photolithography
noun
pho·to·li·thog·ra·phy
ˌfō-tō-li-ˈthä-grə-fē 
1
: lithography in which photographically prepared plates are used
2
: a process involving the photographic transfer of a pattern to a surface for etching (as in producing an integrated circuit)
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The performance-per-watt frontier has shifted from photolithography to the atomic layer.
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Sundeep Bajikar, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2025
Like other photolithography masks, this is made by etching a pattern using electron-beam lithography.
—IEEE Spectrum, 2 Jan. 2025
All subsectors were also positive, led by photolithography, the Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) ecosystem, and semiconductors.
—Brendan Ahern, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
One guy, another billionaire who developed this particular photolithography, had just fixed his own roof.
—WIRED, 23 Mar. 2023
This second generation evolution of ASML's extreme ultra-violet photolithography can reduce the size of transistors—the building blocks of integrated semiconducting circuits—to just 20 angstroms (Å).
—Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 10 Sep. 2021
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Sundeep Bajikar, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2025
Like other photolithography masks, this is made by etching a pattern using electron-beam lithography.
—IEEE Spectrum, 2 Jan. 2025
All subsectors were also positive, led by photolithography, the Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) ecosystem, and semiconductors.
—Brendan Ahern, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
One guy, another billionaire who developed this particular photolithography, had just fixed his own roof.
—WIRED, 23 Mar. 2023
This second generation evolution of ASML's extreme ultra-violet photolithography can reduce the size of transistors—the building blocks of integrated semiconducting circuits—to just 20 angstroms (Å).
—Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 10 Sep. 2021
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“Photolithography.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/photolithography. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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