Abstract: A method for fabricating a semiconductor device includes: forming a first oxide layer containing a first element over a first electrode layer; forming a second oxide layer containing a second element over the first oxide layer; forming a stacked structure in which a plurality of first oxide layers and a plurality of second oxide layers are alternately stacked by repeating the forming of the first oxide layer and the forming of the second oxide layer a plurality of times; and forming a second electrode layer over the stacked structure, wherein a thickness of a lowermost first oxide layer among the plurality of first oxide layers is greater than a thickness of each of other first oxide layers.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a first active pattern disposed on the substrate, a second active pattern stacked on the first active pattern, a first gate structure extending to intersect the first active pattern and the second active pattern, a second gate structure spaced apart from the first gate structure and extending to intersect the first active pattern and the second active pattern, a first epitaxial pattern interposed between the first gate structure and the second gate structure, and connected to the first active pattern, a second epitaxial pattern interposed between the first gate structure and the second gate structure, and connected to the second active pattern, an insulating pattern interposed between the first epitaxial pattern and the second epitaxial pattern, and a semiconductor film interposed between the insulating pattern and the second epitaxial pattern, the semiconductor film extending along a top surface of the insulating pattern.

Abstract: A curable composition or a thermal interface material exhibiting low adhesion force to a predetermined adherend while having a low density as well as exhibiting a high thermal conductivity is provided. It also has excellent flame retardant properties, and exhibits ejection properties and thixotropy suitable for processes in a state where halogen flame retardants or phosphorus-based flame retardants are not used, or the use ratio thereof is minimized.

Abstract: Disclosed is an electrode assembly, a battery, and a battery pack and a vehicle including the same. In the electrode assembly, a first electrode, a second electrode, and a separator interposed therebetween are wound based on a winding axis to define a core and an outer circumference. The first electrode includes a first active material portion coated with an active material layer and a first uncoated portion not coated with an active material layer along a winding direction. At least a part of the first uncoated portion is defined as an electrode tab by itself. The first uncoated portion includes a first portion adjacent to the core of the electrode assembly, a second portion adjacent to the outer circumference of the electrode assembly, and a third portion interposed between the first portion and the second portion. The first portion or the second portion has a smaller height than the third portion in the winding axis direction.

Abstract: Disclosed is an electrode assembly, a battery, and a battery pack and a vehicle including the same. In the electrode assembly, a first electrode, a second electrode, and a separator interposed therebetween are wound based on an axis to define a core and an outer circumference. The first electrode includes an uncoated portion at a long side end thereof and exposed out of the separator along a winding axis direction of the electrode assembly. A part of the uncoated portion is bent in a radial direction of the electrode assembly to form a bending surface region that includes overlapping layers of the uncoated portion, and in a partial region of the bending surface region, the number of stacked layers of the uncoated portion is 10 or more in the winding axis direction of the electrode assembly.

Abstract: A sealing device for a pouch-type battery includes an upper sealing block and a lower sealing block. The upper sealing block has a two-stage upper sealing groove, including a first upper step and a second upper step, and the lower sealing block has a two-stage lower sealing groove, including a first lower step and a second lower step. The upper sealing block contacts a first surface of an electrode lead sealing part of the pouch-type battery, and the lower sealing block contacts a second surface of the electrode lead sealing part of the pouch-type battery in a process of performing sealing through heat fusion. A pouch-type battery having an electrode lead sealing part formed by the sealing device is also provided.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an antibacterial peptide and an antibacterial compound targeting the Klebsiella pneumoniae VapBC toxin-antitoxin system, or their use.

Abstract: An electronic price indicator according to an embodiment includes a display displaying product information, an NFC module configured to communicate with a user terminal, a Bluetooth module configured to communicate with the user terminal, and a processor configured to control the display to display the product information received from the user terminal through the Bluetooth module. The processor is further configured to release a sleep mode when receiving an interrupt from the user terminal through the NFC module, and perform Bluetooth communication with the user terminal by initiating a scan for a predetermined period of time to receive an advertising signal from the user terminal.

Abstract: A display device includes a substrate including a display area including pixels, and a dummy area including dummy pixels, a pixel circuit layer including a transistor, and a via layer above the transistor, bank patterns above the via layer, light-emitting elements between the bank patterns in plan view, a first bank above a portion of the bank patterns, a second bank above the first bank, and including an edge bank defining an outermost boundary of the dummy area, covering an inner side of an edge bank pattern of the bank patterns overlapping the edge bank, and covering an inner side of a portion of the first bank that overlaps the edge bank, the first bank and the second bank partitioning emission areas and dummy opening areas, and a light conversion layer in the emission areas and in the dummy opening areas, which correspond to openings of the second bank.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a display device, which may be fabricated using a described method. The display device includes a glass substrate including a first surface, a second surface opposite the first surface, and a side surface between the first surface and the second surface, an outermost structure on the first surface of the glass substrate and located adjacent to an edge of one side of the glass substrate, and a display area including a plurality of light emitting areas on the first surface of the glass substrate and located farther from the edge of the one side of the glass substrate than the outermost structure is. A minimum distance from the side surface of the glass substrate to the outermost structure is equal to 130 ?m or less.

Abstract: An electrostatic discharge protection circuit includes a pull-down switch, a dummy pattern arranged parallel to the pull-down switch in a first direction, clamp switches arranged parallel to each other in the first direction between the dummy pattern and the pull-down switch, and a resistor configured to transfer a power supply voltage supplied through a power terminal to a gate pattern of the pull-down switch by being arranged parallel to the pull-down switch. Drains of the clamp switches are coupled in common to the power terminal, sources of the clamp switches are coupled in common to a ground terminal, and a first end of the pull-down switch and a second end of the resistor are coupled to each other through a first conductive line extending in the first direction, the pull-down switch, the resistor and the first conductive line are formed in a same layer.

Abstract: In a method and system for determining a DTE of a vehicle, real-time transportation situation information from a current position of the vehicle to a destination is transmitted to a vehicle. The transmitted transportation situation information and obtaining vehicle forward driving situation information to the destination are received. Predicted battery consumption energy consumed for traveling from the current position to the destination using a battery usage prediction model to which the obtained vehicle forward driving situation information and current vehicle state information obtained from the vehicle are input are predicted and determined. A DTE at the destination as a predicted value at the current position is determined using the determined predicted battery consumption energy to the destination.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a computer-implemented method for providing a nucleic acid sequence data set for the design of an oligonucleotide used to detect a target nucleic acid molecule of an organism of interest. In the present invention, nucleic acid sequence data retrieved by synonyms for a target nucleic acid molecule are sorted according to the taxonomic name and/or taxonomic identification (ID); taxonomic representative sequences are selected among nucleic acid sequence data having the same taxonomic name and/or taxonomic ID; and the selected taxonomic representative sequences are grouped according to the homology to select a group representative sequence in each group; and then nucleic acid sequence data having a homology of a predetermined value or more with the group representative sequence are provided.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a peptide targeting a toxin-antitoxin system of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and a use thereof. Specifically, the antibiotic peptide of the present invention inhibits the formation of a toxin-antitoxin complex of Mycobacterium tuberculosis without affecting an active site of the toxin, thereby inducing the death of Mycobacterium tuberculosis by means of a separated toxin. Therefore, the antibiotic peptide can be usefully used as an antibiotic composition against Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

Abstract: A method of characterizing an error in a NAND flash memory, and an error estimation method and a storage system control method using the same are provided. The method of characterizing an error in a NAND flash memory characterizes an error source of the NAND flash memory using a center distance between one pattern and another pattern among a plurality of patterns in a threshold voltage distribution of NAND flash memory cells as a parameter.

Abstract: A correlation recurrent unit and a correlation recurrent neural network are provided. An aspect provides a new neural network structure for training each decomposed time-series component by decomposing input time-series data xt into a plurality of time-series components (e.g., trend, seasonal, and remainder components) and improving the prediction performance of time-series data by training a relation between different time-series components.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a computer-implemented method for providing a coverage of an oligonucleotide set for a plurality of nucleic acids. The present invention provides nucleic acid sequences with the generation of probe-hybridized amplicons and/or nucleic acid sequences without the generation of probe-hybridized amplicons, by a combination of oligonucleotides according to match or mismatch information and position information of a forward primer, a probe, and a reverse primer included in an oligonucleotide set, and thus can provide a coverage of the oligonucleotide set for a plurality of nucleic acid sequences, can analyze specificity of the oligonucleotide set, and can modify the sequences of the oligonucleotides included in the oligonucleotide set for the improvement in specificity.

Abstract: An electrostatic discharge protection circuit includes a pull-down switch, a dummy pattern arranged parallel to the pull-down switch in a first direction, clamp switches arranged parallel to each other in the first direction between the dummy pattern and the pull-down switch, and a resistor configured to transfer a power supply voltage supplied through a power terminal to a gate pattern of the pull-down switch by being arranged parallel to the pull-down switch. Drains of the clamp switches are coupled in common to the power terminal, sources of the clamp switches are coupled in common to a ground terminal, and a first end of the pull-down switch and a second end of the resistor are coupled to each other through a first conductive line extending in the first direction, the pull-down switch, the resistor and the first conductive line are formed in a same layer.

Abstract: A method for controlling deceleration of a vehicle includes determining, by a controller, a reference deceleration driving distance of the vehicle based on current speed information of the vehicle and stop signal residual time information of a traffic light located ahead of the vehicle, determining, by the controller, whether the reference deceleration driving distance is less than or equal to a distance between the vehicle and the traffic light, and determining, by the controller, a speed profile including an actual deceleration driving distance of the vehicle based on a waiting distance of a waiting vehicle that waits before the traffic light when it is determined that the reference deceleration driving distance is less than or equal to the distance between the vehicle and the traffic light.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a peptide targeting a toxin-antitoxin system of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and a use thereof. Specifically, the antibiotic peptide of the present invention inhibits the formation of a toxin-antitoxin complex of Mycobacterium tuberculosis without affecting an active site of the toxin, thereby inducing the death of Mycobacterium tuberculosis by means of a separated toxin. Therefore, the antibiotic peptide can be usefully used as an antibiotic composition against Mycobacterium tuberculosis.