Abstract: An optical display system and an electronic device are disclosed. The optical display system comprises: an image generating unit, which generates an image light output, wherein the image light output has a narrow angular luminance distribution; and an optical lens system, which is placed in front of the image generating unit and guides the image light output to an eye of a viewer, wherein the image generating unit includes: an image generating component, which generates a polarized light output; a polarization-dependent light deflection component, disposed to accept the polarized light output from the image-generating component and increase the amount of the polarized light output that can enter an exit pupil of the optical lens system, and the polarized light output deflected by the polarization-dependent light deflection component has the narrow angular luminance distribution.

Abstract: The present disclosure describes a method for forming capping layers configured to prevent the migration of out-diffused cobalt atoms into upper metallization layers In some embodiments, the method includes depositing a cobalt diffusion barrier layer on a liner-free conductive structure that includes ruthenium, where depositing the cobalt diffusion barrier layer includes forming the cobalt diffusion barrier layer self-aligned to the liner-free conductive structure. The method also includes depositing, on the cobalt diffusion barrier layer, a stack with an etch stop layer and dielectric layer, and forming an opening in the stack to expose the cobalt diffusion barrier layer. Finally, the method includes forming a conductive structure on the cobalt diffusion barrier layer.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a semiconductor package comprising a first integrated circuit (IC) die having a first back-end-of-the-line (BEOL) structure, a second integrated circuit die having a second BEOL structure, an integrated BEOL structure having a first side in direct contact with both the first BEOL structure and the second BEOL structure. In some embodiments, a substrate is further disposed at a second side of the integrated BEOL structure to support both the first integrated circuit die and the second integrated circuit die.

Abstract: A method includes receiving a structure having a dielectric layer over a conductive feature, wherein the conductive feature includes a second metal. The method further includes etching a hole through the dielectric layer and exposing the conductive feature and depositing a first metal into the hole and in direct contact with the dielectric layer and the conductive feature, wherein the first metal entirely fills the hole. The method further includes annealing the structure such that atoms of the second metal are diffused into grain boundaries of the first metal and into interfaces between the first metal and the dielectric layer. After the annealing, the method further includes performing a chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) process to remove at least a portion of the first metal.

Abstract: A multi-use monitoring system is disclosed, which comprises an electronic device, multiple sensor devices, multiple cameras, at least one wireless interface, and a remote electronic device. According to the present invention, the sensor devices are adopted for detecting multiple environmental parameters such as gas level, humidity and temperature, and the multiple cameras are controlled to acquire images from the poultry bred in a breeding environment. Therefore, after receiving the images and the environmental parameters from the electronic device, the remote electronic device can extract at least one poultry characteristic from the images, and then correlate the environmental parameters to the poultry characteristic(s). As a result, the remote electronic device can subsequently calculate an evaluation score according to the growth and/or health state of the poultry, such that the breeder can plan how to distribute the breeding resources for the poultry.

Abstract: A device includes source/drain regions, a gate structure, a source/drain contact, and a tungsten structure. The source/drain regions are over a substrate. The gate structure is between the source/drain regions. The source/drain contact is over one of the source/drain regions. The tungsten structure is over the source/drain contact. The tungsten structure includes a lower portion and an upper portion above the lower portion. The upper portion has opposite sidewalls respectively set back from opposite sidewalls of the lower portion of the tungsten structure.

Abstract: A disease diagnosing method and a disease diagnosing system are provided in the disclosure. The disease diagnosing method includes: obtaining continuous images of a body skin and generating a time domain signal according to an average pixel value of a region of interest in each frame of the continuous images; transforming the time domain signal to a frequency domain signal and combining the time domain signal and the frequency domain signal to a time frequency signal; retrieving multiple first features of a first high dimensional space of the time frequency signal to obtain multiple second features of a second high dimensional space; and use the second features as feature vectors to map to a high dimension feature space, and classifying the second features as one of the multiple categories of a disease corresponding to the region of interest in the body skin according to a hyperplane of the high dimension feature space.

Abstract: Example spatial transcriptomics techniques use “continuous” polony arrays on a customized gel surface for spatial barcoding. By screening polyacrylamide (PAA) gel fabrication conditions, polonies formed on a crosslinked PAA gel were shown to exhibit a continuous, homogenous DNA distribution, which is highly suited for tissue barcoding applications. Compared with widely used polonies formed in flow cells that utilize linear PAA gels, continuous polonies showed efficient DNA amplification and restriction digestion to generate capture oligo arrays, which have a significantly better spatial RNA capturing performance. In addition, the crosslinked PAA gel showed sufficient constraints on lateral RNA diffusion and provides better mechanical strength and stability for tissue mapping assays than a semifluidic linear PAA gel used by previous methods.

Abstract: A conjugate cam reducer includes input and output units disposed at two opposite sides of a transmission unit. The transmission unit includes smaller-diameter and larger-diameter cam discs axially connected with each other. The smaller-diameter and larger-diameter cam discs have first and second grooves. The input unit includes an input disc, an eccentric shaft and a plurality of input rollers. The input disc has a smaller inner peripheral wall engaging with the smaller-diameter cam disc, and a plurality of first receiving grooves registered with the first grooves to receive the input rollers. The eccentric shaft is rotated to drive rotation of the transmission unit in an eccentric cycloidal motion. The output unit includes an output disc having a larger inner peripheral wall which engages with the larger-diameter cam disc, and a plurality of second receiving grooves which are registered with the second grooves to receive a plurality of output rollers.

Abstract: A plasma-exclusion-zone ring for a substrate processing system that is configured to process a substrate includes a ring-shaped body, an upper portion of the ring-shaped body, a base and a plasma-exclusion-zone ring notch. The upper portion of the ring-shaped body defines a radially inner surface and a top surface. The base of the ring-shaped body defines a radially outer surface, a first bottom surface extending radially inward from the radially outer surface, and a second bottom surface extending radially inward from the first bottom surface. The plasma-exclusion-zone ring notch is proportional to an alignment notch of the substrate. The first bottom surface is tapered and extends at an acute angle from the second bottom surface to the radially outer surface. The first bottom surface is configured to extend over and oppose a periphery of the substrate.

Abstract: This invention provides processes for treating a mixture of produced water and blowdown water comprising introducing produced water (PW) into blowdown water (BD) for forming a PW-BD water mixture, softening the PW-BD water mixture, subjecting the PW-BD water mixture to activated carbon filtration and reverse osmosis membrane desalination. The process generates a product water and a brine by-product.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition of subunit dengue vaccine comprising a fusion protein of conjugating or connecting delta C nonstructural protein 1 (NS1?C or truncated NS1?C) to at least one polypeptides of NS3c (or truncated NS3c) and/or consensus envelope protein domain III (cEDIII), thereby enhancing better protection against DENV challenge and alleviating associated pathological effects.

Abstract: Semiconductor processing methods and apparatuses are provided. Some methods include providing a first wafer to a processing chamber, the first wafer having a thickness, a beveled edge, a first side, and a plurality of devices formed in a device area on the first side, the device area having an outer perimeter, depositing an annular ring of material on the first wafer, the annular ring of material covering a region of the beveled edge and the outer perimeter of the device area, and having an inner boundary closer to the center point of the first wafer than the outer perimeter, bonding a second substrate to the plurality of devices and to a portion of the annular ring of material, and thinning the thickness of the first wafer.

Abstract: There is provided a time of flight sensor including a light source, a first pixel, a second pixel and a processor. The first pixel generates a first output signal without receiving reflected light from an external object illuminated by the light source. The second pixel generates a second output signal by receiving the reflected light from the external object illuminated by the light source. The processor calculates deviation compensation and deviation correction associated with temperature variation according to the first output signal to accordingly calibrate a distance calculated according to the second output signal.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for decoding polar codes, the method comprising: determining a starting level for processing an overflow according to a number of encoded bits of a received polar encoded codeword, an input bit-width, and an internal bit-width of a decoder; multiplying an output Log-Likelihood Ratio (LLR) value and two input LLR values of the G function by a first coefficient and a second coefficient respectively; and finally, the LLR values corresponding to the received codeword are decoded to obtain decoded bits.

Abstract: There is provided a time of flight sensor including a light source, a first pixel, a second pixel and a processor. The first pixel generates a first output signal without receiving reflected light from an external object illuminated by the light source. The second pixel generates a second output signal by receiving the reflected light from the external object illuminated by the light source. The processor calculates deviation compensation and deviation correction associated with temperature variation according to the first output signal to accordingly calibrate a distance calculated according to the second output signal.

Abstract: A transceiving device includes a calibration signal generation unit, a phase adjusting unit, a transmission unit, a receiving unit, and a calibration unit. In a calibration mode, the calibration signal generation unit generates an in-phase (I) test signal and a quadrature (Q) test signal. The phase adjusting unit adjusts the I test signal and the Q test signal to generate an adjusted I test signal and an adjusted Q test signal according to a phase controlling signal. The transmission unit generates a radio frequency (RF) signal according to the adjusted I test signal and the adjusted Q test signal. The receiving unit receives the RF signal so as to generate an I receiving signal and a Q receiving signal. The calibration unit generates the phase controlling signal according to the I test signal, the Q test signal, the I receiving signal, and the Q receiving signal.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a biodegradable nanocomplex. The biodegradable nanocomplex comprises a first electrically charged substance, a charge-redistribution substance, a second electrically charged substance and a carried substance, for holding the carried substance inside. The first electrically charged substance and the carried substance have the same electrical polarity, and the biodegradable nanocomplex has a nonuniformally and positively charge distribution along a radial direction thereof.

Abstract: A method for treating wastewater comprising subjecting a sulfate containing wastewater to Fe(III) iron dosing in an anaerobic bioreactor containing one or more of an iron reducing bacteria and one or more of a sulfate reducing bacteria, and one or more of a fermentative bacteria, and adjusting a dosage of the Fe(III) iron in the anaerobic bioreactor to achieve a Fe/Sulfate molar ratio that is equal to or greater than 0.50, and removing an effluent from the anaerobic bioreactor that is a treated wastewater. A wastewater treatment system is provided having a wastewater reservoir, a ferric iron solution reservoir, an anaerobic bioreactor, and an effluent reservoir.

Abstract: A method reducing amount of memory utilized by hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) operations is disclosed. When an apparatus employing the method receives an LDPC encoded packet, the apparatus firstly estimates a signal quality value of the received packet, and performs an LDPC decoding algorithm on the received packet. If the received packet is not successfully decoded by the apparatus, the received and decoding-failed packet is compressed in order to reduce bit-width, and the compressed packet is stored in a memory device for later HARQ operations. The apparatus employing the method is also disclosed.