Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide methods for fabricating semiconductor devices. In some examples, a method for fabricating a semiconductor device includes forming a stack of layers having a first region and a second region. The stack of layers includes at least a first layer. The method then forms a hard mask layer on the stack of layers in the first region. Then, the method includes patterning the stack of layers in the second region of the semiconductor device. The patterning of the stack of layers in the second region removes a portion of the stack of layers in the second region, and exposes a side of the stack of layers. The method further includes covering at least the side of the stack of layers with a second layer that has a lower remove rate than the first layer, and then the method includes removing the hard mask layer.

Abstract: Provided is a shift register unit. The shift register unit includes a first input circuit, a second input circuit and an output circuit. The first input circuit is coupled to a first clock terminal, a first node, a second node, a third node, a pull-up power supply terminal, and a pull-down power supply terminal. The second circuit is coupled to the first node, the second node, the third node, the pull-up power supply terminal, the pull-down power supply terminal, an input control terminal, and the first clock terminal. The output circuit is coupled to the pull-up power supply terminal, the pull-down power supply terminal, the third node, a second clock terminal, and an output terminal.

Abstract: A display panel, including: a substrate base plate; touch electrodes; touch lead wires on the substrate base plate, one end of the touch lead wire is coupled with the touch electrode, the other end thereof is in a peripheral area, the touch lead wires in the display panel are divided into touch lead wire sets, each touch lead wire set includes touch lead wires; data lead wires on the substrate base plate in the peripheral area, the data lead wires are divided into data lead wire sets, each data lead wire set includes data lead wires, the touch lead wire sets and the data lead wire sets are distributed in a staggered manner; at least one shielding line on the substrate base plate in the peripheral area, an orthographic projection of the shielding line is between orthographic projections of the touch lead wire and the data lead wire.

Abstract: The invention relates to a pixel circuit, a driving method thereof, a display substrate and a display apparatus. The pixel circuit includes a first node control sub-circuit, a second node control sub-circuit, a light emitting control sub-circuit and a drive sub-circuit. The first node control sub-circuit is configured to supply a signal of the initial signal terminal to the first node and the fourth node under the control of the first reset signal terminal and the second scan signal terminal, and supply a signal of the second node to the first node under the control of the third scan signal terminal. The second node control sub-circuit is configured to supply a signal of the reference signal terminal to the second node and a signal of the data signal terminal to the third node under the control of the second reset signal terminal and the first scan signal terminal.

Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for a wireless device to perform substantially concurrent communications with a next generation network node and a legacy network node. The wireless device may be configured to stablish a first wireless link with a first cell according to a RAT, where the first cell operates in a first system bandwidth and establish a second wireless link with a second cell according to a RAT, where the second cell operates in a second system bandwidth. Further, the wireless device may be configured to perform uplink activity for both the first RAT and the second RAT by TDM uplink data for the first RAT and uplink data for the second RAT if uplink activity is scheduled according to both the first RAT and the second RAT.

Abstract: A vehicle includes at least one electric motor configured to convert electric power to rotational motion, a battery system electrically connected to the at least one electric motor, and a controller coupled to the battery system. The controller includes a non-transitory computer readable memory and a processor. The memory stores a charging control software module configured to cause the processor to perform the method of: determining an optimum charging profile based at least partially on an available received charging power, an ambient temperature of the battery system, charging system constraints, and at least one driver preference.

Abstract: A magnetic tunnel junction is disclosed wherein the reference layer and free layer each comprise one layer having a boron content from 25 to 50 atomic %, and an adjoining second layer with a boron content from 1 to 20 atomic %. One of the first and second layers in each of the free layer and reference layer contacts the tunnel barrier. Each boron containing layer has a thickness of 1 to 10 Angstroms and may include one or more B layers and one or more Co, Fe, CoFe, or CoFeB layers. As a result, migration of non-magnetic metals along crystalline boundaries to the tunnel barrier is prevented, and the MTJ has a low defect count of around 10 ppm while maintaining an acceptable TMR ratio following annealing to temperatures of about 400° C. The boron containing layers are selected from CoB, FeB, CoFeB and alloys thereof including CoFeNiB.

Abstract: An apparatus for containing a portion of a vehicle battery assembly incudes a tray. The tray is configured to receive the portion of the vehicle battery assembly. The tray defines a floor, a front wall, a rear wall, and a pair of sidewalls extending from the front wall to the rear wall. The tray includes a first steel material and a second steel material. The first steel material is joined with the second steel material to form a single contiguous part. The first steel material defines a substantial majority of the floor. The second steel material is disposed at two or more corners of the tray.

Abstract: A trip energy estimation system for a vehicle includes a traffic speed module configured to determine an average traffic speed along a projected route, a path information module configured to output path information indicating route features along the projected route, a perceived speed module configured to output a perceived vehicle speed along the projected route based on the average traffic speed and the path information, and a dynamic driving module configured to calculate and output a predicted driver speed based on the perceived vehicle speed and a feedback input indicative of the predicted driver speed. The dynamic driving module is configured to execute a machine learning algorithm to calculate the predicted driver speed.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a pixel driving circuit and a driving method thereof, a display panel, and a display device, the pixel driving circuit includes: a driving circuit, a control circuit, a first reset circuit, and a second reset circuit and a coupling circuit. The driving circuit, the control circuit, the first reset circuit and the second reset circuit all include transistors, the transistors in the driving circuit, the control circuit, the first reset circuit and the second reset circuit are all N-type transistors, the transistors in the first reset circuit are at least partially oxide transistors, and the transistors in the second reset circuit are at least partially the oxide transistors.

Abstract: A rocker panel for use in a vehicle, the rocker panel includes an outboard plate, an inboard plate, and a reinforcement structure. The reinforcement structure is disposed between the inboard plate and the outboard plate. The reinforcement structure includes one or more discrete steel tubes extending longitudinally between the outboard plate and the inboard plate.

Abstract: A user equipment device may determine whether to power down one or more components based at least on a scheduling parameter that includes an indication of cross-slot scheduling. The device may power down the one or more components prior to decoding control information during a slot for which the scheduling parameter indicates that cross-slot scheduling is in place.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for forming a three-dimensional (3D) memory. In an example, the method includes forming a stack structure having interleaved a plurality of stack first layers and a plurality of stack second layers, forming a stair in the stack structure, the stair having one of the stack first layers on a top surface, and forming a layer of sacrificial material having a first portion over a side surface of the stair and a second portion over the top surface of the stair. The method also includes partially removing the first portion of the layer of sacrificial material using an anisotropic etching process and removing a remaining portion of the first portion of the layer of sacrificial material using an isotropic etching process.

Abstract: A display substrate includes first and second display regions, and a base substrate. A plurality of sub-pixels are arranged on a side of the base substrate, where the-sub-pixels include a first pixel driving circuit and a first light-emitting device connected to each other in the first display region, and the first pixel driving circuit includes at least a compensation transistor, a switching transistor, and a light-emitting device initialization transistor each having an active layer. A scan signal line is provided in the first display region. An orthographic projection of the scan signal line on the base substrate overlaps with that of the active layer of each of the compensation transistor and the light-emitting device initialization transistor, or that of the active layer of each of the switching transistor and the light-emitting device initialization transistor on the base substrate.

Abstract: Described herein is a metrology system and a method for converting metrology data via a trained machine learning (ML) model. The method includes accessing a first (MD1) SEM data set (e.g., images, contours, etc.) acquired by a first scanning electron metrology (SEM) system (TS1) and a second (MD2) SEM data set acquired by a second SEM system (TS2), where the first SEM data set and the second SEM data set being associated with a patterned substrate. Using the first SEM data set and the second SEM data set as training data, a machine learning (ML) model is trained (P303) such that the trained ML model is configured to convert (P307) a metrology data set (310) acquired (P305) by the second SEM system to a converted data set (311) having characteristics comparable to metrology data being acquired by the first SEM system. Furthermore, measurements may be determined based on the converted SEM data.

Abstract: A display panel and an electronic device. The display panel includes a holing area and a display area surrounding the holing area, and the display panel is provided with row lines extending in a first direction, and column lines extending in a second direction; some row lines are separated by the holing area into mutually corresponding first row line sections and second row line sections; some column lines are separated by the holing area into mutually corresponding first column line sections and second column line sections; at least some of the first column line sections are electrically connected to the corresponding second column line sections by means of corresponding transfer lines located in the display area; and/or at least some of the first row line sections are electrically connected to the corresponding second row line sections by means of corresponding transfer lines located in the display area.

Abstract: A shift register includes an input circuit, a first output circuit, a first control circuit, a second control circuit and a second output circuit. The input circuit is configured to transmit an input signal provided by an input signal terminal to a first node. The first output circuit is configured to transmit a first output signal provided by a first output signal terminal to a scan signal terminal. The first control circuit is configured to transmit a third output signal provided by a third output signal terminal to a second node. The second control circuit is configured to control a potential at the first node and a potential at the second node to be two inverted potentials. The second output circuit is configured to transmit a second output signal provided by a second output signal terminal to the scan signal terminal.

Abstract: A pixel drive circuit, a driving method thereof, and a display panel are provided. The pixel drive circuit comprises a drive transistor, a data writing circuit, a compensation circuit, a light-emitting control circuit, a storage circuit, a first transistor and a second transistor. The first electrode of the drive transistor is connected to the first node, the second electrode thereof is connected to the second node, and the gate thereof is connected to the third node; the data writing circuit is connected to the first node and the data signal terminal; the compensation circuit is connected to the second node and the third node; the light-emitting control circuit is connected to the drive transistor, the first power supply terminal, the light-emitting unit and the enable signal terminal; the storage circuit is connected between the first power supply terminal and the third node.

Abstract: A pixel circuit includes a light-emitting element, a driving circuit, a compensation control circuit, a data writing-in circuit, a first reset circuit, a light-emitting control circuit and an energy storage circuit; the compensation control circuit controls to connect the control end and the first end of the driving circuit; the data writing-in circuit writes a data voltage into the second end of the driving circuit; the first reset circuit writes a reference voltage into the control end of the driving circuit under the control of a reset control signal; the energy storage circuit is electrically connected to the control end of the driving circuit and the first electrode of the light-emitting element, and is configured to store electrical energy; the driving circuit controls to connect the first end and the second end of the driving circuit under the control of the control end thereof.

Abstract: A shift register includes a first input sub-circuit being configured to transmit an input signal to a first node under control of a first clock signal; a second input sub-circuit being configured to transmit a first voltage signal to a second node under control of the first clock signal; a first control sub-circuit being configured to transmit a second clock signal to a third node under control of a voltage at the second node; a second control sub-circuit being configured to transmit the first voltage signal to a fourth node under control of a third clock signal; a noise reduction sub-circuit being configured to transmit the first voltage signal to a signal output terminal under control of a voltage at the fourth node; and an output sub-circuit being configured to transmit a second voltage signal to the signal output terminal under control of a voltage at the third node.