Elkington and Fife LLP

An inverter includes a first field-effect transistor including a first channel layer, a first source/drain electrode and a second source/drain electrode disposed on opposite sides of the first channel layer, a first gate electrode facing the first channel layer, and a first gate insulating layer between the first channel layer and the first gate electrode, and a second field-effect transistor including a second channel layer, a third source/drain electrode and a fourth source/drain electrode disposed on opposite sides of the second channel layer, a second gate electrode facing the second channel layer, and a second gate insulating layer between the second channel layer and the second gate electrode. The first channel layer includes a p-type oxide semiconductor based on tellurium oxide, and the second channel layer includes an n-type oxide semiconductor based on indium oxide.

Provided are a light-emitting device and an electronic apparatus including the same, the light-emitting device including a first electrode, a second electrode, and an interlayer arranged between the first electrode and the second electrode and including an emission layer, wherein the emission layer includes a host, a sensitizer, and a fluorescent emitter, the host includes a first host, the sensitizer includes a transition metal, the fluorescent emitter is metal-free, DT^FE is about 200 microseconds or more, and the light-emitting device satisfies at least one of Condition A or Condition B:Condition A DFSE+FE is about 20 % or lessCondition B DFSE+FE/DFFE is about 0.5 or less,wherein, for descriptions of DT^FE, DF^SE+FE, DF^FE, Condition A, and Condition B, reference may be made to the present specification.

The disclosed concepts relate to a power converter comprising a plurality of converter paths. Each converter path comprises an input node, an output node, a first winding, and a second winding. The first winding is connected in series between the input node and the second winding, and the second winding is connected in series between the first winding and the output node. Each converter path is configured to conduct current in a same direction between the input node and the output node. Further, each first winding of the converter paths is inductively coupled to a second winding of a different converter path to form a respective transformer.

Described herein is a selective electrode membrane having an epoxy resin component, a hardener component, one or more polyurethanes, and a silica. The disclosure is also directed to a selective electrode having a substrate with a selective electrode membrane on a surface thereof, and methods of making the same.

The invention provides an X-ray analysis apparatus (100) and method for carrying out X-ray absorption spectroscopy, XAS, on a sample (107). The apparatus (100) and method involve a position-sensitive X-ray detector (105). In some aspects, counting the number of X-ray photons arriving at the X-ray detector (105) comprises correcting for charge sharing events in which an incident X-ray photon is detected at both the first detector segment (106) and the second detector segment (106). It also comprises only counting X-ray photons having energies within predetermined energy range. In some aspects, the X-ray detector (105) and the X-ray source (101) are scanned over an angular range during the XAS measurement.

An image sensor includes a sensor substrate including a first pixel, a second pixel, a third pixel, and a fourth pixel, and a nano-photonic lens array including a first meta-region, a second meta-region, a third meta-region, and a fourth meta-region, wherein each of the first to fourth meta-regions includes at least one nano-structure configured to condense light of a first wavelength onto the first and fourth pixels, light of a second wavelength onto the second pixel, and light of a third wavelength onto the third pixel, and at least one nano-structure provided in at least one of the second meta-region and the third meta-region is a polarization-separating nano-structure configured to provide the light of the first wavelength having a first polarization component to the first pixel and provide the light of the first wavelength having a second polarization component to the fourth pixel.

An image sensor includes an active pixel sensor region configured to output a pixel signal for image generation, and a periphery region at an edge of the active pixel sensor region. The active pixel sensor region and the periphery region may include a sensor substrate, and the sensor substrate may include a plurality of pixels arranged across the active pixel sensor region and the periphery region. The active pixel sensor region may include a plurality of nanostructures disposed to face the sensor substrate and spaced apart from the sensor substrate, the periphery region may include a light-shielding layer disposed on the sensor substrate and at the edge of the active pixel sensor region, and the light-shielding layer may include a light-reflective layer and a light-absorbing layer including an inorganic material.

An image sensor includes a nano-photonic lens array, the nano-photonic lens array includes unit meta-groups each including a first meta-region, a second meta-region, a third meta-region, and a fourth meta-region, each of the first to fourth meta-regions includes a first sub-region, a second sub-region, a third sub-region, and a fourth sub-region, at least one nanostructure is provided in each of the first to fourth sub-regions, in the first to fourth meta-regions of a peripheral meta-group in a periphery of the nano-photonic lens array, a distance by which the nanostructure of the first sub-region and the nanostructure of the second sub-region are shifted in the first direction decreases as an azimuth angle of the peripheral meta-group increases from 0 degrees to 90 degrees, and a distance by which the nanostructure of the first sub-region and the nanostructure of the third sub-region are shifted in the second direction increases as the azimuth angle of the peripheral meta-group increases from 0 degrees to 90 degrees.

The present invention relates to a smokeless article for oral delivery comprising a pouch enclosing a content, comprising a filler, a nicotinic compound, and a plant material, wherein the plant material comprises a hydrophobic coating. Also described are a method of manufacturing the article and a kit comprising the article.

The present invention relates to a smokeless article for oral delivery (10) comprising a pouch (12) enclosing a content (14), wherein the content contains a component which renders the content hydrophobic, and the pouch comprises a nicotinic compound. A method for manufacturing smokeless articles (10) and a kit comprising smokeless articles (10) is also described. Use of a hydrophobic content to restrict transfer of a nicotinic compound from a pouch (12) of a pouched smokeless article for oral delivery (10) to a content (14) enclosed by the pouch.