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What is a stepper?

What is a stepper? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A dancer.
  2. A person or animal that steps, especially energetically or high.
  3. A kind of electric motor (a stepper motor) that advances in steps rather than smoothly.
  4. A device used in the manufacture of microcircuits to apply a photolithographic image repeatedly, at regular intervals (by imaging, moving a step and repeating).
  5. A step machine
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Unlike earlier reductions, this particular transition requires a major design shift in stepper optics from refractive to reflective.
The actual amount of the foil delivered would be controlled by the stepper motor.
The relationships linking the stepper motor position and wavelength have been obtained by averaging the results of more than 20 spectra.
As the semiconductor industry looks to the future, stepper manufacturers are gearing up for extreme ultraviolet lithography.
Spectra were acquired before the stepper motor began moving, throughout the 6-blanch cycle, and after the blanch cycle was completed.
Each probe can be moved in two directions, axis and angle, by stepper motors through a remote-control system.

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