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100x Denser Chips Possible With Plasmonic Nanolithography

Posted by timothy on from the powers-of-10-are-nice dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "According to the semiconductor industry, maskless nanolithography is a flexible nanofabrication technique which suffers from low throughput. But now, engineers at the University of California at Berkeley have developed a new approach that involves 'flying' an array of plasmonic lenses just 20 nanometers above a rotating surface, it is possible to increase throughput by several orders of magnitude. The 'flying head' they've created looks like the stylus on the arm of an old-fashioned LP turntable. With this technique, the researchers were able to create line patterns only 80 nanometers wide at speeds up to 12 meters per second. The lead researcher said that by using 'this plasmonic nanolithography, we will be able to make current microprocessors more than 10 times smaller, but far more powerful' and that 'it could lead to ultra-high density disks that can hold 10 to 100 times more data than today's disks.'"

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  1. endocronic defribulation device by spandex_panda · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I have been waiting for some affordable plasmonic lithography to go with my endocronic defribulation machine. mwa ha ha. Finally my plans of world domination by picoscale subliminal messaging is becoming reality!

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  2. Terrabyte drives not enough? by syousef · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I just had 2 fail over the weekend. I didn't lose anything vital because I had backups but everything I considered non-essential is gone (mostly just lots of VMWare images of various distros). At some point it beocmes a bitch to manage so much data.

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  3. Re:Riemann Zeta Hypothesis Proven by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Don't post irrelevant stuff like that on slashdot... Try usenet instead, there's probably some experts and suitable group for this... If you post it here... People are going to think you're crazy!

  4. Re:that's great and all. by Corwn+of+Amber · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Never. "Plasmonic Nanolithography"? Yeah, yeah, and I've got a machine that extracts OIL from SNAKES while producing more energy than it consumes.

    When will they fire Roland? He never even posted anything remotely plausible.

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