etching

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Chip makers use it to maintain stable temperatures while etching silicon wafers into advanced semiconductors.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

The venture would also presumably need equipment for etching and deposition, which are manufacturing and packaging processes.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 23, 2026

Their approach focuses on modifying the inside surface of aluminum tubes by etching it to create microscopic and nanoscale pits.

From Science Daily • Jan. 30, 2026

This was a groundbreaking method of relief etching that allowed him to combine both text and illustrations on the same copper printing plate.

From Barron's • Nov. 18, 2025

Fern’s chicken-feet etching had all but eroded in the pecking frenzy.

From "Gone Crazy in Alabama" by Rita Williams-Garcia