Published on: May 2022
The evolution of the international photomask market
The global photomask market was valued at 4 billion USD in 2018, and is expected to increase at a CAGR of 2.5 percent from 2019 to 2026, reaching 4.97 billion USD. A photomask is a photographic pattern used in the fabrication of microcircuits and ultraviolet light. To transfer the pattern, these lights are shined through the mask onto a photoresist. Discrete semiconductor components, display devices, freestanding printed circuit boards and micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) are all made with photomasks (PCB).
The complexities of photomasks
In addition, the photomask has a variety of uses, including supporting customers' microlithography processes as a stage in the process of producing photonics, ICs, and MEMS devices. Photomasks are commonly used in the development of computer and peripheral devices, consumer items, automotive products, military products, and biomedical and medical equipment. Furthermore, photomasks contain the integrated circuit pattern, which has become smaller and more complicated in order to precisely transfer the pattern on silicon wafer.
Photomasks - An important aspect of the semiconductor production process
Furthermore, lithography is the method of transferring a pattern from a photomask to the water's surface. The wafer is subjected to an ultraviolet laser beam during the lithography process, which passes through a photomask layer without a pattern and is irradiated onto photoresist on a wafer. As a result, photomasks are a crucial component in the semiconductor production process. The market, however, is likely to grow slowly over the next few years due to the inconsistency in the demand-supply imbalance.
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