Abstract: An LED module includes a housing component, a frame holding an LED thereon and covered by the housing component, a fastener located in and secured to the housing component, a heat spreader located in the fastener and secured to the fastener and a heat transfer member having a heat-dissipating unit remote from the LED and a heat pipe thermally connecting with the heat spreader, the LED and the heat-dissipating unit. The housing component tightly presses the frame on the fastener to make a close contact between the heat pipe and the frame. The heat pipe transfers heat from the LED to the heat spreader and the heat-dissipating unit. The heat spreader and the heat-dissipating unit each have a large heat-dissipating surface, whereby the heat generated by the LED can be quickly dissipated by the heat spreader and the heat-dissipating unit.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus, includes: a menu generating part which generates and outputs a plurality of menu items which include at least one activated menu item; a user inputting part which receives instruction of a user to select one of the plurality of menu items; and a control part which controls the menu generating part so that, if an inactivated menu item is selected from the user inputting part, at least one of the activated menu item and the selected menu item is animated for a predetermined time and the selected menu item is activated after the predetermined time elapses.

Abstract: A composition that includes functionalized polymers and one or more types of particulate filler exhibits both an increased gum Mooney viscosity and a decreased compound Mooney viscosity relative to a comparable composition that includes only one such functionalized polymer. The functionalized polymers include first and second types of functionalities which exhibit a non-covalent interaction that has a bond energy of from about 0.1 to about 20 kJ/mol.

Abstract: Provided is a method for the production of tetrahydrofuran (THF) from 1,4-butanediol (BDO) using a zirconium sulfate (SO42?/ZrO2) catalyst. The method of the present invention can achieve high-yield production of tetrahydrofuran via a simple and low-risk production process by dehydration of 1,4-butanediol in the presence of a zirconium sulfate catalyst.

Abstract: A method of driving a non-volatile memory device includes programming a plurality of memory cells based on a first data copied from a program data buffer to a verification data buffer, verifying the memory cells by overwriting a result of the verification of the programmed memory cells to a verification data buffer, and re-verifying the memory cells by repeating the programming and verifying operations at least once with respect to the memory cells that were successfully verified, based on the verification result written to the verification data buffer.

Abstract: A method of fabricating a semiconductor device includes forming a mask pattern for exposing a region of a semiconductor substrate. Dopant ions are implanted into the exposed region of the semiconductor substrate at a tilt angle of approximately 4.4° to 7°.

Abstract: A gate structure of a semiconductor device includes an intermediate structure, wherein the intermediate structure includes a titanium layer and a tungsten silicide layer. A method for forming a gate structure of a semiconductor device includes forming a polysilicon-based electrode. An intermediate structure, which includes a titanium layer and a tungsten silicide layer, is formed over the polysilicon-based electrode. A metal electrode is formed over the intermediate structure.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an organic light emitting display. Pixel portions are formed on a mother substrate. A test wiring for testing pixel portions is formed at a peripheral portion of the mother substrate. A sealing material is formed at one surface of a sealing substrate to enclose the pixel portions, the sealing substrate being sealed to be spaced apart from the mother substrate. A spacer is formed at a side region of the one surface of the sealing substrate on which the sealing material is formed. The mother substrate and the sealing substrate are adhered to each other by the sealing material to seal the pixel portions within an enclosure formed by the mother substrate, sealing surface, and sealing material. A part of the sealing substrate is scribed and removed to expose the test wiring, the part of sealing substrate being arranged over a portion of the test wiring.

Abstract: A wideband retardation layer (or film) that can perform circular polarizing so that the retardation layer can be formed with an organic light-emitting device to be relatively thin and have a relatively high contrast with no reduction in brightness, and an organic light-emitting device including the retardation layer. The retardation film includes a base and a retardation layer including an alkali oxide layer grown to be inclined on a surface of the base, wherein the alkali oxide layer is disposed by slant-angle depositing alkali oxide on the surface of the base.

Abstract: Systems of the present invention provide for granting and/or receiving electronic calendar access via an exposed API. An exemplary system may include a customer's electronic calendar that is configured to accept an event from a business by exposing the electronic calendar's API to the business. The system may also include a profile manager that allows the customer to add the business to a trust list, which may identify those businesses to which access has been granted. A network may communicatively couple the electronic calendar, customer, business, and profile manager.

Abstract: RF semiconductor devices and methods of making the same are disclosed. In a disclosed method, a trench for defining an active region and an element isolation region is formed in a semiconductor substrate. One or more gate lines is then formed within the active region. Next, an insulating layer is formed on the semiconductor substrate and the gate lines. Contact holes are then formed in the insulating layer. Contact plugs are then formed in the contact holes. Thereafter, a conductive pattern is electrically connected with the contact plugs.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a first data line and a second data line, the first and second data lines substantially parallel to one another, a first gate line, the first gate line crossing the first data line and the second data line, a display sub-pixel defined by the crossing of the first gate line and the first data line, a sensing sub-pixel defined by the crossing of the first gate line and the second data line, and a first switching element for connecting the second data line connected to one of a sensing processing unit and a ground terminal, wherein the display sub-pixel transmits light supplied from a light source in accordance to a data signal applied to the first data line, and the sensing sub-pixel senses light incident on the liquid crystal display device and generates charges corresponding to the sensed light.

Abstract: A phase change memory device includes a semiconductor substrate having active regions and an isolation structure; gate lines extending in a direction perpendicular to the active regions; a source region and a drain region formed in a surface of each active region; a dot type lower electrode including a first contact plug formed in the drain region; second contact plugs formed in the source region and the isolation structure forming a line parallel to the gate line; a lower electrode contact formed on the lower electrode; a phase change layer and an upper electrode formed on the lower electrode contact; an upper electrode contact formed on the upper electrode; contacts for ground lines, formed between the active regions to come into contact with the second contact plugs; a bit line formed in the active region; and ground lines formed between the active regions.

Abstract: A web server that compresses a web resource and provides the compressed web resource, the web server including: a compression unit to substitute strings including combinations of symbolic characters of different types for strings of a file of a web resource to compress the strings; a storage unit to store compression information of the web resource; and a control unit to execute the web resource according to the compression information stored in the storage unit if a web service is requested, and to provide the requested web service. Accordingly, the response speed of the web server is improved, and a web resource program is protected.

Abstract: An exemplary metallic frame (60) is formed by forging and precise machining of a workpiece. The forging process is performed before the precise machining process, a hardness of the frame is larger than that of the workpiece and a surface roughness Ra of the frame reaches about 6.4 microns. The present invention further provides a method of making the frame. The method includes as follows: feeding workpiece process (12) for providing a workpiece (20); forging process (14), the workpiece be forged to form a preform (40); and precise machining process (18), the preform be precisely machined to form a frame.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a first conductive layer, a first intermediate structure over the first conductive layer, a second intermediate structure over the first intermediate structure, and a second conductive layer over the second intermediate structure. The first intermediate structure includes a metal silicide layer and a nitrogen containing metal layer. The second intermediate structure includes at least a nitrogen containing metal silicide layer.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a primer of detecting a food-borne pathogen, and to a method of detection for food poisoning. In particular, the invention relates to a PCR primer which is specific to and is used for rapid and accurate detection of the Salmonella spp., Staphylococcus aureus, E. coli O-157, Listeria monocytogenes, and Vibrio parahemoliticus, respectively, and a detection method and a kit for the Food poisoning by using the PCR primer. Using the detection method according to the present invention, 100 to 10 CFU/ml of food borne pathogen can be detected, and rapid survey of food poisoning research can be performed within five (5).

Abstract: Provided are a thin film transistor capable of enhancing electrical and leakage current characteristics by reducing an amount of crystallization inducing metal remaining in a semiconductor layer, a method of fabricating the same, and an organic light emitting diode display device including the same. The method of the thin film transistor of the present invention includes forming a first amorphous silicon layer on a substrate, crystallizing the first amorphous silicon layer into a first polycrystalline silicon layer by using a crystallization inducing metal, forming a second amorphous silicon layer on the first polycrystalline silicon layer, implanting an impurity into the second amorphous silicon layer, and annealing the first polycrystalline silicon layer and the second amorphous silicon layer.

Abstract: Methods of the present invention provide for receiving electronic calendar access to a second party via an exposed API. An exemplary method may comprise the step of receiving access to the exposed Application Programming Interface (API) of a customer's electronic calendar to schedule an event. A record indicating access to that customer's electronic calendar may then be stored. Upon the scheduling of the event, a configured data (compatible with said electronic calendar) regarding the event may be generated and transmitted to the customer.

Abstract: A biomagnetic field measurement apparatus according to the present invention comprises: a head part provided with SQUID sensors (Superconducting Quantum Interference Device) for measuring a magnetocardiogram, the sensors being arranged in a row in a right and left direction at a lower end portion of the head part and being spaced apart by a predetermined space, and a non-magnetic liquid coolant container for cooling the SQUID sensors; an electronic circuitry part for controlling the SQUID sensors and measuring a signal; a signal processing software part for acquiring and storing the signal detected by the electronic circuitry part to a PC, calculating the signal and thus transforming the signal to a magnetic signal or a current signal, then mapping and displaying the transformed signal; and a bed part made of a non-magnetic material, mounted at a lower side of the head part to be spaced apart therefrom and provided with a platy sliding bed for measuring a magnetocardiogram by using the SQUID sensors of the he