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Device Fabrication: Hard Bake
Robotic arm moving wafers from a chemical bath into a dryer After developing an additional baking process or "hard bake" is performed to harden the remaining photoresist to a finish much like the enamel on an automobile. The photoresist is then ready to protect the underlying SiO2 during etching.

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