Abstract: A method of forming a semiconductor structure includes forming a fin structure having a stack of alternating first semiconductor layers and second semiconductor layers over a substrate, forming cladding layers along sidewalls of the fin structure, forming a dummy gate stack over the cladding layers, and forming source/drain (S/D) features in the fin structure and adjacent to the dummy gate stack. The method further includes removing the dummy gate stack to form a gate trench adjacent to the S/D features, removing the cladding layers to form first openings along the sidewalls of the fin structure, where the first openings extend to below the stack, removing the first semiconductor layers to form second openings between the second semiconductor layers and adjacent to the first openings, and subsequently forming a metal gate stack in the gate trench, the first openings, and the second openings.

Abstract: A method comprises forming a first fin including alternating first channel layers and first sacrificial layers and a second fin including alternating second channel layers and second sacrificial layers, forming a capping layer over the first and the second fin, forming a dummy gate stack over the capping layer, forming source/drain (S/D) features in the first and the second fin, removing the dummy gate stack to form a gate trench, removing the first sacrificial layers and the capping layer over the first fin to form first gaps, removing the capping layer over the second fin and portions of the second sacrificial layers to from second gaps, where remaining portions of the second sacrificial layers and the capping layers form a threshold voltage (Vt) modulation layer, and forming a metal gate stack in the gate trench, the first gaps, and the second gaps.

Abstract: A method and structure for modulating a threshold voltage of a device. In various embodiments, a fin extending from a substrate is provided. In some embodiments, the fin includes a plurality of semiconductor channel layers defining a channel region for a P-type transistor. In some examples, a gate dielectric is formed wrapping around each of the plurality of semiconductor channel layers of the P-type transistor. In some cases, a P-type work function (PWF) metal gate cap is formed wrapping around the gate dielectric. In various embodiments, the PWF metal gate cap merges between adjacent semiconductor channel layers of the plurality of channel layers. Additionally, in some examples, the PWF metal gate cap includes a plurality of nitrogen-containing layers.

Abstract: An elastic reset device arranged in the middle of a grate plate is disclosed, which includes reset blocks, springs, sleeves and a guide plate. The reset blocks comprise a left reset block and a right reset block, the upper ends of the left and right reset blocks are partially overlapped, a folding angle ? is provided at the overlapping portion and is not less than 45 degrees, and a ceramic fiber blanket is filled at the folding angle.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to random access preamble transmission methods, apparatuses, and storage mediums. In one example method, a terminal device determines, based on a target sub-coverage area to which the terminal device belongs in a preset coverage area of a network device, target random access preamble format information corresponding to the target sub-coverage area. Then, the terminal device sends, to the network device on a target time-frequency resource indicated by target random access preamble time-frequency resource information corresponding to the target random access preamble format information, a random access preamble corresponding to the target random access preamble format information.

Abstract: This application provides a song processing method performed by a computer device. The method includes: presenting a song recording interface in response to a singing instruction triggered in a session interface of a group chat session; recording a song in response to a song recording instruction triggered in the song recording interface, and determining a reverberation effect corresponding to the recorded song; and transmitting, in response to a song transmitting instruction, a target song obtained by processing the song based on the reverberation effect to members of the group chat session, presenting a session message corresponding to the target song in the session interface, and presenting the pick-up singing function item corresponding to the target song in the session interface, the pick-up singing function item being used for implementing pick-up singing of the target song by a member of the group chat session.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application disclose a polar coding method, apparatus, and device, so as to reduce storage overheads of a system. A sequence for polar coding is obtained based on a length M of a target polar code, wherein the sequence comprises L sequence numbers, ordering of the L sequence numbers in the sequence is the same as ordering of the L sequence numbers in a maximum mother code sequence, wherein the maximum mother code sequence is obtained by sorting N sequence numbers of N polarized channels in ascending order or descending order of reliability metrics, wherein L and N are integer power of 2, M is smaller than or equal to L, L is smaller than or equal to N.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a method for coding in a wireless communication network. A communication device interleave a first bit sequence to obtain a first interleaved sequence having sequence number starting with a sequence number of 0, wherein the first bit sequence comprises bits for indicating timing, wherein the bits for indicating timing comprises a set of bits for indicating synchronization signal block index (SSBI); wherein the set of bits for indicating SSBI are placed in positions indicated by sequence numbers of 2, 3 and 5 in the first interleaved sequence. The devices add d first CRC bits on the first interleaved sequence to obtain a second bit sequence, interleave on the second bit sequence according to an interleave pattern to obtain a second interleaved sequence, and polar encode the second interleaved sequence to obtain the encoded sequence.

Abstract: Example communication methods and apparatus are described. In one example method, a terminal receives a first information by using a serving beam, where the first information indicates a delay compensation parameter corresponding to a target beam. The target beam and the serving beam are different beams. The terminal determines, based on a full timing advance and the delay compensation parameter corresponding to the target beam, a differential timing advance corresponding to the target beam.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to encoding method and devices. One example method includes determining N to-be-encoded bits, where the N to-be-encoded bits include information bits and frozen bits, obtaining a first polarization weight vector including polarization weights of N polarized channels, where the N to-be-encoded bits correspond to the N polarized channels, determining positions of the information bits based on the first polarization weight vector, and performing polar encoding on the N to-be-encoded bits to obtain polar-encoded bits.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to access methods and apparatuses. In one example method, a terminal device determines, based on whether a first frequency offset parameter is in a frequency offset parameter range, whether to access a first cell. If the first frequency offset parameter is in the frequency offset parameter range, a current location of the terminal device is not at an edge of the cell. Otherwise, the current location of the terminal device may be at the edge of the cell.

Abstract: Embodiments of the application provide a method for transmitting data in a wireless communication network. A device of the network receives a bit sequence of K information bits. The device polar codes the bit sequence to obtain a first encoded sequence, wherein a length of the first encoded sequence is N, and N is greater than or equal to K. The device block interleaves the first encoded sequence to obtain an interleaved bit sequence. The device determines a transmission code rate R. When the transmission code rate R is less than the code rate threshold, the device outputs a second bit sequence. The length of the second bit sequence is M, M is smaller than N. The second bit sequence is punctured from the interleaved bit sequence by removing (N?M) bits from beginning of the interleaved bit sequence.

Abstract: A data broadcast method includes obtaining, by a satellite base station, a plurality of pieces of data that are to be broadcast. The plurality of pieces of data are a same type of data including compensation values of Doppler frequency shifts, change rates of Doppler frequency shifts, transmission delays, change rates of transmission delays, timing advances TAs, change rates of TAs, or angles of a plurality of beams that respectively correspond to a plurality of beams generated by the satellite base station. The satellite base station determines reference data and a difference between each piece of data in the plurality of pieces of data and the reference data. The satellite base station sends first indication information and a plurality of pieces of second indication information to a terminal device. The first indication information indicates the reference data.

Abstract: A channel prediction method and a related device, where the method includes: obtaining a first channel coefficient sequence in a first time period, where the first channel coefficient sequence includes a plurality of complex values of a channel coefficient; and determining a prediction value of the channel coefficient in a second time period based on the first channel coefficient sequence and a preset vocabulary of channel changes, where the preset vocabulary of channel changes includes a mapping relationship between a channel change value index and each change value of the channel coefficient, and where the second time period is later than the first time period.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to power control methods and apparatuses. In one example method, a first uplink transmit power for a terminal device communicating with a source network device is adjusted, based on a first parameter, to obtain a second uplink transmit power, where the second uplink transmit power is used to communicate with a target network device in a handover process.

Abstract: Example non-terrestrial network (NTN)-based data transmission methods and apparatus are described. In one example method, a first hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process for data transmission does not use a HARQ transmission manner, and an unused bit in DCI may be multiplexed. The DCI includes a first part of bits indicating a process number of the first HARQ process. Another part of bits of the DCI may indicate the process number or another parameter. The terminal device perform data processing by using the DCI and output processed data, that is, perform data transmission.

Abstract: This application provides a random access method and apparatus, and a device. The network device obtains a first random access preamble length of a first terminal device and a second random access preamble length of a second terminal device, where a value of delay compensation performed by the network device when receiving a first random access preamble is different from a value of delay compensation performed by the network device when receiving a second random access preamble. The network device determines a first random access parameter of the first terminal device and a second random access parameter of the second terminal device based on the first random access preamble length and the second random access preamble length, where there is an overlapping part, in time domain, between a random access preamble indicated by the first random access parameter and a random access preamble indicated by the second random access parameter.

Abstract: This disclosure provides satellite communication methods and apparatuses. One example method includes that a terminal device determines a first time offset of a first random access response window based on a distance information between a satellite base station and the ground. Based on the first time offset and the first random access response window, the terminal device receives a random access response sent by the satellite base station.

Abstract: An optical fiber laser coupler, comprising a laser input optical cable, a laser shaping and coupling device, and a multi-beam-mode energy transmission fiber (205). The multi-beam-mode energy transmission fiber (205) comprises a circular fiber core (105) and annular fiber cores (106, 107), and each annular fiber core (106, 107) is coaxial with the circular fiber core (105). A fluorine-doped layer (109) is disposed between the circular fiber core (105) and the annular fiber core (106, 107), and the fluorine-doped layer (109) is also disposed between adjacent annular fiber cores (106, 107). An adjustable collimating lens group (203) and an adjustable focusing lens group (204) of the laser shaping and coupling device can horizontally move along a direction of a laser beam in a housing of the laser shaping and coupling device.

Abstract: A video processing method, a video processing device, and a storage medium are provided. The video processing method includes: determining target image frames corresponding to a dynamic special effect in a video and determining an attribute of a special effect element corresponding to the dynamic special effect in each of the target image frames and coordinates of the special effect element. The video processing method also includes: rendering the special effect element on a drawing interface based on the attribute and the coordinates of the special effect element; filling the target image frames into the drawing interface as a background and forming drawing interface frames with the dynamic special effect; and outputting the drawing interface frames corresponding to each of the target image frames.