Abstract: A semiconductor device and a method for fabricating the same are provided. The method includes: forming a contact plug passing through an inter-layer insulation layer; sequentially forming a lower electrode layer, a dielectric layer and an upper electrode layer on the inter-layer insulation layer; patterning the upper electrode layer; patterning the dielectric layer and the lower electrode layer, thereby obtaining a capacitor including an upper electrode, a patterned dielectric layer and a lower electrode; and sequentially forming a first metal interconnection line connected with the contact plug and second metal interconnection lines connected with the capacitor.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for preparing an impregnating pitch which is used for the manufacture of carbon-carbon composites having excellent mechanical properties at an ultra high temperature, abrasion resistance and the like, wherein the impregnating pitch having a low viscosity and an improved carbonization yield is provided by facilitating cross-linking reactions between the aromatic compounds in the pitch, while eliminating heat treatment.

Abstract: An audio playback speed control method and apparatus to control an audio playback speed using an optimal frame length with a small amount of calculation. The audio playback method includes extracting an audio sampling frequency and audio playback speed information from an audio signal which is reproduced, determining a length of an input frame, a length of an output frame, and a length of an overlapping region between frames, on a basis of the audio sampling frequency and the audio playback speed information and performing different overlapping and adding methods, according to the audio playback speeds, on a basis of the length of the input frame, the length of the output frame, and the length of the overlapping region between the frames.

Abstract: A backlight unit of a liquid crystal display device supplies light to one or more corresponding pixels of a liquid crystal display panel. The backlight unit includes a plurality of blocks formed into a matrix shape. Each block includes a light emitting diode module. The blocks in a row of the matrix are driven by a same row driving signal and the blocks in a column of the matrix are driven by a same column driving signal, to adjust luminance of the light supplied to the corresponding pixels.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a magnesium alloy having controlled corrosion resistance properties, which comprises magnesium (Mg) and an alloying element and includes a magnesium phase and a phase composed of magnesium and the alloying element, wherein the difference in electrical potential between the magnesium phase and the phase composed of magnesium and the alloying element is greater than 0 V but not greater than 0.2 V.

Abstract: Provided is an antihypertensive pharmaceutical composition containing Fimasartan, a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, a solvate thereof or a hydrate thereof as an angiotensin II receptor blocker, and Amlodipine, an isomer thereof, a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, a solvate thereof or a hydrate thereof as a calcium channel blocker.

Abstract: Provided are systems and methods to communicate data transfer of data between a disk device and an external storage device. A host can generate a control command to communicate with an external storage device, and a disk device to receive the control command from a host to identify and communicate with an external storage device when connected to the external storage device and to configure the external storage device by assigning an ID code to each storage area of the external storage device.

Abstract: A method of controlling a mobile terminal, the method including displaying, via a display on the mobile terminal, a list of contacts included on the mobile terminal, selecting, via an input unit on the mobile terminal, a first contact included in the list of contacts, accessing, via a wireless communication unit, a web site corresponding to the first contact, displaying, on the display, a list of contacts of the first contact included on the web site corresponding to the first contact without displaying personal contact information for the list of contacts of the first contact, selecting, via the input unit, a second contact from the list of contacts of the first contact, displaying, via the display, a plurality of options for communicating with the second contact without displaying personal contact information of the second contact that is used for communicating with the second contact, selecting, via the input unit, one of the plurality of options for communicating with the second contact, and communicating

Abstract: A method for fabricating a capacitor is provided. The method for fabricating a capacitor includes forming a dielectric layer over a lower electrode on a substrate, forming an upper electrode over the dielectric layer, forming a hard mask over the upper electrode, etching the hard mask to form a hard mask pattern, etching the upper electrode to make the dielectric layer remain on the lower electrode in a predetermined thickness, forming an isolation layer along an upper surface of the remaining dielectric layer and the hard mask pattern, leaving the isolation layer having a shape of a spacer on one sidewall of the hard mask pattern, the upper electrode, and the dielectric layer, and etching the lower electrode to be isolated.

Abstract: A capacitor includes a lower electrode; a dielectric layer formed on a predetermined portion of the lower electrode; an upper electrode formed on the dielectric layer; a hard mask pattern formed on the upper electrode; and an isolation layer having a shape of a spacer, formed on one sidewall of the hard mask pattern, the upper electrode, and the dielectric layer.

Abstract: Disclosed is a direction controllable electrode body, comprising a flexible body which comprises: a first electrode, comprising a body, a first cap joined to one end of the body, and a first electrode line connected to an other end of the body; an insulator in partial contact with the body and the first cap of the first electrode, said insulator functioning to insulate the first electrode from the second electrode; a second electrode, comprising a first ring in contact with the insulator, and a second electrode line connected to one end of the first ring; and a direction controller, comprising a first direction controlling wire communicating with the first electrode or the second electrode to control direction of the electrode body. Also, a guide pipe is provided for leading the electrode body to a target tissue.

Abstract: The present invention relates to treating an inter-vertebral disc, in particular, to a method of treating an inter-vertebral disc by effectively ablating a tissue within a disc, in which herniation of nucleus pulposus occurs. A method of treating an inter-vertebral disc according to one embodiment of the present invention relates to treatment using a guidable electrode to be inserted into an inter-vertebral disc of a patient, in which the treatment comprises a step of inserting a front end of a needle unit from the outside of annulus fibrosus into the inside of the annulus fibrosus, a step of inserting a guidable electrode through the rear of the needle unit, a step of adjusting position of the end of the electrode to be adjacent to a target tissue within the annulus fibrosus, and a step of ablating a tissue within nucleus pulposus by applying electrical energy to the electrode.

Abstract: This invention relates to a biodegradable implant including magnesium, wherein the magnesium contains, as impurities, (i) manganese (Mn); and (ii) one selected from the group consisting of iron (Fe), nickel (Ni) and mixtures of iron (Fe) and nickel (Ni), wherein the impurities satisfy the following condition: 0</(i)?5, and an amount of the impurities is 1 part by weight or less but exceeding 0 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of the magnesium, and to a method of manufacturing the same.

Abstract: A method of setting write factors of each head in a hard disk and a hard disk drive using the method. The method includes writing a write signal onto a test track based on a write factor initially set on the magnetic head, writing the write signals onto the tracks adjacent to the test track, measuring the write quality of the test track, changing the write factor of the magnetic head and repeating the writing of the write signal onto the test track, and setting a write factor of the magnetic head by selecting the write factor corresponding to an optimum write quality from among the write qualities of the write factors of the test track.

Abstract: A method and apparatus to detect voice activity by using a zero-crossing rate includes removing noise included in an audio signal, adding a random signal having energy of a predetermined size to the audio signal from which noise is removed, extracting predetermined voice detection parameters from the audio signal to which the random signal is added, and comparing the extracted predetermined voice detection parameters with a threshold value and determining voice and non-voice activities.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for preparing an impregnating pitch which is used for the manufacture of carbon-carbon composites having excellent mechanical properties at an ultra high temperature, abrasion resistance and the like, wherein the impregnating pitch having a low viscosity and an improved carbonization yield is provided by facilitating cross-linking reactions between the aromatic compounds in the pitch, while eliminating heat treatment.

Abstract: Provided are systems and methods to communicate data transfer of data between a disk device and an external storage device. A host can generate a control command to communicate with an external storage device, and a disk device to receive the control command from a host to identify and communicate with an external storage device when connected to the external storage device and to configure the external storage device by assigning an ID code to each storage area of the external storage device.

Abstract: Provided are a method and apparatus for detecting a pitch period of an input signal, the method including: generating division frames by dividing the input signal by a unit of a first predetermined number of samples at a time domain; detecting a reference sample which has a peak value in each division frame; generating extraction frames by extracting a second predetermined number of samples on the basis of the reference sample of each division frame; and detecting the pitch period of the input signal based on a similarity among the extraction frames.

Abstract: In order to provide an intelligent building having specific rooms in which relatively less wealthy persons may use, and meeting the demands for specific rooms and privacy for the general public at the same time, by optimizing the space efficiency.

Abstract: A terminal location estimation method in a wireless communication system in which an access point (AP) provides an access service to a plurality of terminals includes defining a plurality of beam spaces around the AP through space multiplexing; scheduling the beam spaces according to a predetermined pattern; simultaneously forming a beam in at least one beam space; and detecting the existence and location of a terminal according to whether a response message in response to the formed beam is received. Accordingly, an AP forms beams in a predetermined scheduling pattern, and each of the terminals detecting the beams registers its location by informing the AP that each of the terminals exists in a relevant beam area, and thus, a location of each of the terminals can be estimated without using a complex DOA algorithm.