Abstract:
A method of manufacturing a transistor comprising: providing a substrate, a region of semiconductive material supported by the substrate, and a region of electrically conductive material supported by the region of semiconductive material;forming at least one layer of resist material over said regions to form a covering of resist material over said regions; forming a depression in a surface of the covering of resist material, said depression extending over a first portion of said region of conductive material, said first portion separating a second portion of the conductive region from a third portion of the conductive region;removing resist material located under said depression so as to form a window, through said covering, exposing said first portion of the electrically conductive region;removing said first portion to expose a connecting portion of the region of semiconductive material, said connecting portion connecting the second portion to the third portion of the conductive region;forming a layer of dielectric material over the exposed portion of the region of semiconductive material; and depositing electrically conductive material to form a layer of electrically conductive material over said layer of dielectric material, the layer of dielectric material electrically isolating the layer of electrically conductive material from the second and third portions of the conductive region.
Abstract:
A method comprises: forming a structure comprising a layer of active material (1), a first conductive track (2) separated from the layer of active material by a layer of insulative material ( 3 ), the layer of active material having a plurality of insulative features (110) formed therein, the insulative features defining at least a first substantially planar electronic device comprising at least a respective first terminal (11) and a respective second terminal (12), and at least a portion of said first conductive track overlapping one of the first and second terminals; forming a first hole (4) extending through the layer of insulative material and connecting an overlapping portion of the first conductive track to one of the first and second terminals; and filling said first hole at least partly with electrically conductive material.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a system for manufacturing a plurality of integrated circuits, IC, mounted on a common support, the system comprising: an input station configured (adapted, arranged) to receive at least one common support; an output station configured (adapted, arranged) to receive at least one common support having a plurality of integrated circuits formed thereon; a plurality of processing modules each module being operable (configured, arranged, adapted) to perform at least one of the processing steps (e.g. deposition, patterning, etching) for forming an integrated circuit on the common support; a transfer means operable (configured, arranged, adapted) to transfer the at least one common support from the input station to the output station and to one or more of the processing modules therebetween; control means (e.g. a control system, or at least one controller, control unit, or control module) operable to direct the at least one common support from the input station to the output station through one or more of the plurality of processing modules according to at least one processing protocol comprising a selected one of a plurality of changeable pre-programmed protocols; the control means being operable to direct the movement of a common support from the input station to the output station and through one or more of the processing modules independently of any other common support. The invention also relates to a method for manufacturing a plurality of integrated circuits, IC, mounted on a common support.
Abstract:
The present invention provides for an interposer subassembly that is suitable for an electronic system having at least one integrated circuit (1C) component. The interposer subassembly comprises a flexible base layer, having a first surface and an opposing second surface, at least one active electronic circuit component, operatively integrated within said flexible base layer, and at least one first patterned contact layer, provided on any one of said first surface and said second surface of said flexible base layer and which is configured to operably interface with said at least one active electronic circuit component and the at least one 1C component.
Abstract:
The present invention provides for a RFID tag assembly that is suitable for operation with at least one RFID reader assembly. The RFID tag assembly comprises, inter alia , an antenna member for transmitting and/or receiving an RFID signal, and at least one integrated circuit (1C) for processing the RFID signal and which is configured to communicate, alternatingly and sequentially in time, a first signal transmission and at least one second signal transmission, each defined by a plurality of predetermined signal transmission parameters, to the at least one RFI D reader assembly, utilising time-division multiplexing, wherein the at least one first signal transmission differs from the at least one second signal transmission in at least one of said plurality of predetermined signal transmission parameters.
Abstract:
A method, apparatus and system for secure one-way RFID tag identifications provided. The method comprising generating, at an RFID tag, an auxiliary identifier; generating, at an RFID tag, a secure representation based on the auxiliary identifier; transmitting, from the RFID tag and receiving at an RFID reader, one or more representations of the auxiliary identifier and the tag identifier including the secure representation; and verifying the identity of the RFID tag based on the received representations.
Abstract:
Supplemental oxygen is used by millions of people each year in hospitals and at home. The device and methods described allow people on supplemental oxygen through a feedback loop to optimize their blood oxygen level by measuring oxygen and/or carbon dioxide and/or other related gases in the blood. Because the device and methods optimize the level of supplemental oxygen and/or carbon dioxide and/or other related gases, complications (from too much or too little oxygen and/or carbon dioxide) including death can be prevented. In addition, users can reduce their costs by reducing the amount of oxygen needed as well as labor costs. Additionally, helicopters, ambulance, and mobile surgical sites can reduce weight in critical situations. In addition, the device and methods described also allow patients on ventilators through a feedback loop to optimize ventilation by measuring carbon dioxide in the blood; which can reduce complications, and reduce labor costs. Finally, the device and methods provides a warning system when the oxygen supply is compromised, has or is exhausted.
Abstract:
Systems and methods for automatic mapping of a location identifier pattern of an object to a semantic type using object metadata are disclosed. In one aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure include a method, which may be implemented on a system, of identifying a set of tags associated with a website that is hosted by a web server. The method further includes, detecting a web page in the website in which a tag of the set of tags is identified, extracting a pattern from a Universal Resource Locator (URL) of the web page, and/or storing the pattern in a database embodied in a machine-readable storage medium as being mapped to the semantic type. The tag corresponds to a semantic type with which the content embodied in the web page has a semantic relationship and the pattern corresponds to the semantic type with which the content embodied in the web page has a semantic relationship.
Abstract:
A future event recording selections scheduled on a plurality of media devices may be extracted. Each of the plurality of media devices may be coupled through a private access network to a service provider and includes a digital video recorder. Recorded data may be aggregated based on the scheduled future event recording selections. A top recording events list may be generated based on the aggregated recorded data for transmission to a selected media device of the plurality of media devices.
Abstract:
A controller-implemented method of controlling a three dimensional (3D) printing process, comprises presenting printing options (20) of the 3D printing process at a user interface (16); accepting settings (22) from the user interface (16) based on the presented printing options (20); determining a printing instruction (24) based on the settings (22), the printing instruction (24) to be used to manufacture a three-dimensional (3D) object; and determining a post-processing instruction (26) based on the settings (22), the post-processing instruction (26) to be used in post-processing the 3D object.