Abstract: An improved heterostructure for an optoelectronic device is provided. The heterostructure includes an active region, an electron blocking layer, and a p-type contact layer. The heterostructure can include a p-type interlayer located between the electron blocking layer and the p-type contact layer. In an embodiment, the electron blocking layer can have a region of graded transition. The p-type interlayer can also include a region of graded transition.

Abstract: A detection substrate and manufacturing method thereof, a flat panel detector and manufacturing method thereof. The detection substrate includes: a substrate including a detection region, a binding region, a controllable on-off region, and a cutting region; a plurality of detection units including transistors and photosensitive devices located in the detection region, a transistor includes a gate, a first electrode and a second electrode; a photosensitive device is connected to the first or second electrode; a plurality of conductive wires, one end is connected to the gate, and the other end is extended to the binding region; a conductive ring disposed in the cutting region; a plurality of detection wires, one end is connected to the conductive ring, the other end is connected to the conductive wires, the detection wires are passed through the controllable on-off region; the detection wires located in the controllable on-off region can have a disconnected state.

Abstract: Provided is a pixel sensing circuit, including a signal generation sub-circuit, a reset sub-circuit, an amplification sub-circuit, and a read sub-circuit. The reset sub-circuit is configured to provide a signal of a first power supply line to a first node under control of a reset signal line. The signal generation sub-circuit is configured to detect a light signal and convert the detected light signal into an electrical signal. The amplification sub-circuit is configured to provide an amplified electrical signal to a second node according to a signal provided by a second power supply line and under control of the first node. The read sub-circuit is configured to output the amplified electrical signal to a signal read line under control of a scan signal line.

Abstract: An example system includes a first light source, a second light source, a photodetector, and an electronic control device. The electronic control device is operable to cause the first light source to emit first light within a range of wavelengths towards a subject, and measure, using the photodetector, the first light reflected from the subject. The electronic control device is also operable to cause the second light source to emit second light including a plurality of emission peaks within the range of wavelengths, and measure, using the photodetector, the second light. The electronic control device is also operable to determine spectral information regarding the subject based on the measured first light and the measured second light.

Abstract: A method includes receiving data associated with a sleep session of a user. The method also includes determining that the user is experiencing or has experienced an event based at least in part on the data. The method also includes causing pressurized air to be directed from a respiratory device to a multi-compartment bladder in response to determining that the user is experiencing or has experienced the event to aid in modifying a position of a head of the user.

Abstract: One aspect of the invention provides an interconnect between a stretchable electronic element and a circuit on a rigid or flexible printed circuit board (PCB Circuit), the stretchable electronic element is operable to be mechanically coupled to a substrate which deforms, and the stretchable electronic element will deform with the substrate and may or may not change an electrical characteristic as a result, the stretchable electronic element comprising one or more electrical pathways; the PCB Circuit configured to communicate electronically with the stretchable electronic element and comprising at least one circuit board extending from the stretchable electronic element to an electrical circuit on the PCB Circuit; wherein the interconnect comprises an electrical coupling between the electrical pathways of the stretchable electronic element and the PCB Circuit; and wherein the interconnect simultaneously prevents the connection between the stretchable electronic element from failing when the stretchable substra

Abstract: A LIDAR system includes a first polygon scanner, a second polygon scanner, and an optic. The first polygon scanner includes a plurality of first facets around an axis of rotation. The second polygon scanner includes plurality of second facets that are outward from the plurality of first facets relative to the axis of rotation. The optic is inward from the first polygon scanner relative to the axis of rotation. The optic is configured to output a first beam to the first polygon scanner. The first polygon scanner is configured to refract the first beam to output a second beam to the second polygon scanner. The second polygon scanner is configured to refract the second beam to output a third beam.

Abstract: A method for determining a change in cell volume with a sensor device having four electrodes. The method comprises the following steps: ?applying a current with a known cycle of different known frequencies in time series on an outer pair of electrodes; measuring a resulting variating potential over an inner pair of electrodes; ?calculating a total impedance absolute value from said measured potential; ?storing each total impedance against frequency value in a memory; ?reading a frequency value belonging to at least one impedance value of a subsequent cycle; ?reading a frequency value belonging to the same at least one impedance value of a previous cycle; ?comparing said frequency values and determining a difference between the frequency values; and ?providing a time series of differences in frequency across said time series, an increasing frequency difference across said time series indicating a relative increase or decrease of cell volume.

Abstract: A sensor arrangement includes a first, second, third and fourth group of receiving elements for detecting light in the red, green, blue and infrared wavelength range. At least one first sub-arrangement is formed by arranging one receiving element of the first group, two receiving elements of the second group and one receiving element of the third group in a first Bayer-like pattern. At least one second sub-arrangement is formed by arranging two receiving elements of the second group one receiving element of the fourth group and one receiving element of the first or the third group in a second Bayer-like pattern. The at least one first sub-arrangement and the at least one second sub-arrangement are arranged adjacent to each other in a main plane of extension of the sensor arrangement.

Abstract: An optical sensor. The optical sensor comprises a light source, first and second light sensors, and a controller. The light source has a field of illumination. The first and second light sensors have respective first and second fields of view. The intersection of the field of illumination and the first field of view forms a first overlap region. The intersection of the field of illumination and the second field of view forms a second overlap region. When a surface is within one or both of the first and second overlap region, the surface reflects light from the light source to the respective light sensor. The controller is configured to determine a first distance measurement to a surface within one or both of the first and second overlap regions based on the ratio of reflected light from the light source received by the first sensor and reflected light from the light source received by the second sensor. A similar ultrasonic sensor is also disclosed.

Abstract: A pixel structure includes a substrate body having a light entrance surface, a plurality of first photodiodes formed in the substrate body at a first depth with respect to the light entrance surface, and a second photodiode formed in the substrate body at a second depth with respect to the light entrance surface. The first depth corresponds to a photon absorption length in a material of the substrate body at a first wavelength range, and the second depth corresponds to a photon absorption length in the material of the substrate body at a second wavelength range that is different from the first wavelength range.

Abstract: A method is provided for determining, the presence and concentration of an analyte by contacting the sample with a solution comprising: magnetic beads, a capture probe capable of binding the analyte, a reporter probe and cellulose, whereby, if the analyte is present, an MB-analyte-reporter-cellulase sandwich is formed; and then contacting the solution comprising the sandwich with an electrode covered with an electrically insulating layer comprising or consisting of cellulose and/or a cellulose derivative, wherein the MB-analyte-reporter-cellulase sandwich leads to degradation of the insulating layer thereby causing a measurable change in electrical properties at the electrode surface, wherein the change in electrical properties is a function of the amount of analyte in the sample. Devices and biosensor applying the method are also provided.

Abstract: A phase shifter, a manufacture method for manufacturing a phase shifter, a drive method for driving a phase shifter, and an electronic device are provided. The phase shifter includes a dielectric substrate, and a transmission line, a dielectric layer, an insulating layer, and a metal layer on the dielectric substrate. In a direction perpendicular to a first surface of the dielectric substrate, the dielectric layer and the insulating layer are between the metal layer and the transmission line, a material of the dielectric layer is a semiconductor material; and an orthographic projection of the metal layer on the dielectric substrate, an orthographic projection of the insulating layer on the dielectric substrate, and an orthographic projection of the dielectric layer on the dielectric substrate at least partially overlap. The present disclosure provides a new phase shifter based on a metal-insulator-semiconductor capacitor structure.

Abstract: A thermal management system and method for cooling a CT detector assembly of a CT imaging system. The thermal management system uses a combination of air cooling for the readout electronics of the CT detector assembly and liquid cooling for the X-ray sensors of the CT detector assembly. The hybrid air and liquid cooling systems and methods may be coupled together in the thermal management system and method to create a cooler temperature in the CT detector assembly. The CT detector assembly components may include CT detector modules, which may include X-ray sensors, readout electronics and other components.

Abstract: Disclosed are method and apparatus for measuring material properties. Segmented field sensors have multiple sensing elements at different spatial geometries to capture field components having substantially different depths of penetration. These sensors are excited and measured on these different sensing elements to facilitate characterization of unknown material properties. This is illustrated in some embodiments using eddy current sensors to characterize materials that are frequency dispersive and/or do not produce a measurable phase shifts. Only a single scalar quantity may provide independent information from one or more of the sensing elements. Property estimation techniques, such as those using precomputed databases of sensor responses are used to estimate the unknown material properties.

Abstract: A method for monitoring a railway track (11) is provided, the method comprising detecting monitoring signals (MS) by a distributed acoustic sensor (10) being arranged along the track (11), where each monitoring signal (MS) comprises a monitoring signal value (MSV) for a first measurement segment (12) of the distributed acoustic sensor (10) and a monitoring signal value (MSV) for a second measurement segment (22) of the distributed acoustic sensor (10), determining a first event monitoring signal value (EV1) for the first measurement segment (12) from the monitoring signal values (MSV) that are detected during the passage of a rail vehicle over the position of the first measurement segment (12), determining a second event monitoring signal value (EV2) for the second measurement segment (22) from the monitoring signal values (MSV) that are detected during the passage of a rail vehicle over the position of the second measurement segment (22), and determining a difference value (DV) where the difference value (DV

Abstract: Methods and systems for sensing a user interaction (e.g., a fingerprint) with a display of an electronic device are disclosed. In some embodiments, the method includes illuminating, with a light source, a position of a user interaction on the display. In some embodiments, the method includes detecting, with a detector, a backscattered light from the position. In some embodiments, the light source and the detector are located on a same layer of the display.

Abstract: A microwave tube includes an electron gun that emits an electron beam; a magnetic circuit that focuses the electron beam emitted from the electron gun; a collector that captures the electron beam that has passed through the magnetic circuit; a high frequency circuit that is spirally arranged around the electron beam focused by the magnetic circuit and that transmits a high frequency; and a magnetic body part arranged around the electron gun so as to be movable in an emission direction of the electron beam. A high frequency output from the high frequency circuit is controlled to be constant by moving the magnetic body part in an emission direction of the electron beam.

Abstract: A time-of-flight sensor threshold circuit outputs a threshold voltage to a time-of-flight sensor, the threshold reducing over the duration of a time-of-flight measurement, which reduction can occur continually during the measurement. The circuit is provided with an initial threshold voltage portion to set the threshold voltage corresponding to a selected maximum threshold value, a time-dependent portion, to charge and discharge over time, to or from a current control portion, a threshold voltage ramp control portion to lower the threshold value over time by charging or discharging the time-dependent portion to or from the current control portion at a selected rate, and a synchronizing portion to synchronize current flow to or from the current control portion with a synchronizing input signal synchronized with an illumination pulse from a connected illuminator.