Abstract:
The gate and active regions of a device are formed and alternating steps of applying and removing nitride and oxide layers allows exposing silicon in different areas while keeping silicon or polysilicon in other area covered with nitride. Metal layers are deposited over the exposed silicon or polysilicon and annealing forms a silicide layer in the selected exposed areas. The oxide and/or nitride layers are removed from the covered areas and another metal layer is deposited. The anneal process is repeated with silicide of one thickness formed over the second exposed areas with additional thickness of silicide formed over the previous silicide thickness.
Abstract:
A diagnostic method for bladder urethelial carcinoma includes obtaining an isolated nucleotide sample from a subject and detecting the promoter methylation of at least three tumor suppressor genes selected form group consisting of DAPK, RAR-beta, p14, p73, MGMT, APC, SOCS-1, BRCA-1, and FHIT.
Abstract:
A method for foundation consolidation combining vacuum preloading and geomembrane bag assembly loading, which comprises: digging a slurry pit, filling mud into the slurry pit and conducting vacuum preloading pumpdrainage for multiple times, laying the geomembrane bag assemblies above the soft slurry seam processed through vacuum preloading pumpdrainage inside the slurry pit to form a plurality of loading layers, and laying the geomembrane bag assemblies by piling geomembrane bags. In view of the engineering complexity and uneven settlement resulting from conventional vacuum preloading using slag loading, geomembrane bag for loading to overcome the adverse effects of slag loading. In the present invention, the drainage system and the geomembrane bag assemblies are laid out to fully leverage their perspective properties, so as to improve the transmission of vacuity in the whole soil mass, speed up the drainage rate, and increase the degree of consolidation.
Abstract:
A method of preparing an aramid paper coated with aramid nanofibers includes the following steps: (1) mixing a meta-aramid fibrid slurry and a chopped meta-aramid fiber slurry, filtering, pressing and drying to obtain a meta-aramid paper; (2) mixing potassium hydroxide, deionized water, dimethyl sulfoxide, and para-aramid nanofibers in a container, and stirring to obtain a para-aramid nanofiber coating solution; and (3) applying the para-aramid nanofiber coating solution to a first side of the meta-aramid paper, washing with deionized water, and drying; applying the para-aramid nanofiber coating solution to a second side of the meta-aramid paper, washing with deionized water, and drying; and hot pressing to obtain the aramid paper coated with aramid nanofibers.
Abstract:
A device for detecting electrical impedance by utilizing a theory of excitation and response signals and method thereof, wherein the excitation signal is a square wave excitation current signal (1), the response signal on a target is transformed to a square wave signal with appropriate amplitudes by buffering, amplifying, RC filtering and differential amplifying, then is transformed to a digital signal at a proper time by an analog-to-digital converter. The response signal is sampled once when at high level and once when at low level for every circle by the ADC, and a sample V1 and a sample V2 are obtained respectively, difference of the samples is taken as a detecting result for one circle. An average value of the detecting result from a plurality of circles is taken as a final result. Information of electrical impedance is illustrated by the final result because the excitation current signal is constant.
Abstract:
Glucagon antagonists are provided which comprise amino acid substitutions and/or chemical modifications to glucagon sequence. In one embodiment, the glucagon antagonists comprise a native glucagon peptide that has been modified by the deletion of the first two to five amino acid residues from the N-terminus and (i) an amino acid substitution at position 9 (according to the numbering of native glucagon) or (ii) substitution of the Phe at position 6 (according to the numbering of native glucagon) with phenyl lactic acid (PLA). In another embodiment, the glucagon antagonists comprise the structure A-B-C as described herein, wherein A is PLA, an oxy derivative thereof, or a peptide of 2-6 amino acids in which two consecutive amino acids of the peptide are linked via an ester or ether bond.
Abstract:
An integrated microchannel reactor and heat exchanger comprising: (a) a waveform sandwiched between opposing shim sheets and mounted to the shim sheets to form a series of microchannels, where each microchannel includes a pair of substantially straight side walls, and a top wall formed by at least one of the opposing shim sheets, and (b) a first set of microchannels in thermal communication with the waveform, where the waveform has an aspect ratio greater than two.
Abstract:
A device includes a gate stack formed over a channel in a semiconductor substrate. The gate stack includes a layer of gate insulator material, a layer of gate metal overlying the layer of gate insulator material, and a layer of contact metal overlying the layer band edge gate metal. The device further includes source and drain contacts adjacent to the channel. The source and drain contacts each include a layer of the gate metal that overlies and is in direct electrical contact with a doped region of the semiconductor substrate, and a layer of contact metal that overlies the layer of gate metal.
Abstract:
Provided is a process and device for exchanging heat energy between three or more streams in a microchannel heat exchanger which can be integrated with a microchannel reactor to form an integrated microchannel processing unit. The combining of a plurality of integrated microchannel devices to provide the benefits of large-scale operation is enabled. In particular, the microchannel heat exchanger enables flexible heat transfer between multiple streams and total heat transfer rates of about 1 Watt or more per core unit volume expressed as W/cc.
Abstract:
An MOSFET device having a Silicide layer of uniform thickness, and methods for its fabrication, are provided. One such method involves depositing a metal layer over wide and narrow contact trenches on the surface of a silicon semiconductor substrate. Upon formation of a uniformly thin amorphous intermixed alloy layer at the metal/silicon interface, the excess (unreacted) metal is removed. The device is annealed to facilitate the formation of a thin silicide layer on the substrate surface which exhibits uniform thickness at the bottoms of both wide and narrow contact trenches.