Abstract: A semiconductor device and a method of forming the same are provided. The semiconductor device includes a transistor and a diode. The transistor includes a first gate region electrically coupled to a gate driver, and a first source region and a first drain region on two sides of the first gate region. The diode includes two terminals coupled between the first drain region of the transistor and a reference voltage. The transistor has a threshold voltage greater than that of the diode.

Abstract: A device assembly structure includes a first device and at least one second device. The first device has a first active surface and a first backside surface opposite to the first active surface, and includes a plurality of first electrical contacts disposed adjacent to the first active surface. The second device has a second active surface and a second backside surface opposite to the second active surface, and includes a plurality of second electrical contacts disposed adjacent to the second active surface. The second active surface of the second device faces the first active surface of the first device, the second electrical contacts of the second device are electrically connected to the first electrical contacts of the first device, and a thickness of the second device is less than or equal to one fifth of a thickness of the first device.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a capacitor disposed on the substrate, and an interconnection structure. The capacitor is disposed on the substrate within a capacitor region and includes a lower electrode, an upper electrode, a stacked dielectric layer, and an intermediate dielectric layer. The upper electrode is disposed over the lower electrode, and the stacked dielectric layer is disposed between the lower electrode and the upper electrode. The intermediate dielectric layer is disposed between the lower electrode and the upper electrode and disposed only within the capacitor region. The relative permittivity of the intermediate dielectric layer is greater than the relative permittivity of the stacked dielectric layer. The interconnection structure including a plug and a stack of metal layers is disposed within an interconnection region abutting the capacitor region and is disposed at at least one side of the intermediate dielectric layer.

Abstract: A technique is described herein for allocating tasks within a distributed system. The distributed system includes plural computing devices. Each computing device, in turn, provides a bucket manager and at least one application instance. The bucket managers allocate work to the computing devices in units of buckets, in a manner governed by a set of application-specific initialization parameters. The bucket managers also perform their assignment function in cooperation with a separate storage and notification (S&N) system. The S&N system stores data nodes in a hierarchical data structure that reflect the assignment-related state of the distributed system. The S&N system also notifies the bucket managers upon changes in the data nodes. According to one provision, the bucket managers include logic that reduces expensive context changes when computing devices join and leave the distributed system.

Abstract: A drilling system including a feed control module, a force control module, a hole breaking control module, a conversion module and a computing unit is provided. The feed control module sets a feed force threshold and a feed speed threshold for the computing unit to determine whether the current mode satisfies a first conversion condition. The hole breaking control module sets a drilling penetration force threshold and a drilling penetration speed threshold for the computing unit to determine whether the current mode satisfies a second conversion condition. The conversion module informs to change the feed force and the feed speed according to the determination results of the two conversion conditions. The force control module provides the feed force. With the drilling system, possible impact on the workpiece due to resistance change which occurs when the drill just touches and nearly gets through the workpiece will be reduced.

Abstract: A data transmission method, applied to a terminal that uses a dual connection mode of non-standalone networking for data transmission, includes: monitoring a network signal quality in the dual connection mode of non-standalone networking, and monitoring a real-time data packet transmission rate of a data packet transmitted and received by the terminal; and adjusting, based on the network signal quality and the real-time data packet transmission rate, the dual connection mode of non-standalone networking, which includes turning off the dual connection mode of non-standalone networking or maintaining the dual connection mode of non-standalone networking. Automatic and dynamic switching between EN-DC dual connection and single 4G network connection can be realized, without manually switching networks by users, such that effective transmission and reception of terminal data packets is ensured, and increase in power consumption caused by always relying on the EN-DC dual connection is avoid.

Abstract: A sterilizer may include: a first pipe having an inner wall with a light reflecting property; a second pipe disposed in the first pipe so as to pass fluid therethrough and formed of a light transmitting material; and a plurality of UV LEDs arranged on the inner wall of the first pipe and configured to irradiate sterilization UV light onto the fluid.

Abstract: A lens driving module includes a base, a shield can, a driving mechanism, a space maintaining element and a damping element. The base has an opening. The shield can is coupled to the base and has a central aperture corresponding to the opening. The driving mechanism is disposed in the shield and configured to drive a lens unit to move. The space maintaining element is in physical contact with the shield can. The space maintaining element includes a plastic frame portion and a metal structure portion. The metal structure portion includes pins extending toward the base. The metal structure portion is insert-molded with the plastic frame portion to form the space maintaining element. The damping element is connected to the pins and the lens unit. The pins of the metal structure portion are located closer to the optical axis than part of the metal structure portion without the pins.

Abstract: Apparatus and associated methods relate to a water-resistant capture device for enclosing wired electro-magnetic components, the capture device having a base module and a connecting cap module, wherein when the base module and cap module enclose an electro-magnetic component and the base module is connected to the cap module, one or more electric wires are compressed within deformable wire apertures formed by the combined base module and cap module. In some embodiments, the base module is deformable and deforms when affixed to the cap module so as to form a compressive water-resistant seal to an interior of the capture device. In an exemplary embodiment, an LED may be captured within the capture device. The cap module may provide a compressing aperture to provide a water resistant seal around the lens of a LED projecting therethrough.

Abstract: An optical imaging lens includes a first lens element, a second lens, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element, a sixth lens element and a seventh lens element from an object side to an image side in order along an optical axis, and each lens element has an object-side surface and an image-side surface. The first lens element has negative refracting power, an optical axis region of the object-side surface of the second lens element is concave, and a periphery region of the image-side surface of the fifth lens element is concave. The lens elements included by the optical imaging lens are only the seven lens elements described above. The optical imaging lens satisfies the following conditions: EFL/ImgH?1.100, wherein EFL is an effective focal length of the optical imaging lens, ImgH is the image height of the optical imaging lens.

Abstract: An ion implantation system includes an ion implanter containing an ion source unit and a dopant source gas supply system. The system includes a dopant source gas storage tank inside a gas box container located remotely to the ion implanter and a dopant source gas supply pipe configured to supply a dopant source gas from the dopant source gas storage tank to the ion source unit. The dopant source gas supply pipe includes an inner pipe, an outer pipe enclosing the inner pipe, a first pipe adaptor coupled to first end of respective inner and outer pipes, and a second pipe adaptor coupled to seconds end of respective inner and outer pipes opposite the first end. The first pipe adaptor connects the inner pipe to the dopant source gas storage tank and the second pipe adaptor connects the inner pipe to the ion source unit.

Abstract: Provided are a method of operating a node in a wireless communication system and a device using the same. The method includes: connecting to a parent node through an initial access process; receiving, from the parent node, first allocation information related with communication with the parent node and second allocation information related with communication with a child node; and communicating with the parent node or the child node using a specific resource based on the first allocation information and the second allocation information. When the second allocation information indicates the specific resource as a hard resource that is always available for communication with the child node, the specific resource is used for communication with the child node regardless of the first allocation information.

Abstract: Techniques are presented for optimizing a treatment plan for charged particle therapy. The method includes obtaining medical image data voxels inside a subject in a reference frame of a radiation source that emits a beam of charged particles at multiple tracks with a controlled emitted energy at each track. Hydrogen density (HD) is determined based on the medical image data. Stopping power ratio (SPR) along a first beam having a first track and first emitted energy is calculated based on HD. A range to a Bragg peak is calculated along the first beam based on the SPR and the first emitted energy. The first beam track or the first emitted energy, or both, is modified based at least in part on the beam range to determine a second track and second emitted energy. Output data that indicates the second track and second emitted energy are sent.

Abstract: An operation monitoring system and monitoring method are provided, the operation monitoring system is used for monitoring at least one agricultural machine, so as to control an operating range of the agricultural machine, the operation monitoring system includes a storage device and a processor, the processor recognizes at least one operating area and at least one non-operating area of an operation environment, and generates at least one boundary between the operating area and the non-operating area, the processor further generates least one electronic fence at the at least one boundary, the processor further acquires the position of the electronic fence and monitors a position of the agricultural machine, so as to monitor whether the agricultural machine is operating in the operating area on a side of the electronic fence, thereby controlling the operating range of the agricultural machine.

Abstract: An artificial intelligence apparatus for a speech interaction comprises: a microphone configured to obtain speech data corresponding to an utterance sentence of a user; a memory configured to store a first platform framework corresponding to a default platform of the artificial intelligence apparatus and at least one second platform framework; a communication unit configured to communicate with at least one of an Internet of Things (IoT) device or an external platform apparatus; and a processor configured to: obtain intention information corresponding to the speech data, determine at least one target device among the artificial intelligence apparatus, the IoT device, or the external platform apparatus based on the intention information, determine a target platform framework among the first platform framework or the second platform framework based on the intention information, generate a command corresponding to the speech data using the determined target platform framework, and perform an operation correspond

Abstract: The present subject matter relates to Alternating Current (AC) inlet units. An AC inlet unit includes a socket to receive a power supply cord and a ground pin and a second pin, each disposed in the socket. The AC inlet unit further includes a lead connected to the second pin. The lead is disposed farther from the ground pin as compared to the second pin.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an OLED that includes a first electrode; a second electrode facing the first electrode; a first emitting material layer including a first host, a second host and a blue dopant and positioned between the first and second electrodes; a first electron blocking layer including an electron blocking material of a spirofluorene-substituted amine derivative and positioned between the first electrode and the first emitting material layer; and a first hole blocking layer including a first hole blocking material of an azine derivative and positioned between the second electrode and the first emitting material layer, wherein the first host is an anthracene derivative, and the second host is a deuterated anthracene derivative.

Abstract: A memory device includes a plurality of pins, a controller die coupled to the isolation pin, and a memory die. The plurality of pins include an isolation pin, a test mode select pin configured to switch an operation mode of the memory die, a test clock pin configured to receive a test clock, and a test data pin configured to perform a data transmission. The controller die is coupled to the isolation pin. The memory die is coupled to the test mode select pin, the test clock pin, and the test data pin.

Abstract: A method accurately evaluates a corresponding operation capacity for an operating characteristic of a to-be-evaluated object in a to-be-evaluated time period in combination with already-operated historical data of the to-be-evaluated object, which specifically includes: for a capacity influence factor in an operating process of an airspace unit, constructing a capacity similarity characteristic model to form a capacity similarity characteristic index set; acquiring historical data of an evaluation object, on the basis of the capacity similarity characteristic index set, classifying historical data samples of different time periods by a clustering algorithm, and generating a capacity similarity time period sample set to which an evaluation time period of the current evaluation object belongs; and classifying historical capacity values of the capacity similarity time period sample set by a density clustering algorithm, and calculating a capacity reference value on the basis of a maximum class cluster.

Abstract: A method for performing random access in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes transmitting a preamble for random access in uplink, receiving a random access response message including back-off information as a response to the preamble, and performing back-off using the back-off information when the random access has failed.