Abstract: Some embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method. In this method, a semiconductor substrate, which has an active region disposed in the semiconductor substrate, is received. A shallow trench isolation (STI) structure is formed to laterally surround the active region. An upper surface of the active region bounded by the STI structure is recessed to below an upper surface of the STI structure. The recessed upper surface extends continuously between inner sidewalls of the STI structure and leaves upper portions of the inner sidewalls of the STI structure exposed. A semiconductor layer is epitaxially grown on the recessed surface of the active region between the inner sidewalls of the STI structure. A gate dielectric is formed over the epitaxially-grown semiconductor layer. A conductive gate electrode is formed over the gate dielectric.

Abstract: Glycine, threonine, and serine can enhance the sensitivity of bacteria to serum, plasma, or whole blood, and therefore can be used as molecules to improve the bactericidal effect of the serum, the plasma, or the whole blood.

Abstract: A radiation generating apparatus includes a target base, a target, an electronic beam generating device, a tube, a tank, and a porous structure. The target is disposed on the target base. The electronic beam generating device is adapted to generate an electronic beam, and the electronic beam is emitted to the target to generate a radiation. The tube accommodates the target and the electronic beam generating device. The tank is connected to the target base and is accommodated by the tube. The porous structure is disposed in the tank and contacts the target base. A cooling fluid flows through the porous structure to dissipate the heat of the porous structure.

Abstract: A projection system and a projection control method are provided. The projection system includes a projection apparatus and a projection data providing apparatus. After receiving projection data, the projection apparatus enters an operating mode from a sleep mode and projects an image light beam according to the projection data. The projection data providing apparatus determines whether an input operation is received, and transmits the projection data to the projection apparatus if the input operation is received.

Abstract: A memory device, a memory system, and an operating method of the memory system is provided. The operating method includes operations of transmitting an authentication request to a memory device using a memory controller; converting the authentication request to a first address using the memory device; processing authentication data that corresponds to the first address and indicates a physical characteristic of the memory device and transmitting the authentication data as an authentication response to the authentication request to the memory controller using the memory device; and verifying whether the authentication response received from the memory device is an authentication response to the authentication request using the memory controller.

Abstract: A method for correcting an image phase of a depth camera with a lens is disclosed. The method includes the steps of: a) selecting a first reference point on an optical axis of the lens and a second reference point on an object, wherein a distance between the first and second reference points is the shortest than others; b) calculating the distance in the step a) to serve as a standard distance; c) selecting sample points on the object other than the second reference point and calculating distances between the sample points and the first reference point; d) calculating offsets and angles between a line through the first and second reference points and lines through the first reference point and sample points; and e) calculating real distances between the first reference point and sample points by values from the step d).

Abstract: A display may have a thin-film transistor layer formed from a layer of thin-film, transistor circuitry on a substrate. The thin-film transistor layer may overlap a color filter layer. A portion of the thin-film transistor layer may extend past the color filter layer to for a ledge region. Components such as a flexible printed circuit and a display driver integrated circuit may be mounted to the thin-film transistor layer in the ledge region. The components may have alignment marks. The thin-film transistor layer may have a black masking layer that is patterned to form openings for display pixels. In a border area of the display that overlaps the ledge region, the thin-film transistor layer may have alignment mark viewing windows. Alignment marks formed from black masking material in the windows may be aligned with respective alignment marks on the components.

Abstract: A cigarette includes lighting and mouth ends. It may include a smokable segment disposed at the lighting end. It also includes a mouth-end segment; an aerosol-generation system disposed between the lighting and mouth ends, which includes (i) a heat-generation segment adjacent the smokable segment, including a heat source and an insulation layer and (ii) an aerosol-generating segment including a substrate, which may include tobacco pellets and aerosol-forming material disposed in a substrate cavity between the heat generation segment and the mouth end; a piece of outer wrapping material that provides an overwrap around at least a portion of the aerosol-generating segment, the heat-generation segment, and at least a portion of the smokable segment and includes a foil strip laminated thereon; those segments being connected together by the overwrap to provide a cigarette rod; that is connected to the mouth-end segment using tipping material.

Abstract: A device includes a substrate and a recess in the substrate. The recess has a bottom and sidewalls. The device also includes a first epitaxial layer over the bottom of the recess, and a second epitaxial layer over the first epitaxial layer and over the sidewalls of the recess, the second epitaxial layer having a different lattice constant than the substrate. The device further includes a third epitaxial layer over the second epitaxial layer and filling the recess.

Abstract: The present invention provides an improved structure of a conveyor driving fabric dyeing machine. A liquid storage tank is provided in the interior of the machine body, at a rear end or a front end thereof, to be concealed inside the machine body or exposed outside the machine body in order to receive dye liquid falling back from a rear end of a dyeing tube to thereby greatly reduce the amount of the dye liquid used. Further, a heat exchanger or a filter may be additionally and individually arranged inside the liquid storage tank, or alternatively, a heat exchanger and a filter are simultaneously arranged in the liquid storage tank to proceed with heat exchange with the dye liquid thereby simplifying the structure of the dyeing machine.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an integrated microsystem with a protection barrier structure, and an associated method. In some embodiments, the integrated microsystem comprises a first die having a plurality of CMOS devices disposed thereon, a second die having a plurality of MEMS devices disposed thereon and a vapor hydrofluoric acid (vHF) etch barrier structure disposed between the first die and the second die. The second die is bonded to the first die at a bond interface region. The vHF etch barrier structure comprises a vHF barrier layer over an upper surface of the first die, and a stress reduction layer arranged between the vHF etch barrier layer and the upper surface of the first die.

Abstract: An optical image capturing system, in order from an object side to an image side, the optical image capturing system comprising a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element, and a sixth lens element. The first lens element with a refractive power has a convex object-side surface. The second through fifth lens elements have a refractive power, and the object-side surface and the image-side surface of these lens elements are aspheric. The sixth lens element with a negative refractive power has a concave object-side surface, the object-side surface and the image-side surface are aspheric, and at least one of the object-side and the image-side surfaces has an inflection point. When satisfying specific conditions, the compact optical image capturing system receives lights effectively and reduces the height of the optical system, so as to acquire better imaging quality.

Abstract: A calculator that comprises an inputting member, a calculating member and a displaying member, wherein the calculating member is provided for calculating the value of the expression by means of a processing unit and generating a calculated result, and the displaying member has a displaying area, in which the displaying member displays the expression and the corresponding calculated result by the processing unit, so as to provide convenience for the users.

Abstract: First touch patterns of a touch display device are disposed on a first substrate, and have bridge units and first electrode portions. The first electrode portions are disposed spaced from each other. The bridge units are connected with adjacent two of the first electrode portions. A second substrate is disposed opposite to the first substrate. A liquid crystal layer is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. One of the bridge units has two first portions, a second portion and two third portions. The first portions are located on the first electrode portions, and directly contact with the first electrode portions. The third portions are located on two of the first portions, and the second portion is located between two of the third portions. The first portion has a first width, and the second portion has a second width smaller than the first width.

Abstract: In the present disclosure, several techniques are proposed to estimate the worst-case crosstalk noise and use it for bit-loading and SRA calculations so that fluctuating crosstalk when PET mode is enabled does not lead to system instability. One of the proposed techniques involves strategically placing some marker tones in the transmitters of the affecting lines. The noise floor may be inferred by interpolating the noise observed on these marker tones (tones that are always-on) and applying to the entire frequency band on the victim line. Another proposed technique involves periodically transmitting a set of marker symbols (fully loaded OFDM symbols), so that a victim channel can estimate the SNRs in a worst case crosstalk scenario.

Abstract: The present invention is to provide a monitoring system including a plurality of motion sensing carpets and a monitoring device (e.g., a computer) electrically connected to one of the motion sensing carpets serving as a control unit while all the other motion sensing carpets directly or indirectly joined to the control unit serves as auxiliary units. The monitoring device is able to carry out a topology algorithm and then establish a topology matrix of the motion sensing carpets in a stepwise manner so as to obtain the relative location of each motion sensing carpet. When any of the motion sensing carpets is subjected to pressure caused by a senior member or child in the family toppling over thereon (e.g., an accident) and generates a sensing signal, the monitoring device can rapidly know from the topology matrix the exact location of the accident according to the sensing signal.

Abstract: In a web authentication method for launching a webpage, a HTTP GET request is sent to a server and verified for the existence therein of an authorization field. If no, an affirming message and a source code for generating a login page are sent. A piece of authorization data is inputted to the login page, at least part of which is generated based on the source code by a scripting engine of a browser. Contents required by the authorization field are generated based on the input information and sent along with the authorization field to the server by the web browser as instructed by the scripting engine through an API. The webpage is selectively launched.

Abstract: A dual-band three-dimensional (3D) antenna is disclosed, which comprises: a first radiation unit; a resonant extension unit, being disposed not on the same plane with the first radiation unit; a feeder unit, coupled to the first radiation unit while allowing an opening to be formed at a position between the feeder unit and the first radiation unit; a connection unit, coupled to a substrate and the feeder unit while allowing an obliquely extending unit to be formed at a position between the connection unit and the feeder unit; and a second radiation unit, coupled to the resonant extension unit.

Abstract: The invention relates to a medium separation device of an automated teller machine (ATM) that includes a pickup roller for sequentially picking up and feeding stacked media through a friction member on a portion of the outer periphery of the pickup roller, a feed roller for feeding the picked-up and fed media toward a transfer path through a friction member provided on a portion of the outer periphery of the feed roller while rotating with the same phase as the pickup roller, and a medium separation unit for separating a following medium simultaneously fed with a preceding medium fed to the feed roller while in close contact with the bottom, from the preceding medium through a separation belt, to pick up and feed media through a partial roller structure partially having a friction member and simultaneously perform the separation of the media through the medium separation unit.

Abstract: An acoustic energy inductive device includes a first fabric, a second fabric, and a microphone. The second fabric and the first fabric are combined such that a resonant chamber is formed between the first fabric and the second fabric. The microphone is disposed in the resonant chamber for converting a sonic signal in the resonant chamber into an electrical signal. The first fabric and the second fabric are made of impermeable material.