ASML Holding Updated 2025-07-16
How ASML Won Lithography by Asianometry (2021)
Source. First there were dominant Elmer and Geophysics Corporation of America dominating the market.
Then a Japanese government project managed to make Nikon and Canon Inc. catch up, and in 1989, when Ciro Santilli was born, they had 70% of the market.
youtu.be/SB8qIO6Ti_M?t=240 In 1995, ASML had reached 25% market share. Then it managed the folloging faster than the others:
- TwinScan, reached 50% market share in 2002
- Immersion litography
- EUV. There was a big split between EUV vs particle beams, and ASML bet on EUV and EUV won.
- youtu.be/SB8qIO6Ti_M?t=459 they have an insane number of software engineers working on software for the machine, which is insanely complex. They are big on UML.
- youtu.be/SB8qIO6Ti_M?t=634 they use ZEISS optics, don't develop their own. More precisely, the majority owned subsidiary Carl Zeiss SMT.
- youtu.be/SB8qIO6Ti_M?t=703 IMEC collaborations worked well. Notably the ASML/Philips/ZEISS trinity
- www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLNsYecX_2Q ASML: Chip making goes vacuum with EUV (2009) Self promotional video, some good shots of their buildings.
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Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Updated 2025-07-16
AMO is a slightly more general area than condensed matter physics, including related phenomena with smaller numbers atoms and optics. The two terms are however sometimes used as synonyms. The term AMO has gained wide usage and acceptability, see e.g.:
If Ciro had had greater foresight, this might have been what he studied at university!
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Autodidacticism Updated 2025-07-16
There are two types of people:
- those who are autodidacts
- those who didn't really learn
Some possible definitions:
Thus OurBigBook.com.
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The ultimate high level of which is of course to program with:which is basically the goal of artificial general intelligence, especially according to The Employment Test definition of AGI.
The term has not always had that sense:sums it up.
automatic programming has always been a euphemism for programming in a higher-level language than was then available to the programmer
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TODO how to calculate
Electronic band theory Updated 2025-07-16
How are the bands measured experimentally?
Why are there gaps? Why aren't bands infinite? What determines the width of gaps?
Bibliography:
- Applications of Quantum Mechanics by David Tong (2017) Chapter 2 "Band Structure"
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The bald confident chilled out particle physics guy from Stanford University!
Also one can't stop thinking abot Leonard Hofstadter from The Big Bang Theory upoen hearing his name.
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Some people call it "operating System".
The main parts of those systems are:
- sending multiple signals at very precise times to the system
- reading out some quantum error correction bits and sending error correcting signals back in a control loop
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In the Galilean transformation, there are two separate invariants that two inertial frame of reference always agree on between two separate events:
- time
- length, given by the Pythagorean theorem
However, in special relativity, neither of those are invariant separately, since space and time are mixed up together.
Note that this distance can be zero for two events separated.
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He used to train the 800,000 imperial guard troops at the Capital, much like Lin Chong. He's not one of the 108 Stars of Destiny.
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