Abstract: The present disclosure describes a method for forming gate stack layers with a fluorine concentration up to about 35 at. %. The method includes forming dielectric stack, barrier layer and soaking the dielectric stack and/or barrier layer in a fluorine-based gas. The method further includes depositing one or more work function layers on the high-k dielectric layer, and soaking at least one of the one or more work function layers in the fluorine-based gas. The method also includes optional fluorine drive in annealing process, together with sacrificial blocking layer to avoid fluorine out diffusion and loss into atmosphere.

Abstract: Provided is an image sensor including: a first grayscale pixel including a first photoelectric converter and a first light collector configured to allow light of a first wavelength range to be collected in the first photoelectric converter; a detection pixel adjacent to the first grayscale pixel, the detection pixel including a detection photoelectric converter and a detection circuit configured to detect a variation of an amount of light incident on the detection photoelectric converter over time; a high refractive region including a first refractive index; and a low refractive region including a second refractive index, wherein the second refractive index is less than the first refractive index, and wherein the high refractive region and the low refractive region are in the first light collector and are arranged in a first pattern.

Abstract: An image sensor includes a substrate including a first surface and a second surface opposing the first surface; a first photoelectric conversion region; a floating diffusion region; a transfer gate configured to move charges generated in the first photoelectric conversion region to the floating diffusion region; a first conductive layer electrically connected to the transfer gate and vertically overlapping with the transfer gate; and a first vertical contact including a first surface and a second surface, wherein the first surface of the vertical contact is connected to the first conductive layer, wherein the first vertical contact is vertically overlapping with the first conductive layer, wherein the first surface of the first vertical contact has a first width in a second direction, wherein the first conductive layer has a second width at least 1.5 times greater than the first width.

Abstract: This disclosure discloses a multi-link communication method and a related apparatus. In a scenario in which simultaneous transmission and reception over a plurality of links is not supported, a multi-link device first sends a first physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU) over a first link, and then sends a second PPDU over a second link through channel contention, where an end time of the second PPDU is not later than an end time of the first PPDU. The method not only ensures fairness of multi-link access, but also can reduce an idle rate of the plurality of links.

Abstract: A relay, a power distribution apparatus, and a charging pile. The relay includes at least one group of main lead-out pin components and at least one group of main contact components, each group of main contact components is located inside the relay, each group of main lead-out pin components is located outside the relay, each group of main lead-out pin components is connected to the main contact components, and each group of main lead-out pin components is configured to connect to a circuit to control connection or disconnection of the circuit. Each group of main lead-out pin components includes a long lead-out pin and a short lead-out pin, and a length of the long lead-out pin is greater than a length of the short lead-out pin.

Abstract: A paging method and apparatus, an electronic device, and a storage medium, are provided. The method includes: detecting whether a data radio bearer DRB that is of a first network and for transmitting Internet protocol multimedia subsystem IMS data has been established; when the DRB that is of the first network and for transmitting the IMS data has been established, switching from the first network to a second network when incoming call information is not received within a first preset duration through the DRB that is of the first network and for transmitting the IMS data; and when the DRB that is of the first network and for transmitting the IMS data has not been established, actively releasing the first network and sending a mobility registration update request of the first network to a network side device, or performing a cell switching process.

Abstract: A tablet receptacle 50 receives the tablets discharged to the tablet dropping passage below a mounting part 12 in the drug dispensing device in which the tablets are packaged by being discharged from a tablet cassette 11 to a tablet dropping passage 42 through the mounting part 12. The tablet receptacle 50 includes a receiving port 50g to be inserted into the tablet dropping passage 42 when the tablet receptacle 50 is installed. The receiving port 50g is configured to receive the tablets discharged from the tablet cassette 11 mounted on the mounting part 12 located above the tablet receptacle 50 and dropped along the tablet dropping passage 42.

Abstract: An air supply-and-exhaust device includes: a heating device to heat a sheet to which liquid is applied; an air supplier including an air supply path to supply air into the heating device via air supply ports disposed in the heating device; an air exhauster to exhaust air in the heating device; and a heat exchanger to recover heat of air exhausted by the air exhauster and apply the heat recovered by the heat exchanger to air supplied by the air supplier to heat the air. Heated air heated by the heat exchanger is supplied into the heating device via at least one air supply port of the air supply ports. Non-heated air not heated by the heat exchanger is supplied into the heating device via at least one other air supply port of the air supply ports than the at least one air supply port.

Abstract: A liquid application system includes a liquid discharger to apply a liquid to a sheet, a heater to heat the sheet to which the liquid is applied, an exhauster to exhaust air from the heater, and circuitry to control an exhaust volume by the exhauster based on an amount of vapor from the sheet in the heater.

Abstract: Master control system of atmosphere system and Android manipulation system are provided. Master computer is provided and master computer is connected to slave computer, gift machine body, and gift machine lattice screen, wherein gift machine lattice screen is electrically connected to master computer, and gift machine lattice screen and master computer communicate with each other to transmit instructions; slave computer is electrically connected to master computer, and slave computer and master computer communicate with each other to transmit instructions; and gift machine body is electrically connected to slave computer, and gift machine body and slave computer communicate with each other to transmit instructions, wherein master computer is further connected to Android program and hanging ring host; master computer is electrically connected to hanging ring host; and master computer and hanging ring host communicate with each other to transmit instructions.

Abstract: A lead with an electrically insulating resin film includes a conductor and an electrically insulating resin film. With the conductor being viewed from above, when an axis along two sides of the conductor facing each other is defined as an X-axis and an axis orthogonal to the X-axis is defined as a Y-axis, the electrically insulating resin film is disposed along the X-axis so as to cross and cover the conductor and overlap each other by extending beyond the conductor without covering two end portions of the conductor that are along the Y-axis. The electrically insulating resin film have a first layer in contact with the conductor and a second layer. The second layer includes a base resin and an added component. The base resin has a melting point of 110° C. to 130° C., and the added component has a softening point of 130° C. or less.

Abstract: Provided is a battery module and energy storage system including the same. The battery module includes a plurality of battery cells, a plurality of busbars electrically connecting the plurality of battery cells, a busbar holder positioned above the plurality of battery cells and supporting the plurality of busbars, a plurality of gas flow detection sensors fixedly coupled to the busbar holder, and circuitry electrically connected to the plurality of busbars and the plurality of gas flow detection sensors.

Abstract: An antenna substrate includes a baseplate, a first radiation electrode, a second radiation electrode disposed on the baseplate spatially apart from the first radiation electrode in a second direction (X), and a ground portion that is disposed on the baseplate and that is common to the first and the second radiation electrode. The ground portion includes a ground electrode that faces the first radiation electrode when seen from the first direction (Z), a connection line between the first radiation electrode and the second radiation electrode when seen from the first direction and that has a size that is smaller than a size of the ground electrode in a third direction (Y) orthogonal to the second direction when seen from the first direction (Z), and a stub.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a phased array antenna module loaded with metamaterials, an RF circuit, and a 5G mobile device. The module includes a millimeter-wave RF module with at least one emission surface and an arc-shaped metamaterial structure featuring multiple stacked layers, each with periodically distributed metallic unit structures. Each concave surface of the metamaterial structure aligns with the corresponding emission surface, and the metallic unit structures in the same layer are of equal size. Across layers, these structures are arranged in a one-to-one correspondence, with sizes sequentially increasing or decreasing along the stacking direction. This configuration improves gain, expands scanning angles, and minimizes scanning loss, offering enhanced performance and seamless integration with modern 5G devices.

Abstract: A steel material and a mold are disclosed. The steel material contains 0.090<C?0.170 mass %, 0.60<Si?1.00 mass %, 0.10?Mn?0.60 mass %, 0.003?P?0.080 mass %, S?0.012 mass %, 0.20<Cu?0.58 mass %, 0.20?Ni?1.10 mass %, 0.20?Ni?1.10 mass %, where Cu?Ni, 7.70?Cr?8.20 mass %, 0.70<Mo?1.20 mass %, 0.10<V?0.30 mass %, 0.007?Al?0.100 mass %, and 0.001?N<0.015 mass %, where 0.118?C+N?0.168 mass %, with the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities. The mold includes the steel material.

Abstract: A cutting tool is a cutting tool comprising a substrate and a coating film disposed on the substrate, in which the coating film includes a first layer, the first layer is composed of an alternate layer where a first unit layer and a second unit layer are alternately stacked, the first unit layer is composed of AlaCr1-a-bCebN, a is 0.400 or more and 0.800 or less, b is 0.001 or more and 0.100 or less, the second unit layer is composed of AlcTi1-cN, c is 0.30 or more and 0.75 or less, and a and c satisfy a relationship of a>c.

Abstract: The polytrimethylene terephthalate fiber satisfies the requirements that a peak value of the thermal stress of the fiber be present in the temperature range of from 40 to 100° C., the peak value be 0.1 to 0.8 cN/dtex, and the fiber have an elongation at break of 60 to 200%. The method for producing a fiber includes melting and solidifying polytrimethylene terephthalate, and then winding up the solidified polytrimethylene terephthalate at a winding speed of 1,000 m/minute or more, and heating the resultant polytrimethylene terephthalate using a heated roller at a temperature which is ±20° C. of the glass transition point of polytrimethylene terephthalate, and drawing the heated polytrimethylene terephthalate at a draw ratio of 1.0 to 2.0 times, and further winding the drawn polytrimethylene terephthalate round a heated roller at 50 to 150° C. and then winding up the resultant polytrimethylene terephthalate at a rate of 2,000 to 4,800 m/minute.

Abstract: An electronic device includes: a display; and at least one processor operatively connected to the display and configured to: receive, from an external electronic device, first information representing a first set of user inputs of the external electronic device connected to the electronic device, receive, from the external electronic device, the first information and second information representing a second set of user inputs with respect to the first set of user inputs, display, via the display, first contents corresponding to the first set of user inputs, based on the first information, and display, via the display, second contents corresponding to the first set of user inputs and the second set of user inputs, based on the first information and the second information.

Abstract: A reflection module includes a housing, a guide member disposed to be relatively rotatable on the housing, based on a first rotation axis, and a holder disposed to be relatively rotatable on the guide member based on a second rotation axis and having a reflection member mounted therein, wherein a first pulling magnet is disposed on one of the guide member and the holder, a second pulling magnet facing the first pulling magnet is disposed on the other of the guide member and the holder, and both attractive force and repulsive force are applied between the first pulling magnet and the second pulling magnet.

Abstract: A method of controlling a vibrational transducer, the method comprising: tracking a temperature metric of the vibrational transducer; and controlling a drive signal for the vibrational transducer, where the drive signal is limited to a value to protect the vibrational transducer from over excursion, and where said value is a function of the tracked temperature metric.