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The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World

by Simon Winchester · 7 May 2018 · 449pp · 129,511 words

Parkinson Schriever Air Force Base, Colorado (courtesy of Schriever Air Force Base, U.S. Air Force) Ops room of Second Space Operations Squadron ASML EUV photolithography machine (courtesy of ASML) Gordon Moore (courtesy of Intel Free Press) John Bardeen, William Shockley, and Walter Brattain First Bell Labs transistor (courtesy of Windell

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, endlessly demands. It takes an enormous machine to allow for the making of something so infinitesimally tiny as a computer chip. This Twinscan NXE:3350B photolithography machine, made by the Dutch company ASML, would fill three jet cargo aircraft. Intel, the world’s biggest chip maker, buys these $100 million machines

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smaller, the image could be printed, as it were, onto the silicon oxide of the wafer. Machines capable of performing such a task, known as photolithography, were already available. Letterpress printers, for example, were employing the idea when, at around this time, they began switching to the use of polymer plates

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. Instead of using hand-assembled forms of lead characters, a printer could now simply type in a page of work and feed it into a photolithography engine, and out would come a page reproduced as a sheet of flexible polymer. All the letters and other characters, all the p’s and

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the Carboniferous era. Often large thickness of sandstone or salts were laid down to form the capstone to oil and gas deposits from earlier times. PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY: A form of printing in which a photographic image is transferred to a printing surface; today used in the manufacture of semiconductors. PLANCK CONSTANT: Named

The Book: A Cover-To-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time

by Keith Houston · 21 Aug 2016 · 482pp · 125,429 words

type. In 1860, Col. Henry James of the Ordnance Survey, Britain’s state mapping agency, gave photolithography its first big break. Tasked with printing copies of the OS’s maps, James employed Poitevin’s photolithography but added a twist of his own. To duplicate a given map, James first photographed it before

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boot.55 There was almost no aspect of lithographic printing that was not improved. By the 1960s, web-fed offset lithographic presses had united with photolithography to be crowned as the undisputed champions of mass-produced printing. The combined process was versatile, cheap, and adaptable to almost any kind of printing

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Material World: A Substantial Story of Our Past and Future

by Ed Conway · 15 Jun 2023 · 515pp · 152,128 words

to me the processes – even the very simplified processes – that took place at each stage along this journey. Those working at foundries understood plenty about photolithography and chemical abrasion, but little about how the ultra-pure silicon wafers they were working on were actually made. No one at the quarry digging

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in a sterile box called a FOUP (a front-opening universal pod). Arguably the most important of these machines carry out what is known as photolithography. For some decades, transistors have been etched on to silicon wafers not by hand or by physical machinery, but by light. The principle is a

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a movie projector, except in reverse. While a projector takes a small image and uses lenses to blow it up to a cinema-sized screen, photolithography begins with a big blueprint of a silicon chip, with all its transistors and features, and uses lenses to project that image down into mind

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-important gases pumped from the sub-fab up into the cleanroom in foundries. Without this gas it is hard to control the laser wavelengths in photolithography machines. So the events in Azovstal caused an economic ripple that went far beyond Ukraine, or for that matter the steel industry; soon enough silicon

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The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology

by Ray Kurzweil · 14 Jul 2005 · 761pp · 231,902 words

computing, despite the fact that we still have at least a decade left for the paradigm of shrinking transistors on a flat integrated circuit using photolithography. Generally, by the time a paradigm approaches its asymptote in price-performance, the next technical paradigm is already working in niche applications. For example, in

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step forward in June 2004 when they demonstrated another self-organizing method that can be used on a large scale.19 The technique starts with photolithography to create an etched array of interconnects (connections between computational elements). A large number of nanowire field-effect transistors (a common form of transistors) and

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to self-assemble and self-diagnose the trillions (potentially trillions of trillions) of components. Contemporary electronics proceeds from the design of detailed chip layouts to photolithography to the manufacturing of chips in large, centralized factories. Nanocircuits are more likely to be created in small chemistry flasks, a development that will be

Exponential: How Accelerating Technology Is Leaving Us Behind and What to Do About It

by Azeem Azhar · 6 Sep 2021 · 447pp · 111,991 words

were tiny and could not be handled individually by man or machine. They were made through an elaborate process a little like chemical photography, called photolithography. Engineers would shine ultraviolet light through a film with a circuit design on it, much like a child’s stencil. This imprints a circuit onto

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integrated circuits was reducing by about 50 per cent every year, without any decrease in the number of transistors. The films – or ‘masks’ – used in photolithography were getting more detailed; the transistors and connections smaller; the components themselves more intricate. And this reduced costs and improved performance. Newer chips, with their

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labour relations in turn-of-the-century New York to the likely timeline for quantum supremacy; from theories of institutional change to the limits of photolithography in semiconductor manufacturing. You not only survived, but flourished. My editor, Rowan Borchers at Penguin Random House, was an instigator and supporter of the project

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Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition

by Robert N. Proctor · 28 Feb 2012 · 1,199pp · 332,563 words

and photo inserts (cigarette cards) to attract customers. Cigarettes were the first items advertised by skywriting and also the first products sold using billboard panel photolithography (in the 1970s). Tobacco mongers pioneered animated cartoons (for use in movie theaters) along with product placements in Hollywood films, “impulse buying” in grocery stores

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board, who claimed that comic strip adverts were in no way designed to attract children; the comics (he said) were principally for adults.10 Billboard photolithography. Yet another invention of the tobacconists followed the 1970 federal ban on tobacco advertising on television. Manufacturers were desperate to find new ways to reach

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simulator program on “illusion of filtration” in India internal agnotology intimidates CIBA-Geigy invents light beer invents ultralights Johnny Jr. Operation Kodak contract for billboard photolithography Ku Klux Klan boycotts largest food producer in U.S. Lark implants in License to Kill Life Sciences Park in Richmond on loss of advertising

Radical Abundance: How a Revolution in Nanotechnology Will Change Civilization

by K. Eric Drexler · 6 May 2013 · 445pp · 105,255 words

that, in essence, resemble conventional printing but work with different materials at a much smaller scale. Through visible-light photolithography, printers can lay down patterns of ten million pixels; using ultraviolet-light photolithography, semiconductor manufacturers lay down patterns that equate to billions of pixels, and on a chip far smaller than a

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, housing arrays of machines that can cost billions of dollars, while molecular fabrication today—with full atomic precision, beyond the reach of even high-resolution photolithography—is often done by university students using tools like pipettes and glass beakers. A Special Manufacturing Method: 3D Printing Another emerging method for manufacturing also

The Chip: How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution

by T. R. Reid · 18 Dec 2007 · 293pp · 91,110 words

one time or another, to take up hobbies ranging from madrigal singing to flying seaplanes. His doctorate was in physics, and his technical specialty was photolithography, an exotic process for printing circuit boards that required state-of-the-art knowledge of photography, chemistry, and circuit design. Like Jack Kilby, Noyce preferred

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of the microchip industry. And the machinery that “prints” circuitry onto CD-size “wafers” of silicon is so complex and so precise that a single photolithography unit costs tens of millions of dollars. But as the industry learned how to operate at ever-tinier dimensions, it found itself in a delightful

The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation

by Jon Gertner · 15 Mar 2012 · 550pp · 154,725 words

multitude of new transistor types and important new methods of manufacturing, such as the technique—resembling art etchings done on a minuscule scale—known as photolithography. In keeping with AT&T’s agreement with the federal government, the patents for these inventions and processes were licensed to a number of other

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Labs, Jack Morton especially, could misjudge the future. “We had all the elements to make an integrated circuit,” Tanenbaum adds. “And all the processes—diffusion, photolithography—were developed at Bell Labs. But nobody had the foresight except Noyce and Kilby.” IN THE MID-1950S, Bell Labs hired back Charles Townes—Charlie

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The Man Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley

by Leslie Berlin · 9 Jun 2005

BEHIND THE MICROCHIP Once the silicon was properly diffused, it was time to start differentiating the individual transistors. This was done through a process called photolithography, an area that Noyce and Jay Last led together at Fairchild. The two men created a pattern that showed where every transistor would appear on

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the road. It was hard to believe that only two years before, Moore needed to build his own furnaces and Noyce had to scrounge for photolithography lenses at a camera shop.63 Sweeping developments unrelated to electronics also benefited Fairchild Semiconductor and Bob Noyce. The increasing mechanization of agriculture in California

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