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Bright Peaks for Smaller Chips

Posted by michael on from the tiny-bubbles dept.

Salden writes "University of Wisconsin scientists propose a way to create 20nm chip features. They were investigating the limits of X-ray lithography and discovered that they could control the phase of X-rays by adjusting the gap between a mask and wafer. Pretty cool."

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  1. Ultrasmall chips by Sunnan · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just when you think they couldn't get any smaller than those annoying crumbs in the bottom of the bag. Why doesn't anyone make large chips? That would be easier to grab and eat.

  2. Radiation Therapy? Or Spying!?!? by ackthpt · · Score: 5, Funny
    They were investigating the limits of X-ray lithography and discovered that they could control the phase of X-rays by adjusting the gap between a mask and wafer.

    So when I had 6 weeks of radation therapy they could have been building a chip out of my own tissue to track me! That's all I needed to know. Packing bags for Idaho ASAP

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  3. Re:Moore's Law, anyone? by Esion+Modnar · · Score: 2, Funny

    And what happens when the smallest chip feature is a single silicon atom? What then? Huh? Huh?

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