Sentence examples for block of silicon from inspiring English sources
You get a block of silicon, but the crystal structure is random.
But Twin Creeks says it has developed a method for shooting protons, which are essentially hydrogen atoms, into a block of silicon, embedding them to the precise depth desired and then heating the protons so they take up more space.
They were four millimetres square no wider than a "W" on this page and manufactured from a block of silicon that had been sliced, chemically treated, and then etched in acid, until the surface resembled a minuscule bed of nails.
The nucleus will spit out a few neutrons to shed excess energy before arriving at the detector, a heavily instrumented block of silicon.
While this is an almost unimaginable technological achievement in its own right a human hair is about one micron in diameter the current top-of-the-line central processing unit crams so many transistors onto this block of silicon that the chip itself had to be relatively enormous.
They feature in everything from toys to tanks and motorbikes to microwaves but when, in 1952, the engineer Geoffrey Dummer proposed using a block of silicon, whose layers would provide the components of electronic systems, nobody took him seriously and he never built a working prototype.
ASICs are etched from blocks of silicon with microscopic precision.
Many competitors saw blocks of silicon into wafers; that creates waste in the same way a lumberyard spits out sawdust.
The current generation of accelerometers are tiny blocks of silicon carved out of wafers using many of the same techniques used to create transistors and circuitry.
Taking the science behind the Pentagon's cloaking device, they came up with a technology that replaces the solder, pins and wiring of the conventional computer with Lego-like blocks of silicon stuck to a Velcro-like metamaterial board that can wirelessly transmit or conduct both data and power.
Transistors are tiny switches that are used as the fundamental building blocks of silicon chips.
