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volemolast Monday at 6:58 PM3 repliesview on HN

I think abusing a write-off electron microscope to side step the need for masks is also an interesting idea, however, I believe acquiring wafers of sufficient quality and depositing layers to be etched could be the bigger challenge here.


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numpad0yesterday at 5:59 AM

Hold on, if I had an electron microscope, can I just put in a decapped cheap large format photodiode under it, jack the beam current way up, and start etching trenches on it?

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jacquesmlast Monday at 7:29 PM

And the clean environment as a whole. That's a massive investment and there are a million ways to mess that up.

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butvacuumyesterday at 1:26 AM

wafers are the easy bit.