De quoi est fait integrated circuit
Many transistors and connections on a single chip.
- Transistor — a pour partie. A chip contains from dozens to billions of transistors.
- Boîtier de puce — a pour partie. A hull.
- Photolithography — utilise. The circuit pattern is transferred by light.
- Salle blanche — utilise. Production in cleanrooms.
- Silicon — est fait de. The die of a chip is made of silicon.
- Silicon wafer — est fait de. Chips are made on wafers.
- Aluminium — est fait de. For decades thin aluminium tracks on the chip connected a microchip's transistors.
- Cuivre — est fait de. Since the late 1990s chip wiring has been copper: it conducts better than aluminium.