Abstract: The present invention relates to an electrically tunable photonic resonator device for a component having a fast and flat actuation response. The photonic resonator device includes at least one optical waveguide with an optical interface for coupling in laser light. The photonic resonator device includes at least one optical resonator including a waveguide made of an optical resonator material. A laser light coupled via the optical waveguide is coupled into at least one optical resonator. The photonic resonator device includes at least one piezo actuator to apply mechanical stress onto the optical resonator. The optical resonator, the piezo actuator, and the optical waveguide are monolithically integrated on a common substrate of the photonic resonator device. The photonic resonator device includes a mechanical mode suppression means configured to attenuate one or more mechanical modes of oscillation caused by an AC operation of the piezo actuator.

Abstract: Aqueous effluent treatment system including a separation reactor having a reactor chamber fluidly connected to an aqueous effluent source, connected via a pump to an inlet of the reactor chamber, a fluid extraction system connected to a liquid effluent outlet at a top of the reactor chamber, and a solid residue extraction system connected to a solid residue outlet at a bottom of the reactor chamber. The separation reactor is operable to generate pressures exceeding 22 MPa and temperatures exceeding 300° C. in the reactor chamber configured to generate a supercritical zone in an upper portion of the reactor chamber to which the liquid effluent outlet is connected, and a subcritical zone in a lower portion of the chamber within the reactor chamber to which the solid residue outlet is connected.

Abstract: The subject matter of the present invention is a microfluidic process for treating and analysing a solution containing a biological material, comprising a step of introducing the solution into microchannels of a microfluidic circuit (1), a step of forming drops of this solution, under the effect of modifications of the surface tension of the solution, a step of moving the drops to one or more drop storage zones(s) (130), under the effect of modifications of the surface tension of the drops, a step of treating the drops and a step of analysing the drops.

Abstract: A fin field-effect transistor (FinFET) based semiconductor memory array having a plurality of memory cells, each memory cell including a write transistor having a write wordline gate over a first fin connected to a write wordline gate contact, a write bitline contact in connection with the first fin, and a storage node contact in connection with the first fin, and a read transistor having a storage node gate over a second fin, the storage node gate connected to a storage node gate contact, the storage node gate contact connected to the storage node contact, a read wordline contact in connection with the second fin, and a read bitline contact in connection with the second fin, wherein the write wordline gate and the storage node gate are arranged in series to each other along an extension axis that coincides with an longitudinal axis of the write wordline gate and a longitudinal axis of the storage node gate.

Abstract: The present invention concerns a laser engraving device for engraving a target surface. The laser engraving device comprises: a beam splitter for dividing a processing laser beam into a plurality of engraving laser beams; a first optical focusing element with an adjustable focal point for focusing the plurality of engraving laser beams onto the target surface; and an optical sensor configured to determine the distance between the target surface and the optical sensor. The first optical focusing element is connected to the optical sensor by a data link to receive the determined distance from the optical sensor. Furthermore, the first optical focusing element is configured to adjust its focal point based on the determined distance received from the optical sensor.

Abstract: Peptides that specifically bind erythrocytes are described. These are provided as peptidic ligands having sequences that specifically bind, or as antibodies or fragments thereof that provide specific binding, to erythrocytes. The peptides may be prepared as molecular fusions with therapeutic agents, tolerizing antigens, or targeting peptides. Immunotolerance may be created by use of the fusions and choice of an antigen on a substance for which tolerance is desired.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for operating a resonant power converter. The resonant power converter has a primary stage and a secondary stage, at least one of which is actively operated and includes a half-bridge or full-bridge inverter having a pull-up switching device, coupled in parallel with a pull-up antiparallel diode and a pull-down switching device, coupled in parallel with a pull-down antiparallel diode, comprising the steps of alternately turning-off and turning on the pull-up and pull-down switching devices according to a periodic switching scheme, wherein after turning-off one of the switching devices the complementary switching device is respectively turned on after a delay time; and initiating an error handling, if after turning-off of one of the switching devices a non-conductance state of the antiparallel diode of the complementary switching device has been determined.

Abstract: A method of accessing a memory space of a memory device with a decoder, the memory space having faults, including the steps of performing a memory access operation by an electronic device to a access a logical memory space of the memory device, and randomizing the memory access operation with a randomization logic to access data from a physical memory space based on the logical memory space, the randomization logic providing time varying behavior for accessing the physical memory space.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method of machine-learning. The method includes obtaining a training dataset of 3D models of real-world objects. The method further includes learning, based on the training dataset and on a patch-decomposition of the 3D models of the training dataset, a finite codebook of quantized vectors and a neural network. The neural network comprises a rotation-invariant encoder. The rotation-invariant encoder is configured for rotation-invariant encoding of a patch of a 3D model into a quantized latent vector of the codebook. The neural network further includes a decoder. The decoder is configured for decoding a sequence of quantized latent vectors of the codebook into a 3D model. The sequence corresponds to a patch-decomposition. This constitutes an improved solution for 3D model generation.

Abstract: A method of volumetric manufacturing a three-dimensional object or article by illuminating a non-transparent and/or absorptive photosensitive material with light patterns from multiple angles. The method including the steps of capturing at least one fluorescence or scattering snapshot for one or a set of different illuminating projected patterns in the said photo-sensitive material, obtaining therefrom at least one physical parameter describing the light propagation through the photosensitive material, and computing a set of optimized projected patterns with the aid of the at least one physical parameter. The optimized projected patterns are used for volumetric manufacturing the three-dimensional object or article. A device for performing the method is further described.

Abstract: Use of a compound of the general formula (I), (II), (III), (IV), (V) or (VI) as solvent for chemical reactions, for recrystallizations or extractions.

Abstract: The invention describes a composition containing a) a functionalized polymer (10) that comprises at least one polymer segment (13) and at least two polymer aggregating segments (11,12) capable of forming non-covalent bonds based on a supramolecular interaction, b) an aggregating additive (20) that comprises at least one additive aggregating segment (21) capable of forming non-covalent bonds based on the same supramolecular interaction as the polymer aggregating segments (11,12), wherein the polymer aggregating segments (11,12) and the additive aggregating segment (21) are ditopic, wherein the polymer aggregating segments (11,12) and the additive aggregating segment (21) are designed such that they can form aggregates (31) that contain polymer aggregating segments (11,12) and additive aggregating segments (21), and wherein the aggregating additive (20) has a molecular weight of from 50 g/mol to 2000 g/mol.

Abstract: This method for predicting value(s) of a quantity relative to a target device is implemented by an electronic prediction system and comprises the following steps: training a prediction probabilistic model, said training including: receiving measured values of the quantity for N devices, N>1, calculating predicted values of the quantity for said N devices with the prediction probabilistic model, computing a criteria based on the measured values and on the predicted values, modifying model parameter(s) of the prediction probabilistic model according to the computed criteria, updating the prediction probabilistic model with the modified model parameter(s), predicting value(s) of the quantity relative to the target device with the trained prediction probabilistic model; wherein the criteria depends on a predefined distribution quantile.

Abstract: A charge-injection cell-based temperature sensor (1) is provided. The temperature sensor (1) comprises one or more charge-injection cells (3, 9). The temperature sensor (1) is configured to allow charge to be transferred from one or more source capacitors (Cs,n, Cs,p) to one or more output capacitors (Cout,n, Cout,p) once transistors (M1, M2, M3, M4) of the charge-injection cells are enabled to allow current to flow through them. The temperature sensor (1) further comprises a temperature sensing unit (7) configured to determine one or more charge-injection cell output voltage values to thereby derive a temperature value from the one or more first charge-injection cell output voltage values.

Abstract: An electric vehicle (EV) charging method which considers the EVs heterogeneity, taking into account the absence of any information about future arrivals and departures, and of the amount of time any charging will take. The method further considers both switch on and off possibilities and not an arbitrarily small minimum charging power. In order to achieve all these objectives, the invention defines novel metrics and uses them to construct a dedicated optimization problem. As the charging power is discontinuous, the minimum charging power not being arbitrarily small, the optimization problem is mixed integer by nature. Further, because the mixed-integer optimization is difficult to perform in real-time, the invention proposes a heuristic for reducing the number of integer variables, thus reducing the complexity of the problem.

Abstract: A method for remotely controlling an operated unmanned object, comprises defining of a set of control movements of an operator; selecting of minimal necessary signals to reliably acquire the operator's control movements; defining of a mapping of the control movements to commands for the operated unmanned object; sensing of operator's body movements; and transmitting of the minimal necessary signals corresponding to the operator's movements to the operated unmanned object.

Abstract: A tool for generating a plasma, the tool having at least one instrument, the instrument having at least a power supply electrode, an internal dielectric screen, a counter electrode, and a sheath. A device that has such a tool.

Abstract: A scintillation device including a silicon plate having a rectangular shape and having a first side and a second side opposite the first side, wherein the first side includes a plurality of first channels arranged to be in parallel with each other extending in a first direction, wherein walls in the silicon plate that form the first channels are coated with an optically reflective or dielectric layer, and wherein the first channels are filled with a scintillation resin in a solid state forming a first waveguide.

Abstract: A device (100) is provided for treating diseases that produce elevated intraocular pressures, such as glaucoma, wherein the device (100) includes a housing shell (101) defining a cavity (107) between a first end (102) and a second end (104) of the housing shell (101), and an elastic membrane (110) disposed within the cavity (107) to divide the cavity (107) into a fluidic channel (106) that permits a flow of fluid from the first end (102) to the second (104) end and a sealed cavity (112). The elastic membrane (110) deforms to change the volume of the sealed cavity (107) responsive to pressure fluctuations between the first and second ends (102, 104), thereby varying the fluidic resistance of the flow of fluid through the fluidic channel (106).

Abstract: The present invention proposes a method for detecting anomalous or out-of-distribution images in a machine learning system (1) comprising a pre-training network with a first encoder, and an anomaly detection network with a second encoder. The system is first pre-trained by training the pre-training network, and then subsequently fine-tuned by training the anomaly detection network. According to one example, during pre-training, only unlabelled training images are used, while during fine-tuning, a small fraction of labelled training images is used in addition to unlabelled training images. The method can be applied to both single and multi-domain image data.