Abstract: Provided is an optical fiber illuminator used for recording and reading high density optical information according to a near field recording (NFR) scheme, a method of fabricating the optical fiber illuminator, and an optical recording head and recording apparatus having the optical fiber illuminator. The optical fiber illuminator includes: an optical fiber having a core upon which light is incident and a clad that surrounds the core, one end of the optical fiber having a mirror formed in an inclined manner; and a lens formed on an outer surface of the optical fiber for focusing light reflected by the mirror. The optical fiber illuminator has an improved optical arrangement for optical illumination and detection, it is easy to manufacture, its optical input is easy to control, and it can be readily provided in an array form.

Abstract: Provided is an optical microscope system for detecting nanowires to allow for use of an existing optical microscope in fabricating an electronic device having the nanowires and including: a light source for emitting light to provide the light to a nanowire sample; a rotational polarizer provided on a path of the light emitted from the light source for polarizing the light; an optical microscope for detecting a nanowire image using light that is polarized by the rotational polarizer and incident on the nanowire sample; a CCD camera provided in a region of the optical microscope for photographing and storing the nanowire image detected by the optical microscope; and a data processor for performing Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) on the nanowire image stored in the CCD camera. Intensity of reflected light varies, due to optical anisotropy of the nanowires, along a polarizing orientation of light incident on the nanowires.

Abstract: Provided is an optical microscope system for detecting nanowires that is designed with a rotational polarizer and Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) to allow for use of an existing optical microscope in fabricating an electronic device having the nanowires. The optical microscope system includes: a light source for emitting light to provide the light to a nanowire sample; a rotational polarizer provided on a path of the light emitted from the light source for polarizing the light; an optical microscope for detecting a nanowire image using light that is polarized by the rotational polarizer and incident on the nanowire sample; a CCD camera provided in a region of the optical microscope for photographing and storing the nanowire image detected by the optical microscope; and a data processor for performing Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) on the nanowire image stored in the CCD camera.

Abstract: Provided is a form factor disk such as an optical or magnetic disk used in electronic appliances and information appliances. The form factor disk includes: a circular plate having a first hole for inserting a rotational shaft, a plurality of second holes formed adjacent to the first hole, and an information storage region formed at a surface thereof; an upper metal hub located on the circular plate, and having a hole aligned with the first hole of the circular plate and column-shaped joints formed at portions corresponding to the second holes of the circular plate; and a lower metal hub located under the circular plate, and having a hole aligned with the first hole of the circular plate and column-shaped joints formed at portions corresponding to the second holes of the circular plate, wherein the joints of the upper and lower metal hubs are jointed through the second holes.

Abstract: Provided is an apparatus and method of initializing a recording layer used in manufacturing a phase-change optical disk for storing information. The optical disk is initialized using a UV lamp in order to initialize the recording layer of the phase-change optical disk capable of repeatedly writing information, without a separate optical head, whereby it is possible to increase productivity by remarkably reducing an initialization time of the optical disk since a large area is initialized using a UV beam.

Abstract: A photoactive aromatic polymer having high fluorescence, including an aromatic compound as a backbone, through the polymerization of aromatic polycyclic monomers and a photoactive aromatic polymer having high conductivity and fluorescence even in a state in which the photoactive aromatic polymer is formed into a thin film.

Abstract: Provided is an optical fiber illuminator used for recording and reading high density optical information according to a near field recording (NFR) scheme, a method of fabricating the optical fiber illuminator, and an optical recording head and recording apparatus having the optical fiber illuminator. The optical fiber illuminator includes: an optical fiber having a core upon which light is incident and a clad that surrounds the core, one end of the optical fiber having a mirror formed in an inclined manner; and a lens formed on an outer surface of the optical fiber for focusing light reflected by the mirror. The optical fiber illuminator has an improved optical arrangement for optical illumination and detection, it is easy to manufacture, its optical input is easy to control, and it can be readily provided in an array form.

Abstract: A flash memory device may include a memory cell array including a plurality of memory blocks and a partition information block, the partition information block storing partition information that indicates a boundary between multi-bit memory blocks and single-bit memory blocks among the memory blocks. The memory device may include a control logic configured to determining whether a memory block that a block address from the outside indicates has a multi-bit form or a single-bit form based on the partition information and to control program and read operations in a multi-bit form or a single-bit form based on a determination result. The control logic automatically programs data in the partition information block according to whether a fuse connected to the control logic fuse is cut or not, the data being used for preventing the partition information block from being programmed or erased.

Abstract: Provided are an apparatus for collecting environmental data and a method of monitoring an environment in real time. The apparatus for collecting environmental data includes a receiver for receiving an environmental data collection command from outside, a headset controller for interpreting the environmental data collection command received from the receiver, and distinguishing an audio signal received from outside from the environmental data collection command, the environment sensor unit for collecting environmental data according to the environmental data collection command interpreted from the headset controller, and a transmitter for transmitting the environmental data collected by the environment sensor unit.

Abstract: Provided is a method of fabricating a nano-wire array, including the steps of: depositing a nano-wire solution, which contains nano-wires, on a substrate; forming a first etch region in a stripe shape on the substrate and then patterning the nano-wires; forming drain and source electrode lines parallel to each other with the patterned nano-wires interposed therebetween; forming a plurality of drain electrodes which have one end connected to the drain electrode line and contact at least one of the nano-wires, and forming a plurality of source electrodes, which have one end connected to the source electrode line and contact the nano-wires that contact the drain electrodes; forming a second etch region between pairs of the drain and source electrodes so as to prevent electrical contacts between the pairs of the drain and source electrodes; forming an insulating layer on the substrate; and forming a gate electrode between the drain and source electrodes contacting the nano-wires on the insulating layer.

Abstract: Provided is a method of fabricating a near-field optical probe adapted to a near-field scanning optical microscopy and a near-field information storage device, in which a cantilever and an optical tip are provided in one body and the optical tip is arranged to face the upper portion of the substrate. High-concentrated boron ions are implanted into an uppermost silicon layer of a silicon on insulator (SOI) substrate, and a silicon layer into which boron ions are implanted while the silicon inside the tip is etched to form the hole to act as an etch stop layer, thereby easily removing the silicon inside the tip even with the cantilever exposed, and simplifying the process due to the simultaneous fabrication of the cantilever and the tip.

Abstract: A method of fabricating an electronic device using nanowires, minimizing the number of E-beam processing steps and thus improving a yield, includes the steps of: forming electrodes on a substrate; depositing a plurality of nanowires on the substrate including the electrodes; capturing an image of the substrate including the nanowires and the electrodes; drawing virtual connection lines for connecting the nanowires with the electrodes on the image using an electrode pattern simulated through a computer program, after capturing the image; coating an E-beam photoresist on the substrate; removing the photoresist from regions corresponding to the virtual connection lines and the electrode pattern using E-beam lithography; depositing a metal layer on the substrate after removing the photoresist from the regions of the virtual connection lines; and removing remaining photoresist from the substrate using a lift-off process.

Abstract: An electrochemical gas sensor and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The electrochemical gas sensor includes: a substrate; an electrode patterned on the substrate; a solid electrolyte layer having proton conductivity formed on the substrate having the patterned electrode; and a hydrophobic microporous membrane formed on the solid electrolyte layer. The gas sensor chip is easily integrated with a driving circuit and uses a solid electrolyte layer, and thus it can be manufactured in a smaller size and in a large area process.

Abstract: Obesity is a worldwide health issue, affecting children and adults in developed and developing countries. Obesity is a disorder of both energy metabolism and appetite regulation, and may be understood as a dysfunction of energy balance. Applicants have found a means for regulating food intake by a subject by administering a compound to the subject which affects neuronal energy balance. Applicants have found a means for regulating food intake by a subject administering a compound to the subject which targets the activity of AMPK, in particular inhibiting activation, in particular hypothalamic. Applicants have also found a method of inducing weight loss in a subject by decreasing the subjects appetite by administering a compound to the subject which increases the subject's neuronal energy balance.

Abstract: Disclosed is a semiconductor memory device including pluralities of memory blocks each of which is segmented into main and spare regions, and a block information storing region storing block information of the memory blocks.

Abstract: Provided are a hub for chucking an optical disk to a disk table of a recording/reproducing apparatus using a magnetic attraction force, and a small form factor optical disk for information storage including the hub. The hub is made of a magnetic metal-polymer composite material. The optical disk includes: a disk plate having a central through-hole and a recess, lower than an edge, formed around the through-hole; and a hub made of a magnetic metal-polymer composite material and inserted into the through-hole to be coupled to the disk plate.

Abstract: An apparatus capable of tracking a sample surface level in a z direction and oscillating a cantilever at resonant frequency by using a frequency separation scheme in non-contact mode and method thereof. The inventive apparatus includes a sensing unit for sensing a sample surface; a frequency transforming unit for transforming the sensed signal; a frequency combining unit for combining signals; and an actuating unit for actuating the sensing unit.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a nanocapsule composition and its toner composition for thermosensitive rewritable recording media, more particularly to a core/shell-type nanocapsule composition for thermosensitive rewritable recording media, which has fine capsule of a few nanometers in size and superior recording property and heat stability, a preparation method thereof and its toner composition for thermosensitive rewritable recording media. The toner composition according to the present invention is suitable for high-resolution electrostatic image toner, paper and film. Also, it enables reuse of recording media because the recording is erased when the media (e.g.: paper and OHP film) is heated to a high temperature.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for inputting emoticons on a mobile terminal, including assigning symbols, which are commonly used to form emoticons to predetermined keys and storing the symbols in a memory of the mobile terminal; displaying symbols assigned to a key pressed by a user; and inputting a symbol selected by the user from the displayed symbols. Preferably, the assigning step should include classifying the symbols into a predetermined number of groups to correspond to a predetermined number of parts of a human face, and setting keys for selecting the respective groups of symbols. The method enables the user to rapidly input desired emoticons on the mobile terminal.

Abstract: Novel photochromic diarylethenes substituted with an isoxazole group and the method of preparation are disclosed. Also disclosed are compositions made with the photochromic diarylethenes. The preparation of thin films with the photochromic diarylethenes or compositions thereof are disclosed. The photochromic diarylethenes or compositions thereof may be used, for example in recording materials, photochromic windows, indicating elements, plastic mirrors, photochromic filters, photo switches, photosensitive drums, recording elements, solar cells, lens, fibers and optical elements.