Abstract: A touch panel and a touch panel operation method are disposed. The touch panel includes a flexible element and a controller. The flexible element includes a plurality of sensing electrodes. In a stacked state, a first portion of the flexible element overlaps a second portion of the flexible element. The controller for receiving an active touch signal from the plurality of sensing electrodes in the second portion of the flexible element and a non-active touch signal from the plurality of the sensing electrodes in the first portion of the flexible element. In the stacked state, the controller allows the active touch signal subject to a subsequent process.

Abstract: A device a includes a substrate, two source/drain (S/D) features over the substrate, and semiconductor layers suspended over the substrate and connecting the two S/D features. The device further includes a dielectric layer disposed between two adjacent layers of the semiconductor layers and an air gap between the dielectric layer and one of the S/D features, where a ratio between a length of the air gap to a thickness of the first dielectric layer is in a range of 0.1 to 1.0.

Abstract: This invention provides an ultrasonic transducer with a zipper array of transducing elements, which includes a tail and a head. A surface of the head is embedded with a plurality of left transducing elements and a plurality of right transducing elements, wherein each left transducing element at least partially overlaps each right transducing element in an elevation axis.

Abstract: An electronic audio file is received that comprises spontaneous speech responsive to a prompt in a non-native language of a speaker. Thereafter, the electronic audio file is parsed into a plurality of spoken words. The spoken words are then normalized to remove stop words and disfluencies. At least one trained content scoring model is then used to determine an absence of pre-defined key points associated with the prompt in the normalized spoken words. A list of the determined absent key points can be generated. This list can then be displayed/caused to be displayed in a graphical user interface along with feedback to improve content completeness. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a color filter substrate and a method for manufacturing the same, and a display device, and the color filter substrate includes a base substrate, a black matrix and a color filter layer located on the base substrate, a quantum dot layer located on a side of the color filter layer away from the base substrate, a barrier layer located on a side of the black matrix away from the base substrate, and a first inorganic layer, and the first inorganic layer at least includes: a first portion located between the color filter layer and the quantum dot layer; a second portion located on the base substrate and between the quantum dot layer and the barrier layer; and a third portion located on a side of the barrier layer away from the base substrate.

Abstract: Sensing pixels each store a sensing voltage level. A method for driving the plurality of sensing pixels includes providing a plurality of readout scan signals to the plurality of sensing pixels, and providing a plurality of reset scan signals to the plurality of sensing pixels. One of the plurality of readout scan signals enables one of the plurality of sensing pixels to output the sensing voltage level stored in the one of the plurality of sensing pixels. One of plurality of reset scan signals resets the sensing voltage level stored in one of the plurality of sensing pixels. An nth reset scan signal of the plurality of reset scan signals is started behind an nth readout scan signal of the plurality of readout scan signals in time domain.

Abstract: A method for forming a semiconductor structure includes receiving a first die having a first interconnect structure and a first bonding layer over the first interconnect structure, and a second die having a second interconnect structure and a second bonding layer over the second interconnect structure; forming a recess indenting into the first bonding layer; and forming a positioning member on the second bonding layer. The method further includes bonding the second die over the first die; and disposing the positioning member into the recess. The positioning member includes dielectric, is surrounded by the first bonding layer, and is isolated from the first interconnect structure and the second interconnect structure.

Abstract: A method of operating a transport system includes detecting an anomalous condition of a wafer transfer vehicle; sending the wafer transfer vehicle along a rail to a diagnosis station adjacent to the rail; and inspecting properties of the wafer transfer vehicle, such as a speed, a weight, an audio frequency, a noise level, a temperature, and an image of the wafer transfer vehicle, by using the diagnosis station.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a base assembly of voice coil motor and a voice coil motor. The base assembly includes a base body having an elastic piece connecting area with a protrusion; a lower elastic piece disposed on the elastic piece connecting area with a first connecting hole, a second connecting hole, and a first trench, the protrusion is exposed from the first connecting hole, and the first trench is disposed between the first connecting hole and the second connecting hole; a connecting piece; and a terminal having a conductive part and a terminal connecting part, wherein the conductive part is disposed in the base body, the terminal connecting part passes through the elastic piece connecting area and protrudes from the elastic piece connecting area, and a part of the terminal connecting part is exposed from the second connecting hole to be fixedly connected to the lower elastic piece.

Abstract: A data flow redirection method to overcome a disadvantage that a quantity of adjustable data flows is relatively small due to limited space of a flow specification forwarding table. The method includes receiving, by a network device, a control message sent by a control device, where the control message carries redirection routing information of a data flow and a redirection routing indication, the redirection routing indication instructing to convert the redirection routing information of the data flow into a forwarding entry in a target forwarding table, and tablespace of the target forwarding table is greater than tablespace of a flow specification forwarding table of the network device, and converting, by the network device, the redirection routing information of the data flow into the forwarding entry in the target forwarding table according to the redirection routing indication.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a substrate. The semiconductor device further includes a circuit layer over the substrate. The semiconductor device further includes a test line electrically connected to the circuit layer. The semiconductor device further includes a capacitor on the substrate. The capacitor includes a first conductor, wherein the first conductor is on a portion of the substrate exposed by the circuit layer. The capacitor further includes an insulator surrounding the first conductor.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a system for SMS MRI. During each of a plurality of frames, the system may cause an MRI scanner to apply a plurality of PE steps to each of a plurality of slice locations of a subject to acquire echo signals. A phase modulation magnetic field gradient may be applied during each of at least some of the PE steps in the frame. For each frame, the system may reconstruct an aliasing image representative of the slice locations in the frame based on the corresponding echo signals. The system may also generate a plurality of reference slice images based on the aliasing images. The system may further reconstruct at least one slice image based on the aliasing images and the reference slice images. Each of the slice image may be representative of one of the slice locations in one of the frames.

Abstract: A method includes performing a plasma activation on a surface of a first package component, removing oxide regions from surfaces of metal pads of the first package component, and performing a pre-bonding to bond the first package component to a second package component.

Abstract: An optical system is provided and includes a fixed assembly, an optical module, a first movable assembly and a first driving assembly. The optical module has an optical axis. The first movable assembly is configured to be connected to the optical module. The first driving assembly is configured to drive the first movable assembly to move relative to the fixed assembly, and a gap is formed between the first movable assembly and the fixed assembly.

Abstract: Methods of cutting gate structures, and structures formed, are described. In an embodiment, a structure includes first and second gate structures over an active area, and a gate cut-fill structure. The first and second gate structures extend parallel. The active area includes a source/drain region disposed laterally between the first and second gate structures. The gate cut-fill structure has first and second primary portions and an intermediate portion. The first and second primary portions abut the first and second gate structures, respectively. The intermediate portion extends laterally between the first and second primary portions. First and second widths of the first and second primary portions along longitudinal midlines of the first and second gate structures, respectively, are each greater than a third width of the intermediate portion midway between the first and second gate structures and parallel to the longitudinal midline of the first gate structure.

Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards a trench capacitor with a trench pattern for yield improvement. The trench capacitor is on a substrate and comprises a plurality of capacitor segments. The capacitor segments extend into the substrate according to the trench pattern and are spaced with a pitch on an axis. The plurality of capacitor segments comprises an edge capacitor segment at an edge of the trench capacitor and a center capacitor segment at a center of the trench capacitor. The edge capacitor segment has a greater width than the center capacitor segment and/or the pitch is greater at the edge capacitor segment than at the center capacitor segment. The greater width may facilitate stress absorption and the greater pitch may increase substrate rigidity at the edge of the trench capacitor where thermal expansion stress is greatest, thereby reducing substrate bending and trench burnout for yield improvements.

Abstract: A powdered surface monitoring system of additive manufacturing comprises an additive manufacturing processing cavity, having therein a working area carrying powder to be sintered; a laser source, generating a laser beam, which passes through a reflector, a dichroic mirror and a scanning vibration mirror and is transmitted to an upper surface of the powder in the working area; a polarization imaging device, having therein a beam expander group, a polarizer group and at least one photodetector, the polarizer group consisting of a plurality of linear polarizers, and the number of photodetectors being equal to the number of the linear polarizers.

Abstract: A semiconductor device is described. An isolation region is disposed on the substrate. A plurality of channels extend through the isolation region from the substrate. The channels including an active channel and an inactive channel. A dummy fin is disposed on the isolation region and between the active channel and the inactive channel. An active gate is disposed over the active channel and the inactive channel, and contacts the isolation region. A dielectric material extends through the active gate and contacts a top of the dummy fin. The inactive channel is a closest inactive channel to the dielectric material. A long axis of the active channel extends in a first direction. A long axis of the active gate extends in a second direction. The active channel extends in a third direction from the substrate. The dielectric material is closer to the inactive channel than to the active channel.

Abstract: Machine-learning-based, adaptive updating of quantitative data in a database system is provided, which includes training one or more machine learning models to facilitate adaptively updating quantitative data in the database system, and ascertaining an update urgency index for updating the quantitative data for one or more data structures of the database system. The update urgency index is representative of an urgency for updating the quantitative data for the data structure(s) and is based, at least in part, on real-time query metrics. The machine learning model(s) is used to adaptively update the quantitative data, where the adaptively updating is based, at least in part, on the ascertained update urgency index. Processing of a database query is optimized in the database system using the adaptively updated quantitative data.