{"id":727,"date":"2025-02-24T07:41:06","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T13:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/?p=727"},"modified":"2025-02-24T07:41:06","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T13:41:06","slug":"spie-advanced-lithography-and-patterning-symposium-2025-day-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/?p=727","title":{"rendered":"SPIE Advanced Lithography and Patterning Symposium 2025 \u2013 day 0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The year 2025 has a nice, round ring to it.\u00a0 I like round numbers, and it is especially true for me this year as I attend another SPIE conference on lithography.\u00a0 That is because the first paper I ever presented at a conference was exactly 40 years ago, at the 1985 SPIE Microlithography Conferences held at the Mariott Hotel in Santa Clara, California.\u00a0 That year the conferences were Electron-Beam, X-Ray, and Ion-Beam Techniques for Submicrometer Lithographies IV<\/em> (27 papers), Optical Microlithography IV<\/em> (33 papers), and Advances in Resist Technology and Processing II<\/em> (44 papers), <\/em>held 11-14 March, 1985.\u00a0 That was the tenth SPIE Microlithography conference, the first one being in 1976.\u00a0 My paper was called \u201cPROLITH: A Comprehensive Optical Lithography Model\u201d, and for anyone interested in such ancient history, the paper can be found here<\/a>.\u00a0 I remember very clearly that I remember nothing about giving that paper.\u00a0 I was so nervous (but also had practiced so often) that giving the paper almost didn\u2019t register in my consciousness.\u00a0 But give it I did, and my career took off.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It has been a fun 40 years! As I wander around the San Jose area on Sunday afternoon, I am already running into friends that I see only once a year, at this event, and others that I see all the time.\u00a0 I\u2019m reminded of how important this community has been to me, and not just from a business or professional perspective.\u00a0 I don\u2019t buy into the phrase \u201cIt\u2019s only business.\u201d\u00a0 It\u2019s never only business \u2013 everything is personal.\u00a0 And that\u2019s because, when I get to the bottom of what I do and why I do it, it\u2019s always about people.\u00a0 People I am very close to, people I see only once a year, and people I have never met.\u00a0 They are all important, and they give me the sense that what I do matters.\u00a0 That\u2019s why I love being a part of this community, and why I keep coming back every year for 40 years.\u00a0 What we do matters, and that matters to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And so conference number 41 begins for me.\u00a0 Some things will be just like years past – a plenary session, new SPIE fellows, too many marketing talks and graphs without numbers on the axes, trying to stay awake through some talks and being so excited by others that I can\u2019t wait to talk about them and think about them.\u00a0 And some things will be unique \u2013 the new young person I meet that gives me hope for the future, the inspiring idea that I take back home and try to make use of, and the inevitable, incremental, interesting new progress that makes life and this career of mine interesting.\u00a0 Let the conference begin!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The year 2025 has a nice, round ring to it.\u00a0 I like round numbers, and it is especially true for me this year as I attend another SPIE conference on lithography.\u00a0 That is because the first paper I ever presented at a conference was exactly 40 years ago, at the 1985 SPIE Microlithography Conferences held […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,6],"class_list":["post-727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microlithography","tag-mircrolithography","tag-spie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":728,"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions\/728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}