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1859 Atlantic Monthly Aug. 259/1 The maps accompanying the directory, which were made by the photolithographic process, are all on too small a scale.

1880 Nature 12 Feb. 358/1 A reduced photolithographic reproduction of Tunstall's ‘Ornithologia Britannica’.

1902 Amer. Naturalist 36 412 The plates illustrating this paper are by a photolithographic process.

1945 H. Barron Mod. Plastics xxv. 523 Photolithographic printing plates are now being made with surfaces based on polyvinyl alcohol.

1972 Physics Bull. Dec. 743/2 By employing photolithographic techniques..IRD has produced simple arrays of detectors.

1991 Sci. Amer. Sept. 122/3 Established semiconductor firms are now taking a close look at a technique called surface micromachining. It employs the same photolithographic and etching steps that are used in fabricating integrated circuits.

1876 C. B. Comstock Notes on European Surv. 46 The stone-plates are completely prepared for the print, on the basis of direct or photolithographically prepared tracings.

1965 Wireless World July 338/2 The original pattern to be photolithographically reproduced was formed by..winding plastic strip round pegs.

2002 Microwave Jrnl. (Nexis) 1 Oct. 82 A suspended stripline circuit consists of a thin copper clad substrate, photolithographically etched, and suspended in air between identical housing and cover.