Abstract: A tool, such as a tape measure, including a spring-based retraction system is shown. The spring-based retraction system is driven by a spiral spring, that has a variable preformed stress profile along the length of the spring.

Abstract: A Magnus rotor is provided. The Magnus rotor is located in a flowing fluid and driven to rotate by a power source. The Magnus rotor includes a Magnus rotor main body and a blade assembly. The Magnus rotor main body includes a cylinder side wall, a first end and a second end. The first end and the second end are disposed in one end and the other end of the cylinder side wall, respectively. The Magnus rotor is rotated around an axis connected between a first center point of the first end and a second center point of the second end. The blade assembly includes a plurality of blades which are disposed around the first end. Each blade is inclined toward a direction. A gap is formed between each two adjacent blades. Each gap is formed as a flowing channel for allowing the fluid to flow therethrough.

Abstract: A method of making an integrated circuit includes steps of selecting a first cell and a second cell for an integrated circuit layout from a cell library in an electronic design automation (EDA) system, the first and second cells each having a cell active area, a cell gate electrode, at least one fin of a first set of fins, and a cell border region, each cell also having the active area at an exposed side, and placing the first exposed side against the second exposed side at a cell border. The method also includes operations of aligning at least one fin of the first set of fins with at least one fin of the second set of fins across a cell border.

Abstract: A tool, such as a tape measure, including a spring-based retraction system is shown. The spring-based retraction system is driven by a spiral spring, that has a variable preformed stress profile along the length of the spring.

Abstract: An integrated circuit includes a semiconductor substrate, an isolation region extending into, and overlying a bulk portion of, the semiconductor substrate, a buried conductive track comprising a portion in the isolation region, and a transistor having a source/drain region and a gate electrode. The source/drain region or the gate electrode is connected to the buried conductive track.

Abstract: An electronic device having a structure that electrically connects the contactor to an electronic device during a testing process is disclosed. The contactor includes a holder for accommodating the electronic device during the testing process; a flexible circuit, having a first set of contacts electrically connected to the corresponding electrode terminals of the electronic device, and a second set of contacts electrically connected to a control unit that sends test signals during the test process; an elastomer, for adjusting the pressure between the first set of contacts of the flexible circuit and the corresponding electrode terminals of the electronic device while being pressed together; and an alignment tool, for aligning the first set of contacts with the corresponding electrode terminals of the electronic device. The electrode terminals of the electronic device are located on the same surface of the electronic device and the flexible circuit is detachable from the contactor.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to methods of cleaning a structure and methods of depositing a capping layer in a structure. The method of cleaning a structure includes suppling a cleaning gas, including a first gas including nitrogen (N) and a second gas including fluorine (F), to a bottom surface of a structure. The cleaning gas removes unwanted metal oxide and etch residue from the bottom surface of the structure. The method of depositing a capping layer includes depositing the capping layer over the bottom surface of the structure. The methods described herein reduce the amount of unwanted metal oxides and residue, which improves adhesion of deposited capping layers.

Abstract: In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to an integrated circuit. The integrated circuit has a first doped region and a second doped region within a substrate. A ferroelectric material is arranged over the substrate and laterally between the first doped region and the second doped region. A conductive electrode is over the ferroelectric material and between sidewalls of the ferroelectric material. One or more sidewall spacers are arranged along opposing sides of the ferroelectric material. A dielectric layer continuously and laterally extends from directly below the one or more sidewall spacers to directly below the ferroelectric material.

Abstract: A transpose memory unit for a plurality of multi-bit convolutional neural network based computing-in-memory applications includes a memory cell and a transpose cell. The memory cell stores a weight. The transpose cell is connected to the memory cell and receives the weight from the memory cell. The transpose cell includes an input bit line, at least one first input word line, a first output bit line, at least one second input word line and a second output bit line. One of the at least one first input word line and the at least one second input word line transmits at least one multi-bit input value, and the transpose cell is controlled by the second word line to generate a multiply-accumulate output value on one of the first output bit line and the second output bit line according to the at least one multi-bit input value multiplied by the weight.

Abstract: A method of forming low-k material is provided. The method includes providing a plurality of core-shell particles. The core of the core-shell particles has a first ceramic with a low melting point. The shell of the core-shell particles has a second ceramic with a low melting point and a low dielectric constant. The core-shell particles are sintered and molded to form a low-k material. The shell of the core-shell particles is connected to form a network structure of a microcrystal phase.

Abstract: An intelligent planogram producing system and a method thereof are provided. The intelligent planogram producing method includes the following steps: obtaining a relevance between each of a plurality of objects and producing a relevance array; re-weighting the relevance array according to the displacing limitation of each object and producing at least one complete graph; obtaining a representing route of the at least one complete graph; outputting a planogram of the disposing location of each object on a shelf according to the representing route.

Abstract: A vertical axis fluid energy conversion device is provided. The vertical axis fluid energy conversion device includes at least one lift blade and at least one Magnus rotor. A power source drives the Magnus rotor to rotate and the Magnus lift force is produced. The Magnus rotor is connected with a main shaft through a connection component. Consequently, the main shaft is rotated and the lift blade is also revolved. The flow field of the vertical axis fluid energy conversion device is less influenced by the Magnus rotor. The performance of the lift blade is better. The whole efficiency is enhanced. The vertical axis fluid energy conversion device is self-starting through the Magnus rotor. The power source only drives the Magnus rotor to rotate, but not drive the whole device. Therefore, the vertical axis fluid energy conversion device has advantages of low cost and low energy consumption.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for forming a p-metal work function nitride film having a desired p-work function on a substrate, including: adjusting one or more of a temperature of a substrate, a duration of one or more temporally separated vapor phase pulses, a ratio of a tungsten precursor to a titanium precursor, or a pressure of a reaction to tune a work function of a p-metal work function nitride film to a desired p-work function, and contacting the substrate with temporally separated vapor phase pulses of the tungsten precursor, the titanium precursor, and a reactive gas to form a p-metal work function nitride film thereon having the desired p-work function.

Abstract: An integrated circuit includes a semiconductor substrate, an isolation region extending into, and overlying a bulk portion of, the semiconductor substrate, a buried conductive track comprising a portion in the isolation region, and a transistor having a source/drain region and a gate electrode. The source/drain region or the gate electrode is connected to the buried conductive track.

Abstract: In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to an integrated circuit. The integrated circuit has a first doped region and a second doped region within a substrate. A FeRAM (ferroelectric random access memory) device is arranged over the substrate between the first doped region and the second doped region. The FeRAM device has a ferroelectric material and a conductive electrode. The ferroelectric material is arranged over the substrate and the conductive electrode is arranged over the ferroelectric material and between sidewalls of the ferroelectric material.

Abstract: Metal gate stacks and integrated methods of forming metal gate stacks are disclosed. Some embodiment comprise MoN as a PMOS work function material. Some embodiments comprise TiSiN as a high-? capping layer. Some embodiments provide improved PMOS bandedge performance. Some embodiments provide improved PMOS bandedge performance with reduced EOT penalty.

Abstract: An adaptability job vacancies matching system and method are provided. The system performs the following operations: determining a target corpus based on the electronic resume; analyzing the electronic resume to generate a plurality of keyword sets; analyzing the keyword sets to generate an electronic resume score; generating a plurality of interview questions according to the keyword sets and a plurality of preset question sets corresponding to a target job category; transmitting an animation to a user device, the animation is related to the interview questions; receiving a response animation, the response animation is related to a response of each interview question; analyzing the response animation, and generating an interview question score of each interview question and a confidence score corresponding to each interview question; calculating an index score based on the electronic resume score, the interview question scores, and the confidence scores to generate a list of matching job vacancies.

Abstract: An ultra-thin package structure for an integrated circuit having sensing functions is disclosed. It includes: a first substrate layer, having a first top side and a first bottom side, wherein a plurality of conductive traces are formed on the first top side and the first bottom side; an integrated circuit, having at least one gold-plated die pad on the top side thereof, wherein the at least one gold-plated die pad is connected to the corresponding conductive trace on the first bottom side of the first substrate layer by SMT; a second substrate layer, having a second top side and a second bottom side, wherein a plurality of conductive traces are formed on the second bottom side, and some portions of the conductive traces are covered by solder mask while other portions are exposed externally; and a filling material layer, formed between the first and the second substrate layer with the integrated circuit therebetween.

Abstract: Methods, systems, devices, and apparatus, including computer program products, for identifying candidates for text entry. One or more inputs entering one or more characters are received. One or more first candidate characters are identified and presented for the inputs using a first dictionary. One or more second candidate characters related to a respective first candidate character are identified and presented.

Abstract: A biometric security device for digital key storing is disclosed. The biometric security device includes a biometric information fetching module and a processing module. The processing module has a nonvolatile storage unit and a processing unit. The nonvolatile storage unit includes a secure storage unit and a general storage unit. The biometric security device with a secure electronic key designed for storing secret data utilizes both TrustZone™ technology (or similar technology) and biometric authentication. Thus, it can provide the flexibility for multiple users or applications to use the biometric security device or any equipment the biometric security device mounted in without compromising the safeguard of the data stored therein.