Yet unlike software, where industry leadership can shift in a matter of months, success in lithography is a slow-moving race ...

This process is known as lithography, from the Greek 'lithos' meaning stone, and 'grapho' meaning to write; literally 'to write on stone' where the 'stone' is a large, flat silicon crystal.

Nova (Nasdaq: NVMI) today announced that its co-authored paper with Samsung Electronics on "On-Cell Thickness Monitoring of Chalcogenide Alloy Layer using Spectral Interferometry, Raman Spectroscopy, ...

Delft, The Netherlands / Hsinchu, Taiwan -- Ocotober 13, 2008 -- MAPPER Lithography and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) signed an agreement, according to which MAPPER will ship its ...