Startup aims to shrink particle accelerators to transform semiconductor manufacturing

Startup aims to shrink particle accelerators to transform semiconductor manufacturing

Today, the world's most advanced chips are made with extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light, a technology dominated by Dutch giant ASML. Their machines use 13.5-nanometer light to etch impossibly fine patterns onto silicon wafers, but the process is slow, costly, and limited by the power of the light sources available. Inversion's...Read Entire Article

Harnessing Distortions for Denser Particle Beams

At low energy, electron beams from particle accelerators are hard to control. Using detailed simulations, researchers have found a new way to harness beam distortions to create a beam core with unprecedented density and quality.