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 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 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 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 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 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 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 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 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.

Abstract: A two-dimensional hyperspectral imaging system for imaging a plurality of light signals of a sample by Fourier spectroscopy includes a first optical element, a second optical element, a phase difference modulator and an image sensor. The light signals pass by the first optical element. The second optical element is spaced away from and parallel to the first optical element, and the light signals pass by the second optical element. The phase difference modulator is closer to the first optical element than the second optical element to the first optical element, and configured for modifying a phase difference of adjacent two of the light signals. The image sensor is configured for receiving the light signals reflected from the first optical element and the second optical element, and operating Fourier transforming on the light signals. The second optical element is between the first optical element and the image sensor.

Abstract: The method for measuring vascular state comprising: outputting a first transmission electromagnetic signal to a first detecting location of a target vessel, and outputting a second transmission electromagnetic signal to a second detecting location of the target vessel; receiving a first feedback electromagnetic signal induced, at the first detecting location, by the first transmission electromagnetic signal, and receiving a first feedback electromagnetic signal induced, at the first detecting location, by the first transmission electromagnetic signal; determining a signal characteristic difference between the first feedback electromagnetic signal and the second feedback electromagnetic signal; and determining at least one vascular state of the target vessel according to the signal characteristic difference.

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 method for unseen emotion class recognition comprises: receiving, with an emotion recognition model, a speech sample to be tested; calculating, with an encoder, a sample embedding to be tested of the speech sample to be tested; calculating a first distance metric between the sample embedding to be tested and a first registered emotion category representation, and a second distance metric between the sample embedding to be tested and a second registered emotion category representation, wherein the second registered emotion category is not included in a plurality of basic emotion categories; and determining an emotion category of the speech sample to be tested according to the first distance metric and the second distance metric.