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Performance boost for microchips

The semiconductor industry is faced with the challenge of supplying ever faster and more powerful chips. The Next-Generation Lithography with EUV radiation will help meeting that challenge. Fraunhofer researchers ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created May 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Toshiba develops molecular photoresist technology for EUV lithography

Toshiba Corporation today announced that it has developed a high resolution photoresist (photo-sensitive film) essential for future application of EUV (extreme ultraviolet) lithography in semiconductor fabrication, ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 1.9 / 5 (18) | comments 1

Scientists Shed 'Light' on Semiconductor Quandry

(PhysOrg.com) -- UC San Diego scientists are using laser plasma-produced light sources to explore performance improvements of critical inspection tools for the semiconductor industry, which ultimately will ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jul 14, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Shaking the Fundamentals of Physics: At the Limits of the Photoelectric Effect

With extremely short wavelengths and very high intensities, light-matter interaction seems to be different than previously accepted.

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 24, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (24) | comments 9

Lighter gas reduces damage to optics in extreme ultraviolet lithography

Researchers at the University of Illinois have discovered a way to generate light and reduce damage in a leading candidate for next-generation microelectronics lithography. The technique could help pack more power into smaller ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 12, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Northrop Grumman Donation Boosts UCF Research in Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography

University of Central Florida optics researchers and students are poised to become leaders in the next generation of computer chip manufacturing thanks to a $24 million donation of intellectual property, equipment and cash from Northrop Grumman. The largest donation ...

Physics /

created Aug 24, 2004 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Micropatterning Director at TSMC suggests e-beam lithography may replace EUV

(PhysOrg.com) -- Most integrated circuits today are made by using extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography technology, but that could change, according to Burn Lin, Micropatterning Director at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Feb 23, 2012 | popularity 1.6 / 5 (14) | comments 1 weblog

UV lithography: Taking extreme measures

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sometime soon, microchip fabricators will take the next major step in the relentless reduction of feature size, from the current minimum of 22 nm down to 10 nm and perhaps even smaller. Getting ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 2

Plasma etching pushes the limits of a shrinking world

Plasma etching (using an ionized gas to carve tiny components on silicon wafers) has long enabled the perpetuation of Moore's Law -- the observation that the number of transistors that can be squeezed into an integrated circuit ...

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Nov 10, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

A SHARP new microscope for the next generation of microchips

(PhysOrg.com) -- Moore’s Law, hardly a law but undeniably a persistent trend, says that every year and a half, the number of transistors that fit on a chip roughly doubles. It’s why electronics – ...

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 31, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

How to make e-beam lithography more practical as a mass-production technique

For 50 years, the transistors on computer chips have been getting smaller, and for 50 years, manufacturers have used the same technique -- photolithography — to make their chips. But the very wavelength ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

UMD advance lights possible new path to creating next gen computer chips

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Maryland researchers have made a breakthrough in the use of visible light for making tiny integrated circuits. Though their advance is probably at least a decade from commercial use, they say ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 31, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Ultra-thin solar blind EUV imager reported by Imec

Yesterday at the International Electron Devices Meeting in San Francisco imec presents an ultra-thin hybrid AlGaN-on-Si-based extreme ultraviolet (EUV) imager with only 10µm pixel-to-pixel pitch. The wide-bandgap material ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Dec 08, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Faster, cheaper chips from space technology

(PhysOrg.com) -- Our world is full of integrated semiconductor circuits, commonly known as microchips. Today you find them in computers, cars, mobile phones and in almost every electrical device. Technology ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Mar 26, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (11) | comments 1

LLNL multilayer mirrors fly on NASA solar mission

(PhysOrg.com) -- A Lab technology that originally was developed to make computer chips smaller, faster and more powerful is now being used in space to take images of the sun every 10 seconds with 10 times ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 10, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0