Abstract: A transistor may include a first insulating layer disposed on a substrate, a dummy layer disposed on the first insulating layer, a semiconductor layer disposed on the dummy layer, the semiconductor layer including a first area, a second area, and a channel area disposed between the first and second areas, a second insulating layer disposed on the semiconductor layer, a gate electrode overlapping the channel area with the second insulating interposed therebetween, a third insulating layer disposed over the gate electrode, a first electrode disposed on the third insulating layer, the first electrode being electrically connected to the first area, and a second electrode disposed on the third insulating layer spaced apart from the first electrode, the second electrode being electrically connected to the second area. The dummy layer may include indium oxide, and the semiconductor layer may include indium gallium zinc oxide.

Abstract: Disclosed are a method and apparatus for providing an instant messaging service associated with one or more item transactions. A first user interface screen associated with an item transaction may be provided in a chatroom interface of an executed messenger application. The first user interface screen may comprise an interfacing object associated with a list of user interface templates. Based on a user selection of the interface object and based at least one exposure condition associated with the list of user interface templates, at least one user interface template may be selected from the list of user interface templates for display in a second user interface screen of the executed messenger application. In a second user interface screen of the executed messenger application, a first user interface template of the at least one user interface template may be displayed.

Abstract: Disclosed is an electrode assembly, a battery, and a battery pack and a vehicle including the same. In the electrode assembly, a first electrode, a second electrode, and a separator interposed therebetween are wound based on a winding axis to define a core and an outer circumference. The first electrode includes a first active material portion coated with an active material layer and a first uncoated portion not coated with an active material layer along a winding direction. At least a part of the first uncoated portion is defined as an electrode tab by itself. The first uncoated portion includes a first portion adjacent to the core of the electrode assembly, a second portion adjacent to the outer circumference of the electrode assembly, and a third portion interposed between the first portion and the second portion. The first portion or the second portion has a smaller height than the third portion in the winding axis direction.

Abstract: A battery includes an electrode assembly including a first electrode, a second electrode and a separator between the first electrode and the second electrode, the first electrode, the second electrode and the separator being wound around a winding axis to define a core and an outer peripheral surface. The first electrode and the second electrode include a first uncoated region and a second uncoated region along a winding direction, respectively, and an active material layer coating is absent in the first uncoated region and the second uncoated region. The battery further includes a housing receiving the electrode assembly through an opening formed at a bottom, a first current collector coupled to the first uncoated region and disposed within the housing, a cap covering the opening, a spacer interposed between the cap and the electrode assembly to fix the electrode assembly and seal the housing, and a terminal electrically connected to the second uncoated region.

Abstract: Various example embodiments of the disclosure relate to an electronic device and a wireless communication connection control method thereof.

Abstract: The present invention provides an apparatus for manufacturing a secondary battery, which includes a pressing part configured to press a stack in which electrodes and separators are alternately disposed, wherein the pressing part includes: a main pressing part configured to press an entire surface of the stack; and a sub pressing part including a drum part configured to press a partial surface of the stack, on which an edge part of an electrode active material layer provided on each of the electrodes is disposed, on the entire surface, wherein the drum part includes: a body part having a rotational shaft; and an elastic part provided on an outer circumferential surface of the body part and configured to press the partial surface of the stack.

Abstract: A precursor for a positive electrode active material and a method of making the same are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a method includes forming precursor seeds for a positive electrode active material by a co-precipitation reaction while supplying a transition metal aqueous solution, an ammonium cationic complexing agent, and a basic compound to a reaction solution, and growing precursor particles for a positive electrode active material from the precursor seeds by a co-precipitation reaction while supplying a transition metal aqueous solution, an ammonium cationic complexing agent, and a basic compound to the reaction solution containing the precursor seeds, wherein feed rates for the transition metal aqueous solution and the ammonium cationic complexing agent to grow the precursor particles are two or more times greater than feed rates for the transition metal aqueous solution and the ammonium cationic complexing agent to grow the precursor seeds.

Abstract: The present exemplary embodiments may provide soft magnetic powder including metal powder and an oxide insulation film coating a surface of metal powder particles, in which the metal powder particles may include one or more selected from pure iron or an iron-based alloy and the oxide insulation film may include an oxide of a component constituting the metal powder particles.

Abstract: Semiconductor devices and methods of manufacturing the semiconductor devices are presented. In embodiments the methods of manufacturing include depositing a first bonding layer on a first substrate, wherein the first substrate comprises a semiconductor substrate and a metallization layer. The first bonding layer and the semiconductor substrate are patterned to form first openings. A second substrate is bonded to the first substrate. After the bonding the second substrate, the second substrate is patterned to form second openings, at least one of the second openings exposing at least one of the first openings. After the patterning the second substrate, a third substrate is bonded to the second substrate, and after the bonding the third substrate, the third substrate is patterned to form third openings, at least one of the third openings exposing at least one of the second openings.

Abstract: A method includes directing light at a first side of a semiconductor structure; detecting a first light intensity at a second side of the semiconductor structure, wherein the first light intensity corresponds to the light that penetrated the semiconductor structure from the first side to the second side; and comparing the first light intensity to a second light intensity, wherein the second light intensity corresponds to an expected intensity of light.

Abstract: Provided are an electrode assembly, a battery, and a battery pack and vehicle including the same. An electrode assembly, in which a first electrode, a second electrode, and a separator interposed therebetween are wound about an axis to define a core and an outer circumferential surface. At least one of the first electrode and the second electrode includes, at a long side end portion, an uncoated portion exposed beyond the separator in a direction of the axis. At least a part of the uncoated portion is bent in a radial direction of the electrode assembly to define a bent surface region having overlapping layers of the uncoated portion. The bent surface region includes a welding target region having a number of the overlapping layers of the uncoated portion, and the welding target region extends along a radial direction of the electrode assembly.

Abstract: Disclosed is an electrode assembly, a battery, and a battery pack and a vehicle including the same. In the electrode assembly, a first electrode, a second electrode, and a separator interposed therebetween are wound based on an axis to define a core and an outer circumference. The first electrode includes an uncoated portion at a long side end thereof and exposed out of the separator along a winding axis direction of the electrode assembly. A part of the uncoated portion is bent in a radial direction of the electrode assembly to form a bending surface region that includes overlapping layers of the uncoated portion, and in a partial region of the bending surface region, the number of stacked layers of the uncoated portion is 10 or more in the winding axis direction of the electrode assembly.

Abstract: A battery includes an electrode assembly including a first uncoated region and a second uncoated region; a battery housing accommodating the electrode assembly and electrically connected to the second uncoated region; a cap to cover an open portion on bottom of the battery housing; a first electrode terminal passing through a partially closed portion of the battery housing and being electrically isolated from the battery housing; and a first current collector coupled to the first uncoated region and connected to the first electrode terminal.

Abstract: A battery includes an electrode assembly including a first electrode, a second electrode and a separator between the first electrode and the second electrode wound around a winding axis to define a core and an outer circumferential surface, the first electrode including a first uncoated region in which an active material layer is not coated along a winding direction; a housing accommodating the electrode assembly through an open portion at a lower end thereof; a first current collector coupled to the first uncoated region and disposed in the housing; a cap to cover the open portion; and a spacer between the first current collector and the cap and having a height corresponding to a distance between the first current collector and the cap.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are an adhesive protective film, an optical member including the same, and an optical display including the same. An adhesive protective film is formed of a composition including a (meth)acrylic binder derived from a monomer mixture including: an alkyl group-containing (meth)acrylic monomer; and at least one selected from among a hydroxyl group-containing (meth)acrylic monomer, a carboxyl group-containing (meth)acrylic monomer, and a polysiloxane (meth)acrylate, the adhesive protective film having an initial peel strength of about 100 gf/inch or less and a peel strength decrease rate of about 50% or less, as calculated according to Equation 1.

Abstract: A data processing circuit according to an embodiment may include a reception circuit configured to receive image data including grayscale values associated with pixels disposed in a display panel. The data processing circuit may include a compensation circuit configured to calculate a final compensation value by multiplying a representative compensation value of each area and a global gain, and to produce converted image data. The data processing circuit may include a memory storing a representative compensation value associated with a grayscale value of each area of the display panel, and may include a transmission circuit configured to transmit the converted image data to a data driving circuit.

Abstract: An information handling system includes a display panel having an active area that generates visual images and an inactive area disposed outside the active area. The inactive area having an alignment mark that is invisible to a naked eye.

Abstract: Embodiments described herein relate to a sub-pixel. The sub-pixel includes an anode, overhang structures, separation structures, an organic light emitting diode (OLED) material, and a cathode. The anode is defined by adjacent first pixel isolation structures (PIS) and adjacent second PIS. The overhang structures are disposed on the first PIS. The overhang structures include a second structure disposed over the first structure and an intermediate structure disposed between the second structure and the first structure. A bottom surface of the second structure extends laterally past an upper surface of the first structure. The first structure is disposed over the first PIS. Separation structures are disposed over the second PIS. The OLED material is disposed over the anode and an upper surface of the separation structures. The cathode disposed over the OLED material and an upper surface of the separation structures.

Abstract: A sealing device for a pouch-type battery includes an upper sealing block and a lower sealing block. The upper sealing block has a two-stage upper sealing groove, including a first upper step and a second upper step, and the lower sealing block has a two-stage lower sealing groove, including a first lower step and a second lower step. The upper sealing block contacts a first surface of an electrode lead sealing part of the pouch-type battery, and the lower sealing block contacts a second surface of the electrode lead sealing part of the pouch-type battery in a process of performing sealing through heat fusion. A pouch-type battery having an electrode lead sealing part formed by the sealing device is also provided.

Abstract: Provided is a method for synthesizing bipyridine that includes performing a dimerization reaction of a reactant including a piperidine-based compound, a pyridine-based compound, or a mixture thereof in the presence of a catalyst in which an active metal is supported on a composite metal oxide support including silica (SiO2) and alumina (Al2O3).