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photoresist

American  
[foh-toh-ri-zist] / ˌfoʊ toʊ rɪˈzɪst /

noun

  1. Electronics. a photosensitive liquid polymer, used in photolithography to produce integrated circuits.


Etymology

Origin of photoresist

First recorded in 1950–55; photo- + resist

Example Sentences

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But all of them have explored alternative photoresist chemicals that will compete to be the one semiconductor companies settle on.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

On the wafer’s surface, a chemical substrate called a photoresist reacts to the light, and etches the stencil pattern into the silicon.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

They made metallic glass nanotubes with an average wall thickness of just 20nm, and fabricated nanosheets from different substrates, such as sodium chloride, polyvinyl alcohol and conventional photoresist substrates, with different levels of oxygen concentration.

From Science Daily • Feb. 2, 2024

They use a 3D printing approach known as two-photon polymerization, which focuses an infrared laser into a UV sensitive photoresist.

From Science Daily • Dec. 13, 2023

The companies Nishikawa worries about include wafer makers Shin-Etsu Chemical and Sumco Corp photoresist supplier JSR Corp and production machinery builders Screen Holdings and Tokyo Electron.

From Reuters • Aug. 17, 2021

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