9 Facts about Silicon Wafers

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9 Facts about Silicon Wafers

• Silicon Specialist LLC

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• Silicon has helped revolutionize the tech
  industry. Due to its properties, silicon has
  become increasingly popular to be used in modern
  gadgets. The existence of handy and compact
  devices such as smartphones, computers, and
  televisions is because of silicon because their
  building blocks i-e integrated circuits (ICs) are
  made of silicon. Being the second most abundant
  element in the world and flexible, silicon makes
  an ideal element to make tech gadgets. It is
  flexible in terms of availability and versatile,
  which makes it perfect for use in technology
  items and other everyday materials. In this
  article, we have discussed nine really
  interesting facts about silicon wafers which form
  the basis of sophisticated gadgets in the modern
  world.

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Basis for Semiconductors

• Silicon Wafers are also known as semiconductors.
  They possess the properties of both a conductor
  and an insulator, as they are a hybrid of
  insulators and metals that would either be
  conducted by electricity or not. However, the
  manufacturing of semiconductors does not merely
  base on silicon. Instead, other elements such as
  Germanium, Indium Phosphide, Sapphire, and Quartz
  also go into the making of these.

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Wide range of Varieties

• Silicon wafers exist in a wide range of sizes,
  and various varieties of diameters. The variety
  of sizes allows the tech industry to have the
  freedom to use a specifically sized wafer in
  various gadgets. You can pick the wafer based on
  your requirements as per the diameter
  availability. The very first semiconductor wafer
  had only a 1-inch diameter. This was back in the
  1960s. However, today you can have wafers up to
  the diameter of 18 inches. While sometimes, the
  size of a gadget requires a specifically sized
  wafer, at other times, the wafer diameter size
  determines the size of item it has been used in.

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Leading Market in the World

• With 51 of the global shares of silicon wafers,
  the United States dominates the market of silicon
  wafers. The main reason behind the USAs lead in
  the field of silicon wafers is its progressive
  and industrialized economy that is far too ahead
  to be competed with by other countries. However,
  various other factors also contribute to keeping
  them at the top of their game. The silicon wafers
  are also supplied to other countries like Japan,
  Germany, and Russia for their use.

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Desirable Purity Level

• For a simplified technology that uses a repeated
  application, those silicon wafers are preferred
  which have higher nines purity (99.99999). The
  nines purity percentage in wafers makes it more
  desirable for use in integrated circuits.

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Purification Method

• Silicon wafers are made in a very interesting
  way. First, the obtained silicon is melted and
  allowed to re-solidify for 100 purity. In the
  past, aggressive methods aimed at crushing
  metallurgical grade silicon which was then
  dissolved in acid to be purified. Mixing of
  silicon with acid causes the impurity-defined
  silicon to get more purified.

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Discovery of Silicon

• Silicon, the main constituent of semiconductor
  wafers, was discovered by Swedish chemist Jacob
  Berzelius, in 1824. To obtain silicon, potassium
  chips present in silica flasks are heated, and
  then residual by-products are separated to obtain
  pure silicon. In modern times, sand with carbon
  is heated to a high temperature, up to 2200
  degrees Celsius, to obtain pure silicon.

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Waters role in the production

• During production, water plays a significant
  role. Being a major solvent for a variety of
  substances, water is used during silicon
  manufacturing for the same reason. Up to 4.8
  million gallons are required every day by the
  production facilities to manufacture silicon in
  sufficient quantity. Therefore, industries spend
  around 1 billion on the water to form silicon
  wafers manufacturing.

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Temperature Resistance

• Silicon is a highly durable substance which makes
  it ideal to be used in semiconductor wafers in
  technologies all around the world. With a
  high-temperature resistance, it is considered
  ideal to be used in tools that are subject to
  high temperatures. They are suitable for highly
  demanding interiors of processing units and
  mobile devices.

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Preferred for ICs

• In the past vacuum tubes were used for integrated
  circuits, however, they have been replaced with
  silicon wafers now. With their highly desirable
  properties, silicon wafers have paved the way for
  the tech revolution. They are more reliable and
  compact compared to the bulky vacuum tubes of the
  50s.

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