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In addition to other recent video from SPIE's Photonics West 2010, we talked to Vytran about much more than fusion splicing, Toshiba showed us images of their tiny camera flying into space on a chair carried by a balloon, and our videographers in Tulsa, Oklahoma, put together a summary "Highlights Show" that will hopefully summarize the flavor of Photonics West 2010.
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This year's plenary sessions of the SPIE Advanced Lithography Symposium exposed the complexities of patterning ICs in high-volume manufacturing (HVM) at the 22nm node and beyond.
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Podcasts from interviews conducted with semiconductor experts at SPIE Advanced Lithography cover double-patterning, CMOS, photoresist matching, and more.
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At SPIE's Photonics West 2010, representatives from StellarNet, Stanford Photonics, and Newport spoke to Laser Focus World about their latest technologies.
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The constant shrinking of IC features, defined by Moore's Law, has provided great economic benefit. Those gathered at the recent SPIE Advanced Lithography Conference are dedicated to this pursuit -- but their future is not clear.
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Well over a dozen papers at this year's Photonics West meeting in San Francisco boasted improvements in harmonic generation to produce visible laser beams, most of them in the green spectral range.
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Photonics Media publishes photos from the 2009 Prism Awards for Photonics Innovation banquet held at SPIE Photonics West in San Francisco last January.
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Photonics West 2010 was held in a new venue this year, moving from the San Jose Convention Center where it had been held for years to the Moscone Center in San Francisco.
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The SPIE advanced lithography symposia reminded me of baseball spring training. The pervasive "collaboration speak" in lithography circles has transformed the various camps into ersatz teams.
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As a follow-up to last week's SPIE Advanced Lithography conference in San Jose, Vivek Bakshi provides an update and his own perspective on the readiness of EUV lithography.
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Barclays Capital's C.J. Muse came away from SPIE with the message that litho demand is strong, with a "heightened focus on EUV" due to increased costs associated with double patterning.
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Several discussions and presentations at last week's SPIE Advanced Lithography Conference deserve special note -- from work with e-beam EUV mask inspection, to nanoimprint achievements (11nm!), an EUV tool platform roadmap, mask productivity and cost issues at 22nm, and more on SMO and tunable DOEs
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The themes of this year's SPIE Advanced Lithography event were clear ....
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The city of Orlando is receiving plenty of attention from the conference industry in 2010, to say the least. ... one of the up-and-coming events in the field of materials analysis, the SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing conference, (will) be held April 5-9 at the Orlando World Center Marriott Resort and Convention Center.
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The SPIE Advanced Lithography Conference in San Jose, CA, provides a once-a-year opportunity to see the future of IC manufacturing. For years, this has been the conference where experts in lithography, resists, metrology, and design come to tell about their recent advances.
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My recent three-week trip to California was probably one of the most productive I have ever had. The first week was at Photonics West in San Francisco, where I estimate that I did more business during the first two days than I usually do in a week. Furthermore, I do not recall talking to a single person that was not upbeat about 2010.
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At next week's SPIE Advanced Lithography conference here, look for the latest and greatest papers on EUV, immersion, maskless, metrology, nano-imprint, resists and other topics. Perhaps the big news is that the industry is seeing a rebound after a severe downturn.
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Exhibitors talk about the photonics industry and the role played by SPIE Photonics West.
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Stereoscopic 3D Image Processing, Displays, and Applications: Medical surgeons are using 3D with endoscopic probes to perform minimally invasive complex ER procedures to the human body. Robots are equipped with stereoscopic 3D vision to better observe depth, or to better disarm bombs.... SPIE Photonics West: The latest development of photonics and lasers were revealed. Advanced photonics and exotic new powerful super lasers are used in medical diagnostics, biomedical spectroscopy, optical coherence tomography (OCT), optical biopsy, therapeutics, robotics, microsurgery, 3D microscopy, and photodynamic therapy.
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Prism Award winners, Franco-American optical alliances, a biophotonics standards roundtable, the laser celebration, and more news from SPIE Photonics West is reported in features, interviews, tweets, and blog posts.
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I don't know if it's the new Moscone Center venue, the laser show at the conference reception, or the fact that this is 2010, not 2009, but Photonics West was really booming this year.
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SPIE, an international society founded in 1955 to advance light-based research, gathered this week in San Francisco for SPIE Photonics West a huge industry exhibition showcasing some of the newest developments in optics and photonic technology.
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The last time I saw a laser light show, I was six years old. Judging from last night's "Cirque du Lasaire" event at the Photonics West conference (sponsored by the professional optics society, SPIE), the technology has moved on considerably since then.
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... "It's ironic that all the media is here [for Apple] when all the real technology is down stairs [at the Photonics West event]," said one attendee. "They would not be able to have a tablet if it wasn't for our technology ...."
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... perhaps no single development of the last century has been more influential or more important than the laser. In 2010 the laser turns 50, and to celebrate, a group of organizations including the American Physical Society, the Optical Society, SPIE, and IEEE Photonics Society have organized a year-long series of events this year dubbed.
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SPIE an international society focused on all things light-based is having their big photonics conference in San Francisco this week. I had the opportunity to sit in the professional development speaker series and thought I would share some of the speakers' insights.
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The hype around James Cameron's box office smash Avatar is just the tip of the avalanche to come, said 3D researcher Andrew Woods, chair of the conference on Stereoscopic Displays and Applications at the IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging symposium.
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Laser technology ... "has powered remarkable progress in the 50 years since the invention of the first laser in 1960, and even more exciting advances are underway in research institutions and corporate and government labs around the world."
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Priscilla Laws will speak to the importance of educating girls and physics teachers in developing countries, an approach that she believes is an effective strategy for sustainable development.
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Twenty-three French companies will take part in the Photonics West trade show in San Francisco, at the French Pavilion.
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After last year's successful launch of the industry's first annual Prism Awards for Photonics Innovation, this year's list of high-quality nominees is creating quite a stir.
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SPIE sponsored an R&D Caucus event in DC last week and the program was excellent.
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Hailed as North America's largest international photonics conference, SPIE's Photonics West 2010 is so big, it had to be moved from San Jose to San Francisco's Moscone Convention Center.
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Special events celebrating the 50th anniversary of the invention of the laser, including a "Cirque du Lasaire" reception, will mark SPIE Photonics West's first year in San Francisco.
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Bio-optics watchers must be in multiple places simultaneously each autumn in order to experience first hand all the exciting work being reported at so many events ... this fall's schedule included the NIH/SPIE Inter-Institute Workshop on Optical Diagnostic and Biophotonic Methods from Bench to Bedside.
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Wolfgang Fink, visiting associate in physics at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena says we are on the brink of a great paradigm shift in planetary exploration, and the next round of robotic explorers will be nothing like what we see today. ... Papers describing this new exploration are published in the journal Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine and in the Proceedings of the SPIE.
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One of Ring Lardner's zany characters had a catchphrase for whatever happened. Bad or good, wonderful or catastrophic, his philosophical remark would invariably be, "Youse gets what youse pays for." I went to this year's SPIE Photomask conference ....
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Technology once relegated to secret defense laboratories is finally seeing the light. High-power laser-diode technology has matured to the extent that laser-assisted initiation (which encompasses both ignition and detonation) of a variety of substances is finding application not only in the defense industry, but also for controlled demolition in the construction industry, for rocket-motor ignition useful in the launch of satellites and space-exploration vehicles, and even for ignition in future combustion engines ... at the SPIE Optics + Photonics 2009 conference ....
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Magnetic disk drive industry players are busy exploring new ways to pack more magnetic islands onto 2.5-in. and 3.5-in. platters. ... Several papers describing the mastering, replication and metrology challenges of patterned media were presented in a series of sessions at last week's SPIE Conference on Photomask Technology in Monterey, California.
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Most rational people would agree that the use of "nano" as a prefix for products covering everything from sandpaper to acne creams is ... well, irritating. How long will we have to wait before "nano" goes away or an application truly deserving such prefixion emerges? Those attending the SPIE/BACUS conference on photomask technology in Monterey, CA, (Sept. 14-17) may have finally witnessed that emergence.
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Dealing with the ballooning volumes of mask data was on the agenda at the SPIE Photomask conference in Monterey, Calif., this week, following similar discussions at April's Photomask Japan in Yokohama.
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Michael Polcari, president and CEO of Sematech, detailed the major challenges facing EUV lithography, in a speech at the SPIE Photomask symposium, going on this week in Monterey, Calif. "Regardless of all of the problems, EUV is inevitable," Polcari predicted.
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Coinciding with the SPIE/Bacus Photomask Symposium, KLA-Tencor introduced a mask defect inspection tool that can deal with emerging computational lithography techniques, including inverse lithography technology (ILT) and source mask optimization (SMO).
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The organizers of LaserFest, the celebration in 2010 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first working laser, announced that SPIE will be participating as a founding partner of the initiative.
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Researchers from the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research (EMPA) near Zurich have produced cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin-film solar cells with a record 12.4% efficiency, made with a low-temperature process compatible for roll-to-roll (R2R) manufacturing ... Results were presented during the recent SPIE Optics and Photonics conference ....
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By using holograms and merging medical and optical science, SPIE Fellows Jennifer Barton and Raymond Kostuk at the University of Arizona are developing a way of seeing enough varied depth in ovarian tissue to detect microscopic cancer cells in their earliest stages.
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Yosi-Bar Cohen, a senior researcher at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and SPIE Fellow, says research with tiny artificial muscles may yield a full-page active Braille system that can refresh automatically and come to life right beneath your fingertips.
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Richard B. Hoover, Astrobiology Group Leader at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., is the 2009 recipient of the Gold Medal of SPIE ....
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The Museum of Jurassic Technology is tucked away in a small building on a nondescript stretch of Venice Boulevard ... In commemoration of both the 400th anniversary of the telescope and the International Year of Astronomy, SPIE has planned an array of special events ....
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More than 100 schools, student groups and nonprofit organizations, including SPIE, have signed a letter pressing the Senate to provide the money President Obama has sought for his Re-Energyse program, which is aimed at building the intellectual capacity to transform the country's energy system.
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PathoLase Inc. says it has begun a major multi-site clinical trial to evaluate its PinPointe FootLaser treatment for infected toenails (onychomycosis) ... a significantly expanded follow-up to an initial PinPointe FootLaser clinical study conducted among a small group of patients (Harris, McDowell and Strisower, Laser Treatment for Toenail Fungus, Proc. SPIE 7161A, 2009). The early study indicated a potential efficacy rate as high as 87%, a finding which the current study aims to verify.
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Acquiring 3-D information for the geometric modeling of objects up to 100 m is essential for applications like industrial site reconstruction, cultural heritage monitoring, or city modeling. ...Using new range calibration methodologies, researchers Norbert Pfeifer, Camillo Ressl, and Wilfried Karel at the Institute of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Vienna University of Technology, have reduced the systematic errors in laser scanning point clouds by more than 50% and improved overall accuracy. ...This work will be presented during the conference Videometrics, Range Imaging and Applications at the SPIE Optics + Photonics symposium, Aug. 2-6, 2009. in San Diego.
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My goal in writing New Tech Investor is twofold: to help educate potential investors in emerging technology before they invest in some of the wild technologies; and to provide a base of reference, sites you can go to for more in-depth information on particular technologies ... some of the best technical reading material comes from SPIE, an association that deals specifically with photonics and its applications across a broad spectrum of technologies ....
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Researchers and industry will need to work closely together if Europe is to maximize the returns on its investment in a planned new generation of high-power laser facilities being built over the next decade. ... "International infrastructures attract the best research scientists," (research programme officer at the European Commission Christian) Kurrer told delegates attending the "Emerging European Laser Facilities: Beyond Petawatt" workshop at the recent SPIE Europe conference in Prague, Czech Republic. ....
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Hynix, IMEC, Intel, Samsung, Toshiba and possibly Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TSMC) are the initial customers for ASML Holding NV's ''pre-production'' extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography tool, according to an analyst. ... At the recent SPIE Advanced Lithography conference here, TSMC disclosed its lithography roadmap ....
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Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have built a test facility to evaluate and enhance sensors designed to detect buried land mines. The unique automated system measures the response of individual electromagnetic induction sensors or arrays of sensors against land mines buried at many possible angles. ... Waymond Scott, a professor in Georgia Tech's School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, ... and Gregg Larson, a senior research engineer in Georgia Tech's George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, constructed the facility with funding from the U.S. Army and described it at the recent SPIE Defense, Security and Sensing Symposium.
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Erik Stover of Keene, N.H., was one of an estimated 1,700 attendees at the SPIE Optifab conference, running through Thursday at the Riverside Convention Center. The conference brings together manufacturers, researchers and others in the optics industry to check out innovations and new products. About 160 exhibitors and 40 speakers also come to the conference from across the country and as far away as Germany and Japan.
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SEMATECH's RMDC made a quiet splash at this year's SPIE Advanced Lithography Conference, presenting a paper ("Assessment of EUV resist readiness for 32nm hp manufacturing, and extendibility study of EUV ADT using state-of-the-art resist;" Proc. SPIE, Vol. 7271 727124-1) with resist readiness/process feasibility data for 32nm half-pitch using EUV's alpha demo tool (ADT) used by the RMDC.
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One understandable reaction to Daylight Solutions, a 23-employee startup that has developed a breakthrough in semiconductor-based, mid-infrared laser technology, might be to ask, "Where did this company come from?" The suburban San Diego company says its high-power lasers, about the size of a small box of matches, can be used in medical diagnostics, in environmental and industrial monitoring, and even to thwart anti-aircraft missiles targeting a commercial jetliner or military aircraft. Its technology was impressive enough to garner a Prism Award for innovation earlier this year from SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics.
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An international gathering of more than 2,000 people is expected at Riverside Convention Center this week for an optical manufacturing technologies convention. Optifab 2009, as the event is known, will feature exhibits and demonstrations by optical manufacturers and suppliers. There will also be technical sessions on a variety of topics.
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The conference on optical biopsy will be "reborn" at the Biomedical Optics Symposium (BiOS) during the next Photonics West, and session chair Robert Alfano is seeking proposals for a deadline of July 13. The goal of the conference is to present novel state-of-the art work ...
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A new report from Laser Focus World magazine's sister company, Laser, Strategies Unlimited, predicts that sales of industrial lasers in 2009 could end the year 32% lower than in 2008, putting sales at the same level as in 2004. Given the ongoing decline in global manufacturing output, this is hardly surprising news. However, despite this strong downturn in the industrial sector — and a couple of other areas like semiconductor processing — the broader optics and photonics arena seems to be weathering the global economic storm fairly well. In January, Photonics West surprised most everyone ...
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Caryl Richards reports from Prague on Europe's plans for petwatt lasers and beyond.
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Earlier this month at the SPIE Defense Security and Sensing conference and exhibition in Orlando, Fla., when I asked attendees and exhibitors there about the military market I got the same answers I received form those at military electronics and military avionics events -- business is steady or improving.
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A group of 40-odd students is enjoying a session at the Physics Department at the Cochin (India) University of Science and Technology (CUSAT). Organised in collaboration with the SPIE CUSAT Student Chapter, ECS CUSAT, and the IUCAA Reference Centre, students from different city schools are participating in the ten-day workshop on "Physics: Scope and Awareness" ...
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Long-time SPIE BiOS Chair Eva Sevick, The director of the new Center for Molecular Imaging at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston is using near-infrared night vision technology made famous by American soldiers in the First Gulf War to shed light on the lymphatic system.
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ITT is only a few months away from offering an airborne data management system that can cram the output a 4,800 mbps video collector down a 45 mbps link in real time, according to Matthew Pellechia, principal programme manager for GIS surveillance solutions for ITT’s Space Systems Division. Speaking at SPIE Defense, Security and Sensing here in Orlando ....
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Representatives from SPIE (Bellingham, WA) and the Optoelectronics Industry Development Association (OIDA; Washington, DC) who were invited to testify in front of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission on March 24th called for more aggressive action and increased government support of commercial R&D in order to revive U.S. innovation and competitiveness in the photonics industry.
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The mood was one of quiet efficiency on the first day of exhibition at SPIE's Defense, Security and Sensing (DSS) conference in Orlando Tuesday.
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Our modern age has become accustomed to regular improvements in information technology, says Slava Rotkin, but these advances do not come without a cost.
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Beneath the nine-mile border between Gaza and Egypt lie an estimated 300 makeshift tunnels, according to a Jan. 12 article in Asia Times. And Israel insists that without them, Hamas would not be able to stockpile rockets and mortars. Thus, permanent monitoring and destruction of these tunnels is a key sticking point in the struggle in the region. During the SPIE's Defense, Security and Sensing Conference ...
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During a demonstration at the SPIE 2009 conference, a team from the University of Pisa, Italy, showed off how they used folded film to create an actuator muscle. Engineers from JPL and from around the world are exploring this new field to invent "smart" devices that can grab and move objects and even generate electricity.
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At the SPIE Advanced Lithography Conference last month, more than 200 lithographers turned up for the imprint session -- a 10-fold increase over two years ago -- reflecting a growing realization that for certain applications, imprint is becoming a manufacturing patterning technology of choice
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Although accounts from some other corners of the recent SPIE Advanced Lithography conference reported the downside of the readiness of extreme ultraviolet lithography, EUVL expert Vivek Bakshi gives a much more upbeat account of the progress being made.
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Experts say we're on an 'optics forever' path, but EUV is gaining momentum and closing the gap, though the finish line is still several years away (and may keep moving). This year's SPIE's Advanced Lithography Conference in San Jose, CA, provided a detailed update on what is becoming a tight horse race.
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There are several promising candidates for patterning circuits at 22nm and beyond: extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUVL), nano-imprint, direct write, and optical double patterning methods. But during an afternoon of spirited debate at a forum hosted by Applied Materials during SPIE, it became clear that double patterning is the only lithography solution that has the maturity to deliver the necessary balance of performance and cost required for 22nm volume production.
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In his plenary presentation at the SPIE Advanced Lithography Conference, Bernard Meyerson, VP for strategic alliances and CTO, IBM Systems and Technology Group, urged the industry to embrace coopetition through radical collaboration -- get the industry worldwide to work as a team to combine intellectual as well as physical capital.
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The transition from a logic-driven technology roadmap to one driven by memory -- with the attendant splintering into DRAM, Flash, and logic -- has been challenging. Add to that the economic woes and the pressure to contain spending, it's clear the industry is facing a rough and tumble environment. Industry experts interviewed by Sr. Technical Editor Debra Vogler at the SPIE Advanced Lithography Conference, summarize the status of immersion lithography at 32nm and 22nm. Harry Levinson of AMD notes that, although k1 will be pushed out to extremely low levels at 22nm, he believes 40nm hp is realistic. The status of EUV lithography is also described at length by Kurt Ronse of IMEC, and Griff Resor of Resor Associates offers the hopeful observation that "it's not over for EUV at 22nm."
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Headwall Photonics announced the formation of a cooperative research and development agreement (CRADA) with the USDA Agricultural Research Service to develop and deploy spectral imaging solutions for in-line processing of poultry, fruit, vegetables, and other food products.
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IBM and Mentor Graphics provided an update on their effort to develop source-mask optimization (SMO) during the SPIE Advanced Lithography conference. SMO is targeted at the development of a number of computational scaling technologies that would enable pixel-level programming of illumination sources, extending 193 nm immersion lithography to 22 nm...
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The lithography for IC manufacturing is at perhaps the most confusing crossroads it has even encountered. It is clear that the current state of the craft-single-patterning immersion optical printing at 193 nm-cannot take us much further. But it's not clear what will come next...
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Lars Liebmann, distinguished engineer, design for manufacturability at IBM, discusses the challenges the industry faces at 22nm in an exclusive video interview with SST's Debra Vogler at the SPIE Advanced Lithography Conference...
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SST's Debra Vogler interviews industry leaders at SPIE Advanced Lithography in San Jose...
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A war of words of sorts emerged this week at the SPIE Advanced Lithography conference among vendors developing source mask optimization (SMO) tools in hopes of extending 193-nm immersion lithography to the 22-nm node...
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This week, the principle players in the effort to make direct-write electron-beam lithography a practical near-term alternative for prototyping and limited production of ICs took another step closer to realizing the dream...
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During a panel discussion at the SPIE Advanced Lithography conference here, experts debated and spared over the future of patterning...
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Speakers at the opening session of the SPIE Advanced Lithography conference described new opportunities in solar, LEDs and flat panels, while warning that traditional scaling and design practices may be untenable. "Scaling dictates that when the number of transistors is doubled on a chip, each one must burn half as much power, otherwise the chip will burst into flames," said IBM Fellow Bernie Meyerson...
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The eBeam Initiative, a multi-company effort dedicated to the advancement of e-beam direct-write technology for semiconductor prototyping and low-volume manufacturing, launched here at the SPIE Advanced Lithography conference Tuesday (Feb. 24)...
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Moore's Law predicts the supply side of ICs, but the demand side can be understood as a "virtuous cycle" of technology advancement, lower costs, and rising demand leading to reinvestment...
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Leading up to a week of SPIE Advanced Lithography in San Jose, a range of industry speakers presented lithography updates Sunday at Nikon's LithoVision symposium. Despite the many advances and refinements achieved, the industry is hard pressed to come up with a viable solution beyond 20 nm...
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An Executive Panel on "Silicon Photonics and Optical Interconnects" at SPIE Photonics West 2009 offered attendees an opportunity to learn from and interact with leading silicon-photonics scientists and management regarding the roadmap for this technology.
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Nerac Analyst Deborah Schenberger's article titled "Patents in fiber-optic sensing" is published in the SPIE Newsroom. The durability and sensitivity of fiber-optic sensors have made them a logical choice for extreme environments.
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Without robust and affordable next-generation lithography, the current semiconductor roadmap could change dramatically. For 22nm and beyond, patterning candidates such as EUVL*, nano-imprint, direct write and optical double patterning methods show promise. But which one will deliver the best balance of performance and cost? On February 25, in San Jose, California, Applied Materials will host an important seminar exploring this critical topic.
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With visitor and exhibitor numbers matching those of last year, there were no visible signs of an industry in crisis at last month's Photonics West, as Warren Clark reports.
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Read daily updates from IOP Publishing and optics.org bloggers about Photonics West 2009...
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Despite the daily bad news on our worldwide economy, official SPIE (Bellingham, WA) Photonics West 2009 attendance figures surprised everyone. The attendance count was 17,903 at the end of the week-long event (as of the afternoon of Thursday, January 29), compared to last year's total of 17,440...
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"Someone at the signing at Photonics West inspired this comic idea. Thanks!" PhD gave a presentation on "The Power of Procrastination" to early career professionals at SPIE Photonics West.
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"Cautiously optimistic" was a phrase heard a lot in the aisles of the Photonics West 2009 exhibition when talking about the state of the economy as it relates to the photonics industry...
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With few minor exceptions, companies at Photonics West this week were extremely concerned with or at a minimum beginning to feel the impact of the economic slowdown. Those with a narrower focus or multiple discrete segments bring the impact into a finer focus. We might generalize that: ...
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Industrial Laser Solutions and Laser Focus World report "seeing lots of smiles, lots of action in the booths," in video reports filed from Photonics West ...
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A San Jose startup has licensed materials technology that can harvest energy from infrared light, boosting the efficiency of solar cells ...
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This is a long week for those of us "all in" at BiOS and Photonics West, but though it's not even halfway over, I can already tell it won't be long enough for me to see all that I want to...
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11.00 PT: It was already big, but SPIE's Biomedical Optics Symposium (BiOS) just got bigger. By the end of this week, more than 1600 BiOS papers (up from around 1300 last year) will have been presented across 31 conference tracks spanning everything from photonics in dermatology and plastic surgery to frontiers in pathogen detection...
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The field of lasers and optics continues to emerge as a major growth area in the spectroscopy market. With laser-based techniques such as NIR, MIR, and more recently, Far-IR or terahertz becoming more prominent, laser sources are becoming critical to research...
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The SPIE, producer of Photonics West (January 24-29) and BiOS (the largest of its four symposia), says that the 2009 BiOS event, starting on Saturday, will be ~15% larger than it was in 2008. I've packed my jogging shoes ...
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I just learned about an interesting new initiative at SPIE: "Optipedia". Optipedia takes pages directly from popular SPIE Press books and links them together to create an open-access resource for trusted optics and photonics information ...
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Electro-optic technology has been used by researchers from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology for an urgent purpose - locating tunnels through which arms and other goods are smuggled...
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Is your company outpacing your rivals with new innovations - as measured by new products and customers? If so, keep pushing, because your competition is relentless. If you are not winning...
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Sobering news for 21st century America's environmentally savvy industry in Congress yesterday. A big-time Silicon Valley venture capitalist told lawmakers -- the only ones who showed up were...
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Researchers at the Technical University of Madrid's Laser Center (Madrid, Spain) say they have created chip-based label-free optical biosensors that combine semiconductor technology...
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