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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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The plungers of the pumps are moved via cams by stepper motors which swing or rotate back and forth within a certain angular range.
As the semiconductor industry looks to the future, stepper manufacturers are gearing up for extreme ultraviolet lithography.
Computer-driven stepper motors rotate the mirrors to obtain the desired angle of incidence.
The drums were mounted on a platform that could be raised and lowered by an additional stepper motor.
A computer-controlled stepper motor allowed the user to select from 31 filters.
Unlike earlier reductions, this particular transition requires a major design shift in stepper optics from refractive to reflective.

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