How to Use photolithography in a Sentence

photolithography

noun

• At present, one of the most delicate steps in making computer chips is photolithography.
  — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 2 Nov. 2025
• The grid pattern is then printed via photolithography or emerging, lower-cost alternatives, such as laser patterning.
  — Ni Tao, Interesting Engineering, 19 Jan. 2026
• For example, photolithography tools are designed to cast their feature-defining patterns onto relatively small rectangles, and to do that over and over.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 1 Jan. 2020
• In conventional photolithography, an opaque mask blocks light from unwanted areas to create two-dimensional patterns.
  — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 10 July 2026
• Hynix is seeking to raise almost $30 billion in finance capital with an issuance of 18 million shares in order to buy photolithography machines and build new facilities.
  — Tobias Burns, CNBC, 10 July 2026
• As with photolithography, the technique used to create integrated circuits on silicon wafers, the method, often called optical projection bioprinting, casts a pattern of light and dark shapes across the entire printing field.
  — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Jan. 2026
• Holograms replace layers The printing process is based on photolithography, a manufacturing technique widely used to fabricate semiconductor chips.
  — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 10 July 2026
• In semiconductor manufacturing, helium's cooling properties are used to transfer heat, with the gas also indispensable in photolithography, a technique used to print each chip's intricate circuitry.
  — Dylan Butts, CNBC, 8 Apr. 2026
• Additionally, this could help applications of ultrafast imaging of physical and biological systems, as well as photolithography and nuclear fusion science, the researchers added.
  — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 14 May 2026
• Europe's most valuable company and the world's only supplier of the complex photolithography machines needed to manufacture the most advanced artificial intelligence chips — has seen shares rise around 7% since TSMC's earnings were released.
  — Kai Nicol-Schwarz, CNBC, 16 Jan. 2026
• Fabricated using a 2-micrometer process (meaning that 2 µm was the minimum size of the features that could be patterned onto silicon using photolithography), the XC2064 implemented a few thousand logic gates.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 28 Apr. 2026