- Nanoimprint Templates Need High-Quality Inspection
After almost a decade of investigation by academic and industry groups, nanoimprint lithography is beginning to gain a little traction in the semiconductor industry. Nanoimprint, simply put, squashes a 1× template into a compliant layer to create patterns on a substrate. "The amazing thing is that it has the kind ......
- Nanoimprint Lithography: A Contender for 32 nm?
Nanoimprint lithography (NIL) is a viable technology, already in volume production use for fine line patterning in all kinds of applications, including data storage, life sciences, MEMS, biochips, optics and photonics. It's reliable, it works, and it's very cost-effective. As one example, a New Jersey-based company called NanoOpto is using ......
- Nanoimprint Lithography: Plays Well With Others?
As if manufacturing semiconductors wasn't a difficult enough science already, the challenges coming down the pike are exponentially, mind-bogglingly more hairy. No wonder we're seeing more and more cooperation among equipment companies and chipmakers. In addition to common sharing of information at workshops and symposiums, industry players are partnering — ......
- Metrology Drives Nanotech Progress
In a conference presentation, 1 Mark Durcan, president and COO of Micron Technology (Boise Idaho), outlined some of the challenges nanotech faces. While admitting that progress was taking place, he also warned that there are many difficulties, such as randomness issues associated with dealing with large and small numbers, mechanical ......
- Liquid Immersion, Nanoimprint Litho to Extend Moore’s Law
While some doomsayers predict Moore’s Law will soon come to an end, at least two new nanolithography techniques promise to sustain the chip industry’s performance curve for at least another decade, according to the latest report from Lux Research. With the semiconductor industry facing a crisis as current processes for ......
- Molecular Imprints Jumps IDM Hurdle
Despite nanoimprint lithography being sent to the back of the class in the latest update of the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS; maskless lithography moved ahead of it as a potential solution at the 22 and 16 nm half-pitch), Molecular Imprints Inc. (MII, Austin, Texas) announced its latest success ......
- CEO Roundup: A Closer Look at 2005
As executive leaders forecast the year ahead, they also examine how changes in their respective fields will shape the outlook. Intertwining technologies and economies affect how these CEOs plan to prepare for what most are predicting to be the beginning of the next downcycle. Arthur W. Zafiropoulo , Chairman & ......