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A national effort seeks to advance semiconductor research
Stanford’s membership in a new national consortium will aid researchers in developing the next generation of chips essential for electronics, says electrical engineer H.-S. Philip Wong.
Your car, your cell phone, your LED holiday lights, even your credit card – all of them contain electronic chips made of semiconductors. To administer this effort’s research and development component, the department has created the National Semiconductor Technology Center (NSTC), a consortium drawn from academia, industry, government, and nonprofits. The first facility in New York will provide services for one of the steps of fabrication, namely, lithography [in which a circuit pattern is transferred onto the silicon wafer that will become the chip].
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