lithography
/lɪˈθɒɡrəfi/
the process of printing microscopic circuit patterns onto silicon using light or other radiation
lithography in a sentence
“EUV lithography enables feature sizes below 5 nanometers.”
Origin of lithography
Greek lithos stone + graphein to write; originally stone-plate printing
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