OAKLAND, Calif. : Silicon Valley-based Applied Materials Inc, among the most important makers of tools for chip manufacturing, said on Tuesday it has started selling a new tool that can lower the cost of a process involving lithography.Lithography uses light to print a pattern on the wafer, the shiny roun
OAKLAND, Calif. : Silicon Valley-based Applied Materials Inc, among the most important makers of tools for chip manufacturing, said on Tuesday it has started selling a new tool that can lower the cost of a process involving lithography.
As the patterns become tiny, reaching the limit of what light can physically print, additional tricks are needed to meet the demands. This is especially true with the latest lithography tool by Dutch tool maker ASML, called EUV, which stands for extreme ultraviolet, the wavelength of light used.Applied Materials' new tool, called Centura Sculpta, is used to shine a light only once for the first pattern and sculpt the final pattern from that.
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