{"id":139400,"date":"2025-10-30T08:10:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T08:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=139400"},"modified":"2025-10-30T08:10:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T08:10:20","slug":"fancy-tool-how-china-cut-chip-defects-by-99-for-near-perfect-lithography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=139400","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Fancy tool\u2019: how China cut chip defects by 99% for near perfect lithography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostIn a major leap for the global semiconductor industry, a joint Chinese research team has developed a method that can slash defects in lithography \u2013 a critical step in chipmaking \u2013 by up to 99 per cent.<br \/>\nThe researchers achieved unprecedented clarity by using cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) to pinpoint, for the first time, the minute sources of common manufacturing flaws.<br \/>\nThe findings, published in the journal Nature Communications on September 30, by Professor Peng Hailin from Peking&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3330869\/how-chinas-fancy-tool-cut-chip-defects-99-near-perfect-lithography?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostIn a major leap for the global semiconductor industry, a joint Chinese research team has developed a method that can slash defects in lithography&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139400"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}