Startup Substrate is building next-generation semiconductor fabs using advanced X-ray lithography. This goes beyond extreme ...

Extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUVL) has emerged as a cornerstone technology in the semiconductor industry, enabling the production of devices with sub-10 nm feature sizes. By utilising a 13.5 nm ...

Building an integrated circuit (IC) requires various physical and chemical processes to be performed on a semiconductor (e.g., silicon) substrate. Millions of transistors can be fabricated and wired ...

New type of EUV lithography using only four reflective mirrors overturns conventional technology and will contribute to advanced semiconductors at 7nm and below Okinawa Institute of Science and ...

Professor Tsumoru Shintake of the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) has proposed an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography technology that he claims is superior to the method currently ...

EurekAlert! - Metasurfaces, ultra-compact optical devices capable of "precisely manipulating light," have shown great potential in augmented reality (AR) glasses, holographic projection, biosensing, ...

Researchers review AI-powered inverse lithography, showing how deep learning boosts chip patterning precision and efficiency while facing scaling challenges. Computational lithography optimizes the ...

SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, awarded their Gold Medal to Maryellen Giger (pictured here with her team) for pioneering work in computer-aided diagnosis and image ...

How Does EUV Lithography Work? EUV Lithography is a state-of-the-art technology in chip manufacturing that uses highly energetic ultraviolet light to carve detailed patterns onto semiconductor ...

Few would expect the future of artificial intelligence (AI) to depend on Eindhoven, a quiet Dutch town. Yet just beyond its borders sits the headquarters of ASML, the only company that makes the ...

The 22 award recipients represent wide range of stellar achievements across light-based technologies. For pioneering work in ...