photolithography

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One of the ways that microprocessors are made is by using a top-down technique called photolithography, which involves shining light onto the surface of a silicon wafer, and making patterns.

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  1. noun A planographic printing process using plates made according to a photographic image.

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  • The NIST-Cornell nanofabrication process utilizes grayscale photolithography to build 3-D nanofluidic devices. —  innovations-report
  • Conventional photolithography uses photomasks as "black-or-white stencils" to remove either all or none of the photoresist according to a set pattern. —  innovations-report
  • Grayscale photolithography, on the other hand, uses "shades of gray" to activate and sculpt the photoresist in three dimensions. —  innovations-report
  • Employing the Canon Full-photolithography Inkjet Nozzle Engineering (FINE) technology along with a sophisticated 7,680 nozzle print-head structure, the Mark II model provides significantly faster production times, delivering approximately one-and-a-half times faster color print speeds on a 13 'x 19' bordered print
  • The products are produced using photolithography to pattern the substrate. —  Electronicstalk - electronics industry news
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  1. = French photolithographic = Spanish fotolitografía; as Greek φῶς (φωτ-) + English lithography.
 

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/foʊtəlɪˈθɑgrəfi/
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