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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a wafer of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a thin, flat piece of something, often in the context of food or materials.
Example: "She enjoyed a wafer of chocolate with her coffee."
Alternatives: "a slice of" or "a piece of".
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Yi began with a wafer of silicon.
A wafer of sweet, nutty biscuit gives crunch.
A wafer of tender pastry held layers of oven-softened apples, a perfect seasonal treat.
I saw it lying on a wafer of silicon and it resembled nothing so much as breath on a windowpane.
Or begin with light, baked crespelle, a wafer of eggplant wrapping a core of spinach and creamy ricotta.
Then, they place the quartz mould on top of a wafer of silicon and press the two together.
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In 1958, Kilby came up with a solution: Put all the components of a circuit on a single wafer of semiconducting crystal such as germanium or silicon.
They laid out tiny gold rings, just 100 microns across, in a grid on a thin wafer of silicon nitride.
The feed is a wafer composed of wheat and other grains, dehydrated alfalfa, and cottonseed meal.
The device can be fabricated in a cheap standard CMOS process, using a wafer made of a moderately doped medium.
Similar to traditional computers, Yacoby's design for a quantum computer begins with a thin wafer of semiconducting material — in this case gallium arsenide — "grown" in the Weizmann Institute.
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