Wafer

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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Notion

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Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

In electronics, a wafer (also called a slice or substrate) is a thin slice of semiconductor, such as a crystalline silicon (c-Si, silicium), used for the fabrication of integrated circuits and, in photovoltaics, to manufacture solar cells.

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