Abstract: A fixed-focus projection lens including a first lens group, an aperture stop and a second lens group arranged sequentially along an optical axis of the fixed-focus projection lens in a direction from an outgoing side to an incoming side. The first lens group includes a first lens element to the sixth lens element arranged sequentially along the optical axis in a direction from the outgoing side to the incoming side. The second lens group includes a seventh lens element to an eleventh lens element arranged sequentially along the optical axis in a direction from the outgoing side to the incoming side. The material of the first lens element is plastic. The material of the second lens element to the eleventh lens element is glass. The fixed-focus projection lens of the disclosure has a smaller size, good optical quality and good durability of high temperature.

Abstract: Processes for surface treatment of a workpiece are provided. In one example implementation, a method can include performing an organic radical based surface treatment process on a workpiece. The organic radical based surface treatment process can include generating one or more species in a first chamber. The surface treatment process can include mixing one or more hydrocarbon molecules with the species to create a mixture. The mixture can include one or more organic radicals. The surface treatment process can include exposing a semiconductor material on the workpiece to the mixture in a second chamber.

Abstract: A display device includes a display panel having a display region and a pad region. A pad portion is disposed in the pad region. A circuit substrate is electrically connected to the pad portion. An anisotropic conductive film is interposed between the pad portion and the circuit substrate. The pad portion includes a first pad of which a lateral side and a Y axis form a first angle greater than 0°. The anisotropic conductive film includes conductive particles. The conductive particles are disposed at vertices of an imaginary quadrangle having a length of a first diagonal line shorter than a length of a second diagonal line when viewed from above. The second diagonal line and the Y axis form a second angle greater than 0°. The first angle and the second angle are acute angles. The first angle is greater than the second angle.

Abstract: A light emitting diode display device includes a display board comprising a plurality of unit pixels, a drive circuit board including a plurality of drive circuit regions corresponding to the plurality of unit pixels, and a plurality of bumps interposed between the plurality of unit pixels and the plurality of drive circuit regions. The plurality of unit pixels comprises a first unit pixel including a first P electrode. The plurality of drive circuit regions comprises a first drive circuit region corresponding to the first unit pixel and a first pad connected to a first drive transistor, the plurality of bumps includes a first solder in contact with the first pad, and a first bump on the first solder and including a first filler in contact with the first P electrode, the first solder includes at least one of tin and silver, and the first filler includes copper or nickel.

Abstract: A main board and a computer apparatus having the main board are provided. The main board includes a printed circuit board (PCB), a first connector, and a second connector. The PCB is configured for being electrically connected to a processor. The first connector is electrically connected to the PCB in a dual in-line package (DIP) manner, and is configured for a memory to be mounted to the first connector. The second connector is electrically connected to the PCB in a surface mount technology (SMT) manner, and is configured for the memory to be mounted to the second connector. Accordingly, transmission performance of memory signals may be improved.

Abstract: Provided are a microfluidic control scheduler circuit and a the lab-on-a-chip. The microfluidic control scheduler circuit includes an input channel serving as a flow path between an input port and a membrane capacitor, a gate supply channel serving as a flow path between the membrane capacitor and a main valve, a gate supply port connected to the gate supply channel via a fluid resistance channel and a relief valve, and a scheduler module including an output channel serving as a flow path between a source supply port and an output port via the main valve, wherein the scheduler module is provided in plurality. The microfluidic control scheduler circuit and the lab-on-a-chip according to the present disclosure may sequentially and independently control a certain process without external control, thereby automating the lab-on-a-chip for processing a microfluid.

Abstract: A sponge for oil-water separation, which is prepared by reacting a polyol blend with a polyisocyanate and graphene, in the presence of a catalyst, a foaming agent and a foam stabilizer. The polyol blend includes: a first polyol component having a hydroxyl number of 33 to 60 mg KOH/g and an oxyethylene content of 50 to 80 mol %; a second polyol component having a hydroxyl number of 80 to 300 mg KOH/g and having an oxyethylene content of 50 to 80 mol %; a graft polyol component having a hydroxyl number of 20 to 40 mg KOH/g; a tetrafunctional polyol component having a hydroxyl number of 350 to 650 mg KOH/g; and glycerol.

Abstract: A furniture structure including: one or more generally vertical side panels; one or more shelf boards configured to extend from the one or more side panels; two electrical conductors coupled to a side panel of the furniture structure, to receive electrical power of differing polarity from a power supply; an electrical component coupled to a shelf board, wherein said electrical component includes two power terminals located at one end of the electrical component, the power terminals being accessible from a side surface of the shelf board; and wherein the electrical power is supplied to the electrical component via a direct physical contact between the power terminals of the electrical component and the two electrical conductors.

Abstract: In the measurement of properties of a wafer substrate, such as Critical Dimension or overlay a sampling plan is produced 2506 defined for measuring a property of a substrate, wherein the sampling plan comprises a plurality of sub-sampling plans. The sampling plan may be constrained to a predetermined fixed number of measurement points and is used 2508 to control an inspection apparatus to perform a plurality of measurements of the property of a plurality of substrates using different sub-sampling plans for respective substrates, optionally, the results are stacked 2510 to at least partially recompose the measurement results according to the sample plan.

Abstract: An apparatus and a method for accessing a plurality of memory blocks is disclosed. The An apparatus comprises: a memory circuit configured to store a recording table, wherein the recording table corresponds to quality index of the plurality of memory blocks; and a control circuit configured to group the plurality of memory blocks to a first memory group and a second memory group according to the quality index; to enable to access the memory blocks in the first memory group, and to disable to access the memory blocks in the second memory group.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a rubber composition for a tire tread and a tire including the rubber composition for the tire tread. The rubber composition for the tire tread is capable of providing a tire of which handling performance and braking performance on the wet road surface or the ice and snow road surface are simultaneously improved by comprising: a raw material rubber including 20 to 50 parts by weight of a first styrene butadiene rubber, 20 to 50 parts by weight of a second styrene butadiene rubber, and 10 to 40 parts by weight of a butadiene rubber (BR); and 80 to 180 parts by weight of a reinforcing filler, 2 to 50 parts by weight of a natural oil, and 2 to 30 parts by weight of a hydrocarbon resin with respect to 100 parts by weight of the raw material rubber.

Abstract: A transmission protocol for a multi-way massive MIMO relay system uses linear processing, self-interference cancelation and successive cancelation decoding to significantly reduce the number of time-slots required for data exchange amongst user devices compared to that for the conventional data transmission protocol. As a result, the spectral efficiency of the system is significantly increased.

Abstract: Various examples with respect to visual depth sensing with accurate and full-range depth fusion and sensing are described. A control circuit of an apparatus receives a plurality of sensor signals that are heterogeneous in type from a plurality of sensors. The control circuit generates first depth-related information of a scene and second depth-related information of the scene based on the plurality of sensor signals. The control circuit then fuses the first depth-related information and the second depth-related information to generate a fused depth map of the scene.

Abstract: An ion wind generating device includes a high voltage power supply, a capacitor connected in parallel to the high voltage power supply, a first metal cone connected in series to the high voltage power supply, a ground plate disposed on the same axis as the first metal cone, a starter motor, and a second metal cone disposed on a connecting shaft. The starter motor includes a rotating shaft and a connecting shaft perpendicular to the rotating shaft. After second metal cone moves to be located between first cone and the ground plate, the starter motor stops rotating. The high voltage power supply charges the capacitor with the high voltage power, and the capacitor discharges the first metal cone. When the second metal cone is located between the first metal cone and the ground plate, the first metal cone causes the second metal cone to discharge to generate an ionic wind.

Abstract: A method for producing image of biological sample, including steps: inputting a grayscale reflection image or a grayscale interference image of a biological sample into a first memory block; inputting a grayscale fluorescent image of the biological sample into a second memory block; using an information processing apparatus to convert the grayscale reflection image or the grayscale interference image into an RGB reflection image or an RGB interference image via first color transform operation and using the information processing apparatus to convert the grayscale fluorescent image into an RGB fluorescent image via second color transform operation; using the information processing apparatus to perform an image fusion operation and an intensity inversion operation on the RGB reflection image and the RGB fluorescent image or on the RGB interference image and the RGB fluorescent image to generate a pseudo H&E image; and outputting the pseudo H&E image to a display unit.

Abstract: A nitride-based semiconductor device includes a patterned substrate having an etched surface that is formed with a plurality of protrusions, an aluminum nitride (AlN)-based film disposed on the etched surface, and a nitride-based semiconductor stacked structure disposed on the aluminum nitride-based film. Each of the protrusions has a side face. The AlN-based film includes a plurality of crystal defects formed on the side face of each protrusion. Each of the crystal defects has a width of smaller than 20 nm and/or the number of the crystal defects that are formed on the side face of each protrusion and that have a width of greater than 10 nm is less than 10. A method for preparing the semiconductor device is also disclosed.

Abstract: A deep learning accelerator (DLA) includes processing elements (PEs) grouped into PE groups to perform convolutional neural network (CNN) computations, by applying multi-dimensional weights on an input activation to produce an output activation. The DLA also includes a dispatcher which dispatches input data in the input activation and non-zero weights in the multi-dimensional weights to the processing elements according to a control mask. The DLA also includes a buffer memory which stores the control mask which specifies positions of zero weights in the multi-dimensional weights. The PE groups generate output data of respective output channels in the output activation, and share a same control mask specifying same positions of the zero weights.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method comprises, generating, for each group of a plurality of groups of user accounts, a collaboration index value representing a first level of interaction of the each group with other groups of the plurality of groups, the interaction comprising a plurality of operations using a plurality of different computer-implemented applications or functions, generating, for each group of the plurality of groups, a productivity index value, each productivity index value representing a second level of productivity of the respective group, the productivity comprising creating or editing electronic documents using the plurality of different computer-implemented applications or functions, storing, in one or more data repositories, a plurality of first recommendation segments for a collaboration index, each of the first recommendation segments for the collaboration index indicating a range of collaboration index values, storing, in one or more data repositories, a plurality of second recommendation

Abstract: The present invention discloses a Fresnel lens with better reflection area and refraction area. The Fresnel lens includes a converging surface and an incidence surface opposite to the converging surface. The incidence surface is provided with an optically effective refractive region and an optically reflective region annularly surrounding the optically effective refractive region. The optically reflective region is provided with a first prism annularly disposed outside the optically effective refractive region and a second prism annularly disposed outside the first prism. The first prism and the second prism are arranged concentrically. A first lead angle portion is formed between the first prism and the second prism, and the radius of the first lead angle portion is between 0.01 mm and 0.019 mm to increase the effective working area of the first reflection surface and the second refraction surface.

Abstract: A method is presented for integrating an electronic component in back end of the line (BEOL) processing. The method includes forming a first electrode over a semiconductor substrate, forming a first electrically conductive material over a portion of the first electrode, and forming a second electrically conductive material over the first electrically conductive material, where the first and second electrically conductive materials define a p-n junction. The method further includes depositing a second electrode between a set of spacers and in direct contact with the p-n-junction, depositing a phase change material over the p-n junction and in direct contact with the second electrode, and forming a third electrode over a portion of the phase change material.