Abstract: In one example, an electronic device includes a lower substrate comprising a lower substrate upper side and a lower substrate lower side, and an upper substrate comprising an upper substrate upper side and an upper substrate lower side. The electronic device also includes a first electronic component and a second electronic component coupled to the upper substrate upper side. A first device interconnect and a second device interconnect couple the lower substrate upper side to the upper substrate lower side. The electronic device also includes a connect die coupled to the lower substrate upper side that electrically couples the first electronic component to the second electronic component. Other examples and related methods are also disclosed herein.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an electronic device including a semiconductor memory may include forming a first carbon electrode material, surface-treating the first carbon electrode material to decrease a surface roughness of the first carbon electrode material, and forming a second carbon electrode material on the treated surface of the first carbon electrode material. The second carbon electrode material may have a thickness that is greater than a thickness of the first carbon electrode material.

Abstract: A semiconductor memory device includes a stack structure on a substrate, extending in a first direction, and including gate electrode layers and insulating layers stacked alternately with each other, a vertical structure including a vertical channel film extending in a second direction crossing the first direction and a channel insulating film disposed on the vertical channel film and having first areas adjacent to the insulating layers and second areas adjacent to the gate electrode layers, and a high-k film on the channel insulating film. The high-k film includes a first high-k metal oxide film between the first areas and the insulating layers and in contact with the first areas and a second high-k metal oxide film between the second areas and the gate electrode layers and in contact with the second areas, and the first and second high-k metal oxide films include different metal materials.

Abstract: A wafer cleaning apparatus is provided. The wafer cleaning apparatus includes comprising a chamber configured to be loaded with a wafer, a nozzle on the wafer and configured to provide liquid chemicals on an upper surface of the wafer, a housing under the wafer, a laser module configured to irradiate laser on the wafer, a transparent window disposed between the wafer and the laser module, and a controller configured to control on/off of the laser module, wherein the controller is configured to control repetition of turning the laser module on and off, and retain temperature of the wafer within a temperature range, and a ratio of time when the laser module is on in one cycle including on/off of the laser module is 30% to 50%.

Abstract: Provided are image signal processing apparatuses and methods for operating the same. In an embodiment, the image signal processing apparatus is configured to receive, from an image sensor device, an input image. The apparatus is further configured to perform a binning and crop operation on the input image to generate a first image. The apparatus is further configured to perform a Bayer domain processing on the first image to generate a second image. The apparatus is further configured to perform RGB domain processing on the second image to generate a third image. The apparatus is further configured to perform YUV domain processing on the third image to generate an output image. The YUV domain processing comprises at least one of a spatial de-noising operation, a temporal de-noising operation, a motion compensation operation, a tone mapping operation, a detail enhance operation, and a sharpening operation.

Abstract: A metal-carbon dioxide battery includes an anion exchange membrane. The metal-carbon dioxide battery includes an anode, a cathode, the anion exchange membrane located between the anode and the cathode, a first supply unit configured to provide a first electrolyte to the anode, and a second supply unit configured to provide a second electrolyte including protons and bicarbonate ions to the cathode.

Abstract: A method for inspecting a welding defect of the present invention includes: a threshold resistance setting step (S100) of measuring a resistance of a welded portion of a sample group and deriving a threshold resistance value which becomes an evaluation standard of a weak welding; a resistance measuring step (S200) of measuring a resistance value of a welded portion to be inspected; and a step (S300) of determining as a weak welding if the resistance value measured in the resistance measuring step exceeds the threshold resistance value, wherein the threshold resistance setting step (S100) and the resistance measuring step (S200) include measuring a resistance using a microresistance measuring instrument having a resolution of nanoohm to microohm units. The welding defect inspection method of the present invention shows excellent detection power for the welding defect by a weak welding.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for providing improved hydrogenation activity by pretreating a catalyst in a three-step manner before selective hydrogenation of unsaturated hydrocarbons in an aromatic fraction in the presence of an oxide-type bimetallic (particularly nickel-molybdenum) supported catalyst.

Abstract: In various embodiments, methods, systems, software, and apparatuses for dynamically routing signals in a facility are provided, e.g., depending on current and/or predicted occupancy in the facility. The method may include: identifying small cell devices and Radio Access Units (RAUs) operatively coupled to a network of the facility; receiving one or more inputs through the network; determining a configuration for routing cellular communication signals between one or more of the small cell devices and one or more of the RAUs, which configuration is based at least in part on the one or more inputs; and routing the cellular communication signals between the one or more of the small cell devices and the one or more of the RAUs based at least in part on the configuration.

Abstract: A camera lens assembly includes a plurality of optical lenses accommodated in the camera lens assembly, a first lens mount for detachably mounting the camera lens assembly to the camera body, a first electric connector formed on a rear face of the camera lens assembly. The first electric connector is electrically coupled to the camera body when the camera lens assembly is mounted on the camera body, a second lens mount formed on a front face of the camera lens assembly. The second lens mount is configured for detachably attaching an extension adapter extending an optical function of the camera lens assembly to the camera lens assembly, a second electric connector formed on the front face of the camera lens assembly. The second electric connector is electrically coupled to the extension adapter when the extension adapter is mounted on the camera lens assembly.

Abstract: A camera lens assembly includes a plurality of optical lenses accommodated in the camera lens assembly, a first lens mount for detachably mounting the camera lens assembly to the camera body, a first electric connector formed on a rear face of the camera lens assembly. The first electric connector is electrically coupled to the camera body when the camera lens assembly is mounted on the camera body, a lens communication unit connected to the first electric connector so as to transmit and receive an electrical signal between the camera lens assembly and the camera body, a lens driver for controlling a displacement of each of the plurality of optical lenses based on the electrical signal received from the camera body, and an indicator for visually presenting an imaging state of the camera body, based on the received electrical signal.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for producing hydrogen, carbon, and ethylene from a methane-containing feedstock even without recycling of unreacted methane by providing a single process or system in which a methane-containing feedstock is subjected to two methane conversion steps. The method includes a first conversion step of producing hydrogen and carbonaceous materials and a second conversion step of producing acetylene from unreacted methane and hydrogen discharged from the first conversion step while maintaining a good methane conversion and suppressing coke formation, followed by separating and recovering ethylene and hydrogen produced through selective hydrogenation of acetylene.

Abstract: A hydrogen supply method includes a two-side heat exchange mode in which both introducing a second fluid into a hydrogen storage part after the second fluid exchanges heat with a first fluid in a second heat exchanger in a state in which a compressor is driven to compress the first fluid and introducing the second fluid into the hydrogen storage part after the second fluid is heated or cooled in a thermal device are performed. The method also includes a one-side heat exchange mode in which one of introducing the second fluid into the hydrogen storage part after the second fluid exchanges heat with the first fluid in the second heat exchanger in a state in which the compressor is driven to compress the first fluid and introducing the second fluid into the hydrogen storage part after the second fluid is heated or cooled in the thermal device is performed.

Abstract: Disclosed is a single process for producing hydrogen, carbon monoxide, and carbon from methane by forming gas products comprising hydrogen and carbon monoxide, and solid products comprising carbon and an iron-based catalyst from methane in a methane-containing feedstock through pyrolysis route involving auto-thermal reduction in a rotary kiln-type reactor in the presence of an iron-based catalyst and separating and recovering respective products.

Abstract: A hydrogen storage device includes a storage container having an accommodation space in an interior thereof, a first metal hydride material provided in the interior of the storage container and that stores hydrogen, and a second metal hydride material provided in the interior of the storage container and that stores the hydrogen at a pressure that is different from that of the first metal hydride material. An advantageous effect of restraining an excessive rise of a pressure of the storage container and enhancing safety and reliability may be obtained.

Abstract: A hydrogen storage system is disclosed and includes a storage unit including a plurality of unit storage containers, in which metal hydride materials are respectively provided in an interior thereof and which are connected to each other in parallel, and a thermal fluid line defining a thermal fluid passage, which passes via the plurality of unit storage containers continuously and through which a thermal fluid flows for heating or cooling the unit storage containers, thereby enhancing a storage performance and an efficiency of the hydrogen.

Abstract: An example method includes estimating, based on content to be displayed at a display of a mobile computing device at a future time, an amount of power to be used by the display at the future time; selecting, based on the estimated power level, a power converter of a plurality of power converters of the mobile computing device, each of the plurality of power converters optimized for a different output power range; and causing electrical power from the selected power converter to be supplied to the display at the future time.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for preparing a mordenite zeolite, the method including crystallizing, at a temperature of 150° C. to 190° C., a gel which includes, in mol based on 1 mol of silica, 0.02 to 0.2 of an alumina precursor, 0.01 to 0.04 of a structure-directing agent, 0.1 to 0.18 of a pH control agent, and 10 to 100 of water. According to the present disclosure, a mordenite zeolite having high particle size uniformity and a particle size controllable while maintaining the particle size uniformity may be prepared.

Abstract: Disclosed is a ZnO/carbon allotrope composite for a formaldehyde sensor. The ZnO/carbon allotrope composite for a formaldehyde sensor comprising a substrate, a conductive metal coating layer formed on the substrate, a ZnO seed layer formed on the coating layer, ZnO nanorods grown from the ZnO seed layer, and a carbon allotrope layer formed on and overlapping with the nanorods. Also disclosed is a method for preparing a ZnO/carbon allotrope composite for a formaldehyde sensor. The method includes depositing a conductive metal coating layer on a substrate, sputtering Zn on the conductive metal coating layer to form a ZnO layer, followed by annealing to form ZnO seeds in the ZnO layer, growing ZnO nanorods from the ZnO seeds; and coating a carbon allotrope on the ZnO nanorods to form a carbon allotrope layer overlapping with the nanorods.

Abstract: The present invention relates to new compounds derived from marine actinomycetes Streptomyces, and the new compound according to the present invention has an inhibitory effect of NO production on BV-2 microglia stimulated with LPS, and thus can be utilized for the prevention and treatment of neuroinflammatory diseases.