Abstract: A transistor based on topological insulators is provided. In an embodiment a topological insulator is used to form both the channel as well as the source/drain regions, wherein the channel has a first thickness such that the topological insulator material has properties of a semiconductor material and the source/drain regions have a second thickness such that the topological insulator has properties of a conductive material.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a substrate-enhanced comparator and electronic device, the comparator including: a cross-coupled latch, for connecting input signals to the gate of a cross-coupled MOS transistor to form a first input of the latch; output buffers, connected to the cross-coupled latch for amplifying output signals of the latch; AC couplers, connected to the output buffers for receiving and amplifying the output signals of the latch, coupling the output signals to substrates of the cross-coupled MOS transistors to form second inputs of the latch. The cross-coupled latch is also for output signal regenerative latching based on input signals sampled at the first inputs and input signals sampled at the second inputs. The present disclosure introduces additional substrate inputs to the cross-coupled structure of the conventional latch as the second inputs of the latch.

Abstract: Backside interconnect structures having reduced critical dimensions for semiconductor devices and methods of forming the same are disclosed. In an embodiment, a device includes a first transistor structure over a front-side of a substrate; a first backside interconnect structure over a backside of the substrate, the first backside interconnect structure including first conductive features having tapered sidewalls with widths that narrow in a direction away from the substrate; a power rail extending through the substrate, the power rail being electrically coupled to the first conductive features; and a first source/drain contact extending from the power rail to a first source/drain region of the first transistor structure.

Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for managing image capture and processing in a multi-camera imaging system. In such a system, a pair of cameras each may output a sequence of frames representing captured image data. The cameras' output may be synchronized to each other to cause synchronism in the image capture operations of the cameras. The system may assess image quality of frames output from the cameras and, based on the image quality, designate a pair of the frames to serve as a “reference frame pair.” Thus, one frame from the first camera and a paired frame from the second camera will be designated as the reference frame pair. The system may adjust each reference frame in the pair using other frames from their respective cameras. The reference frames also may be processed by other operations within the system, such as image fusion.

Abstract: A package structure of a micro speaker includes a substrate, a diaphragm, a coil, a carrier board, a lid, a first permanent magnetic element, and a second permanent magnetic element. The substrate has a hollow chamber. The diaphragm is suspended over the hollow chamber. The coil is embedded in the diaphragm. The carrier board is disposed on the bottom surface of the substrate. The first permanent magnetic element is disposed on the carrier board and in the hollow chamber. The lid is wrapped around the substrate and the diaphragm. The lid exposes a portion of the top surface of the diaphragm. The second permanent magnetic element is disposed either above the lid or under the lid.

Abstract: The present application provides a small-molecule inhibitor targeting an EB virus nuclear antigen protein, and/or a pharmaceutical composition containing the same, which can be used for the treatment of a disease caused by EBNA1 activity, such as, but not limited to, cancer, infectious mononucleosis, chronic fatigue syndrome, multiple sclerosis, systemic lupus erythematosus and/or rheumatoid arthritis. The present application further provides a small-molecule inhibitor targeting an EB virus nuclear antigen protein, and/or a pharmaceutical composition containing the same, which can be used for the treatment of a disease caused by EBV infection in a lytic and/or latent phase.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an array substrate and a display panel including the same. The array substrate includes a plurality of pixel units. Each of the pixel units includes a main pixel electrode, a sub-pixel electrode, a first thin film transistor (TFT) electrically connected to the sub-pixel electrode, a second TFT electrically connected to the first TFT, and a third TFT electrically connected to the main pixel electrode. The first TFT includes a first channel and a first semiconductor layer. The first channel includes two or more subchannels. The first semiconductor layer includes two or more semiconductor sublayers. Each of the semiconductor sublayers is disposed in a corresponding subchannel.

Abstract: A non-invasive detection device for uric acid includes a waterproof casing, a monitor, a detection part, and a processor. The waterproof casing includes an internal space and a detection end. The monitor is mounted on the waterproof casing. The detection part includes a detection passage, a light source module, and at least one sensor. The detection passage is configured for urine to pass through. The light source module emits a detection beam with a first wavelength to the detection passage. The at least one sensor is mounted in the internal space, receives the detection beam penetrating the urine, and generates a light intensity signal according to the detection beam. The processor electrically connects to the monitor, the light source module, and the at least one sensor. The processor receives the light intensity signal, and calculates the uric acid content in the urine to generate a detection result.

Abstract: Described herein are computer-implemented methods for analysis of a tissue sample. An example method includes: annotating the whole tumor regions or set of tumorous sub-regions either on a biomarker image or an H&E image (e.g. from an adjacent serial section of the biomarker image); registering at least a portion of the biomarker image to the H&E image; detecting different cellular and regional tissue structures within the registered H&E image; computing a probability map based on the different detected structures within the registered H&E image; deriving nuclear metrics from each of the biomarker and H&E images; deriving probability metrics from the probability map; and classifying tumor nuclei in the biomarker image based on the computed nuclear and probability metrics.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus including computer-readable mediums for managing open blocks in memory systems such as NAND flash memory devices are provided. In one aspect, a method includes: evaluating a read disturbance level of an open block in a memory, the open block having one or more programmed word lines and one or more blank word lines, and in response to determining that the read disturbance level of the open block is beyond a threshold level, managing each memory cell in at least one of the blank word lines to have a smaller data storing capacity than each memory cell in at least one of the one or more programmed word lines so as to reduce impact of read disturbance.

Abstract: A lossless compression method for a test vector has following steps: S01: converting the test vector into a data stream with A rows and B columns, the data stream is expressed in binary; S02: compressing the data stream a column by a column sequentially to form compressed words and uncompressed words corresponding to test datum of each of the B columns; a compression method for the test datum of each of the B columns comprises: setting a window with a width of 1 bit and a depth of M rows, and sliding the window down a row by a row from top of test datum of a column, and forming the compressed words and the uncompressed words corresponding to the test datum of each of the B columns; S03: converging the compressed datum of the test datum of each of the B columns to form a compressed data stream.

Abstract: The present application provides a method of treating tumor, comprising: administrating a dose of 15 mg/kg to 35 mg/kg of a HER2 bispecific antibody, which comprises a first and a second light chain, a first and a second heavy chain, and variable region of the light chain comprises an amino acid sequence as set forth in any one of SEQ ID NO: 1-6.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a mangosteen pericarp extract and process for its preparation thereof. The mangosteen pericarp extract containing ?-mangostin and ?-mangostin which obtains from preparation steps comprising fragmentation, organic solvent soaking, aqueous solution, or acidic solution soaking, concentration, spray drying and grinding steps from the rind of the mangosteen. The present invention has advantages of simple preparation process to address efficiency issue, no need to have heating under reflux in extraction steps and the solvents which used are friendly to human body and environment. The mangosteen pericarp extract (?-Xones Prime) can significantly decrease insulin resistance, and bodyweight gain induced by daily high fat diet intake. In addition, administration of the mangosteen pericarp ethanolic extract can reduce fat accumulation in the adipose and muscle tissue of rats with daily high fat diet intake.

Abstract: According to one aspect, intersection scenario description may be implemented by receiving a video stream of a surrounding environment of an ego-vehicle, extracting tracklets and appearance features associated with dynamic objects from the surrounding environment, extracting motion features associated with dynamic objects from the surrounding environment based on the corresponding tracklets, passing the appearance features through an appearance neural network to generate an appearance model, passing the motion features through a motion neural network to generate a motion model, passing the appearance model and the motion model through a fusion network to generate a fusion output, passing the fusion output through a classifier to generate a classifier output, and passing the classifier output through a loss function to generate a multi-label classification output associated with the ego-vehicle, dynamic objects, and corresponding motion paths.

Abstract: A safety system for improving road compatibility of a vehicle includes a monitoring system and an integrated safety domain control unit. The monitoring system includes a vehicle external information monitoring module and a vehicle body posture monitoring module. The integrated safety domain control unit is configured to compute a collision condition between the vehicle and an obstacle based on data acquired by the vehicle external information monitoring module and the vehicle body posture monitoring module, the collision condition including a collision relative speed and a collision overlap rate, and determine, based on the collision relative speed and the collision overlap rate, whether to deploy an external airbag. A determination condition for controlling triggering of deployment of the external airbag includes determining whether the collision relative speed is less than a first speed threshold and/or whether the collision overlap rate is less than a first overlap rate threshold.

Abstract: Processes to form differently-pitched gate structures are provided. An example method includes providing a workpiece having a substrate and semiconductor fins spaced apart from one another by an isolation feature, depositing a gate material layer over the workpiece, forming a patterned hard mask over the gate material layer, the patterned hard mask including differently-pitched elongated features, performing a first etch process using the patterned hard mask as an etch mask through the gate material layer to form a trench, performing a second etch process using the patterned hard mask as an etch mask to extend the trench to a top surface of the isolation feature, and performing a third etch process using the patterned hard mask to extend the trench into the isolation feature. The first etch process includes use of carbon tetrafluoride and is free of use of oxygen gas.

Abstract: Embodiments herein describe techniques for a semiconductor device having an interconnect structure including an inter-level dielectric (ILD) layer between a first layer and a second layer of the interconnect structure. The interconnect structure further includes a separation layer within the ILD layer. The ILD layer includes a first area with a first height to extend from a first surface of the ILD layer to a second surface of the ILD layer. The ILD layer further includes a second area with a second height to extend from the first surface of the ILD layer to a surface of the separation layer, where the first height is larger than the second height. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.

Abstract: Methods and systems relating to the field of parallel computing are disclosed herein. The methods and systems disclosed include approaches for sparsity uniformity enforcement for a set of computational nodes which are used to execute a complex computation. A disclosed method includes determining a sparsity distribution in a set of operand data, and generating, using a compiler, a set of instructions for executing, using the set of operand data and a set of processing cores, a complex computation. Alternatively, the method includes altering the operand data. The method also includes distributing the set of operand data to the set of processing cores for use in executing the complex computation in accordance with the set of instructions. Either the altering is conducted to, or the compiler is programmed to, balance the sparsity distribution among the set of processing cores.

Abstract: Methods and systems relating to the field of parallel computing are disclosed herein. The methods and systems disclosed include approaches for sparsity uniformity enforcement for a set of computational nodes which are used to execute a complex computation. A disclosed method includes determining a sparsity distribution in a set of operand data, and generating, using a compiler, a set of instructions for executing, using the set of operand data and a set of processing cores, a complex computation. Alternatively, the method includes altering the operand data. The method also includes distributing the set of operand data to the set of processing cores for use in executing the complex computation in accordance with the set of instructions. Either the altering is conducted to, or the compiler is programmed to, balance the sparsity distribution among the set of processing cores.

Abstract: A backlight module and a display having the same are provided. The backlight module includes a front bezel, a back cover, and a light source. The back cover is disposed opposite to the front bezel. The back cover includes a body and one or more heat dissipation elements. The body has one or more openings corresponding to one or more heat sources. The one or more heat dissipation elements are disposed in the one or more openings, respectively. The light source is disposed between the front bezel and the back cover.