Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed which includes an ultraviolet laser and at least one reflective mirror having a substrate which is made from beryllium, an aluminum metal matrix, or silicon carbide. The at least one mirror is adapted to reflect a laser beam generated from the ultraviolet laser, which can then be used on a silicon film used in the production of an electronic display. The laser beam can be used to anneal the silicon film, or in a laser lift-off process for separating the silicon film from a temporary substrate upon which the silicon film was mounted.

Abstract: A decoding device may determine a candidate data unit among a plurality of data units included in one data chunk, in parallel with an operation of decoding a target data unit among the plurality of data units. The decoding device may determine whether to decode the candidate data unit, and may decode the candidate data unit according to whether to decode the candidate data unit, after executing decoding on the target data unit.

Abstract: An anode active material for a secondary battery includes a carbon-based active material, and silicon-based active material particles doped with magnesium. At least some of the silicon-based active material particles include pores, and a volume ratio of pores having a diameter of 50 nm or less among the pores is 2% or less based on a total volume of the silicon-based active material particles.

Abstract: A decoding device may determine a candidate data unit among a plurality of data units included in one data chunk, in parallel with an operation of decoding a target data unit among the plurality of data units. The decoding device may determine whether to decode the candidate data unit, and may decode the candidate data unit according to whether to decode the candidate data unit, after executing decoding on the target data unit.

Abstract: The technology and implementations disclosed in this patent document generally relate to a lithium secondary battery including: a first unit cell including a first anode including a 1-1 anode mixture layer and a 1-2 anode mixture layer on the 1-1 anode mixture layer, and a second unit cell including a second anode including a 2-1 anode mixture layer and a 2-2 anode mixture layer on the 2-1 anode mixture layer, wherein a weight ratio of the silicon-based active material in the 1-2 anode mixture layer is greater than a weight ratio of the silicon-based active material in the 1-1 anode mixture layer, and a weight ratio of the silicon-based active material in the 2-2 anode mixture layer is less than or equal to a weight ratio of the silicon-based active material in the 2-1 anode mixture layer.

Abstract: A method performed by at least one processor includes the following steps: generating a layout of an integrated circuit (IC), the layout comprising a cell and a layout context in a vicinity of the cell; receiving from a library a set of context groups and a set of timing tables, wherein each of the context groups is associated with one of the set of timing tables; determining a representative context group for the cell through comparing the layout context of the cell with the set of context groups; and performing a timing analysis on the layout according to a representative timing table associated with the representative context group for the cell.

Abstract: An anode for a lithium secondary battery includes an anode current collector, and an anode active material layer formed on at least one surface of the anode current collector. The anode active material layer includes a carbon-based active material, a first silicon-based active material doped with magnesium and a second silicon-based active material not doped with magnesium. A content of the first silicon-based active material is in a range from 2 wt % to 20 wt % based on a total weight of the anode active material layer.

Abstract: In some implementations, the anode includes a current collector, a first anode mixture layer formed on at least one surface of the current collector, and a second anode mixture layer formed on the first anode mixture layer. The first anode mixture layer and the second anode mixture layer include a carbon-based active material, respectively. The first anode mixture layer includes a first binder, a first silicon-based active material, and a first conductive material. The second anode mixture layer includes a second binder, a second silicon-based active material, and a second conductive material. Contents of the first conductive material and the second conductive material are different from each other with respect to the total combined weight of the first anode mixture layer and the second anode mixture layer. Types of the first silicon-based active material and the second silicon-based active material are different from each other.

Abstract: The present application relates to a hybrid cord including a bio-based nylon primarily twisted yarn. According to the present application, while including a primarily twisted yarn including bio-based nylon having a higher modulus compared to chemical-based nylon, there is provided a hybrid cord and has elongation and fatigue resistance equivalent to or higher than commercially required levels (i.e., the level that the cord including a conventional chemical-based nylon primarily twisted yarn has).

Abstract: The present invention relates to a device and method for authenticating users and obtaining user signatures, which can be provided in business services using networks and various user information devices including information devices equipped with touch displays such as smartphones, or desktop PCs, laptops, tablet PCs, CCTVs, IoT, self-driving cars, drones, etc. and, more specifically, to a device and method for authenticating users and obtaining user digital signatures which, as an encryption key/password generation and verification system for user authentication to be provided in various web-based businesses in which various information devices are serviced in a client-server or peer-to-peer model network environment and in app-based businesses running on a specific platform, is simpler and ensures confidentiality and security.

Abstract: Mobile cloud and mobile cloud computing for a user-customized survey or election service system and method are provided. The mobile cloud and mobile cloud computing-based user-customized survey or election service provides an editor's metadata frame for creating user-customized survey or election service contents to information devices including user's smartphone from a service server and a metadata description frame database for generating the editor's metadata frame and storing the user's contents to the service server.

Abstract: Mobile cloud and mobile cloud computing for a user-customized survey or election service system and method are provided. The mobile cloud and mobile cloud computing-based user-customized survey or election service provides an editor's metadata frame for creating user-customized survey or election service contents to information devices including user's smartphone from a service server and a metadata description frame database for generating the editor's metadata frame and storing the user's contents to the service server.

Abstract: Coordinating scheduled events and aperiodic events to execute objects to extract, transform, and load data from source systems to a structured data store. An event manager process executing on a server runtime utilizes event suspension, consolidation, and sequencing techniques to ensure that only one event process is executed for a particular time range.

Abstract: A system including a module and an egress passageway is described. The module includes a cooling cells, a heat spreader, and a cover including vents therein. The cooling cells are between the heat spreader and the cover. Each of the cooling cells includes a cooling element configured to draw air in through the plurality of vents and drive air out of an aperture between the heat spreader and the cover at a first flow rate. A stream of hot air having been heated by a heat from a heat-generating structure thermally coupled to the heat spreader is thus provided. The hot air passes through the egress passageway toward an egress. The egress passageway includes at least one inlet through which cool air is drawn at a second flow rate to be mixed with the hot air. The second flow rate is greater than the first flow rate.

Abstract: A replaceable stack sheet replaceably provided in a medium integration/separation device to guide integration of a medium according to an embodiment includes a body which is coupled to a rotary shaft and in which a plurality of support shafts are spaced apart from each other in a circumferential direction, and a plurality of sheet pieces having ends rotatably coupled to the plurality of support shafts.

Abstract: A semiconductor device may include a first active fin, a plurality of second active fins, a first source/drain layer structure, and a second source/drain layer structure. The first active fin may be on a first region of a substrate. The second active fins may be on a second region of the substrate. The first and second gate structures may be on the first and second active fins, respectively. The first source/drain layer structure may be on a portion of the first active fin that is adjacent to the first gate structure. The second source/drain layer structure may commonly contact upper surfaces of the second active fins adjacent to the second gate structure. A top surface of the second source/drain layer structure may be further from the surface of the substrate than a top surface of the first source/drain layer structure is to the surface of the substrate.

Abstract: A first-in first-out solder container automatic supply management system includes a refrigerating chamber configured to store a plurality of solder containers, a transfer part positioned outside the refrigerating chamber and configured to move at least one of the plurality of solder containers, a stirring part formed at one end of the transfer part and configured to stir the at least one solder container, and a hand part configured to move any one solder container of the at least one solder container positioned on the transfer part to the stirring part.

Abstract: A semiconductor device may include a first active fin, a plurality of second active fins, a first source/drain layer structure, and a second source/drain layer structure. The first active fin may be on a first region of a substrate. The second active fins may be on a second region of the substrate. The first and second gate structures may be on the first and second active fins, respectively. The first source/drain layer structure may be on a portion of the first active fin that is adjacent to the first gate structure. The second source/drain layer structure may commonly contact upper surfaces of the second active fins adjacent to the second gate structure. A top surface of the second source/drain layer structure may be further from the surface of the substrate than a top surface of the first source/drain layer structure is to the surface of the substrate.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a device and method for authenticating users and obtaining user signatures, which can be provided in business services using networks and various user information devices including information devices equipped with touch displays such as smartphones, or desktop PCs, laptops, tablet PCs, CCTVs, IoT, self-driving cars, drones, etc. and, more specifically, to a device and method for authenticating users and obtaining user digital signatures which, as an encryption key/password generation and verification system for user authentication to be provided in various web-based businesses in which various information devices are serviced in a client-server or peer-to-peer model network environment and in app-based businesses running on a specific platform, is simpler and ensures confidentiality and security.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an apparatus for supporting online shopping. The apparatus comprises an identification unit configured to identify an online price tag of a specific product embedded into a webpage of an exhibitor, an update unit configured to update a selling price exposed to the online price tag according to a result of a reverse auction between sellers for a selling price of the specific product, and a processing unit configured to, when a purchase intent of a purchaser accessing the webpage of the exhibitor is identified from the online price tag, process a procedure of purchasing the specific product based on the updated selling price.