There are still some problems to work out, such as cutting defect rates, but directed self-assembly has the potential to reduce the total number of masks. The upcoming 7nm process node presents tough ...

When the European Commission presented its Digital Services Act (DSA) proposal in December 2020, it listed beefed up consumer protections as a headline goal for the flagship update to the bloc’s rules ...

The European Commission has warned X that it's reached the preliminary view that the company is in breach of the Digital Services Act. As with the Commission's recent preliminary ruling against Apple ...

Through microphase separation, block copolymers (BCPs) can self-assemble into highly uniform, chemically distinct, periodic domains with dimensions and periods at scales of 3–200 nm 1,2 that are ...

(Nanowerk News) Imec and Tokyo Electron (TEL) announce that they will accelerate their Directed Self-Assembly (DSA) activities at imec’s recent 300 mm fab-compatible DSA process line. Over the past ...

As previous articles in this series have shown, directed self-assembly may be a promising alternative for manufacturers seeking to shrink feature sizes in the face of a stalled exposure tool roadmap.

Imec and Tokyo Electron (TEL) announce that they will accelerate their Directed Self-Assembly (DSA) activities at imec’s recent 300mm fab-compatible DSA process line. Over the past two years, both ...

Ultra-low-cost e-commerce giants Shein and Temu have only recently been confirmed as subject to centralized enforcement of the strictest layer of the European Union’s digital services regulation, the ...