wafer
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Even allowing generously for waste, the whole wafer industry plausibly uses tens of tons a year, not hundreds.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026
However, Child warns that constraints, mainly around wafer capacity, prevent the company from confirming how much of this incremental demand they can currently ship.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
The useful disclosures sit lower down, in terms of how much of each company’s wafer supply is grown in-house and how much comes from China.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026
Lasers use very little by weight: A four-inch indium-phosphide wafer holds roughly 19 grams.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026
He gave Frodo water and an additional wafer of the waybread, and he made a pillow of his cloak for his master’s head.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
Caltech researchers have found a way to move light across silicon wafers with exceptionally little signal loss, reaching levels at visible wavelengths that approach those of optical fiber.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026
They adapt the material to a lithography-based manufacturing method suitable for making devices on wafers.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026
Prices have risen sharply, but the move remains modest when considering what has happened with wafers from suppliers already tested and approved for high-volume laser production.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026
Cylinders of polysilicon called ingots are sliced to form wafers, which are combined to create solar cells and then arranged together to form modules that are placed on racks to generate electricity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
There are few things better than vanilla wafers dunked in milky coffee.
From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez
