{"id":202846,"date":"2024-12-31T06:25:30","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T12:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/10x-efficiency-boost-us-paves-the-way-for-next-gen-chip-production"},"modified":"2024-12-31T06:25:30","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T12:25:30","slug":"10x-efficiency-boost-us-paves-the-way-for-next-gen-chip-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/10x-efficiency-boost-us-paves-the-way-for-next-gen-chip-production","title":{"rendered":"10x efficiency boost: US paves the way for next-gen chip production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/10x-efficiency-boost-us-paves-the-way-for-next-gen-chip-production2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Special multi-layer mirrors guide the light through plates called masks, which hold the intricate patterns of the integrated <a href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/videos\/this-is-how-the-worlds-most-powerful-laser-can-simulate-a-planets-core\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"dofollow\">circuits<\/a> for semiconductor wafers. The light projects the pattern onto a photoresist layer that is etched away to leave the integrated circuits on the chip, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/lasers.llnl.gov\/news\/llnl-selected-lead-next-gen-extreme-ultraviolet-lithography-research\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">press release<\/a> by LLNL.<\/p>\n<p>The project also aims to investigate the primary hypothesis that the energy efficiency of existing EUV lithography sources for semiconductor <a href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/energy\/fusion-energy-fuze-plasma\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"dofollow\">production<\/a> can be improved with technology developed for the novel petawatt-class BAT laser, which uses thulium-doped yttrium lithium fluoride (Tm: YLF) as the gain medium through which the power and intensity of laser beams are increased, <a href=\"https:\/\/lasers.llnl.gov\/news\/llnl-selected-lead-next-gen-extreme-ultraviolet-lithography-research\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">as per<\/a> the release.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists have planned to conduct a demonstration pairing the compact high-rep-rate BAT laser with technologies that generate sources of EUV light using shaped nanosecond pulses and high-energy x-rays and particles using ultrashort sub-picosecond pulses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Special multi-layer mirrors guide the light through plates called masks, which hold the intricate patterns of the integrated circuits for semiconductor wafers. The light projects the pattern onto a photoresist layer that is etched away to leave the integrated circuits on the chip, according to a press release by LLNL. The project also aims to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202846","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}