Abstract: A method for manufacturing a junction plane of a solar cell through an aluminum induced crystallization method includes steps of: providing a substrate; forming an aluminum film layer on a surface of a first growth area on a back side of the substrate; forming an N-type amorphous silicon layer on a surface of the aluminum film layer and a surface of a second growth area on the back side of the substrate; performing a thermal treatment to allow aluminum to induce the N-type amorphous silicon layer to crystallize and form a P-type polycrystalline silicon layer, such that positions of the aluminum film layer and the P-type polycrystalline silicon layer are switched due to the thermal treatment to allow the P-type polycrystalline silicon layer to be formed between the aluminum film layer and the substrate to form a PN junction plane with the N-type amorphous silicon layer.

Abstract: A catalytic article for decomposition of a volatile organic compound includes a porous support body, a plurality of active centers formed on the support body and adapted for catalytic decomposition of the volatile organic compound, and a plurality of capture centers bound to the support body. Each of the active centers is composed of one of a noble metal, a transition metal oxide, and the combination thereof. Each of the capture centers includes at least one functional group that is adapted for attracting or binding the volatile organic compound. A method for preparing the catalytic article is also disclosed.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a 3D image capture device and a symmetric prism array for the same. The symmetric prism array comprises a plurality of right triangle prisms, wherein the longer legs of the right triangle prisms are arranged along an identical line on the incident plane, and wherein the right triangle prisms are left-right symmetric with respect to a central symmetry line, and wherein the normals of the hypotenuses of the right triangle prisms diverge from the central symmetry line. The symmetric prism array that captures light from two different directions is arranged in front of the lens of the 3D image capture device, whereby the 3D image capture device can capture images from two different directions simultaneously. After the image processing by the 3D image capture device, 3D images are presented.

Abstract: A non-contact type torque and angle of rotation sensing device consisting of a magnetic member, sensing members and a computing unit for measuring a torque being applied to rotate a transmission member and the angle of rotation of said transmission member in a first axial direction is disclosed. The magnetic member defines a first center, and is mounted on and rotatable with the transmission member. The magnetic member deflects relative to the transmission member in a nonparallel manner relative to the first axial direction when rotating with the transmission member. Sensing members induce a magnetic field variation to output respective electrical signals that exhibit a phase difference there between. The computing unit receives and calculates the electrical signals of the sensing member to obtain the amplitude and to further translate the amplitude into torque value and angle of rotation.

Abstract: A composite dye-sensitized solar cell comprises a conductive substrate, and also a nanoparticle compact layer, a nanotube layer and a nanoparticle scattering layer which are stacked on the conductive substrate sequentially, and further an auxiliary electrode stacked on one side of the nanoparticle scattering layer far away from the conductive substrate, and a composite dye and an electrolyte filled into a space between the conductive substrate and the auxiliary electrode. The composite dye includes at least one short-wavelength light absorption dye and at least one long-wavelength light absorption dye. The nanoparticle compact layer can increase the contact area with the composite dye and further enhance the power generation efficiency. The nanotube layer can transmit the generated electric energy to the external electrodes efficiently. The composite dye can absorb light with different wavelength ranges.

Abstract: An active solder is revealed. The active solder includes an active material and a metal substrate. There are two kinds of active materials, titanium together with rare earth elements and magnesium. The metal substrate is composed of a main component and an additive. The main component is tin-zinc alloy and the additive is selected from bismuth, indium, silver, copper or their combinations. The active solder enables targets and backing plates to be joined with each other directly in the atmosphere. The target is ceramic or aluminum with low wetting properties. The bonding temperature of the active solder ranges from 150° C. to 200° C. so that the problem of thermal stress can be avoided.

Abstract: A method for fabricating a P-type polycrystalline silicon-germanium structure comprises steps: forming an aluminum layer and an amorphous germanium layer on a P-type monocrystalline silicon substrate in sequence; annealing the P-type monocrystalline silicon substrate, the aluminum layer and the amorphous germanium layer at a temperature of 400-650° C.; and undertaking an aluminum-induced crystallization process in which germanium atoms of the amorphous germanium layer and silicon atoms of the P-type monocrystalline silicon substrate simultaneously pass through the aluminum layer and then the amorphous germanium layer being induced and converted into a P-type polycrystalline silicon-germanium layer between the P-type monocrystalline silicon substrate and the aluminum layer. The present invention is a simple, reliable and low-cost method to fabricate a P-type polycrystalline silicon-germanium layer on a P-type monocrystalline silicon substrate.

Abstract: In A method for measuring a dimensionless coupling constant of a magnetic structure includes the following steps. A step of applying an external vertical magnetic field is performed for enabling magnetic moments of a RE-TM (Rare Earth-Transition metal) alloy magnetic layer of the magnetic structure to be vertical and saturated. A step of measuring a compensation temperature is performed when the sum of the magnetization of the RE-TM alloy magnetic layer is zero. A step of applying an external parallel magnetic field to the RE-TM alloy magnetic layer is performed. A step of adjusting the temperature of the magnetic structure to the compensation temperature and measuring a hysteresis loop of the magnetic structure under the external parallel magnetic field is performed, wherein the inverse of the slope of hysteresis loop is a dimensionless coupling constant.

Abstract: An antiglare film with various inner and outer haze includes a transparent substrate, and an antiglare coating layer formed by coating an antiglare coating solution on the transparent substrate. The antiglare coating solution further includes a resin, resin-philic light-scattering particles and resin-phobic light-scattering particles. The resin-philic light-scattering particles and the resin-phobic light-scattering particles respectively have different functional groups on the surfaces thereof. The resin-philic light-scattering particles do not repel the resin and thus are distributed inside the antiglare coating layer. The resin-phobic light-scattering particles repel the resin and thus are distributed on the surface of the antiglare coating layer, so that the inner and outer haze of an antiglare film can be effectively controlled via adjusting the proportion of the resin-phobic to resin-philic light-scattering particles.

Abstract: An endoscopic navigation method includes the steps of: receiving an image from an endoscopic navigation system; performing image classification to determined whether the image is usable; performing a first image process on the image to filter out dark areas of the image to produce a first processed image; performing a first determination procedure to identify the dark areas of the first processed image; producing a first result image for indicating lumen direction; performing a second image process to filter out fold curves of the image to produce a second processed image when there is no dark area in the image; performing a second determination procedure to identify the fold curves of the second processed image; producing a second result image for indicating lumen direction according to the fold curves; and outputting the first or the second result image to a display device to assist users in operating the photographic device.

Abstract: An electrode including a substrate and a complex metal oxide film deposited on the surface of the substrate. The complex metal oxide film includes manganese oxide, cobalt oxide, and zinc oxide. A main component of the complex metal oxide film is manganese oxide. The stability of the electrode is enhanced by adding little amount of cobalt oxide and zinc oxide. Furthermore, a method relates to fabricate the electrode. The method utilizes a dry process, simpler one-step radio frequency magnetron sputtering to fabricate the electrode of the present invention. The process can reduce residual impurities in the electrode and then prevent the electrochemical capacitor and cell from explosion. Moreover, an electrochemical capacitor and a cell relates to of the above electrode.

Abstract: A high-linearity testing stimulus signal generator comprises a signal collection unit receiving an input current signal, a waveform conversion unit connecting with the signal collection unit, a first voltage-to-current conversion unit connecting with the waveform conversion unit, a delay unit connecting with the waveform conversion unit, a second voltage-to-current conversion unit connecting with the delay unit, a current comparison unit connecting respectively with the first voltage-to-current conversion unit and the second voltage-to-current conversion unit, an error calculation unit connecting with the current comparison unit, and a compensation unit connecting with the error calculation unit. The above-mentioned structure forms a feedback mechanism to perform compensation adjustment to promote the linearity of the output signals. Thus, the present invention can generate high-accuracy testing stimulus signals.

Abstract: A diffraction-type 3D display element is arranged on an image output face of a 3D display device and comprises a first diffraction area and a second diffraction area. The first diffraction area has a plurality of first stepped gratings spaced apart from each other. The second diffraction area has a plurality of second stepped gratings spaced apart from each other. The second diffraction area is adjacent to the first diffraction area and is arranged symmetrically to the first diffraction area with a central line being the symmetric axis. The diffraction-type 3D display element of the invention diffracts the images output by the 3D display device and projects the diffracted images to two different viewing areas to provide 3D images for users.

Abstract: A dye-sensitized solar cell with hybrid nanostructures comprises a negative-polarity conductive substrate, a metal oxide layer, a positive-polarity conductive substrate and an electrolyte. The metal oxide layer has a plurality of nanoparticles and a plurality of nanotubes. The metal oxide layer and the electrolyte are arranged between the negative-polarity conductive substrate and the positive-polarity conductive substrate. The nanoparticles increase contact area with dye and thus enhance power generation efficiency. The nanotubes increase carrier mobility and thus effectively transfer electricity to electrodes. The solar cell integrates the advantages of nanoparticles and nanotubes and offsets the disadvantages thereof to effectively enhance the photovoltaic conversion efficiency of dye-sensitized solar cells.

Abstract: A multi-beam interferometer displacement measuring system has a light source module, a resonator module and a detecting device. The light source module has an emitter and a polaroid sheet. The emitter emits a non-polarizing beam. The polaroid sheet receives and transforms the non-polarizing beam into a polarizing beam. The resonator module receives the polarizing beam and has a coated glass panel, a corner cube prism and a wave-delay plate. The coated glass panel receives and reflects the polarizing beam. The corner cube prism receives and reflects the polarizing beam to the coated glass panel to form a resonant cavity. The wave-delay plate is mounted between the coated glass panel and the corner cube prism to receive the polarizing beam. The detecting device faces the coated glass panel to receive the interferential stripes formed in the resonator module and has a polarizing beam splitter, two power detectors and a signal processor.

Abstract: A magnetic stack structure is disclosed. The magnetic stack structure includes two metal layers and a free layer sandwiched by the two metal layers. The thickness of the free layer is 1-30 nm. The thickness of the metal layers are 0.1-20 nm respectively.

Abstract: A channel estimation method for an OFDM relaying system, which is based on an EM algorithm and applied to an AF OFDM relaying system, wherein channels from a source node to a relaying system and from the relaying system to the destination node in a wireless communication system are respectively estimated at the destination node. The channel estimation method of the present invention comprises steps of: constructing a system model; setting an expectation function; performing maximization processing; and performing iteration. The method of the present invention respectively estimates the channels from the source node to the relaying system and from the relaying system to the destination node, whereby are optimally combined the signals of the direct path (source-to-destination) and the signals of the relay path (source-to-relay and relay-to-destination) at the destination node.

Abstract: In a peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) reduction method for an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system based on path finding, the method applied to the OFDM system uses an ant colony optimization (ACO) algorithm and a PTS to reduce a PAPR value, and an area of a computing circuit. In a simulated result, the method can reduce the PAPR effectively, and can be executed by a lower level of complexity of the computation. To solve a large matrix of the PTS, an ant colony optimization algorithm is used for calculating phase rotation vectors of a better quality effectively to achieve the effects of improving the performance, overcoming the high level of complexity of the computing circuit, and reducing the large area of the computing circuit.

Abstract: An OFDM-based relay-assisted channel estimation method enables a composite channel (source-relay-destination) to be disintegrated into a source-to-relay channel and a relay-to-destination channel and separately estimated at the destination node in a relay-assisted way. A relay-amble signal is added to a sub-frame when the relay node is forwarding the amplified signals from the source node. Through the relay-amble signal, the second channel estimation from the relay node to the destination node is performed to obtain a second channel coefficient, and then uses an ML (Maximum Likelihood Estimator) algorithm to estimate a first channel coefficient from the source node to the relay node. After having estimated the coefficients of the two channels, the optimum diversity combining is performed at the destination node to improve accuracy of received data.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a multi-point image labeling method, which adopts an image labeling device to label an object pixel matrix containing image data and makes adjacent array elements with image data have an identical image label value. Next, the image labeling device provides a multi-point label window, which designates a non-zero temporary labeled value to store in the register according to the temporary labeled value of the adjacent array elements. Next, the image labeling device provides a label-equivalence window, which generates label-equivalence information according to the adjacent temporary labeled values. Next, an equivalent-substitution processing process is performed on the temporary labeled values according to the label-equivalence information to generate label-equivalence substitution information.