Abstract: A semiconductor memory device includes a substrate having a memory area and a logic circuit area thereon, a first interlayer dielectric layer on the substrate, and a second interlayer dielectric layer on the substrate. An embedded memory cell structure is disposed within the memory area between the first interlayer dielectric layer and the second interlayer dielectric layer. The second interlayer dielectric layer includes a first portion covering the embedded memory cell structure within the memory area and a second portion covering the logic circuit area. A top surface of the first portion is coplanar with a top surface of the second portion.

Abstract: Disclosed is a rocker type polishing apparatus and method for full-aperture deterministic polishing of a planar part. The apparatus includes a control system, a substrate, a lifting plate, a polishing module and a measuring module. The polishing module and the measuring module are arranged on the substrate. The lifting plate is arranged between the polishing module and the measuring module. The polishing module includes a rocker mechanism, a polishing pad surface dressing mechanism, a polishing pad surface profile measuring apparatus and a continuous polishing pad mechanism.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a memory device is provided. The method includes etching an opening in a first dielectric layer; forming a bottom electrode, a resistance switching element, and a top electrode in the opening in the first dielectric layer; forming a second dielectric layer over the bottom electrode, the resistance switching element, and the top electrode; and forming an electrode via connected to a top surface of the top electrode in the second dielectric layer.

Abstract: A magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) structure, including a substrate and multiple MRAM cells on the substrate, wherein the MRAM cells are arranged in a memory region adjacent to a logic region. An ultra low-k (ULK) layer covers the MRAM cells, wherein the surface portion of ultra low-k layer is doped with fluorine, and dents are formed on the surface of ultra low-k layer at the boundaries between the memory region and the logic region.

Abstract: Semiconductor structures and methods for forming the same are provided. The method includes forming a dummy gate structure over a substrate and forming a sealing layer surrounding the dummy gate structure. The method includes forming a spacer covering the sealing layer and removing the dummy gate structure to form a trench. The method further includes forming an interfacial layer and a gate dielectric layer. The method further includes forming a capping layer over the gate dielectric layer and partially oxidizing the capping layer to form a capping oxide layer. The method further includes forming a work function metal layer over the capping oxide layer and forming a gate electrode layer over the work function metal layer. In addition, a bottom surface of the capping oxide layer is higher than a bottom surface of the spacer.

Abstract: A security tag including: a housing and circuitry which detects a locked state, the circuitry configured to execute a signal transfer function responsive to interchanging a pin and a lanyard in the circuitry, and/or the housing including a replaceable battery compartment locked by inserting either the pin or the lanyard into a lock mechanism which differently secures the pin and the lanyard; and an alarm, in communication with the circuitry, triggered by an undisarmed breach of the locked state.

Abstract: A magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) structure is provided in the present invention, including multiple MRAM cells, and an atomic layer deposition dielectric layer between and at outer sides of the MRAM cells, wherein the material of top electrode layer is titanium nitride, and the nitrogen percentage is greater than titanium percentage and further greater than oxygen percentage in the titanium nitride, and the nitrogen percentage gradually increases inward from the top surface of top electrode layer to a depth and then start to gradually decrease to a first level and then remains constant, and the titanium percentage gradually decreases inward from the top surface of top electrode layer to the depth and then start to gradually increase to a second level and then remains constant.

Abstract: A magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM), including a bottom electrode layer on a substrate, a magnetic tunnel junction stack on the bottom electrode layer, a top electrode layer on the magnetic tunnel junction stack, and a hard mask layer on said top electrode layer, wherein the material of top electrode layer is titanium nitride, a material of said hard mask layer is tantalum or tantalum nitride, and the percentage of nitrogen in the titanium nitride gradually decreases from the top surface of top electrode layer to the bottom surface of top electrode layer.

Abstract: The methods and systems provide an ensemble approach that combines multiple single-model-solutions to produce optimal forward-looking forecasts. Moreover, the methods and systems provide an architecture for this ensemble approach that ensures that the limitations for individual ensemble model components are compensated by other ensemble model components as inputs and outputs from ensemble model components are fed from one ensemble model component to another in a specific order to generate a final output upon which a conservative prediction is based.

Abstract: A screen comprises the following layers sequentially stacked from an incident side of projected light rays: a micro-lens layer, a transparent matrix layer, a total internal reflection layer, and a light-absorbing layer. The light-absorbing layer absorbs light passing through the micro-lens layer, the transparent matrix layer, and the total internal reflection layer. The micro-lens layer comprises a plurality of micro-lens units. The total internal reflection layer comprises a plurality of microstructure units. The microstructure unit has a lower first flat surface and an upper second flat surface. The first flat surface intersects the second flat surface. The plurality of microstructure units forms a serrated structure. The micro-lens units and the microstructure units are at least partially arranged in an alternating manner. The projected light rays converged toward the first flat surface exit after being totally internally reflected by the first flat surface and the second flat surface sequentially.

Abstract: An ultrasonic cellular stimulation device includes: an ultrasonic transducer for generating a vibration wave; an upper cap having a fixing portion disposed on a lateral surface thereof; and a lower cap having a first surface and a second surface, and including: a recess indenting the first surface; an abutment portion located at a bottom of the recess; and an opening formed in the second surface and being in communication with the recess. The upper cap is partially received in the recess. The ultrasonic transducer is clamped and fixed between the fixing portion and the first surface. A glass piece is disposed on the abutment portion and fixed between the upper cap and the lower cap, such that the vibration wave is conveyed from the first surface into the abutment portion and the glass piece and a uniform and controllable sound field is generated above the glass piece.

Abstract: The invention provides a projector and a correction method thereof. The projector includes a ToF sensor, a calculation unit, a control unit, and a projection module. The ToF sensor senses distances between measurement points on a projection surface and the projector in a distance measurement operation. The calculation unit is coupled to the ToF sensor. The calculation unit calculates at least one distance ratio corresponding to at least one direction according to the distances, and obtains at least one offset angle in the at least one direction according to the at least one distance ratio. The control unit is coupled to the calculation unit and the ToF sensor. The projection module is coupled to the control unit. The control unit performs a keystone correction operation of the projection module according to the at least one offset angle.

Abstract: Provided in the present invention are a 3-hydroxyl-5-pregnane-20-one derivative as shown in formula I or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and a pharmaceutical composition comprising the derivative or the pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. The derivative or the pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof or the pharmaceutical composition comprising the above-mentioned derivative or salt of the present invention can be used to prepare a drug for treating a disease caused by abnormalities in the central nervous system.

Abstract: Provided is a projection screen, the taper angles of a plurality of triangular pyramid units arranged in an array are designed to gradually change according to a predetermined relationship, so that the image light emitted from the projector is reflected by a microstructure layer with a triangular pyramid unit and then converges to a range centered on the human eye, which reduces the difference in brightness at different viewing positions, so as to ensure that the projection screen has high brightness uniformity and high gain.

Abstract: An epoxy composition containing CNS-derived fragments provides conductivity and surface hardness. In one illustration, the epoxy composition includes carbon nanostructures, fragments of carbon nanostructures, fractured carbon nanotubes, elongated carbon strands, and/or dispersed carbon nanostructures dispersed in an epoxy resin. The epoxy composition may also include additional fillers or other additives.

Abstract: A lockable and moisture-proof pill box has a storing base having at least one compartment for holding pills, at least one lid pivotally mounted on the storing base, and at least one sealing and pushing member. Each of the at least one lid has a sealing ring and a pushing bar integrally formed as a single part. With the at least one sealing and pushing member mounted between the storing base and the at least one lid, the at least one compartment in the storing base can be airtightly sealed by the sealing ring when being closed, so as to prevent the pills in the at least one compartment from being spilt. Moreover, each of the at least one lid can be automatically opened by push of the pushing bar. Thus, a user can take the pills held in the compartment easily and conveniently.

Abstract: A projection screen includes an optical collimating layer and a surface diffusion layer which are arranged in sequence. A grating absorption layer for absorbing ambient light from various directions except a projection light direction is also provided between the optical collimating layer and the surface diffusion layer. The grating absorption layer includes a plurality of light-absorption ring-shaped units with different radii. The plurality of light-absorption ring-shaped units are arranged in a concentric ring. Each of the light-absorption ring-shaped units consists of a plurality of gratings arranged in the circumferential direction of the concentric ring. By taking a vertical symmetrical center line of the projection screen as a center, in a direction extending along the circumferential direction of the concentric ring to the left side and the right side of the projection screen, the distance between two adjacent gratings in the same light-absorption ring-shaped unit gradually increases.

Abstract: A method for fabricating semiconductor device includes the steps of: forming an inter-metal dielectric (IMD) layer on a substrate; forming a metal interconnection in the IMD layer; forming a bottom electrode layer on the IMD layer, wherein the bottom electrode layer comprises a gradient concentration; forming a free layer on the bottom electrode layer; forming a top electrode layer on the free layer; and patterning the top electrode layer, the free layer, and the bottom electrode layer to form a magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ).

Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for preparing an anti-bacterial surface on a medical material surface, including the steps of: (1) conducting chemical graft of amino silane after performing oxygen plasma pretreatment to the medical material surface and then reacting the medical material with the amino silane surface with an acyl compound; (2) placing the medical material with an initiator-modified surface into an anti-adhesion monomer aqueous solution for a graft polymerization reaction; (3) placing the medical material with an anti-adhesion polymer brush-modified surface into an azide compound-containing dimethylformamide solution; and (4) placing the medical material with an azide surface into an anti-bacterial agent click solution for a click reaction, obtaining an anti-adhesion polymer layer—and anti-bacterial agent layer-comodified anti-bacterial surface.

Abstract: An improved device and method for extended repair and regeneration of muscle tissue. An exemplary device comprises (a) a scaffold comprising an ECM component; (b) a combination of growth factors such as VEGF and IGF; and (c) a population of myogenic cells. Implantation of the device leads to muscle regeneration and repair over an extended period of time.