Abstract: A method for selectively chemically reducing CO2 to form CO includes providing a catalyst, and contacting H2 and CO2 with the catalyst to chemically reduce CO2 to form CO. The catalyst includes a metal oxide having a chemical formula of FexCoyMn(1-x-y)Oz, in which 0.7?x?0.95, 0.01?y?0.25, and z is an oxidation coordination number.

Abstract: A sensing module including a circuit substrate, a sensing element, a packaging material and a blocking structure is provided. The sensing element, the packaging material and the blocking structure are disposed on the circuit substrate. The sensing element comprises a sensing portion. The outer side surface of the blocking structure is in direction contact with the packaging material to define a boundary of the packaging material. The sensing portion is disposed in a region encircled by the boundary of the packaging material, and the maximum thickness of the packaging material from a surface facing away from the circuit substrate to the circuit substrate is less than or equal to a distance from the second surface of the blocking structure to the circuit substrate.

Abstract: A nano-twinned structure on a metallic thin film surface is provided. The nano-twinned structure includes a substrate, an adhesive-lattice-buffer layer over the substrate, and a metallic thin film including Ag, Cu, Au, Pd or Ni over the adhesive-lattice-buffer layer. The bottom region of the metallic thin film has equi-axial coarse grains. The surface region of the metallic thin film contains parallel-arranged high-density twin boundaries (?3+?9) with a pitch from 1 nm to 100 nm. The quantity of the parallel-arranged twin boundaries is 50% to 80% of the total quantity of twin boundaries in the cross-sectional view of the metallic thin film. The parallel-arranged twin boundaries include 30% to 90% [111] crystal orientation. The nano-twinned structure on the metallic thin film surface is formed through a post-deposition ion bombardment on the evaporated metallic thin film surface after the evaporation process.

Abstract: A variable focal length optical element including a light-transmitting layer, a cover, a gel, a piezoelectric film, and a driving electrode is provided. The cover has a first through hole to define a light-passing area. The cover, an adhesive layer, and the light-transmitting layer surround and form a first cavity together, and the gel is filled in the first cavity. The driving electrode is configured to drive the piezoelectric film, so that the piezoelectric film is deformed to pull the light-transmitting layer to bend and deform to squeeze the gel in the first cavity, and thereby controls a curvature change of an optical surface formed in the light-passing area by the gel protruding out from the first through hole.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a two-stage sintering method for preparing a porous biphasic calcium phosphate ceramic from calcium-containing biological waste, wherein hydroxyapatite prepared from calcium-containing waste is mixed with a foaming agent to prepare a bone graft material having medicinal use through two-stage sintering.

Abstract: A micro scanning mirror, including a fixed substrate, a lens, and multiple cantilevers, are provided. Each cantilever includes a piezoelectric material structure, multiple first drive electrodes, and multiple second drive electrodes. The piezoelectric material structure includes a connecting part, a folding part, and a fixed part. The connecting part connects the lens along a direction parallel to a central axis of the lens. The folding part has a bending region and multiple drive electrode regions. The fixed part is connected to the fixed substrate, and the folding part is connected to the connecting part and the fixed part. The first drive electrodes and the second drive electrodes are respectively located in the corresponding drive electrode regions in the folding part. The micro scanning mirror of the disclosure can drive a large-sized micro mirror to rotate at an appropriate rotation angle.

Abstract: A metallic nano-twinned thin film structure and a method for forming the same are provided. The metallic nano-twinned thin film structure includes a substrate, an adhesive-lattice-buffer layer over the substrate, and a single-layer or multi-layer metallic nano-twinned thin film over the adhesive-lattice-buffer layer. The metallic nano-twinned thin film includes parallel-arranged twin boundaries (?3+?9). In a cross-sectional view of the metallic nano-twinned thin film, the parallel-arranged twin boundaries account for 30% to 90% of total twin boundaries. The parallel-arranged twin boundaries include 80% to 99% of crystal orientation [111]. The single-layer metallic nano-twinned thin film includes copper, gold, palladium or nickel. The multi-layer metallic nano-twinned thin films are respectively composed of silver, copper, gold, palladium or nickel.

Abstract: A communication chip includes an input port, a gain circuit, a correction circuit having a phase-locked loop (PLL) circuit and a return terminal, a post-processing circuit, and a switching circuit. The gain circuit includes an input terminal and a quadrature modulation circuit that operates according to a reference clock. The gain circuit gains a signal from the input terminal according to a bias voltage and outputs a gained signal. The PLL circuit generates a correction signal through synchronization according to the reference clock. The post-processing circuit obtains an input signal strength according to a correction table and a signal from a receiving terminal of the post-processing circuit. The switching circuit couples the correction signal to the input terminal and the gained signal to the return terminal in test mode and couples the input port to the input terminal and the gained signal to the receiving terminal in an operating mode.

Abstract: A pressure-quench techniques at chosen pressures and temperatures to lock in the high-pressure-induced superconducting phase and/or non-superconducting phase in high-temperature superconductors (HTS) and room-temperature superconductors (RTS) at ambient pressure are disclosed. The techniques remove the formidable obstacle to the ubiquitous practical application of HTS and RTS. The technique successfully retain the high-pressure-induced/-enhanced high Tc and/or non-superconducting properties of HTS or RTS.

Abstract: A method of forming dialkyl carbonate is provided, which includes introducing carbon dioxide into a catalyst to form dialkyl carbonate, wherein the catalyst is formed by activating a catalyst precursor using alcohol, wherein alcohol is R3—OH, and R3 is C1-12 alkyl group or C5-12 aryl or heteroaryl group. The catalyst precursor is formed by reacting Sn(R1)2(L)2 and Ti(OR2)4, and Sn(R1)2(L)2 and Ti(OR2)4 have a molar ratio of 1:2 to 2:1. R1 is C1-10 alkyl group, R2 is H or C1-12 alkyl group, and L is O—(C?O)—R5, and R5 is C1-12 alkyl group.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a bone void filler and a method for manufacturing the same by natural calcium-containing waste, which comprises steps of mixing 5-20 wt % of a calcium-containing waste powder, 5-20 wt % of acetic acid and a remaining weight percentage of water uniformly to obtain a mixing solution; adding 5-20 vol % of a diammonium hydrogen phosphate solution to the mixing solution to obtain a suspension; controlling a pH value of the suspension to obtain an alkaline solution; leaving the alkaline solution at room temperature for precipitation for 0.1 to 72 hours, centrifuging or suction filtrating the alkaline solution to obtain a precipitate, drying and grinding the precipitate to obtain hydroxyapatite; and mixing 30-60 wt % of a pore former and 30-60 wt % of the hydroxyapatite and a remaining weight percentage of a binder uniformly to form a mixture, compression molding the mixture in a mold and sintering the compression-molded mixture.

Abstract: A method for forming a bonding structure is provided, including providing a first metal, wherein the first metal has a first absolute melting point. The method includes forming a silver nano-twinned layer on the first metal. The silver nano-twinned layer includes parallel-arranged twin boundaries. The parallel-arranged twin boundaries include 90% or more [111] crystal orientation. The method includes oppositely bonding the silver nano-twinned layer to a second metal. The second metal has a second absolute melting point. The bonding of the silver nano-twinned layer and the second metal is performed at a temperature of 300° C. to half of the first absolute melting point or 300° C. to half of the second absolute melting point.

Abstract: A force sensor includes a circuit board, a sensing element, and a first gel. The sensing element is disposed on the circuit board, wherein the sensing element has a top surface and a bottom surface opposite to each other and has a sensing portion. The bottom surface faces the circuit board. The sensing portion is located at the top surface. The first gel is disposed on the top surface and covers the sensing portion, wherein the sensing portion is adapted to generate a sensing signal through an external force transferred from the first gel to the top surface.

Abstract: A silver nano-twinned thin film structure and a method for forming the same are provided. A silver nano-twinned thin film structure, including: a substrate; an adhesive-lattice-buffer layer over the substrate; and a silver nano-twinned thin film over the adhesive-lattice-buffer layer, wherein the silver nano-twinned thin film comprises parallel-arranged twin boundaries, and a cross-section of the silver nano-twinned thin film reveals that 50% or more of all twin boundaries are parallel-arranged twin boundaries, wherein the parallel-arranged twin boundaries include ?3 and ?9 boundaries, wherein the ?3 and ?9 boundaries include 95% or more crystal orientation.

Abstract: An electronic device and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The electronic device includes a substrate, multiple light emitting elements, and a light absorbing layer. The light emitting elements are disposed on the substrate. One of the light emitting elements has at least one lateral surface. The light absorbing layer is disposed on the substrate and is located between two adjacent light emitting elements, and the light absorbing layer contacts the at least one lateral surface.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a preconcentrator for vapors and particles collected from air. The vapor preconcentrator is made from plural layer of coils. The coil is made of resistance alloy. The pitch size of the coil is made to precisely trap/filter out certain size of the particles during preconcentration. Multiple coils could be made with different pitch sizes to achieve multiple step filtrations. When the sample flow enters the preconcentrator chamber, it passes through the coils. The particles of different sizes are trapped on different layer of coils. The vapor sample can be trapped on any coils when interacted with the coil surface. They could be trapped without any affinitive coating as the preconcentrator is at relatively low temperature. Different coils or different sections of the coil can be coated with different material to trap chemicals of different classes.

Abstract: A method of forming dialkyl carbonate is provided, which includes introducing carbon dioxide into a catalyst to form dialkyl carbonate, wherein the catalyst is formed by activating a catalyst precursor using alcohol, wherein alcohol is R3—OH, and R3 is C1-12 alkyl group or C5-12 aryl or heteroaryl group. The catalyst precursor is formed by reacting Sn(R1)2(L)2 and Ti(OR2)4, and Sn(R1)2(L)2 and Ti(OR2)4 have a molar ratio of 1:2 to 2:1. R1 is C1-10 alkyl group, R2 is H or C1-12 alkyl group, and L is O—(C?O)—R5, and R5 is C1-12 alkyl group.

Abstract: A liquid ingesting management system is provided. The liquid ingesting management system includes a fluid container, a database and a wireless transmit/receive unit. The wireless transmit/receive unit communicates with the fluid container and the database through a wireless technique to access the database and control the fluid container to perform a liquid ingesting management process.

Abstract: A method of making a semiconductor device includes comparing a thickness profile of a surface of a wafer with a reference value using a control unit. The method further includes transmitting a control signal to an adjustable nozzle based on the comparison of the thickness profile and the reference value. The method further includes rotating the adjustable nozzle about a longitudinal axis of the adjustable nozzle in response to the control signal.

Abstract: The present invention relates to improving the ability of a hyphenated instrument to analyze a sample benefiting from having the first instrument's analysis of the same sample. A fast switching mechanism can be used as the interface between an ion mobility spectrometer (IMS) and a mass spectrometer (MS) such that the obtained IMS spectrum is converted into a timing diagram that controls the vacuum inlet's size dynamically during analysis of a neutral and/or charged chemical and/or biological species such that a smaller pumping system can be used. In various operational modes of the IMS-MS device, mobility-separated ions are allowed to pass through an ion gate and the vacuum inlet for mass analysis.