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July 2008
EUV may prove irresistable
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How much do you care about sleep?
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June 2008
Blade runner
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Blind Faith Digital Data
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Crime-solving technology
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Gene mission accomplished…for now
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Global heat
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Hard times in Motown
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Is it all in our genes?
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Is it safe?
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Let’s really support education
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Long-term positive outlook
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Pisa’s leaning tower safe for 300 more years
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Replacing soldiers with technology
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Rolling down the same track
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Supercapattery. Where can I get one?
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The allure of IP
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True collaboration
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U.S. high-energy physics needs help
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What’s in is already out
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Wi-Fi on wheels
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May 2008
An electric world
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Another CR for research?
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Cytometry is having its day
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Explore More
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Genetic testing: too much of a good thing?
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Industrial designs and accidents
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Jurassic Park in Australia?
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Natural disasters: now on YouTube
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Research models are changing
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RF agriculture for water’s sake
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Silver lining in gas prices
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Space junk
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The complexity of science
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The ebbing tide of outrage?
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The Energy Dilemma
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Where are those robots?
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April 2008
A bump in the road
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A new leaf
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Are we looking the wrong way?
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Are we ready for the shutdown?
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Back in the game
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Bad blood
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Bio this and bio that
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Bringing fun into science
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Do clothes make the man?
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Earth Day: another inconvenient truth
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Evolving models
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Funding disparities
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FutureWorld
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Invasion of the body snatchers
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Life is precious, handle with care
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March Madness without the madness
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Nursing an eco-headache
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Proceed, but with caution
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Serious endeavors
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The Business of Disaster
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Unknown futures
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What’s the risk?
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March 2008
A military presence
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America’s love affair
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Analytical instruments: recession-proof
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Body art goes hi-tech
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Can you hear all of us now?
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Drugs in the water - why worry?
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Global warming? Bring it on
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Good Night Hawk
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He is now free to wander the universe
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Inevitable impacts
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It’s really up to us
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NASA helps the blind see the cosmos
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Nuclear Transformations
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R&D Memories
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Racing to the future
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Second nuclear age
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Surgical breakthrough helps man face life
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Technologies at PITTCON
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The state of science news
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Time and time again
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Where’s the water?
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February 2008
Biofuel debate heats up
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Bridges need ideas, too
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Chasing next-gen Wi-Fi
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DARPA Advances Artificial Intelligence
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Evolution—just a theory?
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Fighting for engineers
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Global Agbio
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Google Health–your medical history for your eyes only?
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IAFIS Spawns Privacy Debate
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Policy Changes
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Profits and R&D
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Rain, Rain, Go Away
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Seeing Without Eyes
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Short Fuse on Climate Change
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Spare Parts
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Tata Nano: tiny car, big implications
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Techno Slowdown?
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Technology enables the reflexes of a Jedi
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The Biotech Steamroller
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The Energy Debate
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January 2008
A Global Climate
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Algorithm Translates Pooches’ Bark
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Energy Independence Demands Innovation
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Get Involved !
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Is Dolly coming to dinner?
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Is the lead out?
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Tea, Earl Gray, hot, por favor.
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The Commercialization of Space Flight
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Winning at R&D
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Editor's Take
EUV may prove irresistable
July 2, 2008

Last Thursday, the R&D Daily made one of its occasional forays into the fast-paced world of semiconductor technology, specifically extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUVL). According to new measurements from the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the photoresists designed for use with this hotly-anticipated new technology are twice as effective is previously thought.

The discrepancy was caused by an older measurement method. Unfortunately, it’s not great news for EUV developers because it strongly indicates existing optics are only half as effective as previously thought.

However, judging from a recent conversations with technical leaders at Cymer, a major U.S. maker of radiation sources for semiconductor lithography, the rolling ball that is EUVL won’t be stopped anytime soon.

Cymer is one of just a few companies at the forefront of a race to develop a viable EUV scanner to replace existing 193 nm argon-fluoride-based devices which now dominate the semiconductor industry. Like other companies, it pushing to design a powerful light source in the about 13 nm wavelength range. So far, it has achieved 25 W of continuous power and intends to break 100 W by year’s end. And, like other companies, it must deal with the intense heat generated by such light and design robust optics which are efficient enough to achieve conversion goals.

Only with adequate conversion efficiency will developers of EUVL be in a position to deliver the performance needed when the market wants it.

It remains to be seen whether EUVL is the new standard in 2012 (the target date for widespread adoption of new scanners). But R&D Magazine will be closely following the progress of this and other technologies aimed at the next-generation of microchips; the push to keep us on the path of that oft-cited economic law of Gordon Moore will continue to surprise us.

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