Abstract:
Provided are a multi-gate MOS transistor and a method of manufacturing the same. Two silicon fins are vertically stacked on a silicon on insulator (SOI) substrate, and four side surfaces of an upper silicon fin and three side surfaces of a lower silicon fin are used as a channel. Therefore, a channel width is increased, so that current driving capability of a device is improved, and high performance nano-level semiconductor IC and highly integrated memory IC can be manufactured through the optimization and stability of a process.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a round window driving transducer for easy implantation and an implantable hearing device having the same. The round window driving transducer is implantable in the round window of the cochlea in the middle ear cavity, and has excellent high frequency characteristics, which can assist patients with sensorineural hearing loss to hear sound better. The round window driving transducer can be placed inside the middle ear cavity, radiate sound with high efficiency, and be implanted by surgery using a fixing part formed with shape memory alloy, shape memory resin, or a bendable spring structure. Further, the round window driving transducer can overcome problems of the prior art, such as a difficult surgery and low vibration efficiency, which would inevitably occur when floating mass transducers are implanted in a drilled groove in the bone or when various types of piezoelectric transducers are implanted in the round window.
Abstract:
An implantable middle ear hearing device having a tubular vibration transducer to drive a round window is designed to input sound to a round window opposite an oval window in an inner ear. The tubular vibration transducer has a unique structure that does not attenuate the magnitude of a signal, particularly, in a high frequency band. Sound delivery effect is much higher than those of conventional schemes. It is also possible to minimize difficulties associated with and problems resulting from the operation, which the conventional methods would have. Further, the transducer can have a relatively less compact than ossicle contact type transducers, and thus be easily fabricated. The hearing device can be applied to a sensorineural hearing loss patient with the ossicle damaged. Moreover, since sound is directly transmitted without through the ear drum and the ossicle, high efficiency sound delivery is achievable and hearing loss compensation are easy.
Abstract:
There is provided an imaging optical system installed in a mobile communications terminal and a personal digital assistant (PDA) or utilized in a surveillance camera and a digital camera. The imaging optical system including, sequentially from an object side in front of an image plane: a first lens having positive refractive power and two convex surfaces; a second lens having negative refractive power and two concave surfaces; a third lens having positive refractive power and a meniscus shape; and a fourth lens having a concave object-side surface. The fourth lens has a shape satisfying following condition 1: 10
Abstract:
A semiconductor device includes a first conductivity-type deep well formed in a substrate, a plurality of device isolation layers formed in the substrate in which the first conductivity-type deep well is formed, a second conductivity-type well formed on a portion of the first conductivity-type deep well between two of the device isolation layers, a first gate pattern formed over a portion of the second conductivity-type well, a second gate pattern formed over one of the device isolation layers, a source region formed in an upper surface of the second conductivity-type well to adjoin a first side of the first gate pattern, a first drain region formed to include the interface between an upper surface of the second conductivity-type well adjoining a second side of the first gate pattern and an upper surface of the first conductivity-type deep well adjoining the second side of the first gate pattern, and a second drain region formed in an upper surface of the first conductivity-type deep well to be spaced from the second conductivity-type well.