Chemical vapor deposition
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Chemical vapor deposition is a thin film deposition method used to produce high-quality, and high-performance, solid materials. The process is often used in the semiconductor industry to produce elect
DC plasma (violet) enhances the growth of carbon nanotubes in a laboratory-scale PECVD (plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition) apparatus
Free-standing single-crystal CVD diamond disc
Colorless gem cut from diamond grown by chemical vapor deposition
Silicon
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Silicon is a chemical element; it has symbol Si and atomic number 14. It is a hard, brittle crystalline solid with a blue-grey metallic lustre, and is a tetravalent non-metal and semiconductor. It is
Jöns Jacob Berzelius discovered silicon in 1823.
Single crystal of silicon grown by the Czochralski process used to make integrated circuits
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