Abstract: A semiconductor package structure includes an organic substrate having a first surface, a first recess depressed from the first surface, a first chip over the first surface and covering the first recess, thereby defining a first cavity enclosed by a back surface of the first chip and the first recess, and a second chip over the first chip. The first cavity is an air cavity or a vacuum cavity.

Abstract: A wire-grip polarizer (“WGP”), and a panel having said WGP is provided. The WGP is mounted on an absorption layer. The absorption layer is mounted on a substrate. The substrate is brightly colored. The WGP includes a plurality of gratings formed of a metallic element. Each of the gratings is spaced apart from the other so as to form a waveguide. The WGP is configured to transmit S-Polarized light and reflect P-polarized light. The A thin film layer may be disposed on each of the metallic gratings. The thin film layer is configured to generate a resonance so as to modify the reflectivity of P-polarized light so as to reduce veiling glare and maintain the brightness of the substrate.

Abstract: An electroabsorption modulator that operates based on electroabsorption of a surface plasmon polariton mode is improved by various structural changes and/or selection of different materials. For example, at least a portion of the waveguide may be made to be conductive, e.g., by doping. Also, layers that make up the modulator structure may be placed along sides of waveguides in addition to or instead of simply on the top thereof. High permittivity gate dielectric materials may be employed. Also, materials other than ITO may be employed as a transparent conductor. Such an improved plasmonic electroabsorption modulator can be fabricated using standard semiconductor processing techniques and may be integrated with standard photonic integrated circuits, including silicon photonics and compound semiconductor-based platforms. Advantageously, high-speed, low-voltage operation over a wide spectrum of wavelengths may be achieved.

Abstract: Methods and systems for inhibiting an acceleration event prediction includes determining a current vehicle operating condition. An acceleration event is predicted based on a plurality of stored predictions that match the current vehicle operating condition. A determination is made whether to inhibit the acceleration event prediction. The acceleration event prediction is permitted to modify an acceleration event powertrain control such that a powertrain control occurs. A driver noncompliance with the acceleration event powertrain control is stored as a machine learning data and the current vehicle operating condition is stored as machine learning data upon the driver noncompliance. The stored machine learning data is used to determine whether to inhibit a future acceleration event prediction.

Abstract: A in-service trenchless repair method for disconnection of a drainage pipe includes steps of: detecting the disconnection by a pipe sonar, and making a traction rope; pulling a hollowed cylindrical airbag to the disconnection according to the mark on the traction rope; controlling an airbag valve by an air compressor on the ground to inflate the hollowed cylindrical airbag, so that the hollowed cylindrical airbag is in close contact with pipeline wall after inflation; drilling a grouting hole on the ground surface directly above and on both sides of the disconnection until reaching the disconnection, and inserting a grouting pipe into the grouting hole; then injecting a double-slurry quick-curing repair material into the disconnection through a grouting system on the ground and waiting for curing; deflating the hollowed cylindrical airbag and pulling out by the traction rope.

Abstract: A method is provided for fabricating a backside-illuminated photodetector in which a device wafer is joined to a readout wafer in an IC hybridization step. Before the IC hybridization step, the device layer is defined in the device wafer, and an LPCVD layer is formed over the device layer. The LPCVD layer may be a passivation layer, an antireflection coating, or both. The side of the device wafer having the LPCVD layer is bonded to a handle wafer, the IC is hybridized by mating the device wafer to the readout wafer, and the handle wafer is then removed, exposing the LPCVD layer. Because the LPCVD layer is formed before the active devices are fabricated, it can be made by high-temperature techniques for deposition and processing. Accordingly, a layer of high quality can be fabricated without any hazard to the active devices.

Abstract: Thermally annealed superparamagnetic core shell nanoparticles of an iron-cobalt alloy core and a silicon dioxide shell having high magnetic saturation are provided. A magnetic core of high magnetic moment obtained by compression sintering the thermally annealed superparamagnetic core shell nanoparticles is also provided. The magnetic core has little core loss due to hysteresis or eddy current flow.

Abstract: The present document discloses a conveyor system comprising a plurality of workpiece carriers, each adapted for supporting at least one workpiece during transportation, a conveyor, adapted for transporting the workpiece carriers, at least one flow device for controlling a movement of one of the workpiece carriers relative to the conveyor, the flow device comprising a local controller, at least one workpiece carrier sensor and at least one actuator, and a central controller, which is in data communication with the flow device, and having a memory containing a flow plan comprising data describing an intended flow of workpieces in the conveyor system.

Abstract: Methods and compositions are provided for ionic liquid processing of biomass.

Abstract: The disclosure concerns a pressure relief valve. The pressure relief valve includes a base member having a support element extending therefrom. A moveable housing is slideably attached to the support element, with the support element designed to allow the moveable housing to travel toward and away from the base member. A housing guide is located within the moveable housing, with the housing guide adjustably attached to the support element, and slideably attached to the moveable housing. During operation, the moveable housing extends from and retracts toward the base member, thereby opening and closing the pressure relief valve.

Abstract: A vehicle includes a door assembly including an outer door panel and an inner door panel defining a volume therebetween and a window frame that receives a window therein. A molding assembly includes a corner molding component including a portion that extends along an A-pillar portion of the window frame and a portion that extends along a lower portion of the window frame. A lower molding component extends along the lower portion of the window frame having a connector receiving notch located at a front end of the lower molding component that defines at least part of a catch tab portion. An engagement component comprising a body that is connected to the portion of the corner molding component that extends along the lower portion of the window frame and a connector that projects outward in a vehicle lateral direction and engages the catch tab portion thereby connecting the corner molding component and the lower molding component.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an interleaved, static time division multiple access (TDMA) for communicating in a power delivery system. For example, an access point may communicate with a plurality of electronic devices in the power delivery system. The access point may send a first signal indicating a first poll to a first group of devices in the power delivery system to allow the first group of devices to communicate data to the access point during assigned time slots of the first group of devices. The access point may send a second signal indicating a second poll to a second group of devices, separate from the first group of devices, in the power delivery system to allow the second group of devices to communicate data to the access point during assigned time slots following the second poll.

Abstract: Electrochemical devices and processes for forming them include an anode having magnesium, a cathode, and an electrolyte in contact with the anode and the cathode. The electrolyte includes a carboranyl magnesium salt and a mixed ether solvent in which the carboranyl magnesium salt is dissolved. The mixed ether solvent includes a first ether solvent and a second ether solvent that is different from the first ether solvent.

Abstract: There are included: a switching parameter detecting unit (21) that detects a switching voltage of a switching element (Q1); and an abnormality detecting unit (a first comparing unit (264a) and an abnormality determining unit (265)) that detects an abnormality caused by foreign matter, on the basis of a result of the detection by the switching parameter detecting unit (21).

Abstract: A system for communicating and managing messaging between a source system and a destination system including a publisher module, a topic module that receives the message from the publisher module and including one or more subscription modules, a queue module that receives the message from the topic module, a success queue module, an error queue module, and a subscriber module that receives the message from the queue module, then decompresses, decrypts, calculates the check sum, then prepares the message for transmission to the destination system and transmits the message to the destination system.

Abstract: A method of optical modulation in a non-resonant epsilon-near-zero (EMZ) plasmonic electro-optical modulator is provided. An optical carrier is injected into a waveguide optically coupled to a layer of transparent conductive material having an epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) wavelength. The transparent conductive material layer constitutes a portion of a capacitive structure that includes a gate dielectric layer. A time-varying bias voltage applied across the gate dielectric layer shifts the ENZ wavelength toward the carrier wavelength, and thereby impresses a phase modulation pattern on the carrier wave.

Abstract: A vehicular body structure includes a polymeric deck panel. The deck panel includes adjacent ridges and valleys with legs shared therebetween, crossbeam footprints crosswise to the adjacent ridges and valleys, and ribs extending along the adjacent ridges and valleys between the crossbeam footprints and ending short thereof. The ribs project normally to the deck panel past the ridges, and have elongate cross-sectional shapes, with cross-sectional thicknesses substantially the same as or greater than the cross-sectional thicknesses of the adjacent ridges and valleys.

Abstract: A damped hinge assembly includes a hinge arm adapted to be connected to an associated appliance body. A channel is pivotally connected to the hinge arm and is adapted to be connected to an associated appliance door. A damper is operatively connected between the channel and the hinge arm. The damper includes a body defining a bore and a piston slidably received in the bore. A rod is connected to the piston and projects outward from the bore. A damper fluid is contained in the bore and acts on the piston to dampen sliding movement of the piston in at least one direction in the bore. A spring is located in the bore and acts on the piston to bias the piston toward one end of the bore. An oven or other appliance includes at least one damped hinge assembly.

Abstract: A method is provided for isolating and labeling discrete features in a spectral radiographic image recorded as a set of images in different energy channels. The disclosed method involves creating a profile for each of at least some pixels in the spectral radiographic image. The profiles are sequences of pixel values, in which each pixel value is a photon count or a similar radiographic exposure value indicative of the attenuation of a portion of the scanning beam in a respective energy channel. Iterative hierarchical clustering is used to cluster the pixels on the basis of their respective profiles. Labels are assigned to one or more of the resulting clusters. In implementations, each label can be associated with an inferred material composition or with an inference that the material composition is unknown.

Abstract: A weather strip seal system is provided for sealing a variable width gap between two components of a vehicle. The seal includes a main body portion defining a length dimension and a width dimension, with at least a portion of the main body portion being expandable and retractable in the width dimension. A connection end is provided, defined by a first longitudinally extending edge of the main body portion, and is configured for permanently connecting the weather strip seal to a first vehicle component. A coupling end is provided, opposite the connection end, defined by a second longitudinally extending edge of the main body portion, and is configured for removably coupling the weather strip seal to a second first vehicle component. A magnetic sealing mechanism is provided to removably couple the weather strip seal to the second vehicle component.