Abstract: In one example, a semiconductor device can comprise a substrate, a device stack, first and second internal interconnects, and an encapsulant. The substrate can comprise a first and second substrate sides opposite each other, a substrate outer sidewall between the first substrate side and the second substrate side, and a substrate inner sidewall defining a cavity between the first substrate side and the second substrate side. The device stack can be in the cavity and can comprise a first electronic device, and a second electronic device stacked on the first electronic device. The first internal interconnect can be coupled to the substrate and the device stack. The encapsulant can cover the substrate inner sidewall and the device stack and can fill the cavity. Other examples and related methods are disclosed herein.

Abstract: An electronic device according to various embodiments of the present invention may comprise: a housing comprising a first surface facing in a first direction and a second surface facing in a second direction that is opposite to the first direction, the first surface comprising an at least partially transparent part and at least one opening formed adjacent to the at least partially transparent part; a camera positioned inside the housing, the camera comprising an image sensor facing in the first direction through the at least partially transparent part of the housing; and an acoustic component arranged between the first surface and the second surface, the acoustic component comprising a vibration plate configured to generate a sound such that the same moves in at least one direction selected from the first and second directions, a first passage formed in a third direction that is substantially perpendicular to the first direction such that the generated sound passes through the same, and a second passage forme

Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus includes: a conveyor belt configured to have an outer surface on which a bottom surface of a substrate is seated; and a polishing head unit configured to face an upper surface of the substrate, wherein the polishing head unit includes: a polishing head connected to a driver; a polishing pad configured to face the polishing head; a polishing pad fixing ring disposed between the polishing head and the polishing pad; and a temperature sensor configured to overlap the polishing pad fixing ring and to be spaced apart from the polishing pad fixing ring.

Abstract: Disclosed is a non-aqueous electrolyte for a lithium secondary battery and a lithium secondary battery comprising the same. The non-aqueous electrolyte including an ionizable lithium salt and an organic solvent may further include (a) 1 to 10 parts by weight of a compound having a vinylene group or vinyl group per 100 parts by weight of the non-aqueous electrolyte, and (b) 10 to 300 parts by weight of a dinitrile compound having an ether bond per 100 parts by weight of the compound having the vinylene group or vinyl group. The lithium secondary battery comprising the non-aqueous electrolyte may effectively suppress the swelling and improve the charge/discharge cycle life.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an electrode that may minimize an electrical resistance increase caused by a binder polymer or a conductive material used in the electrode and provide a high capacity, a method for manufacturing the same, and an electrochemical device comprising the electrode, and an electrode mix slurry is prepared using a high shearing mixing process for each step such that fine grained conductive material and a binder polymer are uniformly dispersed in an electrode mix, and a high capacity electrode active material is used in the electrode mix, to manufacture a high capacity electrochemical device.

Abstract: Disclosed is an electrolyte comprising (a) a eutectic mixture of an amide compound represented by the following chemical formula 1 or 2 and an ionizable lithium salt; and (b) a nitrile compound. The eutectic mixture and the nitrile compound in the electrolyte contribute to excellent thermal and chemical stability and sufficiently low viscosity and high ion conductivity. The electrolyte can be usefully applied as an electrolyte of electrochemical devices.

Abstract: An electrolyte includes an eutectic mixture composed of (a) a hetero cyclic compound having a predetermined chemistry figure, and (b) an ionizable lithium salt. An electrochemical device having the electrolyte. The eutectic mixture included in the electrolyte exhibits inherent characteristics of an eutectic mixture such as excellent thermal stability and excellent chemical stability, thereby improving the problems such as evaporation, ignition and side reaction of an electrolyte caused by the usage of existing organic solvents.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for prelithiation, and in particular, to a method for prelithiation that predopes lithium into at least one unit cell uniformly in large amounts. According to an aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a method for prelithiation including an preparing at least one unit cell, the unit cell comprising a cathode, an anode, and a separator interposed between the cathode and the anode, disposing the prepared at least one unit cell in a reaction tank, and connecting electrodes having the same polarity, adding an electrolyte solution into the reaction tank, disposing a lithium metal plate in the electrolyte solution, and connecting the lithium metal plate to the anode, and doping the anode.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an anode for a secondary battery, including: an electrode current collector; a first coating layer formed on the electrode current collector and including an anode active material, a first aqueous binder and a conducting material; and a second coating layer formed on the first coating layer and including a second nonaqueous binder. Since the anode of the present disclosure can reduce volume change of the anode active material, a lithium secondary battery including same may have improved cycle characteristics.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an anode for a secondary battery, including: an electrode current collector; a first coating layer formed on the electrode current collector and including an anode active material, a first nonaqueous binder and a conducting material; and a second coating layer formed on the first coating layer and including a second nonaqueous binder. Since the anode of the present disclosure can reduce volume change of the anode active material, a lithium secondary battery including same may have improved cycle characteristics.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an anode active material-containing slurry, an anode using the slurry, and an electrochemical device comprising the anode. More specifically, the present disclosure relates to a slurry comprising an anode active material; a polymer binder comprising styrene butadiene rubber and potassium polyacrylate; a conductive material; and a dispersing medium, an anode using the slurry, and an electrochemical device comprising the anode. The anode active material-containing slurry according to one aspect of the present disclosure can relieve the volume expansion of an anode active material by the intercalation and disintercalation of lithium during cycles of electrochemical devices to improve the durability of an anode active material layer, thereby enhancing the life characteristics of the electrochemical devices, and can form an anode active material layer having a high peeling force even though potassium polyacrylate with a relatively lower weight-average molecular weight is used.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a binder solution for an anode, comprising a thermally cross-linkable polymer binder that is cross-linked by heat, and a solvent for dissolving the thermally cross-linkable polymer binder, and exhibiting a concentration of hydrogen ions corresponding to pH 2.5 to pH 4.5; an active material slurry for an anode, comprising the binder solution; an anode using the slurry; and an electrochemical device comprising the anode. The binder solution for an anode according to one aspect of the present disclosure can relieve the volume expansion of an anode active material by the intercalation and disintercalation of lithium during cycles of electrochemical devices to improve the durability of an anode active material layer, thereby enhancing the life characteristics of the electrochemical devices, and also can provide good dispersibility to the active material slurry for an anode, thereby improving the coating stability of an anode active material layer.

Abstract: A non-aqueous electrolyte solution for a lithium secondary battery and a lithium secondary battery including the same are provided. The non-aqueous electrolyte solution includes an organic solvent, an ionizable lithium salt, a dinitrile compound including an ether bond represented by Chemical Formula 1, and an aliphatic dinitrile compound represented by Chemical Formula 2. The lithium secondary battery including the non-aqueous electrolyte solution having the possibility of generating a swelling phenomenon while storing or charging/discharging at a high temperature may be restrained. In addition, a cycle life of the charging/discharging may be improved.

Abstract: Provided are an electrode binder for a secondary battery including an amine-based compound expressed by Chemical Formula 1 below and water-based binder particles including at least one carboxyl group as an end group, a method of preparing the same, and an electrode for a secondary battery including the electrode binder for a secondary battery

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for preparing a dinitrile compound. The method includes reacting an alcohol compound with a nitrile compound having a terminal carbon-carbon unsaturated bond under anhydrous conditions. A potassium alkoxide having 1 to 5 carbon atoms is used as a catalyst in the course of the reaction. According to the method, a high-purity dinitrile compound can be prepared in a simple manner within a short reaction time indicating high productivity.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a non-aqueous electrolyte solution for a lithium secondary battery, comprising an amide compound having a specific structure; an ionizable lithium salt; a cyclic sulfate; and an organic solvent, and a lithium secondary battery comprising the non-aqueous electrolyte solution. The non-aqueous electrolyte solution of the present disclosure has good thermal and chemical stability and can be effectively used as the electrolyte of a lithium secondary battery to provide good charge/discharge performances and stability at a high temperature.

Abstract: A lithium secondary battery comprising a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a separator inserted between the positive electrode and the negative electrode and a non-aqueous electrolyte is provided. The positive electrode comprises a first positive electrode active material represented by following Chemical Formula 1. And the non-aqueous electrolyte comprises a first lithium salt, a second lithium salt represented by following Chemical Formula 2 and a non-aqueous organic solvent. LixMyOz??[Chemical Formula 1] Li+RCOO???[Chemical Formula 2] (In Chemical Formulae 1 and 2, M=NiaMnbCoc, in which 0<a<2, 0<b<2, 0<c<2, a+b+c=1 or 2, 0.5?x?1.3, 1<x+y?3.3, 2?z?4, and R is independently a C1-C10 alkyl group, a C6-C12 aryl group, a C2-C5 alkenyl group, a halogen substituted C1-C10 alkyl group, a halogen substituted C6-C12 aryl group or a halogen substituted C2-C5 alkenyl group).

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an electrode that may minimize an electrical resistance increase caused by a binder polymer or a conductive material used in the electrode and provide a high capacity, a method for manufacturing the same, and an electrochemical device comprising the electrode, and an electrode mix slurry is prepared using a high shearing mixing process for each step such that fine grained conductive material and a binder polymer are uniformly dispersed in an electrode mix, and a high capacity electrode active material is used in the electrode mix, to manufacture a high capacity electrochemical device.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a lithium secondary battery. The lithium secondary battery includes a cathode, an anode, a separator interposed between the cathode and the anode, and a non-aqueous electrolyte solution, the non-aqueous electrolyte solution includes an ionizable lithium salt and an organic solution, and includes, based on 100 parts by weight of the non-aqueous electrolyte solution, (a) 1 part by weight to 10 parts by weight of a compound containing a vinylene group or vinyl group, and (b) 0.1 parts by weight to 10 parts by weight of a dinitrile-based ether compound of a particular structure, and the cathode includes a mixture of a first cathode active material LixCoO2(0.5<x<1.3) and a second cathode active material LixMyO2(M is Ni1-a-bMnaCob(0.05?a?0.4, 0.1?b?0.4, 0.4?1-a-b?0.7) in which x+y=2 and 0.95?x?1.05. The lithium secondary battery has a high capacity, and remarkably suppresses a swelling phenomenon at high temperature of the battery.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an anode for a secondary battery, including: an electrode current collector; a first coating layer formed on the electrode current collector and including an anode active material, a first nonaqueous binder and a conducting material; and a second coating layer formed on the first coating layer and including a second nonaqueous binder. Since the anode of the present disclosure can reduce volume change of the anode active material, a lithium secondary battery including same may have improved cycle characteristics.