I haven\u2019t been blogging a lot lately.<\/p>\n
This is obvious to the 2.5 people that regularly check my blog to see what I have to say. But I have a reason (there is always a reason): Since the first of the year till the end of May I was extremely focused on one thing \u2013 finishing my textbook on optical lithography. I spent the month of June on the French Rivera on vacation, but more on that later. I\u2019d like to talk about that pesky book first.<\/p>\n
The title is Fundamental Principles of Optical Lithography: The Science of Microfabrication<\/i>. Quite a mouthful. It is my Opus Magnum \u2013 just about everything I have learned about optical lithography over the last 24 years, including quite a bit of new, unpublished research. Amazingly, I\u2019ve spent 17 of those 24 years writing this book! And for most of those years it has seemed that I was further away from finishing each year that went by (a testament to how fast the field changes). I finally realized that near full time effort was required to finish the book, which is what I have been (almost) doing for the last two years.<\/p>\n
A few statistics about the book:<\/p>\n
\tNumber of pages: about 600
\n\tNumber of chapters: 10
\n\tNumber of figures: 272
\n\tNumber of equations: 973
\n\tNumber of homework problems: 132<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not exactly beach reading.<\/p>\n
The publisher is John Wiley & Sons, and the book should come out towards the end of November. If it is a best seller (as far as such textbooks are concerned), I won\u2019t even come close to making minimum wage for the time I spent writing it. But of course, nobody writes such a book for the money. It\u2019s about the glory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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