[Object] An object of the present invention is to provide an easily peelable adhesive tape that has a good peel adhesive strength when attached to an adherend and that can be easily peeled after being irradiated with active energy rays. [Solution] The present invention is directed to an easily peelable adhesive tape that has, on at least one surface of a base material, an active energy ray-curable layer having a storage modulus (G.sub.a25) of less than 1.010.sup.6 Pa as measured at a temperature of 25 C. and a frequency of 1.0 Hz and has an adhesive layer on the surface side of the active energy ray-curable layer.

A peeling apparatus includes an ingot holding unit holding an ingot in a hanging state where a portion of the ingot to be peeled off as the wafer is directed downwardly, a water container containing water therein, an ultrasonic unit immersed in the water in the water container, a moving unit moving the ingot holding unit vertically into a position where the ingot holding unit faces the ultrasonic unit and at least the portion of the ingot to be peeled off as the wafer is immersed in the water in the water container, and a nozzle ejecting water to the portion of the ingot to be peeled off as the wafer thereby to promote the peeling of the wafer from the ingot.

The present disclosure provides a method for separation of an organic film from a solar cell module, the separation method including the following steps: treating the solar cell module by a heat treatment in combination with a ultrasonic treatment; and performing separation of the treated solar cell module by buoyancy, thereby achieving the separation of the organic film from the module. The present disclosure uses the heat treatment in combination with the ultrasonic treatment to separate the organic film of the solar cell module, so that a stripping rate of the solar cell module reaches 97% or more, and the organic film after detachment does not adhere to the active material, the active material layer remains intact, the surface is clean and has no gelatin spots, and a loss rate is 1% or less, and thus the method is efficient, convenient, and easy to industrialize.

A method is provided for decomposition of a polymeric article, wherein the polymeric article contains a polymer and one or more energy modulation agents, by applying an applied energy to the polymeric article, wherein the one or more energy modulation agents convert the applied energy into an emitted energy sufficient to cause bond destruction within the polymer.

A first substrate, bonded to a second substrate by a material, is provided. The first substrate is transparent to at least some wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation. The first substrate is irradiated with the electromagnetic radiation to which the first substrate is transparent, such that the electromagnetic radiation impinges on the material causing a decomposition thereof at a location at an interface between the first substrate and the material. The decomposition results in, at the location, an interface of the first substrate and an atmosphere of the decomposition. The atmosphere of the decomposition has an optical property resulting in ceasing the decomposition of the material.

A method for bonding a product substrate to a carrier substrate via a connection layer, wherein a soluble layer is applied between the connection layer and the product substrate, and wherein a) the soluble layer is soluble due to an interaction with an electromagnetic radiation of a radiation source, and b) the connection layer and the carrier substrate are at least predominantly transparent to the electromagnetic radiation. A method for debonding a product substrate from a carrier substrate bonded to the product substrate via a connection layer, wherein a soluble layer is applied between the connection layer and the product substrate, and wherein a) the soluble layer is dissolved through an interaction with an electromagnetic radiation of a radiation source, and b) the connection layer and the carrier substrate are at least predominantly transparent to the electromagnetic radiation. A corresponding product-substrate-to-carrier-substrate bond is also disclosed.

Provided is a method for manufacturing an EL device (2), the method including peeling a mother substrate (50) from a layered body (7) including a light-emitting element layer (5) with irradiation with a laser (62). The mother substrate (50) and the layered body (7) are in contact with each other with a resin layer (12) of the layered body (7) interposed therebetween, and in a case that the peeling is performed by irradiating the resin layer (12) with the laser (60), the irradiation is performed on at least a part of an end portion of the resin layer (12) under a condition different from that in a central portion of the resin layer (12).

A method for separating different types of material layers of a composite component that has at least one material layer that is transparent for visible light and at least one further material layer, is provided, wherein the light from an external source falls through the at least one transparent material layer into the at least one further material layer and there is at least partially absorbed. With the help of at least one gas discharge lamp, the light-absorbing material layer is heated in less than one second to separate material layers of the composite component. A device that can be used for this method comprises at least one separation chamber and therein at least one gas discharge lamp suitable for irradiation.

A cover structure for a light source includes a frame having an inner space, a driver, and an oxygen discharger. The frame is combined with the light source such that an object disposed in the inner space is covered by the frame, and the inner space is sealed by the combined frame and light source to provide a closed space between the frame and the light source enclosing the object. The driver combines the frame and the light source by moving the frame toward the light source such that the frame contacts the light source. The oxygen discharger creates a low-oxygen state in the closed space by discharging oxygen from the closed space.

Disclosed is a thin subject assisted debonding method for separating temporarily bonded workpiece-carrier pair. The thin subject can be a thin wire, or thin filament, or thin blade. The thin subject can be applied between the workpiece and carrier pair in association with laser debonding or mechanical debonding to provide well controlled and targeted wedging function to the delaminating temporary adhesive and its adjacent substrate to which it is separating from. The workpiece can be a semiconductor wafer that has been thinned and processed, and the carrier can be a semiconductor non-device wafer or any other rigid substrate such as a glass wafer or panel. The application of a thin subject between the workpiece and carrier during debonding provides the advantage of high throughput and low defect rate.