Abstract: A semiconductor structure includes a substrate, a gate structure, a first oxide layer, and a second oxide layer. The substrate has a trench. An inclined surface and a bottom surface of the trench have an obtuse angle therebetween. The gate structure is located in the trench. A width of a bottom surface of the gate structure is less than a width of a top surface of the gate structure. A cross-sectional profile of the gate structure is inverted trapezoid. The first oxide layer is located between the gate structure and the substrate. The second oxide layer is located on the top surface of the gate structure.

Abstract: A method includes following steps. A target layer is formed over a substrate. A first hard mask layer is formed over the target layer by a plasma generated using a first radio frequency generator and a second radio frequency generator. The first radio frequency generator and the second radio frequency generator have different powers. A second hard mask layer is formed over the first hard mask layer by a plasma generated using the first radio frequency generator without using the second radio frequency generator. A photoresist layer is formed over the second hard mask layer. The photoresist layer is exposed. The photoresist layer is developed. The first hard mask layer and the second hard mask layer are patterned using the photoresist layer as an etch mask. The target layer is patterned using the first hard mask layer and the second hard mask layer as an etch mask.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a refrigerator and a refrigerator air duct purification system and belongs to the field of refrigerator purification technologies. A refrigeration air duct front foam is fixed at a rear side of a refrigeration air duct backplate. A light-source-oriented light transmission assembly is disposed at a front side of the refrigeration air duct backplate. An air outlet penetrating back and forth is disposed on the refrigeration air duct front foam, the refrigeration air duct backplate and the light-source-oriented light transmission assembly. An outlet air end of the air outlet is in communication with the refrigeration chamber. In a main air duct are disposed an ion generator, an air quality sensor, and an ethylene concentration sensor. A control board is initially in a determination state to determine by a door opening/closing sensor whether a refrigeration door is opened, and if the refrigeration door is opened, start up an ion purification mode.

Abstract: A zero-gravity seat collapsing mechanism may have a base and a seat frame, a rear end of the seat frame may be rotatably connected to the base, upper linkage components may be rotatably connected to a front end of the seat frame, and lower linkage components being rotatably connected to a front end of the base. The upper linkage component and the lower linkage component may be hinged to each other by a pin. A collapsing piece may be fixedly connected to a side of each upper linkage component. The collapsing piece may have an adapter hole, a collapse channel, and a weakened portion formed between the adapter hole and the collapse channel. The upper linkage component may have a strip-shaped avoidance hole. The mechanism provides the beneficial effect of a seat being able to instantaneously restore from a zero-gravity mode to a normal seated mode.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a driving circuitry, a driving method, a driving module, and a display device. The driving circuitry includes a driving signal generation circuitry, a gating circuitry, an output control circuitry and an output circuitry. The driving signal generation circuitry is configured to perform a shifting operation on an (N?1)th-level driving signal to obtain an Nth-level driving signal. The gating circuitry is configured to write a gating input signal into a first node under the control of a gating control signal. The output control circuitry is configured to perform an NAND operation on the Nth-level driving signal and a potential at a second end of the output control circuitry to obtain a first output signal. The output circuitry is configured to perform phase inversion on the first output signal to obtain and provide an output driving signal through an output driving end, where N is a positive integer.

Abstract: Chip packages and methods for forming the same are provided. The method includes providing a substrate having a chip region and a scribe-line region surrounding the chip region and forming a dielectric layer on an upper surface of the substrate. A dummy structure is formed in the dielectric layer over the scribe-line region of the substrate and extends along edges of the chip region. The dummy structure includes a first stack of dummy metal layers and a second stack of dummy metal layers arranged concentrically from the inside to the outside. The method also includes performing a sawing process on a portion of the dielectric layer that surrounds the dummy structure, so as to form a saw opening through the dielectric layer. At least the first stack of dummy metal layers remains in the dielectric layer after the sawing process is performed.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a fully bio-based, highly filled lignin-rubber masterbatch, a method for preparing same, and use thereof. The lignin-rubber masterbatch is prepared by a method comprising: (1) reacting a lignin, acetic acid, and oleic acid in the presence of a catalyst to give a modified lignin; and (2) blending the modified lignin and a rubber, and granulating to give the lignin-rubber masterbatch. The highly filled lignin-rubber masterbatch prepared by the present invention can replace the conventional reinforcing agent carbon black and provide a better reinforcing effect and higher mechanical properties for rubber materials. The present invention can also reduce the rubber content of the rubber composite materials while retaining the mechanical properties, thus featuring cost-efficiency.

Abstract: An optical image capturing system includes, along the optical axis in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, and a seventh lens. At least one lens among the first to the sixth lenses has positive refractive force. The seventh lens can have negative refractive force. The lenses in the optical image capturing system which have refractive power include the first to the seventh lenses. The optical image capturing system can increase aperture value and improve the imaging quality for use in compact cameras.

Abstract: A lens assembly and Augmented Reality (AR) glasses, including a waveguide substrate, a wiring layer, a protective layer, an eye tracking component, and a lens. The waveguide substrate includes a first surface. The wiring layer is disposed on the first surface. The protective layer is disposed on the first surface and covering the wiring layer. The eye tracking component is disposed in the protective layer and is electrically connected with the wiring layer for tracking position of an eyeball. The lens is connected to a side of the protective layer away from the waveguide substrate. The AR glasses includes a display device and two lens assemblies. The display device is positioned between the two lens assemblies for emitting image light to the waveguide substrates of the two lens assemblies.

Abstract: This disclosure is directed to a pharmaceutical composition for treating or preventing a disease. The pharmaceutical composition can comprise a polymer-drug nanoaggregate having a polymer and at least one bioactive agent that can comprise STING polypeptide, a nucleic acid encoding said STING polypeptide, a STING inhibitor, a STING activator, a STING agonist, a STING antagonist, a STING modulating molecule, or a combination thereof. The pharmaceutical composition can be a vaccine or an adjuvant for a vaccine. This disclosure is also directed to a method for treating or preventing a disease using the pharmaceutical composition. The disease can include infectious diseases caused by viruses or other pathogens, for example, influenza, rabies, or respiratory illnesses such as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) caused by coronaviruses, such as MERS-CoV, SARS-CoV, and Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by the virus SARS-CoV-2 and its variants.

Abstract: A rotary digging drill includes three disk drills arranged in ascending order of diameter, each with a cavity therein. The disk drill includes two circular ring seats arranged side by side, multiple toothed digging buckets disposed at peripheries of the two circular ring seats, and ring gear racks respectively disposed on inner sides of the two circular ring seats. Adjacent ones of the disk drills have the toothed digging buckets facing opposite directions, and the disk drills all rotate in a direction facing a large opening, enabling adjacent two of the three disk drills to rotate in opposite directions. The rotary digging drill further includes three disk drill supports that match the three disk drills in quantity and are configured to support and drive the three disk drills.

Abstract: Provided are a package structure and a method of forming the same. The package structure includes a bottom package having a first sidewall and a second sidewall opposite to each other; a hybrid path layer disposed on the bottom package, wherein the hybrid path layer comprises an optical path layer and an electrical path layer, and at least one optical path of the optical path layer extends from the first sidewall of the bottom package beyond a center of the bottom package; and a plurality of dies bonded onto the hybrid path layer.

Abstract: Generally discussed herein are devices, systems, and methods for. A method can include receiving, from a user through a user interface, a segmentation granularity value indicating a number of events in the transcript to be included in a summary, extracting, by a ranker model and from the transcript, a number of hints equal to the number of events, generating, by a summarizer model that includes a re-trained language model, respective summaries, one for each event, of a portion of the transcript corresponding to the event, and providing the respective summaries as an overall summary of the transcript.

Abstract: Provided are a point cloud encoding method and decoding method, and an encoder and a decoder. The encoding method includes: processing attribute information of a target point in a point cloud, so as to obtain a predicted residual of the attribute information of the target point; quantizing the predicted residual on the basis of a quantized weight of the target point and a quantized stride of the target point, so as to obtain a quantized residual of the attribute information of the target point, wherein the quantized weight of the target point is the weight used when weighting the quantized stride of the target point; and encoding the quantized residual, so as to obtain a code stream.

Abstract: A method is directed to storing data in a non-volatile storage. The method includes writing sequentially at least a main portion of a data record in one or more logic blocks of an append-only storage zone of the non-volatile storage until the one or more first logic blocks are written full. The method also includes generating a first journal including a remainder portion of the first data record and a first journal entry for the remainder portion. A storage device control system includes a non-volatile storage and a controller for the non-volatile storage.

Abstract: There is provided a wobble plate piston water pump including: a pump body defining a plurality of channels; a rotatable wobble plate disposed in the pump body; a plurality of pistons each located in a respective one of the plurality of channels, the pistons being reciprocatable within the channel along a piston axis; a water passage defined by a water inlet and a water outlet; and a plurality of inlet check valves, each associated with one of the channels, and positioned between the water inlet and the associated channel, the inlet check valves reciprocate along an axis parallel to the piston axis to transition between closed states and open states.

Abstract: A method of managing resources is provided in embodiments of the present disclosure. The method includes determining a set of candidate historical requests associated with a target request. Here, the set of candidate historical requests has the same request type and target resource as the target request. The method further includes determining a target request pattern of the target request based on at least one previous request of the target request. The method includes determining a target historical request from the set of candidate historical requests based on the target request pattern. The method includes generating a target response to the target request based on a historical response to the target historical request. In this way, by determining a response to a historical request that has the most similar request pattern to the target request, a simulated response that is more in line with the context can be generated.

Abstract: In a method of forming a groove pattern extending in a first axis in an underlying layer over a semiconductor substrate, a first opening is formed in the underlying layer, and the first opening is extended in the first axis by directional etching to form the groove pattern.

Abstract: A method includes receiving a layout for fabricating a mask, determining a plurality of target contours corresponding to a plurality of sets of lithographic process conditions, determining a modification to the layout, simulating the modification to the layout under the plurality of sets of lithographic process conditions to produce a plurality of simulated contours, determining a cost of the modification to the layout based on comparisons between the plurality of simulated contours and corresponding ones in the plurality of target contours, and providing the modification to the layout for fabricating the mask based at least in part on the cost being within a predetermined threshold.