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Silicon wafer
A silicon wafer is a thin, circular slice of single-crystal semiconductor material used in manufacturing of semiconductor devices and integrated circuits.
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Evaporation
Semiconductors; Silicon wafer
The common method used to deposit thin-film materials; material to be deposited is heated in a vacuum (10-6, 10-7 Torr range) until it melts and starts evaporating; this vapour condenses on a cooler ...
Etch
Semiconductors; Silicon wafer
A solution,a mixture of solutions, or a mixture of gases that attacks the surfaces of a film or substrate, removing material either selectively or non-selectively.
Epitaxy
Semiconductors; Silicon wafer
A process by which a thin "epitaxial" layer of single-crystal material is deposited on single-crystal substrate; epitaxial growth occurs in such way that the crystallography structure of the ...
Doping
Semiconductors; Silicon wafer
Addition of specific impurities to a semiconductor to control the electrical resistivity.
Elemental semiconductor
Semiconductors; Silicon wafer
A single element semiconductor from group IV of the periodic table; Si, Ge, C, Sn.
Miller indices
Semiconductors; Silicon wafer
The smallest integers proportional to the reciprocals of the intercepts of the plane on the three crystal axes of unit length.
Ingot
Semiconductors; Silicon wafer
A cylinder or rectangular solid of poly crystalline or single crystal silicon, generally of slightly irregular dimensions.
