Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080207785 | PROCESS FOR FORMING MESOSTRUCTURED MATERIAL AND PROCESS FOR CONTROLLING ORIENTATION OF TUBULAR MESOPORES - A mesostructured material, which has plural tubular pores and is arranged on a polymer surface, characterized in that the pores are uniaxially oriented. The mesostructured material can be developed to functional devices. | 08-28-2008 |
20080223824 | COLUMNAR STRUCTURED MATERIAL AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A method of manufacturing a dot pattern includes the steps of preparing a structured material composed of a plurality of columnar members containing a first component and a region containing a second component different from the first component surrounding the columnar members, with the structured material being formed by depositing the first component and the second component on a substrate, and removing the columnar members from the structured material to form a porous material having a columnar hole. In addition, a material is introduced into the columnar hole portions of the porous material to form a dot pattern, and the porous material is removed. | 09-18-2008 |
20090109387 | LIQUID CRYSTAL OPTICAL DEVICE MANUFACTURING PROCESS - A manufacturing method of a liquid crystal optical device is provided including an alignment film forming step of forming an alignment film containing silicon oxide on a substrate, and a liquid crystal cell forming step of disposing a pair of substrates at least one of which the alignment film has been formed on, opposite to each other interposing a liquid crystal therebetween. In the alignment film forming step, the substrate surface is bombarded with a plasma beam generated by vacuum arc discharge using a cathode containing silicon, where the substrate is disposed on the course of the plasma beam obliquely with an angle. When the plasma beam bombards the substrate surface, plasma ions in the plasma beam have higher kinetic energy or higher flux density than plasma ions in a plasma beam which, if bombarding the substrate obliquely at the angle, form a film having a column structure. | 04-30-2009 |
20090202712 | POLARIZED LIGHT-EMITTING FILM AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - A polarized light-emitting layer that comprises a porous silica film formed on a substrate and a conjugated polymer held in the uniaxially oriented, tubular mesopores in the porous silica film. The film can emit fluorescence polarized in a direction parallel to the alignment direction of the mesopores. The film can act as a lasing layer with a low excitation threshold. | 08-13-2009 |
20090257013 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A liquid crystal device has a pair of substrates, an alignment film formed at least on one of the pair of substrates and liquid crystal showing an orientation defined by the alignment film. The alignment film is a carbon film having a cross-sectional structure inclined relative to the direction of the film thickness by a constant angle. | 10-15-2009 |
20090324845 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING ORIENTATION FILM - A method for producing an orientation film that causes orientation of a liquid crystal includes a process of vapor depositing an inorganic oxide from an oblique direction on a substrate and forming an obliquely vapor-deposited film composed of a plurality of columnar structural bodies tilted at an angle equal to or greater than 20° from a substrate normal and a process of performing ion beam irradiation onto the plurality of columnar structural bodies constituting the obliquely vapor-deposited film. An ion beam irradiation direction in the ion beam irradiation process is in a plane including a vapor deposition direction of the inorganic oxide and the substrate normal and an angle of the ion beam irradiation direction θ | 12-31-2009 |
20100003822 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING COLUMNAR STRUCTURED MATERIAL - A microcolumnar structured material having a desired material. The columnar structured material includes columnar members obtained by introducing a filler into columnar holes formed in a porous material. The porous material has the columnar holes formed by removing columnar substances from a structured material in which the columnar substances containing a first component are dispersed in a matrix member containing a second component capable of forming a eutectic with the first component. The matrix member may be removed. In the columnar structured material, the filler is a conductive material, and an electrode can be structured by electrically connecting the conductive materials in at least a part of a plurality of holes to a conductor. | 01-07-2010 |
20100018629 | PARTICLES, SENSOR USING PARTICLES AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING POROUS STRUCTURE UNIT - A particle having a large amount of biosubstances per unit volume has been needed for application to biosensors and the like. Accordingly, the present invention provides the particle comprising mesopores in which biosubstances are held and having a diameter ten times or less as large as the diameter of the mesopores. | 01-28-2010 |
20100047948 | SENSOR AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A sensor comprising a semiconductor film having a plurality of mesopores and containing an oxide, and electrodes electrically connected to the semiconductor film, wherein at least part of surfaces in the mesopores is coated with an organic material. | 02-25-2010 |
20100078632 | ELECTRONIC ELEMENT - The object is to fabricate a novel organic semiconductor element which can effectively utilize the main-chain conduction of a conjugated high molecular compound having semiconductor-like properties. Provided is an electronic element which contains, as components, a pair of electrodes which is formed on a substrate, a mesoporous film in which tubular mesopores, which are orientation controlled in one direction, are formed, the mesoporous film being formed between the electrodes so as to be in contact with the electrodes, a conjugated high molecular compound held in the tubular mesopores, and a third electrode which is electrically insulated from the conjugated high molecular compound and is in contact with the mesoporous film. | 04-01-2010 |
20100181013 | FILM FORMING METHOD AND PRODUCTION PROCESS OF LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A method of forming a film on a substrate is constituted by a step of depositing a material vaporized from an evaporation source onto a surface of a substrate while inclining the surface of the substrate with respect to a direction from the evaporation source to the substrate, and a step of providing the surface of the substrate with an energy depending on a deposition angle. | 07-22-2010 |
20100308708 | FILM CONTAINING CONJUGATED POLYMER CHAINS AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME - A method of producing a film containing an oxide having a plurality of tubular structures and a plurality of conjugated polymer chains includes preparing a solution by dissolving a precursor substance having a first site containing a precursor of the oxide and a second site containing a precursor of a component constituting the conjugated polymer chains; forming a film containing the oxide having the tubular structures on a substrate, the surface of which exhibits anisotropy, by applying the solution onto the substrate so that the tubular structures and the conjugated polymer chains are oriented; and forming the conjugated polymer chains in pores of the tubular structures by polymerizing the second site in the film formed on the substrate, wherein an inorganic component of the first site is connected to carbon of the second site through a covalent bond. | 12-09-2010 |
20100326956 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SUBSTRATE FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY - A substrate for mass spectrometry for effectively performing ionization has been demanded. The substrate for mass spectrometry includes a base, a porous film formed on the base, and an inorganic material film formed on the porous film. The inorganic material film has a plurality of concaves formed vertically to the base, and the diameter of the concaves is not less than 1 nm and less than 1 μm. | 12-30-2010 |
20110129065 | X-RAY MONOCHROMATOR, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME AND X-RAY SPECTROMETER - An X-ray monochromator including: a substrate having a concave surface; and an inorganic oxide film formed on the concave surface and having a plurality of pores, in which the plurality of pores of the inorganic oxide film being laid periodically in a stacked manner in the normal directions of the concave surface, and in which the plurality of pores being cylindrical is provided. The X-ray monochromator shows an excellent X-ray spectroscopic performance. | 06-02-2011 |
20110198214 | MESOPOROUS SILICA FILM AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCTION THEREOF - In a mesoporous silica film formed on a non-single-crystalline carbon film having structural anisotropy on a substrate in-plane arrangement of the pores is controlled in one direction, which is defined by the structural anisotropy of the carbon film. | 08-18-2011 |
20110242662 | ANTI-REFLECTION STRUCTURE AND OPTICAL APPARATUS - The anti-reflection structure includes a graded refractive index layer that is disposed on a substrate and whose refractive index decreases as a distance from the substrate increases, and a homogeneous layer that is disposed on the graded refractive index layer and whose refractive index is homogeneous. The structure satisfies a condition of nb−na>0.10 where na represents the refractive index of the homogenous layer, and nb represents a homogenous layer side effective refractive index of the graded index refractive index layer. | 10-06-2011 |
20110299661 | X-RAY WAVEGUIDE - An X-ray waveguide according to the present invention includes: a core for guiding an X-ray in such a wavelength band that a real part of the refractive index of a material is 1 or less; and a cladding for confining the X-ray in the core, wherein: the cladding has a periodic structure in which multiple materials having different real parts of the refractive index are periodically arranged in two-dimensional directions perpendicular to the guiding direction of X-ray; and the periodic structure has a period of 100 nm or less. | 12-08-2011 |
20110299662 | X-RAY WAVEGUIDE - An X-ray waveguide which: shows a small propagation loss of an X-ray; does not deteriorate owing to oxidation; and can be easily produced is realized with an X-ray waveguide, including: a core for guiding an X-ray in such a wavelength band that the real part of refractive index of materials is 1 or less; and a cladding for confining the X-ray in the core, in which: the cladding has a one-dimensional periodic structure consisting of at least two materials having different real parts of refractive index; one of the materials is inorganic one, and another one of materials is any of an organic material, a gas, or vacuum; and the core and the cladding are formed so that the critical angle for total reflection at the interface between the core and the cladding is smaller than a Bragg angle depending on the periodicity of the one-dimensional periodic structure. | 12-08-2011 |
20120262791 | MESOPOROUS SILICA FILM, STRUCTURAL BODY HAVING MESOPOROUS SILICA FILM, ANTIREFLECTION FILM, OPTICAL MEMBER, AND METHODS OF PRODUCING THE SAME - Provided is a mesoporous silica film, including a structure represented by SiO | 10-18-2012 |
20120269327 | X-RAY WAVEGUIDE - An X-ray waveguide includes a cladding and a core. The core has a periodic structure formed in at least one period direction. The periodic structure includes periodically arranged members made of material having different refractive index real parts. The core is surrounded by the cladding in the plane perpendicular to a wave-guiding direction. The Bragg angle obtained from the periodicity of the periodic structure is smaller than the total reflection critical angle at which X-rays are incident on the interface between the cladding and the core. The at least one period direction is the direction of at least one fundamental vector expressing the periodicity of the periodic structure in a plane of the core perpendicular to the wave-guiding direction. | 10-25-2012 |
20120288055 | X-RAY HOLOGRAPHY LIGHT SOURCE ELEMENT AND X-RAY HOLOGRAPHY SYSTEM - An X-ray holography light source element divides an entering X-ray beam to emit two or more mutually coherent X-ray beams. The light source element includes an X-ray waveguide which has a core and a cladding. The core contains a plurality of substances different in a refractive-index real part and is a periodic structure body in which basic structures are periodically disposed; the cladding confines an X-ray to the core to be guided therethrough. The total reflection critical angle of the X-ray on the interface of the core and the cladding is larger than the Bragg angle corresponding to the periodicity of the basic structures of the core. A shield member provided with two or more opening portions for respectively emitting the two or more mutually coherent X-ray beams is disposed at the end portion at an emission side of the X-ray waveguide. | 11-15-2012 |
20120328082 | X-RAY MIRROR, METHOD OF PRODUCING THE MIRROR, AND X-RAY APPARATUS - Provided is an X-ray mirror, a method of producing the X-rat mirror, and an X-ray apparatus. The X-ray mirror comprises: a substrate; and an X-ray reflecting structure formed of multiple regions present on the substrate, in which the X-ray reflecting structure comprises a mesostructured film that has the multiple regions having different structural periods in a normal direction of the substrate. Thus, there can be reduced the absorption loss of an X-ray of the mirror that reflects X-rays having different energies. | 12-27-2012 |
20130039476 | X-RAY OPTICAL SYSTEM - An X-ray optical system includes a waveguide that includes a core and a cladding and that guides X-rays from an X-ray source, and an optical element that condenses the X-rays from the waveguide. The core has a periodic structure. The critical angle for total internal reflection of the X-rays at the interface between the core and the cladding is larger than the Bragg angle of the periodic structure. The optical element condenses the X-rays from the waveguide at least in the direction parallel to the interface between the core and the cladding. | 02-14-2013 |
20130039477 | X-RAY WAVEGUIDE - To provide an X-ray waveguide which: shows a small propagation loss of an X-ray; has a waveguide mode with its phase controlled; does not deteriorate owing to oxidation; and can be easily produced, an X-ray waveguide, including: a core for guiding an X-ray in such a wavelength band that a real part of the refractive index of a material is 1 or less; and a cladding for confining the X-ray in the core, in which: the core has a one-dimensional periodic structure containing multiple materials having different real parts of the refractive index; the multiple materials include one of an organic material, a gas, and a vacuum, and an inorganic material; and the core and the cladding are formed so that the critical angle for total reflection at an interface between the core and the cladding is larger than a Bragg angle resulting from a periodicity of the one-dimensional periodic structure, is realized. | 02-14-2013 |
20130058461 | X-RAY WAVEGUIDE - An X-ray waveguide showing a small propagation loss and having a waveguide mode with its phase controlled is provided. The X-ray waveguide including: a core for guiding an X-ray in a wavelength band that a real part of the refractive index of a material is 1 or less; and a cladding for confining the X-ray in the core, in which: the X-ray is confined in the core by total reflection at a interface between the core and the cladding; in the core multiple materials having different real parts of the refractive index are periodically arranged; and a waveguide mode of the X-ray waveguide is such that the number of antinodes or nodes of an electric field intensity distribution or a magnetic field intensity distribution of the X-ray coincides with the number of periods of the periodic structure in a direction perpendicular to a waveguiding direction of the X-ray in the core. | 03-07-2013 |
20130064352 | X-RAY WAVEGUIDE, PROCESS OF PRODUCING X-RAY WAVEGUIDE, AND X-RAY GUIDING SYSTEM - An X-ray waveguide, for guiding X-rays having a wavelength of 1 pm or more and 100 nm or less, includes: a core and a cladding. The core has a periodic structure composed of a plurality of materials each having a different real part of refractive index in the direction perpendicular to the waveguiding direction. A planarizing layer is disposed between the core and the cladding. The critical angle for total reflection of the X-rays at the interface between the planarizing layer and the cladding is larger than the Bragg angle of the periodic structure of the core. | 03-14-2013 |
20130070905 | X-RAY WAVEGUIDE AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THE WAVEGUIDE - An X-ray waveguide according to the present invention includes: a core for guiding an X-ray; and a cladding for confining the X-ray in the core, wherein: the core has a low electron density portion and a high electron density portion having a higher electron density than an electron density of the low electron density portion; the low electron density portion is provided in the high electron density portion; and the low electron density portion is formed of one of a pore and an organic substance. | 03-21-2013 |
20130114795 | X-RAY WAVEGUIDE, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING X-RAY WAVEGUIDE, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING X-RAY WAVEGUIDE - An X-ray waveguide includes a core having a periodic structure in which basic structures made of a plurality of materials having different real parts of refractive indexes are periodically disposed, a cladding formed on an outer side of the core to confine X-rays in the core through total reflection and including at least a portion with a gap between the cladding and the core, and a driving unit which drives at least a portion of the cladding or the core to change a distance of the gap. A critical angle for total reflection of the X-rays in the interface between the cladding and the gap is larger than a Bragg angle corresponding to the periodic structure of the core, and a critical angle for total reflection in an interface between a plurality of ingredients which form the periodic structure of the core is smaller than the Bragg angle. | 05-09-2013 |
20130142312 | X-RAY WAVEGUIDE AND X-RAY WAVEGUIDE SYSTEM - An X-ray waveguide includes a core configured to guide X-ray therethrough and a cladding. In a section perpendicular to an X-ray guiding direction, the core has threefold or more rotational symmetry and has a periodic structure made of plural substances each having a different value of a real part of refractive-index, and a critical angle for total reflection of an X-ray at an interface between the core and the cladding is larger than a Bragg angle of the X-ray for the periodic structure of the core. A waveguide mode having a two-dimensionally spatial coherence over a wide cross-section of the core and exhibiting a small propagation loss is realized. | 06-06-2013 |
20130156162 | X-RAY WAVEGUIDE AND X-RAY WAVEGUIDE SYSTEM - An X-ray waveguide includes a cladding and a core to guide X-rays. The core includes a periodic structure of plural substances having different values of a refractive-index real part in a direction perpendicular to an X-ray guiding direction. A Bragg angle determined depending on a wavelength of an X-ray and periodicity of the periodic structure is smaller than a critical angle for total reflection of the X-ray at an interface between the core and the cladding. The Bragg angle is larger than a critical angle for total reflection of the X-ray at an interface between the plural substances constituting the periodic structure. The core has, in the X-ray guiding direction, two or more regions differing in periodic number of the periodic structure constituting the core with a core width in a direction of period being different between the two or more regions corresponding to change of the periodic number. | 06-20-2013 |
20130163727 | X-RAY WAVEGUIDE - A X-ray waveguide includes a core for guiding X-rays having a wavelength band in which the real part of refractive index of material is smaller than 1 and a cladding for confining the X-rays in the core. The core has a one-dimensional periodic structure in which a plurality of layers respectively formed of inorganic materials having different real parts of refractive index are periodically laminated. The core and the cladding are configured so that a critical angle for total reflection for the X-rays at an interface between the core and the cladding is larger than a Bragg angle due to a periodicity of the one-dimensional periodic structure. A critical angle for total reflection for the X-rays at an interface between layers in the one-dimensional periodic structure is smaller than the Bragg angle due to the periodicity of the one-dimensional periodic structure. | 06-27-2013 |
20130177138 | X-RAY WAVEGUIDE - An X-ray waveguide includes a core to guide X-rays in a wavelength band where the real part of the refractive index of a material is 1 or less, and a cladding to confine the X-rays to the core, in which the core includes a periodic structure having basic structures that contain materials having different real parts of refractive indices, the basic structures being periodically arranged, a low electron density layer is arranged between the core and the cladding and has a lower electron density than that of a material having the highest electron density of all the materials constituting the core, and the critical angle for total reflection of the X-rays at the boundary between the cladding and the low electron density layer is larger than the Bragg angle attributed to the periodicity of the basic structures in the periodic structure of the core. | 07-11-2013 |
20130182827 | X-RAY WAVEGUIDE AND X-RAY WAVEGUIDE SYSTEM - An X-ray waveguide includes a core having a curved portion and a cladding. The core has a periodic structure made of different substances periodically arrayed perpendicular to a guiding direction. A critical angle for total reflection of an X-ray at a core-cladding interface is larger than a Bragg angle of the periodic structure. A critical angle for the total reflection of the X-ray at a substance interface in the periodic structure is smaller than the Bragg angle. When s is a core width in a direction perpendicular to the guiding direction and parallel to a curvature radius of the curved portion, n | 07-18-2013 |
20140241509 | MESOPOROUS STRUCTURED MATERIAL, X-RAY WAVEGUIDE, AND METHOD OF FABRICATING MESOPOROUS STRUCTURED MATERIAL - The invention provides a mesoporous structured material having a stacked structure, including a mesoporous structured material and a planarization layer existing on a surface of the mesoporous structured material.
| 08-28-2014 |
20140294158 | X-RAY WAVEGUIDE - Provided is an X-ray waveguide including a core and two clads opposing to each other so as to sandwich the core, wherein one of the interfaces between the clad and the core has a periodic relief structure in a direction perpendicular to an opposing direction of the two clads and perpendicular to a guiding direction of an X-ray in the X-ray waveguide. | 10-02-2014 |
20140295142 | STRUCTURED MATERIAL - A structured material includes a base member, and a mesostructured member disposed on the surface of the base member. The mesostructured member includes a wall defining cylindrically shaped portions. The base member has a plurality of grooves periodically formed in the surface thereof. The grooves each have a bottom surface and side surfaces in a shape in which a plane including the bottom surface is perpendicular to planes including the side surfaces. The cylindrically shaped portions in a region opposite to the base member with respect to an imaginary surface of the base member defined by imaginarily filling grooves to form an even surface are oriented at angles within a range of ±10° with respect to a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the grooves. | 10-02-2014 |
20140376699 | X RAY WAVEGUIDE SYSTEM - An X-ray waveguide system capable of forming X-rays having spatial coherence of a large space region has an X-ray collecting optical element which collects incident X-rays; and an X-ray waveguide containing a core and claddings and wave-guiding a collected X-ray collected by the X-ray collecting optical element, in which the core of the X-ray waveguide is a periodic structure body in which a plurality of basic structures containing substances different in the refractive-index real part are periodically disposed, the total reflection critical angle of the collected X-ray at the interface of the core and the cladding is equal to or larger than the Bragg angle corresponding to the period of the core, and the collection angle of the collected X-ray entering the X-ray waveguide is as large as or larger than the double of the Bragg angle. | 12-25-2014 |