In semiconductor manufacturing, lithography is a critical process that uses light to transfer intricate circuit (IC) patterns onto a silicon wafer. This process enables the creation of tiny ...

Lithography, once the exclusive domain of artists and printmakers, also lies at the heart of integrated circuit (IC) production. The process of shining light on a substrate through a photomask to ...

Nanostencil lithography (NSL) is a shadow-mask-based nanopatterning technique that allows for the direct deposition of materials through a stencil mask with nanoscale openings. It enables the ...

Fig. 1 The lithography process. The projection lithography system. The advancement of semiconductor manufacturing is a key driver of electronic device innovations. As Moore’s Law progresses, ...

Cutting-edge lithography to create smaller features increasingly is being supplemented by improvements in lithography for mature process nodes, both of which are required as SoCs and complex chips are ...

Researchers review AI-powered inverse lithography, showing how deep learning boosts chip patterning precision and efficiency while facing scaling challenges. Computational lithography optimizes the ...