What is Atomic Layer Etching? Atomic layer etching (ALE) is a highly controlled and selective etching technique that removes material layer by layer at the atomic scale. It is a cyclic process that ...
Sounds like a win all around. But Twitter wouldn’t stand for this chemical heresy, with comments suggesting that the etching process would release chlorine gas, or that ferric chloride is far ...
Plasma-based atomic layer etching is a cyclical etching process of gas dosing and ion bombardment that eliminates material layer by layer and has the potential to eliminate single atomic layers with ...