Abstract: A process for locating underground markers, including: transmitting signals through the ground between markers in the ground; and determining locations of the markers based on the transmitted signals.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes a substrate, a first stacked body, a columnar part, a second insulating film, and a second stacked body. The first stacked body is provided in a first region on the substrate. The second insulating film is provided in a second region on the substrate, and has a first thickness in a stacking direction of the first stacked body. The second stacked body is provided on the second insulating film. The second stacked body includes a first film and a third insulating film stacked alternately on one another. The uppermost first film in the first films of the second stacked body is located at a first distance in the stacking direction from the upper surface of the substrate. The first thickness is a thickness not less than 30 percent of the first distance.

Abstract: A double diffusion break (DDB) gate structure is provided by removing the vestigial antenna to provide a space and the space is filled, at least in part, with an interlevel dielectric (ILD) material. Removal of the vestigial antenna from the DDB gate structure will reduce the device capacitance and improve device performance, while enabling DDB in tight integration schemes.

Abstract: An energy conversion device comprises an apparatus and a method for employing energy from an electron- and, optionally, photon-containing energy wave that is induced in one or more aggregated molecular ensembles. Emission is stimulated from the ensembles by a wide variety of energy inputs, and energy derived from this electron and/or photon energy wave is useful for modulation of signals in circuits; performing chemical reduction reactions; and performing as an energy conversion device, e.g., as a photovoltaic energy converter. Although differing from a laser by virtue its production of, inter alia, a charge transfer rather than merely light, the device of the invention can be employed in virtually all of the same fields in which a laser is utilized.

Abstract: Provided is a solder transfer sheet which is capable of increasing the amount of solder to be transferred without the occurrence of bridging. A solder transfer sheet 1A includes a base material 5, an adhesive layer 4 formed on the surface of the base material 5, a solder powder-containing adhesive layer 3 formed on the surface of the adhesive layer 4, and a solder powder layer 2 formed on the surface of the solder powder-containing adhesive layer 3. In the solder powder layer 2, particles of solder powder 20 are arranged in a one-layer sheet form. In the solder powder-containing adhesive layer 3, solder powder 30 and an adhesive component 31 are mixed so as to have such a thickness that two or more layers of the solder powder 30 are stacked.

Abstract: The present invention provides transparent semiconducting films for constructing a translucent electrode that possess a high transparency and low sheet resistance. Further, the transparent semiconducting films have a high light diffusion property, which is capable to be a translucent front/back electrode in a light-emitting device for improving the light emission efficiency and a front/intermediate/back electrode in a multi-junction solar cell for improving the light trapping effect. Related fabrication method and how they are applied in different fields are also provided in the present invention.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display panel and a display device including the display panel. The display panel includes a display area and a peripheral area outside the display area. The display area is provided with OLEDs, first and second power lines. The peripheral area is provided with at least one driving chip. OLEDs are distributed in a matrix. First power lines extend in a first direction, second power lines extend in a second direction, and first power lines are intersected and connected with second power lines to form a grid structure electrically connected with anodes of OLEDs. The driving chip is electrically connected with the grid structure. The grid structure includes grids defined by first power lines being intersected with second power lines, and has a larger grid density at one position than that at another position closer to the driving chip.

Abstract: A robotic system validates brake bleeding by detecting one or more forces generated by a machine assembly acting to move a brake lever of a vehicle in order to open a valve of an air brake system of the vehicle. The system also detects displacement of the machine assembly as the machine assembly acts to move the brake lever, monitors one or more sounds generated one or more of during or after the machine assembly acts to move the brake lever, and determines that the brake lever has been moved to a position to open the valve of the air brake system to release the air brake system based on the one or more forces that are detected, the displacement that is detected, and/or the one or more sounds that are monitored.

Abstract: A display device includes: a substrate including a bending area located between a first region and a second region; an organic layer disposed over the substrate, an upper surface of the organic layer including an uneven surface in the bending area, the uneven surface including a plurality of protrusions; and a conductive layer extending from the first region to the second region across the bending area, the conductive layer being located over the organic layer and including a plurality of through holes.

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and systems are described for dynamically transforming scan data representing a container's loaded volume using a scanning sensor node mounted above storage space within the container. The scanning sensor node generally includes a memory, a depth sensor oriented above and towards the storage space, an identification scanner, and a communications interface to an external managing node. The identification scanner identifies an item being loaded into the storage space and the depth sensor responsively scans the storage space to generate the scan data. The scanning sensor node determines if the item is at least partially not visible to the depth sensor based upon the generated scan data and dynamically transforms the scan data into refined scan data based on this determination and upon material dimension data associated with the item.

Abstract: Provided are a substrate for an OED and a use thereof. The substrate may be applied to manufacture a flexible device exhibiting a suitable haze to have an excellent physical property such as transmittance, and also have excellent physical properties such as surface smoothness and refractive index when needed.

Abstract: A double diffusion break (DDB) gate structure is provided by removing the vestigial antenna to provide a space and the space is filled, at least in part, with an interlevel dielectric (ILD) material. Removal of the vestigial antenna from the DDB gate structure will reduce the device capacitance and improve device performance, while enabling DDB in tight integration schemes.

Abstract: By directing an ion beam with a beam divergence ? on a process surface of a semiconductor substrate, parallel electrode trenches are formed in the semiconductor substrate. A center axis of the directed ion beam is tilted to a normal to the process surface at a tilt angle ?, wherein at least one of the tilt angle ? and the beam divergence ? is not equal to zero. The semiconductor substrate is moved along a direction parallel to the process surface during formation of the electrode trenches. A conductive electrode is formed in the electrode trenches, wherein first sidewalls of the electrode trenches are tilted to the normal by a first slope angle ?1 with ?1 =(?+?/2) and second sidewalls are tilted to the normal by a second slope angle ?2 with ?2 =(???/2).

Abstract: The transistor includes a gate electrode, an insulating layer, a semiconductor layer, a source electrode, and a drain electrode on a substrate, in which the gate electrode is formed by using silver ?-ketocarboxylate denoted by General Formula (1) described below.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes a substrate, a display element disposed on the substrate, a first inorganic film layer disposed on the display element, a first organic film layer disposed on the first inorganic film layer, a second organic film layer disposed on the first organic film layer and including a wrinkled upper surface, and a second inorganic film layer disposed on the second organic film layer and including a shape corresponding to the wrinkled upper surface of the second organic film layer.

Abstract: An exemplary embodiment of the present specification provides an organic electroluminescence device including: an anode; a cathode; a light emitting layer provided between the anode and the cathode; and an electron transporting layer provided between the cathode and the light emitting layer, in which the electron transporting layer includes a first electron transporting material and a second electron transporting material, the first electron transporting material is an organic material including a monocyclic or polycyclic ring which includes an N-containing six-membered ring, the second electron transporting material is an organic material including a five-membered hetero ring which includes at least one heteroatom of N, O, and S, or a cyano group, and a dipole moment of the second electron transporting material is larger than a dipole moment of the first electron transporting material.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a screen-printing mask for packaging organic light-emitting diode (OLED) products. The screen-printing mask includes a screen and a masking layer on the screen, the screen including a plurality of grids, and the masking layer including a plurality of blocking regions and a plurality of opening regions, the blocking regions being filled with a first blocking material, the opening regions corresponding to regions of an OLED substrate to be filled with a packaging material. In the opening regions, a first portion of the grids is exposed and a second portion of the grids is filled with a second blocking material, the first portion being a substantial portion of the grids.

Abstract: A method of synthesis of two-dimensional (2D) nanoflakes comprises the cutting of prefabricated nanoparticles. The method allows high control over the shape, size and composition of the 2D nanoflakes, and can be used to produce material with uniform properties in large quantities. Van der Waals heterostructure devices are prepared by fabricating nanoparticles, chemically cutting the nanoparticles to form nanoflakes, dispersing the nanoflakes in a solvent to form an ink, and depositing the ink to form a thin film.

Abstract: A semiconductor rectifying device includes a substrate of a first conductivity type, an epitaxial layer of the first conductivity type, a filling structure, an upper electrode, a guard ring, and a guard layer. The epitaxial layer defines a plurality of trenches thereon. The filling structure includes an insulating material formed on the inner surface of the trench and a conductive material filled in the trench. A doped region of a second conductivity type is formed in the surface of the epitaxial layer between the filling structures. A method of manufacturing a semiconductor rectifying device includes forming an epitaxial layer of a first conductivity type on a substrate of the first conductivity type, defining a plurality of trenches on the epitaxial layer, forming a plurality of filling structures in the plurality of trenches, and forming a doped region in the epitaxial layer between the filling structures.

Abstract: A flexible display substrate and a flexible display apparatus are provided. The flexible display substrate has a display region including a plurality of pixel units and a peripheral region adjacent to the display region. The flexible display substrate includes a substrate and at least one conductive wire disposed on the substrate, each conductive wire includes at least two first conductive portions and at least one second conductive portion, and two adjacent first conductive portions are electrically connected through the second conductive portion. The Young's modulus of the first conductive portions is greater than that of the second conductive portion, and the resistivity of the first conductive portions is less than that of the second conductive portion.