Abstract: A vertical semiconductor component for generating an abrupt end point detection signal. The vertical semiconductor component includes: a semiconductor substrate which has a front face and a rear face, the front face being opposite the rear face, and the semiconductor substrate having first chemical elements; a buffer layer which is arranged on the front face of the semiconductor substrate, the buffer layer having second chemical elements; and a semiconductor contact layer which is arranged on the buffer layer, an active region of the vertical semiconductor component being arranged on the semiconductor contact layer. An etching control layer is arranged between the buffer layer and the semiconductor contact layer, the etching control layer having at least one third chemical element which differs from the first chemical elements and the second chemical elements.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a dye-sublimation paper for printing with a solution containing at least one dye-sublimation dye, comprising a base paper having a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface, characterised in that the first surface is a hornified surface, in that a further layer for binding and/or fixing the dye-sublimation dye is applied to the first surface, and in that the dye-sublimation paper has a roughness on the coated side of ?4.5 ?m, measured according to ISO 8791-4, and a grammage of ?30 g/m2, measured according to ISO 536, and to a method for the production thereof, and to a dye-sublimation paper obtainable by this method.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a vertical field effect transistor structure and to a corresponding vertical field effect transistor structure. The vertical field effect transistor structure is provided with a semiconductor body having first and second connecting zones of a first conductivity type, a channel zone of the first or second conductivity type between the first and second connecting zone, a plurality of trenches extending into the semiconductor body, reaching into the first connecting zone from the second connecting zone through the channel zone and forming fins of the channel zone and the second connecting zone, a control electrode arranged in the trenches, the electrode being arranged adjacent to the channel zone and insulated from the semiconductor body, and a breakdown current path connected between the first and second connecting zones and parallel to the channel zone, the current path having least one p-n junction.

Abstract: A spectrometer apparatus is disclosed that includes at least one light source for irradiating a sample with light, an optical detection device for detecting light scattered by the sample, at least one optical filter device, which is arranged in front of and/or behind the sample, a contact sensor device for determining a contact between the sample and the spectrometer apparatus and for outputting a corresponding output signal, a control device for controlling the light source and the detection device in response to the output signal. The control device is designed such that the control device modifies at least one operating parameter of the light source and the detection device, when the output signal indicates the contact between the sample and the spectrometer apparatus. A method for operating a spectrometer apparatus is disclosed as well.

Abstract: A semiconductor component designed as a vertical HEMT. The semiconductor component includes a substrate made of gallium nitride (GaN), a drift layer arranged thereon, and a heteroepitaxial structure which is arranged thereabove, is laterally contacted by source electrodes and is suitable for providing a conductive channel by forming a two-dimensional electron gas.

Abstract: A semiconductor component that is designed as a trench MISFET. The semiconductor component includes a substrate made of gallium nitride (GaN), a drift layer situated thereon, a barrier layer, and a source region situated thereabove. The source region includes a gate trench that extends from the source region into the underlying barrier layer.

Abstract: A power tool having multiple wireless communication states and a method of wirelessly communicating by a power tool. The power tool includes a motor, a battery pack interface that selectively receives a battery pack, a backup power source, and a wireless communication controller coupled to the backup power source and the battery pack interface. The wireless communication controller operates in a connectable state when coupled to a battery pack and transmits tool operational data to the external device and receives tool configuration data from the external device. The wireless communication controller operates in an advertisement state when the wireless communication controller is coupled to and powered by the backup power source. In the advertisement state, the wireless communication controller is configured to transmit the unique tool identifier. The external device may also display an indication of the communication state of the power tool.

Abstract: Systems and computer-implemented methods are provided for identifying a template data structure for a medical report based on a medical image data set. The computer-implemented method includes: receiving a medical image data set of a patient; generating a representation of the medical image data set for display via a user interface; providing the representation for displaying to the user via the user interface; receiving, via the user interface, input directed to a medical finding visible in the representation; predicting a finding type of the medical finding based on the input; performing a lookup operation in a database to identify a template data structure for a medical report corresponding to the predicted finding type; and providing the template data structure.

Abstract: Disclosed is an assembly for granulating polymer material, having a housing; a gas feed conduit having a rectangular cross-section and leading into the housing; a gas discharge conduit located downstream of the housing and having a rectangular cross-section; a granulating unit disposed in the housing and having a perforated plate feeding into the housing and a scraper, which comminutes the material emerging through openings of the perforated plate. In a plane running parallel to the plane of the perforated plate, the two lateral wall faces of the gas discharge conduit arranged perpendicularly to said plane enclose an angle ?2 with one another, and the two lateral wall faces of the gas feed conduit arranged perpendicularly to said plane or plane of section enclose an angle ?1, the two angles ?1 and ?2 being open towards the housing, and the angle ?1 being larger than the angle ?2.

Abstract: Push actuated double fluid dispenser (1), comprising a container (2) having a first cavity (4a) and a second cavity (4b) separated from the cap first cavity (4a), and a dispensing pump device (6) in a general form of a cap assembled to the container over the first and second cavities, the dispensing pump device comprising a base part (7) and a cap part (8) including a pump mechanism (16) comprising an elastic flexible pump membrane (18) manually movable from an uncompressed state to a compressed state.

Abstract: A drug delivery device (1), comprising a delivery unit (3) including a drug container (6), a liquid flow system (7), a pumping system (8), and a casing (9) enclosing therein the drug container, the pumping system and at least a part of the liquid flow system, the drug container comprising a barrel portion (6a) and a plunger (12) slidably mounted within the barrel portion and sealing the drug (78) within the container at one end of the barrel portion, the liquid flow system (7) connected fluidically to the drug container during delivery of the liquid drug.

Abstract: Drug delivery device (1) comprising a delivery unit (3) including a drug container (6) comprising a barrel portion (6a) and a plunger (12) slidably mounted within the barrel portion and sealing against an inner surface of the barrel portion (6a) for containing a liquid drug (78) within the drug container; an electronic control system (47) and a plunger sensing system (70) including an optical sensor (71) comprising a transmitter (71a) and a receiver (71b), the transmitter configured for transmitting an optical signal to a back end (73) of the plunger (12) and the receiver configured to receive the optical signal reflected off the plunger back end (73), the plunger sensing system connected to the electronic control system (47) configured to measure a time of flight of the optical signal from the transmitter to the receiver and to determine therefrom a position of the plunger within the cylinder portion of the drug container.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to an interferometer element for use in a spectrometer which includes a micromechanical Fabry-Perot filter element, which has at least a first mirror element, a second mirror element, and a third mirror element. Each of the first mirror element, the second mirror element, and the third mirror element are arranged in series in an optical path of the interferometer element, and at least one of a first distance between the first and second mirror elements, and a second distance between the second and third mirror elements is modifiable.

Abstract: A magnetic-field (MF) sensor, including: a chip having first, second and third MF measuring-elements (ME) to output first, second and third MF signals, amplitudes of which are proportional to a MF emanating from a rotating-object (RO), in which directions of the normal vectors of the MF MEs are linearly independent; a signal acquisition unit to determine first/second differential-signals (DS), in which the first DS is based on a difference between the MF signals of the first and second MF MEs, and in which the second DS is based on a difference between the MF signals of the first/third MF MEs, and in which the signal acquisition unit is configured to determine a combined signal from the MF signal of the first MF ME and the first/second DS; and an evaluation unit to generate an output signal, which contains a speed and direction of motion of the RO.

Abstract: A micromechanical mirror device, a mirror system, and a method for producing a micromechanical mirror device are disclosed. The mirror device comprises a first mirror element, which is flat, and a second mirror element, which is flat. The first and second mirror elements are arranged substantially plane-parallel. An intermediate space between the first and second mirror elements has a lower index of refraction than one or both of the first mirror element and second mirror element. The first and second mirror elements are locally spaced apart from each other by at least one support structure. The support structure overlaps with the first and second mirror elements in an axial direction, which is perpendicular to the first and second mirror elements. The support structure includes a material that is different from a material from which one or both of the first and second mirror elements are formed.

Abstract: A fastening arrangement of an energy store on a floor of a body for a motor vehicle is provided. The energy store is fastened to the floor of the body, wherein the floor has a central tunnel in which at least a partial region of an exhaust gas system for the motor vehicle runs. A respective storage device of the energy store is arranged on each side of the central tunnel and of the exhaust gas system in the transverse direction of the vehicle. The respective storage device of the energy store is fastened to the floor by means of at least one respective fixing device in such a manner that, as a result of an accident-induced application of force running in the transverse direction of the vehicle, the fastening of at least one of the storage devices is releasable in a targeted manner and the at least one storage device is thereby shiftable inwards in the transverse direction of the vehicle relative to the floor.

Abstract: A clutch device for a gearbox of a utility vehicle, including: a clutch actuator; a sensor for detecting a position of the clutch actuator; and a sensor stop having a stop surface, which defines a predetermined position of the sensor in a distance direction to the clutch actuator; in which the sensor is holdable via an elastic element in a distance direction in a positionally fixed relationship with the sensor stop.

Abstract: A spectrometer device includes a Fabry-Perot interferometer unit, which comprises a first carrier substrate, wherein the first carrier substrate is arranged on a lower side of the Fabry-Perot interferometer unit and includes an optical aperture. The spectrometer includes at least one of a first substrate, which is arranged on an upper side of the Fabry-Perot interferometer unit, which faces away from the lower side, and a second substrate with the first carrier substrate arranged with the lower side on the second substrate. The spectrometer further includes a photodetector device arranged on or in the at least one of the second substrate and the first substrate. A first electrical connection region of the photodetector device and a second electrical connection region of the Fabry-Perot interferometer unit are electrically contacted from the same direction.

Abstract: A vertical field-effect transistor. The vertical field-effect transistor has: A first semiconductor layer, which has a p-type conductivity, on or over a drift region; a groove structure which penetrates the first semiconductor layer vertically, the groove structure having at least one side wall on which a field-effect transistor (FET)-channel region is formed, the FET-channel region having a III-V-heterostructure for forming a two-dimensional electron gas at an interface of the III-V-heterostructure; a source-drain electrode which is electroconductively connected to the III-V-heterostructure; and a contact structure at least partially on or over the drift region, which forms a Schottky- or hetero-contact at least with the drift region, the contact structure being electroconductively connected to the source-drain electrode, and at least the region lying vertically between the contact structure and the drift region being free of the first semiconductor layer.

Abstract: A sensor arrangement detects an angle of an actuator which is rotationally arranged on a support. The arrangement includes a first sensor element and a second sensor element. The first sensor element can be coupled to the actuator in order carry out a movement with respect to the support in accordance with a rotation of the actuator. The second sensor element can be rotationally fixed on the support and can be coupled to the first sensor element in order to produce, when rotating the actuator and a thus resulting movement between the first sensor element and the second sensor element, a sensor signal which is dependent on the rotation carried out by the actuator.