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Wafer
Substrate for integrated-circuit fabrication
Short definition
A thin substrate on which integrated circuits are manufactured. Silicon wafers are sliced from a crystalline ingot and their surfaces prepared for processing. Many circuits are formed on one wafer before they are separated into individual chips.
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- Samsung, creating a wafer, 22 April 2015Ingots, slicing and individual circuits formed on a wafer.