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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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bipolar
Semiconductors; Silicon wafer
Semiconductor device fabrication technology which produces transistors that use both holes and electrons as charge carriers.
acceptor
Semiconductors; Silicon wafer
An impurity in a semiconductor which accepts electrons excited from the valence band, leading to hole conduction.
active Si layer
Semiconductors; Silicon wafer
Silicon layer on top of the buried oxide (BOX) in SOI substrates.
batch process
Semiconductors; Silicon wafer
Process in which many wafers are processed simultaneously, as opposed to a single wafer process.
anisotropic etch
Semiconductors; Silicon wafer
A selective etch which exhibits an accelerated etch rate along specific crystallography directions.
anisotropic
Semiconductors; Silicon wafer
Exhibiting physical properties in differing crystallography directions.
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