Do you realize how important thin silicon wafers are? Thanks to their stability over other semiconductor materials, they’re widely used in the field of technology. Since they’re better than other metallic substances, their application spans various industries.
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Semiconductors are the basic building blocks for different electronic devices, including diodes, transistors, and integrated circuits. Due to silicon wafers’ capacity to handle a wide range of current or voltage, they’re used to fabricate compact and efficient semiconductors. As a result, power devices, lasers, and optical sensors have a high-level use case for silicon wafers.
Since silicon wafers boost the digital era, they’re critical components in electronic and computing devices. These wafers feature strongly in the computing industry because they make up an integrated circuit (IC) called RAM chips. Additionally, silicon wafers are used in manufacturing smartphones, home appliances, drone technology, and auto electronics.
Although various types of wafers are used to fabricate solar cells, silicon wafers are more effective at ensuring the efficient conversion of sunlight to electricity. In solar cell manufacturing, some commonly used silicon materials include monocrystalline silicon and amorphous silicon.
Moreover, silicon wafer fabrication processes such as the floating zone method increase solar cell efficiency by nearly 25%. While solar cells follow manufacturing processes similar to microchips, they don’t demand the same purity and quality levels as computing and electronics.
Applications in reflective optics and infra-red (IR) require the use of silicon wafers that were fabricated via the floating zone or Czochralski crystal growth technologies. Micro-optic and fiber optic devices include image sensors used in cameras.
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