Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a multi-channel active pattern, a plurality of gate structures on the multi-channel active pattern and spaced apart from each other in a first direction, the plurality of gate structures including a gate electrode that extends in a second direction different from the first direction, a source/drain recess between the adjacent gate structures, and a source/drain pattern on the multi-channel active pattern in the source/drain recess, wherein the source/drain pattern includes: a semiconductor liner layer including silicon-germanium and extending along the source/drain recess, a semiconductor filling layer including silicon-germanium on the semiconductor liner layer, and at least one or more semiconductor insertion layers between the semiconductor liner layer and the semiconductor filling layer, and wherein the at least one or more semiconductor insertion layers have a saddle structure.

Abstract: There is provided a semiconductor device capable of improving performance and reliability of an element. The semiconductor device includes an active pattern extending in a first direction, and a plurality of gate structures spaced apart from each other in the first direction on the active pattern. Each gate structure comprises a gate electrode extending in a second direction and a gate spacer on a sidewall of the gate electrode and a source/drain pattern disposed between adjacent gate structures. The gate structure comprises a semiconductor liner layer and a semiconductor filling layer on the semiconductor liner layer, wherein the semiconductor liner layer and the semiconductor filling layer are formed of silicon-germanium. The semiconductor filling layer comprises an upper portion protruding in a third direction beyond an upper surface of the active pattern.

Abstract: Aspects of the disclosed technology include techniques, a mechanism, and an apparatus for diagnosing a battery. One or more processors may measure voltages of a plurality of batteries and, based on the measured voltages, determine a voltage deviation of the plurality of batteries. The one or more processors may determine a voltage deviation variation of each battery of the plurality of batteries at predetermined times periods and may compare a pattern of the voltage deviation variations of each battery of the plurality of batteries with a preset diagnosis pattern to diagnose a state of each of the plurality of batteries.

Abstract: A sensor device including: a sensor array including sensor nodes; signal lines connected to the sensor nodes; and a sensor driver configured to: select each of the sensor nodes through the signal lines to sense a touch of a user that is adjacent to the sensor array; apply, through a first signal line, a first pulse signal to at least one first sensor node adjacent to the selected sensor node among the sensor nodes; and apply, through a second signal line, a second pulse signal having a polarity reverse to a polarity of the first pulse signal to at least one second sensor node among the sensor nodes, wherein the sensor driver electrically connects the first signal line to the second signal line to adjust voltage levels of the first and the second pulse signals.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a back light unit of a curved display device according to a technical aspect of the present invention is a method of manufacturing a back light unit applied to a curved display device and comprises the steps of preparing the development shape of a bottom chassis, forming a reinforcing structure on a flat plate of the development shape by roll-forming the flat plate of the development shape, bending an edge of the development shape so that an edge portion of the bottom chassis is formed to stand up on the edge of the bottom chassis, and curving the flat plate on which the reinforcing structure and the edge portion are formed to have a predetermined radius of curvature.

Abstract: Aspects of the disclosed technology include techniques, a mechanism, and an apparatus for diagnosing a battery. One or more processors may measure voltages of a plurality of batteries and, based on the measured voltages, determine a voltage deviation of the plurality of batteries. The one or more processors may determine a voltage deviation variation of each battery of the plurality of batteries at predetermined times periods and may compare a pattern of the voltage deviation variations of each battery of the plurality of batteries with a preset diagnosis pattern to diagnose a state of each of the plurality of batteries.

Abstract: A display device includes a substrate, a first electrode and a second electrode which are spaced apart from each other in a second direction, light-emitting elements spaced apart from each other in the first direction, a first contact electrode electrically contacting the light-emitting elements, and a second contact electrode electrically contacting the light-emitting elements. The first contact electrode electrically contacts the first electrode through a first contact portion disposed on the first electrode, the second contact electrode electrically contacts the second electrode through a second contact portion disposed on the second electrode, the first contact portion is disposed on an end portion in the first direction of the first contact electrode, and the second contact portion is disposed on an end portion in the first direction of the second contact electrode.

Abstract: A cathode material comprises bimetal-doped barium cobaltite-based perovskite and a bi-directional protonic ceramic fuel cell comprising the same. In a cathode material according to an embodiment, barium cobaltite is doped with scandium (Sc) and tantalum (Ta), and the cathode material is represented by the following Formula 1: BaScxTa0.2?xCo0.8O3????[Formula 1] where X is 0.001<X<0.199, ? is 0<?<2.

Abstract: A multi-core system for providing a communication function between software components (SWCs) and a method therefor are provided. The method may include: determining a memory operating as a data buffer, based on an execution cycle of each of the SWCs, when communicating between an SWC executed by a first core and at least one SWC executed by a second core; writing, by the SWC executed by the first core, data in the data buffer; and reading, by the at least one SWC executed by the second core, the data from the data buffer.

Abstract: An eddy current sensor for deriving an eddy current and sensing the derived eddy current in order to detect a crack in a battery cell, the eddy current sensor comprises: a core unit in which a coil is wound around a magnetic member; and a case for accommodating the core unit of which there are at least two, which are arranged so that the central axis of the coil is oriented in the thickness direction of the battery cell.

Abstract: A pixel includes a first electrode and a second electrode facing each other, an insulating layer on the first and second electrodes, a plurality of light-emitting elements located on the insulating layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, a first contact electrode electrically connected to the first electrode, and a second contact electrode electrically connected to the second electrode. Here, a first gap having a constant width in a first direction and a second gap having a width in the first direction that gradually changes along a second direction are located between the first electrode and the second electrode or between the first contact electrode and the second contact electrode.

Abstract: The semiconductor device includes a substrate having a cell area and a via area; a transistor and a logic interconnection disposed over the substrate; a lower insulating layer covering the transistor and the logic interconnection; a lower conductive layer on the lower insulating layer in the cell area; a support pattern disposed on the lower insulating layer in the via area; a lower via plug having a side surface in contact with the support pattern and a bottom surface in contact with the logic interconnection; a word line stack disposed on the lower conductive layer in the cell area; an dielectric layer stack disposed on the support pattern in the via area; a vertical channel pillar penetrating the word line stack to be connected to the lower conductive layer; and an upper via plug penetrating the dielectric layer stack to be vertically aligned with the lower via plug.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an artificial intelligence-based similar sound source search system and method for searching for a matching sound source by identifying timbre, pitch, and chord information using a convolutional neural network (CNN) and comprises a sound source input unit, a sound source analysis unit, a sound source information extraction unit, and a matching sound source search unit.

Abstract: A sensing circuit of a display device includes a sensing line initialization circuit which substantially simultaneously initializes a first sensing line and a second sensing line in a first sub-sensing period of a sensing period, a first line selection switch which couples the first sensing line to a sensing channel in the first sub-sensing period, a second line selection switch which couples the second sensing line to the sensing channel in a second sub-sensing period of the sensing period, and the sensing channel which samples a first sensing voltage of the first sensing line in a first sampling period of the first sub-sensing period, and samples a second sensing voltage of the second sensing line in a second sampling period of the second sub-sensing period. The second sensing line is not initialized during a period from the first sampling period to the second sampling period.

Abstract: An auxiliary propulsion apparatus of an air vehicle may include an engine mounted in a fuselage of the air vehicle, a generator configured to be driven using power from the engine, a compressor configured to be driven by the engine or the generator, a battery configured to store electricity generated by the generator, an electricity distributor connected to the generator, the battery and the main propulsion apparatus and configured to distribute electricity generated by the generator to the battery and to a main propulsion apparatus, and at least one nozzle device configured to jet high-pressure gas, supplied from the compressor, to an outside of the fuselage.

Abstract: A pixel includes a first electrode; a second electrode surrounding at least a portion of the first electrode; a plurality of light emitting elements between the first electrode and the second electrode; a first contact electrode on the first electrode, the first contact electrode electrically connecting the first electrode and the plurality of light emitting elements; a second contact electrode on the second electrode, the second contact electrode electrically connecting the second electrode and the plurality of light emitting elements; and an intermediate electrode on the first electrode and the second electrode, the intermediate electrode comprising a first area overlapping the first electrode and a second area overlapping the second electrode, the first area and the second area being integrally connected to each other.

Abstract: In accordance with one aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided an apparatus for detecting rain using a wire mesh sensor including: a wire mesh which is configured to include a plurality of transmitters and a plurality of receivers; and a fixing part for fixing the wire mesh; wherein the plurality of transmitters supply electricity to the wire mesh, and wherein, in response to rain being positioned between a specific transmitter among the plurality of transmitters and a specific receiver among the plurality of receivers, the specific receiver is configured to receive the electricity from the specific transmitter and then transmit the electricity to a measuring part, to thereby allow the measuring part to measure conductivity. This hemispherical apparatus can detect rain accurately by making the incident angles of the rain to be vertical regardless of the directions of the rain.

Abstract: An environmental control device includes a shaft installed in an aircraft and coupled to a motor to be rotatable; a compressor connected to the shaft to be rotatable, the compressor adiabatically compressing external air introduced into the aircraft to form a flow of compressed air having a raised temperature; a heat exchanger allowing heat exchange between the compressed air having a raised temperature and a portion of the external air introduced into the aircraft; and a turbine connected to the shaft to be rotatable, the turbine adiabatically expanding the heat-exchanged compressed air to form a flow of chilling air.

Abstract: There are provided a semiconductor memory device and a manufacturing method of the semiconductor memory device. The semiconductor memory device includes a stack structure including interlayer insulating layers conductive layers, which are alternately stacked therein; and a plurality of contact plugs formed vertically on the conductive layers. The stack structure is configured to have a stepped structure, and each of a plurality of steps included in the stepped structure includes at least two interlayer insulating layers, among the interlayer insulating layers, and at least two conductive layers, among the conductive layers. The plurality of contact plugs include at least two contact plugs respectively connected to the at least two conductive layers included in each of the plurality of steps.

Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus includes a sensor device including a plurality of sensors, a failure determination device that monitors the plurality of sensors at preset periods, identifies a failed sensor among the plurality of sensors, and determines transmission data to be transmitted to a server using faulty data obtained by the failed sensor, a communication device that transmits the transmission data to the server and receives virtual data generated by the server in correspondence with the transmission data from the server, and an autonomous driving controller that performs autonomous driving control for a host vehicle using at least one of the virtual data, the transmission data, or any combination thereof.