Abstract: An embodiment is directed to a method of fabricating a semiconductor memory device, the method including preparing a substrate having a cell array region and a contact region, forming a thin film structure on the substrate, including forming sacrificial film patterns isolated horizontally by a lower isolation region, the lower isolation region traversing the cell array region and the contact region, and forming sacrificial films sequentially stacked on the sacrificial film patterns, and forming an opening that penetrates the thin film structure to expose the lower isolation region of the cell array region, the opening being restrictively formed in the cell array region.

Abstract: An emitting device includes a first electrode on a base substrate, a second electrode on the base substrate, a third electrode on the base substrate, an emitting structure on and/or at a same level as the first electrode, a first pattern on the base substrate being electrically connected to the first electrode, and a plurality of second patterns on the base substrate, wherein at least one of the second patterns is arranged on a first side of the first pattern and is electrically connected to the second electrode and at least another one of the second patterns is arranged on a second side of the first pattern and is electrically connected to the third electrode, the first side opposing the second side.

Abstract: A blue phosphor, a display device including the same, and associated methods, the blue phosphor including BaMgAl10O17:Eu (BAM) phosphor particles having a surface component and an internal component, wherein an aluminum/barium (Al/Ba) molar ratio of the surface component of the phosphor particles is 1.1 to about 1.4 times the Al/Ba molar ratio of the internal component of the phosphor particles, and the Al/Ba molar ratios are continuously variable between the internal component and the surface component.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes an epitaxial pattern that fills a depression region formed at a semiconductor substrate of one side of a gate pattern. The gate pattern is disposed on a body located at one side of the depression region. The sidewall of the depression region adjacent to the body includes inner surfaces of tapered recesses that taper toward the body, or has an inner surface of a taper recess and a vertical lower sidewall.

Abstract: A stereoscopic image display device includes a display panel configured to display an image, a barrier placed over the display panel and configured to include a plurality of liquid crystal cells each of which is selectively driven to become a transparent cell or an opaque cell, a polarizing plate placed between the display panel and the barrier, and a phase retarder placed between the internal polarizing plate and the display panel.

Abstract: A battery includes a battery case, an electrode assembly in the battery case, the electrode assembly including a first electrode, a first terminal exposed to an exterior of the battery case, the first terminal being electrically connected to the first electrode, a first fixing member mechanically coupling the first terminal to the battery, the first fixing member forming at least part of an electrical path from the first terminal to the first electrode, and a corrosion resistance member providing an electrical path from the first terminal to the first fixing member and being in direct contact with each of the first terminal and the first fixing member.

Abstract: An organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display apparatus, including a control unit to receive an image signal and to generate a frame-based image data signal and a frame identification signal based at least in part on the received image signal, the frame identification signal being synchronized with the frame-based image data signal, a driving voltage supply unit to generate a first voltage for a switching unit and a second voltage for a display unit, and a switching unit to receive the first voltage and the frame identification signal and to supply the first voltage for the display unit based at least in part on the frame identification signal.

Abstract: A method of acquiring an overshoot voltage applied to a transistor includes determining a first extraction value, the first extraction value including a product of acceleration factors determined in a test of the transistor, determining an applied time, the applied time corresponding to a length of time a voltage deviates from a predetermined level of an input voltage in a circuit employing the transistor, determining a second extraction value by dividing the first extraction value by the applied time, and determining the overshoot voltage by multiplying the second extraction value by the input voltage.

Abstract: A shared-pixel-type image sensor includes a semiconductor substrate, four photoelectric conversion elements disposed adjacent to one another in one direction on the semiconductor substrate, two first transmission elements transmitting charges accumulated in two adjacent ones of the photoelectric conversion elements to a first floating diffusion region, respectively, two second transmission elements transmitting charges accumulated in the other two adjacent photoelectric conversion elements to a second floating diffusion region electrically coupled with the first floating diffusion region, respectively, MOS capacitors that are electrically coupled with the first or second floating diffusion region, a reset element resetting the charges of the first and second floating diffusion regions to a reference value, and a drive element and an select element outputting the charges of the first or second floating diffusion region.

Abstract: A capacitor includes a first capacitor structure on a substrate, the first capacitor structure including a first electrode, a first dielectric layer pattern, and a second electrode, a second capacitor structure on the first capacitor structure, the second capacitor structure including a third electrode, a second dielectric layer pattern, and a fourth electrode, at least one first contact pad on a side of the first electrode, and a wiring structure connecting the at least one first contact pad and the fourth electrode.

Abstract: A display filter includes a base layer having a plurality of structures, the plurality of structures being projected from a first surface of the base layer, an external light shielding layer on the plurality of structures, the external layer being on an upper surface and on a first side surface of the structures, and an electromagnetic wave shielding layer on the plurality of structures, the electromagnetic wave shielding layer being on the upper surface and on a second side surface of the structures, the first and second side surfaces of the structures being opposite each other, and a portion of the external light shielding layer being between the structures and a portion of the electromagnetic wave shielding layer.

Abstract: A semiconductor device and associated methods, the semiconductor device including a semiconductor layer including a first region and a second region, a first contact plug disposed on the semiconductor layer and electrically connected to the first region, a second contact plug disposed on the semiconductor layer and electrically connected to the second region, a conductive layer electrically connected to the first contact plug, the conductive layer having a side surface and a bottom surface, and an insulating layer disposed between the conductive layer and the second contact plug so as to insulate the conductive layer from the second contact plug, the insulating layer facing the side surface and a portion of the bottom surface of the conductive layer.

Abstract: A method of forming a fine pattern includes forming an organic guide layer on a substrate, forming a photoresist pattern on the organic guide layer, the photoresist pattern including a plurality of openings exposing portions of the organic guide layer, forming a material layer on the exposed portions of the organic guide layer and on the photoresist pattern, the material layer including block copolymers, and rearranging the material layer through phase separation of the block copolymers into a fine pattern layer, such that the fine pattern layer includes a plurality of first blocks and a plurality of second blocks arranged in an alternating pattern, the plurality of first blocks and the plurality of the second blocks having different repeating units of the block copolymers.

Abstract: A secondary battery including an electrode assembly; a can having an opening at an upper portion thereof and housing the electrode assembly; a cap assembly sealing the opening of the can; and an insulation case disposed between the electrode assembly and the cap assembly, the insulation case having an impact absorber configured to deform and absorb an external impact.

Abstract: A virtual measuring device and a method for measuring the deposition thickness of amorphous silicon being deposited on a substrate is disclosed, where the method of measuring the deposition thickness of amorphous silicon includes predicting and adapting operations. In the predicting operation, during a process of depositing the amorphous silicon to a substrate, the deposition thickness is predicted by multiplying a predicted deposition speed to a deposition time by using a prediction model expressing a relationship between a deposition speed and a plurality of process factors that are correlated with the deposition speed obtained from the deposition thickness and the deposition time, and the predicted deposition thickness is compared with the measured deposition thickness, so that the relationship between the plurality of process factors and the deposition speed in the prediction model is compensated according to the comparison difference.

Abstract: An antireflective hardmask composition includes an organic solvent, an initiator, and at least one polymer represented by Formulae A, B, or C as set forth in the specification.

Abstract: A rechargeable battery and associated methods, the rechargeable battery including an anode, a cathode, wherein the cathode includes a ternary cathode-active material, a separator interposed between the cathode and the anode, an electrolyte, and a housing enclosing the electrolyte, the anode, and the cathode, wherein the electrolyte includes a lithium salt, a non-aqueous organic solvent, about 0.5 weight % to about 5 weight % of succinonitrile, and at least one of about 1 weight % to about 10 weight % of halogenated ethylene carbonate and about 1 weight % to about 5 weight % of vinyl ethylene carbonate.

Abstract: An Si/C composite includes carbon (C) dispersed in porous silicon (Si) particles. The Si/C composite may be used to form an anode active material to provide a lithium battery having a high capacity and excellent capacity retention.

Abstract: An antiglare film includes a transparent substrate, and an antiglare layer on the transparent substrate, the antiglare layer including a light-transmitting coating layer and an antiglare agent contained in the light-transmitting coating layer, the antiglare agent being composed of first antiglare particles and second antiglare particles overlapping each other.

Abstract: A battery module including a plurality of unit batteries, a pair of end plates located at outermost sides of the plurality of unit batteries and connecting rods disposed at first and second edges of at least one of the end plates, the first and second edges being opposite edges, wherein the connecting rods fix the pair of end plates to the plurality of unit batteries, and the connecting rods are spaced apart at different intervals along the first and second edges of the at least one end plate.