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Nanomenhirs, a new opportunity for Obelix
By Michael Watts - 24 Jun, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Michael P.C. Watts In classical times there was a successful business in menhirs. Menhirs are stone pillars that date from Stone Age times and are believed to have been used by druids for human sacrifice, used as territorial markers or elements of a complex ideological system, or functioned as early calendars … in other words the experts do not have a clue what they were used for ! ... » read more

A Report from the 5th SEMI Brussels Forum
By SEMI - 17 Jun, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Heinz Kundert First, I’d like to give you some background on the SEMI Brussels Forum. It is our industry’s annual advocacy-focused event attended by industry executives and stakeholders of the European Union. Currently, our forum is the leading policy event for the European semiconductor and photovoltaic (PV) equipment and materials industries. A couple weeks ago, the 5th SEMI Bru... » read more

More Than Trees Growing in Luther Forest
By Joanne Itow - 07 Jun, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Joanne Itow Last week Semico visited the GLOBALFOUNDRIES’ Fab 8 construction site and was impressed for several reasons. Not only is the infrastructure significant but the people and surrounding community have welcomed GLOBALFOUDNRIES, embraced the project as well as the invasion of businesses and people that go along with the project. This made our visit extremely pleasant and trouble... » read more

Smart Power on SOI
By Various Writers - 06 Jun, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Adele Hars What if you had to reduce power dissipation by 40x? That's exactly the task that fell to STMicroelectronics, under an EU program called Smart Power Management. At the recent ISPSD (International Symposium on Power Semiconductor Devices and ICs) conference, ST and partners (GE Vingmed Ultrasound and Sintef) presented a paper on how they did it, using ST's latest SOI-based ... » read more

Litho in Las Vegas 2
By Chris Mack - 04 Jun, 2011 - Comments: 0

The 3-beam conference began on Wednesday morning with the plenary session.  Nick Economou discussed the history and current performance of the Helium Ion Microscope.  What an amazing tool!  It has much higher resolution than a scanning electron microscope (SEM) with far less charging.  The result is truly amazing pictures of biological and other non-conducting samples.  I can’t wait to s... » read more

Cell phone optics, a production imprint application.
By Michael Watts - 02 Jun, 2011 - Comments: 0

In all the discussion about the commercial viability of imprint, a manufacturing line has been quietly put in place to imprint lenses of cell phone camera chips. The company leading these developments is Heptagon with head office in Switzerland. At the same time, others are looking at the opportunity and bringing innovative technologies to add new features such as zooms, autofocus and image sta... » read more

Double Patterning: Sharing the Benefit and the Burden
By David Abercrombie - 01 Jun, 2011 - Comments: 0

By David Abercrombie Share and share alike! Our mothers always said it was the right thing to do, and it seems that this ideology is now coming front and center for double patterning at 20nm and below. As we continue to shrink the metal pitch from node to node, we also push the lithography k1 lower and lower, since we are currently stuck with 193nm/1.35NA scanners. When k1 dropped below 0.6,... » read more

Litho in Las Vegas
By Chris Mack - 01 Jun, 2011 - Comments: 0

Las Vegas is not my favorite city. It is America’s monument to greed (and bad taste), where form not only wins over substance, it’s as if substance never even showed up for the race. This place relishes in its lack of roots, tearing down old facades to build newer, bigger facades (little is more pathetic than faded glitz) in an arms race of extravagance. It is all so purposely disorienti... » read more

FD-SOI: The Right Choice
By Various Writers - 20 May, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Adele Hars Although Intel will do FinFETs at 22nm, FD-SOI remains the better alternative for most all the industry for low power and mobile apps. In the weeks and months to come, we'll continue to hear the SOI camp driving home key advantages of planar FD-SOI. 1. FD-SOI technology is the most cost-effective solution. The wafers are available from multiple sources. With volume purchasi... » read more

The Economics of Innovation …Daunting
By Joanne Itow - 13 May, 2011 - Comments: 0

By Joanne Itow The convergence of mobility, communication and computing has produced multifunctional end applications that are placing huge demands on semiconductor manufacturers. These new devices require low power, high performance, and a lot of advanced manufacturing capacity at a low cost. At the 2011 Semico Summit, Gregg Bartlett, Senior Vice President of Technology and Research a... » read more

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