Abstract: A method for forming a device includes blending, in a mixer within a fabrication facility, a first liquid including a first block copolymer with a second liquid including a second block copolymer to form a first mixture. The first block copolymer includes a first homopolymer and a second homopolymer, where the first homopolymer has a first mole fraction in the first liquid. The second block copolymer includes the first homopolymer and the second homopolymer, the first homopolymer having a second mole fraction in the second liquid, the first mole fraction being different from the second mole fraction. The method includes placing a substrate over a substrate holder of a processing chamber within the fabrication facility; and coating the substrate with the first mixture within the processing chamber.

Abstract: A method is provided for self-aligned multi-patterning on a semiconductor workpiece using an integrated sequence of processing steps executed on a common manufacturing platform hosting one or more film-forming modules, one or more etching modules, and one or more transfer modules. A workpiece having a mandrel pattern formed thereon is received into the common manufacturing platform. A sidewall spacer pattern is formed based, at least in part, on the mandrel pattern, the sidewall spacer pattern having a plurality of second features separated by a second pitch distance with the first pitch distance being greater than the second pitch distance. The integrated sequence of processing steps is executed within the common manufacturing platform without leaving the controlled environment and the transfer modules are used to transfer the workpiece between the processing modules while maintaining the workpiece within the controlled environment. Broadly, forming a sidewall spacer pattern based on the mandrel pattern.

Abstract: Apparatus and associated methods relate to a catheter manipulation handle with user interface controls for steering a catheter in situ while providing an augmented (e.g., motorized, powered and tunable precision steering, and perforation safeguards) control and feedback user experience. In an illustrative example, the catheter manipulation handle may provide motor assisted operation to automatically rotate and/or deflect a distal tip of the catheter to steer and guide the distal tip to a target location in the patient's vasculature system. The augmented feedback may include, for example, haptic feedback via the handle. Haptic, audible, and/or visual feedback via the handle may indicate, for example, proximity or engagement of the distal tip with sensitive tissue. In some examples, the handle's augmented operation may advantageously amplify feedback signals to enhance the user's perception of the patient's safety with respect to the safe passage of the distal tip through the patient's vasculature.

Abstract: Apparatus and associated methods relate to an adaptable microenvironment for cellular and biological processing in a traceable, transportable unit. In an illustrative example, an apparatus consists of one or more portable cell tissue containment modules that may be removably interconnected to perform a processing step and/or transfer the stored medium to another module. Associated apparatus and methods are proposed to ensure non-contaminating mechanical or fluid communication between a plurality of modules or between a module and peripheral equipment, to limit process errors such as steps performed out of order, and to intrinsically manage identification of tissue samples with accompanying process data in a manner that decreases risk of mislabeling or otherwise mishandling a sample at all stages of the production and treatment process.

Abstract: A system and method for transmission of a signal for a powered assistive device has a sensor node with a wireless transmitter adapted for digitally transmitting a transmitted signal, the sensor node adapted for receiving and monitoring a sensor signal from a sensor attached to a user, and a master node with a controller and a wireless receiver for receiving the transmitted signal from the wireless transmitter. The master node processes the transmitted signal and communicates a control signal to the powered assistive device. The wireless transmitter transmits the transmitted signal at a first rate when the wireless transmitter adapted to transmit the transmitted signal at a first rate when the sensor signal is indicative of the rest state and to transmit the transmitted signal at a second rate when the sensor signal is indicative of the active state, the second rate being greater than the first rate.

Abstract: Apparatus and associated methods relate to closure of a stoma with a structure continuously formed in vivo. In an illustrative example, a stoma closure tool (SCT) may include a drive module, a phase transition inducement module (PTIM), and a conduit that defines a lumen. A distal end of the conduit may, for example, be inserted through a first tissue and into a second tissue that together at least partially define a stoma. A flow rate of a fluid biomaterial through the lumen and discharged at the distal end of the conduit may, for example, be controlled by the drive module. A fluid to solid phase transition in the biomaterial may, for example, be controllably induced by the PTIM. Various embodiments may, for example, advantageously form a continuous structure extending directly across the stoma between a proximal anchor in the first tissue and a distal anchor in the second tissue.

Abstract: A data processing manager receives a batch of data for real-time data processing. The batch of data is associated with a correlation identifier and includes a set of data objects. The data processing manager assigns, to each data object, a unique resource identifier. The data processing manager transmits a data processing request to a target data system, and the data processing request includes a set of callback functions corresponding to the set of data objects. The callback functions identify the unique resource identifier. As the target data system processes the data objects, the target data system executes the callback functions, which operate as dynamic return endpoints for the data processing results.

Abstract: A method of forming a device includes forming a hard mask layer over an underlying layer of a substrate, forming an anti-reflective coating layer over the hard mask layer, forming a patterned resist layer over the anti-reflective coating layer, and forming a mandrel including the anti-reflective coating layer by patterning the anti-reflective coating layer using the patterned resist layer as an etch mask. The method includes forming a sidewall spacer on the mandrel including the anti-reflective coating layer, forming a freestanding spacer on the hard mask layer by removing the mandrel from the anti-reflective coating layer, and using the freestanding spacer as an etch mask, patterning the underlying layer of the substrate.

Abstract: A system and method for transmission of a signal for a powered assistive device has a sensor node with a wireless transmitter adapted for digitally transmitting a transmitted signal, the sensor node adapted for receiving and monitoring a sensor signal from a sensor attached to a user, and a master node with a controller and a wireless receiver for receiving the transmitted signal from the wireless transmitter. The master node processes the transmitted signal and communicates a control signal to the powered assistive device. The wireless transmitter transmits the transmitted signal at a first rate when the wireless transmitter adapted to transmit the transmitted signal at a first rate when the sensor signal is indicative of the rest state and to transmit the transmitted signal at a second rate when the sensor signal is indicative of the active state, the second rate being greater than the first rate.

Abstract: Apparatus and associated methods relate to an optimizable cellular growth chamber, where growth conditions are optimized by adjusting gas pressures through a gas permeable membrane. In an illustrative example, an apparatus may provide a volume to contain growth medium and the cells under propagation, where the volume has limited but non-zero pneumatic communication with a pressure-controlled chamber via a gas-permeable membrane. Associated apparatus and methods are proposed to manage desired growth conditions via deliberate control of parameters, such as partial pressures, for example.

Abstract: A computing apparatus includes a processor and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, configure the apparatus to cause presentation of a graphical user interface (GUI), the GUI depicting primary content, cause presentation of an indicator corresponding to a portion of the primary content, the indicator indicating availability of secondary content, detect user selection of the indicator, responsive to the detection of the user selection of the indicator, cause presentation of an index of secondary content associated with the portion of the primary content, the index of secondary content includes secondary content identifiers that are user selectable, detect user selection of a selected secondary content identifier from the index of content, responsive to the detection of the user selection of the selected secondary content identifier, retrieve selected secondary content associated with the selected secondary content identifier, and cause presentation of the selected secondary conte

Abstract: Methods for processing a substrate are provided. The method includes receiving a substrate. The substrate has a front side surface, a backside surface, and a side edge surface. The method also includes coating the front side surface, the backside surface and the side edge surface with a self-assembled monolayer and exposing an area of interest with actinic radiation. The actinic radiation causes a de-protection reaction within the self-assembled monolayer within the central region. The method also includes removing the self-assembled monolayer from the area of interest while the self-assembled monolayer remains on remaining surfaces of the substrate.

Abstract: A method of patterning a substrate includes receiving a substrate having microfabricated structures, including mandrels; executing a deposition process that deposits a first material on the mandrels, the deposition process including cyclically moving the substrate through a set of deposition modules. The substrate is moved through the set of deposition modules so that the first material is deposited at a first thickness at top portions of the mandrels and at a second thickness at bottom portions of mandrels, the first thickness being greater than the second thickness. The method includes executing a spacer deposition process that conformally deposits a second material on the substrate; executing a spacer open etch that removes depositions of the second material from over a top surface of the mandrels; removing the first material and the mandrels from the substrate, leaving sidewall spacers; and transferring a pattern defined by the sidewall spacers into an underlying layer.

Abstract: A method of forming a pattern on a substrate is provided. The method includes forming a first layer on an underlying layer of the substrate, where the first layer is patterned to have a first structure. The method also includes depositing a grafting material on side surfaces of the first structure, where the grafting material includes a solubility-shifting material. The method further includes diffusing the solubility-shifting material by a predetermined distance into a neighboring structure that abuts the solubility-shifting material, where the solubility-shifting material changes solubility of the neighboring structure in a developer, and removing soluble portions of the neighboring structure using the developer to form a second structure.

Abstract: A method of patterning a substrate includes receiving a substrate having microfabricated structures, including mandrels; executing a deposition process that deposits a first material on the mandrels, the deposition process including cyclically moving the substrate through a set of deposition modules. The substrate is moved through the set of deposition modules so that the first material is deposited at a first thickness at top portions of the mandrels and at a second thickness at bottom portions of mandrels, the first thickness being greater than the second thickness. The method includes executing a spacer deposition process that conformally deposits a second material on the substrate; executing a spacer open etch that removes depositions of the second material from over a top surface of the mandrels; removing the first material and the mandrels from the substrate, leaving sidewall spacers; and transferring a pattern defined by the sidewall spacers into an underlying layer.

Abstract: A prosthetic finger includes a main body and a terminal gripper at an end of the main body for enabling fine-motor grasping skills. The terminal gripper has at least two tongs movable relative to one another. The prosthetic finger includes a gripping mode and a flexion mode. In the gripping mode, the tongs of the terminal gripper are able to move relative to one another while the main body is not able to flex, and in the flexion mode, the main body is able to flex while the at two tongs is not able to move relative to one another.

Abstract: Apparatus and associated methods relate to a catheter manipulation handle with user interface controls for steering a catheter in situ while providing an augmented (e.g., motorized, powered and tunable precision steering, and perforation safeguards) control and feedback user experience. In an illustrative example, the catheter manipulation handle may provide motor assisted operation to automatically rotate and/or deflect a distal tip of the catheter to steer and guide the distal tip to a target location in the patient's vasculature system. The augmented feedback may include, for example, haptic feedback via the handle. Haptic, audible, and/or visual feedback via the handle may indicate, for example, proximity or engagement of the distal tip with sensitive tissue. In some examples, the handle's augmented operation may advantageously amplify feedback signals to enhance the user's perception of the patient's safety with respect to the safe passage of the distal tip through the patient's vasculature.

Abstract: A method is provided for self-aligned multi-patterning on a semiconductor workpiece using an integrated sequence of processing steps executed on a common manufacturing platform hosting film-forming modules, etching modules, and transfer modules. A workpiece having a mandrel pattern formed thereon is received into the common manufacturing platform. A sidewall spacer pattern is formed based, at least in part, on the mandrel pattern, the sidewall spacer pattern having a plurality of second features separated by a second pitch distance with the first pitch distance being greater than the second pitch distance. The integrated sequence of processing steps is executed within the common manufacturing platform without leaving the controlled environment and the transfer modules are used to transfer the workpiece between the processing modules while maintaining the workpiece within the controlled environment.

Abstract: One illustrative device includes, among other things, at least one fin defined in a semiconductor substrate and a substantially vertical nanowire having an oval-shaped cross-section disposed on a top surface of the at least one fin.

Abstract: Apparatus and associated methods relate to a catheter manipulation handle with user interface controls for steering a catheter in situ while providing an augmented (e.g., motorized, powered and tunable precision steering, and perforation safeguards) control and feedback user experience. In an illustrative example, the catheter manipulation handle may provide motor assisted operation to automatically rotate and/or deflect a distal tip of the catheter to steer and guide the distal tip to a target location in the patient's vasculature system. The augmented feedback may include, for example, haptic feedback via the handle. Haptic, audible, and/or visual feedback via the handle may indicate, for example, proximity or engagement of the distal tip with sensitive tissue. In some examples, the handle's augmented operation may advantageously amplify feedback signals to enhance the user's perception of the patient's safety with respect to the safe passage of the distal tip through the patient's vasculature.