An ion-selective membrane is formed integrally of an ion-selective membrane forming component and a woven-fabric-shaped backing. The ion-selective membrane forming component comprises a cationic polymer component and/or an anionic polymer component and a matrix component. Each of the ionic polymer components is a particulate polymer having an average particle size in a range of from 0.01 to 10 μm....

A method for laser scribing and mechanically dicing a substrate. The method comprises the steps of focusing a laser beam on a top surface of the substrate; forming a first set of scribe lines in a first direction on the substrate by scanning the laser beams across the surface of the substrate; forming a second set of scribe lines in a second direction on the surface of the substrate substantially ...

A battery positive grid is continuously cast of lead and thereafter reduced in cross sectional thickness and elongated to change the microstructure of the lead and provide enhanced corrosion resistance and other properties needed for positive grids. The as cast thickness of the positive grids is reduced by not more than 1/2 or 2 to 1, to produce a positive grid which improves the life of a battery...

A biaxially oriented film (1) which is substantially formed from a polyethylene naphthalate copolymer comprising ethylene-2,6-naphthalate units in an amount of 90 to 99.9 mol% based on the total of all recurring units and an isophthalic acid component or a decalin-2,6-dicarboxylic acid component in an amount of 0.1 to 10 mol% based on the total of all dicarboxylic acid components, and which has (2...

The invention relates to a process for the preparation of a polyamide nanocomposite composition by mixing in the melt phase a polyamide, a solid substance composed of anisotropic particles with a high aspect ratio and a liquid, the liquid being added to and subsequently mixed with a melt comprising at least the polyamide. Preferably water is chosen as the liquid. The invention also relates to a po...

A method of forming a fine wiring pattern by sputtering and patterning which is characterized in that the potential difference between the anode and cathode in the sputtering apparatus is lower than 570V. The resulting fine wiring pattern is free of defects due to splash. This method is effective particularly in the production of array substrates for the flat-panel display device which needs alumi...

The present invention relates to the use of cycloolefin copolymers for producing films. For cycloolefin copolymers, conditions have been found under which biaxially oriented films without heat-sealable alyers can be firmly bonded with one another. The film temperatures found for this were above the glass transition temperature by from 5 to 70 DEG C, and the times found were from 0.1 sec to 10 sec....

High elasticity foams can be prepared from a reprocessable blend of a thermoplastic vulcanizate and an elastic thermoplastic polymer. These foams can be mechanically foamed with water and can have elongations to break in excess of 250 percent. They also have recovery of that elongation also known as low permanent set.

The object of the present invention is to provide a polypropylene film obtained by processing a propylene resin composition, which has not only enough transparency and mechanical properties, but also gas permeability in order to maintain the freshness of contents when the film is used as a wrapping film without a secondary processing such as punching in the film. The present invention is a gas per...

The present invention is directed to a hydrophilic polyolefin article comprising a polyolefin article having a coating containing a surfactant and an ethylene vinyl alcohol (EVOH) copolymer.

An exemplar workflow is disclosed for use in the design and deployment of a workflow for multi-enterprise collaboration. The computer implemented process involves allowing a workflow design to include at least one exemplar workflow. The exemplar workflow is associated with an exemplar node allowing at least one activity to be parameterized over a plurality of nodes within a node group. The process...

A system, method, and program product makes promotion offers for products so ld in retail stores. Coupon offers are posted on a server. A customer selects an offer an d enters a frequent shopper identification. Later the customer purchases the selected product at a retail store and automatically receives the terms of the selected coupon offer at the checkou t counter point-of sale device. A produ...

A method for forming thin polymer layers having low dielectric constants on semiconductor substrates. In one embodiment, the method includes the vaporization of stable di-p-xylylene, the pyrolytic conversion of such gaseous dimer material into reactive monomers, and blending of the resulting gaseous p-xylylene monomers with one or more comonomers having silicon-oxygen bonds and at least two penden...

A capacitor includes lower electrode, capacitive insulating film, upper electrode and passivation film that are formed in this order on a substrate. The capacitive insulating film is made of an insulating metal oxide, the metal oxide being a ferroelectric or a dielectric with a high relative dielectric constant. At least one contact hole is formed in the passivation film to connect the lower elect...

A semiconductor device comprises a semiconductor substrate (2), a first electrode (8) connected electrically with the semiconductor substrate (2), and a second electrode (10) disposed on the first electrode (8) through a dielectric film (9) having a perovskite structure wherein the first electrode (8), the dielectric film (9), and the second electrode (10) constitute a capacitor, and the lattice i...

The present invention relates to an integrated circuit comprising a series of conducting layers (1) ... (6), separated in pairs by insulating layers, including a capacitive element CF formed by a stack of conducting layers cut out of the conducting layers. According to the invention, the capacitive element CF comprises as many conductive plates as the integrated circuit has conducting layers. The ...

A small-sized low-power-loss capacitor having low parasitic resistance is obtained by adopting metal wires as wires in a line and space structure to utilize capacitances between adjacent metal wires. A plurality of wires (3) each extending in a direction (x) and composed of metals such as Al and Cu are aligned in a direction (y) at predetermined intervals, forming a line and space structure (4). T...

This invention relates to a semiconductor element with a condensor (3), wherein a resistor (5) with predetermined resistance is connected in parallel. However, the resistance of the resistor (5) should be smaller than the resistance of the ferro-electric condensor dielectric (34), and prevents a mutual accidental loading of the condensor electrode (32, 36).

A coating of liquid precursor containing a metal is applied to a first electrode (122), baked on a hot plate in oxygen ambient at a temperature not exceeding 300 DEG C for five minutes, then RTP annealed at 675 DEG C for 30 seconds. The coating is then annealed in oxygen or nitrogen ambient at 700 DEG C for one hour to form a thin film of layered superlattice material (124) with a thickness not ex...

Into the stationary fluidized bed, which contains solids of different grain sizes, fluidizing gas is introduced from the bottom through a jet bank. In the vicinity of the fluidized bed a conveying tube is provided, whose orifice is disposed above the jet bank, and whose outlet extends out of the fluidized bed. By means of an upwardly directed gas jet supplied separate from the fluidizing gas, part...