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Antique 4x5 camera creates 20 micron photolithography masks: Super tiny tax form

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  • Presented by Ben Krasnow

Intermediate. Assumes working knowledge.

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Ben Krasnow demonstrates how to use an antique 4x5 view camera to produce high-resolution photolithography masks in a home workshop.

I use an antique 4x5 view camera to create high resolution photomasks in my home shop. Source of film and developing chemicals: freestylephoto.biz/531345-Arista-Ortho-Litho-Film-3.0-3.9x4.… Possible source of poster-sized printouts: blueprintsprinting.com/pricing/ Gold on microscope slide: sci-hub.tw/10.1109/MEMSYS.2013.6474404 Commerical microelectrode arrays: multichannelsystems.com/products/microelectrode-arrays Vacuum film holder: web.archive.org/web/20111016132122/http://cloudynights.com/d… Test patterns: bealecorner.org/red/test-patterns/ Thought emporium: youtube.com/user/TheChemlife Huygens Optics: youtube.com/user/huygensoptics Sam Zeloof: youtube.com/user/szeloof Support Applied Science on Patreon: patreon.com/AppliedScience

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What people say. Recommended as a fascinating demonstration of home-brew photolithography and semiconductor fabrication techniques.

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On “Z2 – Lithographically fabricated IC in a garage fab”

There is a great video on creating lithographic masks on Ben Krasnow's Applied Science channel - link to this video The photographic steps are pretty accessible.

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On “A startup is building computer chips using real neurons”

Oops, second vid should be from Ben Krasnow’s (bkraz) Applied Science channel: link to this video Ben explains somewhere in there that this was done to help create a better substrate for the first experiment.

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On “TSMC to Mass Produce Breakthrough 2nm Mbcfet Transistors in 2024”

I recall this but don't remember seeing anything smaller being posted. Sub 100nm for a hobbiest would be pretty awesome. link to this video

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On “Building a Next Level Camera”

Wow, essentially an extraordinarily large view camera built around a repurposed lens, then converted into a depth-of-field adapter0 in lieu of a digital back. There's actually a known technique for taking wide angle photographs with depth of field this shallow using only a typical long lens:1 stitching together frames to build a wider field of view is all that's needed; long lenses all have shallow DoF by nature.a This interestingly can also be used to explain why the episcope lens has such shallow DoF: its focal length of 432 mm would make it a super telephoto lens, yet its large image circle means it has a wide-angle field of view. If it were replaced by a telephoto lens with the sam…