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planar

A technique developed by Fairchild Instruments that creates transistor sublayers by forcing chemicals under pressure into exposed areas. Planar superseded the mesa process and was a major step toward creating the chip.


planar [′plā·nər]
(mathematics)
Lying in or pertaining to a euclidean plane.


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Says Herbert Groothues, product-line director for opto-electronics in the High Performance Polymers business unit, "Problems arise with thickness distribution and the fact that the spin-coated layer shrinks when cured, so it affects the planarity of the disc.
Several reviews suggest that the planarity in part determines their biologic effect (Fischer et al.
Rauschenberg's baseline relationship to planarity is paradoxically most evident in the freestanding Combines, notably Odalisk, 1955/58, Untitled, ca.
 
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