The effort is appreciated, but you could have just responded to
with a "no". It would have put a troll in his place and given us a chuckle.
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The Russian laser spec are not operating metric that appears to be independent of one another. What sets Cymer and Gigaphoton apart from everyone is the laser delivery stability and repeatability along with the 99.5% uptime.
Looking at max pulse energy, max frequency, & power doesn't provide a good view if it's good enough to dispose Cymer/Gigaphoton. Over the years I've seen a few newcomers that come up with similar and even better basic specs than Cymer/Gigaphton, but none was able to pass the qualification. Looking at Russian laser spec, can't say they will not be good enough, but we could infer it to be likely to be like those that come before them.
Max laser performance is not as important as highly repeatable performance metrics. And note, max 4KHz with max 20mJ laser does not yield 100W power. It's more important to maintain the pulse energy stable and have a constant pulse frequency, narrow bandwidth, and highly repeatable, and high uptime.
So, can't conclusively gauge if this Russian laser is good enough with spec provided, that's why ask for you to share how you are able to reach a conclusion. (was not challenging you, I was truly curious how you were able to reach your assessment).
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Getting a bit more technical wouldn't hurt anyone. There may be some operational technical differences because this is clearly marketed towards maskless lithography systems but this dudes look pretty capable of easily make Arf lasers for lithography scanners, they probably don't do it because there is not such market in Russia but China is a potential huge market for them if they put some effort into it.
I did not do an EE degree, my degree was in applied physics. I struggled hard and got a low grade in a "electronics for scientists" class which was supposedly a baby version of the easiest intro EE class (circuits) lmao. I never had to do signals, controls, logic, etc. instead I got to do stuff like classical mechanics, thermodynamics and quantum mechanics.
I knew my math and programming was not strong enough for traditional physics jobs (computational simulation crap) or anything related to electronics, so I did chemistry/materials electives, did alot of experimental research, went to grad school, did more experimental research, went through some jobs in semiconductor and chemical industries, ended up in semiconductor equipment.
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Was the person teaching it any good? I've often found that can make a bigger difference than the intrinsic difficulty of the material.
There are just more job opportunities and flexibility in computer science. what about clean room technology. practically all of done from Germany.
My second year power system professor spoke in a monotone the entire time and i fell asleep in almost every lecture (i sat in the front row many times too, he didn’t call me out), but i passed the course anyways.
@tokenanalyst, do you know what is the application of this KrF maskless system you found? I looked at their website and can't really tell what the Ath3000M is for (for FE IC? for MEM?).
Also, why does third line item mean? I looked at the website, it says "Supported Substrate" and "6" mask".
Is item#3 mean this system uses 6" mask? I thought this system is a maskless writer?
Or is this system a direct write system for 6" mask?
I'm a bit confused. Could you help clarify?
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