Abstract: This invention provides an etching composition comprising one or more onium salts selected from the group consisting of iodonium salts and sulfonium and an organic medium. Also provided is a method of making a photovoltaic cell that uses the etching composition to etch the anti-reflection coating and a photovoltaic cell made by this method.

Abstract: A light emitting diode (LED) unit is therefore provided, comprising: an LED module, comprising: a plurality of LEDs; LED drive circuitry that drives the LEDs; an LED control bus that carries LED illumination control information to the LED drive circuitry; and a housing that at least partially surrounds LED module components; a power supply and control module, comprising: a power supply that converts a first voltage level to a second voltage level; a microcontroller that receives illumination instructions from an external source; an LED drive controller that receives lighting instructions from the microcontroller and transmits LED illumination information to the LED drive circuitry; a housing that at least partially surrounds power supply and control module components; an interface that connects the LED drive controller to the LED control bus.

Abstract: There is provided a process for forming a layer of electroactive material having a substantially flat profile. The process includes: providing a workpiece having at least one active area; depositing a liquid composition including the electroactive material onto the workpiece in the active area, to form a wet layer; treating the wet layer on the workpiece at a controlled temperature in the range of ?25 to 80° C. and under a vacuum in the range of 10?6 to 1,000 Torr, for a first period of 1-100 minutes, to form a partially dried layer; heating the partially dried layer to a temperature above 100° C. for a second period of 1-50 minutes to form a dried layer.

Abstract: The invention relates to a catalytic method for the industrial production of a diol compound, such as 2-methyl-2-4-pentanediol, also called 2,4-hexylene glycol (HGL), from a ?-hydroxy carbonyl compound, Formula (I), in particular diacetone alcohol (DAA).

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for the synthesis of nanostructures using at least one solution providing at least one chemical element appropriate for the type of nanostructure, the method comprising the steps of: a) adding (admixing) a reducing agent to the at least one solution, b) bringing a suitable substrate into contact with the at least one solution before or after step a), c) forming nucleation growth sites on the substrate and d) maintaining the temperature at a suitable level for the growth of the nanostructures, characterized by the further steps of e) providing at least one space having at least one dimension in the micron range, e.g. in the range from 1 ?m to 500 ?m, adjacent a surface of the substrate, f) growing said nanostructures in said at least one space, g) periodically separating said nanostructures from the substrate and removing them.

Abstract: Method of manufacturing aerogenerator blades that avoids or reduces some formation deficiencies existing in the traditional methods of manufacturing aerogenerator blades. The method comprises: positioning at least one support plate (2) on a plug (3) corresponding to a predetermined shape of at least a portion of the blade; removably fixing the support plate (2) to the plug (3); stacking a plurality of layers (1) of at least one material over the support plate (2); stitching the plurality of layers (1) to the support plate (2); displacing the plurality of layers (1) stitched to the support plate (2) into a mould (4), the mould (4) having a shape corresponding to the counter shape of the plug (3).

Abstract: Isolated polynucleotides and polypeptides and recombinant DNA constructs useful for conferring drought tolerance, compositions (such as plants or seeds) comprising these recombinant DNA constructs, and methods utilizing these recombinant DNA constructs. The recombinant DNA construct comprises a polynucleotide operably linked to a promoter that is functional in a plant, wherein said polynucleotide encodes a Zinc-Finger (C3HC4-type RING finger) family polypeptide.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of making a thin-film dielectric, comprising providing a base metal foil, forming a barium titanate-based dielectric precursor layer over a base metal foil, pre-annealing the dielectric precursor layer and base metal foil, rapidly heating the pre-annealed dielectric precursor layer from a temperature of less than 530° C. to an annealing temperature of more than 800° C. in less than 15 seconds; and annealing the dielectric to form a crystalline barium titanate-based dielectric on the base metal foil, wherein the crystalline barium titanate-based dielectric has grains with an average grain size that is greater or equal to 50 nanometers. Also disclosed is a method of making a capacitor comprised of the thin-film dielectric formed on a base metal foil according to the method described above with a second conductive layer formed over the dielectric.

Abstract: An apparatus for obtaining a parameter describing a variation of a signal characteristic of a signal on the basis of actual transform-domain parameters describing the audio signal in transform-domain includes a parameter determinator. The parameter determinator is configured to determine one or more model parameters of a transform-domain variation model describing an evolution of the transform-domain parameters in dependence on one or more model parameters representing a signal characteristic, such that a model error, representing a deviation between a modeled temporal evolution of the transform-domain parameters and an evolution of the actual transform-domain parameters, is brought below a predetermined threshold value or minimized.

Abstract: The present invention provides a thick-film paste for printing the front side of a solar cell device having one or more insulating layers. The thick-film paste comprises an electrically conductive metal, and a lead-tellurium-lithium-oxide dispersed in an organic medium.

Abstract: An adapter device includes a receptacle including at least one receiving element that detachably secures a sample chamber for cryoconservation of a biological sample, and a coupling device that connects the receptacle to a base section which can be secured in a cooling device, wherein the receiving element is 1) immobile in a holding state at a cryoconservation temperature and secures the sample chamber and 2) at least one of deformable and movable in a release state at a temperature above the cryoconservation temperature so that the sample chamber is detachable from the adapter device or can be inserted into the adapter device.

Abstract: An electro-optic display comprises, in order, a light-transmissive electrically-conductive layer; a layer of a solid electro-optic material; and a backplane (162) bearing a plurality of pixel electrodes, a peripheral portion of the backplane extending outwardly beyond the layer of solid electro-optic material and bearing a plurality of radiation generating means (166) and a plurality of radiation detecting means (168), the radiation generating means and radiation detecting means together being arranged to act as a touch screen.

Abstract: A sound absorber comprises an elongated gas channel, through which a flowing gas passes in operation of the sound absorber; and at least one helical fixture mounted in a longitudinal section of the gas channel. The helical fixture defines a helical gas passage through the longitudinal section of the gas channel. Further, the helical fixture defines at least one longitudinal Helmholtz resonator within the gas channel which is excited by sound waves propagating in the flowing gas passing through the at least one gas channel.

Abstract: The present invention provides an ink for inkjet printing. The ink contains an aqueous vehicle, a pigment colorant and an effective amount of a bleed control agent selected from benzyl glycerol, 3-phenoxy-1,2-propanediol and any combination thereof. The ink exhibits reduced intercolor bleed when printed, for example, on plain paper.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a fabric comprising at least one woven layer and at least one nonwoven layer, wherein the number ratio between the at least one woven layer and the at least one nonwoven layer is in the range of 0.1 to 1. The fabric according to the present invention can particularly be used in the manufacture of ballistic vests, hard and soft armor, stab and knife protection systems, and anti-ballistic systems, and they provide a highly reduction of likelihood of ricochets using such systems.

Abstract: A method is proposed for the solidification of a non-metal melt (130) which is located in a crucible (120) arranged in the device (100), wherein the device (100) has a multiplicity of inductors (100) for the creation of magnetic fields. By feeding in a first set of phase-displaced alternating currents (I1a, I2b, I3c, I4d) having a first frequency (f1), a first travelling field (W1) is created in the melt (130). By feeding in at least one second set of phase-displaced alternating currents (I2a, I2b, I3c, I4d) having a second frequency (f2), a second travelling field (W2) is created in the melt (130) which is directed against the first travelling field (W1), wherein the inductors (100) are arranged on the crucible (120) in a vertically extending arrangement, so that the alternating fields created (W1, W2) pass through the melt (130) in vertical direction (Y) and have a flow force minimum on the crucible or vessel wall.

Abstract: Poly(trimethylene terephthalate) compositions, and articles made therefrom, having improved flame retardancy are provided. The compositions can be used to make carpets that are suitable for installation where flame retardancy is desired.

Abstract: An image display device has a matrix screen having a plurality of pixels arranged in columns and a periodic grating arranged in front of the matrix screen having a structure extending parallel to the columns. A lateral direction grating period corresponds to a whole number multiple of adjacent column spacing of the matrix screen. In a use of this image display device, at least two different viewing positions are detected and disjunctive excerpts of columns of the matrix screen are determined in accordance with the detected viewing positions such that a respective excerpt is associated with each of the detected viewing positions, this excerpt including all columns at least partly visible through the grating from this viewing position, wherein the matrix screen is controlled in dependence with image information of at least two different images such that exactly one of the images is displayed on each of the excerpts.

Abstract: An electronic reader and a displaying method thereof are respectively provided in the present invention. The electronic reader includes a recognition unit recognizing an identity input; and a displaying unit displaying a screen corresponding to the identity input after the recognition unit identifies the identity input. The method includes steps providing an electronic reader displaying an electronic book file; inputting an identify recognition to the electronic reader; and displaying at least one page of the electronic book file previously used by a specific user in response to the identify recognition on the electronic reader.

Abstract: The present invention provides a compound of formula (I) for an organic electroluminescent device: wherein X and Y are each independently selected for the group consisting of an alkyl substituted, aryl substituted or unsubstituted carbazole, indolocarbazole, triphenylsilyl and diphenylphosphine oxide represented by formula (A), (B), (C), (D) or (E), in which R1, R2, and R3 are each independently selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen, an alkyl having 1 to 15 carbons atoms, an aryl group having 6 to 15 carbons atoms, an alkyl substituted, an aryl substituted or unsubstituted triphenylsilyl, and a diphenylphosphine oxide represented by the formula (D) or (E); m and n are each independently 0 or 1, provided that m+n is 1 or more; and Ar1 and Ar2 are each independently selected from the group consisting of an alkyl substituted, aryl substituted or unsubstituted phenyl, tolyl, naphthyl, fluorenyl, anthracenyl, and phenanthryl.