Canon’s Nanoimprint Arrives (again)

[Canon Rumors Guy]

10 years ago Canon announced they had purchased Austin Texas’s Molecular Imprints Inc, and this was a purchase that I who is always looking at the tech side of Canon was excited about. I was very interested in seeing if Canon could make something with this technology. It had an insane amount of promise at

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[Stig Nygaard]

I do not have technical knowledge or insight enough to write an interesting questions or comment to this. But just want to say I appreciate to see this kinds of articles here

 

[Richard CR]

I do not have technical knowledge or insight enough to write an interesting questions or comment to this. But just want to say I appreciate to see this kinds of articles here

Thanks! I appreciate it!

 

[AccipiterQ]

Finally. Now we can get triple card slots.

 

[DhlcadR6]

Is this what Huawei is trying to use as well. An alternate way to make chips without EUV?

 

[Richard CR]

Is this what Huawei is trying to use as well. An alternate way to make chips without EUV?

I don't think so. I know China is supposed to be working on imprinting, but nothing really was reported.

Huawei and SMIC I believe used existing fab equipment that was in SMIC already from what I understood from it, they can do tricks like DUV immersion and other things to use existing equipment. it's not as efficient as TSMC's .. but anything can be done with the right amount of time and money.

 

[David - Sydney]

anyone that can provide a measure of competitiveness to ASML is a good thing for the industry.

 

[esspy2]

Thanks for the write up! I remember studying photolithography and chip fabrication in college!! It’s fun to see how it’s used in my favorite camera company!

 

[P-visie]

Apparently Canon uses nanoimprint to make metalenses. There is a post on Petapixel and this (Google translated) item on a Japanese website.
From the pictures it appears to be Diffractive Optics to the max.

 

[EricN]

Apparently Canon uses nanoimprint to make metalenses. There is a post on Petapixel and this (Google translated) item on a Japanese website.
From the pictures it appears to be Diffractive Optics to the max.

I don't have much excitement about eliminating the phone camera bump because it's already small enough for me. I do imagine it might be possible to be applied to full frame lenses. If it could reduce size and weight of larger and heavier lenses, I think most of us would be happy.