Abstract: A battery system is provided having first and second battery cells in a battery pack. A first battery management system (BMS) may be in communication with the first battery cell, while a second battery management system may be in communication with the second battery cell. In this manner, each BMS may function to locally control each respective battery cell, thereby providing improved control over each cell. The BMSs may include controllers configured to receive measurement data from the battery cells, to process this battery cell measurement data, and then to produce a control signal based on the battery cell measurement data. The control signals may be provided to switching circuitry connected to the battery cell, thereby allowing for individualized control of each battery cell. Additionally, each BMS may share information regarding the individual cell they monitor with other BMSs.

Abstract: A method for recognizing blink and eye movement based on electroencephalogram (EEG) and a system thereof are disclosed. The method includes measuring a subject's EEG-based electrooculogram (EOG) signal (hereinafter referred to as “EOG signal”) using three electrodes connected to an EEG head cap. The method further includes performing potential blink detection and zero crossing detection using the EOG signal, and generating a plurality of parameters used for blink and eye movement classification using the EOG signal depending on presence or absence of the potential blink and the zero crossing. In addition, the method further includes classifying the blink and up/down/left/right eye movements of using the plurality of parameters.

Abstract: An scanning electron microscope (SEM) image distortion correction method includes obtaining at least one SEM image of holes provided on a wafer in a two-dimensional array structure, the holes including at least one central hole within a central region of the at least one SEM image and a plurality of peripheral holes outside the central region, expanding each of the plurality of peripheral holes in a minor axis direction such that a ratio of a minor axis to a major axis of each of the plurality of peripheral holes is about 1:1, and expanding each of the plurality of peripheral holes in multiple directions in the at least one SEM image such that a diameter of the at least one central hole and a diameter of at least one of the plurality of peripheral holes are substantially equal to each other.

Abstract: A non-volatile memory device includes a first semiconductor layer and a second semiconductor layer arranged in the vertical direction. A first semiconductor layer includes a plurality of memory cells, and a plurality of metal lines extending in a first direction, and including first bit lines, second bit lines, and a common source line tapping wire between the first bit lines and the second bit lines. A second semiconductor layer includes a page buffer circuit connected to the first bit lines and the second bit lines, and the page buffer circuit includes first transistors arranged below the first bit lines and electrically connected to the first bit lines, second transistors arranged below the second bit lines and electrically connected to the second bit lines, and a first guard ring arranged below and overlapped the common source line tapping wire in the vertical direction and extending in the first direction.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: a first substrate structure including a first substrate, circuit devices, and first bonding pads; and a second substrate structure connected to the first substrate structure. The second substrate structure includes: a source structure; gate electrodes stacked and spaced apart from each other below the source structure in a first direction; first contact plugs electrically connected to the gate electrodes and extending in the first direction; a second contact plug extending in the first direction in an external side of the gate electrodes and electrically connected to the source structure through an upper end; a diffusion barrier between the second contact plug and the source structure, wherein a level of a lower end thereof is higher than a level of an uppermost surface of the gate electrodes; and second bonding pads below the gate electrodes and connected to the first bonding pads.

Abstract: Provided is a fabrication method of a battery module case accommodating a battery cell, the method including: operation (a) of inputting a first base material member and a second base material member included in the case which accommodates the battery cell therein; operation (b) of performing a surface treatment by emitting a laser to a surface region including a joining region formed by contacting the first base material member and the second base material member with each other; and operation (c) of forming a weld joint by emitting the laser to the joining region, thus increasing a recognition rate in operating an auto position alignment (APA) function regardless of a surface condition of the base material of the battery module case.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a stack structure that includes horizontal conductive layers and interlayer insulating layers that are alternately stacked with each other in a first direction, vertical conductive layers that pass through the stack structure and extend in the first direction, where the vertical conductive layers have a pillar shape, selector layers that surround external surfaces of the vertical conductive layers, where the selector layers include a chalcogenide material, and first isolation layers that divide the horizontal conductive layers from each other and pass through the stack structure and between the vertical conductive layers adjacent to each other in a second direction that is perpendicular to the first direction. Ends of the first isolation layers in the second direction are in contact with external surfaces of the selector layers.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a device, and a method for using the device to measure the range-of-motion of a hip joint during a hip resurfacing surgery. The device comprises a temporary femoral component for rigidly affixing an array holder to the resurfaced femoral head to hold a primary array of tracking markers that are tracked through the range-of-motion by a computer-assisted surgical system (CASS).

Abstract: A biaxially oriented polyester film according to the present invention is a biaxially oriented polyester film comprising inorganic particles and a polyester resin, wherein the hardness of a roll obtained by slitting a master roll on which the biaxially oriented polyester film is wound and then by being rewound thereon at a winding tension of 6.5 kg/m to 8.5 kg/m, a winding surface pressure of 35 kg/m to 50 kg/m and a winding rate of 300 m/min to 350 m/min, is 90 to 95 points. The biaxially oriented polyester film prevents the roll from forming wrinkles over time in a roll wound state, and therefore when used as an interlayer of a secondary battery separator, can prevent wrinkles from transferring onto the separator.

Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a flexible display in which an externally exposed region decreases as the flexible display goes into the electronic device and the externally exposed region expands as the flexible display comes out of the electronic device, a camera module including an image sensor, at least one sensor, and at least one processor, wherein the at least one processor is configured to acquire an image through the entire region of the image sensor based on a user input, identify the externally exposed region of the flexible display through the at least one sensor, determine, in the image, an image portion corresponding to identified region of the flexible display, and display determined image portion through the flexible display.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for detecting a defective battery cell is proposed. The proposed apparatus includes a charger for supplying current to cause a battery cell to maintain a constant voltage, a measurement part for measuring the voltage and current of the battery cell, and a controller for determining whether a defect exists in the battery cell on the basis of the current measured by the measurement part, whereby the defective battery cell may be detected with high accuracy, a time required for the detection may be shortened, and a space required for the detection may also be reduced.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a plurality of blocks on a substrate. Trenches are disposed between the plurality of blocks. Conductive patterns are formed inside the trenches. A lower end of an outermost trench among the trenches is formed at a level higher than a level of a lower end of the trench adjacent to the outermost trench. Each of the blocks includes insulating layers and gate electrodes, which are alternately and repeatedly stacked. Pillars pass through the insulating layers and the gate electrodes along a direction orthogonal to an upper surface of the substrate.

Abstract: A method for controlling nitrogen oxide (NOx) includes adjusting a flow rate of d gas injected into an arc-type plasma generating device, and identifying a concentration of the generated nitrogen oxide, while adjusting an amount of energy per unit flow rate of the injected gas.

Abstract: A non-oriented electrical steel sheet according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention contains, by wt %: 0.005% or less (excluding 0%) of C, 1.5 to 3.0% of Si, 0.4 to 1.5% of Mn, 0.005% or less (excluding 0%) of S, 0.0001 to 0.7% of Al, 0.005% or less (excluding 0%) of N, 0.005% or less (excluding 0%) of Ti, 0.001 to 0.02% of Cu, 0.01 to 0.05% of Sb, 0.001 to 0.1% of Sn, and 0.005 to 0.07% of P, wherein contents of Mn, Si, and Al satisfy the following [Expression 1], contents of Sb, Sn, and P satisfy the following [Expression 2], the non-oriented electrical steel sheet contains a balance of Fe and unavoidably incorporated impurities, and the number of (Mn, Cu)S precipitates of 0.5 ?m or less per area is 1/?m3 or less: 0.19 ? [ Mn ] / ( [ Si ] + 150 × [ Al ] ) ? 0.35 [ Expression ? 1 ] 1 / 2 * ? Sn < [ Sb ] + [ P ] < 0 . 0 ? 9 .

Abstract: A method and a device are disclosed for a non-simultaneous transmit and receive (NSTR) operation in a communication system supporting multiple links. An operating method of a device comprises the steps of: receiving, from an AP, a first frame including configuration information about a TWT SP in a first link from among multiple links; transmitting, to an STA, a second frame including configuration information about a QTP overlapping with the TWT SP in a second link from among the multiple links; and communicating with the AP within the TWT SP configured in the first link.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. An energy harvesting device may transmit energy status information for the energy harvesting device, where the energy harvesting device may cycle between an energy harvesting mode and a wireless communication mode. During the wireless communication mode, the energy harvesting device may receive control signaling indicating to apply a first feedback process type (e.g., a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process) of multiple different feedback process types based on the energy status information. The energy harvesting device may receive a control message scheduling transmission of a message to the energy harvesting wireless device in a resource of a shared data channel. Accordingly, the energy harvesting device may monitor the resource for the message based on the control message and may transmit feedback information for the message in accordance with the indicated feedback process type.

Abstract: Provided are a light-emitting device, an electronic device including the light-emitting device, and a consumer product including the light-emitting device. The light-emitting device includes a first electrode, a second electrode facing the first electrode, and an interlayer between the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein the interlayer includes an emission layer and an electron transport region, wherein the electron transport region is between the emission layer and the second electrode, and the emission layer includes a first emitter, and the electron transport region includes a heterocyclic compound. The descriptions of the first emitter and the heterocyclic compound are the same as described in the present specification.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a complex for bioimaging, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer cells. The complex of the present invention comprises fluorescent nanoparticles and a manganese salt conjugated to the surface of the fluorescent nanoparticles, and the fluorescence of the fluorescent nanoparticles in the complex is quenched due to the conjugation of the manganese salt.

Abstract: A display device according to an embodiment includes: a display, a communication interface comprising communication circuitry configured to communicate with at least one of a first control device including a first key and a second control device including the first key, and at least one processor, individually and/or collectively, configured to execute at least one instruction to cause the display device to: receive a first control signal corresponding to the first key, perform a first operation to output a first full screen by executing the first control signal based on the first control signal being received from the first control device while first content is being played, and perform a second operation different from the first operation to output a second full screen different from the first full screen based on the first control signal being received from the second control device while the first content is being played.

Abstract: The present disclosure, in a method of decoding a video signal, provides a method including checking whether a transform skip is applied to a current block; acquiring a transform index indicating transform types applied to a horizontal direction and a vertical direction of the current block from among a plurality of predefined transform types from the video signal when the transform skip is not applied to the current block; and performing an inverse primary transform on the current block using the transform types indicated by the transform index, wherein the transform types applied to the horizontal direction and the vertical direction of the current block are determined from among transform types defined according to an intra prediction mode of the current block based on the transform index.