Lobsters Serve as Inspiration for X-Ray Lithography Technology
Nov 1, 1996 — STURBRIDGE, Mass. -- A new lens design originally created for applications in astronomy, and based on the eye structure of a lobster, holds promise in the etching of ultrasmall electronic components on a chip.
Nova Scientific Inc. and a team from the University of Leicester, UK, invented the microchannel plate, or "lobster-eye" lens, and hope to use it to make electronic components much smaller than 0.18 µm -- the smallest that has been produced using x-rays -- for a fraction of the cost of...