This project, sent in by [Henk], goes through a few different ways to make a solder stencil using a vinyl cutter, a CO2 laser, and a fiber laser. The project starts with identifying a method to ...

Physicists at the UK's Loughborough University have printed the "world's smallest violin" in platinum, measuring 13 x 35 ...

Where the hot and sweltering tropical valleys and bleached coastlines of Papua New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago meet, archaeologists and geneticists have excavated, and resurrected, ancient hum ...

If you're struggling to read the labels on the side of your socket set, you can etch clearer numbers with a little DIY magic.

Silicon nitride, silicon dioxide, phosphosilicate glass, polysilicon, single-crystal silicon, molybdenum, and aluminum are etched by parallel-plate RF diode reactors. Resist patterns are used as ...

The modern hacker and maker has a truly incredible arsenal of tools at their disposal. High-tech tools like 3D printers, ...

By advancing a method called ice lithography, the team was able to etch incredibly small, detailed patterns directly onto fragile biological surfaces. ). The findings are published in Nano Letters ...

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Abstract: A novel model-based algorithm provides a capability to control full-chip design specific variation in pattern transfer caused by via/contact etch processes. This physics based algorithm is ...

To pinpoint how climate change will play out, scientists are trying to solve a painstaking puzzle with clues etched in mollusks.