Abstract: Disclosed are an ionic liquid, an electrolyte including the ionic liquid, and a lithium secondary battery including the same. The ionic liquid is capable of forming a film having high ionic conductivity on an anode upon reductive decomposition of cations contained therein, and delaying the decomposition of anions.

Abstract: Disclosed are a method for inducing a prediction motion vector and an apparatus using the same. An image decoding method can include: a step of determining the information related to a plurality of spatial candidate prediction motion vectors from peripheral predicted blocks of a predicted target block; and a step of determining the information related to temporal candidate prediction motion vectors on the basis of the information related to the plurality of spatial candidate prediction motion vectors. Accordingly, the present invention can reduce complexity and can enhance coding efficiency when inducing the optimum prediction motion vector.

Abstract: A UE transmits information to a network node indicating at least one of an aggregation capability or payload pattern information for multiple uplink data flows of the UE and receives a grant of uplink resources for the multiple uplink data flows based on the information transmitted to the network node. A network node obtains information from a UE, the information indicating at least one of an aggregation capability or payload pattern information for multiple uplink data flows of the UE; and provides a grant of uplink resources for the multiple uplink data flows based on the information transmitted to the network node.

Abstract: Disclosed are a method of manufacturing a smart ring and a smart ring manufactured through the method.

Abstract: A semiconductor memory device may include a cell substrate including a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, and a landing pattern including a third surface and a fourth surface opposite to the third surface, with the landing pattern spaced apart from the cell substrate in a horizontal direction. The semiconductor memory device may include a plurality of gate electrodes sequentially stacked on the first surface and the third surface, a channel structure on the cell substrate, the channel structure extending vertically and intersecting the plurality of gate electrodes, an upper insulating film covering the second surface and the fourth surface, an input/output pad on the upper insulating film, the input/output pad overlapping at least a portion of the plurality of gate electrodes in the vertical direction, and a support contact extending through the upper insulating film and connecting the landing pattern and the input/output pad.

Abstract: A method of operating storage devices, a memory device, a host device, and a switch, is provided. The method includes: receiving, by the memory device, a first request corresponding to target user data from the host device; generating, by the memory device, first input/output (I/O) stream information based on telemetry information corresponding to the storage devices and map data in a buffer memory of the memory device based on the first request, wherein the first I/O stream information indicates a data path between a first storage device of the storage devices and the host device; providing, by the memory device, a first redirection request including the first request and the first I/O stream information to the host device or the first storage device through the switch; and processing the target user data according to the first I/O stream information in the first redirection request.

Abstract: A pouch-type secondary battery according to an embodiment of the present invention for solving the above problems includes a cup part configured to accommodate an electrode assembly formed by stacking electrodes and separators, wherein the cup part includes: a bottom portion configured to form a bottom; an outer wall configured to form a side surface and meet the bottom portion; a punch edge configured to connect the bottom portion to the outer wall; a thickness edge configured to connect two adjacent outer walls to each other; and a corner formed by connecting the two adjacent punch edges to the thickness edge, wherein at least one of the punch edges is rounded, at least one of the thickness edge is rounded, at least one of the corner is rounded and has a curvature radius different from that of each of the punch edge and the thickness edge.

Abstract: A method for acquiring information of a foot, the method includes: acquiring an image captured by simultaneously photographing a user's foot and an item having a standardized size; and calculating information of the user's foot from the image. The calculating the information of the user's foot from the image includes: calculating positions of vertices of the item from the image; and calculating a region where the user's foot is located in the image. The calculating the positions of the vertices of the item from the image includes: calculating one or more feature points corresponding to a corner in the image; and selecting the vertices of the item among the one or more feature points, and the one or more feature points are calculated by using brightness values of pixels in the image.

Abstract: A display device includes a substrate including a display area and a peripheral area disposed around the display area. The peripheral area includes a bending region and a contact region adjacent to the bending region. A first connection line includes a first portion disposed in the contact region, and a second portion disposed in both the bending region and the contact region, and including a first layer and a second layer. At least part of the second layer of the second portion overlaps the first layer of the second portion. In the contact region, the first layer of the second portion is electrically connected to the first portion, and the second layer of the second portion is electrically connected to the first layer of the second portion.

Abstract: A semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device. As a non-limiting example, various aspects of this disclosure provide a stackable semiconductor device with small size and fine pitch and a method of manufacturing thereof.

Abstract: An apparatus for diagnosing a battery located in a battery system including one or more batteries, the apparatus may include: at least one processor; and a memory configured to store instructions executed by the at least one processor to collect state of charge information of the battery when the battery system is in a standby mode; calculate an amount of power change of the battery during a maintaining period of the standby mode based on the collected state of charge information and pre-stored initial state of charge information; and compare the calculated amount of power change with an expected amount of discharge power of the battery and to determine whether a leakage current occurs in the battery system based on the comparison.

Abstract: The present invention provides a self-standing film laminate for an anode of a lithium secondary battery, the self-standing film laminate including a first self-standing film including a first anode active material, a first conductive material, and a first binder containing a triblock copolymer, and a second self-standing film including a second anode active material, a second conductive material, and a second binder containing a fluorine-based resin, wherein the triblock copolymer includes a soft block derived from aliphatic or cycloaliphatic diene-based monomers and exhibiting a rubber phase at room temperature, and a first hard block and a second hard block each connected to both ends of the soft block, derived from an aromatic ring-containing ethylenically unsaturated monomer, and exhibiting a glass phase at room temperature, and the first binder is in the form of a non-continuous column connecting between any one of a domain of the first anode active material or a domain of the first conductive material

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a self-standing film for a negative-electrode of a lithium secondary battery includes forming a negative-electrode active material layer in a film formation process using a composition for forming the negative-electrode of the lithium secondary battery, wherein the composition includes a negative-electrode active material, a conductive material, and a binder, wherein the binder includes a triblock copolymer having: a soft block derived from an aliphatic or cycloaliphatic diene-based monomer and having a rubber phase at room temperature; and a first hard block and a second hard block respectively connected to both ends of the soft block, and derived from an aromatic ring-containing ethylenically unsaturated monomer, and having a glass phase at the room temperature.

Abstract: The present exemplary embodiments provide a reinforcement learning based signal detection apparatus and method for vehicular MIMO communication which flexibly adjust the performance and the complexity by applying the reinforcement learning during the MIMO signal detecting process, improving a trade-off relationship between the performance and the complexity of the MIMO signal detection, and controlling the number of episodes of the reinforcement learning in accordance with the speed of the vehicle.

Abstract: A self-standing film for an anode of a lithium secondary battery, the self-standing film including an anode active material, a conductive material, a first binder containing a triblock copolymer, and a second binder containing a fluorine-based resin, wherein the triblock copolymer includes a soft block derived from aliphatic or cycloaliphatic diene-based monomers and exhibiting a rubber phase at room temperature, and a first hard block and a second hard block each connected to both ends of the soft block, derived from an aromatic ring-containing ethylenically unsaturated monomer, and exhibiting a glass phase at room temperature, and the first binder is in the form of a non-continuous column connecting between any one of a domain of the anode active material or a domain of the conductive material and another one of a domain of the anode active material or a domain of the conductive material.

Abstract: disclosureDisclosed are, inter alia, a composition for forming an anode of a lithium secondary battery including an anode active material, a conductive material, and a binder. Particularly, the binder contains a triblock copolymer which has a soft block derived from an aliphatic or alicyclic diene-based monomer and forming a rubbery phase at a room temperature; and a first hard block and a second hard block connected to both ends of the soft block, respectively, derived from an aromatic ring-containing ethylenically unsaturated monomer, and forming a glassy phase at a room temperature, and wherein the binder includes particles with an average diameter (D50) of 1 ?m or more and 50 ?m or less.

Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing an intrinsically stretchable organic solar cell, a manufacturing method thereof, and an electronic device comprising the same. The intrinsically stretchable organic solar cell of the present invention is characterized that wherein excellent interfacial bonding among stretchable constituent elements constituting each layer is induced so that the constituent elements are seamlessly integrated into a single system, thereby ensuring excellent initial power conversion efficiency (PCE), and mechanical robustness showing that 70% or more of initial PCE is maintained in spite of repetitive tensile strains. Thus, the organic solar cell is useful for an electronic device applied to any one selected from a group consisting of sensors, electronic skins, flexible displays, and stretchable displays.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a self-standing film for a negative-electrode of a lithium secondary battery includes performing a first film formation process using a composition for forming the negative-electrode of the lithium secondary battery to obtain a first negative-electrode active material layer, wherein the composition includes a negative-electrode active material, a conductive material, and a binder; pulverizing the first negative-electrode active material layer to obtain composite powders for formation of the negative-electrode as a pulverized product; and performing a second film formation process using the composite powders to obtain a second negative-electrode active material layer, wherein the binder includes a triblock copolymer having: a soft block derived from an aliphatic or cycloaliphatic diene-based monomer and having a rubber phase at room temperature; and a first hard block and a second hard block respectively connected to both ends of the soft block, and derived from an aromatic ring-cont

Abstract: An air control valve apparatus for a fuel cell, which controls air that flows into or out of a fuel cell stack, includes a valve housing having an air flow path fluidically-communicating with the fuel cell stack; a valve member configured to selectively open or close the air flow path; a trapping portion provided in the valve housing, disposed adjacent to an internal surface of the valve member, and configured to trap foreign substances discharged from the fuel cell stack; and a siphon guide tube connected between the trapping portion and the outside of the valve member and configured to selectively discharge the foreign substances trapped by the trapping portion to the outside of the valve member, improving stability and reliability.

Abstract: A radio frequency signaling system includes a curable coating composition configured to be cured to form a cured coating and a sensor received in the curable coating composition. The sensor includes circuitry forming an inductor-capacitor circuit. The circuitry has a maximum outer diameter of 10 ?m-2.0 mm. The circuitry is configured to generate an electromagnetic field in response to an external radio frequency signal. A container configured to be monitored by a radio frequency signaling system is also provided. The container includes: a container body having an outer surface and an inner surface; a cured coating on the inner surface and/or the outer surface of the container body; and a sensor positioned in the cured coating configured to detect absorption of a fluid contained in the container body by the cured coating.