UniversityWafer supplies high-quality monocrystalline silicon wafers for semiconductor fabrication, MEMS, photonics, power electronics, microfluidics, sensors, and university research. Choose from standard or custom wafer diameters, crystal orientations, conductivity types, dopants, resistivities, thicknesses, and polished surface finishes to meet your exact device fabrication requirements.
UniversityWafer supplies high-quality monocrystalline silicon wafers for semiconductor fabrication, MEMS, photonics, microelectronics, sensors, solar cells, and university research. Whether you need standard substrates or custom specifications, our engineering team can help you select the ideal wafer for your process.
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"Our research group is fabricating MEMS pressure sensors and requires 100 mm <100> p-type silicon wafers with a resistivity of 1–10 Ω·cm, 525 µm thickness, double-side polished surfaces, and prime-grade quality. Please provide pricing, lead time, and available quantities for prototype fabrication."
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Silicon wafers are the most widely used substrates in the semiconductor industry, providing the foundation for integrated circuits, MEMS devices, power electronics, photonic components, sensors, and solar cells. Their excellent electrical properties, mechanical strength, thermal stability, and abundance make monocrystalline silicon the preferred material for research, prototype development, and high-volume manufacturing.
High-purity silicon is refined and grown into a single-crystal ingot using the Czochralski (CZ) or Float Zone (FZ) process. The ingot is then sliced into thin wafers, lapped, chemically etched, polished, and thoroughly cleaned to produce substrates with exceptional flatness and low surface roughness. Depending on the application, wafers may be supplied as prime, test, reclaimed, or mechanical grade.
Silicon wafers are used throughout semiconductor fabrication for CMOS integrated circuits, MEMS sensors, RF devices, photonic integrated circuits, microfluidic devices, biosensors, wafer bonding, thin-film deposition, oxidation studies, lithography process development, and advanced packaging. They are also widely used in university laboratories for materials science, nanotechnology, and device characterization.
Selecting the proper silicon wafer depends on your fabrication process and device requirements. Important considerations include crystal orientation, conductivity type, resistivity, thickness, surface finish, wafer diameter, dopant species, and whether the substrate requires thermal oxide, epitaxial silicon, silicon nitride, or other deposited films. UniversityWafer supplies custom silicon wafers manufactured to meet both research and production specifications.