Abstract: A method for manufacturing a semiconductor structure includes forming a trench in a dielectric structure; forming a spacer layer on a lateral surface of the dielectric structure exposed by the trench; after forming the spacer layer, forming a first electrically conductive feature in the trench; removing at least portion of the dielectric structure to form a recess; forming an etch stop layer in the recess and over the first electrically conductive feature; and after forming the etch stop layer, depositing a dielectric layer in the recess and over the first electrically conductive feature.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a semiconductor structure includes forming a trench in a dielectric structure; forming a spacer layer on a lateral surface of the dielectric structure exposed by the trench; after forming the spacer layer, forming a first electrically conductive feature in the trench; removing at least portion of the dielectric structure to form a recess; forming an etch stop layer in the recess and over the first electrically conductive feature; and after forming the etch stop layer, depositing a dielectric layer in the recess and over the first electrically conductive feature.

Abstract: An automatic driving method includes following steps: S101: acquiring real-time traffic environment information in a travel process of an autonomous vehicle at a current moment; S102: mapping the real-time traffic environment information based on a preset mapping relationship to obtain mapped traffic environment information; S103: adjusting a target deep reinforcement learning model based on a pre-stored existing deep reinforcement learning model and the mapped traffic environment information; and S104: judging whether automatic driving is finished, and in response to the automatic driving is not finished, returning to perform the step of acquiring the real-time traffic environment information in the travel process of the autonomous vehicle at the current moment. An automatic driving system, an automatic driving device and a computer medium storing the automatic driving method are further provided.

Abstract: The present invention relates to fibronectin-based scaffold domain proteins that bind to myostatin. The invention also relates to the use of these proteins in therapeutic applications to treat muscular dystrophy, cachexia, sarcopenia, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, diabetes, obesity, COPD, chronic kidney disease, heart failure, myocardial infarction, and fibrosis. The invention further relates to cells comprising such proteins, polynucleotides encoding such proteins or fragments thereof, and to vectors comprising the polynucleotides encoding the proteins.

Abstract: A pressure-reducing dressing is adapted for securing medical equipment to the skin of a human body, and includes a skin contact pad adapted for locating the medical equipment, a water barrier laminate positioned on the skin contact pad, and a release sheet. The water barrier laminate includes a body layer and an adhesive layer formed on a side surface of the body layer that faces the skin contact pad and adhered to the skin. The body layer has a positioning portion and two divisional portions extending from the positioning portion and spaced apart from each other by a separating gap. The release sheet is attached to the adhesive layer of the water barrier laminate.

Abstract: A reaction apparatus, comprising: a reaction kettle; a circulation loop, comprising a circulation pipeline and a circulator pump provided on the circulation pipeline, a discharging end of the circulator pump being communicated with the top of the reaction kettle by means of a circulation valve and a charging end of the circulator pump being communicated with the bottom of the reaction kettle by means of a block valve; a feeding loop, comprising a feeding pipeline and a bypass pipeline, the feeding pipeline being provided between the block valve and the circulator pump and being communicated with the circulation pipeline, the bypass pipeline being provided with a control valve, and one end of the bypass pipeline being communicated with the discharging end of the circulator pump and the other end thereof being communicated with the bottom of the reaction kettle; and a discharging loop, comprising a discharging pipeline provided between the circulator pump and the circulation valve and communicated with the circ

Abstract: An example embodiment of the present disclosure involves a method for semiconductor device fabrication. The method comprises providing a structure that includes a conductive component and an interlayer dielectric (ILD) that includes silicon and surrounds the conductive component, and forming, over the conductive component and the ILD, an etch stop layer (ESL) that includes metal oxide. The ESL includes a first portion in contact with the conductive component and a second portion in contact with the ILD. The method further comprises baking the ESL to transform the metal oxide located in the second portion of the ESL into metal silicon oxide, and selectively etching the ESL so as to remove the first portion of the ESL but not the second portion of the ESL.

Abstract: An image registration method and apparatus, an electronic apparatus, and a storage medium are provided. The image registration method comprises: extracting edge pixels of the binocular image, and determining high-confidence parallax points in the edge pixels and parallax; projecting each non-high-confidence parallax point to the triangular mesh in a direction parallel with a parallax dimension to obtain a triangular face; determining a parallax search range of parallax of each non-high-confidence parallax point, calculating a matching cost corresponding to all parallax in each parallax search range, and determining that parallax with the smallest matching cost is the parallax of the corresponding non-high-confidence parallax point; and determining a depth boundary point in the edge pixels, determining a parallax boundary point of each depth boundary point in a target direction, and setting parallax of pixels between the depth boundary point and the parallax boundary point to a target value.

Abstract: An example embodiment of the present disclosure involves a method for semiconductor device fabrication. The method comprises providing a structure that includes a conductive component and an interlayer dielectric (ILD) that includes silicon and surrounds the conductive component, and forming, over the conductive component and the ILD, an etch stop layer (ESL) that includes metal oxide. The ESL includes a first portion in contact with the conductive component and a second portion in contact with the ILD. The method further comprises baking the ESL to transform the metal oxide located in the second portion of the ESL into metal silicon oxide, and selectively etching the ESL so as to remove the first portion of the ESL but not the second portion of the ESL.

Abstract: Provided are a content-adaptive binocular matching method and apparatus. The method includes: dividing both left and right images into grids so as to calculate feature information at grid points, and performing matching calculation between the left and right images at the grid points according to the feature information so as to determine points with high matching degrees as reference points; calculating parallax values of the reference points, determining an interlayer spacing, and layering all the reference points in a depth direction according to the parallax values and the interlayer spacing; for a non-reference point pixel in a certain image, determining a reference point closest to the non-reference point pixel, and determining a search range and the parallax value of the reference point; and performing matching calculation on the non-reference point pixel and a pixel in the search range in the other image.

Abstract: Provided are a content-adaptive binocular matching method and apparatus. The method includes: dividing both left and right images into grids so as to calculate feature information at grid points, and performing matching calculation between the left and right images at the grid points according to the feature information so as to determine points with high matching degrees as reference points; calculating parallax values of the reference points, determining an interlayer spacing, and layering all the reference points in a depth direction according to the parallax values and the interlayer spacing; for a non-reference point pixel in a certain image, determining a reference point closest to the non-reference point pixel, and determining a search range and the parallax value of the reference point; and performing matching calculation on the non-reference point pixel and a pixel in the search range in the other image.

Abstract: Designs of a sensor module with fewer number of pins are described. According to one aspect of the designs, a sensor module operates on a predefined number of clocks in a clock signal in contrast of rising or falling edges of clocks or pulses thereof commonly relied upon in a prior art sensor module, thus reducing considerably the requirements on the clock signals needed to support the sensor module. More importantly, the pins of the sensor module are far fewer than those in a prior art system. Subsequently, the complexity of supporting circuits for the sensor module in the sensor module of the present invention can be simplified.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a semiconductor structure includes forming a trench in a dielectric structure; forming a spacer layer on a lateral surface of the dielectric structure exposed by the trench; after forming the spacer layer, forming a first electrically conductive feature in the trench; removing at least portion of the dielectric structure to form a recess; forming an etch stop layer in the recess and over the first electrically conductive feature; and after forming the etch stop layer, depositing a dielectric layer in the recess and over the first electrically conductive feature.

Abstract: A sensing system is designed to include a plurality of linear sensors, where a single integrated circuit sensor, referred to as multi-line sensor herein, includes these linear sensors spaced apart, positioned or disposed in parallel on a substrate. These sensors are provided to detect respective distances towards a target from different planes so as to generate a plurality of 2D maps. A thin or coarse 3D map is then generated from these 2D maps to facilitate movements of a mobile robot employing the sensing system.

Abstract: A control method of bone grinding includes: receiving a current position of a grinding drill bit from a positioning apparatus in real time; determining whether the current position reaches a region boundary of a region to be ground in a grinding state; and controlling the grinding drill bit to stop operating when the current position reaches the region boundary.

Abstract: A sensing system is designed to include a plurality of linear sensors, where these linear sensors are spaced apart, positioned or disposed in parallel on a substrate. These sensors are provided to detect respective distances towards a target from different planes so as to generate a plurality of 2D maps. A thin or coarse 3D map is then generated from these 2D maps to facilitate movements of a mobile robot employing the sensing system.

Abstract: Designs of an anti-blooming sensing element or simply sensor are described. According to one aspect of the designs, each sensing element includes a photosensor, a pair of first and second circuits, a store device and a readout circuit. The first and second circuits, sandwiching the photosensor from a circuit perspective, are mirrored and balanced in impedance. The first circuit provides an inherent mechanism to discharge excessive charge accumulated on the photosensor before a predefined exposure time ends. Each of the two circuits includes two transistors.

Abstract: A reaction apparatus, comprising: a reaction kettle (1); a circulation loop, comprising a circulation pipeline (2) and a circulator pump (4) provided on the circulation pipeline (2), a discharging end of the circulator pump (4) being communicated with the top of the reaction kettle (1) by means of a circulation valve (3) and a charging end of the circulator pump (4) being communicated with the bottom of the reaction kettle (1) by means of a block valve (9); a feeding loop, comprising a feeding pipeline (7) and a bypass pipeline (5), the feeding pipeline (7) being provided between the block valve (9) and the circulator pump (4) and being communicated with the circulation pipeline (2), the bypass pipeline (5) being provided with a control valve (6), and one end of the bypass pipeline (5) being communicated with the discharging end of the circulator pump (3) and the other end thereof being communicated with the bottom of the reaction kettle (1); and a discharging loop, comprising a discharging pipeline (10) prov

Abstract: An ammonia-containing tail gas absorption system, comprising at least two sets of absorption devices, wherein at least two transport pipelines are provided at inlets of some of the absorption devices, and the transport pipelines are used to communicate the absorption devices with an ammonia-containing tail gas outlet of a reactor or other absorption devices. Valves are provided on the transport pipelines, and the valves are used to control the connection and disconnection of the transport pipelines so as to switch the series-parallel relationship between the sets of absorption devices.

Abstract: A high-resolution image matching method and system are provided. The method includes performing regional fidelity down-sampling on an initial high-resolution image to obtain a multi-level low-resolution image, performing local matching on the obtained multi-level low-resolution images using a method with global probes to obtain a matching result of the low-resolution images, and performing reverse refinement on the obtained matching result of the low-resolution image using overall consistency of the image matching, to obtain the matching results of the high-resolution images at all levels until the matching results of the initial resolution images are obtained, so as to reduce the computational complexity of the image matching process and improve the accuracy of the matching result, and then the matching result of the high-resolution image is obtained through reverse refinement based on the overall consistency.