Abstract: This disclosure describes an example device that includes a first contact line, a second contact line, a spin-orbital coupling channel, and a magnet. The spin-orbital coupling channel is coupled to, and is positioned between, the first contact line and second contact line. The magnet is coupled to the spin-orbital coupling channel and positioned between the first contact line and the second contact line. A resistance of the magnet and spin-orbital coupling channel is a unidirectional magnetoresistance.

Abstract: An interlocking structure of a power conversion system is provided. A first power circuit group is connected to a first power source and includes a first and a fourth switch. A second power circuit group is connected to a second power source and includes a second and a fifth switch. A limiting mechanism includes a first limiting portion, a second limiting portion, a fourth limiting portion, a fifth limiting portion, a first accommodating portion, and a second accommodating portion. The first switch is switched off to disconnect the first power source. Then, a limiting structure is moved to connect the second power source. Accordingly, the first power source is disconnected, and the second power source is connected, allowing repair or maintenance of the first power source to be performed without interrupting the supply of power from the power conversion system.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel and a liquid crystal display device are disclosed. The liquid crystal display panel includes a color film substrate, an array substrate disposed to face the color film substrate, and a blue backlight disposed on a side of the array substrate away from the color film substrate. The color film substrate includes a base substrate, red quantum dot blocks, green quantum dot blocks and blue light blocks disposed on the substrate. The color film substrate further includes a yellow light layer disposed between the red quantum dot blocks and the base substrate, and also between the green quantum dot blocks and the base substrate. The yellow light layer in the liquid crystal display panel of the present disclosure may block blue light, thereby improving the color gamut value.

Abstract: A heat exchange device includes: a case, a fan provided inside the case and having a fan air outlet and a fan air inlet, a heat exchange element provided inside the case, a case air port formed in the case, and an adapter connected to the case air port at one end thereof, the adapter including more than one pipe connecting portions with different diameters, the pipe connecting portion closest to the case air port being a first pipe connecting portion, the pipe connecting portion farthest from case air port being a second pipe connecting portion; the diameter of the first pipe connecting portion is larger than the diameter of the second pipe connecting portion, and a thermal insulation component is provided in the adapter and has an air passage therein for passing air therethrough. The disclosure is advantageous in preventing occurrence of condensation and improving product safety.

Abstract: This invention relates to a surfactant composition, production and use thereof in tertiary oil recovery. The present surfactant composition comprises a cationic-nonionic surfactant and an anionic surfactant, and exhibits significantly improved interfacial activity and stability as compared with the prior art. With the present surfactant composition, a flooding fluid composition for tertiary oil recovery with improved oil displacement efficiency and oil washing capability as compared with the prior art could be produced.

Abstract: An exposure mask includes a first transmission portion, a second transmission portion, and a blocking portion. The first transmission portion is configured to, when illuminated with light, transmit the light at a first energy level. The first transmission portion is disposed in association with formation of a first contact hole in an underlying layer. The second transmission portion is configured to, when illuminated with the light, transmit the light at a second energy level. The second transmission portion is disposed in association with formation of a second contact hole in the underlying layer. The blocking portion is configured to block the light, and is disposed in association with a boundary region between a first region and a second region of the underlying layer. The second transmission portion is further configured to enable the second contact hole to be formed deeper into the underlying layer than the first contact hole.

Abstract: An integrated circuit is disclosed for gain-dependent impedance matching and linearity. The integrated circuit includes at least two amplifier branches, an input inductor, and at least two degeneration inductors. Each amplifier branch includes a node, an input transistor, and a cascode stage connected between a drain of the input transistor and the node. Respective nodes of the at least two amplifier branches are connected together and respective gates of the input transistors of the at least two amplifier branches are connected together. The input inductor is connected to the respective gates, and the at least two degeneration inductors are connected between respective sources of the input transistors of the at least two amplifier branches and a ground. The at least two degeneration inductors are configured to establish a magnetic coupling with the input inductor and establish another magnetic coupling between each other.

Abstract: A distributed sensing fiber acoustic emission apparatus and method for monitoring a hydraulic engineering safety behavior includes a fiber-carrying laying module and a fiber acoustic emission module. The fiber-carrying laying module includes an inner supporter, mesh modules and fiber-carrying modules, the inner supporter, the mesh modules and the fiber-carrying modules form a cylindrical shape. The cross section of the inner supporter is in a quadrangle inner-concave shape with the four edges concaved, the four surfaces of the inner supporter are concaved, the mesh modules having a plurality of meshes are respectively disposed in the four concave surfaces of the inner supporter, and the fiber-carrying module is arranged between every two adjacent mesh modules.

Abstract: An electroluminescence display is provided. The electroluminescence display comprises data lines and gate lines intersecting each other and pixels arranged in a matrix, wherein each of subpixels of each pixel comprises: a first driver configured to drive a light-emitting element by using a first EM switching element, which switches the current path between a power supply line to which a pixel driving voltage is applied and the light-emitting element in response to a first light-emission control signal, and a first driving element connected between the first EM switching element and the light-emitting element; and a second driver configured to drive the light-emitting element by using a second EM switching element, which switches the current path between the power supply line and the light-emitting element in response to a second light-emission control signal, and a second driving element connected between the second EM switching element and the light-emitting element.

Abstract: Techniques for focusing an energy radiated by a wireless power transmitting unit are described. An example power transmitting unit includes a transmit coil configured to generate a magnetic field to wirelessly power a device within an active wireless charging area. The power transmitting unit also includes a power generating circuitry to deliver a current to the transmit coil to generate the magnetic field. The power transmitting unit also includes a patch array disposed in parallel with the transmit coil to reduce a strength of the magnetic field at frequencies outside of the operating frequency during operation of the power transmitting unit.

Abstract: Disclosed are a backplane substrate, which is devised to attain circuit characteristics for realizing sufficient gradation even in smaller pixels of a super-high-resolution structure, a manufacturing method for the same, and an organic light-emitting display device using the same, inn the backplane substrate, a driving thin-film transistor has a stack structure different from that of other thin-film transistors so that only the S-factor of the driving thin-film transistor is increased.

Abstract: A network device may receive a request seeking a location identifier for an endpoint identifier from a first router. The network device may determine that the endpoint identifier belongs to a dynamic endpoint identifier range associated with a plurality of routers. The request may be forwarded to the plurality of routers to discover a host having the endpoint identifier and a notification may be received from one of the plurality of routers reporting discovery of the host having the endpoint identifier. The network device may send an identifier of the one of the plurality of routers which reports discovery of the host to the first router as the location identifier for the endpoint identifier.

Abstract: An omnidirectional image sensor and a method of manufacturing the omnidirectional image sensor are provided. An image sensor may include a plurality of photodiodes, and a spherical structure comprising a plurality of protrusions, wherein the plurality of photodiodes are disposed between the plurality of protrusions, and wherein the spherical structure comprises a plurality of spherical wedges.

Abstract: A pixel capable of improving display quality may include an organic light emitting diode, a first transistor configured to control, in response to a voltage of a first node, current flowing from a first driving power source to a second driving power source via the organic light emitting diode, a second transistor coupled between the first node and a second electrode of the first transistor, and configured to be turned on when a scan signal is supplied to a scan line, a storage capacitor coupled between an initialization power source and the first node, a first capacitor coupled between the second electrode of the first transistor and a data line, and a second capacitor coupled between the first node and the second electrode of the first transistor. A display including such pixels also is disclosed.

Abstract: A memory device includes a memory cell array that includes a plurality of memory cell rows, a temperature sensor that detects a temperature of the memory cell array and generates internal temperature data, a first register that stores external temperature data received from outside of the memory device, and a refresh control unit that determines a skip ratio of refresh commands received at a refresh frequency that corresponds to the external temperature data by comparing the internal temperature data and the external temperature data and performing a refresh operation for the plurality of memory cell rows in response to refresh commands skipped and transmitted based on the skip ratio.

Abstract: Method and device for detecting the process corner of a transistor are provided. The process corner detection method includes providing a ring oscillator. The ring oscillator includes an odd number of oscillation units connected in series and an output port of one of the oscillation units serves as the output port of the ring oscillator to output an oscillation signal. Each oscillation unit is constructed based on a PMOS transistor and an NMOS transistor. The process corner detection method further includes measuring the period of the oscillation signal and the maintaining time of the oscillation signal at a high level and a low level in each cycle; and determining the process corner of the PMOS transistor and the NMOS transistor in the oscillation unit based on the period of the oscillation signal and the maintaining time of the oscillation signal at a high level and a low level in each cycle.

Abstract: A display device and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a drive IC and a protection layer. The first substrate has a first region and a second region. The second substrate is correspondingly disposed on the first region. The drive IC is disposed on the second region. The protection layer is disposed enclosing the drive IC, and the protection layer has a maximum height larger than the height of the drive IC.

Abstract: A system performs calibration of sensors mounted on a vehicle, for example, lidar and camera sensors mounted on a vehicle, for example, an autonomous vehicle. The system receives a lidar scan and camera image of a view and determines a lidar-to-camera transform based on the lidar scan and the camera image. The system may use a pattern, for example, a checkerboard pattern in the view for calibration. The pattern is placed close to the vehicle to determine an approximate lidar-to-camera transform and then placed at a distance from the vehicle to determine an accurate lidar-to-camera transform. Alternatively, the system determines edges in the lidar scan and the camera image and aligns features based on real-world objects in the scene by comparing edges.

Abstract: An aided design method of print layers for 3D printing is provided. The method is performed for rendering and displaying a GUI at a computer apparatus, selecting one of print layers, configuring an editable region and marking it on the GUI, configuring one or more print block(s) in the editable region according to an edit operation, generating one of multiple layers of object print data according to the print block(s) and performing above-mentioned steps repeatedly until all of the multiple layers of the object print data have been generated. The present disclosed example has an ability to aid the user to design multiple print layers and reducing a probability of failure of printing 3D physical model.

Abstract: A dialysis system includes a disposable cassette including a flexible sheet and a plurality of dialysis fluid pathways, a plurality of actuators operable with the flexible sheet to direct dialysis fluid through the plurality of dialysis fluid pathways, and a controller configured to (i) determine at least one limitation of the plurality of dialysis fluid pathways, (ii) generate a flow schedule indicating how dialysis fluid should be directed through the plurality of dialysis fluid pathways in accordance with the at least one limitation, and (iii) control the plurality of actuators so that dialysis fluid is pumped through the plurality of dialysis fluid pathways according to the flow schedule.