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20130132212 | REAL-TIME DYNAMIC PAGE AWARENESS FOR AD SERVING - An ad serving platform utilizes real time dynamic page awareness for ad serving. For every new digital content URL, the ad serving platform reviews the layout and relative position of ad placements in a content environment and stores a “map” of this information, which is accessible to the ad server in real time for use in ad selection, and is refreshed periodically (e.g., every three minutes) to account for changes. As a result, without control of the page, the ad server platform can make complex serving decisions based upon relative page position of advertising placements. | 05-23-2013 |
20130138509 | DYNAMIC GEO DATABASE SOURCE SELECTION - Ad serving systems and methods integrate with a plurality, preferably all, geolocation providers/databases and enable an ad selection server to dynamically choose the right IP-to Geo provider for each ad being considered for selection. It also allows ad campaign managers to set up the ads with desired IP-to-Geo providers so that they are consistent with third party rich media creative delivery services. | 05-30-2013 |
20130144712 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GROUP DELIVERY, GROUP COUNTING AND GROUP PACING OF AD DELIVERY ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB - Through the utilization of group delivery, group counting and group pacing, an ad serving platform treats a grouping of ads as a standard unit despite the multiple ad unit components. The ad server platform paces and manages the flight of that grouped set of ads as a single entity. The ad server platform guarantees quality of delivery by only counting a qualified impression event when the group delivery has been successful, thereby opening this type of highly impactful advertising experience up to non-standard inventory sources, rather than relying on highly controlled content environments. | 06-06-2013 |
20130144728 | PRE-PROCESSING OF AD REQUESTS USING EDGE SIDE PROCESSING OVER COMMERCIAL CDNs - By distributing the algorithms for ad selection into two server tiers, an ad server platform provides a way to leverage the computing power of a commercial CDN, such as Akamai, and perform processing on the CDN's edge side servers, thus reducing the number of servers in its own data centers and increasing service availability. The ad serving platform implements a distributed processing methodology that leverages under-utilized server resources located on the edge side of the CDN by running edge side include (ESI) code on the CDN's edge servers. | 06-06-2013 |
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20090047606 | Lithography meandering order - An imprint lithography method is disclosed, which includes imprinting a plurality of patterns in an imprintable medium provided on a substrate, wherein the order in which the patterns are imprinted in the imprintable medium is such that, for the majority of the patterns, two consecutively imprinted patterns are not imprinted adjacent to one another. | 02-19-2009 |
20090057267 | Imprint lithography - A chuck apparatus for holding a substrate is the disclosed. The chuck apparatus includes a first surface portion on which the substrate is to be held and a second surface portion adjacent to the first surface portion and extending at least partially around an edge of the first surface portion and which, in use, is arranged to deflect gas over the first surface portion and thus the substrate that is to be held on the first surface portion. | 03-05-2009 |
20090108484 | Imprint lithography - An imprint lithography apparatus is disclosed that includes a support structure configured to hold an imprint template. The apparatus further includes an actuator located between the support structure and a side of the imprint template, when the imprint template is held by the support structure, configured to apply a force to the imprint template and a force sensor between the support structure and a side of the imprint template, when the imprint template is held by the support structure. | 04-30-2009 |
20090146347 | Imprint lithography - An imprint template cover for an imprint template having a pattern feature thereon. The cover is configured such that, in use, it extends around the pattern feature of the imprint template, and such that the cover does not contact the pattern feature. | 06-11-2009 |
20100049120 | DESIGN OF SWALLOWABLE MULTI-NOZZLE DOSING DEVICE FOR RELEASING MEDICINES IN THE GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT - A capsule and methodology for dispensing a medicament in the gastrointestinal tract of a mammal is disclosed, the gastrointestinal tract having tissue sites of interest. The capsule may include a medicament reservoir; medicament dispensing means such as a plurality of piezoelectric droplet jet nozzle dispensers; a power source; electronic control circuitry means and/or detecting means capable of communicating with a medicament dispensing means for regulating the amount and time interval for dispensing of the medicament into the gastrointestinal tract by the medicament dispensing means; and a non-digestible outer protective shell housing, e.g., the medicament reservoir, medicament dispensing means and electronic control circuitry means. A plurality of the nozzle dispensers of the medicament dispensing means can be positioned tangentially to a surface of the housing such that during release of a medicament, the capsule is caused to rotate and/or translate so as to discharge the medicament homogeneously onto tissue sites of interest. In addition, by using multiple nozzles and releasing medicament at high speed, this facilitates medicament absorption by the intestines in the gastrointestinal tract. | 02-25-2010 |
20100321760 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device comprising picture elements, which are constituted by electrowetting elements having at least one first fluid and a second fluid immiscible with each other within a space between a first support plate and a second support plate, the second fluid being electro-conductive or polar. The first fluid in each element is at the side of the first support plate confined by element walls, and the second fluid is shared by a plurality of picture elements, characterised by a preventer for preventing first fluid portions from being expelled from its confinement when forces other than electrowetting forces are exerted on this fluid. | 12-23-2010 |
20110266255 | IMPRINT LITHOGRAPHY - A method of making an imprint template includes providing a transfer layer on a substrate and providing a layer of imprintable medium on the transfer layer, using a master imprint template to imprint a pattern into the imprintable medium, polymerizing the imprintable medium by exposing it to actinic radiation, then etching the resulting polymer layer, the transfer layer and the substrate such that the imprinted pattern is transferred to the substrate, the substrate thereby becoming an imprint template bearing a pattern which is the inverse of a pattern provided on the master imprint template. | 11-03-2011 |
20120012611 | IMPRINTABLE MEDIUM DISPENSER - An imprintable medium dispenser includes a chamber, a nozzle, and an actuator connected to the chamber and configured to be actuated and thereby generate a pressure wave within the chamber such that imprintable medium is dispensed from the nozzle. The imprintable medium dispenser is provided with a control circuit which includes a monitoring apparatus configured to receive a transient oscillation signal generated when the actuator is actuated, and to monitor the operation of the imprintable medium dispenser by monitoring the transient oscillation signal. | 01-19-2012 |
20120127555 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING AN OPTICAL DISPLAY - A method for manufacturing an electrowetting device provides a first fluid on a surface of a substrate. The method includes the steps of immersing part of the substrate in a second fluid, the second fluid being immiscible with the first fluid, and a surface of the second fluid forming a gutter along the surface of the substrate; providing a quantity of the first fluid in the gutter; and moving the gutter along the surface of the substrate, the surface of the substrate and a horizontal plane forming an angle between 100 degrees and 170 degrees. Also disclosed is an apparatus for performing the method. | 05-24-2012 |
20120153538 | IMPRINT LITHOGRAPHY - A chuck apparatus for holding a substrate is the disclosed. The chuck apparatus includes a first surface portion on which the substrate is to be held and a second surface portion adjacent to the first surface portion and extending at least partially around an edge of the first surface portion and which, in use, is arranged to deflect gas over the first surface portion and thus the substrate that is to be held on the first surface portion. | 06-21-2012 |
20120275009 | METHOD FOR MAKING ELECTROWETTING DISPLAY DEVICE - The present invention relates to a method of making an electrowetting display device having a plurality of picture elements, each picture element being defined by walls surrounding a display region, the plurality of picture elements covering a first area of a support plate. The method comprises the steps of: applying a hydrophobic layer covering at least the first area; lowering the hydrophobicity of the hydrophobic layer over a second area substantially outside the display regions; forming the walls on the hydrophobic layer over the first area. The present invention further relates to an electrowetting display device. | 11-01-2012 |
20130182310 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device comprising picture elements, which are constituted by electrowetting elements having at least one first fluid and a second fluid immiscible with each other within a space between a first support plate and a second support plate, the second fluid being electro-conductive or polar. The first fluid in each element is at the side of the first support plate confined by element walls, and the second fluid is shared by a plurality of picture elements, characterised by a preventer for preventing first fluid portions from being expelled from its confinement when forces other than electrowetting forces are exerted on this fluid. | 07-18-2013 |
20140023792 | DISPENSING METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DISPENSING - A method provides a layer of a first liquid on a first area of a surface using an elongate applicator, an elongate gap being formed between the applicator and the surface, the gap being filled with an elongate globule of the first liquid, and an amount of a second liquid being arranged in contact with the applicator and with the globule, the first liquid and the second liquid being immiscible and the first area having a higher wettability for the first liquid than for the second liquid. The method includes applying a relative motion between the applicator and the surface, wherein the amount of second liquid being arranged only on a trailing side of the applicator. | 01-23-2014 |
20140124971 | IMPRINT LITHOGRAPHY - An imprint lithography apparatus is disclosed that includes a support structure configured to hold an imprint template. The apparatus further includes an actuator located between the support structure and a side of the imprint template, when the imprint template is held by the support structure, configured to apply a force to the imprint template and a force sensor between the support structure and a side of the imprint template, when the imprint template is held by the support structure. | 05-08-2014 |
20140192396 | MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR AN ELECTROWETTING DEVICE - A method of providing a layer of a first fluid and a layer of a second fluid on a first area of a support plate of an electrowetting device includes providing an emulsion of dispersed first fluid and continuous second fluid, the emulsion including an amount of the second fluid for forming the layer of the second fluid. | 07-10-2014 |
20140199485 | IMPRINT LITHOGRAPHY - A method of depositing an imprintable medium onto a target area of a substrate for imprint lithography is disclosed. The method includes moving the substrate, a print head comprising a nozzle to eject an imprintable medium onto the substrate, or both, relative to the other in a first direction across the target area while ejecting a first series of droplets of imprintable medium onto the substrate and moving the substrate, the print head; or both, relative to the other in a second opposing direction across the target area while ejecting a second series of droplets of imprintable medium onto the substrate on or adjacent to droplets from the first series of droplets. | 07-17-2014 |
20140211292 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURE - A method of manufacturing an electrowetting element includes: providing a layer of a first liquid on a first area of a first support plate; providing a layer of a second liquid on the layer of first liquid; and providing a second support plate on the layer of the second liquid by moving the second support plate along a surface of the layer of the second liquid. | 07-31-2014 |
20140266992 | ELECTROWETTING DEVICE - A method of manufacturing a support plate for an electrowetting device includes providing a first hydrophobic layer on a substrate, reducing the hydrophobicity of a surface of the first hydrophobic layer and providing a second hydrophobic layer on at least part of the surface with reduced hydrophobicity. | 09-18-2014 |
20150077834 | ELECTROWETTING DISPLAY DEVICE WITH A WALL ON A LOWER HYDROPHOBICITY AREA - An electrowetting display device includes a wall layer having a first part located on a first area of a surface of a hydrophobic layer and a second part located on a second area of the surface. The second area has a lower hydrophobicity than the first area. | 03-19-2015 |
20150241689 | ELECTROWETTING DISPLAY STRUCTURES - The subject matter disclosed herein relates to an electrowetting display comprising: a transparent substrate including glass spacers surrounded by recessed regions corresponding to pixel regions, a layer of transparent conductive material on the glass spacers, color filter material in the recessed regions, and a transparent support plate covering the recessed regions and the glass spacers, wherein the transparent support plate includes an electrowetting oil. | 08-27-2015 |
20150378147 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING AN ELECTROWETTING DEVICE - A method of manufacturing an electrowetting device including forming a cavity between first and second support plates which narrows towards a constriction. The cavity is at least partly filled with second fluid to provide a reservoir for dispensing second fluid between the first and second support plates. | 12-31-2015 |
20150378148 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING AN ELECTROWETTING DEVICE - A method of manufacturing an electrowetting device including dispensing a fluid from a channel and onto a surface of a support plate. The channel is formed by a part of the surface of the support plate, an interface between the fluid and another fluid, and a further surface which is for example a surface of a roller. | 12-31-2015 |
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20080265380 | METHOD FOR FABRICATING A HIGH-K DIELECTRIC LAYER - One inventive aspect relates to a method for fabricating a high-k dielectric layer. The method comprises depositing onto a substrate a layer of a high-k dielectric material having a first thickness. The high-k dielectric material has a bulk density value and the first thickness is so that the high-k dielectric layer has a density of at least the bulk density value of the high-k dielectric material minus about 10%. The method further comprises thinning the high-k dielectric layer to a second thickness. Another inventive aspect relates to a semiconductor device comprising a high-k dielectric layer as fabricated by the method. | 10-30-2008 |
20080308881 | Method for Controlled Formation of a Gate Dielectric Stack - The present disclosure relates to methods for forming a gate stack in a MOSFET device and to MOSFET devices obtainable through such methods. In exemplary methods described herein, a rare-earth-containing layer is deposited on a layer of a silicon-containing dielectric material. Before these layers are annealed, a gate electrode material is deposited on the rare-earth-containing layer. Annealing is performed after the deposition of the gate electrode material, such that a rare earth silicate layer is formed. | 12-18-2008 |
20090050982 | Method for Modulating the Effective Work Function - A new MOSFET device is described comprising a metal gate electrode, a gate dielectric and an interfacial layer. The interfacial layer comprises a lanthanum hafnium oxide material for modulating the effective work function of the metal gate. The gate dielectric material in contact with the interfacial layer is different that the interfacial layer material. A method for its manufacture is also provided and its applications. | 02-26-2009 |
20090166715 | Scalable Interpoly Dielectric Stacks With Improved Immunity To Program Saturation - A method for manufacturing a non-volatile memory device is described. The method comprises growing a layer in a siliconoxide consuming material, e.g. DyScO, on top of the upper layer of the layer where charge is stored. A non-volatile memory device is also described. In the non-volatile memory device, the interpoly/blocking dielectric comprises a layer in a siliconoxide consuming material, e.g. DyScO, on top of the upper layer of the layer where charge is stored, the siliconoxide consuming material having consumed at least part of the upper layer. | 07-02-2009 |
20100219481 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A DUAL WORK FUNCTION SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND THE SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MADE THEREOF - A method for manufacturing a dual work function device is disclosed. In one aspect, the process includes a first and second region in a substrate. The method includes forming a first transistor in the first region which has a first work function. Subsequently, a second transistor is formed in the second region having a different work function. The process of forming the first transistor includes providing a first gate dielectric stack having a first gate dielectric layer and a first gate dielectric capping layer on the first gate dielectric layer, performing a thermal treatment to modify the first gate dielectric stack, the modified first gate dielectric stack defining the first work function, providing a first metal gate electrode layer on the modified first gate dielectric stack, and patterning the first metal gate electrode layer and the modified first gate dielectric stack. | 09-02-2010 |
20100317185 | SUBSTRATE TREATING METHOD AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE USING THE SAME - A substrate treating method comprising a step of preparing a semiconductor substrate (W, | 12-16-2010 |
20110291179 | Scalable Interpoly Dielectric Stacks With Improved Immunity to Program Saturation - A method for manufacturing a non-volatile memory device is described. The method comprises growing a layer in a siliconoxide consuming material, e.g. DyScO, on top of the upper layer of the layer where charge is stored. A non-volatile memory device is also described. In the non-volatile memory device, the interpoly/blocking dielectric comprises a layer in a siliconoxide consuming material, e.g. DyScO, on top of the upper layer of the layer where charge is stored, the siliconoxide consuming material having consumed at least part of the upper layer. | 12-01-2011 |
20140106556 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A DUAL WORK FUNCTION SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A method of manufacturing a dual work function semiconductor device is disclosed. In one aspect, the method includes providing a substrate having first and second areas for forming first and second transistor types. The method additionally includes forming a dielectric layer on the substrate, which extends to cover at least parts of the first and second areas. The method additionally includes forming a first metal layer/stack on the dielectric layer in the first area, where the first metal layer/stack comprises a first work function-shifting element. The method additionally includes forming a second metal layer/stack on the first metal layer in the first area and on the dielectric layer in the second area, where the second metal layer/stack comprises a second work function-shifting element. The method additionally includes annealing to diffuse the first work function-shifting element and the second work function-shifting element into the dielectric layer, and subsequently removing the first metal layer/stack and the second metal layer/stack. The method further includes forming a third metal layer/stack in the first and second predetermined areas. | 04-17-2014 |
20150357244 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE COMPRISING TRANSISTORS EACH HAVING A DIFFERENT EFFECTIVE WORK FUNCTION - The disclosed technology generally relates a semiconductor device comprising transistors, and more particularly to a semiconductor device comprising transistors each having a gate stack with a different effective work function, and methods of fabricating such a device. In one aspect, the method of fabricating the semiconductor comprises providing at least two channel regions in the substrate and providing a dielectric layer on the substrate. The method additionally includes forming a plurality of gate regions by providing openings in the dielectric layer. The method further includes providing a gate dielectric layer in the openings and providing on the gate dielectric layer of each of the gate regions a barrier layer stack having different thickness along the different gate regions. | 12-10-2015 |