But firms should carefully consider the economic trade-off
Research
The latest electronics research news from within the industry and universities from around the world.
Immersion litho R&D speeds up
Oxford firm links with Texan R&D outfit for immersion lithography
First 193nm immersion litho wafer claim
IBM and ASML help US university to qualify 300mm wafers using 193nm pre-production immersion lithography system
Crolles Alliance readies 65nm for customers
65nm commercial process available to customers of the Crolles Alliance partnership as early as next year
Printable phase shifter uses polymers
Antenna firm Fortel's has an ink-jet printable phase-shifter for electronically-steerable phased arrays
Germanium-free strained silicon
Soitec has developed a strained silicon process for partially depleted SOI
Photodiode has bidirectional current
Optical detector lets light generate current flow in two directions
Microscope sees chip dopants
Latest microscope makes it possible to see individual dopant atoms in a semiconductor
SAWs monitor low-k damage
Surface acoustic waves can be used as a non-destructive measuring tool
Academics plan UK R&D scheme
Plans for a national strategy for microelectronics research will be presented this month
