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- noun The
technology used tofabricate components on amicrometer -sized scale; especially such components built onsilicon wafers
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Examples
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Many times, manufacturing processes need a vacuum to perform microfabrication and dry etching for industrial purposes, but working in a vacuum can be expensive.
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Using a complex microfabrication technique, University of Washington researchers have come up with a way to imprint tiny circuit boards and LEDs directly on a flexible contact lens.
Discovering Cool Pics & Podcasts neochonetes 2008
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The scientists say the key to their molecular sieve, which is made using microfabrication technology, is the uniform size of the nanopores through which proteins are separated from biological fluids.
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Using a complex microfabrication technique, University of Washington researchers have come up with a way to imprint tiny circuit boards and LEDs directly on a flexible contact lens.
Archive 2008-03-01 neochonetes 2008
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At least not yet – a team of physicists have constructed a new form of ‘ion trap’ using conventional microfabrication techniques.
Setting Traps For Quantum Computing | Blog | Futurismic 2006
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For the effective concentration of light, the newly developed sensor adopts microfabrication technology to achieve even higher sensitivity.
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For the effective concentration of light, the newly developed sensor adopts microfabrication technology to achieve even higher sensitivity.
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This part organic, part artificial device was created using a new microfabrication strategy.
About.com Biology 2010
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The company's new location in Pleasanton includes a certified microfabrication facility for local, in-house manufacturing of their high-tech products.
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Granted, you should never, ever bet against the progress of microfabrication, which can make even the 4x4 grid of pixels in today's contact lens displays usable after some period of exponential growth.
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