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Silicon on insulator — today a standard in the electronics industry — is fast becoming the platform of choice for a photonics-based technological era.

CÉLINE CAILLER, ALAIN DELPY, AND CORRADO SCIANCALEPORE, SOITEC

Silicon has been the mainstay of micro-nanoelectronics since the late 1950s, being widely adopted for electronic devices and complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) technologies. In the early years of the semiconductor industry, germanium was the favored material for electronic applications due to its higher carrier mobility; however, innovations at Bell Labs in surface passivation by thermal oxidation processing enabled a breakthrough in silicon semiconductor technology in the second half of the 1950s. Thermally grown silicon dioxide layers significantly reduce the concentration of...Read full article

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    Published: February 2021
    Glossary
    integrated optics
    A thin-film device containing miniature optical components connected via optical waveguides on a transparent dielectric substrate, whose lenses, detectors, filters, couplers and so forth perform operations analogous to those of integrated electronic circuits for switching, communications and logic.
    wafer
    In the context of electronics and semiconductor manufacturing, a wafer refers to a thin, flat disk or substrate made of a semiconducting material, usually crystalline silicon. Wafers serve as the foundation for the fabrication of integrated circuits (ICs), microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), and other microdevices. Here are key points regarding wafers: Material: Silicon is the most commonly used material for wafer fabrication due to its excellent semiconductor properties, high purity,...
    FeaturessiliconSOISOI CMOSoptical communciationsintegrated opticsCMOSsemiconductor manufacturingwaferOptics

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