Waarom het voor materialen van belang is
Modern logic uses about two-thirds of the stable elements somewhere in its process flow. Purity, not tonnage, is the constraint: parts per billion matter, and only a handful of suppliers on Earth can hold that specification.
Waaruit het bestaat
Alle materialen →| Materiaal | Wat het hier doet | Belang |
|---|---|---|
| Copper kritiek | On-chip interconnect | Definiëren |
| Gallium kritiek | Compound semiconductors for RF and power | Definiëren |
| Hafnium kritiek | High-k transistor gate dielectric | Definiëren |
| High-Purity Quartz | Crucibles for crystal growth | Definiëren |
| Silicon kritiek | The wafer | Definiëren |
| Tungsten kritiek | Contacts and vias | Definiëren |
| Arsenic kritiek | Dopant and GaAs | Belangrijk |
| Cobalt kritiek | Liner and interconnect at small nodes | Belangrijk |
| Germanium kritiek | SiGe transistors and optics | Belangrijk |
| Gold | Bonding and plating | Belangrijk |
| Helium | Cooling and leak detection | Belangrijk |
| Indium kritiek | Transparent contacts and III-V devices | Belangrijk |
| Ruthenium kritiek | Interconnect at the smallest nodes | Belangrijk |
| Silicon Carbide & Abrasives | Silicon carbide power devices and wafer polishing | Belangrijk |
| Tantalum kritiek | Diffusion barrier and capacitors | Belangrijk |
| Tin kritiek | EUV light source and solder | Belangrijk |
Copper
The reddish metal that carries electricity better than anything except silver, and which humans have been smelting…
Gallium
A silvery metal that melts in your hand, and the basis of the compound semiconductors in fast chargers, radar and…
Hafnium
Zirconium's chemical shadow — always found with it, almost impossible to separate from it, and the opposite of it in…
High-Purity Quartz
Quartz sand so free of other elements that it can be melted into the crucible a silicon crystal is grown inside.
Silicon
The second-most-common element in the Earth's crust — ordinary sand — purified until only one atom in a billion is…
Tungsten
The metal with the highest melting point of them all — you can heat it to 3,400 C before it turns liquid.
