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December 07, 2015

Measuring nanoscale features with fractions of light
Boulder CO (SPX) Dec 07, 2015
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) researchers are seeing the light, but in an altogether different way. And how they are doing it just might be the semiconductor industry's ticket for extending its use of optical microscopes to measure computer chip features that are approaching 10 nanometers, tiny fractions of the wavelength of light. Using a novel microscope that combines standard through-the-lens viewing with a technique called scatterfield imaging, the NIST team accurately ... read more

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