• Photolithography (also known as optical lithography) is a process used in the manufacturing of integrated circuits. It involves using light to transfer...
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    Photolithography is a process in removing select portions of thin films used in microfabrication. Microfabrication is the production of parts on the micro-...
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  • the resolution attainable through photolithography. Computational lithography came to the forefront of photolithography technologies in 2008 when the semiconductor...
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    need for costly vacuum chambers. Significant examples include 193-nm photolithography equipment (for semiconductor manufacturing) and circular dichroism...
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    in 1984. ASML specializes in the development and manufacturing of photolithography machines which are used to produce computer chips. As of 2023[update]...
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    created by a photographic process, a method that may be referred to as "photolithography" (although the term usually refers to a vaguely similar microelectronics...
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    shine through in a defined pattern. Photomasks are commonly used in photolithography for the production of integrated circuits (ICs or "chips") to produce...
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  • range. ArF (and KrF) excimer lasers are widely used in high-resolution photolithography machines, a critical technology for microelectronic chip manufacturing...
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    film. It is employed in many fields of science, manufacturing (e.g., photolithography), and business, as well as its more direct uses for art, film and video...
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    (EGS) or other semiconductor (such as GaAs) through processes such as photolithography. The wafer is cut (diced) into many pieces, each containing one copy...
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    resist) is a light-sensitive material used in several processes, such as photolithography and photoengraving, to form a patterned coating on a surface. This...
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    because the chips, with all their components, are printed as a unit by photolithography rather than being constructed one transistor at a time. Furthermore...
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    the 1960s, excimer lasers have been widely used in high-resolution photolithography machines, one of the critical technologies required for microelectronic...
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    free-space optical communications, semiconductor chip manufacturing (photolithography, etching), laser surgery and skin treatments, cutting and welding materials...
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    13.5 nm extreme ultraviolet light is used commercially for photolithography as part of the semiconductor fabrication process. This image shows an early...
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    integrated circuits (ICs). It is an essential part of the process of photolithography, which creates millions of microscopic circuit elements on the surface...
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    Optical proximity correction (OPC) is a photolithography enhancement technique commonly used to compensate for image errors due to diffraction or process...
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  • imaging systems, spectroscopy, telescopes, and excimer lasers (used for photolithography in the form of a fused lens). It is transparent over a broad range...
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    prints the desired circuit pattern onto the silicon wafer bypassing photolithography and can produce circuits equivalent to 5 nm scale. Canon's products...
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    then thinly sliced to form a wafer substrate. The planar process of photolithography then integrates unipolar transistors, capacitors, diodes, and resistors...
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  • skyrocketed. Photolithography was applied to these structures for the first time in 1958 beginning the age of nanolithography. Since then, photolithography has...
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    size, rather than using the latest EUV photolithography technology. SMEE's SSA800 machine lags photolithography industry leader ASML Holding in time: ASML...
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    which the light travels. The lenses in the highest resolution "dry" photolithography scanners focus light in a cone whose boundary is nearly parallel to...
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  • "next generation" have entered commercial production, and open-air photolithography, with visible light projected through hand-drawn photomasks, has gradually...
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    lenses. Antireflective coatings (ARC) are often used in microelectronic photolithography to help reduce image distortions associated with reflections off the...
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    Gas mixtures that include high-purity neon are used in lasers for photolithography in semiconductor device fabrication. Liquefied neon is commercially...
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    measurement is known as the linewidth. Patterning often refers to photolithography which allows a device design or pattern to be defined on the device...
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  • ASML may refer to: ASML Holding, a Dutch company that supplies photolithography systems for the semiconductor industry Atlanta, Stone Mountain and Lithonia...
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  • Contact lithography, also known as contact printing, is a form of photolithography whereby the image to be printed is obtained by illumination of a photomask...
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  • Carolina, 9 October 2022) was an American engineer and inventor of photolithography. Born in 1927 in Bangor, Maine, Lathrop studied physics in the University...
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