A silicon wafer is a thin slice of crystalline silicon typically grown using the Czochralski process, which involves pulling a crystal seed from a molten silicon bath. A silicon wafer is a thin slice ...

Semiconductor manufacturer Xanoptix (Merrimack, NH) has developed a wafer-scale process for the 3-D stacking of silicon with either GaAs or InP to make compound semiconductors. The company's Hybrid ...

Major processes in semiconductor wafer fabrication: 1) wafer preparation, 2) pattern transfer, 3) doping, 4) deposition, 5) etching, and 6) packaging. The process of creating semiconductors can be ...

Crystalline quartz films grown on four-inch silicon wafers detect Chikungunya virus at sensitivities surpassing standard ...

This is a fragment of a small silicon wafer, on which are etched several integrated circuitsl, which performed the basic logic of the Apollo Guidance Computer. Creating an integrated circuit was a ...

U.K. startup Paragraf has successfully produced the first 6-inch graphene wafer at its manufacturing facility in Huntingdon, ...