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How does an electronic etching machine work?

It scratches a thin layer of the surface off whatever is being etched, and leaves a pattern behind which differs from the smooth surface, revealing the design.


What is chemical etching in PCB manufacturing process?

The board is printed with the negative (in the sense of a photographic image) of the design that is desired on the finished board, in a material that is impervious to the solvent that will subsequently be applied to the board. When that solvent is applied the parts of the board that have not received the printed image are etched away leaving the desired circuitry.


What are integrated circuits are and why are they used?

A long time ago, after ways to make semiconductors were discovered - around 1955 - circuits were made by using a separate transistor to perform each function. That took a lot of real estate on a circuit board and meant severely decreased functionality when handling high frequencies. Nowadays all of those transistors and their associated circuit components can be laid out and etched into an area that is less than the size of the point of a pin, which is why they are called INTEGRATED CIRCUITS. The material that is used is a wafer of specially-prepared semiconductor material that has been doped differently in various nano-layers to allow the various circuit elements to be formed by selective etching.


What lithography technique used in microfluidics?

Most microfluidics use "standard" lithography techniques for patterning hard substrates such as glass or silicon. This would entail spinning photoresist, then exposing and wet etching in KOH (silicon) or HF (glass) or dry etching in a reactive ion etcher or deep reactive ion etcher. Soft lithography is also common in microfluidics where a mask is created using a hard material such as patterned SU-8 or etched glass. A polymer such as PDMS is then cast on the mold to create the microfluidic features.


What is the relationship between wafers and semiconductors?

Semiconductors of various designs are etched onto wafers of silicon. Those wafers are then tested to find out how many of the semiconductors have formed workable intergrated circuits. The wafer is then cut up into individual chips of intergrated circuits with the workable chips going further on in manufacuring and the non working chips either being dumped or pushed aside to lower speed chip manufacturing.

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Small piece of semiconducting material on which integrated circuits are etched?

chip


Do you say etched in or onto our memories?

According to a Google search "etched into our memories" has 539,000 hits."Etched in our memories" has 458,000 hits."Etched onto our memories" has only 3,070 hits.Accordingly I recommend "Etched into" or "Etched in"Dictionary.com also includes the sample sentence: "Adeep canyon was etched intothe land by the river'srushing waters."


What is a sentence for etched?

The fancy mansion's windows were even fancier with a picture of a crown etched in them.


When was Etched in Blue created?

Etched in Blue was created in 1987-05.


What part of speech is etched?

The word etched is a verb. It is the past tense of etch.


What is small piece of semiconducting material on which integrated circuits are etched?

We don't generally "etch" integrated circuits, but, rather, we "grow" them layer by layer on a silicon substrate.


What is a small piece of semiconducting material on which integrated circuits are etched?

A printed circuit board. abbrev- PCB. A PCB is thin copper attached to a non-conductive material. No, a printed circuit board is not a semiconducting material. Integrated circuits are created on a substrate, usually silicon or sapphire.


A properly etched tooth appears?

chalky white, not shiny like un-etched enamel


Do all diamonds now have identifying numbers etched on them?

Not all diamonds have identifying numbers etched on them. It depends on whether or not the manufacturer chooses to have it done. You can have your diamond etched on your own if you want to.


What is an antonym for etched?

Erased


Is drew a synonym for etched?

no... :(


Do all new chevy's have etched vin 's in all glass?

All new vehicles have the vehicle identification number etched into the glass. The vehicle ID number etched into the glass was mandated for all vehicles beginning in 2010.