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The final bays contain equipment for depositing metals and CMP (chemi mechanical polishing). These are used in the new "damascene" metallization process:

Copper is deposited entirely across a grooved wafer surface. Careful polishing then removes all of the metal except that which fell into the grooves. This remaining metal gives the desired pattern in a process that echoes that used in the decoration of jewelry (as developed long ago in Damascus Syria - hence the name "damascene").

 
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