As the pattern is transferred, it is reduced in scale by a projection lens. The history of photolithography is a continuous effort to improve the resolution of lithography systems (commonly known ...
To achieve the required 10% uniformity of the printed linewidths even for low-κ 1 processes, the aberrations of the lithography lenses have to be reduced to an extremely low level of just a few ...
The final single color lens is developed on a plate and resembles silicon chips before they're put into larger circuits. Credit: 2024 Konishi et al. CC-BY-ND The process of lithography ...