Electron microscopy shows 'mouse bite' defects in semiconductors

(news.cornell.edu)

28 points | by hhs 4 days ago

4 comments

  • kibibu 10 minutes ago
    > At Bell Labs, Muller and fellow scientist Glen Wilk ’90, who is now vice president of technology at ASM, tried replacing silicon dioxide - the prevailing gate material, which leaked too much current at small scales – with hafnium oxide.

    They are naming professors like "Now That's What I Call Music" albums now?

    (I genuinely can't find why there's a '90 there, suspect it's a copy/paste error?)

    • bsder 2 minutes ago
      Presumably because he is a Cornell alumnus from 1990. The article is at cornell.edu .
  • loopback_device 1 hour ago
  • 0xDEFACED 1 hour ago
    any hope that this could be applied to improving memory fab yields and ease some of the capacity constraints on consumer devices? asking for a friend
    • lovich 54 minutes ago
      Less likely than just inducing more demand from the AI firms