Abstract: A composition including an acid-sensitive polymer comprising a first repeating unit derived from a monomer comprising an acid-decomposable group; a photoacid generator compound; a non-polymeric electron acceptor compound that has a greater electron affinity than an electron affinity of the photoacid generator compound, wherein the non-polymeric electron acceptor compound does not generate a photoacid, and wherein the non-polymeric electron acceptor compound does not comprise a plurality of diazonaphthoquinone (DNQ) groups; and a solvent, wherein the solvent is present in the composition in an amount greater than 50 weight percent, based on total weight of the composition, wherein the composition is a positive-acting EUV photoresist or an electron beam resist.

Abstract: A polymer comprising a first repeating unit derived from a polymerizable compound comprising an aromatic group, wherein the aromatic group is substituted with: a first substituent group comprising an ethylenically unsaturated double bond; a second substituent group that is a hydroxyl group; and a third substituent group comprising a carbonyl group, wherein the first substituent group, the second substituent group, and the carbonyl group of the third substituent group are each bonded to a different carbon atom of the aromatic group; and a second repeating unit comprising a base-labile group, wherein the first repeating unit and the second repeating unit are structurally different.

Abstract: An intelligent method for efficiently classifying concrete cracks from large amounts of image data is proposed, named inverted residual (IR) 7-Efficient Channel Attention and Convolutional Block Attention Module (EC) network. The IR7-EC network consists of a convolutional layer, seven inverted residual-ECA structures, a CBAM attention mechanism, a pooling layer, and multiple fully connected layers that are sequentially connected. The inverted residual-ECA structure consists of two components: a depthwise separable convolution-based inverted residual structure and an ECA attention mechanism. The new inverted residual structure facilitates the feature extraction of concrete cracks. Compared to conventional network structures like VGG and Resnet, the proposed IR7-EC network excels in both accuracy and efficiency. Once the IR7-EC network is fully trained, it can accurately classify various types of concrete cracks in captured images.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method, a system, and a medium for maintaining bridge structures susceptible to damage triggered by ship impact, and relates to the field of bridge health monitoring technology. If ship-bridge collision damage occurs, time-frequency coherence degradation factors at different positions of a time-series matrix, allows determination of an impact damage position and a damage degree based on a convex maximum point in the trajectory curve of the time-frequency coherence degradation factors. This method can effectively separate the influence of environmental factors and provide a fundamental methodological basis for establishing ship-bridge collision damage assessment technology.

Abstract: Compounds having three or more alkynyl moieties substituted with an aromatic moiety having one or more of certain substituents are useful in forming underlayers useful in semiconductor manufacturing processes.

Abstract: A photoresist underlayer composition comprising a poly(arylene ether); an additive of formula (14): D-(L1-Ar—[X]n)m??(14); and a solvent, wherein, in formula (14), D is a substituted or unsubstituted C1-60 organic group, optionally wherein D is an organic acid salt of the substituted or unsubstituted C1-60 organic group; each L1 is independently a single bond or a divalent linking group, when L1 is a single bond, D may be a substituted or unsubstituted C3-30 cycloalkyl or substituted or unsubstituted C1-20 heterocycloalkyl that is optionally fused with Ar, each Ar is independently a monocyclic or polycyclic C5-60 aromatic group, each X is independently —OR30, —SR31, or —NR32R33, m is an integer of 1 to 6, each n is independently an integer of 0 to 5, provided that a sum of all n is 2 or greater, and R30 to R33 are as provided herein.

Abstract: A method of preparing an antibacterial anti-yellowing ZnO antimony-free polyester fiber is provided. In direct spinning of antimony-free polyester melt, an anti-yellowing nano antibacterial agent is introduced into a polymerization process of antimony-free polyester to obtain the antibacterial anti-yellowing ZnO antimony-free polyester fiber; the anti-yellowing nano antibacterial agent is a surface-deposited or coated nano ZnO of a phosphate ester small molecule having a function of resisting thermal oxidative degradation, the phosphate ester small molecule is bound to the nano ZnO by van der Waals force, hydrogen bonding or covalent bonding, and the phosphate ester small molecule is a phosphate ester molecule with a molecular weight of less than 500 Da; the content of the nano ZnO in the antibacterial anti-yellowing ZnO antimony-free polyester fiber is not lower than 1.2 wt %, and the yellowing index Yi value of the antibacterial anti-yellowing ZnO antimony-free polyester fiber is not higher than 16.1.

Abstract: A method of preparing an antibacterial anti-yellowing ZnO antimony-free polyester fiber is provided. In direct spinning of antimony-free polyester melt, an anti-yellowing nano antibacterial agent is introduced into a polymerization process of antimony-free polyester to obtain the antibacterial anti-yellowing ZnO antimony-free polyester fiber; the anti-yellowing nano antibacterial agent is a surface-deposited or coated nano ZnO of a phosphate ester small molecule having a function of resisting thermal oxidative degradation, the phosphate ester small molecule is bound to the nano ZnO by van der Waals force, hydrogen bonding or covalent bonding, and the phosphate ester small molecule is a phosphate ester molecule with a molecular weight of less than 500 Da; the content of the nano ZnO in the antibacterial anti-yellowing ZnO antimony-free polyester fiber is not lower than 1.2 wt %, and the yellowing index Yi value of the antibacterial anti-yellowing ZnO antimony-free polyester fiber is not higher than 16.1.

Abstract: An underlayer composition, comprising a polymer comprising a repeating unit of formula (1): wherein Ar is a monocyclic or polycyclic C5-60 aromatic group, wherein the aromatic group comprises one or more aromatic ring heteroatoms, a substituent group comprising a heteroatom, or a combination thereof; X is C or O; R1, R2; Ra and Rb are as provided herein; optionally, R1 and R2 can be taken together form a 5- to 7-membered ring; optionally, one of R11 to R13 can be taken together with R1 to form a 5- to 7-membered ring; wherein Ra and Rb optionally may be taken together to form a 5- to 7-membered ring; wherein one of Ra or Rb optionally may be taken together with R2 to form a 5- to 7-membered ring; and when X is O, Ra and Rb are absent.

Abstract: The present application provides a CAD model analysis method and apparatus, a device and a storage medium, which relates to the technical field of industrial manufacturing. The CAD model based on a BRep representation is transformed into a graph structure. The graph structure is input into an analytical model to obtain a modeling sequence of the CAD model.

Abstract: Compounds comprise a C6-30 aromatic or C3-30 heteroaromatic core, wherein the core comprises a first substituent comprising (i) an enol ether group or (ii) a halomethyl ether group, wherein the halomethyl ether group is substituted or unsubstituted, a second substituent comprising an acid labile group, and a third substituent that is a halogen atom. The core is optionally further substituted. The compounds find use in the synthesis of monomers and polymers, which may be used in photoresist compositions for the manufacture of electronic devices.

Abstract: An underlayer composition, comprising a polymer comprising a repeating unit of formula (1): wherein Ar is a monocyclic or polycyclic C5-60 aromatic group, wherein the aromatic group comprises one or more aromatic ring heteroatoms, a substituent group comprising a heteroatom, or a combination thereof; X is C or O; R1, R2; Ra and Rb are as provided herein; optionally, R1 and R2 can be taken together form a 5- to 7-membered ring; optionally, one of R11 to R13 can be taken together with R1 to form a 5- to 7-membered ring; wherein Ra and Rb optionally may be taken together to form a 5- to 7-membered ring; wherein one of Ra or Rb optionally may be taken together with R2 to form a 5- to 7-membered ring; and when X is O, Ra and Rb are absent.

Abstract: Compounds having three or more alkynyl moieties substituted with an aromatic moiety having one or more of certain substituents are useful in forming underlayers useful in semiconductor manufacturing processes.

Abstract: Photoresist underlayer compositions, comprising: a curable compound comprising a group of the following formula (1): wherein: R1 is each independently H, C1-30 alkyl, or C3-30 cycloalkyl; Ar1 is an aromatic ring or a fused aromatic ring system having from 5 to 30 carbon atoms, wherein Ar1 is substituted or unsubstituted; Ar2 is an aromatic ring chosen from a 6-membered carbocyclic aromatic ring, a 5- or 6-membered heteroaromatic ring, or a fused aromatic ring system having from 5 to 30 carbon atoms, wherein Ar2 optionally comprises a fused cyclic imide moiety, a fused oxazole moiety, a fused imidazole moiety, or a fused thiazole moiety, and wherein Ar2 is substituted or unsubstituted; Y1 is a single covalent bond, or is selected from —O—, —C(O)—, —C(O)O—, —S—, —S(O)2—, —N(R2)—, —C(O)N(R2)—, —C(O)N(R2)C(O)—, —(CH2)y—, or a combination thereof, wherein R2 is H, C1-10 alkyl, C2-10 unsaturated hydrocarbyl, C5-30 aryl, C(O)R3, or S(O)2R3, wherein R3 is chosen from H, C1-10 alkyl, C2-10 unsaturated hydrocarbyl,

Abstract: A polymer including a first repeating unit comprising an acid labile group; an anionic endgroup selected from a carboxylate group or a sulfamate group; and an organic cation.

Abstract: A polymer, including a first repeating unit comprising a sulfone group, wherein the sulfone group is directly bonded to a group of formula —C(Ra)(Rb)—; and a second repeating unit comprising an acid labile group, a base-decomposable group, a polar group, or a combination thereof, wherein Ra and Rb are each independently hydrogen, halogen, substituted or unsubstituted C1-30 alkyl, substituted or unsubstituted C3-30 cycloalkyl, substituted or unsubstituted C3-30 heterocycloalkyl, substituted or unsubstituted C2-30 alkenyl, substituted or unsubstituted C3-30 cycloalkenyl, substituted or unsubstituted C3-30 heterocycloalkenyl, substituted or unsubstituted C6-30 aryl, substituted or unsubstituted C7-30 arylalkyl, substituted or unsubstituted C7-30 alkylaryl, substituted or unsubstituted C2-30 heteroaryl, substituted or unsubstituted C3-30 heteroarylalkyl, or substituted or unsubstituted C3-30 alkylheteroaryl, provided that at least one of Ra and Rb is hydrogen.

Abstract: A polymer including a first repeating unit derived from a first monomer represented by formula (1); and a second repeating unit comprising an acid labile group, a hydroxyaryl group, a sulfonamide group, a fluoroalcohol group, or a combination thereof, wherein, in formula (1), P is a polymerizable group comprising an ethylenically unsaturated carbon-carbon double bond; L1 is a single bond or a linking group; Ar is a substituted or unsubstituted C6-30 aromatic group or a substituted or unsubstituted C4-30 heteroaromatic group; X is O or S; A is a group selected from —O—, —S—, —S(O)—, —S(O)2—, —C(O)—, —C(S)—, or —N(Ra)—; Ra is hydrogen or a non-hydrogen substituent; and R1 and R2 are each as defined herein, wherein the first repeating unit and the second repeating unit are structurally different.

Abstract: Coating compositions comprise: a curable compound comprising: a core chosen from a C6 carbocyclic aromatic ring, a C2-5 heterocyclic aromatic ring, a C9-30 fused carbocyclic aromatic ring system, a C4-30 fused heterocyclic aromatic ring system, C1-20 aliphatic, and C3-20 cycloaliphatic, and three or more substituents of formula (1) wherein at least two substituents of formula (1) are attached to the aromatic core; provided that no substituents of formula (1) are in an ortho position to each other on the same aromatic ring of the core; a polymer; and one or more solvents, wherein the total solvent content is from 50 to 99 wt % based on the coating composition.

Abstract: An intelligent method for efficiently classifying concrete cracks from large amounts of image data is proposed, named inverted residual (IR) 7-Efficient Channel Attention and Convolutional Block Attention Module (EC) network. The IR7-EC network consists of a convolutional layer, seven inverted residual-ECA structures, a CBAM attention mechanism, a pooling layer, and multiple fully connected layers that are sequentially connected. The inverted residual-ECA structure consists of two components: a depthwise separable convolution-based inverted residual structure and an ECA attention mechanism. The new inverted residual structure facilitates the feature extraction of concrete cracks. Compared to conventional network structures like VGG and Resnet, the proposed IR7-EC network excels in both accuracy and efficiency. Once the IR7-EC network is fully trained, it can accurately classify various types of concrete cracks in captured images.

Abstract: A compound represented by Formula (1): wherein X is a group having a valency of r; each R1 is independently an organic group comprising an acid-labile group; m is an integer greater than or equal to 1; k is an integer from 1 to 5; and r is an integer from 2 to 10, wherein the compound is non-polymeric, and wherein Ar1, L1, L2, R2, and R3 are as defined herein.