How to Use lithography in a Sentence

lithography

noun
  • But atom lithography has not yet been proven to work at commercial scale.
    — Rob Toews, Forbes.com, 22 June 2026
  • The first of these new technologies is known as atom lithography.
    — Rob Toews, Forbes.com, 22 June 2026
  • The gas, which is a byproduct of steel production, is used in a process called lithography.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 2 May 2022
  • And all the other lithography machine equipment they’re signed on as well.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Brown sold his thriving lithography company and headed out to see the sights, brush in hand.
    — Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 30 June 2018
  • 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
  • Helium is used to transfer heat when chips are made and is critical to the lithography process.
    — Kai Nicol-Schwarz, CNBC, 13 Mar. 2026
  • It is also used in areas like lithography, which is key for printing the intricate circuitry of a chip.
    — Arjun Kharpal,dylan Butts, CNBC, 10 Mar. 2026
  • The company makes lithography machines that are needed to etch circuits for the smallest and most cutting-edge chips.
    — Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 24 May 2024
  • 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
  • Using this, the team built a real chip on it using standard chip-making processes like lithography.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 24 Jan. 2026
  • Our primary limitation is lithography, in terms of feature size and speed.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 6 May 2026
  • 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
  • Neon plays a critical role in the production of semiconductors, in a process called lithography.
    — Anna Cooban and Uliana Pavlova, CNN, 17 June 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • Also, since chips used in appliances don't have to push the limits of lithography, the manufacturing gear is a lot cheaper.
    — Kerry A. Dolan, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
  • The semiconductor industry for many years had a free ride from improvements in lithography, which enabled gate-length scaling.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 26 July 2023
  • Romita graduated high school in 1947 and worked in lithography.
    — Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2023
  • Mikkelsen says that traditionally, these structures are built using electron beam lithography that allows very fine detail, but wouldn’t scale.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 9 Mar. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • However, two-photon lithography has proven too slow for large-scale practical applications.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 17 Dec. 2025
  • During this process, lithography devices spread a photoresist (a light-sensitive liquid) over the silicon wafer.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 2 Nov. 2025
  • His most important influence, though, remained lithography—its limestone and grease pencil—and the engraver’s chisel.
    — Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 24 June 2025
  • One final challenger to EUV lithography is worth briefly mentioning—this one out of China.
    — Rob Toews, Forbes.com, 22 June 2026
  • 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
  • No one has yet demonstrated that an X-ray lithography machine can be built at sufficiently modest cost and size to be commercially viable.
    — Rob Toews, Forbes.com, 22 June 2026
  • 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
  • Chipmakers had been getting by with workaround after workaround for the then most advanced system, lithography using 193-nm light.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 10 June 2024

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