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etchTo create a design in a material by digging out the material. The circuit designs on printed circuit boards and chips are etched by acid. See chip and printed circuit board. etch [ech] (graphic arts) To incise lines on a plate of metal, glass, or other material by covering it with an acid-resistant coating, scratching through the coating, and then permitting an acid bath to erode exposed parts of the plate. (metallurgy) To corrode the surface of a metal in order to reveal its composition and structure. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Hitachi High Technologies manufactures plasma etchers, electron microscopes, PFC abatement systems, SIMOX implanters and other wafer processing equipment. With over 90 chambers already shipped to customers, the rapid industry acceptance of this new system is helping us make a major impact in the etch marketplace, where the shift to advanced production and next-generation development has shown the severe limitations of etchers that use older technology. Tokyo Electron Limited, headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, was established in 1963 and has been a long-term supplier of coater/developers, etchers, probers, surface preparation cleaning systems and diffusion furnaces to Intel. |
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