Abstract: A refrigerator of the present disclosure can include an ice making cell, a heater configured to supply heat to the ice making cell during an ice making process, and a controller configured to control the heater. The process for controlling the heater includes a basic heating process and an additional heating process that is performed after the basic heating process. In the basic heating process, the controller performs control so that a heating amount of the heater varies according to a mass per unit height of water in the ice making cell. In at least partial section of the additional heating process, the controller controls the heater to operate with a heating amount that is equal to or less than a heating amount of the heater in the basic heating process.

Abstract: Wireless communications systems and methods related to reverse link operations in sidelink communications are provided. A first user equipment (UE) receive, from a second UE, sidelink resource pool information. The first UE may select, based on the sidelink resource pool information, a first resource from a set of resources in a sidelink resource pool, and transmit, to the second UE based on the sidelink resource pool information, a first sidelink transmission using the first resource.

Abstract: Methods, computer programs products, and apparatuses for RS availability indication are provided. An example method at a UE may include receiving, from a base station, a PEI comprising a first availability indication for a first set of RS resources in one or more RS occasions. The example method may further include receiving, from the base station, a paging PDCCH comprising a second availability indication for a second set of RS resources in the one or more RS occasions. The example method may further include receiving, from the base station, at least one of the first set of RS resources or the second set of RS resources.

Abstract: A semiconductor structure having a silver-indium transient liquid phase bonding joint is provided. With the ultra-thin silver-indium transient liquid phase bonding joint formed between the semiconductor device and the heat-spreading mount, its thermal resistance can be minimized to achieve a high thermal conductivity. Therefore, the heat spreading capability of the heat-spreading mount can be fully realized, leading to an optimal performance of the high power electronics and photonics devices.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a refrigerator. A refrigerator according to the present invention may comprises a first tray assembly forming one part of ice-making cells, and a second tray assembly forming the other part of same. Following the start of ice making process, so that ice can be produced in the direction of ice-making cells formed by any one tray assembly, from among the first and second tray assemblies, to the ice-making cells formed by the other tray assembly, the other tray assembly comprises a first surface forming a part of the ice-making cells, and a second surface extending from the first surface and supported by at least one surface of the one assembly.

Abstract: A three-dimensional porous silicon/carbon composite material includes a three-dimensional porous skeleton, a filler layer, and a coating layer. The three-dimensional porous skeleton is a three-dimensional porous carbon skeleton; the filler layer includes silicon particles and conductive carbon; the filler layer is formed by scattering the silicon particles evenly and dispersively in the conductive carbon; and the coating layer is a carbon coating layer. The present invention provides the three-dimensional porous silicon/carbon composite material with long cycle and low expansion, a method for preparing the same, and a use thereof.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, a configuration message that indicates a radio resource allocation and a transmission scheme for one or more first configured grant-small data transfer (CG-SDT) occasions and one or more second CG-SDT occasions. The one or more second CG-SDT occasions are at least partially nested, in time, frequency, or a combination thereof, within the one or more first CG-SDT occasions. The UE may therefore transmit, to the base station, an uplink communication within the one or more first CG-SDT occasions or the one or more second CG-SDT occasions, using the radio resource allocation and the transmission scheme. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Abstract: A variety of applications can include apparatus having a memory device structured with an array of memory cells and a complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) device coupled to the array. The CMOS device can include a gate electrode on and contacting the polysilicon gates of a p-channel metal-oxide-semiconductor (PMOS) transistor and a n-channel metal-oxide-semiconductor (NMOS) transistor of the CMOS device, where the gate electrode is a multi-metal stack. The multi-metal stack of the gate electrode can be two levels of different metal compositions.

Abstract: The invention provides a copper alloy strip, wherein the copper alloy comprises the following components in percentage by mass: 0.1 wt %-1.0 wt % of Cr, 0.01 wt %-0.2 wt % of Si, 0.01 wt %-1.0 wt % of X and the balance of Cu and inevitable impurities, wherein X is at least one of Fe, Ti, 5 Zr, Ag, Zn and Sn; on a section of the copper alloy strip perpendicular to a rolling direction, the number of second-phase particles having a particle size of 5 nm or below 5 nm is A, the number of second-phase particles having a particle size of 100 nm or above 100 nm is B, and A/B is greater than or equal to 3.

Abstract: An autonomous driving control device according to various embodiments includes a sensor device including a biosensor, and a processor, wherein the processor is configured to control, as a first parameter value, a parameter related to a driving device for controlling a movement of an autonomous vehicle when the autonomous vehicle is driving with at least one autonomous driving function. The processor is also configured to monitor, via the biometric sensor, mental and physical states of an occupant on the basis of biometric information of the occupant located in the autonomous vehicle while the autonomous vehicle is driving with the autonomous driving function and adjust the first parameter value to a second parameter value in response to a change in the mental and physical states of the occupant from a stable state to an unstable state as a result of monitoring the mental and physical states of the occupant.

Abstract: An electronic device includes: at least one antenna; and a power amplifier electrically connected to the at least one antenna. The power amplifier includes: a first amplification circuit; a first transformer; a first switch; a second amplification circuit; a second transformer; a second switch; the power combiner; and the third switch configured to electrically connect at least one of the first switch, the second switch, or an output port of the power combiner with the at least one antenna.

Abstract: A tidal current energy generating device includes a generator, a connecting shaft, an impeller and an adjustment assembly. The impeller includes an impeller hub and an impeller blade arranged thereon. The impeller hub is connected with the connecting shaft, and the generator is connected with the impeller hub. The impeller blade is driven under the action of a tidal current to drive the impeller hub to rotate synchronously around an axis of the connecting shaft, driving the generator to generate electricity. The adjustment assembly is connected with the impeller blade, and can be driven to swing under the action of the tidal current to drive the impeller blade to rotate around the axis of the impeller blade relative to the impeller hub, thereby adjusting the angle of the impeller blade.

Abstract: A reference signal sequence to modulate the demodulation reference signal for the Physical Broadcast Channel in New Radio standard is disclosed. Formulas are proposed for calculating the initialization value for the RS sequence generator so as to accord with the characteristics of New Radio.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a display panel having an opening, a display area surrounding the opening, and a non-display area between the opening and the display area, the method includes the steps of: forming a pixel circuit including a at least one thin-film transistor in the display area, forming a first electrode electrically connected to the at least one thin-film transistor, forming a first layer having a plurality of slits in the non-display area, forming, on the first electrode, an intermediate layer and a second electrode that form a light-emitting element, the intermediate layer and the second electrode being disposed on the display area and the non-display area, and covering the first layer, lifting the second electrode off from the intermediate layer by irradiating a first laser beam having a first energy density toward the first layer, the intermediate layer, and the second electrode, which are stacked, and lifting off the first layer and the intermediate layer by irradiating a second laser beam ha

Abstract: Protecting membership and data in secure multi-party computation and communication is provided. A method of protecting membership and data includes generating a padding dataset. A size of the padding dataset is determined based on a data privacy configuration. The method also includes up-sampling a first dataset with the padding dataset, transforming the first dataset, dispatching the first dataset, performing an intersection operation based on the first dataset and a second dataset to generate a third dataset, generating a first share based on the third dataset, and constructing a result based on the first share and a second share.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure describe methods, apparatuses, storage media, and systems for uplink non-orthogonal multiple access transmission schemes employed by transmit circuitry. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.

Abstract: A user equipment (LTE) for operation in a fifth-generation system (5GS) is configured to decode configuration information for a first hybrid-automatic repeat request (HARQ) acknowledgement (ACK) (HARQ-ACK) codebook for first priority HARQ-ACK bits and for a second HARQ-ACK codebook for second priority HARQ-ACK bits. The configuration information may indicate a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource for the first HARQ-ACK codebook and a PUCCH resource for the second HARQ-ACK codebook. The UE may multiplex the first priority HARQ-ACK bits and the second priority HARQ-ACK bits in a PUCCH transmission when the PUCCH resources for the first and the second HARQ-ACK codebooks overlap. The LTE may use the PUCCH resource for the higher priority HARQ-ACK bits to multiplex the first priority HARQ-ACK bits and the second priority HARQ-ACK bits.

Abstract: A lighting apparatus includes a lens, a cup housing, a light source and a top cover. The cup housing has a surrounding wall and a light source holder. The cup housing is installed on a fixed platform. The light source is placed on the light source holder. The cup housing and the top cover form a container space for storing the lens and the light source. A top end of the lens is attached to the top cover. A second end of the lens faces to the light source. A relative distance between the lens and the light source is adjustable to change a light pattern of a output light of the light source. The output light is a light of the light source passing through the lens.

Abstract: A refrigerator comprises: a storage chamber, a cooler, a first tray, a second tray, the first portion and the second portion being configured to define a space formed by the cell to receive a liquid to be phase-changed to form ice, a heater provided adjacent to at least one of the first tray or the second tray; and a controller configured to: operate the heater while the ice is being formed so that gas bubbles dissolved in the liquid within the cell move from a portion of space where the liquid that has phase-changed into the ice to another portion of the space where the liquid is in a fluid state, and when a defrosting start condition is satisfied while the ice is being formed in the space of the cell, perform a defrosting process and reduce an amount of cold supplied by the cooler.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a substrate including an active pattern, a channel pattern including a plurality of semiconductor patterns spaced apart from each other and vertically stacked, on the active pattern, a source/drain pattern connected to the plurality of semiconductor patterns, and a gate electrode including a first inner electrode provided below a first semiconductor pattern among the plurality of semiconductor patterns, on the plurality of semiconductor patterns, and a second inner electrode provided above the first semiconductor pattern, the first semiconductor pattern includes a first portion adjacent to the first inner electrode, a second portion adjacent to the second inner electrode, and a third portion between the first and second portions, the first semiconductor pattern includes a dopant having an atomic weight greater than that of silicon, and a dopant concentration of the third portion is smaller than a dopant concentration of each of the first and second portions.