Semiconductor industry to get benefit
Williams highlighted that this project will establish the first high-power, high-repetition-rate, about 2-micron laser at LLNL.

This advancement is expected to benefit the semiconductor industry. Williams emphasized that the BAT laser’s capabilities will have implications beyond EUV generation, significantly impacting high-energy density (HED) physics and inertial fusion energy.

LLNL also maintained that the semiconductor industry has been engaged in a constant race to make each generation of microprocessors smaller yet more powerful by packing as many integrated circuits and other features as possible into one chip. For the past several years, EUV lithography has taken the forefront because it uses EUV light to etch microscopic circuits as small as a few nanometers onto advanced chips and processors.