Abstract: A flexible display substrate includes a flexible substrate and a conductive layer on the flexible substrate. The conductive layer and the flexible substrate are divided into a bending area and a non-bending area along an extension direction. A thickness of the conductive layer in the bending area is smaller than a thickness of the conductive layer in the non-bending area.

Abstract: Exemplary cleaning or etching methods may include flowing a fluorine-containing precursor into a remote plasma region of a semiconductor processing chamber. Methods may include forming a plasma within the remote plasma region to generate plasma effluents of the fluorine-containing precursor. The methods may also include flowing the plasma effluents into a processing region of the semiconductor processing chamber. A substrate may be positioned within the processing region, and the substrate may include a region of exposed oxide and a region of exposed metal. Methods may also include providing a hydrogen-containing precursor to the processing region. The methods may further include removing at least a portion of the exposed oxide.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a glass substrate provided with a stack of thin coating layers formed by a first layer of anti-reflective dielectric material, with a refractive index of 1.65 to 2.65, located above the glass substrate. At least one structure of two layers formed by a first layer of an anti-reflective transparent dielectric material with a refractive index of 1.32 to 1.55, located in the bottom position, and a second layer of a metal functional layer with reflective properties in the infrared range, located in the top position, said structure being located above the first layer of anti-reflective dielectric material. A second layer of absorbent material forming an anti-corrosion barrier for protecting the metal functional layer against oxidation and corrosion. A third layer of an anti-reflective material, said layer being selected from a metal oxide with a refractive index of 1.32 to 1.55, a metal oxide with a refractive index of 1.65 to 1.

Abstract: Techniques related to performing skin detection in an image are discussed. Such techniques may include generating skin and non-skin models based on a skin dominant region and another region, respectively, of the image and classifying individual pixels of the image via a discriminative skin likelihood function based on the skin model and the non-skin model.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present technology may include a method of etching a substrate. The method may include striking a plasma discharge in a plasma region. The method may also include flowing a fluorine-containing precursor into the plasma region to form a plasma effluent. The plasma effluent may flow into a mixing region. The method may further include introducing a hydrogen-and-oxygen-containing compound into the mixing region without first passing the hydrogen-and-oxygen-containing compound into the plasma region. Additionally, the method may include reacting the hydrogen-and-oxygen-containing compound with the plasma effluent in the mixing region to form reaction products. The reaction products may flow through a plurality of openings in a partition to a substrate processing region. The method may also include etching the substrate with the reaction products in the substrate processing region.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present technology may include a method of etching a substrate. The method may include striking a plasma discharge in a plasma region. The method may also include flowing a fluorine-containing precursor into the plasma region to form a plasma effluent. The plasma effluent may flow into a mixing region. The method may further include introducing a hydrogen-and-oxygen-containing compound into the mixing region without first passing the hydrogen-and-oxygen-containing compound into the plasma region. Additionally, the method may include reacting the hydrogen-and-oxygen-containing compound with the plasma effluent in the mixing region to form reaction products. The reaction products may flow through a plurality of openings in a partition to a substrate processing region. The method may also include etching the substrate with the reaction products in the substrate processing region.

Abstract: A quartz structure includes a protective layer comprising yttrium oxide. The quartz structure may be fabricated by: (a) receiving a quartz structure; and (b) coating the quartz structure with a protective layer comprising yttrium oxide to form a part to be used in the plasma reactor. The part has a size and shape adapted for forming a window or injector in a plasma reactor. The protective layer does not substantially change the size or shape of the quartz structure. The part may be installed in the plasma reactor at a location where, during operation, a plasma will contact or be proximate to the part.

Abstract: An aspect of performing logical validation on loaded data in a database includes a rule engine configured to, in response to an addition or update of a new rule for logical validation, determine a delta rule that includes a delta part of the new rule with respect to existing rules. An aspect also includes an object container containing object instances that have been validated using the existing rules. The object instance contains only data related to the existing rules and extracted from the database. An aspect further includes a validation engine configured to, upon determining that the delta rule relates to extra data other than the data contained in the object instance, extract the extra data from a database and add it to corresponding object instances, and use at least a part of the new rule to perform logical validation on the relevant object instances in the object container.

Abstract: Exemplary etching methods may include flowing a fluorine-containing precursor into a substrate processing region of a semiconductor processing chamber. The methods may include flowing a hydrogen-containing precursor into the substrate processing region. The methods may include contacting a substrate housed in the substrate processing region with the fluorine-containing precursor and the hydrogen-containing precursor. The substrate may include a trench or recessed feature, and a spacer may be formed along a sidewall of the trench or feature. The spacer may include a plurality of layers including a first layer of a carbon-containing or nitrogen-containing material, a second layer of an oxygen-containing material, and a third layer of a carbon-containing or nitrogen-containing material. The second layer of the spacer may be disposed between the first layer and third layer of the spacer. The methods may also include removing the oxygen-containing material.

Abstract: The flexible display substrate provided by the present disclosure includes a flexible substrate, on which at least one conductive composite layer is disposed, each of the at least one conductive composite layer includes two metal layers and an insulated layer between the two metal layers, each of the two metal layers includes metal line segments separated from each other, the insulated layer is provided with contact holes, and the metal line segments in the two metal layers are connected through metal in the contact holes to form a continuous metal wire.

Abstract: An aspect of performing logical validation on loaded data in a database includes a rule engine configured to, in response to an addition or update of a new rule for logical validation, determine a delta rule that includes a delta part of the new rule with respect to existing rules. An aspect also includes an object container containing object instances that have been validated using the existing rules. The object instance contains only data related to the existing rules and extracted from the database. An aspect further includes a validation engine configured to, upon determining that the delta rule relates to extra data other than the data contained in the object instance, extract the extra data from a database and add it to corresponding object instances, and use at least a part of the new rule to perform logical validation on the relevant object instances in the object container.

Abstract: The present application provides a flexible display panel and a manufacturing method thereof. The flexible display panel includes a flexible substrate, a buffer layer formed on the flexible substrate, and a metal layer formed on the buffer layer. The flexible display panel includes a display area and a bending area in a lateral direction. The buffer layer includes a first portion and a second portion, the first portion corresponding to the display area, the second portion corresponding to the bending area, and the thickness of the second portion is less than the thickness of the first portion.

Abstract: An identification of an item that was misclassified by a classification model constructed in accordance with a machine learning technique is received. One example of such a machine learning technique is a random forest. A subset of training data, previously used to construct the model, and that is associated with the misclassified item is identified. At least a portion of the identified subset is provided as output.

Abstract: Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The methods include, for instance: a gateway stack that includes a master, a backup, and at least one slave amongst nodes of the GS based on an election pursuant to a gateway stack protocol. The gateway stack provides gateway services for a Network Virtualization over Layer 3 (NVO3) network in a fail-safe manner by utilizing all of the nodes in the gateway stack. A data interface between the gateway stack and a switch is aggregated to evenly distribute inbound packets amongst the nodes of the gateway stack.

Abstract: An apparatus and method are described for reducing the parameter density of a deep neural network (DNN). A layer-wise pruning module to prune a specified set of parameters from each layer of a reference dense neural network model to generate a second neural network model having a relatively higher sparsity rate than the reference neural network model; a retraining module to retrain the second neural network model in accordance with a set of training data to generate a retrained second neural network model; and the retraining module to output the retrained second neural network model as a fmal neural network model if a target sparsity rate has been reached or to provide the retrained second neural network model to the layer-wise pruning model for additional pruning if the target sparsity rate has not been reached.

Abstract: The disclosure provides a method for synthesizing paraphthaloyl chloride through terephthalic acid chlorination in a reaction mode of a microchannel continuous flow. Compared with an existing technology, this method has characteristics of accurate control of reaction conditions, high phosgene/triphosgene utilization ratio, low catalyst dosage, high TPA conversion ratio within few tens of seconds of reaction time, high TPC yield and the like.

Abstract: A thermogalvanic electrochemical system includes two battery sources connected together in a switchable circuit to provide electric current to an electrical load in the circuit. The battery sources are located in a thermal environment having a varying temperature, and each battery source has a corresponding electrical potential that varies with temperature of the thermal environment. A power management processor operates the circuit to: form a closed circuit at a first temperature with current flow from a first battery source through the electrical load to a second battery source until reaching a first thermal equilibrium, and then form an open circuit, then form a closed circuit at a second temperature with current flow from the second battery source through the electrical load to the first current source until reaching a second thermal equilibrium, and then form an open circuit.