Bright Peaks for Smaller Chips

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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Re:Moore's Law, anyone?

[Anonymous Coward]

Using phase of the radiation has been used for years with optics... if you look at the masks these days.. they only vaguely look like the actual layers... they take into account the edge diffraction and phase cancelation already... so really... nothing particularly new... just now they have shifted the frequency of the radiation..