Abstract: Provided are perovskite quantum dots showing an independent photoreaction to light stimulation in different wavelength bands from each other, a method for preparing the perovskite quantum dots, and an anti-counterfeiting ink including the perovskite quantum dots.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of operating a swap memory device configured to communicate with a host device and a main memory device. The method includes receiving, from the host device, a request corresponding to target data, determining, by the swap memory device, a first address of the target data and a second address of a target data block that includes the target data, based on the request, providing, by the swap memory device, the target data to the host device based on the first address, and providing, by the swap memory device, the target data block to the main memory device based on the second address.

Abstract: A temperature sensor includes a first electrode, second electrode, and a pyroelectric layer between the first electrode and the second electrode. The pyroelectric layer includes a ferroelectric polymer and an ionogel.

Abstract: Disclosed are a CAM-based weakly supervised object localization device and method. The device includes: a feature map extractor configured to extract a feature map of a last convolutional layer in a convolutional neural network (CNN) in a process of applying an image to the CNN; a weight vector binarization unit configured to first binarize a weight vector of a linear layer in a process of sequentially applying the feature map to a pooling layer that generates a feature vector and the linear layer that generates a class label; a feature map binarization unit configured to second binarize the feature map based on the first binarized weight vector; and a class activation map generation unit configured to generate a class activation map for object localization based on the second binarized feature map.

Abstract: A muscular atrophy-inducing agent containing, as an active ingredient, a hypometabolism-inducing substance selected from the group consisting of 3-iodothyronamine (T1AM), [D-Ala2,D-Leu5] enkephalin (DADLE), 5?-adenosine monophosphate (5?-AMP), and hydrogen sulfide (H2S), and a method for preventing or treating muscular hypertrophy; and a method for shrinking facial muscle are proposed. The muscular atrophy study model can provide a study model for an economic muscular atrophy study by using a hypometabolism-inducing substance which can be mass-produced, has an effect which may be usefully used by verification for screening of a drug for preventing or treating muscular atrophy, and can be usefully used as a compositions for preventing or treating muscular hypertrophy and a composition for facial muscle shrinkage through the muscular atrophy effect.

Abstract: An apparatus for correcting an error of a clock signal may include a phase adjuster that corrects an error of half-rate clock signals based on an error correction signal to output an error-corrected clock signal, a phase splitter that outputs quadrature clock signals from the error-corrected clock signal, an error detector that outputs an internal clock signal based on one of the quadrature clock signals, selects two quadrature clock signals among the quadrature clock signals based on a clock selection signal, and detects errors of the two quadrature clock signals based on an error check signal to output a correction request signal, and a controller that outputs a mode selection signal and the clock selection signal based on the internal clock signal and that outputs the error correction signal and the error check signal based on the mode selection signal, the clock selection signal, and the correction request signal.

Abstract: An electronic device may include: a first temperature sensor configured to measure a first temperature of a skin surface when a user comes into contact with a main body of the electronic device; a first heating element spaced apart from the first temperature sensor by a first predetermined distance; a second temperature sensor spaced apart from the first heating element by a second predetermined distance and configured to measure a second temperature inside the main body; and a processor configured to: estimate heat flux based on the first temperature and the second temperature; estimate a blood perfusion rate of the user based on a temperature of the first heating element and the first temperature, and estimate a core body temperature of a user based on the first temperature, the estimated heat flux, and the estimated blood perfusion rate.

Abstract: A method of cleaning a semiconductor processing system may include applying a vacuum pressure to a supply pipeline through which a process fluid is transferred to a process chamber and purging the supply pipeline with a cleaning gas, wherein the purging the supply pipeline with the cleaning gas includes by supplying the cleaning gas to a front end of the supply pipeline and discharging the cleaning gas supplied to the supply pipeline by applying an atmospheric pressure from a back end of the supply pipeline.

Abstract: A semiconductor memory device including a semiconductor layer including a source area, a channel area, and a drain area arranged in a first horizontal direction on a substrate, a cell capacitor extending in the first horizontal direction on the substrate and including a lower electrode layer, a capacitor dielectric film, and an upper electrode layer connected to the source area, a bit line extending in a vertical direction on the substrate and connected to the drain area, and a gate structure covering the channel area, and the gate structure including a gate dielectric film on the channel area and a gate electrode film on the gate dielectric film, wherein in the vertical direction, a first thickness of an end of the channel area facing the source area is greater than a second thickness of another end of the channel area facing the drain area may be provided.

Abstract: A brassiere for radiation therapy is disclosed. The brassiere for radiation therapy according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a pair of cups configured to cover breasts of a patient; a coupling member positioned between the pair of cups and configured to couple the pair of cups to each other; back bands configured to be in close contact with a back of the patient; and side compression bands, the side compression bands having one ends coupled to the pair of cups at the coupling member, respectively, and the other ends detachably coupled to the back bands, respectively, wherein positions of the breasts of the patient are changed by adjusting positions on the back bands to which the other ends of side compression bands are coupled.

Abstract: An apparatus for acquiring images includes an image sensor and a signal processor. The image sensor may include a sensor substrate and a color separation lens array, wherein the sensor substrate includes a plurality of photo-sensing cells, and the color separation lens array may separate an incident light into a plurality of lights having different wavelengths and forms a phase distribution for condensing the plurality of lights having the different wavelengths on adjacent photo-sensing cells of the plurality of photo-sensing cells. The signal processor may perform deconvolution on sensing signals of the plurality of photo-sensing cells to obtain a sub-sampled image, perform demosaicing to restore a full resolution image having a full resolution from the sub-sampled image, and correct a color of the full resolution image using a point spread function (PSF) of the color separation lens array.

Abstract: The apparatus and the method for estimating a channel of a wireless power transmission system using an intelligent reflecting surface according to the exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure check a strength of a received signal received by a terminal with respect to a measured signal transmitted from the transmitter, regardless of the number of reflective elements of the intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) or the number of terminals and estimate a channel between the transmitter and the intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) and the channel between the intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) and the terminal so that the channel information can be efficiently acquired even in the wireless power transmission system including a low power terminal.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition for inhibiting PAR2 activity including punicalagin, and more specifically, the present invention provides a composition for inhibiting PAR2 activity including punicalagin, a stereoisomer thereof, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, or a pharmaceutical composition, health functional food composition, or cosmetic composition for preventing or treating an inflammatory disease or pruritis.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a plurality of semiconductor patterns spaced apart from each other in a first horizontal direction on the substrate, where each of the plurality of semiconductor patterns has first side surfaces opposing each other in the first horizontal direction and second side surfaces opposing each other in a second horizontal direction, the first and second horizontal directions parallel to an upper surface of the substrate, the second horizontal direction perpendicular to the first horizontal direction, source/drain regions on the second side surfaces of each of the plurality of semiconductor patterns, a plurality of gate patterns surrounding upper surfaces, lower surfaces, and the first side surfaces of each of the plurality of semiconductor patterns, a plurality of conductive line patterns connecting the plurality of gate patterns to each other, and data storage structures in parallel to the plurality of semiconductor patterns in the second horizontal direction.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a substrate having first and second regions, semiconductor patterns spaced apart from each other in a first horizontal direction on the first region, wherein each of the semiconductor patterns has first side surfaces opposing each other in the first horizontal direction and second side surfaces opposing each other in a second horizontal direction, the first and second horizontal directions parallel to an upper surface of the substrate, the second horizontal direction perpendicular to the first horizontal direction, gate patterns surrounding an upper surface, a lower surface, and the first side surfaces of each of the semiconductor patterns, and a landing pattern spaced apart from the semiconductor patterns in the first horizontal direction on the second region and electrically connected to the gate patterns. The landing pattern includes a semiconductor material layer and a conductive material layer covering at least one surface of the semiconductor material layer.

Abstract: A resolution controller for a stretchable display includes a resolution-setting multiplexer module to receive a resolution selecting signal and to apply a gate in panel (GIP) selecting signal, in response to the resolution selecting signal, and a GIP module configured to generate a gate driving signal in response to the GIP selecting signal applied by the resolution-setting multiplexer module, and apply the gate driving signal to a pixel driving flexible printed circuit board (FPCB) of the stretchable display to drive an open pixel depending on a stretched state of the stretchable display.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a heterochiral peptide complex, a self-assembled intermediate thereof, an alignment medium composition used for nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy residual dipolar coupling (NMR-RDC) measurement, which includes the same, and a method for NMR measurement for a biomolecule. Since the heterochiral peptide complex contains a ?-sheet peptide and has superior structural stability against environmental factors such as heat, acidity and ionic strength, it is applicable as an alignment medium for measuring RDC for various biomolecules.

Abstract: A distance measuring apparatus includes: a DTC generator unit that generates DTC signals having edges delayed to define time segments; a template generator unit that generates template signals consecutively in a pre-designated number within the time segments in response to the DTC signals; a coarse time determiner unit that determines the time segment in which a delayed signal is received by calculating correlations with the consecutively generated template signals; a fine time measurer unit that determines the time at which the delayed signal is received within the time segment determined at the coarse time determiner unit from the results of calculating correlations between multiple template signals within the determined time segment and the delayed signal; and a distance calculator unit that calculates the total delay duration of the delayed signal and calculates the distance to the measurement target object from the calculated delay duration.

Abstract: A PUF apparatus comprises: a PUF cell array in which a plurality of PUF cells are arranged each including a FeFET pair whose gates are commonly connected to a corresponding word line among a plurality of word lines, and whose drains and sources are connected to a corresponding bit line pair and a corresponding source line pair among a plurality of bit line pairs and a plurality of source line pairs running in a direction crossing the plurality of word lines; and a read-write-back block which is activated according to a read enable signal, and senses and amplifies a voltage difference occurring in a corresponding bit line pair among the plurality of bit line pairs according to the difference in driving strength due to a deviation in a manufacturing process of the FeFET pair in the PUF cell selected by a selected word line among the plurality of word lines.

Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus for monitoring bioaerosols, including a capturer configured to capture bioaerosol particles in air in a capture solution; a particle sprayer configured to electro-spray the capture solution in a form of droplets such that the particles are included in at least some of the sprayed droplets; and an analyzer configured to analyze the particles, sprayed through the particle sprayer, by machine learning. In accordance with such a configuration, the droplets containing a certain amount of the particles can be continuously analyzed in real time by machine learning, thereby contributing to the improvement of monitoring efficiency for a specific bioaerosol genus.