Abstract: A method of providing an end-capped tubular ceramic composite for containing nuclear fuel (34) in a nuclear reactor involves the steps of providing a tubular ceramic composite (40), providing at least one end plug (14, 46, 48), applying (42) the at least one end plug material to the ends of the tubular ceramic composite, applying electrodes to the end plug and tubular ceramic composite and applying current in a plasma sintering means (10, 50) to provide a hermetically sealed tube (52). The invention also provides a sealed tube made by this method.

Abstract: A light emitting diode comprising an epitaxial layer structure, a first electrode, and a second electrode. The first and second electrodes are separately disposed on the epitaxial layer structure, and the epitaxial layer structure has a root-means-square (RMS) roughness less than about 3 at a surface whereon the first electrode is formed.

Abstract: A solid-state mass storage device adapted to be used as a cache for an hard disk drive that utilizes a more efficient logical data management method relative to conventional systems. The storage device includes a circuit board, a memory controller, at least one non-volatile memory device, and at least two data interfaces. The storage device is coupled to a host computer system and configured to operate as a cache for at least one hard disk drive. The storage device is interposed between the host computer system and the at least one hard disk drive. Both the storage device and the at least one hard disk drive are coupled to the host computer system through a single connection and configured to operate in a daisy chain configuration.

Abstract: A light source and method for making the same are disclosed. The light source includes a conducting substrate, and a light emitting structure that is divided into segments. The light emitting structure includes a first layer of semiconductor material of a first conductivity type deposited on the substrate, an active layer overlying the first layer, and a second layer of semiconductor material of an opposite conductivity type from the first conductivity type overlying the active layer. A barrier divides the light emitting structure into first and second segments that are electrically isolated from one another. A serial connection electrode connects the first layer in the first segment to the second layer in the second segment. A power contact is electrically connected to the second layer in the first segment, and a second power contact electrically connected to the first layer in the second segment.

Abstract: A P-N junction gate high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) device with a self-aligned gate structure and a method for making the HEMT device is disclosed. In one embodiment, the HEMT device includes a heterojunction comprising a barrier layer formed on a channel layer. A gate layer is formed on the barrier layer, the gate layer comprising a P-type group III-V semiconductor material suitable for depleting the carriers of a current conducting channel at the heterojunction when the HEMT device is off. A gate electrode comprising indium tin oxide (ITO) is formed on the gate layer, the gate electrode and the gate layer having substantially the same length.

Abstract: The present disclosure includes systems and techniques relating to customization of a bus adapter card. in some implementations, an apparatus includes a processor and a program memory, a bus adapter card coupled with the computing apparatus and configured to connect with a storage device, the bus adapter card computing a cache memory and a controller to cache in the cache memory data associated with the storage device, where the program memory includes a driver to communicate with the bus adapter card responsive to requests corresponding to the storage device, and the driver is configured to modify its communications with the bus adapter card responsive to information provided separate from the requests.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, there is provided a sheet processing apparatus including a contactless type detection magnetic sensor for detecting magnetism of a sheet, correction magnetic sensors for detecting a magnetic field near the detection magnetic sensor, coils arranged near the detection magnetic sensor, and a cancel device for generating a cancellation magnetic field for cancelling a magnetic field near the detection magnetic sensor from the coils based on a detection result of the correction magnetic sensors.

Abstract: In a transmission side, a layer adjusting unit performs an adjustment to store a scalable encoded video data in a memory, select and output a scalable data of a base quality as a real-time video, read from a memory a scalable data of an enhancement quality based on the designation of a enhancement quality and a transmission period of time, and output the scalable data of an enhancement quality together with a real-time scalable data. In the receiving side, a layer synthesizing unit synthesizes and outputs a real-time video at normal times, and lowers the real-time video to a quality of the base layer if there is an enhancement quality video of a designated period of time, thereby reading the base quality layer data corresponding to the designated video from the memory (153) and synthesizing the data with the enhancement quality video to output the resulting data.

Abstract: A mounting structure adapted for mounting an expansion card within a computer enclosure and configured to directly absorb and conduct heat from a heat source (such as an IC chip) on the card to the ambient atmosphere surrounding the enclosure. The mounting structure includes a mounting bracket, a heat sink adapted to contact a surface of the heat source on the expansion card, an extension interconnecting the heat sink and the mounting bracket, one or more features for conducting heat from the heat sink to the mounting bracket, and one or more features associated with the mounting bracket for dissipating heat from the mounting structure to the ambient atmosphere surrounding the enclosure.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a novel light-emitting diode package and corresponding fabrication method for making such a package. The novel LED package comprises a resin carrier layer having a first and second surface. Embedded in the resin carrier layer are at least one electrical conductor and at least one LED. The embedded LED comprises a substrate having a bottom surface that is substantially exposed at the second surface of the resin carrier layer. The embedded LED further comprises a light emitting layer that is substantially exposed at the first surface of the resin carrier layer.

Abstract: An LED package and method for LED packaging is disclosed. In one embodiment, an LED package includes a carrier substrate having a predefined surface area, an LED device bonded to the carrier substrate, the LED device having a footprint area of at least fifty percent of the predefined surface area of the carrier substrate, and an encapsulant lens having a top surface inclined inwardly at an angle in the range of about 10° to about 140°. In one embodiment, the top surface of the encapsulant lens layer has a concave cone shape. In one embodiment, a wafer level packaging process includes forming an encapsulant lens layer portion having a top surface inclined inwardly at an angle in the range of about 10° to about 140° on each of a plurality of LED devices bonded to a carrier substrate wafer.

Abstract: In one embodiment, an electric motor. A first bracket is fixed to the first side of a stator core in an axial direction, and is fixed to first bearing housing. A second bracket is fixed to the second side of the stator core, and is fixed to second bearing housing. The rotor includes a shaft rotatably supported by bearings, and an attached rotor core. Rotor core faces the inside of the stator core. A fan is attached to the shaft between the rotor core and the first housing. A flue formed between the first housing and the first bracket is configured to draw air from a port to a part of the first bracket. A rotation detection circuit includes a detected part fixed to the fan, and is within the flue. A sensor operable to detect the part is set in the flue, counter to the detected part.

Abstract: The present invention relates to system and method of reading and rewriting EDID in a video transmission system includes a transmitter transmitting a video signal and a receiver receiving the video signal that the transmitter transmitted which are connected to each other through digital interface, the method includes a reading step where the transmitter reads the EDID of the receiver through the digital interface; a first transmitting step where the transmitter transmit the video signal to the receiver on the basis of the EDID which the transmitter read; a second transmitting step where the receiver transmits a first message related to the EDID of the receiver; and a third transmitting step where the receiver transmits a second message related to the EDID of the receiver; wherein the transmitter, which received the first message from the receiver, does not read the EDID of the receiver until the second message is received.

Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed that includes a resistance measuring unit operable to determine a solution resistance Rsol and a charge transfer resistance Rct of a battery; and at least one computer-readable non-transitory storage medium comprising code, that, when executed by at least one processor, is operable to provide an estimate of the present value of the battery by: comparing Rsol and Rct to historical deterioration transition information; estimating the number of remaining charge cycles before a discharge capacity lower limit is reached by the battery using the comparison; and estimating the number of remaining charge cycles before a discharge time lower limit is reached by the battery using the comparison. The estimate of the present value of the battery includes the smaller of the number of remaining charge cycles before a discharge capacity lower limit is reached or the number of remaining charge cycles before a discharge time lower limit is reached.

Abstract: One aspect of the present invention is directed to a color-tunable light source including a light emitting diode die segmented into a plurality of sub-light emitting diode regions, at least one of the plurality of light emitting regions defining a first zone and at least one of the plurality of light emitting regions defining a second zone, a color conversion material such as phosphor material covering at least a top surface of each light emitting region in the first zone, a first electrical contact connected to a light emitting region in the first zone, and a second electrical contact connected to a light emitting region in the second zone. A current applied to the first electrical contact drives the light emitting regions in the first zone and a second current applied to the second electrical contact drives the light emitting regions in the second zone.

Abstract: An LED package and method for LED packaging is disclosed. In one embodiment, an LED package includes a carrier substrate having a predefined surface area, an LED device bonded to the carrier substrate, the LED device having a footprint area of at least fifty percent of the predefined surface area of the carrier substrate, and an encapsulant lens having a top surface inclined inwardly at an angle in the range of about 10° to about 140°. In one embodiment, the top surface of the encapsulant lens layer has a concave cone shape. In one embodiment, a wafer level packaging process includes forming an encapsulant lens layer portion having a top surface inclined inwardly at an angle in the range of about 10° to about 140° on each of a plurality of LED devices bonded to a carrier substrate wafer.

Abstract: An LED assembly with an ESD protection device integrated into the carrier substrate and a method for making the LED assembly is disclosed. In one embodiment, the LED assembly includes an LED in contact with a bonding layer in contact with a substrate. The substrate has a region containing a circuit element. The bonding layer forms an ohmic connection between the region containing the circuit element and the LED. In one embodiment, the region containing the circuit element is an ESD protection device, such as a Zener diode.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a controller for a storage apparatus is disclosed having interfaces connectable to a host system, a first storage apparatus and a second storage apparatus. A data in the first storage apparatus and a data in the second storage apparatus are duplicates. A status table stores the operating state regarding the first storage apparatus and the second storage apparatus, wherein the operating state indicates among writing, reading, or standing by. A monitor monitors the interfaces and set up the operating state into the status table. A buffer memory buffers the data for writing in the first storage apparatus and the second storage apparatus. A command response unit receives the data for writing and write-in request from a host system, and directs the writing of the data to the first storage apparatus and the second storage apparatus while making the buffer memory buffer the received data.

Abstract: A high electron mobility transistor device includes a substrate, a buffer layer on the substrate, a channel layer on the buffer layer, and a contact and barrier layer on the channel layer, the contact and barrier layer being made of indium aluminum nitride with a plurality of indium precipitates exposed on the surface of the contact and barrier layer. The plurality of indium precipitates exposed on the surface of the contact and barrier layer enable metal contacts to be formed directly on the contact and barrier layer with reliable and repeatable electrical performance. The contact and barrier layer may be epitaxially grown in a metal organic chemical vapor deposition process where a ratio of group-V precursors to group-III precursors is low and a flow rate of an indium precursor is greater than a flow rate of an aluminum precursor.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with a lookup structure for a large block cache are described. According to one embodiment, at least two blocks of data are stored in a cache. A lookup entry is constructed that describes the at least two blocks of data. The lookup entry includes block specific information that describes individual blocks of the at least two blocks of data. The lookup entry is stored in the lookup structure.