The Japanese telephone company Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation can
now etch circuit boards twice as accurately as before. The system uses a
electron beam: NTT’s Basic Research Laboratory has cut vibration enough to
position the beam with an error of just five nanometres. This has been mainly
achieved by mounting the lens that focuses the electron beam and the circuit
board on the same platform.
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