Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to a glycyrrhizic acid bacterial cellulose composite for promoting growth and development of hair follicles in skins, in particular, the glycyrrhizic acid bacterial cellulose composite for promoting growth and development of hair follicles in skin includes glycyrrhizic acid and bacterial cellulose.
Abstract:
Provided is a method of preventing or treating gastroesophageal reflux disease, including administering to an subject in need thereof a composition including a plurality of fibers formed of β-1-4-glucan, wherein the fibers have a diameter between 15 nm and 35 nm and a mean length of between 1.5 μm and 3.5 μm.
Abstract:
In many applications, the assessment of the internal structures of tubular structures (such as in medical imaging, blood vessels, bronchi, and colon) has become a topic of high interest. Many 3D visualization techniques, such as “fly-through” and curved planar reformation (CPR), have been used for visualization of the lumens for medical applications. However, all the existing visualization techniques generate highly distorted images of real objects. This invention provides direct manipulation based on the centerline of the object and visualization of the 3D internal structures of a tubular object without any noticeable distortion. For the first time ever, the lumens of a human colon is visualized as it is in reality. In many medical applications, this can be used for diagnosis, planning of surgery or stent placements, etc. and consequently improves the quality of healthcare significantly. The same technique can be used in many other applications.
Abstract:
The present disclosure involves a FinFET. The FinFET includes a fin structure formed over a substrate. A gate dielectric layer is least partially wrapped around a segment of the fin structure. The gate dielectric layer contains a high-k gate dielectric material. The FinFET includes a polysilicon layer conformally formed on the gate dielectric layer. The FinFET includes a metal gate electrode layer formed over the polysilicon layer. The present disclosure provides a method of fabricating a FinFET. The method includes providing a fin structure containing a semiconductor material. The method includes forming a gate dielectric layer over the fin structure, the gate dielectric layer being at least partially wrapped around the fin structure. The method includes forming a polysilicon layer over the gate dielectric layer, wherein the polysilicon layer is formed in a conformal manner. The method includes forming a dummy gate layer over the polysilicon layer.
Abstract:
The present disclosure provides a method for fabricating a semiconductor device that includes providing a silicon substrate, forming a gate stack over the silicon substrate, performing a biased dry etching process to the substrate to remove a portion of the silicon substrate, thereby forming a recess region in the silicon substrate, performing a non-biased etching process to the recess region in the silicon substrate, thereby forming a bottle-neck shaped recess region in the silicon substrate, and epi-growing a semiconductor material in the bottle-neck shaped recess region in the silicon substrate. An embodiment may include a biased dry etching process including adding HeO2 gas and HBr gas. An embodiment may include performing a first biased dry etching process including N2 gas and performing a second biased dry etching process not including N2 gas. An embodiment may include performing an oxidation process to the recess region in the silicon substrate by adding oxygen gas to form silicon oxide on a portion of the recess region in the silicon substrate. As such, these processes form polymer protection to help form the bottle-neck shaped recess.
Abstract:
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor device that includes a semiconductor substrate, a gate structure disposed on a portion of the substrate, and strained structures disposed at either side of the portion of the substrate and formed of a semiconductor material different from the semiconductor substrate. The portion of the substrate is T shaped having a horizontal region and a vertical region that extends from the horizontal region in a direction away from a surface of the substrate.
Abstract:
A method for fabricating a device is disclosed. An exemplary method includes providing a substrate and forming a plurality of fins over the substrate. The method further includes forming a first opening in the substrate in a first longitudinal direction. The method further includes forming a second opening in the substrate in a second longitudinal direction. The first and second longitudinal directions are different. The method further includes depositing a filling material in the first and second openings.
Abstract:
A method for preventing the formation of contaminating polymeric films on the backsides of semiconductor substrates includes providing an oxygen-impregnated focus ring and/or an oxygen-impregnated chuck that releases oxygen during etching operations. The method further provides delivering oxygen gas to the substrate by mixing oxygen in the cooling gas mixture, maintaining the focus ring at a temperature no greater than the substrate temperature during etching and cleaning the substrate using a two step plasma cleaning sequence that includes suspending the substrate above the chuck.
Abstract:
A personal service menu construction system is provided for an application software to construct a homemade function menu, including: a selection module for setting required function options from a plurality of function options of the application software; an integration module for receiving the function options set by the selection module such that the function options set by the selection module are edited or packaged and integrated as a personal service menu; and a construction module for inputting the personal service menu to the application software. A personal service menu provision method is provided such that the personal service menu can be saved in a storage device and inputted to the same application software of another electronic device.
Abstract:
The present disclosure provides a method of fabricating a semiconductor device. The method includes forming a patternable layer over a substrate. The method includes forming a first layer over the patternable layer. The method includes forming a second layer over the first layer. The second layer is substantially thinner than the first layer. The method includes patterning the second layer with a photoresist material through a first etching process to form a patterned second layer. The method includes patterning the first layer with the patterned second layer through a second etching process to form a patterned first layer. The first and second layers have substantially different etching rates during the second etching process. The method includes patterning the patternable layer with the patterned first layer through a third etching process.