![]() But where competitors got stuck in endless complications and huge R&D costs, ASML pushed on under the technical leadership of Van den Brink. Several companies tried their hand at EUV lithography. Those are used to produce the smallest, most powerful semiconductors at the heart of our phones and data centers. Supported by a tightly tuned orchestra of about 200 suppliers making unique parts, the Veldhoven-based company is the sole manufacturer of EUV lithography machines. So you have to invent it yourself.”ĪSML’s chipmachines are a miracle of innovation and collaboration. ![]() “There’s nothing stopping us from putting 1 kilobar of pressure on that nozzle, but there’s no part that you can buy off the shelft that takes such force. The essence that shines through in Van den Brink’s story: how to increase the productivity of chip machines without destroying them. Lasers then shoot at these droplets, and…” That’s how it generates droplets of a few megahertz that bind together to 50 kilohertz droplets with a distance of 50 centimeters. There should be a nozzle attached to it which vibrates at 50 kilohertz. It is pressurized to about 250 bar with liquid tin, which is hotter than 260 degrees Celcius. The CTO of ASML grabs the object that is currently top of mind: a steel tube of about 20 centimeters long. ![]() The advice of his press officer: don’t ask Martin van den Brink about the trinkets on his desk, because he’ll go on and on about them.
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