Abstract: An apparatus and method for measuring air currents on the surface of a substrate, which can accurately measure the magnitude and direction of air currents on the surface of a wafer with wafer-type air current measurement sensors, are provided. The apparatus includes: a first air current measurement module measuring a magnitude of air currents on a surface of a first substrate, which is processed in accordance with a semiconductor manufacturing process; a second air current measurement module measuring a movement direction of the air currents; and a power module supplying power to the first and second air current measurement modules, wherein the first air current measurement module, the second air current measurement module, and the power module are mounted on a second substrate, which has the same shape as the first substrate.

Abstract: A method for analysis of residual lithium compounds in a positive electrode active material for a lithium secondary battery comprises the steps of: analyzing a sample of a positive electrode active material using an oxygen/nitrogen/hydrogen analyzer (ONH analyzer) and a Karl Fischer analyzer to determine the amount of the H component; analyzing the sample using a carbon/sulfur analyzer (CS analyzer) to determine the amount of the C component and the S component; analyzing the sample using an inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometer (ICP-OES) to determine the amount of the Li component; and calculating the amount of each of LiOH, Li2CO3, and Li2SO4 in the sample using the quantification results of the H, C, and S components, and calculating the amount of Li2O in the sample using the quantification result of the Li component.

Abstract: In a method for recovering lithium hydroxide from a lithium secondary battery, cathode powder is prepared from a cathode of the lithium secondary battery. A cathode active material mixture is prepared by mixing the cathode powder with a calcium compound. The cathode active material mixture is reduced to form a preliminary precursor mixture. A lithium precursor is recovered from the preliminary precursor mixture. Therefore, a lithium precursor can be obtained with high purity without a complicated leaching process or an additional process, which result from a wet-based acid solution process.

Abstract: Disclosed is a marine organism antifouling apparatus for ships using a UV-C module. The marine organism antifouling apparatus includes circular or polygonal net units and at least one UV-C module configured to be turned on to emit ultraviolet light by power supplied thereto, the UV-C module being provided at each of the net units, wherein the net units are connected to each other in horizontal and vertical directions to constitute a net member, and ultraviolet light is emitted from the UV-C module to prevent attachment of marine organisms in the state in which an underwater exposure zone of a ship that is moored is surrounded by the net member.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a light emitting diode (LED) driving device that may expand a usable range of LED current and battery voltage by reducing heat generation of an integrated circuit, and an LED lighting device including the same, which may include a current controller that constantly controls an LED current flowing through an LED string and an IC heat dissipation part connected to a node between the LED string and the current controller to dissipate IC heat of the current controller, wherein when a battery voltage supplied to the LED string increases, the IC heat dissipation part reduces a first LED current flowing from the LED string to the current controller and simultaneously increases a second LED current flowing from the LED string to the current controller via the IC heat dissipation part, thereby reducing the IC heat generation of the current controller.

Abstract: Provided is an ultra high strength steel sheet having a high yield ratio, and a method for manufacturing same and, more specifically, to a steel sheet having ultra high strength, a high yield ratio and excellent bendability, and a method for manufacturing same.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for encoding a displacement video using image tiling. A method for encoding multi-dimensional data according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may comprise: converting the multi-dimensional data into one or more frames with two-dimensional characteristics; generating one or more frame groups by grouping the one or more frames with pre-configured number units; reconstructing frames belonging to each frame group into a tiled frame; and generating a bitstream by encoding the tiled frame. Here, the tiled frame may be constructed with one or more blocks, and each block may be constructed by rearranging pixels existing at the same location in the frames.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel indole derivative and a use thereof. The novel indole derivative according to the present invention traps methylglyoxal (MGO), which is a main precursor of advanced glycation end products, and thus can be effectively used for preventing, improving, or treating diseases related to advanced glycation end products.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition for preventing, improving, or treating diseases related to advanced glycation end products, comprising an indole derivative or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. Specifically, the composition of the present invention possesses the effect of trapping methylglyoxal (MGO), which is a main precursor of advanced glycation end products, and thus can be effectively used for preventing, improving, or treating diseases related to advanced glycation end products.

Abstract: A lens assembly includes a plurality of lenses arranged from an object side to an image side on which an image plane is located, wherein the plurality of lenses include a first lens group that includes at least one lens having a positive refractive power, and is fixed to maintain a constant distance from the image plane during focusing, and a second lens group that includes a lens having at least one aspheric surface, and is configured to perform image plane alignment according to a change in an object distance of an object.

Abstract: A pouch type all-solid-state battery including a reference electrode is disclosed. In the all-solid-state battery, a potential variation of each electrode is accurately measured because the ion transfer path between the reference electrode and a positive electrode/negative electrode is short. Accordingly, the all-solid-state battery secures a desired cell performance while having battery specifications similar to actual battery specifications.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device and a semiconductor device produced thereby. For example and without limitation, various aspects of this disclosure provide methods for manufacturing a semiconductor device, and semiconductor devices produced thereby, that comprise forming an interposer including a reinforcement layer.

Abstract: A display device comprises a display area comprising a plurality of pixels, and a data line and a gate line electrically connected to the plurality of pixels, a non-display area disposed adjacent to the display area, a plurality of pads disposed on a side of the non-display area, a gate control line electrically connected to at least one of the plurality of pads and that supplies a gate control signal, a driving voltage line electrically connected to at least one of the plurality of pads and that supplies a driving voltage, an antistatic circuit electrically connected to the gate control line, a scan driver that generates a gate signal based on a gate control signal received from the gate control line and that supplies the gate signal to the gate line, and a shielding layer integral to the driving voltage line to overlap the top of the antistatic circuit.

Abstract: A method for preventing or treating a metabolic disease includes administering to an individual a composition comprising at least one of a Lactobacillus plantarum-derived polysaccharide or and a Lactobacillus plantarum extract. The metabolic disease may be metabolic disease is at least one selected from the group consisting of insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, hyperlipidemia, fatty liver, obesity and/or inflammation.

Abstract: A display device includes a substrate, a light emitting element layer disposed on the substrate and including a plurality of light emitting areas each including a light emitting element that emits light, an encapsulation layer disposed on the light emitting element layer, and a light control layer disposed on the encapsulation layer, wherein the light control layer includes a light transmitting film that transmits the light and a light blocking film that blocks the light, and the light transmitting film includes, a first light transmitting portion overlapping the light blocking film in a thickness direction of the substrate, and a plurality of second light transmitting portions each surrounded by the light blocking film, and a thickness of the light blocking film is greater than a thickness of the first light transmitting portion.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method of recycling a positive electrode active material and a recycled positive electrode active material prepared by the same. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to a method of recycling a positive electrode active material, the method including step A of fragmenting a waste battery including a positive electrode, a separator, and a negative electrode to form waste battery scraps; step B of removing the negative electrode by jetting compressed air onto the waste battery scraps; and step C of treating the waste battery scraps from which the negative electrode has been removed with a solvent to remove the separator and obtain positive electrode scraps, and a recycled positive electrode active material prepared by the method.

Abstract: Provided is an encoding apparatus for integrally encoding and decoding a speech signal and a audio signal, and may include: an input signal analyzer to analyze a characteristic of an input signal; a stereo encoder to down mix the input signal to a mono signal when the input signal is a stereo signal, and to extract stereo sound image information; a frequency band expander to expand a frequency band of the input signal; a sampling rate converter to convert a sampling rate; a speech signal encoder to encode the input signal using a speech encoding module when the input signal is a speech characteristics signal; a audio signal encoder to encode the input signal using a audio encoding module when the input signal is a audio characteristic signal; and a bitstream generator to generate a bitstream.

Abstract: Disclosed is a composite for forming a coacervate interfacial film. The composite for forming the coacervate interfacial film contains a cationic hectorite nanoplate-shaped particle structure containing a hectorite nanoplate-shaped particle and a cationic surfactant coupled to a surface of the hectorite nanoplate-shaped particle, and an anionic cellulose nanofibril containing an anionic functional group in at least a portion thereof, in which the composite may form the coacervate interfacial film at an interface of an oil phase and a water phase through electrostatic interaction between the cationic surfactant and the anionic functional group.

Abstract: The present invention relates to: an anti-fibroblast growth factor receptor 3 (FGFR3) antibody or antigen-binding fragment thereof; a nucleic acid encoding same; a recombinant expression vector comprising the nucleic acid; a host cell transfected with the recombinant expression vector; a method for producing the antibody or antigen-binding fragment thereof; a bispecific or multispecific antibody comprising the antibody or antigen-binding fragment thereof; an immune cell-engaging bispecific or multispecific antibody comprising an scFv comprising an scFv of the antibody and a second binding domain comprising at least one scFv of an antibody that binds to an immune cell-activating antigen; an antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) in which the antibody or the antigen-binding fragment thereof is bound to a drug; a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) comprising the scFv of the anti-FGFR3 antibody as an antigen-binding site of an extracellular domain; an immune cell having the chimeric antigen receptor introduced thereinto; a c

Abstract: Disclosed is an LPC residual signal encoding/decoding apparatus of an MDCT based unified voice and audio encoding device. The LPC residual signal encoding apparatus analyzes a property of an input signal, selects an encoding method of an LPC filtered signal, and encode the LPC residual signal based on one of a real filterbank, a complex filterbank, and an algebraic code excited linear prediction (ACELP).