Abstract: A method of handling a workpiece includes the following steps. A workpiece is placed on a chuck body, wherein the workpiece includes a tape carrier extending beyond a periphery of the chuck body and a workpiece body disposed on the tape carrier, and the chuck body includes a seal ring surrounding the periphery of the chuck body; the tape carrier is clamped outside the chuck body, wherein the tape carrier leans against the seal ring and an enclosed space is formed between the chuck body, the tape carrier and the seal ring; and a vacuum seal is formed by evacuating gas from the enclosed space to pull the periphery of the workpiece toward the chuck body.

Abstract: A method includes obtaining, using at least one processing device, noisy speech signals and extracting, using the at least one processing device, acoustic features from the noisy speech signals. The method also includes receiving, using the at least one processing device, a predicted speech mask from a speech mask prediction model based on a first acoustic feature subset and receiving, using the at least one processing device, a predicted noise mask from a noise mask prediction model based on a second acoustic feature subset. The method further includes providing, using the at least one processing device, predicted speech features determined using the predicted speech mask and predicted noise features determined using the predicted noise mask to a filtering mask prediction model. In addition, the method includes generating, using the at least one processing device, a clean speech signal using a predicted filtering mask output by the filtering mask prediction model.

Abstract: An optoelectronic device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a photonic integrated circuit, and a laser diode. The second substrate is over the first substrate. The photonic integrated circuit is disposed on the first substrate and includes a first waveguide channel, a second waveguide channel, and a patterned structure. The first waveguide channel and the second waveguide channel are coupled to the patterned structure. The laser diode is disposed on the second substrate and configured to emit a light beam toward the patterned structure.

Abstract: A method includes: receiving one or more training text sentences; generating one or more training vectors based on inputting the one or more training sentences input into a text encoder, the one or more training vectors corresponding to one or more operations that an electronic device is configured to perform; generating one or more speech vectors based on one or more speech utterances input into a speech encoder; generating a similarity matrix that compares each of the one or more training vectors with each of the one or more speech vectors; and updating at least one of the text encoder and the speech encoder based on the similarity matrix.

Abstract: A method for performing cuffless blood pressure (BP) measurement, including: obtaining a first physiological signal and a second physiological signal associated with a user; providing the first physiological signal as an input to a first transformer model; providing the second physiological signal as an input to a second transformer model; providing an output of the first transformer model and an output of the second transformer model as inputs to a third transformer model; providing an output of the third transformer model to at least one BP estimation model; and generating an estimated BP value corresponding to the first physiological signal and the second physiological signal based on an output of the at least one BP estimation model

Abstract: Optical devices and methods of manufacture are presented in which a mirror structure is utilized to transmit and receive optical signals to and from an optical device. In embodiments the mirror structure receives optical signals from outside of an optical device and directs the optical signals through at least one mirror to an optical component of the optical device.

Abstract: A method for generating a customized speech enhancement model includes obtaining noisy-clean speech data from a source domain, obtaining noisy speech data from a target domain; obtaining raw speech data, using the noisy-clean speech data, the noisy speech data, and the raw speech data, training the customized SE model based on at least one of self-supervised representation-based adaptation (SSRA), ensemble mapping, or self-supervised adaptation loss, generating the customized SE model by denoising the noisy speech data using the trained customized SE model, and providing the customized SE model to a user device to use the denoised noisy speech data.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method of making a semiconductor device. The method includes forming a semiconductor stack on a substrate, wherein the semiconductor stack includes first semiconductor layers of a first semiconductor material and second semiconductor layers of a second semiconductor material alternatively stacked on the substrate; patterning the semiconductor stack and the substrate to form a trench and an active region being adjacent the trench; epitaxially growing a liner of the first semiconductor material on sidewalls of the trench and sidewalls of the active region; forming an isolation feature in the trench; performing a rapid thermal nitridation process, thereby converting the liner into a silicon nitride layer; and forming a cladding layer of the second semiconductor material over the silicon nitride layer.

Abstract: A fitting for an upper brush in a double brush scrubbing chamber of a wafer cleaning system is disclosed. The fitting includes a base plate, a flanged pipe, and a threaded connector. The base plate includes a threaded hole with a stop surface therein and a channel extending from the stop surface through a lower surface of the base plate. The flanged pipe is inserted into the base plate such that the flange at the top end of a hollow tube rests on the stop surface and the hollow tube passes through the channel of the base plate. The threaded connector has a passage therethrough, and engages the threaded hole of the base plate to fix the flanged pipe in place. This structure is able to provide fluid while minimizing particle generation.

Abstract: A system for reflowing a semiconductor workpiece including a stage, a first vacuum module and a second vacuum module, and an energy source is provided. The stage includes a base and a protrusion connected to the base, the stage is movable along a height direction of the stage relative to the semiconductor workpiece, the protrusion operably holds and heats the semiconductor workpiece, and the protrusion includes a first portion and a second portion surrounded by and spatially separated from the first portion. The first vacuum module and the second vacuum module respectively coupled to the first portion and the second portion of the protrusion, and the first vacuum module and the second vacuum module are operable to respectively apply a pressure to the first portion and the second portion. The energy source is disposed over the stage to heat the semiconductor workpiece held by the protrusion of the stage.

Abstract: A fitting for an upper brush in a double brush scrubbing chamber of a wafer cleaning system is disclosed. The fitting includes a base plate, a flanged pipe, and a threaded connector. The base plate includes a threaded hole with a stop surface therein and a channel extending from the stop surface through a lower surface of the base plate. The flanged pipe is inserted into the base plate such that the flange at the top end of a hollow tube rests on the stop surface and the hollow tube passes through the channel of the base plate. The threaded connector has a passage therethrough, and engages the threaded hole of the base plate to fix the flanged pipe in place. This structure is able to provide fluid while minimizing particle generation.

Abstract: A portable electronic device including a first body, a second body, and a light module is provided. The second body is pivotally connected to the first body. The light module is adjacent to the second body and is disposed on the first body. The light module includes a frame, a light guide plate, a light source, a patterned light guide film, and a light-transmitting cover plate. The frame is disposed on the first body. The light guide plate is disposed in the frame and has a light incident surface and a light emitting surface. The light source is disposed in the frame as corresponding to the light incident surface of the light guide plate. The patterned light guide film is detachably disposed on the light guide plate and covers the light emitting surface. The light-transmitting cover plate is detachably disposed on the frame and covers the patterned light guide film.

Abstract: An absorption type near-infrared filter comprising a first multilayer film, a second multilayer film, and an absorption film, wherein in the ultraviolet band, the difference of between the wavelength with the transmittance at 80% of the absorbing film and the wavelength with the reflectivity at 80% of the first multilayer film falls in the range between 25 nm and 37 nm, the difference of between the wavelength with the transmittance at 50% of the absorbing film and the wavelength with the reflectivity at 50% of the first multilayer film falls in the range between 6 nm and 14 nm, and the difference of between the wavelength with the transmittance at 20% of the absorbing film and the wavelength with the reflectivity at 20% of the first multilayer film falls in the range between ?6 nm and 2.5 nm.

Abstract: A motor with a plurality of stator modules and a driving method of the motor are provided. The motor includes a plurality of stator modules, a control unit, and a rotor. The plurality of stator modules is detachably assembled into a motor stator. Each of the plurality of stator modules includes a driving circuit. Each driving circuit is electrically connected to a plurality of coils of an associated one of the plurality of stator modules. The control unit is coupled to the driving circuits. The control unit designates one of the plurality of stator modules as a starting unit and designates remaining stator modules as relay units. The rotor includes at least one magnetic member corresponding to the plurality of coils of the plurality of stator modules. The starting unit drives the rotor to rotate. The relay units drive the rotor according to a phase change of the starting unit.

Abstract: A motor includes a plurality of stator modules, a plurality of circuit boards, a rotor, and a sensing module coupled to the circuit boards. The stator modules are detachably assembled into a stator assembly. Each stator module includes pole posts and coils of different phases wound around the pole posts. Each circuit board is electrically connected to the coils of an associated stator module. Each circuit board independently switches the associated stator module between the different phases. A power source supplies power to the coils via the circuit boards. The rotor includes at least one magnetic member which has magnetic poles corresponding to the coils of the stator modules. The sensing module detects a magnetic field change of the at least one magnetic member responsive to a movement of the rotor, determines a rotational position of the rotor, and informs each circuit board about the rotational position of the rotor.

Abstract: A male plug and a female receptacle of a charger extension cable for electric vehicles is configured to be connected between a home electric circuit and a charging gun of a respective one electric vehicle, and the male plug and the female receptacle of the charger extension cable contains: a body of the charger extension cable. The body of the charger extension cable includes a first extension cord connected with a first male plug, and the first male plug is electrically connected with the home electric circuit having an incoming terminal electrically connected with a current output end of a main power switch of the home electric circuit in a power outgoing direction. The incoming terminal has a first female receptacle connected, and the first female receptacle is electrically connected with the first male plug of the first extension cord.

Abstract: An absorption type near-infrared filter comprising a first multilayer film, a second multilayer film, and an absorption film, wherein in the ultraviolet band, the difference of between the wavelength with the transmittance at 80% of the absorbing film and the wavelength with the reflectivity at 80% of the first multilayer film falls in the range between 25 nm and 37 nm, the difference of between the wavelength with the transmittance at 50% of the absorbing film and the wavelength with the reflectivity at 50% of the first multilayer film falls in the range between 6 nm and 14 nm, and the difference of between the wavelength with the transmittance at 20% of the absorbing film and the wavelength with the reflectivity at 20% of the first multilayer film falls in the range between ?6 nm and 2.5 nm.

Abstract: An absorption type near-infrared filter comprising a first multilayer film, a second multilayer film, and an absorption film comprising an infrared absorbing dye with a weight percentage between 1% and 3%, wherein in the infrared band, the difference between the wavelength with the transmittance at 80% of the absorption film and the wavelength with the reflectivity at 80% of the first multilayer film ranges between 130 nm and 145 nm; the difference between the wavelength with the transmittance at 50% of the absorption film and the wavelength with the reflectivity at 50% of the first multilayer film ranges between 75 nm and 90 nm; the difference between the wavelength with the transmittance at 20% of the absorption film and the wavelength with the reflectivity at 20% of the first multilayer film ranges between 25 nm and 45 nm.

Abstract: A digital set-top box with a custom channel function has a central processing unit, including a composite channel table that has a channel list storing more than one channel number and more than one channel, wherein each of the channel numbers has a corresponding channel, and each of the channels is a video stream channel provided by a video streaming application installed in the central processing unit by the user; a memory unit, electrically connected to the central processing unit for storing the channels in the composite channel table; and an input/output unit, electrically connected to the central processing unit for receiving a control command sent from a remote control. When the remote control sends a number command, the central processing unit displays the channel corresponding to the channel in the number command on a display screen.

Abstract: A use of an emblica extract in preparing a pharmaceutical composition for protecting mitochondria in retina is provided. When the pharmaceutical composition, which comprises the emblica extract, is provided to retinal cells, a use of the pharmaceutical composition comprises improvement of the ability of performing the oxidative phosphorylation for the synthesis of the adenosine triphosphate (ATP) by the mitochondria in the retinal cells under or exposed to ultraviolet light, and improvement of the coupling efficiency of the synthesis of the adenosine triphosphate by the mitochondria.