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An improved capsule for processing materials or growing crystals in supercritical fluids. The capsule is scalable up to very large volumes and is cost effective according to a preferred embodiment. In conjunction with suitable high pressure apparatus, the capsule is capable of processing materials at pressures and temperatures of 0.2-8 GPa and 400-1500° C., respectively. Of course, there can be other variations, modifications, and alternatives.

The present invention is to provide a phase change memory device having a new structure which can be easily manufactured by mass-production with a high yield rate, therefore, reducing the cost of process and providing reliable device characteristics, and a manufacturing method thereof. The present invention provides a phase-change memory device comprising: a lower dielectric layer; a lower electrode, at least a part of the lateral surface of the lower electrode being surrounded by the lower dielectric layer; a thin dielectric layer including a pore having smaller area than the top surface of the lower electrode, aligned to the top surface of the lower electrode and extending to the top surface of the lower electrode; and a phase-change resistor filling the pore and formed on the thin dielectric layer. In the proposed structure of the present invention, the pores or local damaged spots can provide a micro path of current and localize the phase-changing volume in the phase-change resistor. Thus, the phase-change memory device can be operated with very low power.

General purpose methods for the fabrication of integrated circuits from flexible membranes formed of very thin low stress dielectric materials, such as silicon dioxide or silicon nitride, and semiconductor layers. Semiconductor devices are formed in a semiconductor layer of the membrane. The semiconductor membrane layer is initially formed from a substrate of standard thickness, and all but a thin surface layer of the substrate is then etched or polished away. In another version, the flexible membrane is used as support and electrical interconnect for conventional integrated circuit die bonded thereto, with the interconnect formed in multiple layers in the membrane. Multiple die can be connected to one such membrane, which is then packaged as a multi-chip module. Other applications are based on (circuit) membrane processing for bipolar and MOSFET transistor fabrication, low impedance conductor interconnecting fabrication, flat panel displays, maskless (direct write) lithography, and 3D IC fabrication.

A ceramic article which is resistant to erosion by halogen-containing plasmas used in semiconductor processing. The ceramic article includes ceramic which is multi-phased, typically including two phase to three phases. The ceramic is formed from yttrium oxide at a molar concentration ranging from about 50 mole % to about 75 mole %; zirconium oxide at a molar concentration ranging from about 10 mole % to about 30 mole %; and at least one other component, selected from the group consisting of aluminum oxide, hafnium oxide, scandium oxide, neodymium oxide, niobium oxide, samarium oxide, ytterbium oxide, erbium oxide, cerium oxide, and combinations thereof, at a molar concentration ranging from about 10 mole % to about 30 mole %.

A surgical instrument tray shipping tote identification system is provided. During transit to or from a medical facility, processing center, distribution center or other location, multiple surgical instruments trays are placed in an instrument tray shipping tote. Each instrument tray includes at least one RFID transponder tag storing identification information about that tray. The shipping tote has a bar coded shipping label affixed to one surface generated at the point of origin. When the tote arrives at the distribution center, it is placed on a conveyor system that includes a reading station having an RFID transceiver and a bar code reader. Information read from the RFID transponder tags and the bar code label is transmitted by a controller to an external database to check for any off-nominal status indicators. Once this check is performed, an indication is sent back to the controller and an appropriate indicator on the identification system is activated.

The invention discloses a selective laser melting rapid forming device for directly manufacturing large-size compact parts, which mainly comprises a laser array, an optical system array, a forming cylinder, a forming cylinder vertical sectional heating thermal-insulation structure, a forming cylinder weight balancing system, a substrate leveling device, a double-recovering cylinder, a double powder storing box, a double quantitative powder sending and discharging device, a powder paving device, a protective atmosphere cover, a gas purifying system and a control system, wherein an adopted optical system is composed of a plurality of optical system units and a mechanical moving platform, and the coverage area of the optical system can be randomly expanded or reduced. The size of the parts manufactured by using the selective laser melting rapid forming device provided by the invention is more than the size of the parts manufactured by using the existing national and foreign selective laser melting processes. The forming efficiency is multiplied while the forming precision, the parts complexity and the mechanical property are not changed.

Supercritical fluid-assisted deposition of materials on substrates, such as semiconductor substrates for integrated circuit device manufacture. The deposition is effected using a supercritical fluid-based composition containing the precursor(s) of the material to be deposited on the substrate surface. Such approach permits use of precursors that otherwise would be wholly unsuitable for deposition applications, as lacking requisite volatility and transport characteristics for vapor phase deposition processes.

A method and apparatus for adapting media is provided. The method includes receiving a request for a first media stream and a second media stream at different media times. The method further includes processing a source media stream to produce a first portion media stream and a second portion media stream using a media processing element. A method for processing media comprises creating a first media processing element and a second media processing element. The method further includes processing a first media stream using the first media processing element to produce assistance information. Further, the method includes processing a second media stream using the second media processing element wherein the second media processing element utilizes the assistance information.

A ceramic article useful in semiconductor processing, which is resistant to erosion by halogen-containing plasmas. The ceramic article is formed from a combination of yttrium oxide and zirconium oxide. In a first embodiment, the ceramic article includes ceramic which is formed from yttrium oxide at a molar concentration ranging from about 90 mole % to about 70 mole %, and zirconium oxide at a molar concentration ranging from about 10 mole % to about 30 mole %. In a second embodiment, the ceramic article includes ceramic which is formed from zirconium oxide at a molar concentration ranging from about 96 mole % to about 94 mole %, and yttrium oxide at a molar concentration ranging from about 4 mole % to about 6 mole %.

The invention discloses an automatic machine for collecting and sorting plastic soft bottles. The device comprises a conveyor for plastic bottles, soft bottles or soft bags, as well as a machine frame, wherein a traction device moving horizontally is arranged above the machine frame; a bottle clamping device connected via a lifting cylinder is arranged on a moving trolley of the traction device; the traction device, the lifting cylinder and the bottle clamping device are connected with an electric control device with electrical automatic control; a product collecting device is arranged below the machine frame beside the conveyor; and the electric control device controls the bottle clamping device to make vertical up-down lifting movement under the drive of the lifting cylinder and to make horizontal translating movement under the drive of the traction device, and controls the bottle clamping device to clamp a product input by the conveyor, to transfer the product to the product collecting device through the lifting cylinder and the traction device and then to unclamp the product. The machine can clamp, lift and translate plastic bottles, soft bottles or soft bags input by the conveyor to a preset distance, drop and put the bottles or bags into the product collecting device.

A radio frequency identification (RFID) workstation reader for RFID-enabled surgical instruments and surgical instrument trays and a method of using a RFID workstation reader to read RFID-enabled surgical instruments and surgical instrument trays is disclosed. The method, apparatus, and system enable individual instruments or a surgical instrument tray containing several surgical instruments to be quickly and efficiently inventoried and tracked. An instrument or instrument tray is placed on the workstation reader. An RF field generated by a plurality of antennae, causes RFID tags embedded in or attached to the instrument or instrument tray to emit a signal containing item specific identification information stored in the tags. The information is received by a control circuit and passed to a computer for data analysis. A status LED is illuminated on the workstation reader based on the results of the data analysis. The method, apparatus, and system can track, inspect, and verify inbound and outbound surgical instrument kits, and help to assess the surgical instruments' and trays' duty life cycle usage.

A system and method for providing supply chain financing is provided. The system comprises an invoice system for processing at least one invoice received from a buyer, the invoice system comprising: an invoice reception module for receiving the at least one invoice from the buyer, and an invoice validation module for validating the at least one invoice; a discount module for preparing at least one discount proposal to present to a seller, the discount proposal comprising a discount payment amount in exchange for earlier or immediate payment; and a negotiation module for negotiating the terms of the discount proposal and for receiving counter-discount proposals from the seller.

USB-based peripheral device for operation with a host system, having a driver for operation with the host system, wherein the driver is stored in a memory in the USB-based peripheral device, and with startup of the peripheral device on the host system, prompting automatic installation of the driver on the host system.

The invention discloses a magnetic biological carrier and a preparation method thereof. The raw materials of the magnetic biological carrier comprise aggregate, iron oxide, a binder and a reducing agent. The preparation method of the magnetic biological carrier comprises the following steps of: mixing the aggregate, iron oxide and the reducing agent, crushing, screening with a 60-mesh sieve to obtain a mixed material, adding water which is 30-60% of the mixed material by weight to the binder, stirring for dissolving the binder to obtain a binder solution, then mixing the binder solution with the mixed material, uniformly stirring, granulating and shaping to obtain 2-10 mm granules, drying the granules till the water content of the granules is less than 10%, and calcining at the temperature of 350-1100 DEG C for 0.2-10 hours to obtain the magnetic biological carrier. The magnetic biological carrier provided by the invention can be applied to the deep treatment of secondary treatment water of domestic sewage, meets the requirements of landscape water replenishing and circulating cooling water treatment, and can be used for realizing the deep treatment and resource utilization of industrial wastewater.

There is obtained a laser processing method by which an excellent shape of a cut surface can be achieved and an increase in cost can be suppressed. A laser processing method includes the steps of: preparing a material to be processed; and forming a modified area in the material to be processed, by irradiating the material to be processed with laser beam. In the aforementioned step, pulsed laser beam having a continuous spectrum is focused with a lens, thereby forming a focusing line constituted by a plurality of focuses that are obtained by predetermined bands forming the continuous spectrum of the laser beam, and the material to be processed is irradiated with the laser beam such that at least a part of the focusing line is located on a surface of the material to be processed, thereby forming the modified area on an axis of the focusing line.

The invention relates to a method for recovering rare earth from rare earth-containing aluminum-silicon materials, which comprises the following steps: taking the rare earth-containing aluminum-silicon materials including rare earth-loaded molecular sieves, catalyst wastes, and the like as raw materials, conducting prioritized selective leaching by acid so as to lead the majority of the rare earth and a small amount of aluminum to be dissolved and separated from silicon and other impurities, leading the rare earth to form precipitates and be separated from the aluminum by adopting a double salt precipitation or oxalate precipitation method, and then recovering and purifying the rare earth. The method has the advantages of directly realizing the extraction of the rare earth from the aluminum-silicon materials including the molecular sieves and the like, with over 98% purity of the obtained rare earth, and avoiding impurities such as aluminum, silicon and the like entering the rare earth; and meanwhile, the technology also has the characteristics of little fixed investment, low production cost and easiness for realizing industrialized production.

An apparatus and method for interrogating and automatically identifying a radio-frequency tagged surgical instrument tray and its contents of RFID-tagged surgical instruments are disclosed. The surgical instrument tray and its contents come into contact with an RF signal transmitted by the RFID reader, and as a result, the RFID tags affixed on the instrument tray and the surgical instruments respond by transmitting back to the RFID reader data pertaining to the history of the surgical instruments. A data terminal, which is connected to the RFID reader, may contain data pertaining to the radio frequency tagged surgical instruments during packaging, and during the return of the surgical instrument trays to the packager, identifies the surgical instruments.

The invention provides a processing technique of a cellphone shell with metal luster. The processing technique includes the steps of S1, performing compression molding; S2, performing stamping; S3, performing primary CNC (computer numerical control) machining; S4, performing T treatment; S5, performing injection molding in a nano mold; S6, performing secondary CNC machining; S7, performing surface treatment, to be specific, performing a, polishing, b, shot-blasting, c, degreasing, d, washing, e, electrolytic polishing, f, washing, g, silicon removal aiming to decrease silicon content of the polished surface of the cellphone shell, h, neutralizing, i, chemical polishing, and j, electrophoresis or combination of anodic oxidation and coloring, aiming to impart metal luster to the polished surface of the cellphone shell. The compete cellphone shell is made through the steps S1 to S6, the silicon content of the polished surface of the cellphone shell is processed, the cellphone shell never produces compounds of intervals such as Al-Mg-Si-Fe during following anodic oxidation, defects such as oxide film darkening, bluing or milky-whiting are avoided, and the metal-lustered cellphone shell is manufactured through the complete process.

The invention discloses a method for comprehensively recycling valuable metals from a spent lithium ion battery. The method comprises the following steps: carrying out electric discharge treatment on a spent battery, crushing, pre-roasting at 300-400 DEG C, adding a reducing agent, and carrying out reduction roasting at 450-700 DEG C; carrying out water extraction and evaporative crystallization on fine aggregates obtained through the reduction roasting, so as to obtain a high-purity lithium product, leaching copper, nickel and cobalt from leached slag and roasted lump materials by virtue of ammonia oxide, carrying out magnetic separation and sieving on ammonia leaching slag so as to obtain iron and aluminum enriched products, and carrying out reduction acid leaching, purification and edulcoration on sieved products, so as to obtain a high-purity manganese sulfate solution; and carrying out extraction and selective reverse extraction on ammonia leaching liquid, so as to obtain a high-purity nickel sulfate solution and a high-purity copper sulfate solution, and carrying out vulcanization cobalt precipitation, oxidation acid leaching and extraction purification on raffinate, so as to obtain a high-purity cobalt sulfate solution. The method is high in extraction rate of valuable metals and applicable to the treatment of multiple waste lithium ion battery raw materials and efficient utilization of multiple elements, and sorting is not required.