News tagged with mask pattern

SEMATECH Demonstrates Mask Pattern Alignment and Registration to Enable Double Patterning Lithography

SEMATECH and the Semiconductor Metrology Systems division from Carl Zeiss announced today that Zeiss' next-generation photomask registration and overlay metrology system has successfully passed a key development milestone. ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jul 30, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 2

New method could lead to narrower chip patterns

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at MIT have found a novel method for etching extremely narrow lines on a microchip, using a material that can be switched from transparent to opaque, and vice versa, just by exposing it to certain ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 10, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (8) | comments 5

'Voltage Patterning' could be next step in nanostructure lithography

(PhysOrg.com) -- "What you want these days is to have precise control of nanostructures. Using masks and optical techniques, it is possible to control how nanostructures grow for use in practical applications," David Field ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Mar 02, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (15) | comments 4 feature




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Study finds emissions from widely used cookstoves vary with use

The smoke rising from a cookstove fills the air with the tantalizing aroma of dinner – and a cloud of pollutants and particles that threaten both health and the environment. How families in developing ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 29, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Experiment explores optics with iPad

As any other dutiful scientist, Dr. Weilin "Will" Hou, an oceanographer in the Oceanography Division at NRL Stennis Space Center (NRL-SSC), did his research. Earlier last summer, he decided the hottest tablet ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

How to corner the MEMS market

In the last decade, MEMS (microelectromechanical devices) have wrought revolutions in several industries: Arrays of micromirrors, for instance, enabled digital film projectors, and accelerometers like those ...

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 05, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Population adds to planet's pressure cooker, but few options

The world's surging population is a big driver of environmental woes but the issue is complex and solutions are few, experts at a major conference here say.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 27, 2012 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 6

Researchers present a shiny new tool for imaging biomolecules

At the heart of the immune system that protects our bodies from disease and foreign invaders is a vast and complex communications network involving millions of cells, sending and receiving chemical signals ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Fewer americans tying the knot, survey shows

(HealthDay) -- That shiny band of gold may be losing its luster: A new government report shows more Americans are either avoiding marriage or marrying much later in life than their parents' generation did.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Mar 22, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 3

Cell movement patterns

(PhysOrg.com) -- Whereas a cut knee often reduces children to tears, adults are more likely to be distressed by the fear of cancer. In both cases, that is wound healing and the growth and spread of tumours, ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Virtual ghost imaging: New technique enables imaging even through highly adverse conditions

Ghost imaging (GI), and its even more oddly named cousin virtual ghost imaging (VGI), seem to contradict conventional wisdom by being able to image an object by simply counting photons in a "light bucket." This non-intuitive ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 15, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Yellow-cedar are dying in Alaska: Scientists now know why

Yellow-cedar, a culturally and economically valuable tree in southeastern Alaska and adjacent parts of British Columbia, has been dying off across large expanses of these areas for the past 100 years. But ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Visual nudge improves accuracy of mammogram readings

In 2011 -- to the consternation of women everywhere -- a systematic review of randomized clinical trials showed that routine mammography was of little value to younger women at average or low risk of breast ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast


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