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The 40 pages that link to Silicon, each with the reason it gives.

• Silicate mineralRelated: Its bonding with oxygen creates the structural units characteristic of these minerals.

• MineralRelated: Quartz and other silicate minerals are major sources of industrial silicon.

• Charge-coupled deviceRelated: Most CCD image sensors use silicon, where visible photons generate mobile electrons.

• Solar cellRelated: Its abundance, material properties, and mature processing made it the dominant solar-cell material.

• Silicon carbideRelated: Silicon supplies one of SiC’s two elements and provides a useful comparison for semiconductor behavior.

• Friedrich WöhlerRelated: Wöhler prepared crystalline silicon in 1854 through work on silicon compounds.

• Semiconductor fabricationRelated: Its controllable electrical behavior and mature processing make it the dominant wafer material.

• Quantum efficiencyRelated: Its wavelength-dependent absorption and carrier collection constrain silicon detector efficiency.

• Semiconductor device fabricationRelated: Its crystalline wafers support mature, tightly controlled manufacturing processes.

• Pig ironRelated: Silicon content influences carbon's tendency to form graphite rather than cementite.

• MEMSRelated: Its mechanical properties and mature processing make it a common MEMS substrate.

• Semiconductor deviceRelated: Its mature fabrication technology makes it the leading device material.

• Very-large-scale integrationRelated: Most VLSI chips are fabricated in silicon wafers.

• Silicon nitrideRelated: Silicon atoms form the structural framework of silicon nitride.

• MicromachineryRelated: Its processing compatibility with microelectronics made it a common substrate for miniature mechanical structures.