Abstract: A motor assembly and a motor rotor are provided. The motor rotor includes a mandrel, a carrier, a plurality of iron cores, and a plurality of magnets. The outer edge of the carrier has a plurality of protrusions that are spaced apart from each other. A setting groove is formed between any two of the protrusions adjacent to each other. The iron cores are respectively fixed on the setting grooves. Each of the iron cores does not contact each other, so that an accommodating space is formed between any two of the iron cores adjacent to each other. One of two ends of each of the iron cores has a convex portion, so that each of the iron cores is connected to the corresponding setting groove through the convex portion thereof. The magnets are respectively disposed in the accommodating spaces.

Abstract: A motor device with a coil heat dissipation structure is provided. The motor device includes a motor, a plurality of coils, and a plurality of thermal conduction glues. The motor includes a rotor and a stator. The stator is disposed at an outer periphery of the rotor. The stator includes an iron core assembly. The iron core assembly includes a plurality of winding portions. Each of the winding portions is provided with two winding grooves at two sides thereof. The coils wind around and cover the winding grooves of the winding portions. The thermal conduction glues are covered on an outer periphery of the coils, and the thermal conduction glues are filled in a plurality of gaps between the coils and the winding grooves.

Abstract: An equalizer circuit, a memory storage device and a signal adjustment method are disclosed. The equalizer circuit is configured to receive an input signal, a reference voltage signal and a sensing clock signal and generate an error signal. The equalizer circuit is further configured to generate a first adjustment signal and a second adjustment signal according to the error signal. The equalizer circuit is further configured to update a control code from a first control code to a second control code according to at least one of the first adjustment signal and the second adjustment signal and generate an adjustment control signal according to the control code. The equalizer circuit is further configured to generate a feedback control signal according to the adjustment control signal to restore the control code from the second control code to the first control code.

Abstract: A signal receiving circuit is provided. The signal receiving circuit includes a receiving circuit, an adjustment circuit and a boundary detection circuit. The receiving circuit is configured to receive an input signal. The adjustment circuit is configured to adjust the input signal. The boundary detection circuit is configured to detect a first signal having a first data pattern in the input signal and a second signal having a second data pattern in the input signal. The boundary detection circuit is further configured to detect a gap value between a first signal boundary of the first signal and a second signal boundary of the second signal to reflect a status of the adjustment circuit.

Abstract: A motor, into which air in an external environment is blocked from flowing, is provided. The motor includes a motor main body, a gas collection element and a protection component. The motor main body has a chamber. The gas collection element is disposed outside the motor main body and has a gas collection space. The gas collection space is only communicated with the chamber and allows gas to be exchanged between the gas collection space and the chamber. The protection component is disposed outside of the motor main body and used to protect the gas collection element.

Abstract: A head-mounted display device includes a housing, a pair of display modules, a pair of cameras, a driving module and a control system. The housing can cover eyeballs of the user. The cameras are respectively fixed to the display modules to capture images of the eyeballs. The driving module is coupled to the display module to move the display modules relative to the housing. The control system is electrically connected to the of cameras and the driving module. An adjustment method is applicable to the above-mentioned head-mounted display device. An image of the corresponding eyeball is captured by one of the cameras. The control system calculates a deviation between a center of a pupil of the corresponding eyeball and a center of the corresponding image according to the image. The control system controls the driving module to move the display modules relative to the housing according to the deviation.

Abstract: A signal receiving circuit, a memory storage device and a signal receiving method are provided. The signal receiving circuit includes an equalizer module, a clock and data recovery (CDR) circuit and a controller. The equalizer module is configured to receive a first signal and compensate the first signal to generate a second signal. The CDR circuit is configured to perform a phase locking on the second signal. The controller is configured to open or close a signal pattern filter of the CDR circuit according to the second signal, wherein the signal pattern filter is configured to filter a signal having a specific pattern in the second signal.

Abstract: A microfluidic device includes a lower casing and an upper casing covering the lower casing. The lower casing includes a lower base wall having a top surface and a plurality of spaced-apart columns that protrude upwards from the top surface. The upper casing includes an upper base wall. A first gap between the upper base wall and a column top surface of each of the columns is large enough to permit passage of large biological particles of a liquid sample, and a second gap between any two adjacent ones of the columns is not large enough to permit passage of the large biological particles and is large enough to permit passage of small biological particles of the liquid sample.

Abstract: A biological detection system for detecting a liquid sample containing a plurality of target biological particles includes a capturing device including a cell structure, an inlet, an outlet, a monolithic chip, and a layer of binding agent. The monolithic chip includes a substrate and a plurality of discrete nano-sized structures which are displaced from each other and each of which extends uprightly from the substrate to terminate at a top end. The layer of binding agent is formed on the top end of each of the discrete nano-sized structures for capturing the target biological particles.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a transistor having a source/drain region. A conductive contact is disposed over the source/drain region. A silicide element is disposed below the conductive contact. The silicide element has a non-angular cross-sectional profile. In some embodiments, the silicide element may have an approximately curved cross-sectional profile, for example an ellipse-like profile. The silicide element is formed at least in part by forming an amorphous region in the source/drain region via an implantation process. The implantation process may be a cold implantation process.

Abstract: A biological particle capturing and retrieving system includes a capturing device including a substrate, an isolating layer and a driving unit, and a retrieving device including a micropipette. The isolating layer includes a top surface, multiple pores, and multiple fluidic grooves indented from the top surface, arranged in a herringbone pattern, and each having a bottom surface. The pores are formed in the bottom surfaces of the fluidic grooves, and each capture a biological particle in a liquid sample. The driving unit drives the liquid sample to flow by electrowetting through the pores. The micropipette has a carrier coated with a biological particle-binding material binding with the biological particle received in a corresponding pore.

Abstract: A charging path switching circuit includes a first port, a second port, a path switch unit, and a conversion unit. The first port is connected to an external electronic device to obtain a first electrical signal. The second port is connected to an external power source to obtain a second electrical signal. The conversion unit is connected the path switch unit and converts the first electrical signal or the second electrical signal to a predetermined voltage. The path switch unit is connected to the first port and the second port. The path switch unit selects to connect to the first port or the second port, to obtain the first electrical signal or the second electrical signal according to the connection of the first and the second port. The path switch unit preferentially selects to obtain the second electrical signal from the second port.

Abstract: A semiconductor device having a high-k gate dielectric, and a method of manufacture, is provided. A gate dielectric layer is formed over a substrate. An interfacial layer may be interposed between the gate dielectric layer and the substrate. A barrier layer, such as a TiN layer, having a higher concentration of nitrogen along an interface between the barrier layer and the gate dielectric layer is formed. The barrier layer may be formed by depositing, for example, a TiN layer and performing a nitridation process on the TiN layer to increase the concentration of nitrogen along an interface between the barrier layer and the gate dielectric layer. A gate electrode is formed over the barrier layer.

Abstract: An equalizer tuning method for a memory storage device is provided according to an exemplary embodiment of the disclosure. The method includes: receiving a first signal; modulating the first signal by a first modulation circuit according to a first type parameter and modulating the first signal by a second modulation circuit according to a second type parameter; detecting a signal eye-width value and a signal eye-height value of the modulated first signal; and adjusting the first type parameter according to the detected signal eye-width value and adjusting the second type parameter according to the detected signal eye-height value.

Abstract: An equalizer tuning method for a memory storage device is provided according to an exemplary embodiment of the disclosure. The method includes: receiving a first signal; modulating the first signal by a first modulation circuit according to a first type parameter and modulating the first signal by a second modulation circuit according to a second type parameter; detecting a signal eye-width value and a signal eye-height value of the modulated first signal; and adjusting the first type parameter according to the detected signal eye-width value and adjusting the second type parameter according to the detected signal eye-height value.

Abstract: A biological detection system for detecting a liquid sample containing a plurality of target biological particles includes a capturing device including a cell structure, an inlet, an outlet, a monolithic chip, and a layer of binding agent. The monolithic chip includes a substrate and a plurality of discrete nano-sized structures which are displaced from each other and each of which extends uprightly from the substrate to terminate at a top end. The layer of binding agent is formed on the top end of each of the discrete nano-sized structures for capturing the target biological particles.

Abstract: A charging path switching circuit includes a first port, a second port, a path switch unit, and a conversion unit. The first port is connected to an external electronic device to obtain a first electrical signal. The second port is connected to an external power source to obtain a second electrical signal. The conversion unit is connected the path switch unit and converts the first electrical signal or the second electrical signal to a predetermined voltage. The path switch unit is connected to the first port and the second port. The path switch unit selects to connect to the first port or the second port, to obtain the first electrical signal or the second electrical signal according to the connection of the first and the second port. The path switch unit preferentially selects to obtain the second electrical signal from the second port.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a transistor having a source/drain region. A conductive contact is disposed over the source/drain region. A silicide element is disposed below the conductive contact. The silicide element has a non-angular cross-sectional profile. In some embodiments, the silicide element may have an approximately curved cross-sectional profile, for example an ellipse-like profile. The silicide element is formed at least in part by forming an amorphous region in the source/drain region via an implantation process. The implantation process may be a cold implantation process.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a transistor having a source/drain region. A conductive contact is disposed over the source/drain region. A silicide element is disposed below the conductive contact. The silicide element has a non-angular cross-sectional profile. In some embodiments, the silicide element may have an approximately curved cross-sectional profile, for example an ellipse-like profile. The silicide element is formed at least in part by forming an amorphous region in the source/drain region via an implantation process. The implantation process may be a cold implantation process.

Abstract: A device includes a semiconductor substrate, which has a front side and a backside. A photo-sensitive device is disposed on the front side of the semiconductor substrate. A first and a second grid line are parallel to each other, and are disposed on the backside of, and overlying, the semiconductor substrate. A stacked layer includes an adhesion layer, a metal layer over the adhesion layer, and a high-refractive index layer over the metal layer. The adhesion layer, the metal layer, and the high-refractive index layer are substantially conformal, and extend on top surfaces and sidewalls of the first and the second grid lines.