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What does the sub-prime mortgage meltdown have to do with chipmaking? In today’s global, interconnected economy, probably much more than we may think.

A survey of MEMS industry players reveals points of agreement and divergence on the ever-controversial topic of production standards.

Photomask costs are a painfully visible issue in today’s competitive semiconductor market.

The adoption of water-based immersion lithography into 45nm half-pitch processes is in full swing, but if optical lithography is to continue to dominate leading-edge semiconductors, some advances are needed.

The 2007 International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS) makes projections covering the next 15 years, through 2022.

In semiconductor manufacturing, the control of defects at the edge of the wafer is a key factor to keep the number of yielding die on a wafer as high as possible.

Typical photochemical solutions contain a variety of additives, often in trace amounts.

The increasing number and complexity of design rules result in a significant increase in design rule check (DRC) run times, many more DRC violations, and an increase in the intricacy of these violations that makes them more difficult to analyze and fix.

Crystalline silicon solar cell manufacturing requires vacuum-based processing tools for many critical steps, from mono- to polycrystalline silicon growth to thin-film depositions on silicon wafers.