Abstract: A method includes obtaining a mixture including a first composition and a second composition. The method also includes forming a layer based on the mixture. Ratios between an amount of the first composition and an amount of the second composition at at least two locations of the layer are different.

Abstract: A minimally invasive surgical device includes a main body, a buffer assembly and a cutter bit. The main body includes an inner tube and an outer tube, wherein the inner tube is disposed in the outer tube. An end of the buffer assembly is connected to the inner tube. The cutter bit is connected to another end of the buffer assembly, wherein the cutter bit has a cutting portion. When the cutting portion is in contact with an object, the buffer assembly is adapted to enable the cutter bit to move relatively to the inner tube to decrease a cutting force between the cutting portion and the object, and is adapted to enable the cutting portion to be tilted with a surface of the object.

Abstract: A lens is provided. The lens includes an optically anisotropic film. The optically anisotropic film has an optic axis configured with an in-plane rotation in at least two opposite in-plane directions from a lens pattern center to opposite lens peripheries. The optic axis rotates in a same rotation direction from the lens pattern center to the opposite lens peripheries. An azimuthal angle changing rate of the optic axis is configured to increase from the lens pattern center to the opposite lens peripheries in at least a portion of the lens including the lens pattern center. The lens pattern center is shifted from a geometry center of the lens by a predetermined distance in a predetermined direction.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are coating compositions comprising one or more enzymes that retain enzymatic activity following film formation. Uses of such functionalized coating compositions to confer bioactive properties to surfaces are also provided. Methods of enhancing in-film enzyme activity by modulation of filler type, pigment volume concentration (PVC), neutralizer type, and/or coalescing agent level are also provided.

Abstract: A touch sensing unit, includes a plurality of first sensing electrodes and a plurality of second sensing electrodes intersecting with and insulated from the plurality of first sensing electrodes. The plurality of first sensing electrodes includes a plurality of first sensor portions and a plurality of first connection portions connecting each of the plurality of first sensor portions with one another. The plurality of second sensing electrodes includes a plurality of second sensor portions a plurality of stem sensors extended from the plurality of second sensor portions, and a plurality of second connection portions connecting each of the plurality of sensor portions with one another. Each of the plurality of first sensor portions includes a plurality of depressions indented inwardly. Each of the plurality of stem sensors is disposed such that it is at least partially surrounded by a respective depression of the plurality of depressions.

Abstract: A signal processing method is provided. First, at least one transmitted signal is output to at least one target, and the target reflects at least one reflected signal to receiving antennas, which then generate receiving signals upon receipt of the reflected signal. Next, the transmitted signal and each receiving signal are processed to generate processing signals. The processing signals are arranged in a form of matrix, to generate a channel coefficient matrix having M×N channel coefficient matrix blocks. Next, the channel coefficient matrix is divided into Ndivide×Mdivide secondary channel coefficient matrices, which are then substituted into a snapshot vector matrix equation to generate a snapshot vector matrix for calculating an angle of the target. The signal processing method can establish an optimal secondary channel coefficient matrix arrangement by using a special signal preprocessing manner, to improve the resolution and accuracy of the estimated angle parameter of the target.

Abstract: An optical device is provided. The optical device includes a first optical element configured to output an elliptically polarized light having one or more predetermined polarization ellipse parameters. The optical device also includes a second optical element including a birefringent material with a chirality, and configured to receive the elliptically polarized light from the first optical element and reflect the elliptically polarized light as a circularly polarized light.

Abstract: A device includes one or more light guides. The device also includes a first in-coupling element configured to couple a first light having a first input field of view (“FOV”) into a first light guide, and a second in-coupling element configured to couple a second light having a second input FOV into a second light guide. The device also includes a first out-coupling element configured to couple the first light out of the first light guide as a first output light having a first output FOV, and a second out-coupling element configured to couple the second light out of the second light guide as a second output light having a second output FOV substantially non-overlapping with the first output FOV. A combination of the first output FOV and the second output FOV is larger than at least one of the first output FOV or the second output FOV.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for encryption key recovery based on memory analysis. The apparatus may include one or more processors and executable memory for storing at least one program executed by the one or more processors. The at least one program may collect memory information pertaining to an encrypted part of a file, in which ransomware is detected, based on dynamic binary instrumentation, analyze memory read operation data corresponding to an encryption key that is used for encryption of the file in the memory information, recover the encryption key based on the result of analysis of the memory read operation data, and output the result of recovery of the encryption key.

Abstract: A contact arrangement, including multiple contacts, is provided. The contacts are staggered. Some of the contacts form at least one contact group. The at least one contact group includes a first contact and six second contacts. The second contacts are arranged around the first contact. When the first contact is a power contact or a ground contact, the second contacts are signal contacts. When the first contact is a signal contact, three of the second contacts are power contacts or ground contacts and are not adjacent to each other.

Abstract: A contact arrangement, including multiple contacts, is provided. The contacts are staggered. Some of the contacts form at least one contact group. The at least one contact group includes a pair of first contacts and eight second contacts. The pair of first contacts is a pair of differential signal contacts. The second contacts are arranged around the pair of first contacts. Two of the second contacts are arranged along a straight line perpendicular to a connecting line of the pair of first contacts. The position distribution and electrical properties of the other six of the second contacts are symmetrical to each other relative to the straight line.

Abstract: A package includes an Integrated Voltage Regulator (IVR) die, wherein the IVR die includes metal pillars at a top surface of the first IVR die. The package further includes a first encapsulating material encapsulating the first IVR die therein, wherein the first encapsulating material has a top surface coplanar with top surfaces of the metal pillars. A plurality of redistribution lines is over the first encapsulating material and the IVR die. The plurality of redistribution lines is electrically coupled to the metal pillars. A core chip overlaps and is bonded to the plurality of redistribution lines. A second encapsulating material encapsulates the core chip therein, wherein edges of the first encapsulating material and respective edges of the second encapsulating material are vertically aligned to each other. An interposer or a package substrate is underlying and bonded to the IVR die.

Abstract: A touch sensor includes a base layer, first touch sensor columns, second touch sensor columns, and sensing lines. The base layer includes a sensing region and a non-sensing region. The first touch sensor columns extend in a first direction. The first touch sensor columns include first touch electrodes. The first touch electrodes include sub-touch electrodes in the sensing region. The second touch sensor columns include second touch electrodes in the sensing region. The second touch sensor columns are alternately arranged with the first touch sensor columns. The sensing lines are in the non-sensing region. The sensing lines include: first sensing lines electrically connected to the sub-touch electrodes, and second sensing lines electrically connected to the second touch electrodes. The sub-touch electrodes and the second touch electrodes have different widths.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a processor includes a plurality of domains each to operate at an independently controllable voltage and frequency, a plurality of linear regulators each to receive a first voltage from an off-chip source and controllable to provide a regulated voltage to at least one of the plurality of domains, and a plurality of selectors each coupled to one of the domains, where each selector is configured to provide a regulated voltage from one of the linear regulators or a bypass voltage to a corresponding domain. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Abstract: An optical device includes a first layer including a first birefringent material having a negative birefringence dispersion property. The optical device also includes a second layer including a second birefringent material having a positive birefringence dispersion property. The first layer and the second layer are structurally patterned to provide at least one predetermined optical function.

Abstract: A memory circuit includes a first memory circuit formed of a first die or a set of stacked dies. The memory circuit further includes a second memory circuit formed of a second die, the second memory circuit comprising one or more sets of memory cells of a second type and each set of the memory cells of the second type comprising multiple cache sections. The first die or the set of stacked dies are stacked over the second die, wherein the second die further includes a first plurality of I/O terminals and a second plurality of I/O terminals, the first plurality of I/O terminals being electrically coupled to the first memory circuit, and the second plurality of I/O terminals being electrically isolated from the first memory circuit.

Abstract: A system is provided. The system includes a light source configured to emit an infrared light to illuminate an eye of a user. The system includes a grating disposed facing the eye and including a birefringent material film configured with a uniform birefringence lower than or equal to 0.1. The grating is configured to diffract the infrared light reflected from the eye, and transmit a visible light from a real world environment toward the eye, with a diffraction efficiency less than a predetermined threshold. The system includes an optical sensor configured to receive the diffracted infrared light and generate an image of the eye based on the diffracted infrared light.

Abstract: Improved process flows and methods are provided herein for forming a passivation layer on sidewall surfaces of openings formed in an amorphous carbon layer (ACL) to avoid bowing during an ACL etch process. More specifically, improved process flows and methods are provided to form a silicon-containing passivation layer on sidewall surfaces of the openings created within the ACL without utilizing atomic layer deposition (ALD) techniques or converting the silicon-containing passivation layer to an oxide or a nitride. As such, the improved process flows and methods disclosed herein may be used to protect the sidewall surfaces of the ACL and prevent bowing during the ACL etch process, while also reducing processing time and improving throughput.

Abstract: Disclosed are goggles. The goggles are provided so that they comprise: a main body unit worn on the face of a user; a lens unit that is coupled to the main body unit and has a fastening protrusion formed to protrude toward the main body unit; and a fastening unit that has a fastening recess formed therein and is coupled to the main body to lock and unlock the fastening protrusion, wherein the fastening unit includes a body part movably coupled to the main body unit and a guide protrusion for guiding the moving direction of the body part, the main body unit has a guide hole formed at a position corresponding to the guide protrusion, the guide protrusion being received in the guide hole, and the fastening unit further included a protrusion part coupled to the body part to push the fastening protrusion outward such that the lens unit is separated from the main body unit when the fastening protrusion is unlocked according to the movement of the body part into the main body unit.

Abstract: A device for power estimation is disclosed. The device includes a transformer circuit coupled with a processing circuit and a transaction interface. The transformer circuit is configured to count performance activities executed in the processing circuit and to compare count values of the performance activities with a predetermined value to determine a power state of the processing circuit. The transaction interface is configured to receive a request from the processing circuit and record a first timestamp, and further configured to receive a response from a memory model and record a second timestamp, the transaction interface being further configured to record a time difference between the first timestamp and the second timestamp as a time difference. The transformer circuit is further configured to determine the power state of the processing circuit based on both of the count values and the time difference.