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 ...
The process starts with the substrate being coated with a light-sensitive photoresist. A photomask, which contains the desired pattern, is then aligned above the substrate. Ultraviolet (UV) light is ...
Photonic integrated circuits (PICs) are compact devices that combine multiple optical components on a single chip. They have a wide range of applications in communications, ranging, sensing, computing ...
Lithography, based on conventional ink-printing processes, is a technique for patterning a variety of layers, such as conductors, semiconductors, or dielectrics, on a surface. Nanopatterning stretches ...
M. K. Sears, J. Bekaert, B. W. Smith, "Pupil wavefront manipulation for optical nanolithography", Proc. SPIE 8326, (2012) paper M. K. Sears, G. Fenger, J. Mailfert, B ...
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 ...
The online, interactive session will include discussions of the authors’ latest books. • Harry Levinson is Editor-in-Chief of SPIE's Journal of Micro/Nanopatterning, Materials, and Metrology (JM3).
The mood at this year’s SPIE Advanced Lithography + Patterning Symposium was decidedly upbeat. The outlook for business is good, due in large measure to expectations of high demand for chips, driven ...