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To: orkrious who wrote (24314)	2/21/2000 8:30:00 PM
From: jghutchison	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25960

Death knell for Scalpel? Jack Hutchison

To: orkrious who wrote (24314)	2/21/2000 8:39:00 PM
From: ScotMcI	Respond to of 25960

The 50-nm (0.05-micron) transistor gates were produced by Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Lincoln Laboratory in Lexington, Mass., using DUV 248-nm lithography equipment, said NumeriTech. Remarkable. I wonder what the limits of optical lithography will really turn out to be? I'll be interested to see how well these techniques work in a production environment. In any case, I'm willing to bet that to achieve these tiny geometries with a 248nm laser requires the higher quality Cymer product, and not one of the cheapies.

To: orkrious who wrote (24314)	2/23/2000 2:01:00 PM
From: FJB	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25960

Cymer was granted 7 patents in the last several days - 14 so far this year. Here are the last 7: 22-FEB-00 6,028,880 6,028,880-Automatic fluorine control system 22-FEB-00 6,028,879 6,028,879-Narrow band laser with etalon based output coupler 22-FEB-00 6,028,872 6,028,872-High pulse rate pulse power system with resonant power supply 19-FEB-00 6,026,103 6,026,103-Gas discharge laser with roller bearings and stable magnetic axial positioning 19-FEB-00 6,023,486 6,023,486-Soldered fan assembly for electric discharge laser 19-FEB-00 6,021,150 6,021,150-Laser having baffled enclosure 19-FEB-00 6,018,537 6,018,537-Reliable, modular, production quality narrow-band high rep rate F.sub.2 laser