Abstract: A method and apparatus for depositing a layer of a material which contains a metal on a workpiece surface, in an installation including a deposition chamber; a workpiece support providing a workpiece support surface within the chamber; a coil within the chamber, the coil containing the metal that will be contained in the layer to be deposited; and an RF power supply connected to deliver RF power to the coil in order to generate a plasma within the chamber, a DC self bias potential being induced in the coil when only RF power is delivered to the coil. A DC bias potential which is different in magnitude from the DC self bias potential is applied to the coil from a DC voltage source.

Abstract: A digital data processing system with improved access to information stored on a peripheral device is provided. The system has a plurality of nodes, a peripheral device, a file system and a bypass mechanism. A first node (e.g., a client node) is connected to a second node (e.g., a server node) over a first communications pathway (e.g., a network). The second node is itself connected to a peripheral device (e.g., a disk drive) over a second communications pathway. The first node, too, is connected to the peripheral device over a third communications pathway. The file system, executing on the first and second nodes, is capable of responding to access requests generated by the first node for transferring data between that node and the peripheral device, via the second node and via the first and second communications pathways. The file system also maintains administrative information pertaining to storage on the peripheral device of data designated by such requests.

Abstract: A semiconductor device may include an element isolation region 14, an npn-type bipolar transistor 200, and a p-type field effect transistor 100, which are formed on a SOI substrate. The bi-polar transistor 200 and the field effect transistor 100 are formed in the same element forming region 16. An n-type body region 52a is electrically connected to an n-type collector region 230. A p-type source region 210 is electrically connected to the n-type collector region 230. A p-type drain region 130 is electrically connected to a p-type base region 220.

Abstract: Provided is a method, system, program, and data structures for decompressing a compressed data stream. The compressed data stream is decoded a first time to generate multiple reentry data sets. Each reentry data set includes a pointer to a location in the data stream and decoding information that enables decoding to start from the location addressed by the pointer. The compressed data stream is then decoded from the beginning to a point preceding a location addressed by a first reentry data set. For each generated reentry data set, the location in the compressed data stream addressed by the pointer in the reentry data set is accessed. The decoding information in the reentry data set is then used to decode compressed data from the accessed location to a point preceding the location addressed by the pointer in the next reentry data set. For concatenated bit planes, the original multi-bit pixel values are reassembled in buffers and then outputted.

Abstract: When a non-volatile memory cell is manufactured, in order to make a semiconductor process for forming a cell transistor to conform to a ferroelectric process for forming a ferroelectric capacitor, in accordance with the present invention, when a non-volatile memory device having a ferroelectric capacitor 18 that is formed from an organic thin film 8 capable of a polarization inversion by an external electric field and provided between a lower electrode 7 and an upper electrode 9, a material solution 80 for the organic thin film 8 is coated over the lower electrode 7 using an ink jet type recording head 15, and is solidified by a heat treatment or the like to thereby form the organic thin film 8. By the manufacturing method, the film forming temperature of the organic thin film 8 becomes to be lower than 150° C.˜200° C., and therefore damages are not inflicted on the cell transistor 17, and a ferroelectric process that conforms to a semiconductor process is provided.

Abstract: Disclosed is a system, method, and program for uninstalling a program and deleting files. The program is defined by a plurality of file sets. Each file set defines a set of functions performed by the program. A flag is provided with each file set of the program indicating one of a first and second value. The flag values indicate those files which are enabled and unenabled to be deleted. A determination is made as to the file sets having the first flag value. A graphical user interface (GUI) then displays at least one user selectable option to uninstall at least one determined file set or file having the first flag value. User input is then received indicating file sets or files to delete or uninstall and the file sets the user input indicated to uninstall are uninstalld.

Abstract: A database management system having a dropped table recovery flag. If the dropped table recovery flag is on at the time that a table is dropped, an entry will be made in a dropped table history file. The dropped table history file contains a timestamp of the time of table drop, a unique dropped table identifier, and table definition information. The system includes a command to permit the table-space of a dropped table to be restored and rolled forward to the point of the dropped table drop. The restored and rolled forward dropped table data is written to a flat file. The flat file data is loaded into a recreated table in the current table space to recover the dropped table.

Abstract: Disclosed is a semiconductor structure and manufacturing process for making an integrated FET and photodetector optical receiver on a semiconductor substrate. A FET is formed by forming at least one p channel in a p-well of the substrate and forming at least one n channel in the p-well of the substrate. A p-i-n photodetector is formed in the substrate by forming at least one p channel in an absorption region of the substrate when forming the at least one p channel in the p well of the FET and forming at least one n channel in the absorption region of the substrate when forming the at least one n channel in the p-well of the FET.

Abstract: Disclosed is a system, method, and program for implementing components of a user interface as an object. A user interface is implemented in a first user interface program object including elements compatible with a first user interface program. A standard application program interface (API) calling a first standard object to create a second standard object as an element of the first standard object is received. The standard API is a member of a set of standard APIs, such as the W3C APIs. A second user interface program API is generated to create a second user interface program object corresponding to the second standard object. The second user interface program object is embedded as an element in the first user interface program object.

Abstract: A positive pressure gradient is maintained across an open access port of an interface chamber such as a load lock chamber which provides an interface between a low pressure chamber such as a transfer or buffer chamber, and a high pressure area such as a staging area or factory interface area. When the access port of the interface chamber is open to the high-pressure area, the positive pressure gradient may be used in some applications to inhibit the flow of gasses from the high-pressure area into the interior of the interface chamber.

Abstract: Disclosed is a system, method, and program for determining boundaries in a string of characters using a dictionary, wherein the substrings in the dictionary may comprise words. A determination is made of all possible initial substrings of the string in the dictionary. One initial substring is selected such that all the characters following the initial substring can be divided into at least one substring in the dictionary. The boundaries follow each of the initial substring and the at least one substring that includes all the characters following the initial substring.

Abstract: A method of searching a table in a database management system for free space for inserting a new record into the table. The table resides in a storage media, and includes a series of pages capable of storing a plurality of records. The table has a clustering index defined in a column of the table. The new record has a new record attribute for storing in the column of the table when the new record is stored in the table. The method comprises searching for a target page in the series of pages, the target page being selected to maintain clustering when the new record is inserted thereon. Once the target page has been located, it is searched for sufficient free space to accommodate the new record. If sufficient free space is found on the target page, then the new record is inserted on the target page. If sufficient free space is not found on the target page, then a target neighborhood of pages in the series of pages is searched for sufficient free space to accommodate the new record.

Abstract: Examples including non-volatile semiconductor memory devices in which digitized image data and voice data can be more efficiently written and read, and methods for manufacturing the same, are described. In one example, a non-volatile semiconductor memory device 300 may include a first memory element 100 and a second memory element 200 formed in a wafer 11 and mutually isolated by an element isolation region 38, a first impurity diffusion layer 16 and a second impurity diffusion layer 14. The first and second memory elements 100 and 200 include gate dielectric layers 20 and 120, floating gates 22 and 122, selective oxide dielectric layers 24 and 124 and third impurity diffusion layers 15 and 25, respectively, and also include a common intermediate dielectric layer 26 and a common control gate 28, and connected to the first and second impurity diffusion layers 16 and 14 that are commonly shared.

Abstract: A semiconductor device may have an insulating layer comprising a silicon oxide film or the like formed so as to cover an entire upper surface of a semiconductor substrate. A resistance element comprising MoSix is formed on the insulating layer. An insulating film is provided on the surface of the semiconductor substrate above the insulating layer. A through-hole is provided in the insulating film located above the resistance element, and an electrode provided above the insulating film is electrically connected to the resistance element through this through-hole.

Abstract: Provided is a method, system, and program for performing a cursor operation. A result table is generated including rows corresponding to a subset of rows in a base table having data in one or more columns that satisfy a query predicate clause. A command is received to perform a cursor operation with respect to a subject row in the result table. A lock is obtained on a row in the base table corresponding to the subject row in the result table. An operation specified in the received command is performed with respect to the subject row after obtaining the lock. The lock on the row in the base table is released after performing the operation.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method, system, program, and data structures for transforming an instruction in a first bit architecture, e.g., 32 bit, to an instruction in a second bit architecture, e.g., 64 bit. Code is transformed from an instruction in the first bit architecture having an operation code and at least one operand. A transform table is accessed including information for transforming the instruction in the first bit architecture to the second bit architecture. The instruction in the first bit architecture is transformed to a corresponding instruction in the second bit architecture if the transform table includes information indicating to modify the instruction in the first bit architecture. The transformation is based on transformation operations that modify the instruction in the first bit architecture to generate the instruction in the second bit architecture.

Abstract: A coil for inductively coupling RF energy to a plasma in a substrate processing chamber has adjacent spaced and circumferentially overlapping RF feedthroughs adjacent to overlapping ends to improve uniformity of processing of the substrate.

Abstract: Disclosed is a system, method, and program for determining a structure of objects in a document, such as an XML document. The document is parsed to determine instances of objects within the document. Each instance of each object is parsed to determine whether a value is provided for the object. Information is returned on each instance of each object in the document and location information is returned of the value for each object in the document having a value. The returned information identifies the objects in the documents and the location of any values for identified objects in the document. When the location information is returned, a string comprising the value from the document is not returned.

Abstract: Disclosed is a system and method for caching data. A processor receives data from a host to modify a track in a first storage device. The processor stores a copy of the modified data in a cache and indicates in a second storage device the tracks for which there is modified data in cache. During data recovery operations, the processor processes the second storage device and data therein to determine the tracks for which there was modified data in cache. The processor then marks the determined tracks as failed to prevent data at the determined tracks in the first storage device from being returned in response to a read request until the failure is resolved. In further embodiments, in response to detecting a partial failure within the storage system, the processor would scan the cache to determine tracks for which there is modified data stored in the cache.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for accessing files on networked digital data processing system provide for plurality of digital data processing nodes and a storage device, e.g., a disk drive, a “jukebox,” other mass storage device or other mapped device (collectively referred to herein after as “disk drive” or “storage device”). First and second ones of the nodes, which may be a client and a server node, respectively, are coupled for communication over a first communications pathway, e.g., a LAN or other network. Both the first and the second nodes are in communication coupling with the storage device over the same or different logical or physical communications pathways. A file system or other functionality in the second (server) node receives and responds to at least selected requests—e.g., file OPEN requests—from the first (client) node for access to a file on the storage device, by generating a “lease”.