Abstract: Disclosed is a semiconductor device comprising a substrate, a capacitor contact structure electrically connected to the substrate, a bottom electrode connected to the capacitor contact structure, a capacitor dielectric layer on the bottom electrode, and a top electrode on the capacitor dielectric layer. The top electrode includes an interface layer on the capacitor dielectric layer and an electrode layer on the interface layer. The interface layer includes a first layer on the capacitor dielectric layer and a second layer on the first layer. The first layer includes molybdenum and oxygen. The second layer includes molybdenum and nitrogen. The electrode layer includes titanium and nitrogen. A thickness of the interface layer is less than a thickness of the capacitor dielectric layer and a thickness of the electrode layer.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a pharmaceutical composition containing a cinnamic amide derivative that activates FXR or an isomer, solvate, or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and a method for preparing the same.

Abstract: A a composition for prevention or treatment of a Staphylococcus aureus infectious disease and a composition for prevention or treatment of a thrombotic disorder caused by Staphylococcus aureus infection are disclosed. Cell lysis by 11 toxins of Staphylococcus aureus can be thoroughly inhibited by using the cross-reactivity of antibodies against Staphylococcus aureus toxins, even with a minimal combination of antigens. The composition can be used as an effective therapeutic composition that can comprehensively remove or alleviate comprehensive pathological conditions caused by infection, away from piecemeal amelioration of individual symptoms caused by Staphylococcus aureus infection, by inducing opsonophagocytosis and effectively controlling blood coagulation in infected individuals.

Abstract: A method and system for training an image classification model is disclosed. An aspect is to separate training processes of a feature value extraction model and an image classification model and train the feature value extraction model on a representative feature value suitable for image classification into a specific label value (e.g., “Peak”), thereby improving accuracy and performance of a classification model for a ground-penetrating radar (GPR) image that is captured by a GPR and is not easy for feature value extraction.

Abstract: An inductively coupled plasma processing apparatus includes a lower chamber providing a space for a substrate, a high-frequency antenna that generates inductively coupled plasma in the lower chamber, dielectric windows disposed between the lower chamber and the high-frequency antenna, metal windows alternatingly disposed between the dielectric windows, and gas inlet pipes disposed in each of the metal windows, wherein each of the gas inlet pipes includes nozzles that introduce gases to the lower chamberamber.

Abstract: A method and a system for generating independent coherent photons frequency-stabilized to transition of atoms for long-distance quantum communication are provided. The method for generating independent coherent photons frequency-stabilized to transition of atoms for long-distance quantum communication according to the present disclosure, includes generating a photon in a quantum state from a first quantum light source including an alkali atom or an ensemble of alkali atoms therein as a medium, further generating a photon in a quantum state from a second quantum light source spatially separated from the first quantum light source, including the same medium as that of the first quantum light source therein, and oscillating a photon pair obtained by coupling the photons generated by the first and second quantum light sources as a continuous wave coherent photon (CWCP) for quantum communication.

Abstract: Provided is a method of preparing an SnSe thermoelectric material including (a) heating a mixture including Sn2+ and Se2?, (b) cooling the mixture at a cooling rate greater than 0 and equal to or less than 3 K/h, and forming single crystal Sn1-xSe (where 0<x<1), and an SnSe thermoelectric material prepared thereby and including Sn vacancies.

Abstract: The apparatus includes a process chamber having a treating space therein, a support unit for supporting the substrate in the treating space, a gas supply unit for supplying treating gas to the treating space, and a microwave application unit for applying microwaves to the treating gas to generate plasma. The microwave application unit may include first power supply for applying a first microwave, a support plate having a groove formed on an upper surface thereof and combined with the process chamber above the support unit to define the treating space, a first transmission plate inserted into the groove to radiate the first microwave to the treating space, and a first waveguide disposed to overlap with an upper portion of the first transmission plate and coupled to the first power supply, wherein a plurality of grooves may be formed along a circumferential direction in an edge region of the support plate.

Abstract: An exemplary embodiment of the present invention provided an apparatus for treating a substrate. The apparatus for treating the substrate includes a process chamber having a treating space therein, a support unit for supporting the substrate in the treating space, gas supply unit for supplying treating gas to the treating space, and a microwave application unit for applying microwaves to the treating gas to generate plasma, wherein the microwave application unit includes a transmission plate disposed above the support unit to radiate the microwaves to the treating space, a first waveguide disposed above the transmission plate, and a first power supply for applying the microwaves to the first waveguide, wherein the first waveguide is provided in a ring shape.

Abstract: A deep learning model based on attention using an embedding scheme for continuous variables of tabular data. A method of constructing the deep learning model based on attention includes converting tabular data of structured data having a mixture of categorical variables and continuous variables into embedding values and training a network model including a transformer block, a linear layer block, and a sharing function for the sharing of an attention between the transformer block and the linear layer block by using the embedding values.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for preparing a transparent metallopolymer-based coating solution having excellent durability as well as excellent antifogging and antibacterial properties. The method for preparing a coating solution of the present invention comprises the steps of: adding an ultraviolet radical initiator, TMSH (trimethylolpropane tris(3-mercaptopropionate), and TESPMA (3-(trimethoxysilyl)propyl methacrylate) into a solvent containing ethyl acetate or acetone; irradiating the solution with ultraviolet rays to cause a polymerization reaction; and adding a metal precursor to the resulting solution, and then stirring same under a nitrogen atmosphere.

Abstract: A distance detecting apparatus and a method thereof includes a dual wavelength tuning light source configured to transmit a transmission optical signal by performing band tunability and fine tunability on an optical signal based on non-mechanical scanning; a transmitter optical system configured to transmit the transmission optical signal received from the dual wavelength tuning light source to an outside: a receiver optical system configured to extract a wavelength difference between a reception optical signal received from the outside and the transmission optical signal received from the dual wavelength tuning light source; and a signal processor configured to receive the wavelength difference from the receiver optical system and convert the wavelength difference into distance information.

Abstract: A signal classification method with noise immunity, includes receiving a wireless training signal; combining the wireless training signal with a white Gaussian noise signal, based on a preset desired signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), to generate a modulation signal resulting from modulating an SNR of the wireless training signal to correspond to the preset desired SNR; generating, based on a signal resulting from performing short-time Fourier transform on the modulation signal, a power-based spectrogram image corresponding to the wireless training signal; inputting the power-based spectrogram image and a predetermined supervised learning value corresponding to the wireless training signal into a preset convolution neural network (CNN) model to train the preset CNN model; generating, based on a signal resulting from performing short-time Fourier transform on the wireless evaluation signal, a power-based spectrogram image corresponding to the wireless evaluation signal; and classifying the wireless evaluation signal

Abstract: An unslotted CSMA/CA optimization device includes a variable initializing unit performing variable initialization used in an algorithm for unslotted CSMA/CA optimization; an exploration and exploitation selecting unit determining exploration/exploitation using an epsilon greedy algorithm; an action selecting unit selecting an action having the best Q-value, among actions, when exploitation is selected, and randomly selecting an action when exploration is selected; a channel information collecting unit executing backoff when an action (backoff time) is selected, repeatedly executing CCA during the backoff time, and counting the number of times a channel is idle and the number of times the channel is busy; a success rewarding unit transmitting a packet when the channel is idle and rewarding success when acknowledge (Ack) is received; and a Q-table updating unit checking the received reward and updating a Q-table based on an action, a state, and a reward.

Abstract: Provided are an apparatus and method for AP placement of large-scale wireless LAN and adaptive wireless resource management enabling to analyze and utilize actual use patterns that were not reflected in initial installation to express characteristics of a building, and to establish strategies for selecting an optimal AP location and wireless resource management based thereon.

Abstract: Disclosed is a link-based autonomous cell scheduling device including: a routing information manager that records and manages information on a node's preferred parent node and child nodes in a routing information table; a slot frame manager that generates and modifies a number of slot frames by referring to routing information in the routing information table, packet queue information, and transmission/reception result information; a slot frame schedule determiner that integrates a number of slot frames to generate one integrated slot frame corresponding to a global slot frame size and record the same in an integrated slot frame table, by referring to a link unicast slot frame table, a broadcast slot frame table, and an EB slot frame table; and a TSCH MAC layer driver that operates after checking for a cell assigned to the integrated slot frame by referring to the integrated slot frame table at the TSCH MAC layer.

Abstract: Disclosed are a hybrid structure using a graphene-carbon nanotube and a perovskite solar cell using the same. The hybrid structure includes a graphene-carbon nanotube formed by laminating a second graphene coated with a polymer on an upper surface of a first graphene coated with a carbon nanotube. The perovskite solar cell includes: a substrate; a first electrode formed on the substrate and including a fluorine doped thin oxide (FTO); an electron transfer layer formed on the first electrode and including a compact-titanium oxide (c-TiO2); a mesoporous-titanium oxide (m-TiO2) formed on the electron transfer layer; a perovskite layer formed on the m-TiO2 and including a perovskite compound; and a graphene-carbon nanotube hybrid structure formed on the perovskite layer.

Abstract: The present invention relates to: a double-metal cyanide catalyst comprising an organosilane compound as a complexing agent; a preparation method therefor; and a method for preparing polyol. The double-metal cyanide catalyst of the present invention comprises a metal salt, a metal cyanide salt, and a complexing agent, therein the complexing agent is an organosilane compound.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a hydrogel formulation for delivering probiotics including a hydrogel, probiotics and zwitterionic buffer as an active ingredient, a composition for delivering probiotics comprising the same and a method of preparing the same, which adjust and maintain the internal pH of the hydrogel even in the gastric juice environment, thereby increasing the survival rate of the probiotics in the gastric juice and improving the delivery rate to the large intestine, by further adding zwitterionic buffer capable of maintaining pH to the hydrogel encapsulated with probiotics.

Abstract: Disclosed are fast cell allocation scheduling device and method for a mobile node in a 6TiSCH network, in which when link quality of the mobile node is changed, a fixed path directed to a route node is allocated to establish a movement-route node fixed path minimizing a delay time between the mobile node and the route node.