Sweden-based, AlixLabs has developed a new method for manufacturing semiconductor components. Its “Atomic Layer Etch Pitch Splitting” (APS) tech (patent granted in the US, Taiwan & Europe) eliminates several steps in the process & makes it possible to manufacture the tiny(est) semiconductor components accurately, with manageable wafer fab equipment investments. Specifically, the method allows to split nanostructures (e.g. a 40 nm-wide feature into two features of 10 nm at half the pitch) with a single-step process using Atomic Layer Etching (ALE). The method is said to be “complementary for single exposure immersion & extreme UV lithography (EUV), and related thereto, multiple patterning tech like self-aligned double & quadruple patterning (SADP resp. SAQP), as well as...
While Elon Musk believes electric boats are last on the pecking order to displace fossil fuels (after renewables powering the existing grid, switching to EVs, switching to heat pumps, as well as high temperature heat delivery & hydrogen), others are pulling the present forward, with “Teslas’s of the seas (& waterways)” becoming a reality today. One such startup is Norway-based Zeabuz, which is building teleoperated (as a stepping stone to autonomous) “electric passenger ferries” (EPF). The startup was as a spun-off the Norwegian University of Science & Technology in 2018 by Bjoern Kjærand Haugland & led since 2020 by Erik Dyrkoren (CEO), Oyvind Smogeli (CTO) & Henrik Stray (COO). Initially proposed as an alternative to...