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MICRO: Editor's Page (March 2001)

When SPIE Microlithography convenes each year, you can bet on two things: news stories from the lithography sector will increase dramatically around the show, and the meeting itself will provide great fodder for propeller-headed prognostication (PHP). This year's event, held at the Santa Clara Convention Center during the February-March hump week, paid off on both accounts. Many of the announcements concerned the latest technological and business developments from the next-generation lithography (NGL) front, with discussion of extreme ultraviolet (EUV), electron-projection (EPL), and 157-nm tech bouncing around the meeting rooms and exhibits like a laser in a hall of mirrors. Since NGL is itself still largely
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