Abstract: Disclosed is a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device. The method includes: forming a gate insulating material layer on a substrate; forming a gate material layer on the gate insulating material layer; and performing an etching process on the gate material layer and the gate insulating material layer to form a gate layer and a gate insulating layer. The gate insulating layer and the gate layer each include a first end and a second end opposite to each other in a direction parallel to a channel length. The first end of the gate insulating layer is recessed inwards by a preset length relative to the first end of the gate layer, and the second end of the gate insulating layer is recessed inwards by the preset length relative to the second end of the gate layer.

Abstract: A system for measuring an angle of a joint of a user includes a center hub, a first arm, a second arm, a magnet, and a sensor. The center hub includes a first hub and a second hub. The first arm is configured for attachment to a first limb portion of the user at a first outer end and to the first hub at a first inner end. The second arm is configured for attachment to a second limb portion of the user at a second outer end and to the second hub at a second inner end, wherein the first hub is pivotally coupled to the second hub. The magnet is coupled to the second hub. The sensor is disposed in the center hub and configured to detect a rotation of the magnet.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a word line trench and a word line structure. The word line trench includes a first word line trench and a second word line trench. The word line structure includes a first word line structure part and a second word line structure part connected to each other. The first word line structure part is formed in the first word line trench, and the second word line structure part is formed in the second word line trench; and the first word line structure part includes an avoidance region, and the top surface of the avoidance region is aligned with the top surface of the second word line structure part, and the avoidance region is provided with insulating material.

Abstract: A semiconductor structure includes the following: a semiconductor substrate; a first metal layer, located on a surface of the semiconductor substrate; a second metal layer, located above a surface of the first metal layer; an insulating layer, located between the first metal layer and the second metal layer, and configured to isolate the first metal layer and the second metal layer; a test via, penetrating through the insulating layer and connecting the first metal layer with the second metal layer through a conductive material in the test via; and at least a pair of dummy vias, penetrating through the insulating layer and connected to any one of the first metal layer and the second metal layer.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a shallow trench isolation structure includes: providing a substrate and forming multiple first trenches in the substrate, in which a cross-sectional width of each first trench increases downward along a vertical direction; forming a continuous first isolation layer on a top of the substrate and inner sides of the multiple first trenches by a deposition process, in which parts of the first isolation layer located in the first trenches form second trenches, and in which a cross-sectional width of each second trench remains constant downward along the vertical direction; and forming a continuous second isolation layer on a surface of the first isolation layer by an ISSG process, in which parts of the second isolation layer located in the second trenches completely fill up the second trenches.

Abstract: A medical device with safety verification, comprising: a remote device; a functional device, the functional device can receive functional instructions from the remote device (100), the functional instructions include drug infusion instructions or non-infusion instructions; and a safety verification module installed in the functional device. After the safety verification module receives a verification instruction that matches the functional instruction, the functional device can execute the functional instruction; and the verification instruction includes the user's body movement. Before the medical device performs various functions, safety verification is required in order to improve the safety of the medical device.

Abstract: Methods of data encryption using a mutating encryption key are disclosed. The methods generate an encryption key and utilize a codex to mutate or vary the encryption key value. The encryption key may be generated using a random number generator. The encryption key value in pre-mutation state, together with the codex, is used to generate the next valid value for the encryption key. Unencrypted message data may be used together with the codex to mutate the encryption key. A valid encryption key and the unencrypted or successfully deciphered message are thus required to mutate the encryption key to the next key post-mutation state at each end.

Abstract: A device and method for converting a consumable into an aerosol with high heat without burning the consumable by packaging the consumable containing an internal susceptor inside a housing. A first end of the housing can be capped with an end cap and a second end of the housing can have a mouthpiece. The housing containing the consumable and the susceptor can be placed inside a case with an inductive heating element configured to heat the susceptor. Heating the susceptor results in the consumable being released as an aerosol for inhalation.

Abstract: There is provided an automatic correction method for an onboard camera and an onboard camera device. The automatic correction method includes the following steps: obtaining a lane image with the onboard camera and a current extrinsic parameter matrix, and identifying two lane lines in the lane image; converting the lane image into a top-view lane image, and obtaining two projected lane lines in the top-view lane image for the two lane lines; calculating a plurality of correction parameter matrices corresponding to the current extrinsic parameter matrix according to the two projected lane lines; and correcting the current extrinsic parameter matrix according to the plurality of correction parameter matrices. This can be applied in situations where the vehicle is stationary or travelling for automatic correction on the extrinsic parameter matrix of the onboard camera.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices are disclosed for wave power generation. In one aspect, a wave power generator device includes a stator assembly and a rotor assembly encased within a tube frame. The stator assembly includes an array of inductor coils in a fixed position within a cavity of the tube frame and a plurality of bearings coupled to the tube frame. The rotor assembly includes a turbine rotor having a central hub and peripheral blades coupled to a high inertia annular flywheel that is moveably engaged with the bearings of the stator assembly, and an array of magnets arranged to be evenly spaced and of alternating axial polarity from one another extending from the annular flywheel into the cavity between the array of inductor coils, such that electric currents are produced based on magnetic field interaction of the magnets with the inductor coils during the rotation of the annular flywheel.

Abstract: Systems and methods can be used to provide an indication of heart function, such as an indication of mechanical function or hemodynamics of the heart, based on electrical data. For example, a method for assessing a function of the heart can include determining a time-based electrical characteristic for a plurality of points distributed across a spatial region of the heart. The plurality of points can be grouped into at least two subsets of points based on at least one of a spatial location for the plurality of points or the time-based electrical characteristics for the plurality of points. An indication of synchrony for the heart can be quantified based on relative analysis of the determined time-based electrical characteristic for each of the at least two subsets of points.

Abstract: The present application relates to a semiconductor memory training method and related devices, belonging to the technical field of semiconductors. The method comprises: obtaining a stored historical training result of a semiconductor memory, the historical training result comprising a historical expected delay value and a historical expected voltage; setting a delay threshold and a current training voltage range, the delay threshold being less than or equal to the historical expected delay value, the current training voltage range comprising the historical expected voltage; obtaining a current minimum delay value for the semiconductor memory under the historical expected voltage; and using the stored historical training result as a current training result of the semiconductor memory, if the current minimum delay value for the semiconductor memory under the historical expected voltage is no less than the delay threshold.

Abstract: One method disclosed herein of processing a process fluid that comprises dissolved gas includes performing a degassing process on the process fluid by heating the process fluid via heat transfer with a heat transfer fluid, wherein at least some amount of the heat transfer fluid condenses in the first heat transfer process and latent heat of the heat transfer fluid as it condenses is used to increase the temperature of the process fluid. Thereafter, the heat transfer fluid is passed through an expansion device so as to produce a post-expansion heat transfer fluid. The temperature of the heated process fluid is decreased by performing a second heat transfer process between the post-expansion heat transfer fluid and the heated process fluid, wherein the temperature of the post-expansion heat transfer fluid is increased and the latent heat that was supplied to the process fluid in the first heat transfer process is removed.

Abstract: Testing apparatuses, and methods for using such apparatuses to calibrate and test an antenna, include a chamber that includes a lining, the lining being made from a material that is absorptive to radiation at a test wavelength. An adjustable platform is positioned at a first side of the chamber, the adjustable platform being rotatable to change an orientation of a device under test. A probe is positioned at a second side of the chamber, opposite to the first side of the chamber, that measures electromagnetic radiation from the device under test. A vector network analyzer communicates with the device under test and the probe to determine calibration information for the device under test.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a sense amplification circuit and a method of reading out data, including: a first PMOS transistor; a first NMOS transistor; a second PMOS transistor; a second NMOS transistor; a first control MOS transistor configured to provide a bias voltage to the first PMOS transistor according to a control signal; a second control MOS transistor configured to provide the bias voltage to the second PMOS transistor according to the control signal; a first offset cancellation MOS transistor configured to electrically connect an initial bit line to a first complementary readout bit line according to an offset cancellation signal; and a second offset cancellation MOS transistor configured to electrically connect an initial complementary bit line to a first readout bit line according to the offset cancellation signal.

Abstract: An optical detector system provides beam positioning data to an optical tracking system to facilitate optical communications. The optical detector system comprises a plurality of optical photodetectors. For example, a two-by-two array may be used. Incoming light passes through one or more optical elements, such as a lens and a dispersive optical element. A first portion of the beam entering the optical elements is directed into a first spot having a first area on the array. A second portion of the beam entering the optical elements is dispersed to form a second spot having a second area on the array that is larger than the first area. This combination of first portion and second portion of the beam incident on the array provides unambiguous information in the output of the photodetectors that is indicative of a position of the incoming beam with respect to the array.

Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, methods, and computer program products are presented for aggregation platform permissions. A hardware computing device is configured to aggregate a user's data from a first plurality of third-party service providers over a data network for the user to access through a second plurality of third-party service providers, the hardware computing device comprising a trusted intermediary between the first plurality of third-party service providers and the second plurality of third-party service providers. A permissions module is configured to monitor which of a second plurality of third-party service providers have access to which portions of data from which of a first plurality of third-party service providers. A graphical user interface is configured to display one or more user interface elements allowing a user to grant and/or revoke access to portions of data from a first plurality of third-party service providers individually to a second plurality of third-party service providers.

Abstract: Techniques for providing remote access to application content are described herein. A virtual computing node may be leased to a first user requesting access to an application. On the virtual computing node, a virtualization process may spawn the application as a child process. In response to a second request, by the same user, to access an additional application, the virtual computing node may be identified. The virtualization process may spawn the second application as a child process in the process space of the first application. Data may be exchanged between the applications within the process space.

Abstract: The invention relates to reagents and methods for improving the efficiency of multiplex nucleic acid amplification, in particular where overlapping amplicons are to be generated. The invention also relates to reagents and methods for improving the efficiency of multistep nucleic acid amplification, in particular the performance of two separate amplification reactions designed to occur in sequence in the same reaction mixture or vessel. The invention further relates to reagents and methods for improving multistep nucleic acid amplification reactions by controlling the output of the first amplification reaction. In particular, primers are provided that minimise the formation of aberrant amplification products. Such primers are particularly useful where first and second amplification reactions take place in a single reaction mixture or vessel.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of semiconductor packaging processes, and provides a semiconductor structure and a forming method thereof. The forming method includes: providing a semiconductor substrate, where a surface of the semiconductor substrate is provided with an exposed conductive structure; forming a passivation layer on the surface of the semiconductor substrate and a surface of the exposed conductive structure; etching the passivation layer to form a recess, where a bottom of the recess exposes one end of the conductive structure; forming an adhesion layer on a surface of the recess; and etching to form a hole in the bottom of the recess.