Abstract:
To improve the mass productivity of thermoelectric conversion modules. A thermoelectric conversion module 1 is equipped with a pair of substrates 11 and 12, a plurality of thermoelectric conversion elements 2, each having one end portion electrically connected to a first electrode 3 which is arranged on the substrate 11 and the other end portion electrically connected to a second electrode 4 which is arranged on the substrate 12, and a connection section 5 which electrically connects the first electrode 3 electrically connected to the thermoelectric conversion element 2 to the second electrode 4 electrically connected to an adjacent one of the thermoelectric conversion elements 2. The connection section 5 is separate from at least one of the first electrode 3 and the second electrode 4.
Abstract:
An optical interferometer includes: a light source that emits a coherent first beam and a second beam that has a frequency difference corresponding to the natural frequency of a target molecule; amplitude modulating means that modulates the amplitude of the second beam; splitting means that splits the first beam into a reference beam and a first applied beam; optical path length adjusting means that adjusts the optical path length of the reference beam; and detecting means that detects an interference pattern between the reference beam and the first beam (a signal beam) that has experienced a stimulated Raman loss or gain in accordance with the amplitude modulation as a result of the frequency difference resonating with the target molecule when the first applied beam and a second applied beam (the amplitude modulated second beam) have been applied to a measurement position of an object.
Abstract:
A photoelectrode for a dye-sensitized solar cell includes, a sensitizer supported in a functional semiconductor layer of a photoelectrode structure provided with the functional semiconductor layer on a transparent conductive layer of a translucent substrate made by forming the transparent conductive layer on a plastic translucent support, in which the functional semiconductor layer includes a roll-pressed layer which is being in contact with the transparent conductive layer and roll-pressing traces extending in parallel with a roll-pressing treatment direction on a surface of the roll-pressed layer, and a surface roughness Ra in a first direction which is in parallel with the roll-pressing treatment direction is smaller than a surface roughness Ra in a second direction which is orthogonal to the first direction on a surface of the functional semiconductor layer.
Abstract:
Measuring light emitted from a laser light source and split into four light rays through optical fibers is emitted into a space from emission units, and bent upward at a mirror. The measuring light passes through a window in the center of the sample stage and strikes a lower surface of the biological sample placed on the sample stage. A portion of fluorescence emitted through excitation by the measuring light passes through the window, is bent in an opposite direction from the measuring light by the mirror, and guided to a fluorescence camera. An objective lens, and a spectroscopic unit for separating visible wavelength components are horizontally arranged between the camera and the mirror. Although the projection of the measuring light and the detection of the fluorescence are performed perpendicularly to the biological sample, the optical components and elements are horizontally arranged.
Abstract:
A flexoelectric liquid crystal composition containing at least one kind of smectic liquid crystal compound, a chiral dopant, and a charge scavenger, and exhibiting photoconductivity.
Abstract:
One embodiment of the present invention provides a curable composition, including a polyfunctional isocyanate compound, a compound selected from the group consisting of a multivalent alcohol and an epoxy compound, and a base amplifier.
Abstract:
It would be helpful to provide a sheet-form thermoelectric conversion module with excellent thermoelectric conversion characteristics. A thermoelectric conversion module according to the disclosure is a thermoelectric conversion module formed in sheet form, the thermoelectric conversion module being disposed in contact or proximity to a heat source and generating power based on a temperature difference between a portion close to the heat source and a portion away from the heat source, the thermoelectric conversion module including an incision penetrating in a sheet thickness direction, wherein by stretching the thermoelectric conversion module in a predetermined direction, mutually opposite edges of the incision are separated, and the thermoelectric conversion module is transformed from a sheet form A into a three-dimensional structural form B protruding in the sheet thickness direction.
Abstract:
A gold alloy and a method for producing the gold alloy. The gold alloy includes: gold; and an Au—X-RE-based hypermaterial represented by a compositional formula AU100-(a+b)XaREb, wherein, in the compositional formula, X represents at least one atom selected from the group consisting of Al, Ga, In, Si, Ge, and Sn; RE represents a rare-earth element; and a and b respectively represent a content of X and a content of RE, expressed in at %, and satisfy the following (1) and (2): 10≤a≤40 (1); and 13≤b≤17 (2), wherein the Au—X-RE-based hypermaterial is dispersed in a gold matrix phase.
Abstract:
An information processing apparatus includes a converting portion having a plurality of electrical conductors to be arranged in mutual separation and a medium arranged so as to mutually connect the plurality of electrical conductors, wherein the converting portion is the information processing apparatus to convert an input signal to an output signal. The medium includes the electrolyte and is configured to be capable of controlling an electrical conductivity of an electrically conductive path mutually electrically connecting the plurality of electrical conductors, and the medium is selected such that the electrical conductivity of the electrically conductive path changes over time with the input signal not being present.
Abstract:
A coating agent has: a film-forming component containing an organosilicon compound having a radical polymerizable functional group and an alkoxysilyl group; and a film-curing component composed so that a base and a radical can be generated on irradiation with ultraviolet light. The film-curing component includes a nonionic photobase generator having no ionic bond in the molecular structure. The content of the nonionic photobase generator is 0.1 parts by mass or more and 50 parts by mass or less, based on 100 parts by mass of the organosilicon compound.