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Provided are a conductive ink, organic semiconductor transistor using the conductive ink, and method of fabricating the transistor. The conductive ink is used to form electrodes on an organic semiconductor while minimizing the damage of the organic semiconductor. The conductive ink is formed by mixing metal nanoparticles with a conductive polymer and used as an electrode material during the fabrication of the organic semiconductor transistor using a direct printing process. By using the conductive ink as the electrode material, the production cost of the organic semiconductor transistor can be greatly reduced.

The invention is directed to a heart stimulator for left-ventricular pacing comprising a left ventricular stimulation pulse generator connected or connectable to a single electrode lead for left ventricular stimulation having one or more electrodes for delivery of stimulation pulses to left ventricular myocardial heart tissue, said stimulation pulse generator being adapted to generate and deliver stimulation pulses of switchable polarity. The heart stimulator further comprises a control unit connected to the stimulation pulse generator for controlling the stimulation pulse generator and to trigger generation and delivery of stimulation pulses having a polarity controlled by said control unit, wherein the control unit is adapted to control said left ventricular stimulation pulse generator so as to deliver at least a pair of suprathreshold stimulation pulses of opposite polarity.

An electrode for a Group III nitride compound semiconductor having p-type conduction that has a double layer structure. The first metal electrode layer comprising, for example, nickel (Ni) and the second metal electrode layer comprising, for example, gold (Au). The Ni layer is formed on the Group III nitride compound semiconductor having p-type conduction, and the Au layer is formed on the Ni layer. Heat treatment changes or reverses the distribution of the elements Ni and Au. Namely, Au is distributed deeper into the Group III nitride compound semiconductor than is Ni. As a result, the resistivity of the electrode is lowered and its ohmic characteristics are improved as well as its adhesive strength.

A method of positioning a patient or person 0 to 90 degrees in an upright position or greater in a supine or prone position while maintaining neutral skeletal alignment (non flexed position) with a body positioning mattress capable of applying a vacuum process to remove air; molding the mattress around the body to maintain position. A means to place the support mattress onto a manual or motorized bed frame to position and maintain a patient or person 0 to 90 degrees or greater in the supine or prone position.

A baseband pool device includes a control unit, and multiple baseband processing units which are connected one another. The control unit is configured to determine one or more baseband processing units participating in data processing according to a size of data received by the baseband pool device and baseband data processing capabilities of various baseband processing units, and allocate an identifier of the baseband data to be processed to each baseband processing unit participating in the data processing to construct a data allocation relationship, and respectively transmit the data allocation relationship to the baseband processing units participating in the data processing. The baseband processing units receive the data allocation relationship and process the received data according to the data allocation relationship, or transmit the received data to other baseband processing units of the baseband pool device, or receive data processed and then forwarded by other baseband processing units.

Near-ground sensing of non-volatile memory (NVM) cells is performed on a selected NVM cell by applying a potential to a first terminal, coupling a second terminal to ground, and then decoupling the second terminal and passing the resulting cell current to an integrator, which generates a corresponding sense voltage. The amount of cell current (and resulting sense voltage) is controlled by the programmed/erased state of the NVM cell. The sense voltage is compared with a reference voltage to determine the cell's programmed/erased state. Current through neighbor cells is redirected to the sensing circuit using a special Y decoder to minimize the neighbor effect.

The present invention is a Raman laser and methods related thereto. In the preferred embodiments, the Raman laser comprises a laser pump signal in a fiber waveguide which is optically coupled to a micro-resonator through a fiber taper. The micro-resonator is constructed from a material that has a high Q when it is formed into a micro-resonator and is phase matched to the waveguide. The lasing frequency can be determined based upon the pump input or the micro-resonator material. In the preferred embodiments, the micro-resonator is constructed from a fused silica material. The present invention provides a compact laser with improved emissions and coupling efficiencies and the ability to use stimulated Raman scattering effects to create lasers having frequencies that are otherwise difficult to obtain. Alternative configurations include multiple micro-resonators on a single fiber waveguide and/or utilizing multiple waveguides attached to one or more micro-resonators. The Raman laser can be made to operate in a continuous-wave as opposed to self-pulsing mode.

An aspect of the invention provides a solid electrolyte capacitor that comprises: an anode body; a dielectric layer formed on the surface of the anode body; a first polymer film formed on the dielectric layer and containing a first polymer; a second polymer film formed on the first polymer film and containing a second polymer that is different from the first polymer; a conducting polymer layer formed on the second polymer film and containing a conducting polymer that is different from the second polymer; and a cathode layer formed on the conducting polymer layer, wherein the first polymer film has a larger work function than that of the conducting polymer layer.

A cooling and heating cup holder includes: a pair of holder bodies; a pair of thermoelectric elements having first and second surfaces for heat absorption and heat generation, the first surfaces being installed on the holder bodies; a pair of heat exchange pins provided so as to exchange heat with the second surfaces of the respective thermoelectric elements; a blower disposed at one side of the heat exchange pins and heat-radiating the heat exchange pins; and an extension heat pipe thermally connecting the second surfaces of the respective thermoelectric elements to each other or thermally connecting the respective heat exchange pins to each other.

This invention allows for easy field-customization of mainstream and exotic electronic musical instruments with extensive support for the easy creation of aggregated instruments. This invention leverages extensive functional customization of instruments within mainstream accepted instrument modalities as well as opening a wide range of completely new instrument modalities. The invention further facilitates entirely new manufacturing, marketing, and sales paradigms permitting a broad range of open industry development and commerce, thus making an individual musician's creation of new exotic instrument arrangements an economically viable sector for both mass manufacturing and the niche cottage industry. New opportunities are provided for the creation of multiple-vendor standardizations, multiple-vendor manufacturing, multiple-vendor competitive features, etc. while offering the music equipment user and music industry as a whole, access to an extensive range of instrument customization, diversification, and education. The principles of the invention thus create a rich environment for instrument, user, feature, music, and market.

An adjustable lighting system for fluorescent lamp, which includes a lighting unit, a sensing apparatus and a control apparatus, is provided. The lighting unit can emit a light. The sensing apparatus can sense if a target exists and generate a sensing signal accordingly. The sensing apparatus further generates and outputs a modulating signal based on the sensing signal. The control apparatus can receive the modulating signal from the sensing apparatus, adjust a supporting current of a power source and support the pulse width and phase level of the supporting current to the lighting unit, to control the strength of the light emitted by the lighting unit. Particularly, if the target exists, the modulating signal drives the control apparatus to provide a larger pulse width and phase level of the supporting current, so as to increase the strength of the light, or the modulating signal drives the control apparatus to provide a smaller pulse width and phase level of the supporting current, so as to decrease the strength of the light.

A measure for improving the light emission efficiency of a light emitting element without degrading characteristics of anode materials used in prior art is provided in manufacture of an upward emission type light emitting element. The present invention is characterized in that nitride or carbide of a metal element belonging to one of Group 4, 5, and 6 in the periodic table (hereinafter referred to as metal compound) is used as the material for forming an anode of a light emitting element. The metal compound has a work function equal to or larger than the work function of conventional anode materials. Therefore, injection of holes from the anode can be improved ever more. Also, with regard to conductivity, the metal compound is smaller in resistivity than ITO. It therefore can fulfil the function as a wire and can lower the drive voltage in the light emitting element compared to prior art.