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Quantum Electronics

Optical Lithography:

A contact printer is used for the optical exposure of photoresists:

Contact printer

With the contact printer a Cr-mask is aligned with respect to the sample and then pressed against the resit layer. The pattern of the mask is transfered to the resist by ultra-violet light.

 

 

 

Photo of the contact printer