Abstract: A wafer cleaning device includes a rotary table that rotate around a rotation axis, and includes a mounting surface having one or more disposition regions spaced apart from the rotation axis, the mounting surface being disposed downwardly, and a cleaning fluid supply disposed below and opposite to the mounting surface and supplying a cleaning fluid upwardly to the one or more disposition regions.

Abstract: A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes: first, second and third active patterns on a logic cell region of a substrate and are spaced apart from each other in a first direction; first and second gate electrodes, the first gate electrode crossing the first active pattern and the second gate electrode crossing the second active pattern; a first separation pattern provided between the first and second active patterns; a second separation pattern provided between the second and third active patterns; a first gate insulating layer interposed between the first gate electrode and the first active pattern; and a first gate cutting pattern interposed between the first and second gate electrodes, and in contact with a top surface of the first separation pattern.

Abstract: An electronic device includes: a housing including a side member forming a portion of an outer side of the electronic device and including a conductive portion; a printed circuit board (PCB) provided in the housing; and a wireless communication circuit electrically connected to the PCB, where the PCB includes: a plurality of first coupling pads provided on at least some of a plurality of layers of the PCB; at least one second coupling pad spaced apart from the plurality of first coupling pads; a dielectric provided between the plurality of first coupling pads and the at least one second coupling pad; and an electrical connection member connected to the plurality of first coupling pads to form an electrical path, and connected to the conductive portion, where the at least one second coupling pad is connected to the wireless communication circuit to form an electrical path.

Abstract: A method of detecting an opening of a semiconductor device includes generating a clock signal based on a probe of a measuring circuit contacting, via a switch, an end of a detection structure, measuring a period of the clock signal, counting a number of periods of the clock signal during a reference time interval, and determining, based on the number of periods of the clock signal, a location of the opening of the semiconductor device. The detection structure being formed in a semiconductor die of the semiconductor device in an annular shape.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a liquid crystal panel configured to display an image; a light guide plate provided behind the liquid crystal panel in a first direction; a light source module adjacent to a side surface of the light guide plate, the light source module including a plurality of light sources arranged in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction and configured to emit light toward the side surface of the light guide plate; a rear chassis provided behind the light guide plate in the first direction; and a heat dissipation member coupled to the rear chassis and configured to dissipate heat generated by the light source module, wherein the heat dissipation member may include: a first heat dissipation member contacting the light source module; and a second heat dissipation member spaced apart from the first heat dissipation member by a gap in a third direction perpendicular to the first direction and the second direction.

Abstract: A method of correcting an image includes: inputting an input image and a correction parameter to a first neural network model; and obtaining an inference image from the first neural network model, the inference image corresponding to the correction parameter. The first neural network model is a model trained to minimize a difference between the inference image that is output after the input image and the correction parameter are input and a label image corresponding to the correction parameter. The label image is an image obtained by, when the correction parameter is applied to at least one image correction algorithm, correcting the input image by using the at least one image correction algorithm.

Abstract: Provided are an encoding method and apparatus, and a decoding method and apparatus for adaptively selecting a context model used to entropy-encode and entropy-decode a syntax element, based on various shapes of coding units. The image decoding method includes: determining a context model based on block shape information including at least one of a shape, direction, width, ratio of width and height, or size of a coding unit; obtaining, from a bitstream based on the context model, information about a split shape mode for splitting the coding unit; and determining a split shape mode of the coding unit, based on the information about the split shape mode.

Abstract: An image sensor includes a color separating lens array including a plurality of first pixel corresponding regions respectively corresponding to a plurality of first pixels and a plurality of second pixel corresponding regions respectively corresponding to a plurality of second pixels, wherein each of the plurality of first pixel corresponding regions and the plurality of second pixel corresponding regions includes a plurality of nanoposts, and at least one of a shape, a width, and an arrangement of the plurality of nanoposts of the plurality of first pixel corresponding regions changes according to an azimuth direction of the plurality of nanoposts in a peripheral portion surrounding a central portion of the color separating lens array.

Abstract: A storage controller includes a command manager and a direct memory access (DMA) engine. The command manager receives a first submission queue doorbell from an external device, fetches a first command including a first latency from the external device in response to the first submission queue doorbell, and determines a first timing to write a first completion into the external device based on the first latency, the first completion indicating that the first command is completely processed. The DMA engine receives a request signal requesting processing of the first command from the command manager, transfer data, which the first command requests, based on a DMA transfer in response to the request signal, and outputs a complete signal, which indicates that the first command is completely processed, to the command manager.

Abstract: A communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The method and system may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services in an a system information (SI) transmission in a cell supporting multiple uplink (UL) carriers.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes active regions on a semiconductor substrate, gate structures on separate, respective active regions, and source/drain regions in the semiconductor substrate on opposite sides of separate, respective gate structures. Each separate gate structure includes a sequential stack of a high dielectric layer, a first work function metal layer, a second work function metal layer having a lower work function than the first work function metal layer, and a gate metal layer. First work function metal layers of the gate structures have different thicknesses, such that the gate structures include a largest gate structure where the first work function metal layer of the largest gate structure has a largest thickness of the first work function metal layers. The largest gate structure includes a capping layer on the high dielectric layer of the largest gate structure, where the capping layer includes one or more impurity elements.

Abstract: Disclosed are a user terminal, a method for controlling the same, and a multimedia system. The method for controlling the user terminal includes: displaying a first image content; transmitting a signal requesting an image content to an external display device in the case in which a preset user interaction is sensed; and displaying the first image content and a second image content together in the case in which the second image content that is currently being displayed by the display device is received from the display device.

Abstract: An embodiment of wireless communication comprises passing data from a higher layer to a communication layer via multiple data paths for parallel data communication in a wireless device, wherein passing the data comprises controlling passing of said data on the multiple data paths based on communication requirements using path operators. The wireless communication further comprises processing data as packet-less units of data on the multiple data paths, and transmitting the data from the multiple data paths on multiple wireless communication paths from the wireless device.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for reducing a peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) of an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signal in an MIMO-OFDM communication system is provided, in which the method for reducing the PAPR of the OFDM signal may identify interference generated in an MIMO communication system, and adjust a clipping ratio (CR) for an effect of a clipping distortion to be less than an effect of interference.

Abstract: A lighting control system and a method for controlling the same are provided. The lighting control system includes at least one lighting device transmitting a wireless communication signal having unique identification information and controlled by a received wireless communication signal, and a user terminal receiving the wireless communication signal transmitted from the at least one lighting device, sorting and registering the at least one lighting device according to a strength of the wireless communication signal transmitted from the at least one lighting device, and pairing the user terminal with the registered lighting device to control the lighting device. Accordingly, a plurality of lighting devices located in a remote area can be conveniently registered and controlled from a certain location.

Abstract: A fabricating method of a semiconductor device includes stacking a high-k dielectric film not containing silicon (Si) and an insulating film containing silicon (Si) on a substrate, and diffusing Si contained in the insulating film into the high-k dielectric film by annealing the substrate having the high-k dielectric film and the insulating film stacked thereon.

Abstract: A mobile terminal supporting a voice messaging method includes a microphone for capturing sound waves and converting the sound waves into an audio signal, a storage unit for storing the audio signal, an audio data generation unit for generating audio data packets with the audio signal, a packet data communication network interface unit for providing a packet data communication network, and a control unit for controlling the microphone, audio storage unit, audio data generation unit, and packet data communication network interface unit to capture the audio signal and transmit the audio signal as audio data packets in response to audio message transmission request entered during a mobile messenger service session.

Abstract: The electrode structure includes: a textile-type conductive substrate; a first layer which is disposed on the textile-type conductive substrate and includes a plurality of one-dimensional nanostructures; and a second layer which is formed on the first layer and includes a graphene material.