Abstract: An aerosol-generating device is disclosed. The aerosol-generating device of the disclosure includes a body shaped to define an elongated insertion space that is open to an outside; a button positioned relative to a side of the body; a substrate disposed in the body and facing the button; an actuator disposed between the substrate and the button to provide elastic force relative to the button; and a light source coupled to the substrate, adjacent to the button, wherein the light source is configured to emit light in a direction parallel to the button and the substrate.

Abstract: An aerosol-generating device is disclosed. The aerosol-generating device of the disclosure includes a heater configured to heat an aerosol-generating substance, a battery configured to supply power to the heater, a protection circuit module electrically connected to the battery, and a controller. The controller determines a type of battery based on a signal corresponding to the battery transmitted from the protection circuit module, and sets any one of a plurality of modes to an operation mode based on the determined type of battery.

Abstract: An aerosol-generating device and an operation method thereof are disclosed. The aerosol-generating device of the disclosure includes an insertion space, a first sensor outputting a signal corresponding to the insertion space, a heater for heating a stick, a second sensor outputting a signal corresponding to the temperature of the heater, and a controller. The controller performs control such that power is supplied to the heater based on determination as to insertion of the stick using the first sensor. In each of a plurality of periods in which power is supplied to the heater, the controller determines whether the stick is present based on conditions related to the temperature of the heater corresponding, respectively, to the periods. Upon determining that the stick is not present, the controller performs control such that supply of power to the heater is interrupted. The conditions corresponding, respectively, to the periods differ from each other.

Abstract: An aerosol-generating device is disclosed. The aerosol-generating device of the disclosure includes a cartridge having therein a chamber storing liquid, a first heater for heating the liquid, a housing having an insertion space defined therein, a second heater for heating a stick inserted into the insertion space, a memory for storing a plurality of liquid temperature profiles corresponding to the first heater and a plurality of stick temperature profiles corresponding to the second heater, and a controller for setting one of a plurality of modes to an operation mode of the aerosol-generating device. The controller determines a target temperature for the first heater based on a liquid temperature profile corresponding to the operation mode among the plurality of liquid temperature profiles, and determines a target temperature for the second heater based on a stick temperature profile corresponding to the operation mode among the plurality of stick temperature profiles.

Abstract: A door lock control device comprises: a door lock interface for communicating with a door lock; an imaging device; a controller for processing images to be acquired through the imaging device; and a storage medium. The controller determines each of first and second objects in the images as being either authorized or unauthorized depending on whether each of the first and second objects matches authentication data read from the storage medium, and controls the door lock through a door lock interface by referring to a distance between the first and second objects determined from the images when the first object is determined as being authorized and the second object is determined as being unauthorized.

Abstract: An aerosol-generating device and an operation method thereof are disclosed. The aerosol-generating device of the disclosure includes a heater configured to heat an aerosol-generating substance, a battery configured to supply power to the heater, a resistance detection sensor configured to output a signal corresponding to the resistance of the heater, a switching element electrically connected to the heater, and a controller configured to control operation of the switching element. The controller performs control such that the switching element is turned on in a first period in which power is supplied to the heater, determines a duty ratio based on the resistance of the heater corresponding to a signal from the resistance detection sensor in the first period, and adjusts switching operation of the switching element based on the determined duty ratio in a second period after the first period in which power is supplied to the heater.

Abstract: An aerosol generating device is provided. The aerosol generating device includes: a body shaped to define an insertion space; a cartridge shaped to be coupled to the body; an exhaust port protruding from the cartridge and shaped to define an outlet; a connection passage extending from the insertion space and being sized to receive a portion of the exhaust port, wherein the connection passage permits communication between the insertion space and the exhaust port; and a backflow prevention membrane positioned to cover a portion of the connection passage and being structured to be deformed according to contact with the exhaust port in an insertion direction of the exhaust port.

Abstract: An aerosol-generating device is disclosed. The aerosol-generating device comprising: a pipe part defining an insertion space and comprising a seating part extending from a lower portion and an extension part extending from an upper portion; and a cartridge configured to be seated on the seating part, wherein a lower surface of the extension part is adjacent to an upper surface of the cartridge when the cartridge is seated on the seating part, wherein the lower surface of the extension part comprises an inclined surface such that a gap between the cartridge and the lower surface is gradually increased toward an end of the extension part.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes first power lines extending on a substrate in a first direction and spaced apart from each other in a second direction, back side power structures on a lower surface of the substrate, standard cells each including an active pattern, a gate pattern intersecting the active pattern, and contacts, power tap cells between at least some of the standard cells and each including vertical power vias, and second power lines electrically connecting at least some of the first power lines to each other. A first portion of the second power lines may extend onto the power tap cells and a second portion of the second power lines that is different from the first portion may extend onto the standard cells. The power tap cells may be arranged in every three or more rows of the standard cells in the second direction in a zigzag pattern.

Abstract: A collet for pickup a semiconductor chip may include a base and a holder. The base may have a first surface oriented toward the semiconductor chip and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The holder may be arranged at a central portion of the first surface of the base to fix the semiconductor chip using vacuum. An edge portion of the first surface of the base may be exposed. Thus, any structure may not exist in the edge portion of the base corresponding to a peripheral region of the collet so that a peripheral semiconductor chip vertically erected in picking the semiconductor chip from a film may not interfere with the holder. As a result, the vertically erected semiconductor chip may not be stuck in the holder to prevent damages of other semiconductor chip by the vertically erected semiconductor chip.

Abstract: An aerosol-generating device is disclosed. The aerosol-generating device of the disclosure includes a heating assembly configured to surround a first insertion space that is open at an upper portion and at a lower portion; a lower pipe disposed below the heating assembly to be parallel to the heating assembly and to support a lower end of the heating assembly; an upper pipe configured to support an upper end of the heating assembly and extending downwards to cover a circumference of the heating assembly, the upper pipe having a circumference overlapping a circumference of the lower pipe along a radial direction; a light-transmitting portion located on one of the lower pipe or the upper pipe at a position corresponding to the overlap; and a light-absorbing portion located on the other one of the lower pipe or the upper pipe at the position corresponding to the overlap and integrally coupled to an inner circumferential surface of the light-transmitting portion.

Abstract: A negative electrode active material composite, including an amorphous carbon matrix, and silicon nanoparticles and crystalline carbon fibers dispersed in the amorphous carbon matrix, the silicon nanoparticles being in contact with a portion or all of the crystalline carbon fibers in the amorphous carbon matrix.

Abstract: An embodiment of the disclosure provides a first power receiving device including a battery, a power management integrated circuit, an interface for receiving power from a power supply device, and a processor configured to control a charging current using the power management integrated circuit. The processor may be configured to: if charging from the power supply device through the interface is detected, set the charging current, transmit first charging information associated with the first power receiving device to the power supply device, through the interface, receive second charging information associated with a second power receiving device which is paired with the first power receiving device or associated with the power supply device from the power supply device, through the interface, and control the charging current by comparing the first charging information and the second charging information.

Abstract: A negative active material, including a first active material including a silicon core and a carbon coating layer on the core, a carbon second active material having an aspect ratio of about 4 to about 100, and a crystalline carbon third active material.

Abstract: A negative active material and a rechargeable lithium battery including the negative active material. The negative active material includes first, second and third active materials. The first active material is a crystalline carbon. The second active material includes a first core, which includes crystalline carbon and a silicon-based material, and a first carbon coating positioned on the first core. The third active material includes a second core, which includes a silicon-based material, and a second carbon coating layer positioned on the second core.

Abstract: Embodiments provide a light-emitting device, and an electronic apparatus and electronic equipment that each include the light-emitting device. The light-emitting device includes an anode, a cathode facing the anode, and an interlayer between the anode and the cathode, wherein the interlayer includes an emission layer and an electron transport region between the emission layer and the cathode. The electron transport region includes an electron injection layer adjacent to the cathode, the electron injection layer includes an alkali metal, and the cathode includes silver (Ag).

Abstract: A light-emitting device includes a first electrode, a second electrode facing the first electrode, and an interlayer arranged between the first electrode and the second electrode and comprising an emission layer. The interlayer further includes a first layer arranged between the emission layer and the second electrode, and a second layer arranged between the first layer and the emission layer. The first layer includes a first metal-containing material, the second layer includes a second metal-containing material and a metal-free material, and a difference between a work function (W/F) of the first layer and a work function (W/F) of the second layer is in a range of about 0.05 eV to about 0.2 eV.

Abstract: An integrated circuit device comprising: a substrate; a stack structure comprising interlayer insulating layers and gate electrodes; and a channel structure in the stack structure, wherein the gate electrodes comprise a first upper gate electrode at a highest position and a second upper gate electrode at a second-highest position, the interlayer insulating layers comprises a first interlayer insulating layer between the first upper gate electrode and the second upper gate electrode with a first thickness, a second interlayer insulating layer that has a second thickness, a lower surface of the first upper gate electrode is at a farther distance than or at an equal distance to a lower surface of the pad structure from the substrate, and an upper surface of the second upper gate electrode is at a closer distance than or at an equal distance to the lower surface of the pad structure from the substrate.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus is provided. The electronic apparatus includes a communication interface, a memory storing log data with respect to external devices connected to the electronic apparatus, and a processor configured to identify a plurality of external devices having a history of being connected to the same internet protocol (IP) based on the log data, acquire, based on the log data, a first feature vector with respect to a relationship between the plurality of external devices and a second feature vector with respect to each of the plurality of external devices, acquire a graph of the relationship between the plurality of external devices based on the first feature vector and the second feature vector, and define at least one group configured by the plurality of external devices based on the graph.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of simultaneously diagnosing active tuberculosis and latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) using one or more biomarkers selected from a white blood cell count, a hemoglobin concentration, a neutrophil count, a lymphocyte count, a monocyte count, a procalcitonin concentration, a C-reactive protein concentration, an ?1-acid glycoprotein concentration and an erythrocyte sedimentation rate, or a combination thereof. The present invention may provide a diagnostic method for simultaneously differentiating active tuberculosis and LTBI without a separate additional test on a patient diagnosed as positive by a conventional tuberculosis infection assay such as a tuberculin skin test (TST) or an interferon-T release assay (IGRA).