Glossary
Semiconductor Processing Technician Terms & Vocabulary
15 essential semiconductor processing technician terms with plain-English definitions: the vocabulary you’ll hear in training and on day one.
Key semiconductor processing technician vocabulary
These 15 terms come up constantly in semiconductor processing technician training, on the job and in interviews. Knowing them helps you follow instructions, document accurately and sound prepared.
- Bunny suit
- Clean-room gown.
- Clean room
- An ultra-clean workspace.
- Deposition
- Adding thin layers.
- ESD
- Electrostatic discharge.
- Etching
- Removing material.
- Fab
- A chip factory.
- Lithography
- Printing patterns on wafers.
- Lot
- A group of wafers.
- MES
- Manufacturing execution system.
- Metrology
- Measuring wafers.
- Particle
- Contamination that ruins chips.
- Photoresist
- Light-sensitive coating.
- Recipe
- A tool’s process settings.
- Wafer
- A thin slice of silicon.
- Yield
- Percentage of good chips.
Practice these terms
Test yourself with the free Semiconductor Processing Technician practice test: it includes vocabulary questions built from this list. For a complete course, see Semiconductor Processing Technician training.
Browse terms from every career in our career glossary.