Abstract: When InP DHBTs are located in parallel to a crystallographical direction of <011>, there are several advantages in the aspect of device property such as reliability. But, in case of a direction parallel to a general <011>, there exists the limitation in reducing base-collector parasitic capacitance only by collector over-etching technique due to poor lateral-etching characteristic of the InP collector. To overcome such a problem mentioned above and improve device performance, the present invention provides a method of reducing parasitic capacitance using underneath crystallographically selective wet etching, thereby providing a self-alignable, structurally stable device.

Abstract: A probe is provided for an SPM (Scanning Probe Microscope), and a method is provided for fabricating the probe in which a double side alignment process is not required to simplify the fabricating. The probe includes a cantilever; a body supporting the cantilever; and a tip formed at an end of the cantilever, wherein the cantilever, the body and the tip are made of silicon, and boron is diffused into the cantilever and a predetermined area of the body.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an apparatus and method for similarity searches using hyper-rectangle based multidimensional data segmentation. The similarity search apparatus has MBR generation means, first sequence pruning means, second sequence pruning means, and subsequence finding means. The MBR generation means segments a multidimensional data sequence to be partitioned into subsequences, and represents each subsequence by each Minimum Bounding Rectangle (MBR), such that sets of MBRs are generated from the multidimensional data sequence, and the MBR sets are stored in a database. The first sequence pruning means prunes irrelevant data sequences using a distance Dmbr between MBRs extracted from an inputted query sequence and the MBR sets stored in the database in a multidimensional Euclidean space.

Abstract: A perpendicular magnetic recording medium is provided. The perpendicular magnetic recording medium has an underlayer for leading perpendicular orientation of a perpendicular magnetic recording layer, stacked between a substrate and the perpendicular magnetic recording layer, and thickness of the perpendicular magnetic recording layer is controlled within the range of 5-40 nm to have a negative nucleation field.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing a foreign protein comprising culturing a bacterium containing the cysteine synthase (cysK) gene and a gene encoding the foreign protein. The present invention comprises the steps of culturing a bacterium transformed with an expression vector containing a gene encoding a serine-rich foreign protein and an expression vector containing the cysK gene, or a bacterium transformed with an expression vector containing the cysK gene and a gene encoding a serine-rich foreign protein and isolating the foreign protein therefrom. The present invention is expected to be widely used to increase the production yield of a serine-rich foreign protein.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a wide band optical amplifier with a common mid-stage device. In the wide band optical amplifier according to the present invention, the signals that enter the amplifier are first split into a couple of sub-band signals. The sub-band signals are amplified independently at different optical amplification sections, but they share a common mid-stage device, which reduces the complexity and the cost of the amplifier. The sub-band signals propagate count-directionally in the common mid-stages device to reduce the nonlinear interactions between the signals in different sub-bands. A wide band optical amplifier incorporating a common mid-stage device with directionality is also disclosed.

Abstract: Disclosed is a micromirror actuator that includes: a substrate provided with an insulating layer formed thereon; two lower columns spaced from each other by a designated distance, and formed on the insulating layer; a first torsion bar extending over upper surfaces of the lower columns; a second torsion bar formed so that the first and second torsion bars are orthogonal to each other; four electrodes, each disposed in four areas formed by the orthogonal crossing of the first and second torsion bars, formed on the insulating layer; two upper columns formed on an upper surface of the second torsion bar so that the upper surfaces of the upper columns are located at higher positions than the upper surfaces of the electrodes; and a micromirror located on the upper surfaces of the upper columns so that the micromirror is supported by the upper columns.

Abstract: The present invention provides a flash memory element and its manufacturing method having improved overall memory characteristics by constituting a double-gate element for improving the scaling down characteristic of flash memory element. With the above double-gate flash memory structure, a flash memory element in the present invention improves the scaling down characteristic and the programming and retention characteristic of a flash memory element.

Abstract: A system for and method of reading out a storage phosphor screen (or a storage phosphor sheet or an imaging plate) sensitive to radiation is used to perform radiography by optically stimulating the storage phosphor screen to induce luminescence and acquire a digital image of a subject. A semiconductor light source array is used as a stimulating light source to which an optical fiber array consisting of a bundle of optical fibers having diverse forms is connected; a starting of the semiconductor light source array is controlled with an electric pulse; and a semiconductor light source array starting pulse for generating a stimulating light is interlocked with a photomultiplier tube for collecting a luminescence light signal induced from the storage phosphor screen by the stimulating light to represent the collected luminescence light as a distribution of a two-dimensional position and thereby acquire the digital image of the subject from the storage phosphor screen.

Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus for monitoring an optical signal-to-noise ratio in a WDM optical network. The apparatus includes an orthogonal polarization component module for receiving an optical signal and outputting it after removing a signal component thereof at a specific frequency band; and calculation means for measuring both average signal and noise component intensity of the optical signal outputted from the orthogonal polarization component module. By removing a signal component at a specific frequency bandwidth and passing only a noise component through, it is possible to easily measure the noise intensity within a signal bandwidth that cannot be measured in general. A frequency band is set within a signal bandwidth, and the signal intensity is minimized at the set frequency band, so that it is possible to measure the optical signal-to-noise ratio even for a signal whose amplified spontaneous emission noise spectrum is not flat, irrespective of the signal pattern length.

Abstract: The present invention provides a polymer in which coumarin, a photo-reactive molecule, is grafted onto a polyimide for preparing liquid crystal alignment layer which has a superior alignment property and an excellent thermal stability in photo-alignment, a process for preparing the said grafted polymer, a process for preparing liquid crystal alignment layer by employing the said grafted polymer, and a liquid crystal alignment layer prepared by the process. The polymer of the invention is prepared by mixing a coumarin compound with a polyimide, dissolving the mixture in an organic solvent, adding a catalyst, and stirring under an environment of N2 gas. The polymer of the invention is superior in terms of the thermal stability, which makes possible its universal application for the development of a novel liquid crystal display(LCD).

Abstract: A digital driving circuit for a liquid crystal display which sequentially receives and displays n-bit digital video information from a data bus on a bit basis. The digital driving circuit comprises a first data latch for sequentially storing the digital video information from the data bus on a bit basis, a shift register for synchronizing a latching operation of the first data latch with bit positions of the digital video information from the data bus, a second data latch for storing the digital video information stored in the first data latch temporarily before digital/analog conversion, and a digital/analog converter for sequentially converting the digital video information stored in the second data latch into analog signals on a bit basis. The digital driving circuit is able to sequentially process bit information of digital video information to reduce the number of data bus lines for loading the bit information thereon and the number of data catches arranged vertically to a column direction.

Abstract: The present invention relates generally to interpolation methods for automatic generation of an accurate digital elevation model, and more particularly relates to intelligent interpolation methods for accurate extraction of 3-dimensional digital elevation models from satellite images, aerial photographs, or land surveying. The present invention is composed of three basic processes: The first process (102) of COG/ECI elimination, the second process (104) of hole-fill segmentation, and the third process (103) of noise-remove segmentation. The invention produces an accurate digital elevation model even for the areas with open boundaries such as the sea off the coast and over a river.

Abstract: An ellipsometer for aligning incident angle comprising: a main frame shaping half circle and flat surface on which a plurality of grooves are radial and circumferential directionally carved; a specimen stage, which is installed at the groove-caved surface of the main frame, for tilting a specimen on a upper surface of the specimen stage with respect to horizontal direction and translating the specimen upward and downward; a polarizing unit, which is capable of fixing and moving on the groove-carved surface of the main frame, for polarizing a light from a light source and outputting the polarized light to the specimen, and moving on the groove-carved surface; and a light detecting unit, which is capable of fixing and moving on the groove-carved surface, for a reflection light from the specimen.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an automatic retrieval method of a wavelength-division multiplexed (WDM) ring network to the normal state after recovery of a failure. More specifically, the present invention relates to an automatic retrieval method of a WDM ring network to the normal state after recovery of a failure by inducing a lasing by making the gain of the closed loop larger than 1 using the fact that the recovered section in the ring network forms a closed loop immediately after the recovery of the failure.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a polymer blend of cinnamate polymer and polyimide polymer, which are photo-reactive polymers, for preparing liquid crystal alignment layer having a high pretilt angle in photo-alignment, a process for preparing liquid crystal alignment layer by employing the said blend, a liquid crystal alignment layer prepared by the process, and a crystal cell prepared by employing the liquid crystal alignment layer. The polymer blend for preparing liquid crystal alignment layer of the invention comprises 10 to 90% (w/w) of cinnamate polymer and 10 to 90% (w/w) of polyimide polymer. Since the liquid crystal alignment layer prepared by employing the polymer blend of the invention has an excellent alignment property and thermal stability, which makes possible its wide application in the development of liquid crystal displays.

Abstract: Disclosed are flat panel field emitter displays whose unit cell structure adopt a planar cathode structure in stead of a conventional microtip structure, so as to increase the degree of integration and can be operated at low operation voltages at high speeds. In the structure, a channel insulator is formed below the cathode and underlaid by a gate. By means of the gate voltage, the electron emission from the cathode can be controlled. The electrodes in the structure are arranged in the order of anode, cathode and gate, allowing the simplification of processes. With the ease of controlling the distance between electrodes, the displays can be applied for almost all video systems from small sizes to large screen area displays, in place of conventional displays. The displays allows conventional semiconductor processes and facilities to be utilized as they are.

Abstract: A spectrophotometer and spectrophotometry method, using a precision drive at a photodiode array which precisely moves the photodiode array by a distance equal to the physical interval between the photodiodes of the photodiode array so that the spectrophotometer and spectrophotometry method primarily measures light intensities of incident light by the photodiode array, and when precisely moves the photodiode array using the drive by the distance equal to the physical interval between photodiodes of the photodiode array, measures the light intensities of the incident light at desired positions corresponding to the intervals.

Abstract: The present invention relates to isoxazolylalkylpiperazine derivatives having selective biological activity at dopamine D3 or D4 receptors represented by the following formula (1), and its preparation method through reductive amination reaction in the presence of reducing agent, wherein R1, R2, X and n are the same as defined in the specification.

Abstract: A method of extracting a road from images photographed from an artificial satellite or aircraft, which includes a first step of calculating an orientation of an initial input coordinate after selection thereof, a second step of generating a template window which is inclined by the calculated orientation with respect to the initial input coordinate, a third step of generating an initial target window moved from the generated template window in a direction of the orientation of the input coordinate, a fourth step of calculating an origin point of the optimal target window and a new orientation thereof by performing template matching for the generated initial target window, a fifth step of generating a new initial target window moved from the calculated origin point in the a direction of the calculated new orientation and repeatedly performing the fourth step until all the images have been completely processed, and a sixth step of generating the road on a map by connecting the origin points obtained from the ima