Abstract: A quantum dot, including a core including a first semiconductor material that includes indium; and a shell including a second semiconductor material, and disposed on the core, wherein the first semiconductor material and the second semiconductor material are different, wherein the shell has at least two branch portions and a valley portion connecting the at least two branch portions, at least one of the at least two branch portions comprises Zn, Se, and S, and a content of sulfur in the at least one branch portion increases in a direction away from the core.

Abstract: Provided is an apparatus for adjusting a position of an armrest having a control panel for a vehicle, the apparatus in which an armrest assembly having a control panel is mounted on a side member of a seat cushion in a manner that is enabled to ascend and descend and in which the control panel is mounted on an armrest assembly in such a manner that a position in the backward-forward direction and a slope of the control panel are adjustable. With the apparatus, an armrest, a controller, and the like can be easily adjusted to desired positions and heights thereof according to an occupant's physical condition.

Abstract: A method of processing a substrate is provided. The method processes a substrate by using a substrate processing apparatus including a chamber, a shower head unit for supplying a cleaning gas into the chamber, a first electrode disposed on an upper portion of the shower head unit, a support unit for supporting the substrate, and a second electrode disposed inside the support unit, the method including supplying the cleaning gas into the chamber, and supplying a voltage of a first magnitude to the first electrode and supplying a voltage of a second magnitude greater than the first magnitude to the second electrode.

Abstract: A display device includes a controller, a panel driver, and a voltage generator. The controller generates a first control signal and generates image data and a second control signal in response to first and second image signals. The panel driver generates a driving signal in response to the image data and the first control signal to drive a display panel. The voltage generator generates a driving voltage to drive the display panel and changes a voltage level of the driving voltage in response to the second control signal. The first image signal corresponds to a second frame located before a third frame in which the driving voltage is changed. The second image signal corresponds to a first frame located before the second frame. The controller generates image data corresponding to the second frame in response to the first image signal and the second image signal.

Abstract: According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, provided is a method for manufacturing a superconductor including magnesium diboride, the method including: a first mixture preparation step of preparing a first mixture including a boron powder and a liquid chlorinated hydrocarbon compound; a second mixture preparation step of preparing a second mixture including the first mixture and a magnesium powder; a molded body manufacturing step of manufacturing a molded body by pressurizing the second mixture; and a sintering step of sintering the molded body to manufacture a superconductor including magnesium diboride.

Abstract: A polishing pad conditioning apparatus according to an example embodiment of the present inventive concept includes an apparatus body, a pivot arm provided on the apparatus body and including a housing having an internal space and provided at a distal end portion of the pivot arm and a head unit disposed at the distal end portion of the pivot arm. The head unit includes: a rotary motor provided in the internal space of the housing, the rotary motor including a rotary shaft; a foreign material blocking member connected to the rotary shaft; a disk holder connected to the rotary shaft; and a conditioning disk coupled to the disk holder. The foreign material blocking member includes a fluid flow groove configured to guide a movement of fluid for preventing foreign objects from entering the housing on an outer surface of the foreign material blocking member.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a conductive paste for a solar cell electrode, comprising a metal powder, a glass frit, a metal oxide, an organic binder and a solvent, wherein the metal oxide comprises at least one metal oxide selected from the group consisting of tungsten (W), antimony (Sb), nickel (Ni), copper (Cu), magnesium (Mg), calcium (Ca), ruthenium (Ru), molybdenum (Mo), and bismuth (Bi).

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an apparatus and method for gene amplification. The apparatus for gene amplification may include: an upper main body comprising a first inlet to receive a sealing solution, a second inlet to receive a sample solution, and an upper passage that allows the sample solution and the sealing solution to move by capillary action; a lower main body disposed to oppose the upper main body, and having a lower passage through which the sealing solution moves by capillary action after being injected from the first inlet of the upper main body; a gene amplification chip configured to be inserted between the upper main body and the lower main body; and a porous medium configured to be inserted between the upper main body and the lower main body.

Abstract: Proposed is a blender, in which a main body operates when a closure of a container lid on a container body is detected. In the blender according to the present disclosure, when the closure of the container lid is detected, a voltage is transferred from a first inductive coil of the main body to a second inductive coil of the container body. By using the voltage transferred to the second inductive coil, a light emitting unit of the container body transmits a light signal to a light receiving unit of the main body, and the light signal has a predetermined signal pattern. When the light receiving unit receives the light signal of the signal pattern, the main body recognizes the closure of the container lid on the container body such that the main body operates.

Abstract: An antenna package includes an antenna device and a circuit board bonded to the antenna device. The circuit board includes a core layer, a feeding line formed on the core layer and bonded to the antenna device, and a CPW ground formed on the core layer to be physically separated from the feeding line and the antenna device.

Abstract: A touch sensor according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a substrate layer, first sensing electrode rows and second sensing electrode rows alternately arranged on the substrate layer, first traces extending from left ends of the first sensing electrode rows, the first traces including periodically arranged bent portions, second traces extending from right ends of the second sensing electrode rows, the second traces including periodically arranged bent portions, a first floating trace adjacent to an outermost first trace of the first traces, and a second floating trace adjacent to an outermost second trace of the second traces.

Abstract: Provided is a wire for electric bonding, which includes a solder wire and a composition for bonding adjacent to the solder wire, the solder wire is wet when reaches to a melting point as heat is transferred, the composition for bonding includes an epoxy resin, a reducing agent, and a curing agent, the reducing agent removes a metal oxide formed on a surface of the solder wire, and the epoxy resin is cured by chemically reacting with the reducing agent and the curing agent at a curing temperature.

Abstract: Disclosed are a system and a method for limiting the maximum acceleration of a motor driven vehicle. The system and method can estimate an acceleration from a speed of a motor driven vehicle, and limit the maximum acceleration of the motor driven vehicle to a level to exert constant traveling performance regardless of the total weight of the vehicle and road gradient conditions using the estimated acceleration as a control variable for limiting the maximum acceleration, thereby improving the ride comfort and the fuel efficiency.

Abstract: A fluorine coating agent having enhanced dental tubule permeability and coating endurance, and a method for preparing the same. The fluorine coating agent applied on the surface of a tooth is enhanced in abrasion resistance to increase a period of time during which a coating membrane lasts, thereby preventing dental caries. Further, the curing time of the fluorine coating agent can be controlled to allow the agent to permeate and thus block the dental tubule.

Abstract: A wearable device includes a wearable device main body, a sensor part configured to contact a skin surface of a user of the wearable device, and measure a bio-signal of the user, and a shock absorber that is interposed between the wearable device main body and the sensor part to mechanically connect the wearable device main body and the sensor part, and that is configured to reduce motion transmission between the wearable device main body and the sensor part to permit the wearable device main body to move independently from the sensor part.

Abstract: An apparatus for gene amplification includes a gene amplification chip including a well configured to accept a sample that is loaded into the well; the gene amplification chip being configured to: thermally dissolve the sample in the well so that a microbe present in the sample is thermally dissolved in the well to release genes in the microbe; and amplify the released genes in the well. The apparatus for gene amplification also includes a temperature controller configured to control a thermal dissolution temperature and a gene amplification temperature of the well.

Abstract: Provided is an electronic device including a plurality of substrate electrodes on a substrate, the substrate electrodes including initial electrodes and spare electrodes, a bonding material covering the initial electrodes and the spare electrodes, module structures respectively provided on first initial electrodes of the initial electrodes, and solders between each of the first initial electrodes and each of the module structures, wherein the spare electrodes include second spare electrodes, wherein the module structures are not provided on the second spare electrodes, wherein the bonding material on the first initial electrodes is harder than the bonding material on the second spare electrodes.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for fail-safe loading of information on a user interface, comprising receiving, via a modular platform, requests for access to a mobile application platform from a plurality of mobile devices, opening and directing the requests for access to the mobile application platform to a sequential processor of an application programming interface (API) gateway when a parallel processor of the API gateway is unresponsive to requests for access to the mobile application platform for a predetermined period of time, periodically checking a status of the parallel processor, and redirecting the requests for access to the mobile application platform to the parallel processor when the parallel processor is capable of processing requests for access to the mobile application platform.

Abstract: An apparatus for estimating blood glucose is provided. The apparatus for estimating blood glucose may include a spectrometer configured to measure a spectrum from an object, and a processor configured to monitor a change in a contact state between the object and the spectrometer, determine a calibration section based on the monitored change in the contact state, extract a background signal from a spectrum of the determined calibration section, and generate a personalized blood glucose estimation model based on the extracted background signal.

Abstract: A lung phantom unit for radiotherapy according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may arrange, at a location not affected by a magnetic field, a phantom driving cylinder and a driving device which may move a lung mimic and a tumor mimic in a lung simulation block. The lung phantom unit may be used for general purpose even as a phantom for MRI-based and CT image-based radiotherapy. Since lung and tumor motions are implemented by air injection, it may be possible to precisely measure the motion and volume change of a lung according to subtle changes in air pressure so that customized radiotherapy suitable for a patient having various breathing patterns is possible.