In some methods of fabricating a silicon-on-insulator substrate, a semiconductor substrate is provided that includes a single crystalline structure within at least a defined region thereof. The vehicle includes an information acquisition portion that acquires a piece of vehicle information, which is processed by an information processing unit, based on a set collection condition, and transmits the acquired piece of the vehicle information to the information management center. The lenticular lenses are formed correspondingly to the individual groups of parallax images. The communication device and a data device share a numeric interface of a keyboard. Methods of making the composite compounds include the oxidation of alloys, the reaction of stabilized lithium metal powder with tin and silicon oxides, and the reaction of inorganic salts of lithium with tin and silicon containing compounds.