🧪 A light-sensitive coating 🧪 To coat a surface

to photoresist

8.7

To coat a surface with light-sensitive material to make patterns

verb
/ˈfoʊtoʊrɪzɪst/

Specialized

: aplicar fotoresistente

To create the circuit design, we need to photoresist the surface carefully for accurate patterns.

Examples

Engineers photoresist the silicon wafer to define the areas for etching during chip production.
Before etching the design, they will photoresist the substrate with a thin layer of light-sensitive material.
And then I, I remove strip away the the photoresist leaving my structure.
And then I, I remove strip away the the photoresist leaving my structure.

Antonyms

stripping

1 4.1

Removing a cover or outer layer from something

Surface Forms

photoresist infinitive

photoresisted past

photoresisted past participle

photoresisting present participle

photoresists third person singular

Etymology

Photoresist as a verb simply means to coat something with a photoresist so light can make a pattern. The name shows this: photo- is 'light' and resist is 'to stop', so to photoresist is to apply the light-working coating needed for patterning.