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electronicsweekly.com February 26th, 2008 NEC
has printed carbon nanotube transistors on a plastic substrate, and claimed
superior performance to other printed devices. "The channel materials of
conventional research organic transistors generally demonstrate little mobility
and are therefore considered unsuitable for electronic devices with high-speed
operation," said NEC. "The carbon nanotube (CNT) channel material
allows 100 times greater mobility than regular organic transistors."
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California Institute of Technology February 28th, 2008 Scientists
at the California Institute of Technology have developed a new strategy for
creating "liquid metal" that makes it able to bend significantly
without breaking, while retaining a strength twice that of titanium. It is
among the toughest, or least brittle, known materials, and could be used
anywhere that strong metal alloys are traditionally found, but may prove most
useful in the aerospace industry, where lower density means fuel savings.
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services that improve operational performance in terms of sustainable
development. Typically, cleantech uses limited or
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conventional technologies. There are several signs that commercializing of
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research. Several investment funds are being established, and energy companies,
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Timothy Groves Interview
Dr. Timothy Groves is the director
of the Center for Nanoscale Lithography (CNL) and a professor of nanoscience at the
Dr. Timothy Groves and the
The interviewer was Sander Olson for
Nanotechnology.com.
Tell us about yourself. What is your background, and on what projects
are you currently working?
I received my BS in physics from
Tell us about the Center for Nanoscale Lithography (CNL). What is its
purpose, and how is it funded?
The Center for NanoScale
Lithography (CNL) is designed to act as a world-class resource for advanced
research and development in emerging nanoscale lithography techniques, such as
electron-beam lithography. The mission of the center is several-fold: to
provide advanced patterning capabilities to university and global corporate
partners within CNSE’s Albany NanoTech complex for
the creation of diverse nanoscale patterns; to extend the state of the art in
e-beam optics and lithography through a close working relationship between CNSE
and Vistec Lithography; and, to establish a
world-class center for research and education in nanometer-scale bottom-up
lithography.
The centerpiece of the CNSE is the e-beam system. Why is this component
so important to nanotechnology development?
A focused electron beam (e-beam)
represents the smallest, finest practical writing pencil known – it can create
patterns with dimensions down to several nanometers in size, equivalent to a
few tens of atoms across. There is no other practical patterning tool that can
do this. The technology employed to make microchips uses a technique called
optical lithography, which is crude in resolution by comparison. Optical
lithography can pattern 30 nanometer features, so e-beam systems can create
features ten times smaller. In addition to its inherently high resolution,
e-beam lithography can generate any pattern by computer control. Conventional
optical lithography, by contrast, requires a pre-existing patterned mask. We
have installed the world’s most advanced high resolution e-beam tool at CNSE,
which will allow users to routinely create patterns with dimensions down to a
few nanometers in size.
If e-beam is technologically superior to other methods, why isn’t it
used for manufacturing?
E-beam lithography is significantly
slower than optical lithography. E-beam systems write patterns serially,
whereas optical lithography systems can etch an entire chip in one step. One of
the primary goals of the center is to overcome this throughput bottleneck. We
plan to use multiple electron beams in parallel, and we are confident that this
approach will greatly increase throughput.
To what extent can e-beam technology be improved? Can it ever be used to
mass-produce nanostructures?
The technology is being steadily
improved, but we don’t know if it will ever supplant optical lithography in
mainstream manufacturing. The annual world market for optical lithography
equipment is about $6-8 billion, and optical lithography tools become
increasingly expensive with each generation. The market for e-beam equipment is
only about $250 million. E-beam is clearly superior in areas where speed isn’t
important, but we are confident that we can greatly increase the speed of
operation.
Lithography tools are critically important to nanotechnology
development. To what extent is the field of nanotechnology limited by
inadequate equipment?
With current lithography technology,
you can have high throughput or high resolution, but not both. Another
limitation is the extremely high cost of the equipment. Lithography tools are
prohibitively expensive for many research facilities with modest budgets. We
are fortunate to have the e-beam tool, which is accessible to alliance
partners, faculty, and students. Any substantial cost reductions in lithography
equipment will have a decidedly beneficial effect on the pace of nanotech
research.
Could e-beam technology be used to create new commercial products within
the next five years?
E-beam can and will be used for new
products, due to its inherent high resolution, and flexibility to generate
patterns. E-beam tools are currently used to create the photomasks
used to make microchips. E-beam lithography is also used to create application
specific integrated circuits (ASICs), because ASIC
chips are made in low volume. There are a number of other niche markets for
e-beam. Some of these are just emerging. The costs for optical lithography will
inevitably increase, so if we can increase throughput sufficiently then there
is a real opportunity to displace optical.
How many startup corporations are researching e-beam technology? How many startups are developing lithography
systems?
There are several startups
researching this technology for possible commercial introduction into
mainstream semiconductor manufacturing. In 2007 a European e-beam consortium
was created with the name Maskless Lithography for IC
Manufacturing (MAGIC). MAGIC is designed to significantly lower the cost for
manufacturing. Several Japanese companies are also investigating maskless e-beam lithography for manufacturing. There is as
yet no highly integrated national e-beam effort in the
Many industry analysts claim that
Without question. Led by visionary, supportive and committed State
elected officials and partnerships with the world’s leading nanoelectronics
companies including IBM, AMD,Tokyo Electron, Applied
Materials, ASML and Vistec Lithography, CNSE’s $4.2 billion, 450,000-square-foot Albany NanoTech
complex is without peer in the world. Factor in the location of International SEMATECH’s headquarters and operations at the UAlbany NanoCollege, the rapid
growth of CNSE’s pioneering nanotechnology educational
curriculum, which Small Times
magazine ranks as the best in the world, and an ongoing expansion project that
will increase the size of CNSE’s Albany NanoTech to
800,000 square feet (including 80,000 square feet of class 1 capable, 300mm
wafer cleanroom space), and it is clear that New
York’s technical and intellectual capabilities for cutting-edge nanotechnology
education, research, development and commercialization are unmatched anywhere
in the world.
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