A thin, iridescent, silvery disk of silicon which contains a set of integrated circuits, prior to their being cut free and packaged.
Flat, circular discs about 6-8 in. in diameter made of silicon, which is a semiconductor of electricity. Semiconductors are materials that can be altered to be either a conductor or an insulator.
is a semiconductor material on which the CCD chips are etched.
A thin slice of silicon used as the key component in a solar cell module. The wafers produced by REC ScanWafer typically have a thickness of 200–280 micron.
Intel uses wafers of pure silicon cut from a silicon ingot to make microprocessors. Silicon, the primary ingredient of beach sand, is a semiconductor of electricity. Semiconductors are materials that can be altered to be either a conductor or an insulator.
Wafers made of silicon or other materials such as Gallium Arsenide are the raw materials that are used to make integrated circuits. These circuits are conceived and made for specific applications. The dimensions of these wafers are either 150 mm or 200 mm. The past few years, there has been technological shift to 300mm wafers.
