Definition of "photolithography" []

• A planographic printing process using plates made according to a photographic image. (noun)

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• "They were etched into the slide using a process called photolithography."
• "Conventional MEMS are built through a process called photolithography, in which different layers of material are chemically deposited on a substrate - usually a wafer of some semiconducting material - and etched away to form functional patterns."
• "Click and drag to move the map around. it's a process called photolithography the chips are fabricated on silicon, which has a natrual conductivity to electricity."