Abstract: A device includes an active region, an isolation structure, a gate structure, an interlayer dielectric (ILD) layer, a reading contact, and a sensing contact. The isolation structure laterally surrounds the active region. The gate structure is across the active region. The ILD layer laterally surrounds the gate structure. The reading contact is in contact with the isolation structure and is separated from the gate structure by a first portion of the ILD layer. The sensing contact is in contact with the isolation structure and is separated from the gate structure by a second portion of the ILD layer.

Abstract: A method for inspecting particles is suitable for inspecting particles on a substrate. The method for inspecting the particles includes the following. The substrate is disposed on a stage. An inspection radiation is provided to irradiate on the substrate, in which the inspection radiation is suitable for exciting the particles on the substrate to emit a secondary radiation. Also, the secondary radiation is detected to confirm whether the particles exist on the substrate and positions of the particles are detected.

Abstract: A cone laser-gain module including a pump-light source, a laser rod, and a cone structure, is provided. The cone structure, including a large and a small cone aperture connected by cone axis, is configured to accommodate the laser rod parallel to the cone axis and concentrate the pump light toward the laser rod. The pump light enters the cone structure from a large cone aperture. The laser rod is configured to absorb the pump lights to generate a laser light along a laser-emission axis parallel to the laser-rod axis. In particular, the pump lights, some of which diverge and initially miss the laser rod, are reflected and concentrated on the laser rod by an inner surface of the cone structure. A cone laser amplifier and a cone laser oscillator utilizing single or cascaded cone laser-gain modules are also provided.

Abstract: An EUV radiation light source generation apparatus includes a pump laser, at least one pulse shaping unit, a wavelength conversion unit, and a high-order harmonics generation unit. The pump laser provides a pulse laser radiation beam. Each pulse shaping unit conducts a spectrum extending operation and a phase compensation operation to the pulse laser radiation beam. The phase compensation operation makes multiple frequency components of the pulse laser radiation beam emitted by the pulse shaping unit to be substantially in phase. The wavelength conversion unit conducts a center wavelength conversion operation to the pulse laser radiation beam. The high-order harmonics generation unit receives the pulse laser radiation beam processed by the pulse shaping unit and the center wavelength conversion operation, and focuses the received pulse laser radiation beam to a high order harmonic generation medium to generate a high order harmonic radiation beam.

Abstract: A rehabilitation device is adapted for wrist rehabilitation, and includes two magnetic actuators and a movable frame unit. Each of the magnetic actuator includes a motor, a rotating shaft, a rotating member, and two magnetic coupling subunits that are respectively connected to the motor and the rotating shaft. Each of the magnetic coupling subunits includes a magnetic ring that has a plurality of N pole portions and a plurality of S pole portions alternately arranged about a center of the magnetic ring. For each of the magnetic actuators, when one of the magnetic coupling subunits that is connected to the motor is driven by the motor to rotate, the other one of the magnetic coupling subunits that is connected to the rotating shaft is urged to rotate by attraction between the magnetic rings of the magnetic coupling subunits such that the rotating shaft and the rotating member rotate.

Abstract: A feed-forward equalizer includes a shift register, a look-up table circuit, a selection circuit and an output terminal. The shift register temporarily stores and shifts input data based on a clock signal to obtain multiple shifted input data. The look-up table circuit has multiple processed signals. The processed signals are obtained by logical operation of multiple coefficients. An input terminal of the selection circuit is coupled to the look-up table circuit. A control terminal of the selection circuit receives the shifted input data. The selection circuit selects at least one of the processed signals of the look-up table circuit as a selected signal based on the shifted input data. The output terminal provides an output signal according to the selected signal.

Abstract: A feed-forward equalizer includes a shift register, a look-up table circuit, a selection circuit and an output terminal. The shift register temporarily stores and shifts input data based on a clock signal to obtain multiple shifted input data. The look-up table circuit has multiple processed signals. The processed signals are obtained by logical operation of multiple coefficients. An input terminal of the selection circuit is coupled to the look-up table circuit. A control terminal of the selection circuit receives the shifted input data. The selection circuit selects at least one of the processed signals of the look-up table circuit as a selected signal based on the shifted input data. The output terminal provides an output signal according to the selected signal.

Abstract: A pyrazole metal complex for absorption of carbon dioxide, a method for preparing the pyrazole metal complex, and a method for absorbing carbon dioxide are provided; wherein the product produced by reacting pyrazole metal complex and carbon dioxide may be transformed into several economically valuable compounds.

Abstract: A compressed sensing imaging method and a compressed sensing imaging system are provided. In the method, multiple grayscale masks having multiple elements with grayscale values represented by floating-point values or continuous values are generated as sensing matrices based on a compressed sensing theory. A spatial light modulator is controlled to modulate an electromagnetic wave projected on an object under test according to the grayscale value of each element in each grayscale mask, and a physical property of the electromagnetic wave passing through the object under test is detected to obtain multiple measured values. An image reconstruction algorithm is executed to reconstruct an image of the object under test by using the grayscale masks and the measured values obtained from the electromagnetic wave modulated by each grayscale mask.

Abstract: A receiver includes a channel compensator, a decoder and an adaptive controller. The channel compensator performs channel compensation on an input data signal to generates a feed-in data signal. The decoder demultiplexes a to-be-decoded data signal that originates from the feed-in data signal into multiple demultiplexed data signals, and decoding the demultiplexed data signals respectively into multiple decoded signals. Based on a decoded output that originates from the decoded signals, the adaptive controller performs adaptive calibration on the channel compensator to adjust a gain of the channel compensator with reference to an error portion of a first sample of the decoded signals and a data portion of a second sample of the decoded signals that is generated before the generation of the first sample of the decoded signals.

Abstract: An eddy current induction sensing method includes: providing an excitation signal to a first coil; generating a first electromagnetic signal, by the first coil, caused by the excitation signal; coupling the first electromagnetic signal to a second coil to cause the second coil to generate a second electromagnetic signal; generating an induced eddy current by a target conductor while the target conductor receives the first electromagnetic signal or the second electromagnetic signal, wherein the induced eddy current at least partially offsets the second electromagnetic signal of the second coil; and measuring, from the second coil, a variation of the at least partially offset second electromagnetic signal to determine a state of the target conductor.

Abstract: A method is provided and includes operations as below: receiving an input in an input layer of a spiking neural network during time steps, wherein the input includes multiple spikes; generating, based on multiple activation values corresponding to the spikes, location information including count numbers each corresponding to non-zero values, in the activation values, in one of multiple rows of the input; performing, based on the location information, a matrix multiplication with the non-zero values in a first number of rows in the rows with a first group of filters of weight values to generate multiple first membrane potentials for outputting a first output spike; and performing, based on the location information, the matrix multiplication with the non-zero values in a second number of rows in the rows with the first group of filters of weight values to generate multiple second membrane potentials for outputting a second output spike.

Abstract: A ventricular assist system comprises a ventricular state sensor and a ventricular assist device coupled to the ventricular state sensor. The ventricular state sensor includes a coil and a control module coupled to the coil. Wherein the control module is configured to drive the coil to perfume an eddy current induction measurement to a ventricle of the subject, and derive at least one ventricular state information of the subject through the eddy current induction measurement. Wherein the ventricular assist device receives the at least one ventricular state information to adjust at least one ventricular control parameter of the ventricular assist device.

Abstract: A solid electrolyte with high-entropy garnet-type structure includes a high-entropy garnet-type structure oxide represented by following formula (1): LiaLa3ZrbTacM1dM2eM3fO12 ??(1) In the formula (1), M1, M2, and M3 are respectively W, Sc, Sn, Nb, Y, Si, Sb, Te, Ti, Mo, Mg, or Nd, b+c+d+e+f=2, 5<a<8, 0.01<b<0.6, 0.01<c<0.6, 0.01<d<0.6, 0.01<e<0.6, and 0?f<0.6. A solid electrolyte of an all solid-state lithium-ion battery includes the solid electrolyte with high-entropy garnet-type structure.

Abstract: An ear-worn eddy current measurement device includes a sensor and a control module. The sensor includes a coil and a setting structure combined with the coil. The setting structure is configured to arrange the coil on an ear of a subject and place an emission surface of the coil towards an ear measurement area of the subject. The control module is coupled to the coil, and is configured to drive the coil to perform eddy current induction measurement on the measurement area and obtain at least one physiological information of the subject.

Abstract: The vascular state measurement method includes: performing a first eddy current induction measurement to a target vessel by a first measurement range to derive a first signal characteristic difference; adjusting at least one of a first terminal position and a second terminal position of the first measurement range to form a second measurement range; performing a second eddy current induction measurement to the target vessel by the second measurement range to derive a second signal characteristic difference; and performing at least one action according to the first signal characteristic difference and the second signal characteristic difference, wherein the at least one action is select from determining an optimal detection section of the target vessel and estimating at least one stenosis or sclerosis location of the target vessel.

Abstract: A handheld vascular state measurement device includes a shell, a coil set, and a control module. The shell has a probe part and a handheld part. The coil set is arranged on a measurement surface of the probe part and includes a plurality of coils. The control module is coupled to the coil set. The control module is configured to drive the plurality of coils of the coil set to perform an eddy current induction measurement on a target vessel to derive a plurality of sensing signals corresponding to the plurality of coils. Two of the plurality of sensing signals have a signal characteristic difference. The control module evaluates at least one vascular state of the target vessel based on the signal characteristic difference.

Abstract: A high strength and corrosion resistant ferrochrome alloy bulk is disclosed, which comprises, in weight percent: 30-68% Cr, 1.5-8% Ni, 1.6-6% C, and the balance Fe and incidental impurities, of which a Fe/Ni ratio is in a range from 5 to 10 and a Cr/C ratio is in a range between 10 and 33. Experimental data reveal that, samples of the high strength and corrosion resistant ferrochrome alloy bulk all possess hardness above HV400 and excellent corrosion resistance due to the high content of Cr. As a result, experimental data have proved that the high-strength and corrosion-resistant ferrochrome alloy bulk of the present invention has a significant potential to replace conventional high-strength stainless steels, so as to be widely applied in various industrial fields, e.g., aviation, transportation, marine facility components, chemical equipment and pipe fittings, engine parts, turbine blades, valves, bearings, building materials, and so on.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for speech emotion recognition is provided. The computer-implemented method includes an emotion prediction corresponding to speech data that is generated based on the speech data and a speech emotion recognition model without bias. The speech emotion recognition model without bias is trained by training a fairness-constrained adversarial network based on a labeled training set with known bias and a loss function. The fairness-constrained adversarial network includes a domain classifier for bias classification and the speech emotion recognition model. The loss function used for training the fairness-constrained adversarial network is positively related to a Wasserstein distance (WD) loss.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a sensing element including a sensing electrode and a filter covering the sensing electrode. The filter includes a first work function layer and a second work function layer. The first work function layer is over the sensing electrode. The second work function layer is over the first work function layer. A work function value of the second work function layer is greater than a work function value of the first work function layer, and an atomic percentage of metal in the second work function layer is greater than an atomic percentage of metal in the first work function layer.