The new technique builds on a different method: creating flat structures with light - wave - scale subdivisions by hardening special resins,
called photoresists, with light.
Where the light passed through, it hit an underlying organic film
called a photoresist and caused the material to polymerize.
But there's one component of the chip - making process in need of an overhaul if Moore's law is to continue: the chemical mixture
called photoresist.
Not exact matches
Similar to film used in photography,
photoresist, also just
called resist, is used to lay down the patterns of ever - shrinking lines and features on a chip.