In semiconductor device fabrication, the various processing steps fall into four general categories: deposition, removal, patterning, and modification of electrical properties. Deposition is any process that grows, coats, or otherwise transfers a material onto the wafer. Available technologies consist of physical vapor deposition (PVD), chemical vapor deposition (CVD), electrochemical deposition (ECD), molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) and more recently, atomic layer deposition (ALD) among others.
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A precipitate is the product of a precipitation reaction, when an insoluble compound is formed. Example: BaCl2 + Na2SO4 = BaSO4 + 2NaCl Barium sulfate is a white precipitate. precipitate is a solid compound that comes out of a solution, due  to either physical changes in the solution or to chemical changes  that form a new compound. Edit. Share to: Jake Weatherby.