Abstract: A ceramic electronic component includes: a body including dielectric layers and internal electrodes; and external electrodes disposed on the body and connected to the internal electrodes, wherein the dielectric layer includes a plurality of dielectric crystal grains, and at least one of the plurality of dielectric crystal grains has a core-double shell structure, the double shell includes a first shell surrounding at least a portion of the core and a second shell surrounding at least a portion of the first shell, the first shell includes a first element, one or more of Sn, Sb, Ge, Si, Ga, In, or Zr, and the second shell includes a second element, one or more of Ca or Sr.

Abstract: A dielectric composition and a multilayer capacitor including the same are disclosed. The dielectric composition including: a BaTiO3-based main ingredient; a first auxiliary ingredient including rare earth elements; and a second auxiliary ingredient including at least one of Ba and Ca but essentially including Ba, wherein the rare earth elements include Tb and Dy, and the first auxiliary ingredient and the second auxiliary ingredient satisfy a molar content condition of 0.40<(Tb/T_RE)*(Ba+Ca)<0.93, where T_RE is a total molar content of the rare earth elements in the first auxiliary ingredient.

Abstract: A multilayer ceramic electronic component includes a body including a dielectric layer and an internal electrode, and an external electrode disposed on the exterior of the body. The dielectric layer includes a plurality of dielectric grains and a grain boundary present between the dielectric grains. A molar ratio (Al/Ti) of Al and Ti included in the grain boundary satisfies 0.022 to 0.028.

Abstract: A system includes a sampler, a receiver phase-locked loop circuit configured to provide one or more input clock signals, and a phase interpolation circuit coupled to the receiver phase-locked loop circuit and the sampler. The phase interpolation circuit further includes a first phase interpolator configured to generate a first recovered clock signal based on the one or more input clock signals and a first code, and a second phase interpolator configured to generate a second recovered clock signal based on the one or more input clock signals and a second code, wherein the second code has an interpolation code offset from the first code, wherein the interpolation code offset corresponds to a phase shift in the second recovered clock signal relative to the first recovered clock signal, wherein the outputs of the first phase interpolator and second phase interpolator are configured to be merged.

Abstract: A ceramic electronic component includes: a body including dielectric layers and internal electrodes; and external electrodes disposed on the body and connected to the internal electrodes, wherein the dielectric layer includes a plurality of first secondary phases, the first secondary phase is a secondary phase including Ni, Mg, Al, Si, and O, and at least one of the plurality of first secondary phases has a ratio of a major axis length to a minor axis length of 4 or more.

Abstract: Disclosed is a protective layer to protect a lithium metal negative electrode for a lithium secondary battery, in which the protective layer may inhibit formation of lithium dendrite and improve thermal/chemical stability, and conductivity of lithium ions. Further, disclosed are a production method of the protective layer, and a lithium secondary battery including the protectively layer. The protective layer contains a poly(arylene ether sulfone)-poly(ethylene glycol) graft copolymer represented by a following Chemical Formula 1: where, in the Chemical Formula 1, n is an integer of 60 to 80, and m is an integer of 40 to 45.

Abstract: An apparatus includes control logic coupled to a phase detector circuit and an adjustable delay circuit. The control logic is configured to obtain a state of a first phase of an output signal of a phase interpolator relative to a second phase of a reference signal, and adjust a delay of the reference signal until the second phase matches the first phase. The control logic is further configured to measure a total delay of the reference signal when the second phase matches the first phase, and determine integral non-linearity of the phase interpolator at the first code based on the total delay. The control logic may further calibrate a first code of a phase interpolator based, at least in part, on the integral non-linearity.

Abstract: A dielectric material includes a main component represented by (Ba1-xCax)(Ti1-y(Zr, Sn, Hf)y)O3 (0?x?1 and 0?y?0.5); a first subcomponent including at least one of elements among Y, Dy, Ho, Er, Gd, Ce, Nd, Nb, Sm, Tb, Eu, Tm, La, Lu, and Yb; a second subcomponent including Si and/or Al; and a third subcomponent including Ba and/or Ca.

Abstract: A ceramic electronic component includes: a body including dielectric layers and internal electrodes; and external electrodes disposed on the body and connected to the internal electrodes, wherein the dielectric layer includes a plurality of dielectric crystal grains, and at least one of the plurality of dielectric crystal grains has a core-double shell structure, the double shell includes a first shell surrounding at least a portion of the core and a second shell surrounding at least a portion of the first shell, the first shell includes a first element, one or more of Sn, Sb, Ge, Si, Ga, In, or Zr, and the second shell includes a second element, one or more of Ca or Sr.

Abstract: Disclosed is a protective layer to protect a lithium metal negative electrode for a lithium secondary battery, in which the protective layer may inhibit formation of lithium dendrite and improve thermal/chemical stability, and conductivity of lithium ions. Further, disclosed are a production method of the protective layer, and a lithium secondary battery including the protectively layer. The protective layer contains a poly(arylene ether sulfone)-poly(ethylene glycol) graft copolymer represented by a following Chemical Formula 1: where, in the Chemical Formula 1, n is an integer of 60 to 80, and m is an integer of 40 to 45.

Abstract: The present specification relates to a method for manufacturing a water-treatment membrane, a water-treatment membrane manufactured using the same, and a water-treatment module including the water-treatment membrane.

Abstract: The present specification relates to a method for manufacturing a water-treatment membrane, a water-treatment membrane manufactured using the same, and a water-treatment module including the water-treatment membrane.

Abstract: There are provided a composite perovskite powder, a preparation method thereof, and a paste composition for an internal electrode having the same, the composite perovskite powder capable of preventing ions from being eluted from an aqueous system at the time of synthesis while being ultra-atomized, such that when the composite perovskite powder is used as an inhibitor powder for an internal electrode, sintering properties of the internal electrode may be deteriorated, and sintering properties of a dielectric material may be increased; accordingly, connectivity of the internal electrode may be improved, and permittivity and reliability of a multilayer ceramic capacitor (MLCC) may be increased.

Abstract: Provided is a process for preparation of a highly permeable thin film composite membranes for nanofiltration, reverse osmosis, and forward osmosis, particularly for reverse osmosis of brackish water. The process includes treating a prepared TFC membrane containing a discrimination layer on a frontside, a support layer, and a felt layer on the backside by contacting the backside of TFC membrane with a solution containing a pore protection agent that includes a tertiary amine salt of camphorsulfonic acid prior to or at the same time as contacting the frontside of the membrane with a solution containing a coating agent and drying the membrane. Also provided are reverse osmosis membranes prepared in accord with the method, and modules containing the highly permeable thin film composite membranes.

Abstract: Provided are flux enhancing inclusion complexes for preparing highly permeable thin film composite membranes, and processes that include adding the flux enhancing inclusion complexes to the organic phase or aqueous phase prior to interfacial polymerization of the thin film composite membrane. The thin film composite membranes are suitable for nanofiltration, and reverse and forward osmosis. The provided processes can include contacting a porous support membrane with an aqueous phase containing a polyamine to form a coated support membrane, and applying an organic phase containing a polyfunctional acid halide and a flux enhancing inclusion complex to the coated support membrane to interfacially polymerize the polyamine and the polyfunctional acid halide to form a discrimination layer to form thin film composite membranes.

Abstract: Provided is a process for preparation of a highly permeable thin film composite membranes for nanofiltration, reverse osmosis, and forward osmosis, particularly for reverse osmosis of brackish water. The process includes treating a prepared TFC membrane containing a discrimination layer on a frontside, a support layer, and a felt layer on the backside by contacting the backside of TFC membrane with a solution containing a pore protection agent that includes a tertiary amine salt of camphorsulfonic acid prior to or at the same time as contacting the frontside of the membrane with a solution containing a coating agent and drying the membrane. Also provided are reverse osmosis membranes prepared in accord with the method, and modules containing the highly permeable thin film composite membranes.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for mitigating uplink interference in the wireless communication system, wherein the method comprises determining a loading-status value for each sector; if the loading-status value is not greater than the first threshold value, generating UL zone switch IE and UL allocation start IE to allocate data bursts of the sectors to different subchannels; and preparing an uplink map using the UL zone switch IE and UL allocation start IE for each sector, wherein the uplink duration indicates a duration where all the subchannels are used for allocation of the data burst.

Abstract: Provided are flux enhancing inclusion complexes for preparing highly permeable thin film composite membranes, and processes that include adding the flux enhancing inclusion complexes to the organic phase or aqueous phase prior to interfacial polymerization of the thin film composite membrane. The thin film composite membranes are suitable for nanofiltration, and reverse and forward osmosis. The provided processes can include contacting a porous support membrane with an aqueous phase containing a polyamine to form a coated support membrane, and applying an organic phase containing a polyfunctional acid halide and a flux enhancing inclusion complex to the coated support membrane to interfacially polymerize the polyamine and the polyfunctional acid halide to form a discrimination layer to form thin film composite membranes.

Abstract: There are provided a method of manufacturing perovskite powder, and perovskite powder and a multilayer ceramic electronic component manufactured thereof. The manufacturing method includes: washing metal oxide hydrate to remove impurities therefrom; adding pure water and an acid or a base to the metal oxide hydrate to prepare a metal oxide sol; mixing the metal oxide sol with a metal salt to form perovskite particle nuclei; and conducting grain growth of the perovskite particle nuclei by hydrothermal treatment to produce perovskite powder. The method of manufacturing perovskite powder and the perovskite powder manufactured by the same have advantages such as excellent crystallinity, reduced generation of fine powder, and favorable dispersion properties.

Abstract: There are provided a dielectric composition and a preparation method thereof, the dielectric composition including: a first perovskite powder for a core represented by ABO3: and a second perovskite powder for a shell represented by ABO3, having an average particle diameter corresponding to ? to 1/10 of an average particle diameter of the first perovskite powder, and included in an amount of 1 to 70 parts by weight with respect to 100 parts by weight of the first perovskite powder, wherein particles of the second perovskite powder have pores having a volume fraction of 3 to 50 vol % therein. According to the present invention, there are provided a dielectric composition having excellent dielectric characteristics and electrical characteristics, and a preparation method thereof.