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by f_devd 733 days ago
Not an expert, but I've always understood it as (LI5):

You may have heard the effect of light is like a wave, higher frequency wave-lengths have a shorter wavelength, which means it can 'reach' smaller features without impacting the rest of the surroundings. Photo-lithography is done through a mask, this effectively means you get a crisper image projected onto the wafer.

If you go too far into/past UV it becomes hard to deal with in terms of heat and optics from my understanding. Which is why we keep getting new $prefix-UV rather than something like X-rays (which are past UV).

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User "mk_stjames" pointed me to the answer which you might also find useful - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40680072