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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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Silicon wafer

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.

adhesion

Semiconductors; Silicon wafer

Ability of materials to stick (adhere) to each other.

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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