Abstract: Cathodes and lithium secondary batteries including the cathodes are disclosed. In some implementations, a cathode may include a cathode current collector and a cathode active material layer disposed on the cathode current collector and including cathode active material particles such that the cathode active material layer satisfies a specific equation. The cathode active material particles may include lithium metal oxide particles that include nickel, and may have a mole fraction of cobalt of 0.02 or less with respect to all elements except for lithium and oxygen.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an electrode for an all solid-state battery and a manufacturing method thereof, and a mixture of a polymer-based solid electrolyte and a conductive material is filled between electrode active material particles that constitute an electrode active material layer, to increase the contact between the electrode active material particles and the conductive material through a solvent annealing process included in a manufacturing process, thereby improving ionic conductivity in the electrode and capacity in the electrode.

Abstract: A solid electrolyte membrane for a solid-state battery and a battery comprising the same is provided. The battery may comprise lithium metal as a negative electrode active material. The solid electrolyte membrane comprises an inhibiting layer, which is preferably capable of inhibiting growth of lithium dendrite, because it includes an effective amount of a dendrite growth-inhibiting material, which is capable of ionizing lithium deposited in the form of metal. Thus, when lithium metal is used as a negative electrode for a solid-state battery comprising the solid electrolyte membrane, it is possible to delay and/or inhibit growth of lithium dendrite, and thus to effectively prevent an electrical short-circuit caused by dendrite growth.

Abstract: A cathode for a lithium secondary battery includes a cathode current collector, and a cathode active material layer formed on the cathode current collector. The cathode active material layer includes a cathode active material and a conductive material ID/IG is in a range from 0.5 to 1.25 in a Raman spectrum of the cathode active material layer. The cathode active material includes lithium metal oxide particles containing nickel and manganese and having a content of cobalt of less than 2 mol % among all elements except for lithium and oxygen.

Abstract: An aerosol generating device includes a first vaporizer configured to generate a first aerosol by heating a first liquid composition, a second vaporizer configured to generate a second aerosol by heating a second liquid composition, and a controller controlling power supplied to the first vaporizer and the second vaporizer, based on a first mode, in which a smokeless aerosol is generated, and a second mode, in which a transport amount of nicotine included in the second liquid composition is adjusted.

Abstract: An apparatus configured to reduce an offset of a Hall sensor includes a voltage-current conversion circuit and a current mirror circuit. The voltage-current conversion circuit is configured to generate a current configured to decrease when a voltage of an input terminal to which a bias current of a Hall sensor is input increases and increase when the voltage of the input terminal decreases. The current mirror circuit has a current mirror structure configured to feedback the bias current based on the current generated by the voltage-current conversion circuit.

Abstract: A vehicle thermal management system including a heating heat exchanger which exchanges heat with air within an air-conditioning case to heat the air, and a cooling heat exchanger which exchanges heat with air to cool the air; a refrigerant line circulating through a compressor, a condenser, an expansion valve, and a chiller; a first coolant line that passes through the heating heat exchanger and exchanges heat with the condenser of the refrigerant line; a second coolant line that passes through the cooling heat exchanger and exchanges heat with the chiller of the refrigerant line; a radiator that exchanges heat between the coolant and outside air; a third coolant line that passes through the radiator and exchanges heat with a battery of a vehicle; and a mixing tank provided to mix the coolant of the first coolant line, the second coolant line, and the third coolant line.

Abstract: A smoking article with an improved tobacco flavor and a method of producing the same are provided. The smoking article according to some embodiments of the present disclosure may include a smoking material portion, a filter portion, and a wrapper wrapped around at least a portion of the smoking material portion. Here, a sheet-type material including a plant extract may be applied to the smoking material portion or the wrapper. By expressing a tobacco flavor during smoking, the sheet-type material can improve a tobacco flavor of the smoking article.

Abstract: A digital noise coupling circuit includes: an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) configured to convert a quantization error, generated in a process of converting a first analog signal into a first digital signal, into a first digital error signal; a delay cell comprising delay elements configured to delay a transmission of the first digital error signal based on a clock signal; and a digital-to-analog (DA) conversion circuit configured to perform, in an analog domain, noise shaping on the first digital error signal that is delayed and transmitted from the delay cell.

Abstract: There is provided a method and an apparatus for efficiently recovering an amide-based compound such as N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone from an aqueous solution containing an amide-based compound such as N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone.

Abstract: A flavoring sheet with improved physical properties, a smoking article including the same, and methods of producing the flavoring sheet and the smoking article are provided. The flavoring sheet according to some embodiments of the present disclosure may include a hydrocolloid material configured to form a sheet, a flavoring, and a plasticizer. The plasticizer can improve physical properties of the flavoring sheet and thus enhance workability of a process of cutting the flavoring sheet.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a display device includes providing an adhesive material layer on a display panel, curing the adhesive material layer to form an adhesive layer, providing a cover layer on the adhesive layer, and adhering the cover layer to the adhesive layer, and a modulus of the adhesive layer at room temperature is in a range of about 103 Pa to about 106 Pa.

Abstract: A liquefied gas storage tank includes a corner block disposed on a corner portion, wherein the corner block includes a lower block, an upper block and an upper connecting block, the upper block includes a first inner fixing unit and a second inner fixing unit respectively provided inside a first surface and a second surface, bonded and connected to a secondary barrier, and each having a structure in which a primary inner plywood, a primary corner insulating material, and a primary outer plywood are stacked, and an inner bent portion installed at a corner spatial portion between the first inner fixing unit and the second inner fixing unit, and both side surfaces of the inner bent portion that are perpendicular to the secondary barrier each have a height reduced from a total height of each of the first and second inner fixing units.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an offset elimination operation of an internal operational amplifier of a data driving circuit and relates to a technique that applies different offset elimination methods for each position of an operational amplifier.

Abstract: Provided in one embodiment of the present invention is a calibration device for an oral scanner, comprising: a casing in which an oral scanner body is coupled to an open upper part; a rotational part rotatably provided with respect to the casing; a reflector part arranged on the central axis of an optical device in the oral scanner body; and a pattern plate part facing the optical device through the reflector part, wherein the pattern plate part is linked with the rotation of the rotational part and rotates in place, and the reflector part moves in a straight line with respect to the oral scanner body.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a display device. According to the present disclosure, since conductive layers disposed on a substrate include a layer formed of a material having a low reflectance, defects in which the conductive layers are visually recognized by a user and visibility decreases can be resolved.

Abstract: A method of controlling a display device includes rendering a plurality of viewpoint images, generating a plurality of sub-images based on the plurality of viewpoint images and a plurality of mapping pattern images corresponding to the plurality of viewpoint images, generating a single light-field image based on the plurality of sub-images, and outputting the single light-field image.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a flavor capsule of tobacco according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may comprise: a membrane manufacturing step for manufacturing a membrane of a flavor capsule by a membrane manufacturing part that manufactures a membrane; a capsule manufacturing step for manufacturing the flavor capsule using an apparatus for manufacturing a capsule with the membrane manufactured during the membrane manufacturing step and a flavored liquid to be held in the membrane; and a hardening step for hardening the flavor capsule.