Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Bumsoo Kim

Jinchul Lee

Yoonkyung Choi

Junchul Park

Chadong Kim

Yunrae Jo

Choonghoon Lee

Yoon-Kyung Choi

Jongmin Baek

Sungyong Cho

Sanho Byun

Hokyun An

Guangfan Jiao

Hyunkyu Ouh

Gyeonggon Lee

Wongab Jung

Hyunseung Kim

Hyunwook Lim

Woohyuk Jang

San-ho Byun

Ho Kyun An

Taekon Yu

Kyeonggon Lee

Jonghee Na

Byunghwee Park

Gwangho Nam

Michael Choi

Kyunghoon Lee

Heejin Lee

Jinbong Kim

Youngmin Yoo

Hojin Park

Sanghyub Kang

Sang-Hyub Kang

Sungju Myoung

Jaewook Cheong

Youngtae Son

Byeong Cheon Koh

Hyun Kuk Shin

A semiconductor device may include a substrate, an interface insulation pattern, a gate insulation pattern, a threshold voltage controlling metal pattern and a conductive pattern. The interface insulation pattern may be formed on the substrate. The gate insulation pattern including an oxide having a dielectric constant higher than that of silicon oxide may be formed on the interface insulation pattern. The threshold voltage controlling metal pattern may be formed on the gate insulation pattern. The conductive pattern may be formed on the threshold voltage controlling metal pattern. First dopants including at least fluorine may be included within and at at least one surface of the gate insulation pattern and at an upper surface of an interface insulation pattern contacting the gate insulation pattern. The semiconductor device may have excellent electrical characteristics.

Semiconductor devices

A sensing device includes a touch panel including first and second sensor electrodes, and a touch panel controller acquiring a sensing signal from the touch panel and detecting a user input based on the sensing signal. The touch panel controller acquires the sensing signal from at least one of the first sensor electrodes and the second sensor electrodes in a first mode operating at a first power. The touch panel controller selects a first transmitting electrode, a second transmitting electrode, and receiving electrodes from one of the first sensor electrodes and the second sensor electrodes, inputs a first driving signal to the first transmitting electrode, and inputs a second driving signal having a phase difference of 180 degrees with respect to the first driving signal to the second transmitting electrode in a second mode operating at a second power and a third mode in which a sensing operation is performed.

Touch panel controller including a sensing circuit configured to drive a touch panel

An induction heating apparatus is disclosed. The disclosed induction heating apparatus includes: a cooking plate on which a cooking container is seated; and a plurality of induction heating coils installed below the cooking plate and configured to generate a magnetic field, wherein the cooking plate includes: a sintered ceramic plate material; and a reinforcement material layer disposed on a lower surface of the sintered ceramic plate material and provided by a fabric woven with an industrial fiber and a polyamide-based resin.

Induction heating apparatus

A touch sensor of multi-driving scheme includes a touch panel including input lines and output lines, the touch panel causes a change in mutual capacitance in response to touch. Processing circuitry generates transmission signals to the input lines as a result of an encoding operation on a first matrix having an inverse matrix, each of the transmission signals has a first polarity or a second polarity opposite in phase to the first polarity; outputs the transmission signals in an unbalanced period when the sum of phases of the transmission signals is greater than 0; receives receiving signals through the output lines; and decodes the receiving signals based on the first matrix, the receiving signals generated by the change in the mutual capacitance in response to the touch.

Touch sensor and touch sensing method

A touch sensor controller for driving a touch sensor that is stacked on a display panel and includes driving electrodes and receiving electrodes crossing the driving electrodes, the touch sensor controller including: a driving circuit configured to sequentially provide driving signals to the driving electrodes; a read-out circuit configured to, in response to the driving signals, generate touch data based on first sensing signals received from the receiving electrodes and generate display noise data based on a second sensing signal received from a first driving electrode to which a driving signal of the driving signals is not applied from among the driving electrodes; and a touch processor configured to determine whether a touch input has occurred on the touch sensor based on the touch data and the display noise data.

Touch sensor controller, operating method of touch sensor controller, and touch screen driving circuit

A touch sensing device may include a touch sensor array including at least one beacon driving section and at least one compensation section, the at least one beacon driving section including a plurality of first touch electrodes, and the at least one compensation section including a plurality of second touch electrodes; and a touch controller connected to the touch sensor array through at least one first driving channel and at least one second driving channel, the touch controller is configured to, during a first uplink period for communication with an active pen, provide at least one beacon signal to the at least one first driving channel, and provide at least one compensation signal to the at least one second driving channel, the at least one compensation signal being an inverse of the at least one beacon signal.

Touch controller, touch sensing device including the touch controller, operating method of touch controller

An apparatus for sensing a touch includes: a sensor array including a plurality of sensor groups, each of the plurality of sensor groups including sensors adjacent to each other; a first switch circuit configured to connect each of the plurality of sensor groups to a first channel or a second channel according to a first control signal; and a second switch circuit configured to select one of the first channel and the second channel according to a second control signal, wherein the first channel includes first signal lines connected to respective sensors included in a first sensor group of the plurality of sensor groups by the first switch circuit, and the second channel includes a second signal line commonly connected to the sensors included in the first sensor group by the first switch circuit.

Apparatus and method for sensing touch based on multi-channel

A method for fabricating a semiconductor device includes providing a substrate including a cell region and a core/peripheral region around the cell region, forming a gate insulating film on the substrate of the core/peripheral region, forming a first conductive film of a first conductive type on the gate insulating film, forming a diffusion blocking film within the first conductive film, the diffusion blocking film being spaced apart from the gate insulating film in a vertical direction, after forming the diffusion blocking film, forming an impurity pattern including impurities within the first conductive film, diffusing the impurities through a heat treatment process to form a second conductive film of a second conductive type and forming a metal gate electrode on the second conductive film, wherein the diffusion blocking film includes helium (He) and/or argon (Ar).

Method for fabricating semiconductor devices

Sensing device including a first electrode receiving a first driving signal and a second electrode receiving a second driving signal

A display device, including: a touch screen panel including a touch panel and a display panel stacked under the touch panel; a touch driving circuit; and one or more rollers on which at least a portion of the touch screen panel is rolled. The touch panel may include receiving electrodes extending in a first axis direction and arranged in parallel in a second axis direction perpendicular to the first axis direction and driving electrodes extending in the second axis direction and arranged in parallel in the first axis direction. The display panel may include gate lines and source lines intersecting with the gate lines. The touch driving circuit may be configured to apply driving signals to the driving electrodes. The touch screen panel rolled on the one or more rollers may be unfolded as the one or more rollers slide in the first axis direction.

Display device including touch screen panel

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Seoul, South Korea

Bumsoo Kim