Capacitor is manufactured in substrate (1) by digging recess into substrate; forming first conformal layer of insulating material; forming second conductive layer; forming third layer of conductive or insulating material filling up recess; digging trenches into third layer, across entire height; depositing fourth layer of conductive material; forming fifth layer of dielectric material; and deposit...

Polyurea elastomer systems have improved adhesion to a substrate with the use of a primer that is applied first. The primer is composed of hydrophobic, primary hydroxyl-containing compound, for example, castor oil, and an isocyanate. It is not necessary to wait for the primer to cure prior to applying of the polyurea elastomer system. The primer system is particularly useful on wet substrates, whe...

The present invention relates to a method of forming a capacitor of a semiconductor device, which specially treats the surface of a charge storage electrode of the lower in order to improve the poor stepcoverage of the Ta2O5 film deposited by the PECVD method in the capacitor using the Ta2O5 film having a specific dielectric constant as the dielectric film, prevents the leakage current from genera...

The present invention relates to a FEMFET device with a semiconductor substrate and to at least one field effect transistor that is provided in the semiconductor substrate. The field effect transistor has a source area, a drain area, a channel area and a gate stack. The gate stack has at least one ferroelectric layer and at least one thin diffusion barrier layer being arranged between the lowest f...

An apparatus for encoding a digital video signal of an image based on a still object-oriented coding technique wherein the image signal is divided into a number of blocks of an identical size and pixels lying outside of the object being masked with a zero value comprises a subblock formatter for subdividing each of the blocks into 4N subblocks; 4N encoders, each of said encoders for encoding each ...

The present specification discloses highly efficient capacitor structures. One embodiment of the present invention is referred to herein as a vertical parallel plate (VPP) structure. In accordance with this embodiment, a capacitor structure comprises a plurality of vertical plates. The vertical plates are substantially parallel to each other, and each vertical plate comprises multiple conducting s...

A method (figures 11-12) or a system for training an inspection system, the method comprises the steps of: capturing images of a material for example a web 22 or a sheet of material; using one or more cameras 20; auto-training one or more of a plurality of image processing techniques using the captured images; and using the training image processing techniques to identify faults. The material is v...

Turbulence in fluids, for example a flame, is detected using a detector comprising a two dimensional array of pixels. Periodically, a signal is obtained indicating the amount of radiation emitted from each part of the fluid corresponding to a pixel. Using this data a coefficient is calculated relating to the correlation of signals from a pair of adjacent pixels. The coefficient for each adjacent p...

The present invention is an infrared imaging system that comprises a far-infrared camera disposed at the front end of a vehicle adapted for detecting thermal radiation in the 7 to 14 micron wavelength band and Producing an image signal indicative of the temperature of the surrounding objects. A digital signal processor receives the image and selectively enhances the temperature resolution based up...

The arrangement has a transparent support surface for the person to be treated, bearer plates (TR) above the surface with radiation sources (SQ) and reflection mirrors (RS1,RS2,RSV) whose mirror surfaces have concave curvature facing the bearer plates. The concave shape of the mirror surfaces corresponds approximately to a section of an Archimedian or logarithmic spiral whose pole Is at the center...

A blood component collection system with optimization capabilities. In one embodiment, process parameters are derived from an input/configured predetermined blood component yield and which is based upon the maximization of at least one process parameter. Thereafter, the blood component collection procedure is performed with these derived process control parameters. In another embodiment, process p...

The invention relates to a micro-reactor, which is preferably configured as a plate and preferably consists of silicon. The aim of the invention is to improve the blending of the substances that are to react. To achieve this, the reactor is provided with a mechanic coupling, comprising at least one generator of mechanical oscillations (24). The invention also relates to a device (25) for controlli...

A method for creating an opening in tubular knitted fabric articles on a machine including a needle cam mounted for reciprocal movement between first and second vertically-spaced positions. In the first position the needle cam lowers successive needles to a position where the loop of yarn is released from a selected loop-forming needle and transferred to a transfer needle. In the second position t...

A method for creating an opening in tubular knitted fabric articles on a machine including a needle cam mounted for reciprocal movement between first and second vertically-spaced positions. In the first position the needle cam lowers successive needles to a position where the loop of yarn is released from a selected loop-forming needle and transferred to a transfer needle. In the second position t...

In a method of detecting and segmenting characteristic regions in an image, such as a colour image having characteristic regions, where the image is represented by a plurality of pixel values expressed in grey tones, a circle of radius r is defined for a plurality of pixel positions, which radius approximated is regarded as the radius of a characteristic region. The optimum value of radius r is de...

Method for automatically detecting fires, based on flame and/or smoke recognition by analyzing a sequence of images. The analysis is based on several image processing algorithms. One algorithm consists in comparing the frequency content of at least an image of said sequence with the frequency content of a reference image so as to detect an attenuation of high frequencies independently of variation...

The invention provides a method and system for creating an innovative file system that separates its directory presentation from its data store. The method and system include processing, division, distribution, managing, synchronizing, and reassembling of file system objects that does not delay the presentation of the content to the user, but also uses a reduced amount of storage space. The invent...

A significant change of scene in a gradually changing scene is detected with the aid of at least one camera means (2) for capturing digital images of the scene. A current image (4) of the scene is formed together with a present weighted reference image (6) which is formed from a plurality of previous images (8) of the scene. Cell data is established based on the current image (4) and the present w...

New ligands, compositions, metal-ligand complexes and arrays with pyridylamine ligands are disclosed that catalyze the polymerization of monomers into polymers. Processes for polymerisation and polymers are further illustrated. Certain of these catalysts with hafnium metal centers have high performance characteristics, including higher comonomer incorporation into ethylene/olefin copolymers, where...

A method of identifying the presence of turbulence in fluids, e.g. for distinguishing flames from other hot bodies, examines the correlation between adjacent pixels of an array viewing the fluid and particularly the proportion of negative correlation in the presence of strong positive correlation