News tagged with lithography

HP Demos Rollup Flexible Displays (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Flexible Display Center, at Arizona State University, hopes to have flexible displays ready for test trials in approximately three years. The possibilities of using flexible displays are ...

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 25, 2010 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (14) | comments 5 | with audio podcast weblog

Toshiba, AIST Develop Mask Pattern Optimizing Technology That Extends Life of Optical Lithography

Toshiba and Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) today announced joint development of a mask pattern optimizing technology that improves the accuracy of lithography ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Feb 15, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Intel, Micron Introduce 25-Nanometer NAND

Intel Corporation and Micron Technology, Inc. today announced the world's first 25-nanometer (nm) NAND technology, which provides a more cost-effective path for increasing storage capacity in such popular ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Feb 01, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (21) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Physicists develop 3D metamaterial nanolens that achieves super-resolution imaging

(PhysOrg.com) -- A research team from Northeastern University has developed a new nanolens that can beat the diffraction limit to achieve so-called super-resolution imaging, better than can be achieved by current technology. ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 18, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (24) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

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

Micro Sparky: Engineering the tiniest Sun Devil

(PhysOrg.com) -- An Arizona State University engineering student may have found the tiniest - yet most cleverly inventive - way to show school spirit.

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers simplify fabrication of nano storage, chip-design tools

Advances by the Rice University lab of James Tour have brought graphite's potential as a mass data storage medium a step closer to reality and created the potential for reprogrammable gate arrays that could ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 09, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 1

The Shrinky Dink solution

Toys don't usually inspire high-tech innovation, but Michelle Khine's childhood favorite did just that.

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 09, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scientists Use DNA Scaffolding To Build Tiny Circuit Boards

(PhysOrg.com) -- Today, scientists at IBM Research and the California Institute of Technology announced a scientific advancement that could be a major breakthrough in enabling the semiconductor industry to ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 18, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 4

New interferometer could simplify materials research

(PhysOrg.com) -- “Most current hard x-ray interferometers are based on crystals, which require their high quality and high mechanical stability,” Anatoly Snigirev tells PhysOrg.com. “This can make x-ray interferometry quite ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Aug 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (13) | comments 1 feature

Intel Delivers Industry's First 34-Nanometer NAND Flash Solid-State Drives

Intel is moving to a more advanced, 34- nanometer manufacturing process for its NAND flash-based Solid State Drive (SSD) products, which are an alternative to a computer's hard drive. The move to 34nm will ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Jul 21, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (19) | comments 0

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

Lessons from Schon -- the worst physics fraudster?

How did a 31-year-old physicist working at Bell Labs in New Jersey, US, get away with possibly the worst case of physics research fraud known? From claims to have made the world's first organic electrical laser to the fictional ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 05, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (12) | comments 5

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

New Laser Technique Advances Nanofabrication Process

(PhysOrg.com) -- The ability to create tiny patterns is essential to the fabrication of computer chips and many other current and potential applications of nanotechnology. Yet, creating ever smaller features, ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 09, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (10) | comments 2