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A method of manufacturing a thin film transistor (“TFT”) substrate includes forming a first conductive pattern group including a gate electrode on a substrate, forming a gate insulating layer on the first conductive pattern group, forming a semiconductor layer and an ohmic contact layer on the gate insulating layer by patterning an amorphous silicon layer and an oxide semiconductor layer, forming a second conductive pattern group including a source electrode and a drain electrode on the ohmic contact layer by patterning a data metal layer, forming a protection layer including a contact hole on the second conductive pattern group, and forming a pixel electrode on the contact hole of the protection layer. The TFT substrate including the ohmic contact layer formed of an oxide semiconductor is further provided.

An apparatus for upgrading a viewer interface for a television program delivery system (200) is described. The invention relates to methods and devices for viewer pathways to television programs and services. Specifically, the apparatus involves hardware and software used in conjunction with the interface and a television at the viewer home to create a user friendly menu based approach to accessing programs and services. The apparatus is particularly useful in a program delivery system (200) with hundreds of programs and a data signal carrying program information. The disclosure describes menu generation and menu selection of television programs.

The present invention discloses a semiconductor device, comprising: a substrate, a gate stack structure on the substrate, source and drain regions in the substrate on both sides of the gate stack structure, and a channel region between the source and drain regions in the substrate, characterized in that the source region in the source and drain regions comprises GeSn alloy, and a tunnel dielectric layer is optionally comprised between the GeSn alloy of the source region and the channel region. In accordance with the semiconductor device and method for manufacturing the same of the present invention, GeSn alloy having a narrow band gap is formed by implanting precursors and performing a laser rapid annealing, the on-state current of TFET is effectively enhanced, accordingly it has an important application prospect in a high performance low power consumption application.

A DRAM capacitor uses ruthenium or ruthenium oxide as an upper electrode and hafnium dioxide or zirconium oxide as an insulation layer. The DRAM capacitor is intended to suppress diffusion of ruthenium, etc. into hafnium dioxide. Tantalum pentoxide or niobium oxide having a higher permittivity than that of the insulation layer is inserted as a cap insulation layer to the boundary between the upper electrode of ruthenium or ruthenium oxide and the insulation layer of hafnium dioxide or zirconium oxide to thereby suppress diffusion of ruthenium, etc. into hafnium dioxide, etc.

A multi-mode multi-coupling multi-protocol wireless power transmitter (WPT) and its embodiments transmit power to a wireless power receiver (WPR) in a power transfer mode (PTM) and a wireless power protocol (WPP) of the WPR. A first circuit of the WPT includes inductors or capacitors emanating power via a magnetic field or electric field PTM respectively. The WPT sequentially parses a test condition to identify a PTM, a power coupling linkage (PCL) between the WPT and the WPR, and a WPP of the WPR. The WPT identifies a match if the PTM of the first circuit and the WPP of the switch network, the variable matching circuit, a modulator/demodulator block or an out-of-band communication block, and a control logic circuit of the WPT match the PTM and the WPP of the WPR to transmit power to the WPR based on the match.

Resource usage data is automatically collected for an individual, house-hold, family, organization, or other entity. The collected data is transmitted to a central repository, where it is stored and compared with real-time and/or historical usage data by that same entity and/or with data from other sources. Graphical, interactive displays and reports of resource usage data are then made available. These displays can include comparisons with data representing any or all of community averages, specific entities, historical use, representative similarly-situated entities, and the like. Resource usage data can be made available within a social networking context, published, and/or selectively shared with other entities.

A method, system, and product are disclosed for providing calendar-enhanced awareness/presence information for instant messaging systems and electronic status boards. This invention automates status transitions, enhances and automates status messages, and automates and extends the IM “who can see me” function. Additionally, this invention extends awareness to dimensions other than IM status, to include availability in-person, via telephone, via wireless device or wireless messaging device (e.g., pager).

An invention for monitoring user choices and selections on a search result web page and providing alternative query expressions to further narrow and enhance the user's search. Monitoring and recording user choices and selections is achieved by a query manager. Query strings are then standardized. The search is performed on an Internet search engine, and each search result item in the result output set is then associated with a list of alternative standardized queries by an alternate query matching manager. Each search result item in the result output set that is associated with the alternate queries is then flagged. The resulting flagged list of alternative queries is displayed to the user by a page presentation manager using a graphical user interface for subsequent user selection. Upon selection of the graphical user interface for alternate query expressions, an alternate query selection manager retrieves and displays each alternate query to the user.

A charging system for simultaneously charging the batteries of a plurality of battery powered vehicles. The charging includes one or more DC-DC power converters having one or more charging ports configured to plug into the batteries. The DC-DC power converters are each configured to selectively connect to more than one charging port to selectively provide for higher port power levels. The DC-DC power converters connect to an AC rectifier through a DC bus. The AC rectifier connects to an AC power source having a limited power rating. The AC charging system also has a controller that controls the operation of the DC-DC power converters such that the total power draw on the AC rectifier does not exceed the power rating. The system is further configured such that the DC-DC power converters can drain selected batteries to obtain power for charging other batteries, thus allowing for batteries to be cycled.

Apparatus for driving current in a power circuit of a medical device inserted into a body of a subject includes a power transmitter, which is adapted to generate, in a vicinity of the body, an electromagnetic field having a predetermined frequency capable of inductively driving the current in the power circuit. A passive energy transfer amplifier, having a resonant response at the frequency of the electromagnetic field is placed in proximity to the medical device so as to enhance the current driven in the power circuit by the electromagnetic field.

Provided are a method of manufacturing a ZnO semiconductor layer for an electronic device, which can control the size of crystals of the ZnO semiconductor layer and the number of carriers using a surface chemical reaction between precursors, and a thin film transistor (TFT) including the ZnO semiconductor layer. The method includes: (a) loading a substrate into a chamber; (b) injecting a Zn precursor into the chamber to adsorb the Zn precursor on the substrate; (c) injecting an inert gas or N₂ gas into the chamber to remove the remaining Zn precursor; (d) injecting an oxygen precursor into the chamber to cause a reaction between the oxygen precursor and the Zn precursor adsorbed on the substrate to form the ZnO semiconductor layer; (e) injecting the N₂ gas or inert gas into the chamber to remove the remaining oxygen precursor; (f) repeating steps (a) through (e); (g) repeatedly processing the surface treatment of the ZnO semiconductor layer using O₂ plasma or O₃; (h) injecting the N₂ gas or inert gas into the chamber to remove the remaining oxygen and Zn precursors; and (i) repeating steps (a) through (h) to control the thickness of the ZnO semiconductor layer. In this method, a transparent TFT is formed using a transparent substrate to enable manufacture of a transparent display device, and a flexible display device can be manufactured using a flexible substrate. Also, the crystallinity of the ZnO semiconductor layer can be increased to improve the mobility of a TFT, and the number of carriers can be controlled to reduce a leakage current. Therefore, a ZnO semiconductor having excellent characteristics can be manufactured.

Disclosing is a strained silicon finFET device having a strained silicon fin channel in a double gate finFET structure. The disclosed finFET device is a double gate MOSFET consisting of a silicon fin channel controlled by a self-aligned double gate for suppressing short channel effect and enhancing drive current. The silicon fin channel of the disclosed finFET device is a strained silicon fin channel, comprising a strained silicon layer deposited on a seed fin having different lattice constant, for example, a silicon layer deposited on a silicon germanium seed fin, or a carbon doped silicon layer deposited on a silicon seed fin. The lattice mismatch between the silicon layer and the seed fin generates the strained silicon fin channel in the disclosed finFET device to improve hole and electron mobility enhancement, in addition to short channel effect reduction characteristic inherently in a finFET device.

A floating gate memory cell's channel region (104) is at least partially located in a fin-like protrusion (110P) of a semiconductor substrate. The floating gate's top surface may come down along at least two sides of the protrusion to a level below the top (110P-T) of the protrusion. The control gate's bottom surface may also comes down to a level below the top of the protrusion. The floating gate's bottom surface may comes down to a level below the top of the protrusion by at least 50% of the protrusion's height. The dielectric (120) separating the floating gate from the protrusion can be at least as thick at the top of the protrusion as at a level (L2) which is below the top of the protrusion by at least 50% of the protrusion's height. A very narrow fin or other narrow feature in memory and non-memory integrated circuits can be formed by providing a first layer (320) and then forming spacers (330) from a second layer without photolithography on sidewalls of features made from the first layer. The narrow fin or other feature are then formed without further photolithography in areas between the adjacent spacers. More particularly, a third layer (340) is formed in these areas, and the first layer and the spacers are removed selectively to the third layer. The third layer is used as a mask to form the narrow features.

Systems and methods are provided for performing electrosurgical interventions, such as selectively contracting soft collagen tissue and other body structures, while limiting thermal damage or molecular dissociation of such tissue and limiting the thermal damage to tissue adjacent to and underlying the treatment site. The systems and methods of the present invention are particularly useful for surgical procedures in electrically conducting environments, such as arthroscopic procedures in the joints, e.g., shoulder, knee, hip, hand, foot, elbow or the like. The present invention is also useful in relatively dry environments, such as treating and shaping the cornea, and dermatological procedures involving surface tissue contraction of tissue underlying the surface of the skin for tissue rejuvenation, wrinkle removal and the like.

A novel derivative of heterocyclic compound having nitrogen atom with a structure made by bonding special groups to benzimidazole, a material for an organic electroluminescence (EL) device comprising the derivative of heterocyclic compound having nitrogen atom and an organic electroluminescence device comprising at least one organic compound layer containing a light emitting layer sandwiched between a pair of electrodes, wherein the device contains the derivative of heterocyclic compound having nitrogen atom. An organic EL device achieving elevation of luminance and of efficiency in light emission even under low driving voltage is obtainable by an employment of the derivative of heterocyclic compound having nitrogen atom for at least one layer composing organic compound layers of the EL device.

A method of routing a message from a source node to a destination node in an adhoc wireless network comprising a plurality of nodes, comprising the steps of; transmitting a first message from the source node to the destination node, receiving said first message at said destination node, transmitting a second message from said destination node in response to the first message and, wherein at least one of said first message and said second message is sent between the source and destination nodes via a plurality of paths comprising at least one intermediate node, selecting a path for communication between the source node and the destination node using an indication of the time taken for at least one of said second and first messages to propagate between each node on each path.

A needle assembly for introduction of a paddle style lead near a spinal column of a patient includes a body having a proximal end and a distal end, a lumen with a continuous oblong cross section, and a paddle style lead adapted to accept a stiffening member. The distal end of the body has an introducer portion where the top side of the introducer has an orifice to allow for protrusion of the paddle style lead from the lumen into the spinal column area. The needle has a hub affixed to the proximal end of the body which is adapted to receive a stylet. The needle may also have a stylet that is inserted within the lumen. The introducer of the needle has a curvature extending from the bottom side toward the top side at the distal end and guides the introduction of the paddle style lead near the spinal column.

A semiconductor light emitting device with improved efficiency in extracting light is provided. The semiconductor light emitting device comprises a first conductive type semiconductor layer, a light emitting layer, and a second conductive semiconductor layer stacked in this order, electrodes respectively connected to the first and second conductive semiconductor layers, the electrode connected to the second conductive type semiconductor layer comprising a lower conductive oxide film and an upper conductive oxide film disposed on the lower conductive oxide film, and a metal film disposed only on the upper conductive oxide film. The upper and lower conductive oxide films comprise an oxide including at least one element selected from the group consisting of zinc (Zn), indium (In), tin (Sn), and magnesium (Mg).

Systems and methods deliver ultrasound energy to an ultrasound transducer having an impedance subject to variations. The systems and methods electrically couple an ultrasound generator to the ultrasound transducer to deliver ultrasound energy. The systems and methods deliver ultrasound energy to the ultrasound transducer at a set output frequency and at an output power level that remains essentially constant, despite variations in the impedance, based upon preprogrammed rules.