Colloidal lithography is a nanofabrication technique that utilizes colloidal particles as masks for creating ordered nanostructures on substrates. This cost-effective and scalable method has gained ...

Computational lithography and mask optimization techniques are at the forefront of enabling the semiconductor industry's continued miniaturisation of integrated circuits. This field encompasses ...

(Nanowerk News) Recently, researchers from the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics (SIOM) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have proposed a source mask optimization (SMO) technique ...

Gallium nitride (GaN)-based light-emitting diodes (LEDs) have transformed the lighting industry by replacing conventional lighting technologies with superior energy efficiency, longer operating life ...

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 ...

Portland, Ore. – A soft-lithography technique that harnesses deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) as a self-reproducing template is being developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Supramolecular ...

NAND Flash memory is the most competitive market in the semiconductor industry. With cost to manufacturer being the most important factor, manufacturers are forced to make the tradeoff between ...

To build optoelectronic circuits, researchers need to make films of semiconductor nanocrystals in desired patterns, just as they can with conventional silicon-based electronics. But the techniques ...

A technical paper titled “Resistless EUV lithography: photon-induced oxide patterning on silicon” was published by researchers at Paul Scherrer Institute, University College London, ETH Zürich, and ...

Nanoimprint lithography (NIL) is a promising technique for fine-patterning with a lower cost than other lithography techniques such as EUV or immersion with multi-patterning. NIL has the potential of ...

IBM has cast a vote for extreme ultraviolet lithography, sources say, essentially locking in the technology as the next-generation chipmaking process for the semiconductor industry. By joining the ...