Adjacent stressed syllables are not allowed in compound words, and when stress disappears in such situations, it may leave behind a residue of vowel length.
However, the unprotected silicon regions can be etched, and the photoresist stripped, which would leave behind a patterned wafer for creating the stamp.
As the electrons leave the initial volume, they will leave behind a positive charge density of ions, which will result in an outwardly-directed electric field.