Abstract: An LED package and method for LED packaging is disclosed. In one embodiment, an LED package includes a carrier substrate having a predefined surface area, an LED device bonded to the carrier substrate, the LED device having a footprint area of at least fifty percent of the predefined surface area of the carrier substrate, and an encapsulant lens having a top surface inclined inwardly at an angle in the range of about 10° to about 140°. In one embodiment, the top surface of the encapsulant lens layer has a concave cone shape. In one embodiment, a wafer level packaging process includes forming an encapsulant lens layer portion having a top surface inclined inwardly at an angle in the range of about 10° to about 140° on each of a plurality of LED devices bonded to a carrier substrate wafer.

Abstract: An LED assembly with an ESD protection device integrated into the carrier substrate and a method for making the LED assembly is disclosed. In one embodiment, the LED assembly includes an LED in contact with a bonding layer in contact with a substrate. The substrate has a region containing a circuit element. The bonding layer forms an ohmic connection between the region containing the circuit element and the LED. In one embodiment, the region containing the circuit element is an ESD protection device, such as a Zener diode.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a controller for a storage apparatus is disclosed having interfaces connectable to a host system, a first storage apparatus and a second storage apparatus. A data in the first storage apparatus and a data in the second storage apparatus are duplicates. A status table stores the operating state regarding the first storage apparatus and the second storage apparatus, wherein the operating state indicates among writing, reading, or standing by. A monitor monitors the interfaces and set up the operating state into the status table. A buffer memory buffers the data for writing in the first storage apparatus and the second storage apparatus. A command response unit receives the data for writing and write-in request from a host system, and directs the writing of the data to the first storage apparatus and the second storage apparatus while making the buffer memory buffer the received data.

Abstract: A high electron mobility transistor device includes a substrate, a buffer layer on the substrate, a channel layer on the buffer layer, and a contact and barrier layer on the channel layer, the contact and barrier layer being made of indium aluminum nitride with a plurality of indium precipitates exposed on the surface of the contact and barrier layer. The plurality of indium precipitates exposed on the surface of the contact and barrier layer enable metal contacts to be formed directly on the contact and barrier layer with reliable and repeatable electrical performance. The contact and barrier layer may be epitaxially grown in a metal organic chemical vapor deposition process where a ratio of group-V precursors to group-III precursors is low and a flow rate of an indium precursor is greater than a flow rate of an aluminum precursor.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with a lookup structure for a large block cache are described. According to one embodiment, at least two blocks of data are stored in a cache. A lookup entry is constructed that describes the at least two blocks of data. The lookup entry includes block specific information that describes individual blocks of the at least two blocks of data. The lookup entry is stored in the lookup structure.

Abstract: A system configured to provide access to shared storage includes a first network node configured to provide access to the shared storage to a first plurality of client stations. The first network node includes a first cache memory module configured to store first data corresponding to the first plurality of client stations, and a first cache control module configured to transfer the first data from the first cache memory module to the shared storage. A second network node is configured to provide access to the shared storage to a second plurality of client stations. The second network node includes a second cache memory module configured to store second data corresponding to the second plurality of client stations and store the first data, and a second cache control module configured to transfer the second data from the second cache memory module to the shared storage.

Abstract: A secondary battery according to an embodiment includes a container having a pouring hole through which an electrolyte is poured, and housing the electrolyte, poured through the pouring hole, together with an electrode body; and a sealing lid fixed to the container and closing the pouring hole. The container has a plurality of grooves extending in parallel along the outer edge of the pouring hole, in a predetermined region that surrounds the periphery of the pouring hole, and the sealing lid is provided on the plurality of grooves in such a manner as to close the pouring hole and is fixed to the container.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with a distributed cache coherency protocol are described. According to one embodiment, a method includes receiving a request from a requester for access to one or more memory blocks in a block storage device that is shared by at least two physical computing machines and determining if a caching right to any of the one or more memory blocks has been granted to a different requester. If the caching right has not been granted to the different requester, access is granted to the one or more memory blocks to the requester.

Abstract: Imprint lithography template chucks and related systems and methods are provided that substantially maintain structural support functions while significantly enhancing imprint quality functions. The chucks incorporate dynamic vacuum seals to substantially reduce template contact during alignment and distortion correction while still providing good structural support upon separation.

Abstract: Systems and techniques relating to network file systems for balancing caching load in peer-to-peer based network file systems are described. In one aspect, a method includes maintaining, by a cluster containing two or more computer systems, information about files cached at a network that includes three or more computer systems configured to cache data associated with a file server system. The method also includes receiving, from one of the computer systems of the network, a request to identify at least one computer system of the network that caches a specified file. Further, the method includes identifying, by the cluster in response to the received request, one or more computer systems of the network that cache the specified file based on the maintained information. Furthermore, the method includes providing, by the cluster to the requesting computer system, information referencing at least the identified one or more computer systems of the network.

Abstract: A method of providing an end-capped tubular ceramic composite for containing nuclear fuel (34) in a nuclear reactor involves the steps of providing a tubular ceramic composite (40), providing at least one end plug (14, 46, 48), applying (42) the at least one end plug material to the ends of the tubular ceramic composite, applying electrodes to the end plug and tubular ceramic composite and applying current in a plasma sintering means (10, 50) to provide a hermetically sealed tube (52). The invention also provides a sealed tube made by this method.

Abstract: Imprint lithography methods that incorporate depositing droplets of polymerizable material in patterns that improve fill time performance when employing directionally-oriented imprint templates. The patterns are based on grid arrays formed of repeating sets of rows of droplets oriented along fast and slow axes, with droplets of each row offset along the slow axis relative to droplets in adjacent rows.

Abstract: There is disclosed a multifunction peripheral device, a method, and apparatus for processing a document from a portable data storage device. The multifunction peripheral device may have a port for receiving a portable data storage device and an input unit to receive user input of a selected function for an electronic document on the portable data storage device. The multifunction peripheral device further comprises a control unit to determine whether the selected function may be performed on each of the plurality of electronic documents and the input unit to receive user input as to a selected electronic document. The multifunction peripheral device is further to perform the selected function on the selected electronic document.

Abstract: Disclosed is a coating method using a plasma shock wave, the method including the steps of: irradiating a pulse laser to a first surface of a mixed layer obtained by mixing powders and resin to generate a plasma, the mixed layer being formed on a second surface of a substance to be coated; striking the powders on the second surface by using a shock wave of the plasma; and forming a coat of the powders on the second surface.

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and systems, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, manage metadata for virtual volumes. In some implementations, a method includes: loading into memory at least a portion of metadata for a virtual volume (VV) that spans data extents of different persistent storage devices, wherein the metadata comprises virtual metadata block (VMB) descriptors and virtual metadata blocks (VMBs); mapping an address of the VV to a VMB number and an index of an extent pointer within a VMB identified by the VMB number, wherein the extent pointer indicates an extent within one of the different persistent storage devices; locating a VMB descriptor in the memory based on the VMB number; and locating the identified VMB in the memory or not in the memory based on the located VMB descriptor.

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and systems, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, manage an address space. In some implementations, a method includes managing an allocation data structure for a memory, wherein the allocation data structure indicates groupings of memory space, each of the groupings having a different associated integer, and each of the groupings serving memory space in portions equal to a unit of memory space allocation times the associated integer for that grouping; receiving a request for allocation within the memory, wherein the request has an associated number of the unit of memory space allocation; and selecting one of the groupings from which to serve the request for allocation within the memory based on the associated number in comparison with values obtained using the different associated integers as an exponent.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for managing metadata for pools of storage disks, are described. In some implementations, a system includes a processor, a memory and a storage system. The storage system contains a storage pool including multiple storage devices. Further, the storage system is configured to store in persistent storage associated with the storage pool a bitmap that is configured to indicate whether metadata blocks corresponding to one or more virtual volumes associated with the storage pool are free or occupied. In addition, the processor is configured to perform operations including accessing at least portions of the bitmap, and managing, based on information from the accessed portions, at least some of the metadata blocks stored in the persistent storage.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with managing memory are described. According to one embodiment, an apparatus includes a converter that dynamically converts a structure of a data representation stored in a memory, where the structure is selectively converted between a sparse format and a non-sparse format.

Abstract: Systems and techniques relating to network file systems are described. A described technique includes associating with a process that exports a network file system, where the process manages the network file system, associating with one or more peers that use the network file system, where the one or more peers cache data associated with the network file system on one or more non-volatile memory structures, receiving a file system request to read or write at least a portion of a file that is associated with the network file system, and processing the file system request by selectively communicating with the one or more peers to retrieve cached data associated with the file when the file system request indicates a read or inform the one or more peers of a write to the file when the file system request indicates a write.

Abstract: A substation instrument control system is disclosed. The substation instrument control system includes a plurality of transformers that generate a plurality of waveform signals representing electric properties of a substation instrument main body. A merging unit is communicatively coupled to the plurality of transformers and includes a signal processing unit and a control unit. The signal processing unit receives the plurality of waveform signals from the plurality of transformers and converts the plurality of waveform signals to a digital signal. The control unit controls operation of the signal processing unit using a setting data. An intelligent electronic device is communicatively coupled to the merging unit and receives the digital signal from the merging unit.