WAFER

Wafer

In electronics, a wafer is a thin slice of semiconductor material, such as a silicon crystal, used in the fabrication of integrated circuits and other microdevices. The wafer serves as the substrate for microelectronic devices built in and over the wafer and undergoes many microfabrication process steps such as doping or ion implantation, etching, deposition of various materials, and photolithographic patterning. Finally the individual microcircuits are separated and packaged.

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wafer

Noun

  1. A light, thin, flat biscuit.
  2. A thin disk of consecrated unleavened bread used in communion.
  3. A soft disk originally made of flour, and later of gelatin or a similar substance, used to seal letters, attach papers etc.
  4. A thin disk of silicon or other semiconductor on which an electronic circuit is produced.

Verb

  1. To seal or close with a wafer.


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