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Turning Ordinary Silicon Wafers Into Working Solar Cells With a Microwave Kiln

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Silicon wafers sit in online carts for a few dollars, plain p-type disks cut from larger crystal ingots and free of any factory patterns. A short score with a diamond or silicon-carbide scribe splits them into small squares a few millimeters across, then a rinse in isopropyl alcohol and distilled water clears the dust left […]

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Breaking Taps Designed a Working Silicon Chip and Got It Back Alive

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Zachary Tong had never designed a chip. He had never programmed an FPGA either, and he will tell you his electrical skills were rough. With about a month left before the first wafer.space deadline, he still decided to write a microprocessor, send the file to a real foundry, and wait to see if silicon came […]

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