Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first user equipment (UE) may receive a communication from a second UE. The first UE may select an index that represents multiple control bits associated with the communication. The first UE may transmit an indication of the index in a portion of a physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH) resource pool that is selected based at least in part on the index. Numerous other aspects are described.

Abstract: Wireless communications systems and methods related to communicating control information are provided. A method of wireless communication performed by a user equipment (UE) may include sensing an interference level of at least one frequency, selecting, based on the interference level, a frequency, and communicating sidelink control information (SCI) in the selected frequency.

Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, and devices for wireless communication that support relaxed sensing for new radio (NR) sidelink over millimeter wave (mmW) operating frequencies. In a first aspect, a method by a user equipment (UE) of wireless communication includes identifying a resource selection trigger that indicates selection of one or more sidelink slots from a resource selection window. The UE may obtain long-term interference sensing statistics observed by the UE prior to the resource selection trigger. The UE can reduce a default sensing window length in accordance with the long-term interference sensing statistics and transmit a sidelink transmission in the selected sidelink slots. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.

Abstract: A method includes providing a substrate, forming a patterned hard mask layer over the substrate, etching the patterned hard mask layer to form a hole that penetrates the patterned hard mask layer, forming a barrier portion in the hole, removing the patterned hard mask layer, and forming a gate structure over the substrate. Formation of the gate structure includes forming a dielectric body portion on the substrate. The barrier portion that is thicker than the dielectric body portion adjoins one end of the dielectric body portion. The dielectric body portion and the barrier portion are collectively referred to as a gate dielectric layer. Formation of the gate structure further includes forming a gate electrode on the gate dielectric layer and forming gate spacers on opposite sidewalls of the gate electrode. During formation of the gate spacers, a portion of the barrier portion is removed to form a recessed corner.

Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for techniques for providing sidelink feedback. Certain aspects provide a method for wireless communication by a first user equipment (UE). The method generally includes receiving, from a second UE, one or more sidelink data messages and transmitting, to the second UE, via a first sidelink feedback channel resource, a first feedback message comprising one or more feedback bits associated with the one or more sidelink data messages, wherein: the first sidelink feedback channel resource comprises a first partial interlace group of a first interlace group of resource blocks, and the first partial interlace group comprises at least two first resource blocks.

Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, and devices for wireless communication that support configured reception with sidelink control information (SCI) repetition over a sidelink. In aspects, a receiving user equipment (UE) may be configured to conduct combined reception/decoding of SCI repetitions (received from a transmitting UE over a sidelink) over multiple time-frequency slots at pre-defined occasions (e.g., occasions configured by a base station) to decode a sidelink transmission. In aspects, a receiving UE may receive from a transmitting UE over a sidelink, a sidelink transmission during a reception occasion that includes a plurality of reception opportunities for the receiving UE. Each reception opportunity of the plurality of reception opportunities includes a repetition of an SCI. The receiving UE decodes the SCI by combining the repetitions of the SCI received in one or more reception opportunities, and decodes a data transmission (e.g.

Abstract: A staining kit is provided, including a first pattern including antibodies against T cell, B cell, NK cell, monocyte, regulatory cell, CD8, CD45, and CTLA4; a second pattern including antibodies against T cell, B cell, NK cell, monocyte, regulatory cell, dendritic cell, and CD45; a third pattern including antibodies against T cell, B cell, NK cell, monocyte, CD8, CD45, CD45RA, CD62L, CD197, CX3CR1 and TCR??; and a fourth pattern including antibodies against B cell, CD23, CD38, CD40, CD45 and IgM, wherein the antibodies of each pattern are labeled with fluorescent dyes. A method of identifying characterized immune cell subsets of a disease and a method of predicting the likelihood of NPC in a subject in the need thereof using the staining kit are also provided.

Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to techniques of zone-based target control in chemical mechanical polishing of wafers. Multiple zones are identified on a surface of a wafer. The CMP target is achieved on each zone in a sequence of CMP processes. Each CMP process in the sequence achieves the CMP target for only one zone, using a CMP process selective to other zones.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Generally, the described techniques provide for a user equipment (UE) to transmit feedback information via a configurable quantity of interlaced resource blocks (IRBs) in one or more interlaces of a sidelink feedback channel. For example, the UE may transmit feedback via multiple IRBs of an interlace. The UE may determine which IRBs to use in accordance with a configuration, which may indicate a quantity of IRBs, a distribution of the IRBs, a pattern of the IRBs, or any combination thereof. Additionally, or alternatively, the UE may determine to transmit feedback via multiple IRBs of an interlace that is different from a common interlace.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides solutions to sidelink transmission/reception problems by preparing waveforms for multiple resource blocks (RBs) in a given bandwidth. Upon determining the availability of RBs or sets of RBs the apparatuses and methods of the present disclosure allow for dynamic determination and use of available sidelink frequencies. An apparatus may comprise a memory and at least one processor coupled to the memory and configured to transmit and/or receive sidelink data in at least one contiguous set of RBs within a bandwidth part (BWP) of an unlicensed frequency band, the BWP including a plurality of RB sets, wherein the SL data is transmitted and/or received in a waveform generated for at least one of the plurality of RB sets prior to a listen-before-talk procedure indicating an availability of the at least one contiguous set of RBs for transmission.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A first user equipment (UE) may receive an inter-UE coordination request message from a second UE, the inter-UE coordination request message identifying a request for resource scheduling information for the first UE, the second UE, or both. The first UE may transmit an inter-UE coordination response message comprising the scheduling information to the second UE, the scheduling information comprising an indication of one or more of a resource block set and interlacing pattern frequency configuration for multi-slot burst communications between the first UE and the second UE or a starting slot and slot burst length configuration for the multi-slot burst communications between the first UE and the second UE.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a configuration that indicates multiple time intervals corresponding to multiple physical sidelink shared channels (PSSCHs) within a slot, wherein at least one PSSCH, of the multiple PSSCHs, starts in a symbol other than an initial data symbol of the slot. The UE may communicate in one or more PSSCHs, of the multiple PSSCHs, within the slot based at least in part on the configuration. Numerous other aspects are described.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a device body and an antenna module disposed in the device body and including a conductive structure and a coaxial cable including a core wire, a shielding layer wrapping the core wire, and an outer jacket wrapping the shielding layer. The conductive structure includes a structure body and a slot formed on the structure body and penetrating the structure body in a thickness direction of the structure body. A section of the shielding layer extends from the outer jacket and is connected to the structure body. A physical portion of the structure body and the section of the shielding layer are respectively located on two opposite sides of the slot in a width direction of the slot. A section of the core wire extends from the section of the shielding layer and overlaps the slot and the physical portion in the thickness direction.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices supporting flexible frequency domain resource allocation (FDRA) for sidelink are described. For example, a wireless device may receive, over a sidelink channel, control information including a parameter associated with a first FDRA of a first transport block (TB) associated with an initial transmission and an indication of a second FDRA of a second TB associated with a subsequent transmission after the initial transmission. The wireless device may identify the first FDRA of the first TB based on receiving the control information and may communicate one or more signals over the sidelink channel based on identifying the first FDRA of the first TB and receiving the indication of the second FDRA of the second TB. In some examples, the wireless device may receive, over a second sidelink channel, second control information including a second parameter associated with a size of the second TB.

Abstract: A semiconductor structures and a method for forming the same are provided. The semiconductor structure includes first nanostructures and second nanostructures spaced apart from the first nanostructures in a first direction. A left-most point of the first nanostructures and a left-most point of the second nanostructures has a first distance in the first direction. The semiconductor structure further includes first source/drain features attached to opposite sides of the first nanostructures in a second direction being orthogonal to the first direction and third nanostructures and fourth nanostructures spaced apart from the third nanostructures in the first direction. A left-most point of the third nanostructures and a left-most point of the fourth nanostructures has a second distance in the first direction. In addition, the third nanostructures are wider than the first nanostructures in the first direction, and the first distance is smaller than the second distance.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may encode, for a first set of resource elements (REs), a first layer for sidelink control information. The UE may encode, for a second set of REs, a second layer for sidelink data, wherein the first set of REs and the second set of REs are associated with a same one or more symbols. The UE may transmit, to another UE and based at least in part on applying superposition coded modulation (SCM) to the first layer and the second layer, the sidelink control information using the first set of REs and the sidelink data using the second set of REs. Numerous other aspects are described.

Abstract: A leak check is performed on a semiconductor wafer processing tool that includes a process chamber and process gas lines, and a semiconductor wafer is processed using the semiconductor wafer processing tool if the leak check passes. Each gas line includes a mass flow controller (MFC) and normally closed valves including an upstream and downstream valves upstream and downstream of the MFC. Leak checking includes: leak checking up to the downstream valves of the gas lines with the upstream valves closed and the downstream valves of the gas lines closed; and leak checking up to the upstream valve of each the process gas line with the upstream valves of the of the process gas lines closed and with the downstream valve of the of the process gas line being leak checked open and the downstream valve of every other process gas line closed.

Abstract: Some aspects described herein relate transmitting, to a receiving UE, a sidelink control information (SCI) that schedules multiple transport blocks (TBs) of shared channel communications in multiple time divisions, and transmitting, to the receiving UE and based on the SCI, the multiple TBs of shared channel communications in the multiple time divisions. Other aspects relate to receiving, from a transmitting UE, a SCI that schedules multiple TBs of shared channel communications in multiple time divisions, and receiving, from the transmitting UE and based on the SCI, the multiple TBs of shared channel communications in the multiple time divisions. Additional aspects relate to configuring the UEs in this regard.

Abstract: Channel occupancy time (COT) aware sensing and resource selection for new radio-unlicensed (NR-U) sidelink operations is disclosed. A first sidelink user equipment (UE) determines a sensing window or resource selection window (RSW) based on a projected listen-before-talk (LBT) completion time. The UE may sense for a subset of sideline resources within the RSW and COT-SI from a neighboring sidelink UE including identification of a COT initiated by the neighboring UE and one or more parameters associated with the COT. The UE may identify in-COT resources of located within the COT and out-of-COT resources located outside of the COT and then randomly select a set of transmission resources from the in-COT and out-of-COT resources. The UE may then transmit to a second UE using the set of transmission resources.

Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a method for wireless communications by a transmitter UE. The method generally includes receiving, from a network entity, a downlink control information (DCI) allocating resources in an unlicensed frequency band for multiple physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) transmissions to at least one receiver UE across transmission time intervals (TTIs), performing a listen-before-talk (LBT) channel access procedure in the TTIs, and transmitting at least one LBT report to the network entity on a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource that occurs before another PUCCH resource used for transmitting acknowledgment feedback for the PSSCH transmissions.