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In a semiconductor device that uses a silicon carbide semiconductor substrate having p type, n type impurity semiconductor regions formed by ion implantation, the electrical characteristics of the end semiconductor device can be improved by decreasing the roughness of the silicon carbide semiconductor substrate surface. The semiconductor device of this invention is a Schottky barrier diode or a p-n type diode comprising at least one of a p type semiconductor region and n type semiconductor region selectively formed in a silicon carbide semiconductor region having an outermost surface layer surface that is a (000-1) surface or a surface inclined at an angle to the (000-1) surface, and a metal electrode formed on the outermost surface layer surface, that controls a direction in which electric current flows in a direction perpendicular to the outermost surface layer surface from application of a voltage to the metal electrode.

The liquid crystal display device of the present invention includes a first substrate, a second substrate and a vertically aligned liquid crystal layer interposed between the first and second substrate. The device has a plurality of pixels each including a first electrode formed on the first substrate, a second electrode formed on the second substrate, and the liquid crystal layer interposed between the first and second electrode, and a shading region provided around the pixels. A plurality of supports for defining the thickness of the liquid crystal layer are placed regularly on the surface of the first or second substrate facing the liquid crystal layer in the shading region. The liquid crystal layer forms at least one liquid crystal domain exhibiting axisymmetric alignment when at least a predetermined voltage is applied, and the tilt direction of liquid crystal molecules in the at least one liquid crystal domain is defined with inclined sides of the plurality of supports.

In a semiconductor device that uses a silicon carbide semiconductor substrate having p type, n type impurity semiconductor regions formed by ion implantation, the electrical characteristics of the end semiconductor device can be improved by decreasing the roughness of the silicon carbide semiconductor substrate surface. The semiconductor device of this invention is a Schottky barrier diode or a p-n type diode comprising at least one of a p type semiconductor region and n type semiconductor region selectively formed in a silicon carbide semiconductor region having an outermost surface layer surface that is a (000-1) surface or a surface inclined at an angle to the (000-1) surface, and a metal electrode formed on the outermost surface layer surface, that controls a direction in which electric current flows in a direction perpendicular to the outermost surface layer surface from application of a voltage to the metal electrode.

A stamper suppressed in surface roughness, uneven thickness, and deviation of circularity in inner circumference, a method of producing the same, an optical recording medium produced by molding using the stamper, and a method of producing the same, wherein a base member having a mirror polished main surface and comprising silicon or glass is formed with a resist film; the resist film is exposed by a focused electron beam, an ultraviolet ray laser, etc. and developed so as to form a resist film of a pattern corresponding to relief shapes; the mirror surface of the base member is processed to relief shapes (projecting regions and recessed regions) by dry etching etc. using the obtained resist film as a mask so as to obtain a stamper; the obtained stamper is used for injection molding to form a medium substrate; and an optical recording multilayer film and a protective layer are formed to thereby produce an optical recording medium.

The present invention is a toner including a toner particle containing a binder resin and a charge control agent, wherein the binder resin includes a resin having a polyester unit with at least one aliphatic compound condensed to the terminal thereof, the at least one aliphatic compound being selected from the group consisting of aliphatic monocarboxylic acids each having 30 or more and 102 or less carbon atoms and aliphatic monoalcohols each having 30 or more and 102 or less carbon atoms; and the charge control agent includes a specific compound (a pyrazolone monoazo metal compound).

An actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive resin composition includes: (A) a compound capable of generating an acid upon irradiation with an actinic ray or radiation; (B) a resin capable of increasing a dissolution rate of the resin (B) in an alkali developer by an action of an acid, the resin (B) containing a specific repeating unit having a lactone structure; and (D) a low molecular compound having a group capable of leaving by an action of an acid, and a pattern forming method uses the composition.

The invention provides a laser processing device and a laser processing method using a tool of the laser processing device, the laser processing device obtains high size precision via laser processing according to moving and rotating states of tools, etc. A device performing processing via irradiating laser light (L) to a waiting-to-be-processed image (I) is provided with: a laser illuminating mechanism (2) performing illuminating upon the waiting-to-be-processed image (I) via oscillating the laser light according to input trigger signals; a moving mechanism (4) capable of keeping the waiting-to-be-processed image at a rotary shaft (6a) to make the rotary shaft move or rotate, when a moving displacement amount of a moving objective table or a rotating displacement amount of the rotary shaft (6a) is outputted as coder signals; and a trigger signal generation circuit part (5) outputting trigger signals to the laser illuminating mechanism according to set counting amount while counting encoder signals.

A method of manufacturing a CMOS semiconductor device able to reduce the effective thickness of the gate insulating film and able to secure stable performance is provided. The method in one embodiment comprises the steps of: forming a polycrystalline silicon film on a gate insulating film; introducing an n-type impurity into the polycrystalline silicon film in an nMOS formation region before gate processing of the polycrystalline silicon film; performing heat treatment so that the impurity diffuses in the polycrystalline silicon film and is activated; and patterning the polycrystalline silicon to form a gate pattern before introducing an impurity into the polycrystalline silicon film at a pMOS formation region.

A resist material includes a polymeric material made of a unit represented by a general formula of the following Chemical Formula; and an acid generator for generating an acid through irradiation with light:wherein R1, R2 and R3 are the same or different and are a hydrogen atom, a fluorine atom, or a straight-chain alkyl group, a branched or cyclic alkyl group or a fluoridated alkyl group with a carbon number not less than 1 and not more than 20; R is a hydrogen atom, a straight-chain alkyl group, a branched or cyclic alkyl group or a fluoridated alkyl group with a carbon number not less than 1 and not more than 20; m≧0, n≧0, s>0 (whereas excluding m=n=0) and 1≦k≦3.

The present invention pertains to: a conductive sheet, a touch panel, a display device, a method for producing the conductive sheet, and a recording medium. In the present invention, the relative refractive index of a substrate with respect to a first protective layer, and / or the relative refractive index of the substrate with respect to a second protective layer is 0.86-1.15. The relative refractive index of a first substrate with respect to the first protective layer, and / or the relative refractive index of a second substrate with respect to the second protective layer is 0.86-1.15.

An image processing method for forming a color conversion table to convert plural input colors into output colors, the method including the steps of: extracting color values of plural gray scales wherein in input and output characteristic data, a signal value of one color is variable and signal values of other colors are fixed; creating a model with which difference values between input and output color values are outputted by inputting the extracted color values; and estimating the output color values corresponding to the input color values to create the color conversion table to convert plural input colors into output colors, after shifting the color values by adding or subtracting the difference values which are obtained by inputting the color values into the model with respect to every output color values.

A method for manufacturing a wiring board that has a rewiring layer on a surface thereof includes forming an insulating layer on a core substrate, forming a groove, in which a wiring layer of a circuit pattern is to be provided, on the insulating layer, forming a metal seed layer on an exposed face of the insulating layer on which the groove is formed, electrodepositing metal, which is to form the wiring layer, by plating to fill the groove with the metal to form a metal layer on the seed layer, machining the metal layer by a cutting tool to remove the metal layer up to a position not reaching the top of the insulating layer, and performing etching or a CMP process to expose the top of the insulating layer thereby to form the wiring layer in the groove and flatten an exposed face of the wiring layer.