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05 Lithography & Mask Technology

Definition

A patterned mask used as the circuit-pattern master in a projection lithography system.

Application

Supplies the pattern projected onto wafer photoresist, with repeated exposures reproducing the pattern at multiple wafer locations.

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mask; lithography mask

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