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Toshiba develops molecular photoresist technology for EUV lithography

Toshiba develops molecular photoresist technology for EUV lithography

Technology / Semiconductors

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (12) | comments 1

Toshiba Corporation today announced that it has developed a high resolution photoresist (photo-sensitive film) essential for future application of EUV (extreme ultraviolet) lithography in semiconductor fabrication, ...


Solar winds triggered by magnetic fields

Solar winds triggered by magnetic fields

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Solar wind generated by the sun is probably driven by a process involving powerful magnetic fields, according to a new study led by UCL (University College London) researchers based on the ...


The Sun's Sneaky Variability

The Sun's Sneaky Variability

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (11) | comments 5

Every 11 years, the sun undergoes a furious upheaval. Dark sunspots burst forth from beneath the sun's surface. Explosions as powerful as a billion atomic bombs spark intense flares of high-energy radiation. ...


EVE: Measuring the Sun's hidden variability

EVE: Measuring the Sun's hidden variability

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Every 11 years, the sun undergoes a furious upheaval. Dark sunspots burst forth from beneath the sun's surface. Explosions as powerful as a billion atomic bombs spark intense flares of high-energy radiation. ...


High in Sodium: Highly Charged Tungsten Ions May Diagnose Fusion Energy Reactors

High in Sodium: Highly Charged Tungsten Ions May Diagnose Fusion Energy Reactors

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Sep 08, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Just as health-food manufacturers work on developing the best possible sodium substitutes for low-salt diets, physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have acquired ...


Nuclear fusion research key to advancing computer chips

Nuclear fusion research key to advancing computer chips

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 18, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers are adapting the same methods used in fusion-energy research to create extremely thin plasma beams for a new class of "nanolithography" required to make future computer chips.


Transparent aluminium is 'new state of matter'

Transparent aluminium is 'new state of matter'

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jul 27, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (97) | comments 49

(PhysOrg.com) -- Oxford scientists have created a transparent form of aluminium by bombarding the metal with the world’s most powerful soft X-ray laser. 'Transparent aluminium' previously only existed in science ...


Scientists Shed 'Light' on Semiconductor Quandry

Scientists Shed 'Light' on Semiconductor Quandry

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jul 14, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- UC San Diego scientists are using laser plasma-produced light sources to explore performance improvements of critical inspection tools for the semiconductor industry, which ultimately will ...


At the limits of the photoelectric effect

Shaking the Fundamentals of Physics: At the Limits of the Photoelectric Effect

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 24, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (24) | comments 9

With extremely short wavelengths and very high intensities, light-matter interaction seems to be different than previously accepted.


Exposing the Sensitivity of Extreme Ultraviolet Photoresists

Exposing the Sensitivity of Extreme Ultraviolet Photoresists

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jun 26, 2008 | popularity 3 / 5 (5) | comments 4

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have confirmed that the photoresists used in next-generation semiconductor manufacturing processes now under development are twice as ...