Abstract: There is disclosed a method of operating a transmitting node in a millimeter-wave communication network. The method includes transmitting millimeter-wave signaling in a transmission timing structure, the transmission timing structure including N time interval elements sequentially ordered in time, the millimeter-wave signaling including N separate signaling structures, each signaling structure being transmitted in a different one of the time interval elements. N is an integer multiple of 2. A first subset of the N separate signaling structures corresponds to control signaling, the subset including 2{circumflex over (?)}m signaling structures consecutive in time beginning with the signaling structure of the first time interval element, and m is an integer such that 2{circumflex over (?)}m<=N. A second subset of the N separate signaling structures corresponds to data signaling, the second subset comprising 0 or an integer number of signaling structures.

Abstract: There is disclosed a method of operating a user equipment in a radio access network. The method includes transmitting acknowledgement signaling based on a feedback configuration, the feedback configuration being selected from a set of configured acknowledgement configurations. The disclosure also pertains to related methods and devices.

Abstract: According to some embodiments, a method in a wireless device comprises: receiving a control channel (e.g., physical downlink control channel (PDCCH)) that includes control information that indicates a set of time and frequency resources allocated for the wireless device to receive a data transmission; determining that the set of time and frequency resources allocated for data transmission overlaps with a control resource region (e.g., control resource set (CORESET)); and receiving the data transmission in the set of time and frequency resources allocated for data transmission. The control information may include a bitmap that indicates at one or more groups of time and frequency resources excluded/included for the data transmission region.

Abstract: An image sensor includes a substrate. The image sensor includes a first photodiode (PD) having a first size in the substrate. The image sensor further includes a second PD having a second size in the substrate, wherein the first size is different from the second size. The image sensor further includes a first layer, wherein the first layer comprises a metal material or a dielectric material, and the first layer defines sidewalls of a first recess aligned with the first PD. The image sensor further includes a second layer in the first recess, wherein a portion of the first layer aligned with the second PD is free of the second layer, and the second layer overhangs the first layer.

Abstract: The present disclosure describes a semiconductor structure and a method for forming the same. The semiconductor structure can include a substrate, a first vertical structure and a second vertical structure formed over the substrate, and a conductive rail structure between the first and second vertical structures. A top surface of the conductive rail structure can be substantially coplanar with top surfaces of the first and the second vertical structures.

Abstract: According to certain embodiments, a method performed by a wireless device comprises monitoring a first search space set for a control channel candidate, receiving an indication to switch the search space set from a network node, and switching the search space set based on receiving the indication to switch the search space set. Switching the search space set comprises stopping the monitoring of the first search space set and starting monitoring a second search space set for the control channel candidate.

Abstract: An embedded smart module including a twistable substrate, an electrode layer, a circuit layer, an insulating layer, an electronic component and a sensing component is provided. The electrode layer is disposed on the twistable substrate. The circuit layer is disposed in the electrode layer and exposed at the surface of the electrode layer. The insulating layer is disposed between the electrode layer and the circuit layer. The electronic component is disposed on the electrode layer and the circuit layer and electrically connected with the electrode layer and the circuit layer. The sensing component is disposed on the electrode layer and the circuit layer and electrically connected with the electrode layer and the circuit layer.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device. The method includes forming a stack of first semiconductor layers and second semiconductor layers over a substrate, etching the stack to form a source/drain (S/D) recess in exposing the substrate, and forming an S/D formation assistance region in the S/D recess. The S/D formation assistance region is partially embedded in the substrate and includes a semiconductor seed layer embedded in an isolation layer. The isolation layer electrically isolates the semiconductor seed layer from the substrate. The method also includes epitaxially growing an S/D feature in the S/D recess from the semiconductor seed layer. The S/D feature is in physical contact with the second semiconductor layers.

Abstract: Embodiments herein relate to, for example, a method performed by a UE for handling communication in a wireless communication network. The UE selects for a Pcell, and/or a Scell, a search space slot within a slot group wherein the slot group is arranged in an X-slot group pattern, wherein the slot group is of a size of X-slots, and the X-slot group pattern is fixed relative to a reference time location and common for UEs operating PDCCH monitoring X slots. The UE further monitors the selected search space slot or slots for a control channel of the Pcell, and/or the Scell.

Abstract: A magnetic memory device includes a magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ) stack and a capping layer on the MTJ stack. The MTJ stack includes a reference layer, a tunneling barrier layer on the reference layer, and a free layer on the tunneling barrier layer. The capping layer includes a metal under layer that is in direct contact with the free layer, an oxide capping layer on the metal under layer, and a metal protection layer on the oxide capping layer.

Abstract: A user equipment (UE) performs multi-slot physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring. The UE receives a search space configuration from a network node. The UE determines a search space monitoring slot within a first X-slot group of a fixed pattern of X-slot groups based on a location of the first slot of type0 Common Search Space (CSS) monitoring occasions. The UE determines which one or more slot indices to monitor. The UE determines which one or more symbols to monitor within the determined one or more slot indices. The UE monitors the determined symbols within the determined slot indices for PDCCH.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a semiconductor nanostructure over the substrate, a gate dielectric layer wrapping around the semiconductor nanostructure and a gate electrode over the gate dielectric layer. The semiconductor nanostructure includes a plurality of first strips extending along a first direction and a plurality of second strips along a second direction, and wherein the second direction crosses the first direction.

Abstract: There is disclosed a method of operating a feedback radio node in a radio access network. The method includes transmitting feedback signalling representing an encoded sequence of bits, the encoded sequence of bits representing a sequence of feedback information bits, the sequence of feedback information bits comprising a plurality of subpatterns, each subpattern having a type of a set of types. The set of types has a first type and a second type, the subpatterns being ordered in the sequence according to their type. The disclosure also pertains to related devices and methods.

Abstract: There is disclosed a method of operating a receiving radio node in a wireless communication network, the method including performing channel estimation based on received signaling, the channel estimation providing a channel estimate value for each subcarrier of a set of subcarriers. The received signaling covers a number NPRB of Physical Resource Blocks, PRB, in frequency domain, each PRB having a number NSC of subcarriers. The set of subcarriers has a number NSUB of subsets of subcarriers, subcarriers of the same subset being associated to the same PRB of the number NPRB of PRBs. The channel estimation associates different channel estimate values to different subcarriers of one or more of the NSUB subsets. The disclosure also pertains to related devices and methods.

Abstract: A base station, a wireless device and methods therein for supporting radio communication, wherein the base station employs carrier aggregation with multiple carriers serving a primary cell, PCell, and at least one secondary cell, SCell. The base station signals (3:3) an SCell status to the wireless device, the SCell status indicating whether the at least one SCell will be in active state where the base station transmits downlink signals on a carrier serving the at least one SCell, or in inactive state where the base station does not transmit downlink signals on the carrier serving the at least one SCell. Thereby, the wireless device can adapt its behaviour depending on the signalled SCell status, e.g. by turning off its receiver and not perform any signal measurements when the SCell is in inactive state.

Abstract: Embodiments include methods for a user equipment (UE) configured to operate in a radio access network (RAN). Such methods include receiving, from a radio node in the RAN, a new feedback indicator (NFI) that indicates whether acknowledgement signaling previously scheduled for transmission by the UE was received by the radio node. The acknowledgement signaling is associated with one or more first downlink (DL) hybrid ARQ (HARQ) processes. Such methods include, when the NFI indicates the acknowledgement signaling was not received by the RAN node, selecting a first HARQ codebook to be used for encoding the acknowledgement signaling together with further acknowledgement signaling associated with one or more second DL HARQ processes. Such methods include, using the selected first HARQ codebook, encoding the acknowledgement signaling and the further acknowledgement signaling to obtain first encoded information and transmitting the first encoded information to the radio node via an uplink (UL) channel.

Abstract: A wireless device (110) receives a frequency resource configuration (200) from an access node (120), the access node generates downlink control information DCI (201) and transmits a control message (202) including at least one slot format indicator, SFI, field and a frequency resource indicator field. Based on the frequency resource indicator, the wireless device determines whether a particular frequency resource is available for operation (203) and whether the wireless device can receive or transmit data on said frequency resource (204, 205).

Abstract: A radio device receives control information from a node of the wireless communication network. The control information is used for controlling semi-persistent allocation of radio resources of an unlicensed frequency spectrum. Based on the control information, the radio device controls at least one UL radio transmission on the radio resources of the unlicensed frequency spectrum.

Abstract: Systematic size matching procedures for downlink control information (DCI) provide exact instructions on how DCI size matching is to be performed in a NR wireless system, to meet predetermined limits for how many different DCI sizes may be monitored by a user equipment (UE). With these procedures, consistent and exact DCI size matching can be performed while keeping blind decoding procedures manageable, ensuring common understanding of DCI contents between the UE and the network.

Abstract: A method of operating a wireless communication device comprises channel coding Channel State Information (CSI) bits jointly with Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) Acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) bits, multiplexing the jointly coded CSI and HARQ-ACK bits with coded data bits, and transmitting the multiplexed coded CSI and HARQ-ACK bits and coded data bits on a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH).