photolithography
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The art or process of producing photolithographs.
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As suggested by the name compounded from them, photolithography is a printing method (originally based on the use of limestone printing plates) in which light plays an essential role.
Electron beam lithography has the disadvantage of being much slower than photolithography.
Significant examples include 193 nm photolithography equipment (for semiconductor manufacturing ) and circular dichroism spectrometers.
Other applications Photolithography In semiconductor photolithography applications, depth of field is extremely important as integrated circuit layout features must be printed with high accuracy at extremely small size.
Today's complex microelectronic circuits and interconnecting wires are made of many layers, each formed by repeating this photolithography process several times.
In fact, "photolithography" is used synonymously with "offset printing".