How to Use lithography in a Sentence

lithography

noun
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  • The robot, which looks like a pair of Ys joined at the stem, was made using soft lithography in two layers.
    — Larry Greenemeier, Scientific American, 30 Nov. 2011
  • The gas, which is a byproduct of steel production, is used in a process called lithography.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 2 May 2022
  • And all the other lithography machine equipment they’re signed on as well.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Brown sold his thriving lithography company and headed out to see the sights, brush in hand.
    — Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 30 June 2018
  • The printer pumps out thin lines and layers of resin, which harden when hit with a pair of photons from a laser, a kind of 3D printing called two-photon lithography.
    — Veronique Greenwood, Discover Magazine, 14 Mar. 2012
  • Park’s research group used lithography to create precise guide grooves in the base polymer, but left room for the bottom-up wrinkling to happen.
    — Sylvia Morrow, Discover Magazine, 3 July 2017
  • The most crucial — and expensive — pieces of equipment in the factory are the lithography machines that print the intricate designs on the wafers.
    — Washington Post, 7 July 2021
  • Lithography back then involved etching a drawing onto a limestone slab with wax or oil and acid, and pressing a white piece of paper on top of it.
    — Joanna Klein, New York Times, 14 June 2017
  • Neon plays a critical role in the production of semiconductors, in a process called lithography.
    — Anna Cooban and Uliana Pavlova, CNN, 17 June 2022
  • Top-down processes (like lithography) etch a flat surface.
    — Sylvia Morrow, Discover Magazine, 3 July 2017
  • Orders of its most advanced EUV lithography machines in the period were €5.6 billion.
    — Cagan Koc, Fortune Europe, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Romita graduated high school in 1947 and worked in lithography.
    — Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2023
  • The company effectively remains the only game in town for EUV lithography gear.
    — Dan Gallagher, WSJ, 21 July 2021
  • This technique, called nanoimprint lithography, begins by casting a nanoscale stamp made of a silicon polymer.
    — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 29 Dec. 2023
  • The first 25 seconds of a classic Christmas song was inscribed into polymer film using the Nanofrazor 3D lithography system.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 24 Dec. 2022
  • By then, my father’s experience in lithography had landed him a job managing a plant for the Royal Blueprint Co.
    — Marc Myers, WSJ, 17 July 2018
  • What these unknown poster artists did in the Golden Age of Hollywood in the ‘30s and ‘40s were astounding because they were made with stone lithography, watercolors, oils and airbrushing.
    — Phillip Valys, sun-sentinel.com, 9 July 2019
  • The company is known for its prowess in making lithography machines, which uses light to print patterns on silicon.
    — Michelle Toh, CNN, 15 Feb. 2023
  • But he was known to the owners of a Brooklyn, N.Y. lithography plant which, in the sweltering summer heat, was having problems keeping muggy air from wrinkling magazine pages.
    — Don Lipman, Washington Post, 11 July 2017
  • The semiconductor industry for many years had a free ride from improvements in lithography, which enabled gate-length scaling.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 26 July 2023
  • Advances in commercial lithography and printing presses in the 1850s allowed a more complex palette.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 11 Jan. 2020
  • Adding a third phase to the site will substantially increase capacity for Intel to makes its next generation of chip, which will require a huge new lithography tool.
    — Mike Rogoway, oregonlive.com, 25 July 2019
  • Géricault was one of the first French artists to make extensive use of the medium, in part because of lithography’s capacity to generate multiple images.
    — M.j. Andersen, WSJ, 8 Sep. 2018
  • A century or more ago, Baltimore artists created, drew and produced beautiful images within the solid walls of the Hoen lithography plant on Biddle Street on the east side.
    — Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 9 July 2022
  • And Intel wants federal support for a major new lithography lab in Oregon, which is already home to Intel’s most advanced research.
    — Mike Rogoway | Mrogoway@oregonian.com, oregonlive, 25 June 2023
  • The United States and its allies have viewed sales of the deep ultraviolet lithography machines as less of a national security risk.
    — Mara Hvistendahl, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Every one of the world’s most sophisticated chips uses ASML lithography.
    — Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2023
  • The initial docking spots may be created with lithography on a substrate, but additional docking spots may be brought in as cargo in subsequent steps.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 8 July 2022
  • Joannopoulos said that the two competing methods of making photonic crystals — lithography and self-assembly — are each battling their own set of bugbears.
    — Mark K. Anderson, WIRED, 16 Nov. 2001
  • Washington also successfully persuaded allies to stop the transfer of state-of-the-art lithography equipment used to produce cutting-edge semiconductors.
    — Lionel Lim, Fortune, 6 Oct. 2023

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