Serendipitous discovery reveals how stress and chemistry etch mysterious spiral patterns
UCLA doctoral student Yilin Wong noticed that some tiny dots had appeared on one of her samples, which had been accidentally ...
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How chemistry and force etch mysterious spiral patterns on solid surfaces
Curiosity about a mistake that left tiny dots on a germanium wafer with evaporated metal films led to the discovery of beautiful spiral patterns etched on the surface of the semiconductor by a ...
The Economist1d
Want even tinier chips? Use a particle accelerator
Now, some researchers hope to generate more powerful EUV beams with a particle accelerator that propels electrons to nearly ...
Lam Research: Phenomenal Long Term Outlook For This Semi Equipment Giant
Lam Research is a key enabler in the AI Industrial Revolution, providing essential semiconductor fabrication equipment to ...
The Economist1d
The race is on to build the world’s most complex machine
Yet unlike software, where industry leadership can shift in a matter of months, success in lithography is a slow-moving race ...
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Breakthrough 3D NAND flash etching technique could turbocharge SSD production
Researchers have developed a hydrogen fluoride plasma technique that doubles the etching rate in the manufacturing process of 3D NAND flash memory chips. Standard NAND flash storage is used in ...
TSMC wafer found in a dumpster - is this the ultimate case of chip binning?
VNNI, claims to have found the wafer near TSMC's Fab 16 factory in Nanjing, China. While not cutting-edge, that ...