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Photolithographie
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Die (circuit intégré)
alt=Puce nue d'un circuit intégré Texas Instruments 5430|vignette|Puce nue d'un circuit intégré Texas Instruments 5430. thumb|en d'un Intel Pentium 4 visible après le retrait de l'IHS. En électronique, un die (de l'anglais) est un petit morceau rectangulaire résultant de la découpe d'un en sur lequel un circuit intégré a été fabriqué. Par extension, « en » désigne le circuit intégré lui-même sans son boîtier, et il est synonyme de puce électronique.
Microcontact printing
Microcontact printing (or μCP) is a form of soft lithography that uses the relief patterns on a master polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) stamp or Urethane rubber micro stamp to form patterns of self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) of ink on the surface of a substrate through conformal contact as in the case of nanotransfer printing (nTP). Its applications are wide-ranging including microelectronics, surface chemistry and cell biology. Both lithography and stamp printing have been around for centuries.
Nanolithography
Nanolithography (NL) is a growing field of techniques within nanotechnology dealing with the engineering (patterning e.g. etching, depositing, writing, printing etc) of nanometer-scale structures on various materials. The modern term reflects on a design of structures built in range of 10−9 to 10−6 meters, i.e. nanometer scale. Essentially, the field is a derivative of lithography, only covering very small structures. All NL methods can be categorized into four groups: photo lithography, scanning lithography, soft lithography and other miscellaneous techniques.