Abstract: Described herein is a diffusion-based ex-situ group V element doping method in the CdCl2 heat-treated polycrystalline CdTe film. The ex-situ doping using group V halides, such as PCl3, AsCl3, SbCl3, or BiCl3, demonstrated a promising PCE of ˜18% and long-term light soaking stability in CdSe/CdTe and CdS/CdTe devices with decent carrier concentration>1015 cm?3. This ex-situ solution or vapor process can provide a low-cost alternative pathway for effective doping of As, as well as P, Sb, and Bi, in CdTe solar cells with limited deviation from the current CdTe manufacturing process.

Abstract: A two-by-two array consists of four pixels. Each pixel comprises one light-sensing transistor and one reading transistor. Both the light sensing transistor and the reading transistor are formed above a same P-type semiconductor substrate, and have a composite dielectric gate structure. The substrates of the four reading transistors are connected to form a regular octagonal ring structure located in the center of the array. On four sides of the regular octagonal ring structure, four heavily-doped N+ regions are formed on the substrates not covered with the composite dielectric gate, of which every two regions are opposite to each other and form right angles, wherein two opposite heavily-doped N+ regions are connected to form a shared N+ source, and the other two are connected to form a shared N+ drain.

Abstract: A system receives a source database language statement according to a first dialect, determines a pattern of the source database language statement, the pattern comprising an abstract representation of the source database language statement, and checks whether the determined pattern is present in a cache of translations between patterns according to the first dialect and corresponding patterns according to a second dialect different from the first dialect. In response to the determined pattern being present in the cache of translations, the system converts, using a corresponding translation in the cache of translations, the source database language statement according to the first dialect to a respective target database language statement according to the second dialect.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a laser-annealing method for fabricating large-grain perovskite films for perovskite solar cells based on optimal conditions including laser wavelength, scanning speed and laser power. Compared with the conventional technology, the present laser-annealing method provides the laser-annealed perovskite films with better crystallinity and larger grains thereby improving the photovoltaic performance of the perovskite solar cells.

Abstract: A metal-insulator-semiconductor-insulator-metal (MISIM) device includes a semiconductor layer, an insulating layer disposed over an upper surface of the semiconductor layer, a back electrode disposed over a lower surface of the semiconductor layer opposing the upper surface, and first and second electrodes disposed over the insulating layer and spaced-apart from each other.

Abstract: A method for authenticating an electrosurgical system accessory comprising initiating a surgical procedure through a user interface on an electrosurgical generator, automatically determining whether an electrosurgical accessory is plugged into a generator receptacle, activating an RFID reader connected to the generator in response to a determination that an accessory is plugged into a receptacle, transmitting through the RFID reader to an RFID tag in the accessory a privacy password, transmitting a unit identification code from the RFID tag to the generator, displaying a device type associated with the transmitted unit identification code, checking a status of the accessory, unlocking a tag memory management if the read status code indicates the accessory has not previously been used, reading encoded data from the tag memory, computing a device authentication code from tag memory encoded data, transmitting the computed authentication code to the tag, and enabling the accessory in response to a match.

Abstract: An application of a profiled fiber in an infrared radiation material and a textile, wherein a cross-sectional shape of the profiled fiber is polygonal, trefoil, quatrefoil, cross-shaped, double-cross shaped, I-shaped, epsilon-shaped, C-shaped, V-shaped, or hollow. The profiled fiber can be directly used as an infrared material having a high property and has a stable and persistent infrared function without adding an infrared additive.

Abstract: An approach for accessing one or more resources at a virtualized desktop infrastructure (VDI) client running on a client device by a remote virtual machine (VM) is provided. The method includes intercepting, via a VDI agent, a request to access one or more resources at the client device, transferring the request from the remote VM to the client device via a network redirector protocol, and filtering the request to determine if the request complies with one or more rules. For a first resource of the one or more resources, if the request does not comply with any one of one or more first rules of the one or more rules, access to the first resource is denied. If the request complies with the one or more first rules, access to the first resource is granted and a response is sent to the VDI agent via the network redirector protocol.

Abstract: Ultrasonic sonothrombolysis systems to produce two acoustic pressure levels of insonation during stroke therapy, mid/high acoustic pressure insonation directed to the site of a blood clot where microbubbles are present to induce microbubble-mediated blood clot lysis, and low acoustic insonation directed to the region surrounding the site of the blood clot where microbubbles are present to stimulate microvascular reperfusion of the surrounding tissue. The systems simultaneously produce blood clot lysis at the site of an occlusion and stimulate reperfusion of tissue affected by the occlusion.

Abstract: An apparatus or device for performing cold atmospheric plasma procedures. The device or apparatus has a housing, a chamber within the housing, an entry port to the chamber, a plurality of exit ports from the chamber, and a plurality of electrodes mounted in the housing, each of the plurality of electrodes having a distal end adjacent one of the plurality of exit ports. The entry port, chamber, exit ports and plurality of electrodes are configured to provide for an inert gas flowing in the entry port and through the chamber to the exit port to become plasmatized by electrical energy applied to the plurality of electrodes to form a cold plasma flowing from the exit ports.

Abstract: An approach for accessing one or more resources at a virtualized desktop infrastructure (VDI) client running on a client device by a remote virtual machine (VM) is provided. The method includes intercepting, via a VDI agent, a request to access one or more resources at the client device, transferring the request from the remote VM to the client device via a network redirector protocol, and filtering the request to determine if the request complies with one or more rules. For a first resource of the one or more resources, if the request does not comply with any one of one or more first rules of the one or more rules, access to the first resource is denied. If the request complies with the one or more first rules, access to the first resource is granted and a response is sent to the VDI agent via the network redirector protocol.

Abstract: A photosensitive detection unit has a composite dielectric gate MOS-C portion and a composite dielectric gate MOSFET portion. The two portions are formed above a same P-type semiconductor substrate, and share a charge coupled layer. A plurality of the photosensitive detection units are arranged on a same P-type semiconductor substrate in form of an array to obtain a detector. Adjacent unit pixels in the detector are isolated by deep trench isolation regions and P+-type injection regions below the isolation regions. During the detection, the P-type semiconductor substrate in the composite dielectric gate MOS-C portion senses light and then couples photoelectrons to the charge coupled layer, and photoelectronic signals are read by the composite dielectric gate MOSFET portion.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a suspension of gas-filled microvesicles by reconstituting a freeze-dried product and a suspension obtained according to said method, where the freeze-dried product has been subjected to a thermal treatment.

Abstract: A method for authenticating an electrosurgical system accessory comprising initiating a surgical procedure through a user interface on an electrosurgical generator, automatically determining whether an electrosurgical accessory is plugged into a generator receptacle, activating an RFID reader connected to the generator in response to a determination that an accessory is plugged into a receptacle, transmitting through the RFID reader to an RFID tag in the accessory a privacy password, transmitting a unit identification code from the RFID tag to the generator, displaying a device type associated with the transmitted unit identification code, checking a status of the accessory, unlocking a tag memory management if the read status code indicates the accessory has not previously been used, reading encoded data from the tag memory, computing a device authentication code from tag memory encoded data, transmitting the computed authentication code to the tag, and enabling the accessory in response to a match.

Abstract: A two-by-two array consists of four pixels. Each pixel comprises one light-sensing transistor and one reading transistor. Both the light sensing transistor and the reading transistor are formed above a same P-type semiconductor substrate, and have a composite dielectric gate structure. The substrates of the four reading transistors are connected to form a regular octagonal ring structure located in the center of the array. On four sides of the regular octagonal ring structure, four heavily-doped N+ regions are formed on the substrates not covered with the composite dielectric gate, of which every two regions are opposite to each other and form right angles, wherein two opposite heavily-doped N+ regions are connected to form a shared N+ source, and the other two are connected to form a shared N+ drain.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of semi-solid indirect squeeze casting for Mg-based composite material, which aims at improving the mechanical property of the cast by adding magnesium zinc yttrium quasicrystal of high hardness, high elastic modulus and excellent matrix binding property acting as the reinforcement into the magnesium alloy matrix and manufacturing the cast through smelting using a vacuum atmosphere smelting furnace, agitating with ultrasonic wave assisted vibration in the rotating impeller jet agitation furnace and indirect squeeze casting against the problem of poor wettability, easy agglomeration, inhomogeneous distribution between the reinforcement particles and the matrix materials and poor properties of the manufactured cast. The manufacturing method of the present invention has advanced technologies and detailed and accurate data.

Abstract: An apparatus or device for performing cold atmospheric plasma procedures. The device or apparatus has a housing, a chamber within the housing, an entry port to the chamber, a plurality of exit ports from the chamber, and a plurality of electrodes mounted in the housing, each of the plurality of electrodes having a distal end adjacent one of the plurality of exit ports.

Abstract: A photosensitive detector includes an array of detectin units, each detection unit having a light-sensing transistor (1), a charge storage transistor (2) and a reading transistor (3), or comprising a light-sensing transistor, a charge transfer transistor (4), a charge storage transistor and a reading transistor. The light-sensing transistor is configured to realize the light-sensing function of the photosensitive detector; the charge storage transistor is configured to store photogenerated charges; the reading transistor is configured to read a signal; and, the charge transfer transistor is configured to control the transfer of the photogenerated charges. The photosensitive detector can realize global shutter and fast reading, and is compatible with the existing floating gate CMOS process, and the failure of any pixel will not affect the normal operation of the whole imaging array.

Abstract: The present invention provides a detection device based on the shadow imaging of platelets and a method thereof. The method comprises following steps: optically projecting and/or photographing a blood sample to be detected directly by an image sensor chip having a submicron pixel size and a megapixel scale, the blood sample being injected into a sample chamber of a microfluidic chip fixed to the surface of the image sensor chip; and then, identifying and counting imaging results by an image processing algorithm when the physical pixel size, in the imaging results, occupied by abnormally-sized platelets in the blood sample is significantly greater than the physical pixel size occupied by normally-sized platelets, so as to obtain the number and proportion of the abnormally-sized platelets.

Abstract: A server offloads one or more tasks to a first media gateway. The server receives, from the first media gateway that is receiving a video stream of a television channel, a first message that indicates that the first media gateway is eligible to process a request for media content of the television channel that otherwise would be processed by the server. The server receives, from a second media gateway, a request for media content of the television channel. The server transmits, to the second media gateway, a redirection response that instructs the second media gateway to request the media content from the first media gateway.