Abstract: A semiconductor device and a method of forming the same are provided. The semiconductor device includes a substrate, a gate structure, a dielectric structure and a contact structure. The substrate has source/drain (S/D) regions. The gate structure is on the substrate and between the S/D regions. The dielectric structure covers the gate structure. The contact structure penetrates through the dielectric structure to connect to the S/D region. A lower portion of a sidewall of the contact structure is spaced apart from the dielectric structure by an air gap therebetween, while an upper portion of the sidewall of the contact structure is in contact with the dielectric structure.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a non-alcoholic fatty liver artificial tissue model. As compared to a conventional technology by which tissues are cultured only in Matrigel including a device composed of a decellularized liver tissue-derived extracellular matrix and a plurality of microchannels or a decellularized liver tissue-derived extracellular matrix, the present disclosure enables better mimicking of an actual non-alcoholic fatty liver disease due to the presence of Kupffer cells and hepatic stellate cells. Also, according to the present disclosure, the growth of liver organoids can be improved and fat accumulation and inflammation in the liver organoids can be caused to occur well through free fatty acid treatment, and the phenotypes of non-alcoholic fatty liver can be better expressed.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a tobacco material including a natural flavor material and a method of preparing the tobacco material. The tobacco material may have a core-shell structure in which a core includes a natural flavor material and is surrounded by a shell including a tobacco mixture, such that the aerosol generating article including the tobacco material generates a characteristic flavor.

Abstract: One or more embodiments relate to an aerosol generating article including: a first portion including an aerosol generating element; a second portion including a cooling element; a third portion including a tobacco element; and a fourth portion including a filter element, wherein the first through fourth portions are sequentially arranged in a longitudinal direction of the aerosol generating article.

Abstract: A battery charge management server for an electric vehicle may include a storage unit configured to store and update transportation data, a communication unit configured to receive information on a destination and information on an electric vehicle battery from a user, and a processor configured to calculate a driving route and a transportation time to the destination based on the transportation data and the information on the destination, predict a remaining battery capacity of the electric vehicle battery after reaching the destination based on the driving route, the transportation time, and the electric vehicle battery, and providing the predicted remaining battery capacity.

Abstract: Disclosed is a miniaturized battery module in which a space except for a space of a battery cell is minimized and the number of components is reduced. The miniaturized battery module includes a cell assembly configured by assembling a plurality of battery cells, an upper frame inserted into an outer upper surface of the cell assembly, a lower frame inserted into an outer lower surface of the cell assembly and fastened to the upper frame, and first and second endplates fastened to two opposite ends of the cell assembly and configured to fix the plurality of battery cells. In this case, at least two or more of the plurality of the battery cells are arranged side by side, and the upper frame and the lower frame are fastened by welding.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition containing ?-lapachone as an active ingredient for prevention or treatment of cholestatic liver disease, and can provide agents for effectively preventing and treating cholestatic liver disease.

Abstract: Provided is an aerosol generating apparatus including: a susceptor configured to heat an aerosol generating article inserted into an accommodation space of the aerosol generating apparatus; an induction coil arranged around the susceptor and configured to heat the susceptor by induction heating; a switching module configured to switch an electrical path of the induction coil; and a controller electrically connected to the switching module and configured to detect insertion of the aerosol generating article on the basis of a change in an inductance of the induction coil by setting a control mode for the induction coil to a reception mode, and when the insertion of the aerosol generating article is detected, switch the control mode to a transmission mode for activating the induction heating, via the switching module.

Abstract: An electroluminescent device includes a first electrode and a second electrode facing each other; an emission layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode and including a plurality of quantum dots and a first hole transporting material having a substituted or unsubstituted C4 to C20 alkyl group attached to a backbone structure; a hole transport layer disposed between the emission layer and the first electrode and including a second hole transporting material; and an electron transport layer disposed between the emission layer and the second electrode.

Abstract: Discussed is an organic light emitting device in which a light emitting layer includes a host and different kinds of dopants, the fluorescent dopant is formed of a material having energy level properties facilitating thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF), and thus energy is concentratedly transferred to the fluorescent dopant so as to increase luminous efficacy of a single color.

Abstract: An embodiment of the present disclosure discloses tobacco material including: a center portion including a flavor material; and an outer portion including a tobacco mixture, wherein the outer portion surrounds the center portion.

Abstract: Disclosed is a case for a battery module including a body having an internal space; and an end plate disposed on an end of the body, wherein the body includes a bottom plate on which a coolant flow path through which a coolant flows is formed, and wherein the end plate includes a coolant flow tube through which the coolant flows and a connection portion extending from the coolant flow tube and coupled to the coolant flow path.

Abstract: Example methods are provided to improve placement of an adaptor (210,220) to a mobile computing device (100) to measure a test strip (221) coupled to the adaptor (220) with a camera (104) and a screen (108) on a face of the mobile computing device (100). The method may include displaying a light area on a first portion of the screen (108). The first portion may be adjacent to the camera (104). The light area and the camera (104) may be aligned with a key area of the test strip (221) so that the camera (104) is configured to capture an image of the key area. The method may further include providing first guiding information for a user to place the adaptor (210,220) to the mobile computing device (100) according to a position of the light area on the screen (108).

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an image sensing apparatus including a driver disposed on a substrate and configured to drive a light emitter and a light receiver to emit a first optical signal toward an object and receive a second optical signal reflected from the object, a housing coupled to the substrate and surrounding the light emitter, the light receiver, and the driver, a diffuser disposed on the housing, and a transparent electrode disposed on the diffuser, wherein the driver includes a transparent electrode driver configured to detect whether the diffuser is damaged in a first mode and shields electromagnetic interference noise in a second mode by using the transparent electrode.

Abstract: Methods and systems for executing tracking and monitoring manufacturing data of a battery are disclosed. One method includes: receiving, by a server system, sensing data of the battery from a sensing system; generating, by the server system, mapping data based on the sensing data; generating, by the server system, identification data of the battery based on the sensing data; generating, by the server system, monitoring data of the battery based on the sensing data, the identification data, and the mapping data; and generating, by the server system, display data for displaying a simulated electrode of the battery on a graphical user interface based on the monitoring data of the battery.

Abstract: A quantum dot including a core that includes a first semiconductor nanocrystal including zinc and selenium, and optionally sulfur and/or tellurium, and a shell that includes a second semiconductor nanocrystal including zinc, and at least one of sulfur or selenium is disclosed. The quantum dot has an average particle diameter of greater than or equal to about 13 nm, an emission peak wavelength in a range of about 440 nm to about 470 nm, and a full width at half maximum (FWHM) of an emission wavelength of less than about 25 nm. A method for preparing the quantum dot, a quantum dot-polymer composite including the quantum dot, and an electronic device including the quantum dot is also disclosed.

Abstract: Provided is a display device, which includes: a reference voltage line formed along a circular outer line and configured to provide a reference voltage; a first reference voltage auxiliary line electrically connected to the reference voltage line and formed to be parallel with a predetermined interval; and a conductive line forming a contact with the reference voltage line and the first reference voltage auxiliary line and configured to provide the reference voltage to a cathode.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a steering system and a method for controlling the same. According to an embodiment, a steering system comprises an electric power steering (EPS) steering motor connected to a first inverter and a second inverter, an additional motor connected to the second inverter and providing a steering-related additional function, a main electric control unit (ECU) including the first inverter and controlling the EPS steering motor through the first inverter, and a sub ECU including the second inverter and controlling at least one of the EPS steering motor or the additional motor based on at least one of main ECU state information or vehicle driving state information.

Abstract: An operation method of a first terminal in a communication system is provided. The method includes configuring sidelink (SL) bandwidth parts (BWPs) used for groupcast sidelink communication and transmitting a configuration information message including configuration information of the SL BWPs to participating terminals participating in the groupcast sidelink communication. The groupcast sidelink communication is performed with the participating terminals using one or more SL BWPs among the SL BWPs. In response to determining that reconfiguration of the SL BWPs is necessary, the SL BWPs are reconfigured and a reconfiguration information message including reconfiguration information of the SL BWPs is transmitted to the participating terminals.

Abstract: An axial motor according to the present invention includes: a shaft; a stator means having a stator casing, a core of which both ends are exposed from both ends of the stator casing in an axial direction, and a coil accommodated in the stator casing so as to encompass the core, and having the shaft penetratively inserted therein; a plurality of rotor means having a plurality of magnets spaced certain distances apart in a radial direction of the shaft and arranged in a circumferential direction to face the core exposed from one end of the stator casing in the axial direction of the shaft, and a rotor fixing plate, which fixes the magnets such that one surface of the magnet facing the core is exposed and which is injected to be inserted into the stator means and fixed and coupled so as to be integrally rotatable with the shaft, and being inserted into both ends of the stator means; a top lid into which the shaft is rotatably inserted, and which is coupled to be attachable/detachable to/from the stator casing so