Abstract: An apparatus comprises a vacuum chamber configured to produce a substantially atmospheric vacuum environment for plasma processing; a radio frequency (RF) power supply located outside of the vacuum chamber; an RF matching network operatively coupled to the RF power supply; and a plurality of electrodes mounted within the vacuum chamber, the plurality of electrodes configured to receive RF power signals from the RF power supply through the RF matching network. The RF power signals are simultaneously delivered to the plurality of electrodes during a sputtering operation. The plurality of electrodes and a set of electrical components are operative to manage the inductive and capacitive reactance for coupling the RF power signals to provide more desirable plasma coupling during the sputtering operation.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing a reactive silicon group-containing organic polymer having a reactive silicon group represented by the following Formula (1), the method including reacting an unsaturated group-containing organic polymer with a silylating agent in the presence of a group 8 metal catalyst and a co-catalyst containing a carboxylic acid compound having a carbon-carbon triple bond, —SiRaX3-a ??Formula (1) [In the Formula (1), R is a monovalent organic group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms and represents an organic group other than a hydrolyzable group, and X represents a hydroxyl group, a halogen atom, or a hydrolyzable group; a is an integer from 0 to 2; when a is 2, R groups may be the same as or different from each other, and when a is 0 or 1, X groups may be the same as or different from each other.

Abstract: Provided is a high-resolution reflection tomographic imaging system and method. The high-resolution reflection tomographic imaging system of the present disclosure may include an objective lens, a tube lens, a camera, an illumination element configured to introduce temporally coherent and spatially incoherent light, and a semi-reflective surface element configured to split the light into a sample and a reference beam between the tube lens and the camera, such that a sample beam from the sample and the reference beam cause interference for tomographic imaging.

Abstract: A pathfinding apparatus acquires vehicle information, map information, obstacle information. The vehicle information includes a current location and a goal location for multiple vehicles. The map information includes a map of a target space. The obstacle information includes history of locations of one or more moving obstacles. The pathfinding apparatus generates one or more obstacle path for each moving obstacle during a target time window, and generates multiple candidate path sets each of which includes a vehicle path during the target time window for each vehicle. The vehicle path is conflict-free with the other vehicle paths and the obstacle paths. The pathfinding apparatus evaluates the candidate path sets through a heuristic search of continuations of the vehicles paths in the candidate path sets, selects one of the candidate path sets based their evaluations, and outputs the selected candidate path set.

Abstract: An electronic device is disclosed. The electronic device includes an active component, a power regulating component disposed on the active component, and a patterned conductive element disposed between the active component and the power regulating component. The patterned conductive element is configured to provide one or more heat dissipation paths for the active component and to provide a power path between the active component and the power regulating component.

Abstract: A method comprises obtaining original data representing one or more characteristics of a target object; selecting an artificial intelligence generation model from among a plurality of artificial intelligence generation models based on the original data; generating reconstructed data based on the original data using the selected artificial intelligence generation model; calculating an anomaly score by comparing the original data and the reconstructed data; and outputting detection result data indicating whether the target object is abnormal based on the anomaly score.

Abstract: A semiconductor package structure is provided. The semiconductor package structure includes an electronic component, and an inductance component. The protection layer encapsulates the electronic component and has a top surface and a bottom surface. The top surface and the bottom surface collectively define a space to accommodate the electronic component. The inductance component outflanks the space from the top surface and the bottom surface of the protection layer.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing a reactive silicon group-containing organic polymer having a reactive silicon group represented by the following Formula (1), the method including reacting an unsaturated group-containing organic polymer with a silylating agent in the presence of a group 8 metal catalyst and a co-catalyst containing a carboxylic acid compound having a carbon-carbon double bond at an ?-position carbon, —SiRaX3-a??Formula (1) [in the Formula (1), R is a monovalent organic group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms and represents an organic group other than a hydrolyzable group, and X represents a hydroxyl group, a halogen atom, or a hydrolyzable group; a is an integer from 0 to 2; when a is 2, R groups may be the same as or different from each other, and when a is 0 or 1, X groups may be the same as or different from each other.

Abstract: A solventless method of making a dry electrode for an electrochemical cell is provided. A solventless electrode material mixture includes 85-99% electrode active material and from 0-10% conductive carbon additive. A polymer binder system is present from 1-15%. The polymer binder system includes one or more polymer binders. The electrode material mixture is mixed at a temperature greater than a softening point or a melting point of at least one polymer binder of the polymer binder system. The electrode material mixture is kneaded into an electrode material dough. The electrode material dough is formed into an electrode material sheet. At least a portion of the electrode material sheet is affixed to a metal current collector to form an electrode.

Abstract: A data processing system includes a vector data processing unit that includes a shared scheduler queue configured to store in a same queue, at least one entry that includes at least a mask type instruction and another entry that includes at least a vector type instruction. Shared pipeline control logic controls a vector data path or a mask data path, based a type of instruction picked from the same queue. In some examples, at least one mask type instruction and the at least one vector type instruction each include a source operand having a corresponding shared source register bit field that indexes into both a mask register file and a vector register file. The shared pipeline control logic uses a mask register file or a vector register file depending on whether bits of the shared source register bit field identify a mask source register or a vector source register.

Abstract: A thin-film solar module with a substrate and a layer structure applied thereon that comprises a rear electrode layer, a front electrode layer, and an absorber layer arranged between the back electrode layer and the front electrode layer. Serially connected solar cells are formed in the layer structure by patterning zones, wherein each patterning zone comprises a first patterning line for subdividing at least the rear electrode layer, a second patterning line for subdividing at least the absorber layer, and at least one third patterning line for subdividing at least the front electrode layer. At least one patterning zone has one or more optically transparent zones in a zone region reduced by the first patterning line, which are in each case rear-electrode-layer-free, wherein the one or more optically transparent zones are implemented such that the rear electrode layer is continuous in the zone region.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for measuring a content of a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon in a carbon black, comprising the following steps: extracting a carbon black to be measured using an organic solvent to obtain a sample to be tested; testing the sample to be tested by ultraviolet-visible spectrometer to obtain an absorbance; and using the absorbance and a calibration curve to obtain a content of a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon in the sample to be tested, wherein the calibration curve shows relationship between the absorbance of the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon and the content of the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon. The measurement method of the present invention benefits reduction of detection time.

Abstract: A method for denoising an image, an apparatus, and a computer-readable storage medium. The method includes: dividing a to-be-processed image into a plurality of image areas; for each image area, expanding an edge of the image area to obtain an expanded area; wherein the expanded area comprises the image area and an edge area, and the edge area comprises pixels in another image area adjacent to the image area; for each expanded area, performing denoising processing on the expanded area through a preset algorithm to obtain a denoised expanded area; wherein the denoised expanded area comprises a denoised image area and a denoised edge area; and abandoning the denoised edge area in each denoised expanded area, and retaining and combining all the denoised image areas to form a denoised image.

Abstract: A sputtering target configured from a magnesium oxide sintered body, wherein a ratio of crystal grains of the magnesium oxide sintered body in which a number of pinholes in a single crystal grain is 20 or more is 50% or less. The present invention is a sputtering target configured from a magnesium oxide sintered body in which the generation of particles during sputtering is less.

Abstract: This invention relates to methods for treatment of diseases of aging including immunosenescence, immune dysfunction, inflammation and impairment of early lymphoid lineage differentiation. The invention more specifically relates to the use of granulocyte colony stimulating factors to assist in stem cell mobilization, optionally in combination with the application of a method of delivering precise magnetic field patterns which agree with the body's own natural magnetic field patterns, and further in combination with re-infusion of previously collected autologous cells and/or plasma, optionally including allogeneic (healthy donor) cells and blood plasma.

Abstract: An optical connector cleaning tool includes a cleaning portion pressed against a coupling end face of an optical connector, a container storing a cleaning liquid, and an atomizer spraying the cleaning liquid to the cleaning portion.

Abstract: A medical image processing method and processing apparatus, and a computer readable storage medium. The method includes: obtaining a to-be-processed image; performing a feature extraction on the to-be-processed image to obtain a corresponding feature image; and re-determining a pixel value of each pixel in the to-be-processed image based on first information and second information of a corresponding pixel in the feature image, and processing the to-be-processed image; wherein the first information is information of a pixel adjacent to the corresponding pixel in the features image, and the second information is information of a pixel that is not adjacent to and is similar to the corresponding pixel in the features image.

Abstract: A display panel and a display device are provided in the present disclosure. The display panel includes a display region and a non-display region, where the non-display region is on at least one side of the display region. The display panel includes a substrate; a light-emitting unit layer on a side of the substrate, where the light-emitting unit layer includes pixel units, at the display region, arranged in an array; and further includes a light-blocking layer on a side of the light-emitting unit layer away from the substrate, where the light-blocking layer includes first openings and second openings. The first openings are at the display region; along a direction perpendicular to the substrate, the pixel units correspond to the first openings; and the second openings are at least on a side of the non-display region adjacent to the display region.

Abstract: Disclosed are an unsupervised learning method and an apparatus therefor applicable to general inverse problems. An unsupervised learning method applicable to inverse problems includes receiving a training data set and training an unsupervised learning-based neural network generated based on an optimal transport theory and a penalized least square (PLS) approach using the training data set, wherein the receiving of the training data set includes receiving the training data set including unmatched data.

Abstract: A method of operating a solid oxide fuel cell system may comprise contacting a cathode gas comprising oxygen with a heating element to produce a heated cathode gas, passing the heated cathode gas through a cathode of a solid oxide fuel cell stack to increase the temperature of the solid oxide fuel cell stack to an operation temperature and reduce the oxygen to oxygen anions, and passing an anode gas through an anode of the solid oxide fuel cell stack to initiate the electrochemical oxidation of the oxygen anions within the anode. The passing of the anode gas through the anode of the solid oxide fuel cell stack may be initiated when the solid oxide fuel cell stack is heated to an operational temperature.