a white or colorless vitreous insoluble solid (SiO2); various forms occur widely in the earth's crust as quartz or cristobalite or tridymite or lechartelierite
Sometimes just called oxide in the semiconductor industry. Sand on the beach and the glass from which we make bottles is silicon dioxide. Silicon dioxide is an insulator, and is used in semiconductor circuits to isolate different conducting regions. Silicon dioxide can be grown from silicon by exposing it to oxygen at high temperatures, or it can be deposited using chemical vapor deposition.
SiO2. Most commonly referred to as glass. See oxidation.
chemical formula SiO2, silicon dioxide is an excellent insulator with a dielectric constant of 3.9, a breakdown strength of 107 V/cm, and is thermodynamically stable on silicon up to the silicon melting temperature.
The silicon/oxygen film most often used for dielectric applications; can be deposited via silane or TEOS; often called "oxide."
Grown on a wafer during chip fabrication to serve as an insulating layer.
Glass like material used as the gate insulating material in a MOSFET.
The chemical compound silicon dioxide, also known as silica, is the oxide of silicon, chemical formula .