Silicon on sapphire is a hetero-epitaxial process for metal–oxide–semiconductor integrated circuit manufacturing that consists of a thin layer of silicon grown on a sapphire wafer. SOS is part of the
In electronics, a wafer is a thin slice of semiconductor, such as a crystalline silicon, used for the fabrication of integrated circuits and, in photovoltaics, to manufacture solar cells.
Silicon on sapphire
…MOS) integrated circuit (IC) manufacturing that consists of a thin layer (typically thinner than 0.6 μm) of silicon grown on a sapphire (Al 2O 3) wafer. SOS is part of the silicon-on-insulator (SOI) family of CMOS (complementary MOS) technologies. Typically, high-purity artificially grown sapphire…