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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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Intrinsic gettering
Semiconductors; Silicon wafer
Process in which gettering of contaminants and/or defects in a semiconductor is accomplished (without any physical interactions with the wafer) by a series of heat treatments.
Minority carrier
Semiconductors; Silicon wafer
Type of charge carrier constituting less than one half the total charge carrier concentration.
Gettering
Semiconductors; Silicon wafer
Process which moves contaminants and/or defects in a semiconductor away from its top surface into its bulk and traps them there, creating a denuded zone.
Float-zone crystal growth
Semiconductors; Silicon wafer
The method used to form single crystal semiconductor substrates (alternative to CZ);poly crystalline material is converted into single-crystal by locally melting the plane where a single crystal seed ...
Hexamethyldisilizane (HMDS)
Semiconductors; Silicon wafer
A material that mproves adhesion of photoresist to the surface of a wafer; especially designed for adhesion of photoresist to sio2; deposited on wafer surface immediately prior to deposition of ...
Batch process
Semiconductors; Silicon wafer
Process in which many wafers are processed simultaneously, as opposed to a single wafer process.
