Abstract: The present disclosure provides a transparent antenna and a communication system, and belongs to the field of communication technology. The transparent antenna of the present disclosure includes: a first backplane and at least one radiating structure. The first backplane includes a first dielectric layer, a first electrode layer, a plurality of first transmission lines and a plurality of second transmission lines. The radiating structure includes a first antenna dielectric plate and a second antenna dielectric plate, where the first antenna dielectric plate includes a second dielectric layer, a first radiating element and a first balun feed structure. The second antenna dielectric plate includes a third dielectric layer, a second radiating element and a second balun feed structure.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a pixel collection circuit and an image sensor. The image collection circuit includes: a movement detection module configured to detect a change in a light intensity in a field of view, and generate a pixel triggering signal when the change in the light intensity exceeds a predetermined threshold so as to indicate the pixel collection circuit to be in a triggered state; and a time signal generation module coupled to the movement detection module and configured to generate a time signal upon the receipt of the pixel triggering signal, the time signal being used to represent time information about a time point at which the pixel collection circuit is triggered. The movement detection module and the time signal generation module are coupled to a reading unit, so that the reading unit scans the pixel collection circuit to output the time information about the pixel collection circuit.

Abstract: Provided are a microfluidic chip and a manufacturing method thereof, and a microfluidic device. The microfluidic chip comprises a first substrate structure comprising a plurality of pin areas comprising a first and a second pin area, a detection area, and a grounding trace. The detection area comprises a plurality of first scan lines extending along a first direction, each of which being connected to the first pin area through a corresponding first scan trace; a plurality of first data lines extending along a second direction, each of which being connected to the second pin area through a corresponding first data trace; a plurality of detection units, each of which comprising a first switching transistor connected to a corresponding first scan line and data line, a driving electrode, and a first hydrophobic layer. The grounding trace is connected to at least one detection unit and one of the pin areas.

Abstract: A phased array antenna device comprises antenna elements arranged in a spatial distribution to emit and receive superposing radio frequency signals to and from different directions. Each antenna element is positioned within a corresponding unit cell. The unit cells are arranged in a non-overlapping manner next to each other. A feeding network for transmitting the antenna signals between a common feeding point and the respective antenna element comprises a plurality of antenna element transmission line segments each running into an antenna element and a corresponding plurality of phase shifting devices. The feeding transmission line segments each comprises more than two transition structures distributed along the feeding transmission line segment.

Abstract: Minimal-cost, high-accuracy, and portable devices used to detect the presence of insects at all stages of life, including in the egg stage, in stored products by sensing gas phase markers such as volatile pheromones, semiochemicals, and kairomones. The methods, devices, and systems disclosed herein utilize a sensor array configured to simultaneously measure a plurality of target markers and filter background gases while remaining compact, highly accurate, and easy to operate.

Abstract: A detection base plate and a flat-panel detector. The detection base plate comprises multiple detection pixel units arranged in an array. Each detection pixel unit comprises: a thin-film transistor, a sacrificial layer and a photoelectric conversion part that are disposed on a substrate, wherein the sacrificial layer is located between the thin-film transistor and the photoelectric conversion part; the thin-film transistor comprises an active layer, a first electrode and a second electrode; at least part of an orthographic projection of the active layer on the substrate is located within an orthographic projection of the sacrificial layer on the substrate; and the photoelectric conversion part is electrically connected to the sacrificial layer and the first electrode. In the detection base plate, the sacrificial layers of the detection pixel units are mutually independent.

Abstract: A phased array antenna device comprises antenna elements positioned within a corresponding unit cell. The unit cells are arranged non-overlappingly next to each other. A feeding network transmits antenna signals between a common control unit and the respective antenna element. The feeding network comprises a plurality of antenna element transmission line segments, each running into an antenna element, and a plurality of phase shifting devices. Several feeding transmission line segments, each comprising more than two transition structures are provided. Each transition structure couples a signal into a corresponding antenna element transmission line segment. The transition structure for an antenna element transmission line segment that runs into a unit cell is positioned in the direction of the feeding transmission line segment passing by or traversing this unit cell at a phase shifting distance that is larger than an extension of the unit cell measured in this direction.

Abstract: A control method of a display module, a display module, and a display device. The display module comprises: a transparent display panel (11) comprising an active area and a peripheral area, wherein the transparent display panel (11) has a display side; a dimming panel (12) disposed at a side of the transparent display panel (11) away from the display side; a light-intensity detection unit comprising a photosensitive sensor (13), wherein the photosensitive sensor (13) is disposed at a side of the transparent display panel (11) away from the display side and disposed corresponding to the peripheral area, and the light-intensity detection unit is configured to detect an incident-light intensity of an incident light; and a control unit (14) connected to the light-intensity detection unit and the dimming panel (12), respectively, and configured to adjust a transmittance of the dimming panel (12) according to the incident-light intensity.

Abstract: A photosensitive element includes a semiconductor substrate, a light sensitive region formed in the semiconductor substrate, an inactive region at least partly surrounding the light sensitive region, and a protective layer having an opening leaving the light sensitive region uncovered by the protective layer. The protective layer is an anti-reflective coating having in at least a part of a spectral range between 300 nm and 1200 nm a reflectivity of less than 10% and a transmittance of less than 0.1%.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for multi-bounce acoustic signal material detection is provided. The apparatus includes a container containing a quantity of material therein, wherein the quantity of material has at least two segmented layers. First and second acoustic sensors are positioned on a sidewall of the container, wherein the first acoustic sensor is positioned at a different height along the sidewall than the second acoustic sensor. An acoustic signal is transmitted into the sidewall of the container from the first acoustic sensor. The acoustic signal reflects between an interior surface of the sidewall and an exterior surface of the sidewall until it is received at the second acoustic sensor. A border between the at least two segmented layers of the quantity of material is detectable based on the acoustic signal.

Abstract: Disclosed is a cardio-pulmonary health monitoring apparatus. The apparatus comprises a contactless motion sensor configured to generate one or more movement signals representing bodily movement of a patient during a monitoring session; a processor; and a memory storing program instructions configured to cause the processor to carry out a method of processing the one or more movement signals. The method comprises extracting one or more sleep disordered breathing features from the one or more movement signals, and predicting whether a clinical event is likely to occur during a predetermined prediction horizon based on the one or more sleep disordered breathing features.

Abstract: A processing system includes methods to promote sleep. The system may include a monitor such as a non-contact motion sensor from which sleep information may be determined. User sleep information, such as sleep stages, hypnograms, sleep scores, mind recharge scores and body scores, may be recorded, evaluated and/or displayed for a user. The system may further monitor ambient and/or environmental conditions corresponding to sleep sessions. Sleep advice may be generated based on the sleep information, user queries and/or environmental conditions from one or more sleep sessions. Communicated sleep advice may include content to promote good sleep habits and/or detect risky sleep conditions. In some versions of the system, any one or more of a bedside unit 3000 sensor module, a smart processing device, such as a smart phone or smart device 3002, and network servers may be implemented to perform the methodologies of the system.

Abstract: A method for operating a thermal flow sensor includes: bringing a measuring medium into thermal contact with a sensor element of the flow sensor and periodically heating the medium using an AC voltage introduced into the sensor element; simultaneously detecting a maximum amplitude of a temperature and/or a phase shift between a curve of the AC voltage and the curve of the temperature; adjusting the detected maximum amplitude and/or the detected phase shift using calibration data; determining an isoline using the adjusted maximum amplitude and/or the adjusted phase shift based on model of the flow sensor, wherein the isoline has a plurality of value pairs of thermal conductivity and thermal capacitance of the medium; deriving a medium information from the isoline; and performing a flow measurement by converting signal values from the sensor element into measurement values of an effective flow velocity of the medium using the medium information.

Abstract: A method for producing a thermal infrared sensor array in a vacuum-filled wafer-level housing with particularly small dimensions, consisting of at least two wafers, a cover wafer and a central wafer comprising multiple infrared-sensitive sensor pixels on a respective thin slotted membrane over a heat-insulating cavity is disclosed. A method for producing a high-resolution monolithic silicon micromechanical thermopile array sensor using wafer level packaging technology, wherein the sensor achieves a particularly high spatial resolution capability and a very high filling degree with very small housing dimensions, in particular a very low overall thickness, and can be inexpensively produced using standard CMOS processes. This is achieved in that the cover wafer is first rigidly mechanically connected to the provided central wafer comprising the sensor pixels with the infrared-sensitive pixels by means of wafer bonding, and the central wafer is then thinned out from the wafer rear face to a specified thickness.

Abstract: A flat panel detector and an imaging system are provided. The flat panel detector includes a plurality of pixel units which include photosensitive pixel units and alignment pixel units. Each photosensitive pixel unit includes a photoelectric sensor configured to convert an incident light into an electrical signal so that a photosensitive pixel unit in which the photoelectric sensor is located has a grayscale that changes according to a real-time change of the incident light. Each alignment pixel unit is configured to have a fixed grayscale, and the fixed grayscale does not change according to the real-time change of the incident light. The alignment pixel units includes first alignment pixel units and second alignment pixel units. Each first alignment pixel unit has a first fixed grayscale, each second alignment pixel unit has a second fixed grayscale different from the first fixed grayscale.

Abstract: A solid-state device, and use and formation thereof. The device includes a light emitter (102) that emits light with abeam propagation direction and includes an emitter epitaxial layer stack (940); a light routing medium (103) in optical communication with the light emitter; and a light detector (104) in optical communication with the light routing medium, which detects light emitted by the light emitter and includes a detector epitaxial stack (945). The light emitter and detector are monolithically formed on a semiconductor substrate. The emitter and detector epitaxial layer stacks include different pluralities of layers of a single epitaxial layer stack. The beam propagation direction is either in-plane with the single epitaxial layer stack and the light detector detects light out of plane with the single epitaxial layer stack, or out of plane with the single epitaxial layer stack and the light detector detects light in plane with the single epitaxial layer stack.

Abstract: A heterostructure for an optoelectronic device is disclosed. The heterostructure includes an active region including at least one quantum well and at least one barrier and an electron blocking layer located adjacent to the active region, wherein the electron blocking layer includes a region of graded composition. An asymmetric p-type superlattice layer is located adjacent to the electron blocking layer, wherein the p-type superlattice includes at least one superlattice period comprising a set of wells and a set of barriers. A thickness of at least one of: each well in the set of wells or each barrier in the set of barriers varies along a length of the p-type superlattice.

Abstract: Systems and methods assist with managing a chronic disease of a user such as a chronic respiratory or cardiac disease. The system may include a physiological monitor adapted to be carried by the user and operative to sense a physiological parameter of the user by generating one or more signals. The system may include a management device operatively coupled with the physiological monitor to receive the signal(s) and derive the physiological parameter(s) of the user. The management device, such as with an included processor, may be configured to analyze the physiological and/or environmental parameters to detect a trigger pattern of the parameters, the trigger pattern indicative of a probable event of exacerbation of the chronic respiratory and/or cardiac condition. The management device may then generate automated responses based on the trigger pattern such as by providing instructions for activities and/or treatment for the chronic condition.

Abstract: A device for determining a hydrogen concentration or hydrogen mixture concentration includes: an electrical conductor arrangement which is designed such that it can be brought into contact with the fluid mixture at least in part and is realized in the form of a voltage divider having two elements, the first element being a first conductor which, at least in a current-carrying state, has a resistance value which is different from that of the second element, a measuring bridge comprising two voltage dividers connected in parallel, one of the voltage dividers being formed by the electrical conductor arrangement, a control unit for applying an AC voltage to the measuring bridge, a voltage detection unit for detecting a bridge voltage, and an evaluation unit configured so as to determine the thermal conductivity of the hydrogen or hydrogen mixture by evaluating the bridge voltage using the 3-Omega method.

Abstract: A feeding structure is provided. The feeding structure includes a feeding unit, which includes: a reference electrode, first and second substrates opposite to each other, and a dielectric layer between the first and second substrates. The first substrate includes a first base plate and a first electrode thereon. The first electrode includes a first main body and a plurality of first branches connected to the first main body and spaced apart from each other. The second substrate includes a second base plate and a second electrode thereon. The second electrode includes a second main body and a plurality of second branches, which are connected to the second main body, spaced apart from each other, and in one-to-one correspondence with the plurality of first branches. Orthographic projections of each second branch and a corresponding first branch on the first base plate partially overlap each other.