Thanks for the link but I had already seen this article. I was so impressed with the "laboratory" capability, that this article has been framed and is part of my Rogue's Gallery of lithography hanging on my wall. This is a good thing<GGG>. I just love it when things like this come out of the blue. It just reaffirms the ingenuity of my fellow lithographers and resotres my faith in the "can do" approach to cost effective manufacturig. Obviously this is not production worthy yet. A decent cost of ownership model still needs to be created. Production feasibility from both the manufacturing and reticle suppler end of things need to come together. But I am a firm believer in the concept of "Science Fiction of today stands a great probability of Science fact tomorrow." they have demonstrated a concept which makes us that much closer to a reality.
BTW - very off the subject. If we discount the absurdities in Science Fiction and think only of drugs, devices, or inventions, I find it humorous that mind control drugs, cancer treatments, retinal scans, nano machines, Voice recognition and activiation(Bridge of the enterprise), Dick Tracy two-way radios (wireless communications), etc. have all become realities. On my list of Science Fiction items remaining to become fact are meeting ET or any other extraterrestrial life form, Time travel, Successful Cryogenics, and teleportation. It makes me wonder if we will see any of these things in our lifetime. Perchance to dream.<GGG>
After all, as little as 10 years ago, it was virtually impossible (and they had the science of Physics and Optics to prove it beyond a shadow of a doubt) to create feature sizes this small using conventional lithography and wavelengths of light in the UV and DUV spectrum. It is amazing that as we take one more step in the old game of going half the distance to the door, we will never reach the door, but we do get closer. My belief is that the end of the rainbow for semicondctors will be when the feature sizes get so small, the electron cannot effectively travel the gate pathway<GGG>. From their we will move to optical, chemical, magnetic, or even neural type devices for advances uses.
Whoops, I guess with the market acting poorly, my keyboard wandered, having all of this "free time."<GGG>
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