The Perkin-Elmer Micralign was a family of aligners introduced in 1973. Micralign was the first projection aligner, a concept that dramatically improved...

$295; with no other changes than using a Micralign, the same design could sell for $42. The change to the Micralign revealed a further advantage. Previously...

introduction of new semiconductor masking systems, notably the Micralign system from Perkin-Elmer. Micralign projected an image of the mask onto the silicon wafer...

The result of this research was the Projection Scanning Aligner, or Micralign, which made chip making an assembly-line task and improved the number...

to work with and required considerable manual adjustment. Finally, the Micralign projection aligner, introduced by Perkin-Elmer in 1973, held the mask...

of the 90% that were thrown away. In 1973, Perkin-Elmer introduced the Micralign system, which projected an image of the mask on the wafer instead of requiring...

remained uncompetitive and sales prospects dimmed. The introduction of the Micralign to Motorola's lines allowed further reductions and by 1981 the price of...

greatly automated Cobilt machine.: 2–3  1973: Perkin-Elmer had introduced Micralign projection aligner. It helped to decrease amount of defective chips that...

advantage; the F100 was beginning to be readied for production just as the Micralign system was coming to market, and Ferranti adopted this projection alignment...