Abstract: A semiconductor structure is disclosed. The semiconductor structure includes a base layer and an etch stop layer having a plurality of elements and in physical contact with the base layer. The etch stop layer have a Boron (B) element configured to improve the etch profile of the etch stop layer.

Abstract: A server for and a method of providing sensing data to at least one electronic device is provided. The server includes a communication interface, a memory, and at least one processor, wherein the processor receives, from a first electronic device, a first template including information about a type of sensing data required by the first electronic device and a format of the sensing data and a request for the sensing data. The processor then selects the requested sensing data from among pieces of sensing data received from at least one second electronic device, based on the received first template, in response to the request, converts the selected sensing data, based on the first template, to obtain converted sensing data, and provides a response message including the converted sensing data to the first electronic device.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for establishing a dual path plan to allow an autonomous vehicle to keep traveling without stopping even when the vehicle cannot follow a global path discovered in advance and for determining a road area for choosing an obstacle to be determined on the basis of the dual path plan. The apparatus includes an input unit configured to receive travel information of an autonomous vehicle, a memory configured to store a program for establishing a dual path plan and determining a road determination area for autonomous driving by using the travel information, and a processor configured to execute the program, wherein the processor establishes the duel path plan by setting a default path such that the autonomous vehicle keeps traveling and by setting a current global path in consideration of a global path and a current location of the autonomous vehicle.

Abstract: A semiconductor memory device includes a substrate, a first active pattern on the substrate, a gate electrode intersecting a channel region of the first active pattern, a first insulating layer covering the first active pattern and the gate electrode, a contact penetrating the first insulating layer so as to be electrically connected to a first source/drain region of the first active pattern, and a second active pattern on the first insulating layer. A channel region of the second active pattern vertically overlaps with the contact.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a non-oriented electrical steel sheet is disclosed. A method of manufacturing a non-oriented electrical steel sheet according to the present invention includes reheating slab consisting of Si: 2.0-4.0%, acid-soluble Al: 0.01-0.04%, Mn: 0.20% or less, Sb: 0.005-0.10%, N: 0.005% or less, S:0.005% or less, C: 0.005-0.015%, Fe in a balance amount, and other inevitable impurities in weight percent (wt %); hot rolling the slab to prepare a hot rolled steel sheet; cold rolling the hot rolled steel sheet to prepare a cold rolled steel sheet; primarily recrystallization-annealing the cold rolled steel sheet; and high-temperature annealing the cold rolled steel sheet subjected to the primarily recrystallization-annealing.

Abstract: A method for producing a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises the steps of: heating a slab satisfying the following formula 1 and including, by wt %, 3.2 to 4.0% of Si, 0.03 to 0.09% of C, 0.015 to 0.040% of A1, 0.04 to 0.15% of Mn, 0.001 to 0.005% of N, 0.01% or less of S (exclusive of 0%), and the balance of Fe and other inevitable impurities; hot rolling the slab to produce a hot rolled sheet; hot band annealing the hot rolled sheet to at a cracking temperature of 900 to 980? for 30 to 300 seconds; cold rolling the hot rolled sheet, which has completely been hot band annealed, to produce a cold rolled sheet; subjecting the cold rolled sheet to primary recrystallization annealing; and conducting secondary recrystallization annealing for the cold rolled sheet which has completely been primary recrystallization annealed. [Mn]×[S]?0.0004??[Formula 1] (wherein [Mn] and [S] are contents (wt %) of Mn and S in the slab, respectively.

Abstract: A light emitting display device includes a substrate having a first pixel, a second pixel, a third pixel, and an infrared emission portion. The first, second, and third pixels emit light of different colors. The light emitting device also includes a first electrode on the substrate, a second electrode overlapping the first electrode, an emission layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, and an auxiliary layer between the first electrode and the emission layer. The auxiliary layer includes a first auxiliary layer on the first pixel and a second auxiliary layer in the infrared emission portion. The first auxiliary layer and second auxiliary layer include a same material.

Abstract: A method of operating an electronic device and the electronic device are provided. The method includes mounting at least one lower file system, which is configured to generate a file object managing a page cache, and mounting a highest file system, to which a virtual file system directly accesses, at a higher layer of a layer corresponding to the lower file system; in response to a file mapping request of a software program, generating a virtual memory area including a virtual address for a file corresponding to the file mapping request; and generating a first virtual address link between a file object of at least one lower file system having a page cache of a file corresponding to the file mapping request and the virtual memory area.

Abstract: A semiconductor device can include a semiconductor substrate and an active region in the semiconductor substrate, where the active region can include an oxide semiconductor material having a variable atomic concentration of oxygen. A first source/drain region can be in the active region, where the first source/drain region can have a first atomic concentration of oxygen in the oxide semiconductor material. A second source/drain region can be in the active region spaced apart from first source/drain region and a channel region can be in the active region between the first source/drain region and the second source/drain region, where the channel region can have a second atomic concentration of oxygen in the oxide semiconductor material that is less than the first atomic concentration of oxygen. A gate electrode can be on the channel region and extend between the first source/drain region and the second source/drain region.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition for preventing or treating asthma comprising a Pistacia weinmannifolia J. Poiss. ex Franch extract or a fraction thereof. The Pistacia weinmannifolia J. Poiss. ex Franch extract or the fraction thereof according to the present invention does not exhibit toxicity, inhibits the generation of NO, IL-4, IL-5, and IL-13 and the generation of reactive oxygen species in the bronchial tubes, and has significantly induced the alleviation of airway hyperresponsiveness, inhibition of the infiltration of inflammatory cells into the bronchial tubes, and reduction of inflammatory cells in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid in an ovalbumin-induced asthma mouse model. In addition, the Pistacia weinmannifolia J. Poiss.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition and a food composition containing Portulaca grandiflora Hook. extract or a fraction thereof as an active ingredient for preventing, treating or ameliorating neuroinflammation or neuro-degenerative diseases. The Portulaca grandiflora Hook. extract or a fraction thereof according to the present invention is derived from a natural product which has been in use as a natural medicinal ingredient, and as such, has no side effects and inhibits expression of NO, PGE2, iNOS and/or COX-2 genes or protein, which are factors associated with inflammation, and is additionally superbly effective for increasing and improving memory and the ability to learn, and thus can be beneficially used to prevent or treat neuroinflammation or neuro-degenerative diseases.

Abstract: A fabricating method of a nanosheet transistor includes: forming a plurality of sacrificial layers and a plurality of channel layers on a substrate, wherein the sacrificial layers and the channel layers are alternately arranged; forming a plurality of gates on an uppermost channel layer, wherein the gates are spaced apart from each other; forming a mask on each of the gates; selectively etching the sacrificial layers between the gates, wherein the sacrificial layers between the gates are removed by the etching; depositing a spacer material along sidewalls of the gates and in areas from which the sacrificial layers have been removed; and etching the spacer material to form sidewall spacers along the sidewalls of the gates and inner spacers between the channel layers.

Abstract: Provided is a strap guide including: a first module including a first base, a strap boss formed on the first base and including a first slot through which a strap passes, and at least one protrusion accommodation part located at an outer circumferential portion of the strap boss and including a bore; and a second module having a second base, a second slot formed in the second base, and at least one coupling protrusion located at an outer circumferential portion of the second slot and configured to form a pair with the protrusion accommodation part, wherein the first module and the second module are coupled to form an opening having a single closed surface.

Abstract: A light emitting display device includes a substrate having a first pixel, a second pixel, a third pixel, and an infrared emission portion. The first, second, and third pixels emit light of different colors. The light emitting device also includes a first electrode on the substrate, a second electrode overlapping the first electrode, an emission layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, and an auxiliary layer between the first electrode and the emission layer. The auxiliary layer includes a first auxiliary layer on the first pixel and a second auxiliary layer in the infrared emission portion. The first auxiliary layer and second auxiliary layer include a same material.

Abstract: An air conditioner includes a housing having a suction port and a discharge port, a main fan configured to draw air into the housing through the suction port and discharge air from the housing through the discharge port, an auxiliary fan configured to draw, into the housing, air discharged by the main fan and a controller configured to control a rotational speed of the auxiliary fan to change a direction in which air is discharged from the housing.

Abstract: This invention pertains to a laminate structure suitable for use as electrical insulation, comprising a first paper layer comprising 90 to 99 weight percent uniformly distributed calcined mica and 1 to 10 weight percent supporting material, a majority by weight of the supporting material being in the form of a floc; and a support layer comprising unidirectional filaments or unidirectional yarns or woven yarns; wherein the support layer is bound to the first paper layer; the laminate structure having a dielectric strength of 15 kV/mm or greater, a Gurley porosity of 400 seconds or less, and total mica content of 60 weight percent or greater. The laminate structure can further comprise a second paper layer bound to the support layer, the second paper layer comprising 90 to 99 weight percent uniformly distributed calcined mica and 1 to 10 weight percent supporting material, a majority by weight of the supporting material being in the form of a floc.

Abstract: The present invention provides a thin layer capply and a low-weight tire to which the thin layer capply is applied. The thin layer capply of the present invention has effects of reducing a rolling resistance of the tire through a weight reduction and improving fuel efficiency of a vehicle in which the tires are mounted while maintaining stiffness required for the tire, by forming the cord spinning layer in a thin tape form by spinning and depositing a plurality of cord strands, rather than twisting a plurality of cord strands to form the capply cord.

Abstract: The present invention provides a pneumatic tire, which includes a belt layer laminated and formed on an upper side of a carcass ply inside a tread portion, and a plurality of air vent cords arranged between the carcass ply and the belt with a predetermined interval, wherein at least a part of the air vent cords is formed so as to have electrical conductivity, thus to electrically communicate the carcass ply and the belt layer with each other, such that a static electricity generated in a body of an automobile is discharged through the tread grounded to the road surface via the carcass ply which electrically contacts with a tire wheel, thereby preventing an accident that may occur due to the static electricity in the automobile.

Abstract: A sensing system according to the embodiment of the present invention includes an optical actuator configured to apply an optical stimulus into a detection target substance, a photo detector configured to output an electrical signal having a snapback form in response to an optical response generated according to a concentration of the detection target substance to which the optical stimulus is applied, an amplifier configured to amplify the electrical signal output from the photo detector and to provide the amplified electrical signal as positive feedback to the optical actuator, and a detection unit configured to detect the detection target substance in response to the electrical signal.

Abstract: An organic light emitting diode (OLED) and a method of manufacturing the same. An auxiliary layer comprising a high density metallic compound and an emission layer are formed by a laser induced thermal imaging (LITI) process. The LITI process reduces manufacturing costs and time by eliminating the need for a mask patterning process. The metallic compound has a density of 2 g/cm3 or greater to promote adhesion and improve interfacial planarization. This results in improved luminance uniformity (i.e. luminance mura) between pixels within an OLED display device.