A photomask (also simply called a mask) is an opaque plate with transparent areas that allow light to shine through in a defined pattern. Photomasks are...

the substrate. A photomask that contains the desired pattern is then placed over the photoresist. Light is shone through the photomask, exposing the photoresist...

cover which can be applied to a photomask used in semiconductor device fabrication. The pellicle protects the photomask from damage and dirt Pellicle (cooking)...

Photronics, Inc. is an American semiconductor photomask manufacturer. It was the third largest photomask supplier globally as of 2009. The company was...

manufacturing. The tapeout is specifically the point at which the graphic for the photomask of the circuit is sent to the fabrication facility. The name originates...

lithography has high resolution but low throughput, limiting its usage to photomask fabrication, low-volume production of semiconductor devices, and research...

Maskless lithography (MPL) is a photomask-less photolithography-like technology used to project or focal-spot write the image pattern onto a chemical...

photolithography whereby the image to be printed is obtained by illumination of a photomask in direct contact with a substrate coated with an imaging photoresist...

is a binary file format used for specification of data structures for photomask production. It's used to represent a pattern an interchange and encapsulation...

portfolio includes products for back-end lithography, wafer bonding, and photomask cleaning, complemented by micro-optical components. The company is a supplier...

that control the fabrication of photomasks used to manufacture the designed IC. CATS software tools generate photomask layers from input design layers...

Phase-shift masks are photomasks that take advantage of the interference generated by phase differences to improve image resolution in photolithography...

laser-pulsed tin (Sn) droplet plasma to produce a pattern by using a reflective photomask to expose a substrate covered by photoresist. Tin ions in the ionic states...

microtechnology, mask inspection or photomask inspection is an operation of checking the correctness of the fabricated photomasks, used, e.g., for semiconductor...

may or may not offer design services to third parties, as well as mask (photomask) making, semiconductor packaging and testing services, which can also...

Kabushiki-gaisha) is a Japanese company manufacturing optical products such as photomasks, photomask blanks and hard disk drive platters, contact lenses and eyeglass...

integrated circuits (IC) using the photolithography process. It holds the photomask over the silicon wafer while a bright light is shone through the mask...

illumination is an optical system setup in which the incoming light strikes a photomask at an oblique angle rather than perpendicularly to it, that is to say...

inspection, and others) Initially PCBs were designed manually by creating a photomask on a clear mylar sheet, usually at two or four times the true size. Starting...

systems that analyze and repair defects on photomasks and measure and optimize defined mask properties. The photomask contains all the structure information...

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state actors. For example, if a photomask obtained from a photomask supplier differs in a few gates from its photomask specification, a chip manufacturer...

copying by photographing each layer of an integrated circuit and preparing photomasks for its production on the basis of the photographs obtained is a reason...

polygons from an integrated circuit layout into set of instructions that a photomask writer can use to generate a physical mask. Typically, amendments and...

A mask shop is a factory which manufactures photomasks for use in the semiconductor industry. There are two distinct types found in the trade. Captive...

circuits are made in a similar fashion utilizing photomasks with sub-micrometer feature sizes; photomasks are traditionally made by photoreducing photoplotter...

the hardware. A photomask having the intended grating features may also be used in the manufacture of fiber Bragg gratings. The photomask is placed between...

perform non-repetitive and non-sequential tasks such as transporting photomasks in a semiconductor lab, specimens in hospitals and goods in warehouses...

etched layers within actual ICs are each created using a mask, called the photomask, to permit or block the light at specific locations, sometimes for hundreds...

designed, these are amenable to compensation by changing the pattern on the photomask used for imaging. Other distortions such as rounded corners are driven...