Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for point-of-care nucleic acid amplification and detection. One embodiment of the point-of-care molecular diagnostic system includes a cartridge and an instrument. The cartridge can accept a biological sample, such as a urine or blood sample. The cartridge, which can comprise one or more of a loading module, lysis module, purification module and amplification module, is inserted into the instrument which acts upon the cartridge to facilitate various sample processing steps that occur in order to perform a molecular diagnostic test.

Abstract: A method for forming semiconductor devices includes providing a substrate with a conductive pad formed thereon; forming a transparent structure over the substrate, wherein the transparent structure includes a plurality of collimating pillars adjacent to the conductive pad; forming a light-shielding structure over the plurality of collimating pillars and the conductive pad; performing a cutting process to remove one or more materials directly above the conductive pad, while leaving remaining material to cover the conductive pad, wherein the material includes a portion of the light-shielding structure; and performing an etching process to remove the remaining material to expose the conductive pad.

Abstract: A fluidic die may include a fluid channel layer defining a number of fluid channels therein, a slot layer disposed on a side of the fluid channel layer, and a first fluid slot and a second fluid slot defined in the slot layer. At least one of the fluid channels fluidically couples the first fluid slot to the second fluid slot. The first fluid slot and the second fluid slot are defined in the slot layer along a length of the fluidic die.

Abstract: Embodiments described herein relate to sub-pixel circuits and methods of forming sub-pixel circuits that may be utilized in a display such as an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display. The device includes a plurality of sub-pixels, each sub-pixel of the plurality of sub-pixels defined by adjacent pixel-defining layer (PDL) structures with inorganic overhang structures disposed on the PDL structures, each sub-pixel having an anode, organic light-emitting diode (OLED) material disposed on the anode, and a cathode disposed on the OLED material. The device is made by a process including the steps of: depositing the OLED material and the cathode by evaporation deposition, and depositing an encapsulation layer disposed over the cathode.

Abstract: An ESR detection device and an ESR detection method are provided, the ESR detection device including a sample collecting and dispensing module, an ESR detection module and a data processing module. The sample collecting and dispensing module is configured for dispensing at least part of a blood sample to the ESR detection module. The ESR detection module is configured for obtaining disaggregation optical data during disaggregation of erythrocytes and/or aggregation optical data during reaggregation of erythrocytes. The data processing module is configured for obtaining an ESR detection result of the blood sample based on the aggregation optical data, determining, based on the disaggregation optical data and/or the aggregation optical data, whether or not there is a sample abnormality that leads to an abnormality in the ESR detection result, and outputting an alarm prompt when it is determined that the sample abnormality is present, thereby reducing clinical risk.

Abstract: The present invention relates to: a pyrene derivative compound having a specific structure; and a high efficiency organic light-emitting device employing the pyrene derivative compound in a light emitting layer and thus having excellent light-emitting characteristics. The organic light-emitting device according to the present invention can be configured as a high efficiency organic light-emitting device having excellent light-emitting characteristics by employing the pyrene derivative compound having the specific structure as a host in the light emitting layer, and thus can be usefully applied industrially in lighting devices, as well as various display devices such as flat, flexible, and wearable displays.

Abstract: A buried person search device using a detachable module is disclosed. The device includes a ground drone 10 deployed at a site of a collapse disaster, the ground drone 10 having a communication device 80 and a first beacon, a camera device 40 mounted on the ground drone 10 to photograph surroundings of the ground drone 10, a storage 50 installed on the ground drone 10, a plurality of repeater modules 60 connected by a wireless communication network to relay wireless communications between the ground drone 10, a flying drone 32, and a command and control center 100, each of the repeater modules 60 having a second beacon, and a sensing device 70 installed on the ground drone 10 or the repeater modules 60 to collect a sound, wherein the storage 50 accommodates the repeater modules 60, and throws the repeater modules 60 in response to an operation signal.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a powder for growing a gallium oxide single crystal and a method of manufacturing the same, and the powder for growing a gallium oxide single crystal according to an embodiment of the present invention is made of gallium oxide and has a bulk density of 0.7 g/cm3 or more and 1.0 g/cm3 or less.

Abstract: A substrate treatment method includes an auto-recovery operation of automatically recovering a substrate when a treatment process of treating the substrate is interrupted due to an occurrence of an abnormality and a chamber neutralization operation of neutralizing an inside of a process chamber including the substrate before the auto-recovery operation after the treatment process is stopped.

Abstract: A performance monitoring system for a disc cutter of a tunnel boring machine (TBM) is provided, and includes a disc cutter body, a shaft assembly and an isolation boss; the shaft assembly includes a shaft main body and a bearing spacer located on the shaft main body; a rotating mechanism is arranged in a space between the isolation boss and the bearing spacer; the rotating mechanism includes a rotator and a T-shaped extension support located between the bearing spacer and the rotator; bearing retainers of roller bearings are arranged on two sides of the T-shaped extension support; a ring-shaped grating strip is arranged on one side of the rotator close to the T-shaped extension support; a connecting component is arranged on one side of the rotator away from a rotating bearing; and a sealing assembly is arranged between the T-shaped extension support and the rotator.

Abstract: A firmware upgrade method of a network storage includes inquiring, by the network storage, about a latest firmware version for the network storage from a firmware upgrade platform through a network, and based on the latest firmware version being inconsistent with a current firmware version of the network storage, downloading, by the network storage, the latest firmware version from the firmware upgrade platform through the network and performing a firmware upgrade based on the latest firmware version.

Abstract: A method and apparatus of a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system is provided. The method and apparatus comprises: receiving a synchronization signals and physical broadcast channel (SS/PBCH) block; determining whether a shared spectrum channel access is enabled; determining a first index of the SS/PBCH block as a candidate SS/PBCH block index (ISSB1) based on a number of candidate SS/PBCH blocks in a half frame; and determining a second index of the SS/PBCH block as an SS/PBCH block index (ISSB2) based on a quasi-co-location (QCL) parameter (Q) indicated by a PBCH in the SS/PBCH block, wherein the SS/PBCH block index (ISSB2) is determined as: ISSB2=ISSB1 mod Q based on a determination that the shared spectrum channel access is enabled, where mod is a modular operation; or ISSB2=ISSB1 based on the determination that the shared spectrum channel access is not enabled.

Abstract: A semiconductor package includes a bump interconnection structure. The semiconductor package includes a first lead and a second lead spaced apart from each other on a first substrate, a bump disposed to face the first lead in a second substrate, and a solder layer configured to connect the bump and the first lead. The first lead has a stair shape that ascends toward the second lead.

Abstract: A system for generating an electrical signal responsive to a pressure input, a sensory system, and a method for generating an electrical signal responsive to a pressure input. The system comprises a diaphragm configured to be subjected to the pressure input; a microfluidic channel with a first end thereof coupled to the diaphragm such that the pressure input generates a corresponding pressure change in the microfluidic channel; one or more magnets disposed in a carrier liquid in the microfluidic channel; and one or more coils disposed along the microfluidic channel and for generating the electrical signal based on Faraday effect by the magnets moving, under the pressure change in the microfluidic channel, through the respective coils.

Abstract: A device for establishing a communication network and collecting situation information at a site of a collapse disaster is disclosed. The device includes a ground drone 10 deployed at the site of the collapse disaster, the ground drone 10 having a communication device 80 mounted thereon, a flying drone 32 mounted on and carried by the ground drone 10 to fly and photograph the site of the collapse disaster, a camera device 40 mounted on the ground drone 10 to photograph surroundings of the ground drone 10, a storage 50 installed on the ground drone 10, and a plurality of repeater modules 60 connected by the wireless communication network to relay wireless communications between the ground drone 10, the flying drone 32, and a command and control center 100, wherein the storage 50 accommodates the repeater modules 60, and throws the repeater modules 60 in response to an operation signal.

Abstract: A home port for a semiconductor manufacturing nozzle head includes a body having a discharge space configured to receive treatment liquid discharged from a plurality of nozzles, discharge flow passages connected to be in communication with the discharge space and penetrating through the body so as to face the plurality of nozzles, and a cleaning liquid distribution system, which is formed to penetrate through the body, and is connected to transfer a cleaning liquid to the discharge flow passages. The cleaning liquid distribution system includes supply flow passages connected to supply the cleaning liquid to the discharge flow passages, and a lead-in passage connected to and which joins the supply flow passages, and connected to receive the cleaning liquid injected from the outside.

Abstract: A positioning method includes: A first terminal performs transmission of a target message with a target device. The first terminal performs transmission of a first SL-PRS based on the target message. The target message includes at least one of the following: a positioning request or positioning assistance data. The first SL-PRS is used for determining: location information of the first terminal and/or a second terminal, and/or SL-PRS measurement information. The second terminal is a peer terminal that performs SL communication or SL positioning with the first terminal.

Abstract: A method includes determining backscatter frequency offsets assigned to backscatter nodes to be positioned; controlling transmitting, by the first user device, a positioning signal using time-frequency resources found unused by the first user device or allocated by a network node; controlling receiving, by the first user device via sidelink communication, channel estimate information from a plurality of second user devices, wherein a channel estimate information indicates an estimate of a channel between one of the plurality of second user devices and each of the at least some of the backscatter nodes, and wherein the channel estimate information received from each second user device is based on the transmitted positioning signal that is frequency shifted by an assigned backscatter frequency offset and reflected by each of the at least some of the backscatter nodes; and controlling transmitting, by the first user device to the network node, the received channel estimate information.

Abstract: A blower unit for a vehicle and an air conditioning device including the same, the blower unit including: a scroll casing having an inlet port; a fan rotatably disposed in the scroll casing; a motor having a shaft coupled to the fan; and a bell mouth disposed in the inlet port, in which an inner end of the scroll casing, which defines the inlet port, is disposed to be spaced apart from the fan in a radial direction to define a separation space, and the bell mouth prevents air, which flows by a rotation of the fan, from flowing reversely through the separation space. The blower unit and the air conditioning device including the same prevent air from flowing reversely to the outside of the scroll casing by means of the arrangement of the bell mouth and the scroll casing and the structural shape of the bell mouth.