One of the most complex parts of this process is lithography: the step in which shapes are drawn onto a silicon wafer. There are several ways to do this, all of them rather complicated ...

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, ...