Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a fin-type pattern extending in a first direction, a device isolation film surrounding the fin-type pattern, while exposing an upper portion of the fin-type pattern, a gate electrode extending on the device isolation film and the fin-type pattern in a second direction intersecting the first direction, a gate isolation film isolating the gate electrode in the second direction, and including a first material and on the device isolation film, an interlayer insulating film filling a side surface of the fin-type pattern and including a second material different from the first material.

Abstract: A 3D-NAND memory device is provided. The memory device includes a substrate, a bottom select gate (BSG) disposed over the substrate, a plurality of word lines positioned over the BSG with a staircase configuration and a plurality of insulating layers disposed between the substrate, the BSG, and the plurality of word lines. In the disclosed memory device, one or more first dielectric trenches are formed in the BSG and extend in a length direction of the substrate to separate the BSG into a plurality of sub-BSGs. In addition, one or more common source regions are formed over the substrate and extend in the length direction of the substrate. The one or more common source regions further extend through the BSG, the plurality of word lines and the plurality of insulating layers.

Abstract: This application relates to an apparatus and a device for applying a voltage to a substrate. The apparatus for applying a voltage to a substrate includes: a plurality of movable voltage-application fixtures, including: a voltage-application unit, configured to electrically come into contact with a substrate, where a bottom of a base includes a linkage joining portion; and a transmission unit, including: a linkage structure, a rail structure, and a driving component, where the driving component may output power to drive the linkage structure, the linkage structure may perform a relative motion on the rail structure, and the linkage structure may be combined with the linkage joining portion, and drive, by means of a power output of the driving component, the voltage-application unit to move, so that the voltage-application probes move to a particular position to apply a voltage to the substrate.

Abstract: A light-emitting display device includes a substrate having a plurality of subpixels; a first electrode provided in each of the subpixels; a bank defining an emission part in each of the subpixels and having an upper surface that has a larger degree of surface roughness than an upper surface of the first electrode; a first common layer over the subpixels and covering the first electrode and the bank; a light-emitting layer on the first common layer and corresponding to the emission part of each of the subpixels; and a second common layer and a second electrode stacked on the light-emitting layer over the plurality of subpixels.

Abstract: A light emitting device and a display apparatus including a phase shifting mirror are provided. The light emitting device includes a first electrode, a light emitting structure, a second electrode, and a phase shifting mirror. The phase shifting mirror has a number of patterns arranged in a periodic manner with an interval between adjacent patterns. Each pattern has a top surface and a side surface between the top surface of the respective pattern and the top surface of the first electrode. A first width at a bottom portion of the respective pattern directly adjacent to the top surface of the first electrode is greater than a second width of the top surface of the respective pattern, and the first width and the second width are less than a wavelength of light generated in the light emitting structure.

Abstract: The present invention relates to peptides, proteins, nucleic acids and cells for use in immunotherapeutic methods. In particular, the present invention relates to the immunotherapy of cancer. The present invention furthermore relates to tumor-associated T-cell peptide epitopes, alone or in combination with other tumor-associated peptides that can for example serve as active pharmaceutical ingredients of vaccine compositions that stimulate anti-tumor immune responses, or to stimulate T cells ex vivo and transfer into patients. Peptides bound to molecules of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), or peptides as such, can also be targets of antibodies, soluble T-cell receptors, and other binding molecules.

Abstract: A display panel includes an upper display substrate including pixel areas arranged in each of pixel columns and a light blocking area and a lower display substrate including display elements respectively overlapping the pixel areas. The upper display substrate includes a base substrate, a color filter layer, and a light control layer including transmission portions overlapping first pixel areas arranged in a first pixel column and first conversion portions overlapping second pixel areas arranged in a second pixel column, and a barrier layer including first barriers disposed between the first conversion portions and the transmission portions and first sub-barriers disposed between adjacent first conversion portions. A first shortest distance from the base substrate to a lower surface of each of the first barriers is equal to a second shortest distance from the base substrate to a lower surface of each of the first sub-barriers.

Abstract: The present invention relates to peptides, nucleic acids and cells for use in immunotherapeutic methods. In particular, the present invention relates to the immunotherapy of cancer. The present invention furthermore relates to tumor-associated cytotoxic T cell (CTL) peptide epitopes, alone or in combination with other tumor-associated peptides that serve as active pharmaceutical ingredients of vaccine compositions that stimulate anti-tumor immune responses. The present invention relates to peptide sequences and their variants derived from HLA class I and class II molecules of human tumor cells that can be used in vaccine compositions for eliciting anti-tumor immune responses.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition comprising the mixed extract of mulberry and Poria cocos peel for preventing, improving or treating neurodegenerative disorders. The mixed extract of mulberry and Poria cocos peel which is the active ingredients contained in the composition of the present invention, has a memory improving activity through inhibiting of acetylcholine esterase and a neuroprotective effects and neuron protection by inhibiting the formation of beta amyloid and tau phosphorylation and promoting NGF production. Thus, the present invention may be useful as a pharmaceutical composition for preventing or treating degenerative neurological diseases, or as a health food for the above purpose.

Abstract: The application discloses a method and system for segmenting a lung image. The method may include obtaining a target image relating to a lung region. The target image may include a plurality of image slices. The method may also include segmenting the lung region from the target image, identifying an airway structure relating to the lung region, and identifying one or more fissures in the lung region. The method may further include determining one or more pulmonary lobes in the lung region.

Abstract: Provided are a rapid antimicrobial susceptibility test, based on an analysis of changes in morphology and growth pattern of a microbial cell under different concentrations of various antimicrobial agents, and an automated cell image analysis system therefor. The antimicrobial susceptibility test is rapidly performed based on an analysis of changes in morphology and growth pattern of a microbial cell under different concentrations of various antimicrobial agents, and this makes it possible to obtain highly reliable test results faster by six to seven times than the standard method recommended by Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI).

Abstract: Provided herein is conductive adhesive composition comprising at least one epoxy resin, at least one polymer chosen from polyvinyl phenols and polyvinyl butyrals, at least one melamine resin, a plurality of eutectic metal alloy nanoparticles, and at least one solvent. Also provided herein is an electronic device comprising a substrate, conductive features disposed on the substrate, a conductive electrical component disposed over the conductive features, and a conductive adhesive composition disposed between the conductive features and the conductive electrical component. Further disclosed herein are methods of making a conductive adhesive composition.

Abstract: The disclosed technology relates to a system configured to compute a difference between a remote tree data structure representing a server state for content items associated with an account on a content management system and a sync tree data structure representing a known synchronization state between the content management system and the computing system. The system is configured to generate, based on the difference, a set of operations that when performed on the computing system update the content items stored on the client device to converge a file system state on the computing system and the server state.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices of using prediction-guided resource allocation technologies for software applications are disclosed, comprising generating a plurality of program features that impact execution time of a plurality of program tasks; predicting execution time of the plurality of program tasks on one or more computing cores using the plurality of program features, wherein each of the plurality of program features is mapped to an execution time estimate on a selected computing core; and con trolling resources for the one or more computing cores based on a predicted execution time of the plurality of program tasks.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a flexible display device, a display apparatus, and a method for manufacturing the flexible display device. The flexible display device comprises a flexible display panel, a hardened layer, and an integrated circuit layer with bumps. A front surface of the flexible display panel is provided with a circuit bonding region. The flexible display panel comprises a first flexible substrate. The hardened layer is on the first flexible substrate. The hardened layer is at a position corresponding to the circuit bonding region. The integrated circuit layer is bonded to the circuit bonding region by the bumps.

Abstract: Disclosed are thermoplastic composite laminates comprising in order of: (a) a top layer composed of at least one polycarbonate sheet; (b) a fabric layer composed of a fabric comprising aromatic polyamide fibers and an adhesion aid; and (c) a bottom layer composed of at least one polycarbonate sheet; wherein the adhesion aid comprises polycarbonate oligomers having a weight average molecular weight of about 6500 or less. Also disclosed are articles comprising or produced from the thermoplastic composite laminates.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, for determining fine-grained image similarity. In one aspect, a method includes training an image embedding function on image triplets by selecting image triplets of first, second and third images; generating, by the image embedding function, a first, second and third representations of the features of the first, second and third images; determining, based on the first representation of features and the second representation of features, a first similarity measure for the first image to the second image; determining, based on the first representation of features and the third representation of features, a second similarity measure for the the first image to the third image; determining, based on the first and second similarity measures, a performance measure of the image embedding function for the image triplet; and adjusting the parameter weights of the image embedding function based on the performance measures for the image triplets.

Abstract: Disclosed is a bifilar winding system for the manufacture of poloidal field superconducting magnets for nuclear fusion, including two superconducting coil winding production lines which are symmetrically arranged, a dropping fixture, a rotary platform and a winding mold, and an automatic control system. Each of the two winding production lines includes a conductor unwinding device, a straightener, an ultrasonic cleaning machine, a sandblasting and cleaning machine, a bending machine, an inter-turn insulation taping machine. During the winding of a coil, a superconducting conductor is unwound by the conductor unwinding device under the control of the automatic control system, then straightened, ultrasonically cleaned, sandblasted and cleaned, and bent into a desired radius, then wrapped with multiple layers of insulating tape by the inter-turn insulation taping machine, and finally fixed, by the dropping fixture, precisely on the rotary platform at a correct position within a profile of the winding mold.