Abstract: A heater for heating a consumable including a solid aerosol generating substrate includes a base; and a heating element attached to a support surface of the base, wherein the heating element includes a moulding surface configured to deform and heat the aerosol generating substrate. An aerosol generation device includes a substrate storage chamber configured to receive a consumable including a solid aerosol generating substrate, the substrate storage chamber including the aforementioned heater arranged on a surface of the substrate storage chamber with the support surface facing into the substrate storage chamber.

Abstract: An aerosol generating device for heating an aerosol generating article to generate an aerosol for inhalation by a user includes an induction coil and a heating compartment arranged to receive an aerosol generating article. The device further includes a projecting element which projects into the heating compartment so that at least part of the projecting element is positioned inside an aerosol generating article received in the heating compartment, and at least part of the projecting element is inductively heatable in the presence of a time varying electromagnetic field.

Abstract: An aerosol generation article for an aerosol generation device has a distal end, which is first inserted into a cavity of the aerosol generation device, and a mouth end downstream of the distal end, The aerosol generation article includes: an aerosol generation substrate; a wrapper; an air inlet at the distal end and an air outlet at the mouth end; and a self-sealing airflow barrier; wherein the self-sealing airflow barrier includes an orientation means.

Abstract: A vapour generating device has a chamber in which strain gauges are arranged to measure a strain generated by a vapour generating material received in the chamber. The strain gauges 4 are arranged on a sidewall of the chamber. A controller determines an operation based on the measured strain; operations include selecting heating profiles to be applied to the vapour generating material, adjusting the retention to draw, and preventing or allowing the device from operating with the vapour generating material.

Abstract: The invention relates to an aerosol generation system comprising an aerosol generation device having a heating element and a consumable for use with the aerosol generation device. The heat transfer element can be heated by the heating element of the aerosol generation device when the consumable is attached to the aerosol generation device. The heat transfer element is configured to be deformed when its temperature is at or above a threshold temperature, such that an area of contact, which exists between the heating element and the heat transfer element when the consumable is attached to the aerosol generation device and the temperature of the heat transfer element is below the threshold temperature, can be reduced, or eliminated.

Abstract: An aerosol generating device includes a heating chamber for receiving at least part of an aerosol generating substrate and a plurality of inductively heatable susceptors mounted in the heating chamber. The plurality of inductively heatable susceptors are electrically connected to each other, for example by at least one electrical connectors .

Abstract: An aerosol-generating device includes a vapor generation unit adapted to transform an aerosol forming material into vapor, and a vapor channel extending from the vapor generation unit to a vapor outlet of the aerosol-generating device. The vapor generation unit includes a micro electro-mechanical system (MEMS). The vapor channel is provided with a movable cover having a closed position in which it closes the vapor channel and an open position. The cover is adapted to move from the closed position to the open position under the effect of a suction applied on the aerosol-generating device by the user to vape. The cover has a lower face provided with a layer of an absorbent material adapted to imbibe the aerosol forming material. This protects the vaporisation device from any foreign particles and avoids liquid leakage.

Abstract: An aerosol-generating device includes a vapor generation unit and a reservoir configured to store an aerosolizable material. The aerosol-generation device further includes a printed circuit board and a heater fastened to the printed circuit board, the printed circuit board being disposed such that the aerosolizable material is in contact with the printed circuit board after it derives from the reservoir and before it arrives to the vapor generation unit.

Abstract: Technologies for a field effect transistor (FET) with a ferroelectric gate dielectric are disclosed. In an illustrative embodiment, a perovskite stack is grown on a buffer layer as part of manufacturing a transistor. The perovskite stack includes one or more doped semiconductor layers alternating with other lattice-matched layers, such as undoped semiconductor layers. Growing the doped semiconductor layers on lattice-matched layers can improve the quality of the doped semiconductor layers. The lattice-matched layers can be preferentially etched away, leaving the doped semiconductor layers as fins for a ribbon FET. In another embodiment, an interlayer can be deposited on top of a semiconductor layer, and a ferroelectric layer can be deposited on the interlayer. The interlayer can bridge a gap in lattice parameters between the semiconductor layer and the ferroelectric layer.

Abstract: Technologies for a transistor with a thin-film ferroelectric gate dielectric are disclosed. In the illustrative embodiment, a transistor has a thin layer of scandium aluminum nitride (ScxAl1-xN) ferroelectric gate dielectric. The channel of the transistor may be, e.g., gallium nitride or molybdenum disulfide. In one embodiment, the ferroelectric polarization changes when voltage is applied and removed from a gate electrode, facilitating switching of the transistor at a lower applied voltage. In another embodiment, the ferroelectric polarization of a gate dielectric of a transistor changes when the voltage is past a positive threshold value or a negative threshold value. Such a transistor can be used as a one-transistor memory cell.

Abstract: A vapour generating device includes an oven arranged to receive a substrate to be vapourized, an inlet, an outlet, an airflow passageway for providing a fluid connection between the inlet and the outlet via the oven through which generated vapour can flow from the oven to the outlet. A device controller and a humidity sensor for generating a measurement of a vapour produced by the substrate are provided. The controller is operable to control the operation of the device based on measurement data from the humidity sensor.

Abstract: An aerosol-generating device includes a vapor generation unit, at least one reservoir configured to store an aerosol forming material, and a filter disposed so as to remove particles from the aerosol forming material passing from the at least one reservoir to the vapor generation unit, the vapor generation unit including a micro electro-mechanical system (MEMS). The aerosol-generating device is configured to heat the filter so as to heat the aerosol forming material passing through it.

Abstract: In one embodiment, transistor device includes a first source or drain material on a substrate, a semiconductor material on the first source or drain material, a second source or drain material on the semiconductor material, a dielectric layer on the substrate and adjacent the first source or drain material, a ferroelectric (FE) material on the dielectric layer and adjacent the semiconductor material, and a gate material on or adjacent to the FE material. The FE material may be a perovskite material and may have a lattice parameter that is less than a lattice parameter of the semiconductor material.

Abstract: A transistor device may include a first perovskite gate material, a first perovskite ferroelectric material on the first gate material, a first perovskite semiconductor material on the first ferroelectric material, a second perovskite ferroelectric material on the first semiconductor material, a second perovskite gate material on the second ferroelectric material, a third perovskite ferroelectric material on the second gate material, a second perovskite semiconductor material on the third ferroelectric material, a fourth perovskite ferroelectric material on the second semiconductor material, a third perovskite gate material on the fourth ferroelectric material, a first source/drain metal adjacent a first side of each of the first semiconductor material and the second semiconductor material, a second source/drain metal adjacent a second side opposite the first side of each of the first semiconductor material and the second semiconductor material, and dielectric materials between the source/drain metals and the

Abstract: In one embodiment, a transistor device includes a gate material layer on a substrate, a ferroelectric (FE) material layer on the gate material, a semiconductor channel material layer on the FE material layer, a first source/drain material on the FE material layer and adjacent the semiconductor channel material layer, and a second source/drain material on the FE material layer and adjacent the semiconductor channel material layer and on an opposite side of the semiconductor channel material layer from the first source/drain material. A first portion of the FE material layer is directly between the gate material and the first source/drain material, and a second portion of the FE material layer is directly between the gate material and the second source/drain material.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a vapour generating product includes positioning non-liquid vapour generating material in a space defined by one or more walls configured to prevent movement of the vapour generating material by more than 2 mm in a direction perpendicular to an axial direction of the vapour generating material, the one or more walls extending substantially in the axial direction of the vapour generating material. The method further includes aligning an axis of a rigid insertor with the axial direction of the vapour generating material and inserting the rigid insertor into the vapour generating material from a first end of the vapour generating material. An apparatus for manufacturing a vapour generating product is also disclosed.

Abstract: A filter for a vapour generating article includes a filter body having: a first end arranged as a mouthpiece; a second end opposite the first end arranged for attachment to a vapour generating article; the filter further including a cavity located within the filter body between the first and second ends, the cavity configured to allow a fluid including water to flow through the filter body from the second end to the first end; wherein the cavity includes a filter portion arranged to filter the fluid as it flows through the filter body; and wherein the filter portion is arranged to remove at least some of the water from the fluid as it flows through the filter body.

Abstract: An induction heating assembly for a vapour generating device is provided, the induction heating assembly including: an outer wall; an induction heating coil arranged inward of the outer wall and extending along the outer wall; a heating compartment defined inward of the outer wall and having a base portion at a first end of the induction coil and having an opening opposite of the base portion and arranged to receive, in use, via the opening, an elongated member to be heated by induction heating; and at least one movable member arranged such as to move in the longitudinal direction of the induction heating coil when a current is flowing through the induction heating coil.

Abstract: A vapour generating includes a main body having a first end and a second end opposite the first end, the body arranged to contain a solid vapour generating material; a filter having a mouthpiece end and an attachment end opposite the mouthpiece end, the attachment end arranged to be attached to the first end of the main body; and an airflow passageway within the filter configured to allow a vapour to flow into the filter through the attachment end from the first end of the body and out of the filter through the mouthpiece end. The filter includes an adjuster configured to adjust the length of the airflow passageway.

Abstract: A vapour generating article includes a main body having a first end and a second end opposite the first end, the body arranged to contain a vapour generating material; a filter having a first end arranged as a mouthpiece portion and a second end opposite the first end arranged for attachment to the first end of the main body; an air inlet portion located at the second end of the filter. The air inlet portion includes at least one aperture to allow ambient air to enter the filter. The filter includes an adjuster configured to move relative to air inlet portion to adjust the cross-sectional area of the aperture to alter an airflow through the aperture. The second end of the filter is releasably attachable to the first end of the main body.