arstechnica.com - 10/13/2008
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Getting past the 32nm feature size will be a challenge for chip companies looking to keep Moore's Law on track. Recently, researchers uses a low-flying array of plasmonic lenses to demonstrate fast, maskless lithography that could keep the train rolling.. Read More...
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Moore’s Law Lives Another Day With Maskless Lithography Trick
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Image Credit: Wikipedia When it comes to Moore’s law these days, it seems like everyone’s a cynic. However, now there’s one more reason to be optimistic about the future of miniaturization, as researchers have published a paper describing a lithography technique which may provide a new means of producing chip features smaller than 32nm. The technique involves the use of quasiparticles called plasmons to focus light at an incredibly high resolution. Chris Lee at Ars Technica describes the technology : “A lens, based on plasmons, can be created by a set of concentric metal ...
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