{"id":105575,"date":"2020-04-17T09:22:58","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T16:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/nanosize-tin-bubbles-could-provide-low-cost-way-to-generate-euv-light"},"modified":"2020-04-17T09:22:58","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T16:22:58","slug":"nanosize-tin-bubbles-could-provide-low-cost-way-to-generate-euv-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/nanosize-tin-bubbles-could-provide-low-cost-way-to-generate-euv-light","title":{"rendered":"Nanosize Tin \u2018Bubbles\u2019 Could Provide Low-Cost Way to Generate EUV Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nanosize-tin-bubbles-could-provide-low-cost-way-to-generate-euv-light2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) have generated low-cost extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light by creating tin thin-film spheres using a polymer electrolyte \u201csoap bubble\u201d as a template and irradiating it with a laser.<\/p>\n<p>#EUV #photonics<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The team from Tokyo Tech, working with colleagues from University College Dublin, set out to find efficient, scalable, low-cost laser targets that could be used to generate EUV. The scientists created a tin-coated microcapsule or \u201cbubble\u201d \u2014 a low-density structure weighing as little as 4.2 nanograms and with a high level of controllability. For the bubble, they used polymer electrolytes, which are a dissolution of salts in a polymer matrix. The salts act as surfactants to stabilize the bubble.<\/p>\n<p>The scientists coated the bubble with tin nanoparticles. \u201cWe produced polyelectrolyte microcapsules composed of poly(sodium 4-styrene-sulfonate) and poly(allylamine hydrochloride) and then coated them in a tin oxide nanoparticle solution,\u201d professor Keiji Nagai said.<\/p>\n<p>To test the bubble, the scientists irradiated it using a neodymium-YAG laser. This resulted in the generation of EUV light within the 13.5-nm range. The team further found that the structure was compatible with the conventional EUV light sources that are used to manufacture semiconductor chips.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) have generated low-cost extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light by creating tin thin-film spheres using a polymer electrolyte \u201csoap bubble\u201d as a template and irradiating it with a laser. #EUV #photonics The team from Tokyo Tech, working with colleagues from University College Dublin, set out to find efficient, scalable, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}