A light, thin, flat biscuit/cookie.
Used in a Sentence
wafers
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for wafers.
Editorial note
That does not even touch the changes in production technology to go from 10 mm Wafers to 300 mm Wafers.
Examples16
Definitions4
Parts of speech1
Quick take
A light, thin, flat biscuit/cookie.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of wafers gathered in one view.
A soft disk originally made of flour, and later of gelatin or a similar substance, used to seal letters, attach papers etc.
(Christianity) A thin disk of consecrated unleavened bread used in communion.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for wafers.
noun
A light, thin, flat biscuit/cookie.
noun
A soft disk originally made of flour, and later of gelatin or a similar substance, used to seal letters, attach papers etc.
noun
(Christianity) A thin disk of consecrated unleavened bread used in communion.
noun
(electronics) A thin disk of silicon or other semiconductor on which an electronic circuit is produced.
Example sentences
That does not even touch the changes in production technology to go from 10 mm Wafers to 300 mm Wafers.
Kwikset has almost completely gone to their new SmartKey system, which uses wafers, and is harder to bump.
There's also ways to make chips more dense by stacking wafers instead of trying to shrink features.
Speed comes at a price of more chips per disk (or more wafers/structures inside chips) = money.
As far as fabrication, one problem is that obviously you aren't using visible light to etch features on your wafers.
Unfortunately, Jeri starts with silicon wafers which have to be obtained somewhere outside of home usually.
You can't count on wafers being exactly at the same size, so you build your machinery in a way that precise sizes aren't important, only relative measures within a wafer is.
This is where 450mm wafers and EUV (extreme ultraviolet lithography) were supposed to come in.
With silicon wafers heading to 450mm diameter the economics would argue against native III-V substrates.
Especially with less sensitive photoresists (another problem unmentioned), today's 30 W output is not enough to churn out 100-200 wafers per hour.
Early production runs are likely to be done in batches of ~25 wafers.
Also with the lower speeds used, heat will be less and may be the limit currently to avoid warping of individual wafers in the stack.
Quote examples
A bunch of hipster poseurs who just want to play with their little "programs" without even understanding the wafers that make it all possible!
> "Wafers are in production please stay tuned for future product updates." Yeah, yeah, call me when it's ready and available.
By "tools", I really mean huge pieces of instrumentation that cost many (tens to hundreds) millions of dollars from other companies that are used for the various processing steps (deposition/growth of materials on wafers, patterning resists, etching, etc).
The CEO of Applied Materials, Gary Dickerson, has stated that the 450mm wafer timeline “has definitely been pushed out from a timing standpoint.” That’s incredibly important, because the economics of 450mm wafers were tied directly to the economics of another struggling technology — EUV.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use wafers in a sentence?
That does not even touch the changes in production technology to go from 10 mm Wafers to 300 mm Wafers.
What does wafers mean?
A light, thin, flat biscuit/cookie.
What part of speech is wafers?
wafers is commonly used as noun.