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An information interface and method for finding, collecting and acting upon information which has been arranged in hierarchical form. In its best mode of implementation, the interface has a display area with four components: a content area for showing units of information at a particular level in a hierarchy, a context area for showing the information node which is parent to the displayed level of units, an identity area for showing the sequence of such parents in the user's navigation history through the information relative to the currently displayed level, and a desire area for the user to collect and act upon desired units of information. The method of the invention provides two functions: one for clarification, for navigating the hierarchy of information, moving forward and backward through the nodes and branches; and a second for memorization, for collecting desired units of information and then acting upon them. The invention further provides for partition of a displayed level into sections no larger than the number of sub-areas in the content area, thereby accommodating levels larger than the number of content sub-areas provided for the display device.

The invention relates to an electronic device comprising a layer structure of organic layers, wherein said layer structure comprises a p-n-junction between an n-type doped organic layer provided as an organic matrix material doped with an n-type dopant and a p-type doped organic layer provided as a further organic matrix material doped with a p-type dopant, and wherein the n-type dopant and the p-type dopant both are molecular dopants, a reduction potential of the p-type dopant is equal or larger than about 0 V vs. Fc/Fc⁺, and an oxidation potential of the n-type dopant is equal or smaller than about −1.5 V vs. Fc/Fc⁺.

The present invention relates to a touch location detecting panel and, more particularly, to a touch location detecting panel having a plurality of sensing areas arranged two-dimensionally. The touch location detecting panel of the invention has on a surface at one side of a single film a plurality of sensing areas arranged two-dimensionally. Each of the sensing areas includes a plurality of partitioned areas electrically isolated from each other, and the partitioned areas are respectively connected to separate channels of a circuit for detecting a user's touch on each of the partitioned areas. Accordingly, durability and productivity of the touch location detecting panel can be improved by simplifying the panel structure.

A nonvolatile semiconductor storage device is provided in which memory cells comprising PN junction diodes having satisfactory rectifying characteristics are arranged in three dimensions. The semiconductor storage device includes: a first wire which extends in one direction; a second wire which extends in a direction intersecting the first wire; and a memory cell which is positioned at a portion of intersection of the first wire with the second wire between the first wire and the second wire, the memory cell comprising a storage element and a PN junction diode connected thereto, positioned on a side of the second wire used in selecting the memory cell, and a P-type semiconductor forming the PN junction diode forms a portion of the second wire, wherein a plurality of structures, each structure comprising the first wire, the second wire, and the memory cell is provided three-dimensionally.

A capacitive touch panel includes a substrate and a patterned conductive layer formed on the substrate. The patterned conductive layer includes a plurality of first electrode units, a plurality of second electrode units, a plurality of spaced apart first conductive lines, and a plurality of spaced apart second conductive lines. The first electrode units are capacitively coupled to the second electrode units so as to form a plurality of two dimensionally arranged capacitive sensing units. Each of the first electrode units includes a plurality of first electrodes. Each of the first conductive lines is connected to and extends from at least one of the first electrodes of a respective one of the first electrode units. The second conductive lines extend respectively from the second electrode units, and do not cross the first conductive lines.

A method to produce a wear resistant foil, including providing a first foil including a first thermoplastic material, applying wear resistant particles on the first foil, applying a second foil including a second thermoplastic material on the first foil, and adhering the first foil and the second foil to each other to form a wear resistant foil.

In a mono-crystal oxide conductive member on a silicon substrate, including an electrode material of a perovskite type piezoelectric element and an electrostrictive material and an oxide conductive material as a film formation substrate, a distance x between silicon atoms and a distance y between atoms of the mono-crystal oxide conductive member satisfy the following relationship: $Z={\frac{\mathrm{my}}{\mathrm{nx}}-1}_{\min }\geqq 0.05$

(n and m are given positive integers, 1≦n≦5, 1≦m≦7 and nx≦3, my≦3).

A description is given of an optical switching device (1) comprising a transparent substrate (3), a switching film (5) of a hydride compound of a trivalent transition or rare earth metal having a thickness of 300 nm, and a palladium capping layer (7) having a thickness of 30 nm. The capping layer is in contact with hydrogen. An electric current through the switching film (5) can be switched on and off between the terminals (9, 11). Joule heating of the switching film (5) causes a rapid transition from the transparent trihydride state to the absorbing dihydride state. By switching off the current, the switching film (5) cools down, which results in the formation of the absorbing dihydride state. The conversion between both states is reversible and can be repeated many times. The device can be used for controlling light beams, or it can be used in or for a display. Optionally, cooling of the switching film (5) is obtained with a Peltier element in thermal contact with the switching film (5).

A circular polarizer includes at least an optically anisotropic element, a transmissive protection film and a polarizing element sandwiched therebetween. The optically anisotropic element has a liquid crystal layer aligned on a cellulose triacetate film and a retardation of approximately ¼ wavelength in the visible light region. The liquid crystal layer includes a liquid crystal film with a fixed twisted nematic alignment. The circular polarizer is suppressed in thickness by simplifying the layer structure without causing defects, such as peeling off the layers, even under elevated temperature and humidity condition and makes it possible to set arbitrarily the angle of the alignment axis direction of the optically anisotropic element including a liquid crystal layer with a fixed twisted alignment with respect to the absorption axis of the polarizing element, so that the optically anisotropic element and polarizing element both in the form of an elongate film can be laminated continuously to one another.

The object of the invention is to provide an adhesive composition attaining, in a single layer, both adhesiveness capable of direct attachment to a glass plate disposed on the front face of a display device and desired optical filter functions and hardly undergoing the change in spectral characteristics attributable to deterioration in a light absorbing agent, even during long-time use, particularly at high temperature under high humidity, as well as an optical filter using this adhesive composition. The object is solved by an optical filter comprising an adhesive layer having optical filter functions, comprising a block copolymer (I) having at least a specific triblock structure in its molecule and having a weight average molecular weight of 50,000 or more and a molecular weight distribution (Mw/Mn) of less than 1.5, a resin (IV) having the glass transition temperature of 60° C. or more and one or more light absorbing agents (III) each having light absorption in a predetermined wavelength region.

A method for manufacturing a MOS transistor is provided. A substrate has a high-k dielectric layer and a barrier in each of a first opening and a second opening formed by removing a dummy gate and located in a first transistor region and a second transistor region. A dielectric barrier layer is formed on the substrate and filled into the first opening and the second opening to cover the barrier layers. A portion of the dielectric barrier in the first transistor region is removed. A first work function metal layer is formed. The first work function metal layer and a portion of the dielectric barrier layer in the second transistor region are removed. A second work function metal layer is formed. The method can avoid a loss of the high-k dielectric layer to maintain the reliability of a gate structure, thereby improving the performance of the MOS transistor.

A liquid crystal display includes an interlayer resin film covering a surface of the display area including thin film transistors, first electrodes formed of transparent conductive material on the surface of the interlayer resin film in regions defined by scan and signal lines and electrically connected to the thin film transistors. A second insulating film formed on the surface of the interlayer resin film includes the first electrodes and second electrodes formed of transparent conductive material on the second insulating film, the second electrodes having slits defined at the scan lines and signal lines. A circuit including thin film transistors with exposed channel regions is on the display area's periphery. The interlayer resin film directly covers the thin film transistors' channel regions in the display area and the peripheral area; and the surface of the display area's and peripheral circuit's interlayer resin films are covered with the second insulating film.

A wired circuit board has a metal supporting board, a first insulating layer formed on the metal supporting board, a first metal thin film formed on the first insulating layer, a metal foil formed on the first metal thin film, a second insulating layer formed on the first insulating layer to cover the metal foil, and a conductive pattern formed on the second insulating layer.

A perpendicular magnetic recording medium is provided that achieves excellent magnetic performance by suppressing spike noises due to a soft magnetic backing layer, as well as good productivity. The perpendicular magnetic recording medium comprises at least a soft magnetic backing layer, an antiferromagnetic layer, an nonmagnetic underlayer, and a magnetic recording layer sequentially laminated on a nonmagnetic substrate, wherein the magnetic recording layer has a granular structure, the nonmagnetic underlayer is composed of ruthenium or a ruthenium alloy having an hcp structure having a thickness of at least 5 nm, the antiferromagnetic layer is composed of an alloy having an fcc structure and containing at least manganese, and the antiferromagnetic layer is laminated directly on the soft magnetic backing layer. Preferably, the antiferromagnetic layer is composed of an IrMn alloy, and the soft magnetic backing layer has an fcc structure and contains at least nickel and iron. Advantageously, the soft magnetic backing layer consists of two or more directly laminated soft magnetic layers, and a distance between a top surface of the soft magnetic backing layer and a bottom surface of the magnetic recording layer is at most 25 nm.

An optical filter including an adhesive layer attaining, in a single layer, both adhesiveness and desired optical filter function and hardly undergoing the change in spectral characteristic attributable to deterioration of a light absorbing agent, even after long-time use, particularly at high temperature under high humidity. The optical filter includes: (A) an acrylic copolymer containing (meth)acrylate having a hydroxyl group as a constituent, not containing a monomer having a carboxyl group and a monomer having an amide group as constituents, and substantially not containing a carboxyl group residue; (B) an isocyanate compound; and (C) one or more light absorbing agents each having light absorption in a predetermined wavelength range.

A SAW (Surface Acoustic Wave) magnetic sensor includes: a piezoelectric thin film; a seed layer; an interdigital transducer arranged respectively on each side of the piezoelectric thin film, the interdigital transducer comprising an interdigital electrode made from magnetic materials, and reflector grids located at both ends of the interdigital electrode; an underlying substrate arranged at the seed layer opposite to the piezoelectric thin film. A manufacturing method for the sensor is also disclosed.