Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a substrate having a first area and a second area, a first transistor in the first area, a second transistor in the second area, an isolation layer between the first area and the second area, and at least one buried shield structure on the isolation layer.

Abstract: A semiconductor device, including a substrate having first and second active regions, the first and second active regions being disposed on opposite sides of an isolation structure, and a bit line electrically coupled to a contact plug that is on the isolation structure between the first active region and the second active region, and electrically coupled to an active bridge pattern directly contacting at least one of the first and second active regions, wherein the contact plug is electrically coupled to the first active region and the second active region, and a bottom surface of the active bridge pattern is below a top surface of the first and second active regions.

Abstract: A hard disk drive includes a magnetic head to write data to a disk by magnetizing the disk using a leakage magnetic flux that leaks in a disk direction through a write gap provided between a write pole to apply a magnetic field to the disk and a shield provided separately from the write pole, and an actuator arm allowing the magnetic head to pivot over the disk. In the hard disk drive, the write gap is asymmetrically formed to a left and a right with respect to a center axis line of the write pole according to a movement direction of the magnetic head when the magnetic head pivots over the disk.

Abstract: An adhesive composition includes an ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer, a copolymer of an aliphatic heterocyclic compound and a monomer having an aromatic ring, a binder resin, a radical polymerizable material, and a radical initiator.

Abstract: The present invention relates to multipurpose furniture which combines a bed and a desk, and is positioned between furniture facing each other. Since a turning apparatus for the multipurpose furniture is simplified, there is a reduction in all kinds of work processes and the work load required for turning of a turning member, of which a table surface and a mattress respectively used as a desk and a bed are formed on top and bottom, and manufacturing cost is decreased. In addition, when the multipurpose furniture is used as a bed, stability during sleep is increased and sleeping in comfort is doubled through minimization of the height from the surface.

Abstract: A semiconductor memory device and method of manufacturing the same, the device including string structures, the string structures including two or more adjacent string selection transistors connected in series to each other in a first direction and being spaced apart from one another in a second direction intersecting the first direction, the two or more string selection transistors having different threshold voltages; string selection lines, the string selection lines connecting the adjacent string selection transistors of the string structures in the second direction; and a bit line electrically connecting two or more adjacent string structures, wherein a device isolation layer between the adjacent string selection transistors in the second direction has recessed regions, and profiles of the recessed regions on respective sides of the string selection transistors are different from each other.

Abstract: An adhesive film composition for electric and electronic devices and an adhesive film produced using the same, the composition including a binder, the binder including an ester linkage-containing resin, a carbodiimide group-containing compound, a (meth)acrylate group-containing compound; and an organic peroxide.

Abstract: A composition for a circuit connection film and a circuit connection film using the same, the composition including a binder resin including an acrylate modified urethane resin, a carboxyl modified acrylonitrile butadiene rubber, and an acrylic copolymer, the acrylic copolymer having an acid value of about 1 to about 100 mg KOH/g, a radical polymerizable compound including at least one of an isocyanurate acrylate compound and a compound having a (meth)acrylate group, and an organic peroxide.

Abstract: An anisotropic conductive film (ACF) composition includes a thermoplastic resin having a weight average molecular weight of about 150,000 to about 600,000, a thermosetting curing agent having a weight average molecular weight of about 100 to about 10,000, the thermosetting curing agent including an acrylate functional group or a methacrylate functional group, an organic peroxide, a silane coupling agent, and conductive particles.

Abstract: Provided is a nonvolatile memory device having a common bit line structure. The nonvolatile memory device includes multiple unit elements having a NAND cell array structure, arranged in each of multiple memory strings, and each including a control gate and a charge storage layer. Multiple common bit lines are each commonly connected to ends of each of one pair of memory strings among the memory strings. Provided are a first selection transistor having a first driving voltage and multiple second selection transistors connected in series to the first selection transistors and having a second driving voltage that is lower than the first driving voltage. The first selection transistor and the second selection transistors are arranged between the common bit lines and the unit elements of the of memory strings. A first string selection line is connected to one of the first and second selection transistors of a first memory string of one pair of memory strings that are connected to one of the common bit lines.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a driving active region defined in a substrate and at least three driving transistors disposed at the driving active region. The driving transistors share one common source/drain, and each of the driving transistors includes individual source/drains being independent from each other. The common source/drain and the individual source/drains are disposed in the driving active region.

Abstract: A semiconductor device, including a substrate having first and second active regions, the first and second active regions being disposed on opposite sides of an isolation structure, and a bit line electrically coupled to a contact plug that is on the isolation structure between the first active region and the second active region, and electrically coupled to an active bridge pattern directly contacting at least one of the first and second active regions, wherein the contact plug is electrically coupled to the first active region and the second active region, and a bottom surface of the active bridge pattern is below a top surface of the first and second active regions.

Abstract: Provided are non-volatile memory devices and methods of fabricating the same, including improved bit line and contact formation that may reduce resistance and parasitic capacitance, thereby reducing manufacturing costs and improving device performance. The non-volatile memory devices may include a substrate; a plurality of field regions formed on the substrate, each of the field regions including a homogeneous first field and a second field that is divided into two sub regions via a bridge region; an active region formed on the substrate and defined as having a string structure by the field regions, where at least two strings may be connected via one of the bridge regions; and a plurality of shared bit lines may be formed on the field regions and connected to the active region via bit line contacts, where the bit line contacts may be direct contacts.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a substrate having a first area and a second area, a first transistor in the first area, a second transistor in the second area, an isolation layer between the first area and the second area, and at least one buried shield structure on the isolation layer.

Abstract: An adhesive composition includes an ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer, a copolymer of an aliphatic heterocyclic compound and a monomer having an aromatic ring, a binder resin, a radical polymerizable material, and a radical initiator.

Abstract: An anisotropic conductive adhesive composition includes an acrylic rubber binder having a weight average molecular weight of about 100,000 to about 1,000,000, a first component including at least one of a mono(meth)acrylate compound and a di(meth)acrylate compound, a second component including at least one of a tri(meth)acrylate compound and a compound having more than three (meth)acrylate groups, an organic peroxisde, and conductive particles. The second component is present in an amount of about 1 to about 10% by weight, based on the total weight of the acrylic rubber, the first component, the second component, the organic peroxide, and the conductive particles.

Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus and a method for controlling automatic gain in a wireless communication system using a Time Division Duplex (TDD) scheme. The apparatus comprises a power detecting unit for detecting a power of a TDD frame signal on a receive path; an Automatic Gain Control (AGC) synchronizing signal generating unit for generating an AGC synchronizing signal enabled or disabled either during a Down Link (DL) frame or during an Up Link (UL) frame of a TDD frame; an automatic gain calculating unit for calculating a gain control value based on the power detected by the power detecting unit either during the DL frame or during the UL frame of the TDD frame in response to the AGC synchronizing signal; and an AGC unit for performing gain control for the TDD frame signal on the receive path on the basis of the calculated gain control value. Hence, as AGC is performed during only an actual receive frame, the optimized demodulation performance can be maintained.

Abstract: The present invention relates to non-volatile memory device utilizing multi-layered self-assembled Ni1-xFex nanocrystalline arrays embedded in a polymer thin film without source and drain regions and the fabrication method thereof. It is possible to fabricate nano-crystallines more simply than hitherto method according to the present invention. More particularly, it is possible to control size and density of nano-crystallines without agglomeration of the crystallines since the crystallines, which have uniform distribution, are besieged to polymer layer. Furthermore, the present invention provides the non-volatile bistable memory device having chemical and electrical stability of higher efficiency and lower cost than conventional flash memory devices with a nano floating gate. Also, source and drain region is unnecessary in the device of the present invention, it can reduce the throughput time and cost.

Abstract: A collection and testing cup for fluid characterization is disclosed. The cup has a lid assembly with a tamper evident closure; a cylinder that extends into the fluid in the collection cup, also with a tamper evident closure; a piston with a conduit and one-way valve through which a portion of the fluid can be forced into an isolation chamber separate from the main collection cup for testing. The lid assembly cylinder is configured with an aperture or passage near the bottom of the cylinder to allow a small portion of fluid to enter the lower portion of the cylinder from the collection cup chamber and a piston with a central conduit and valve initially positioned near the top of the cylinder adjacent to the lid.

Abstract: A dual band antenna unit for a mobile device may include an antenna receiving part, a first antenna part having a first contact point and a second contact point, a second antenna part, a first feed point and a second feed point. The second antenna part may be formed integrally with the first antenna part and may extend from the first antenna part. The second antenna part may be extractably and retractably mounted in the mobile device. The first antenna part and the second antenna part may have resonant frequencies of different frequency bands. When the second antenna part is extracted, the first contact point may contact the first feed point. When the second antenna part is retracted, the second contact point may contact the second feed point. The mobile device may operate in different frequency bands using a single antenna unit, thereby allowing freedom of internal design and meeting the demand for miniaturization.