How to Use lithography in a Sentence
lithography
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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
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The gas, which is a byproduct of steel production, is used in a process called lithography.
—Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 2 May 2022
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And all the other lithography machine equipment they’re signed on as well.
—IEEE Spectrum, 4 Oct. 2023
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Brown sold his thriving lithography company and headed out to see the sights, brush in hand.
—Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 30 June 2018
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Neon plays a critical role in the production of semiconductors, in a process called lithography.
—Anna Cooban and Uliana Pavlova, CNN, 17 June 2022
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Top-down processes (like lithography) etch a flat surface.
—Sylvia Morrow, Discover Magazine, 3 July 2017
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Orders of its most advanced EUV lithography machines in the period were €5.6 billion.
—Cagan Koc, Fortune Europe, 24 Jan. 2024
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Romita graduated high school in 1947 and worked in lithography.
—Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2023
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The company effectively remains the only game in town for EUV lithography gear.
—Dan Gallagher, WSJ, 21 July 2021
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The semiconductor industry for many years had a free ride from improvements in lithography, which enabled gate-length scaling.
—IEEE Spectrum, 26 July 2023
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Advances in commercial lithography and printing presses in the 1850s allowed a more complex palette.
—Brian T. Allen, National Review, 11 Jan. 2020
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Every one of the world’s most sophisticated chips uses ASML lithography.
—Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2023
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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
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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
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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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