related to a method for obtaining a surface having properties for reducing diffuse light due to water condensation a wavelength selected in the range from 100 nm to 50 micrometers, comprising the steps of selecting the wavelength, obtaining a glass or polymer surface that has been subjected to optical polishing and adhering to the surface atomic aggregates which are selected among the transition metals and the silicon with a separation between them being lower than or having an order of the selected wavelength selected. Thus a durable antifogging surface is obtained.

Abstract: A substrate with a transparent electrode which includes an amorphous transparent electrode layer on a transparent film substrate. When a bias voltage of 0.1 V is applied to the amorphous transparent electrode layer, the layer has continuous regions where a current value at a voltage-applied surface is 50 nA or more. Each of the continuous regions has an area of 100 nm2 or more and the number of the continuous regions is 50/?m2 or more. In one embodiment, the layer has a tin oxide content of 6.5% or more and 8% or less by mass. With respect to the substrate with a transparent electrode according to the present invention, the transparent electrode layer may be crystallized in a short period of time.

Abstract: A Fresnel optical element includes a Fresnel surface formed in a material. The Fresnel surface includes a plurality of Fresnel feature that include an active surface and a draft surface. A light absorptive layer is selectively disposed over the draft surface of the Fresnel features. The light absorptive surface is configured to absorb a majority of visible light encountering the light absorptive layer.

Abstract: There are provided a Fresnel lens and a method of manufacturing the Fresnel lens which can suppress a flare which is generated in an image visually recognized through the Fresnel lens so as to extend toward a center of a lens. A lens surface and a non-lens surface are formed in each of lens portions. The non-lens surface includes a rise surface and a coupling surface. The rise surface is a surface along an optical axis of a Fresnel lens. The coupling surface is a surface which is formed on a top portion of each of the lens portions and couples the lens surface of the lens portion and the rise surface of the lens portion to each other, and which has a width extending in a radial direction of the Fresnel lens. A light absorbing portion is provided in a position along the optical axis of the Fresnel lens which passes through the coupling surface.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a flow control device. The flow control device comprises a sheet made from a shape memory alloy. The flow control device also comprises at least one slit through the sheet. At least the one slit defines at least one flap in the sheet. The flow control device further comprises at least one electrically-resistive trace printed on the sheet at least one of on or adjacent at least the one flap. Upon receipt of an electrical current, at least the one electrically-resistive trace configured to generate heat for deforming at least the one flap relative to the sheet and opening an aperture formed in the sheet.

Abstract: A coating device including a housing case capable of housing therein a plurality of processing targets and configured to coat the plurality of processing targets with a gaseous component by taking gas into the housing case. A rotation body is configured to rotate the housing case. The housing case includes a through-hole for taking gas inside and a stirring plate protruding from an internal wall of the housing case is used to stir the plurality of processing targets.

Abstract: Provided is a transparent conductive film including a transparent plastic film substrate and an indium-tin composite oxide transparent conductive film laminated on at least one surface of the transparent plastic film substrate, a value of the normalized integrated intensity of a diffraction peak measured by X-ray diffractometry in the (222) plane due to a crystal of the transparent conductive film being 4 to 25 cps·°/nm.

Abstract: A composite material part including reinforcement made of carbon fibers or yarns consolidated by an organic matrix. The part includes one or more thermally and electrically conductive portions in which the carbon fibers or yarns are free of matrix at least in part, the matrix-free carbon fiber or yarn portions being in contact with a material that is thermally and electrically conductive.

Abstract: This document provides devices and methods for monitoring and maintenance of the temperature of medical reservoirs and boxes in a secure fashion that enables for documentation of a chain of custody and history of temperature while in storage or transit. For example, this document provides devices and methods for monitoring the temperature of blood in phlebotomy tubes or boxes of biological products. In some embodiments of the devices and methods, the temperature of the contents of the medical reservoirs are regulated, modulated, and/or maintained by the devices provided herein.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to processes and apparatuses for optimizing the single pass production of multilayer constructs including metal/transparent conducting oxide (TCO) multilayers. Articles created from such methods are also disclosed. In particular, multilayer constructs are used as an electrochemical test strip, such as a biosensor, and will be described with particular reference thereto.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a manifold pad that is, at least in part, radiopaque includes providing a manifold member having a plurality of flow channels; providing a radioopacifier; and heating the manifold member and the radioopacifier in a heating vessel at an elevated temperature to form the manifold pad. The manifold pad may distribute reduced pressure at a tissue site and allow for detection using radiography. Systems, manifold pads, and other methods are also presented.

Abstract: A substrate with a transparent electrode which includes an amorphous transparent electrode layer on a transparent film substrate. When a bias voltage of 0.1 V is applied to the amorphous transparent electrode layer, the layer has continuous regions where a current value at a voltage-applied surface is 50 nA or more. Each of the continuous regions has an area of 100 nm2 or more and the number of the continuous regions is 50/?m2 or more. In one embodiment, the layer has a tin oxide content of 6.5% or more and 8% or less by mass. In another embodiment, the layer has a tin oxide content of 6.5% or more and 8% or less by mass. With respect to the substrate with a transparent electrode according to the present invention, the transparent electrode layer may be crystallized in a short period of time.

Abstract: A transparent electroconductive film includes a transparent electrode layer on a transparent film substrate. The transparent electrode layer is formed of an amorphous indium tin composite oxide and has a tin oxide content of 3 to 12% by mass and a thickness of 15 to 30 nm. In an analysis range of the transparent electrode layer, a bond energy ESn of tin 3d5/2 and a bond energy EIn of indium 3d5/2 as determined by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy measurement satisfy the following requirements: a minimum point of a bond energy difference between the bond energies ESn and EIn is present closer to the surface of the transparent electrode layer than a maximum point of the bond energy difference ESn?EIn; and a difference Emax?Emin between the maximum value Emax and the minimum value Emin of the bond energy difference is 0.1 eV or more.

Abstract: An alignment method includes: (1) providing a substrate, applying a coating material formed from any two materials of aromatic dianhydrides, aromatic diamines or diamines containing biphenyl and hexyl in side groups; (2) sputtering a third material which is not coated in step (1) along a direction having an angle not equal to zero with the substrate for conducting a polymerization reaction with the two materials coated in step (1) to generate a reaction product; (3) thermally treating the reaction product. The diamine containing biphenyl and hexyl in side group reacts with the main group to form a side chain, and thus controls the pretilt angle while assisted with physical sputtering to sputter in a certain angle, thereby forming a pretilt direction.

Abstract: The invention offers an electrode material that can accomplish both high capacity and high output and a battery, a nonaqueous-electrolyte battery, and a capacitor all incorporating the electrode material. The electrode material has a sheet-shaped aluminum porous body carrying an active material. The above-described aluminum porous body has a skeleton structure that is formed of an aluminum layer and that has a vacant space at the interior. When observed by performing cutting in a direction parallel to the direction of thickness of the sheet, the above-described vacant space in the skeleton structure has an average area of 500 ?m2 or more and 6,000 ?m2 or less.

Abstract: Embodiments are directed to the formation micro-scale or millimeter scale structures or method of making such structures wherein the structures are formed from at least one sheet structural material and may include additional sheet structural materials or deposited structural materials wherein all or a portion of the patterning of the structural materials occurs via laser cutting. In some embodiments, selective deposition is used to provide a portion of the patterning. In some embodiments the structural material or structural materials are bounded from below by a sacrificial bridging material (e.g. a metal) and possibly from above by a sacrificial capping material (e.g. a metal).

Abstract: The disclosed plasma CVD apparatus (1) is provided with a vacuum chamber (3); a pair of deposition rollers (2, 2) disposed within the vacuum chamber (3) that are connected to both poles of an AC power supply and around which a substrate (W) is wound; a gas-supplying device (5) that supplies process gas containing a source gas to a deposition zone (D) which is a portion of or all of the region that is on one side of a line linking the centers of rotation of the pair of deposition rollers (2, 2); and a magnetic-field-generating device (7) that, by means of the AC power supply being applied to each of the deposition rollers (2, 2), forms a magnetic field that causes the source gas in a predetermined region to become plasma. The magnetic-field-generating device (7) causes the source gas in the region adjacent to the surface of the portion of the pair of deposition rollers (2, 2) located within the deposition zone (D) to become plasma, forming a plasma region (P).

Abstract: The present invention provides a novel method to fabricate silica nanostructures on thin polymer films based on silica deposition and self-wrinkling induced by thermal shrinkage. These micro- and nano-scale structures have vastly enlarged the specific area of silica, thus the silica nanomembranes can be used for solid phase extraction of nucleic acids. The inventive silica nanomembranes are suitable for nucleic acid purification and isolation and demonstrated better performance than commercial particles in terms of DNA recovery yield and integrity. In addition, the silica nanomembranes have extremely high nucleic acid capacity due to its significantly enlarged specific surface area of silica. Methods of use and devices comprising the silica nanomembranes are also provided.

Abstract: The invention is related to a process to apply a heater function to a plastic glass that was made of a polycarbonate. The process includes a sputtering process that allows producing high performance heater function on a plastic glass. Another aspect of the invention is the plastic glass mirrors produced by the inventive process.

Abstract: A high strength composite particle comprised of a series of incrementally applied resin microlayer coatings such that each of the microlayer partial coatings are interleaved with each other is described. Methods of making the composite particles, as well as methods of using such particles as a proppant in oil and gas well hydraulic fracturing are also described.

Abstract: Processes that make the surface of an article comprising a semi-crystalline polymer substrate and vapor deposited with metal visibly line free and having a diffuse reflectance less than 2 percent. Articles metalized by these processes.

Abstract: A metallic nanoparticle coated microporous substrate, the process for preparing the same and uses thereof are described.

Abstract: A film member includes a substrate formed of a resin film and an aluminium oxynitride film arranged on either, front or back sides of the substrate, in which the aluminium oxynitride film is composed of 39 at % to 55 at % of Al, 7 at % to 60 at % of O, and 1 at % to 50 at % of N. A method for producing the film member includes a pressure reduction step of arranging a substrate in a chamber of a sputtering deposition system such that the substrate faces a target made of aluminium and a deposition step of introducing a source gas including nitrogen and a carrier gas into the chamber and forming the aluminium oxynitride film on a deposition surface of the substrate in an atmosphere in which a ratio of an oxygen gas pressure to a nitrogen gas pressure in the chamber is not more than 20%.

Abstract: A p-type transparent conductive material can comprise a thin film of BCSF on a substrate where the film has a conductivity of at least 1 S/cm. The substrate may be a plastic substrate, such as a polyethersulfone, polyethylene terephthalate, polyimide, or some other suitable plastic or polymeric substrate.

Abstract: The invention relates to a treated HPPE yarn characterized in that the treated HPPE yarn comprises: elemental metal; the elemental metal forms a layer that adheres to the surface of the HPPE yarn and covers at least partly the surface of the HPPE yarn, wherein the elemental metal is deposited to the outer surface of a HPPE yarn via sputtering, preferably plasma sputtering. The invention further relates to an article comprising the treated HPPE yarn, a device comprising the treated HPPE yarn or the article. The invention also relates to a process for preparing the treated HPPE yarn or treated HPPE yarn structure or treated HPPE yarn configuration and use of the treated HPPE yarn or an article or a device comprising the treated HPPE yarn for automotive applications, marine applications, aerospace applications, medical applications, defense applications, sports/recreational applications, architectural applications, clothing applications, bottling applications, machinery applications.

Abstract: An interlayer configured for a composite substrate surface, the interlayer having a higher concentration of at least one first chemical element at the interface of the substrate surface and the innermost interlayer surface and a higher concentration of at least one second chemical element at the outermost interlayer surface is disclosed. Methods of forming the interlayer and providing functional properties to said composites are disclosed.

Abstract: Forming and depositing a high temperature inorganic coating on a polymeric composite substrate surfaces having deposited thereon an interlayer, and articles produce therefrom. Methods of providing functional properties to said composites are also disclosed.

Abstract: A bulk barium copper sulfur fluoride (BCSF) material can be made by combining Cu2S, BaS and BaF2, heating the ampoule between 400 and 550° C. for at least two hours, and then heating the ampoule at a temperature between 550 and 950° C. for at least two hours. The BCSF material may be doped with potassium, rubidium, or sodium. Additionally, a p-type transparent conductive material can comprise a thin film of BCSF on a substrate where the film has a conductivity of at least 1 S/cm. The substrate may be a plastic substrate, such as a polyethersulfone, polyethylene terephthalate, polyimide, or some other suitable plastic or polymeric substrate.

Abstract: In an insulating element (1) for bounding spaces to be thermally insulated, e.g. for transport or packaging containers, comprising an in particular plate-shaped substrate element (2) made of a material having a low thermal conductivity, such as a polymer, the substrate element (2) is provided with a metallic coating (3) having a low emissivity in order to reduce the thermal radiation, yet is applied in a layer thickness of <80 nm, preferably <50 nm, such that the thermal conduction of the metallic coating will only insignificantly reduce the thus optimized insulating value. The metallic coating in the nanometer range does not only reduce the thermal radiation, but also enables optimal gas tightness with minimal thermal conduction.

Abstract: The present invention provides a decorative product including a plasmon film, which includes a water repellent layer and a metal nanoparticle layer as the plasmon film stacked on the water repellent layer.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a barrier film having the extremely high barrier property and the better transparency, a method for manufacturing the same, and a laminated material, a container for wrapping and an image displaying medium using the barrier film. According to the present invention, there is provided a barrier film provided with a barrier layer on at least one surface of a substrate film, wherein the barrier layer is a silicon oxide film having an atomic ratio in a range of Si:O:C=100:160 to 190:30 to 50, a peak position of infrared-ray absorption due to Si—O—Si stretching vibration between 1030 to 1060 cm?1, a film density in a range of 2.5 to 2.7 g/cm3, and a distance between grains of 30 nm or shorter.

Abstract: A thermoplastic composition is described that can be directly coated with a metal according to a metallization process with no intervening base coat formation process necessary. The thermoplastic composition includes a polyarylene sulfide and a filler having a selectively controlled average length and aspect ratio. Molded articles formed of the thermoplastic composition can have an ultra-smooth surface so as to directly accept a metallization coating.

Abstract: A plastics film with improved energy-shielding properties, suitable for application on a transparent or translucent surface, such as glass, and which is at least 50% transparent for visible light, further characterized in that it includes at least one plastic carrier layer with on top thereof as a functional layer a metallic layer consisting of antimony and/or arsenic together with indium and/or gallium, wherein the plastics film contains a total of indium (In), gallium (Ga), antimony (Sb) and arsenic (As) together, which are present as an alloy, such as indium andmonide, gallium andmonide, indium arsenide, indium gallium arsenide and/or gallium arsenide, of at least 4.0 ppm by weight and at most 25.0 ppm by weight. A glass plate to which the film is attached, is described as are objects provided with the glass plate. Methods are described for the production of the film, the glass plate and the objects.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for manufacturing a metallized plastic product with a gold or silver hue, comprising the steps: galvanization of a surface of the plastic body for forming a galvanized chromium layer; deposition by evaporation of a metal layer directly on the galvanized chromium layer, the metal being copper, a mixture of metals comprising at least 70% by weight of copper, a copper alloy comprising at least 70% by weight of copper, or aluminum. The invention also relates to a metallized plastic product (1) with a gold or silver hue, comprising a plastic body (2), a galvanized chromium layer (3, 4, 5, 6), and a metal layer (7), the metal being copper, a mixture of metals comprising at least 70% by weight of copper, an alloy containing copper in an amount of at least 70% by weight, or aluminum.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing polycarbonate solar cells. The method is designed to adapt many techniques used in the compact disc manufacturing industry to the manufacture of polycarbonate solar cells. The method comprises: creating a polycarbonate substrate for a solar cell; depositing a low resistivity cathodic contact layer on the polycarbonate substrate; depositing a photonic energy absorbing layer with a sputter chamber comprising a quaternary CIGS sputter target; using a modulated high intensity pulsed xenon flashlamp; depositing a buffer layer; depositing a highly resistive transmissive intrinsic layer; depositing a transmissive contact oxide window layer; adding anodic contacts to one of the layers; depositing an anti-reflective coating layer; and encapsulating the solar cell to provide environmental protection.

Abstract: Provided is a method of producing a two-layered copper-clad laminate with improved folding endurance, wherein the two-layered copper-clad laminate retains folding endurance of 150 times or more measured with a folding endurance test based on JIS C6471 by subjecting the laminate in which a copper layer is formed on a polyimide film through sputtering and plate processing to heat treatment at a temperature of 100° C. or more but not exceeding 175° C. Specifically, provided are a method of producing a two-layered copper-clad laminate (two-layered CCL material) in which a copper layer is formed on a polyimide film through sputtering and plate processing, wherein the rupture of the outer lead part of a circuit can be prevented due to the improvement in folding endurance; and a two-layered copper-clad laminate obtained from the foregoing method.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a firm bond between a polymer substrate and an inorganic layer, wherein the substrate surface is exposed to a precursor before the deposition of the inorganic layer which is to be produced by means of a PVD process.

Abstract: A product includes a plastic substrate; and a metal composite layer deposited on the plastic substrate. The metal composite layer includes a plurality of first metal layers and a plurality of second metal layers, the first metal layers and the second metal layers are alternate with each other. The first metal layer is Cu layer, Ag layer or Li layer. The second metal layer is Ni layer. The method for manufacturing the product is also provided.

Abstract: A composite plastic member includes a first stacked body comprised of a plurality of chromium layers stacked on a plastic substrate; and a second stacked body comprised of a plurality of chromium nitride layers stacked on the first stacked body. Each of the first and second stacked bodies is formed such that a lower-hardness layer having a lower hardness than upper and lower layers which contact with and sandwich the lower-hardness layer therebetween and a higher-hardness layer having a higher hardness than upper and lower layers which contact with and sandwich the higher-hardness layer therebetween are alternately stacked in a stacking direction; and a thickness of a higher-hardness chromium nitride layer is not more than 40% of a thickness of a lower-hardness chromium nitride layer in the second stacked body. The composite plastic member has high wear resistance and satisfactory sliding performance, and the conductivity and excellent outer appearance.

Abstract: The invention relates to the production of a transparent, weather-resistant barrier film by lamination, extrusion lamination (adhesive lamination, melt lamination or hotmelt lamination) or extrusion coating. The film can also contain a scratch-resistant coating. For this purpose, two or more transparent film composites, which consist in each case of two externally disposed polyolefin or polyester layers which are in each case inorganically coated and glued to the inorganic layer on the inside, are connected to each other. Said composite is laminated with a weather-resistant, transparent film (e.g. PMMA or PMMA polyolefin coextrudate or PMMA polyester coextrudate). The inorganic oxide layers have the property of a high optical transparency while having at the same time a good barrier effect against water vapour and oxygen while the PMMA layer exhibits weather resistance stability.

Abstract: A housing includes a substrate, a base layer formed on the substrate, a metal layer formed on the base layer, and a topcoat layer formed on the metal layer. The metal layer is a silicon-aluminum alloy layer. A method for making the housing is also described.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for manufacturing a highly efficient flexible thin metal film-laminated strip by improves adhesiveness between a polyimide strip and a thin metal film, and removes stress from thin films laminated through magnetron sputtering, which is a dry deposition process. The stress-free flexible circuit board manufacturing method includes the steps of: a) depositing a seed layer on the substrate using the magnetron deposition source; b) depositing a compressive thin film using the single magnetron deposition source arranged next to the magnetron deposition source; c) depositing tensile thin film using the dual magnetron deposition source arranged next to the single magnetron deposition source; and d) repeating the steps b) and c) so as to sequentially and alternately deposit compressive thin films and tensile thin films thereby obtaining a thick film with a desired thickness.

Abstract: A material having a low work function is quickly inserted near an interface between an organic layer and a cathode. A sputtering apparatus (Sp) includes a target material formed of silver (Ag), a dispenser formed outside a processing container and evaporating cesium (Cs) having a lower work function than silver (Ag) by heating the cesium (Cs), a first gas supply pipe communicating with the dispenser to transfer evaporated cesium (Cs) to the processing container by using argon gas as a carrier gas, and a high frequency power supply source supplying high frequency power to the processing container. A controller generates plasma by exciting the argon gas by using energy of the high frequency power, and while forming a metal electrode by using an silver (Ag) atom, wherein the Ag atom is generated from a the target material by using the generated plasma, controls a ratio of the cesium (Cs) mixed with the metal electrode.

Abstract: A method of making a cathode structure for an OLED provided over organic layers includes evaporating a first layer over the organic layers, such layer including a metal or metal alloy whose work function is less that 4.0 eV, or a material including an electron-injecting dopant and a reactive metal; depositing at least one second layer of an inorganic material over the first layer to form a buffer structure with the first layer; and sputtering a protective layer of a metal or metal alloy provided over the buffer structure.

Abstract: A coated article is provided. The coated article includes a substrate and a thermochromic layer formed on the substrate. The thermochromic layer is a vanadium dioxide layer co-doped with M and R. M comprises one or more elements selected from a group consisting of titanium, niobium, molybdenum and tungsten; R comprises one or more elements selected from a group consisting of rhodium, palladium and ruthenium. The thermochromic temperature of the thermochromic layer is reduced by doping M and R. A method for making the coated article is also described there.

Abstract: A coated article includes a metal layer coated on a substrate. The substrate is made of plastic with photosensitivity property, and has a plurality of free radicals —O. and —CO. a surface thereof. The metal layer is coated on the substrate. The free radicals link with metal atoms of the metal layer to connect the substrate and the metal layer.