Abstract: A method for predicting the lifetime of an EUV pellicle includes a) acquiring transmittance data of an EUV pellicle over a wavelength band ranging from an infrared region to an ultraviolet region, b) acquiring complex refractive index data of the EUV pellicle over the wavelength band ranging from the infrared region to the ultraviolet region, c) acquiring information on the relationship between density and transmittance of the EUV pellicle as a function of wavelength, and d) measuring the transmittance of the EUV pellicle for at least one measurement beam having a wavelength within the wavelength band, extracting an estimated density of the EUV pellicle on the basis of the measured transmittance and the information on the relationship between density and transmittance acquired in the step c), and predicting a remaining lifetime of the EUV pellicle on the basis of the estimated density.

Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, and devices for wireless communication that support a channel state information (CSI) configuration. In a first aspect, a method of wireless communication includes generating, based on sensing information, an indicator that indicates a CSI recommendation. The CSI recommendation includes a recommended channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) configuration, a recommended CSI reporting scheme, or a combination thereof. The method also includes transmitting the indicator. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.

Abstract: Semiconductor channel layers vertically aligned and stacked one on top of another, separated by a gate stack material wrapping around the semiconductor channel layers, a heavily doped p-type field effect transistor (p-FET) source drain epitaxy region adjacent to the semiconductor channel layers, a horizontal lower surface of the p-FET source drain epitaxy region is adjacent to a horizontal upper surface of an undoped silicon epitaxy. Forming a first stack, second stack and third stack of nanosheet layers on a substrate, each including alternating layers of a sacrificial and a semiconductor channel vertically aligned and stacked one on top of another, forming a first sacrificial gate across the first stack, a second sacrificial gate across the second stack and a third sacrificial gate across the third stack, forming an undoped silicon epitaxy between the first and the second stacks and between the second and the third stacks.

Abstract: A user equipment (UE) in a vehicle may transmit to another vehicle an inter-vehicle message with a driving maneuver request for a driving maneuver to be executed by the vehicle. The inter-vehicle message may include one or more estimated parameters, such as temporal, spatial, or trajectory parameters, for the driving maneuver. The inter-vehicle message may include further includes an indication of an estimation accuracy for the one or more estimated parameters. A UE in a vehicle that receives the inter-vehicle message may determine whether to grant, reject, or submit a counter-proposal to the request based at least in part on the estimated parameters and the indication of the estimation accuracy for the estimated parameters. A response to the maneuver request may be transmitted to the requesting vehicle that grants, rejects, or provides a counter proposal to the maneuver request.

Abstract: Exemplary methods of fabricating high quality quantum computing components are described. The methods include removing native oxide from a deposition surface of a silicon substrate in a cleaning chamber of a processing system, and transferring the silicon substrate under vacuum to a deposition chamber of the processing system. The methods further include depositing an aluminum layer on the deposition surface of the silicon substrate in the deposition chamber, where an interface between the aluminum layer and the deposition surface of the silicon substrate is oxygen free.

Abstract: Techniques described herein provide for enhanced ultra-local navigation services for V2X devices (e.g., smartphones incorporating V2X chip sets). The V2X devices can transmit vehicle information to edge network devices (e.g., roadside units). The roadside units can be deployed at intersections or along roads to collect traffic information through various sensor inputs and V2X communications with multiple vehicles. The communication between V2X devices and the edge network devices can be accomplished through wireless communication (e.g., direct PC5 interface or through local Uu interface with edge computing. The edge network devices can perform local route optimization and compute one or more recommendations (e.g., a recommend route, a recommended speed, a recommended lane). The edge network devices can transmit the one or more recommendations via a wireless communication to the V2X devices. The V2X devices can display the recommendations to a user.

Abstract: Exemplary methods of fabricating high quality quantum computing components are described. The methods include removing native oxide from a deposition surface of a silicon substrate in a cleaning chamber of a processing system, and transferring the silicon substrate under vacuum to a deposition chamber of the processing system. The methods further include depositing an aluminum layer on the deposition surface of the silicon substrate in the deposition chamber, where an interface between the aluminum layer and the deposition surface of the silicon substrate is oxygen free.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may detect an object and determine to share position information associated with the object with one or more UEs. The UE may select a reference entity detectable by one or more other UEs and determine the position of the detected object relative to the position of the selected reference entity. The UE may transmit, to one or more second UEs, a sensor sharing message that includes the position information of the object relative to the selected reference entity and an indication of the selected reference entity. The one or more second UEs may detect the position of the reference entity and determine the location of the detected object based on the position of the reference entity and the position of the detected object relative to the position of the reference entity.

Abstract: An energy facility, such as a charge station operable for charging electrified vehicles, includes a controller. The controller selects from a group of energy management solutions which achieve favorable energy management activities with a same price of operation of the energy facility, an energy management solution resulting in favorable energy management results soonest. The controller controls the energy facility according to the selected energy management solution.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some cases, an application enabler layer (e.g., a vehicle-to-everything (V2X) application enabler (VAE) layer), may identify a congestion control configuration that includes capabilities for collecting operation information. The application enabler layer may receive, from a set of user equipment (UEs), the operation information in accordance with the capabilities. Then, the application enabler layer may generate congestion control instructions for one or more UEs of the set of UEs based on the received operation information. Additionally or alternatively, an application enabler architecture layer (e.g., a service enabler architecture layer for verticals (SEAL)) may identify a congestion control configuration including capabilities for collecting operation information and monitor sidelink performance for the set of UEs in accordance with the capabilities.

Abstract: Exemplary processing methods of forming a semiconductor structure may include forming subpixels on a substrate. Each of the subpixels may include a gallium-and-nitrogen-containing layer formed on an exposed portion of a nucleation layer on the substrate. The subpixels may further include a porosified region formed on or in the gallium-and-nitrogen-containing region, and an active region formed on the porosified region. The active region may include an indium-gallium-and-nitrogen-containing material. The processing methods may further include forming a first reflection layer around one of the subpixels, wherein the first reflection layer includes a first metal layer. The methods may additionally include forming a second reflection layer around another of the subpixels, wherein the second reflection layer includes a second metal that is different than the first metal.

Abstract: An online system dynamically determines time periods during which interaction data points are collected for application states being tested as part of an application state experiment. The online system collects interaction data points that occurred after a time when instructions were transmitted to apply the first application state and labels those with a state label corresponding to the first application state. When the online system detects that an interaction data minimum has been met, the online system transmits instructions to the client devices to present a user interface in accordance with a second application state. The online system applies a transition period between when the second set of instructions are transmitted and when the online system starts labeling interaction data points with a state label for the second application state. After the transition period, the online system labels interaction data points with state labels for the second application state.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Generally, the described techniques provide for using situational information provided by a first user equipment (UE) to a first network entity to aid in communications between a second UE and a second network entity. The first network entity may receive the situational information from the first UE and may generate assistance information associated with the second UE based on the situational information. The situational information may be sensing data collected at the first UE and may, in some examples, include a position, velocity, acceleration, or the like, associated with the second UE and other UEs surrounding the second UE. The first network entity may then provide the assistance information to the second network entity, the second UE, or both, and these devices may use the assistance information to identify suitable configurations for communicating with each other.

Abstract: Exemplary processing methods of forming a semiconductor structure may include forming subpixels on a substrate. Each of the subpixels may include a gallium-and-nitrogen-containing layer formed on an exposed portion of a nucleation layer on the substrate. The subpixels may further include a porosified region formed on or in the gallium-and-nitrogen-containing region, and an active region formed on the porosified region. The active region may include an indium-gallium-and-nitrogen-containing material. The processing methods may further include forming a first reflection layer around one of the subpixels, wherein the first reflection layer includes a first metal layer. The methods may additionally include forming a second reflection layer around another of the subpixels, wherein the second reflection layer includes a second metal that is different than the first metal.

Abstract: A dual-channel laser confocal microscope system for crosstalk elimination is provided, which includes an illumination module, a scanning-imaging module, an acquisition module and a control and reconstruction module. The illumination module is configured to emit dual-wavelength parallel laser beams. The scanning-imaging module is configured to scan the to-be-tested sample point by point to excite and collect the fluorescence signal. The acquisition module is configured to separate the fluorescence signals into different acquisition channels and complete the optical signal acquisition. The control and reconstruction module is configured to control the pulse interleaved excitation of the illumination module and scanning imaging, and is also configured to decouple and reconstruct the fluorescence signals in the different acquisition channels to obtain confocal images without crosstalk for different wavelengths.

Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable mediums for wireless communication are disclosed by the present disclosure. In an aspect, an application layer in a user equipment (UE) receives, from an access layer in the UE, a quality of service (QoS) indication comprising a metric that represents a quality of one or more radio bearers used for a vehicular communication with one or more other UEs. The application layer performs a transmission control over the vehicular communication based on the QoS indication.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a transmitter mobile station may transmit at least one platoon control message (PCM) having a flexible structure, the at least one PCM comprising a first part and a second part that is different from the first part, wherein the first part comprises non-platoon-specific data elements and the second part comprises platoon-specific data elements. The transmitter mobile station may transmit at least one basic safety message (BSM). Numerous other aspects are described.

Abstract: Techniques described herein provide for leader selection of a group of vehicles, based on inter-vehicle communications. According to embodiments, a host vehicle can determine it qualifies to be the leader of a potential group by comparing vehicle information of other cars in the potential group with its own vehicle information. Once the determination has been made, the host vehicle can then send a request to be the group leader to the other vehicles. If the other vehicles accept, the host vehicle can initiate group formation. Otherwise, another vehicle can reject the request and send its own request to become the group leader, reinitiating group leader negotiation until a group leader is determined.

Abstract: An online system dynamically determines time periods during which interaction data points are collected for application states being tested as part of an application state experiment. The online system collects interaction data points that occurred after a time when instructions were transmitted to apply the first application state and labels those with a state label corresponding to the first application state. When the online system detects that an interaction data minimum has been met, the online system transmits instructions to the client devices to present a user interface in accordance with a second application state. The online system applies a transition period between when the second set of instructions are transmitted and when the online system starts labeling interaction data points with a state label for the second application state. After the transition period, the online system labels interaction data points with state labels for the second application state.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) that transmits sensor data to another UE may also send information about the associated sensor and its performance. For example, the UE may determine a set of rules that apply to a sensor. The set of rules may define an association between a group of performance values and a group of performance levels corresponding to one or more metrics of the sensor. The UE may identify a performance value from the group of performance values for the sensor based on a performance level of the sensor and the set of rules. After determining the performance value, the UE may transmit an indication of the set of in a first data frame of a message and an indication of the performance value in a second data frame of the message.