A raw silicon crystal. [4032x3024 - 1.52MB]

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The molten silicon slowly aggregates and coalesces - in effect expanding the dimensions of the single crystal lattice.

Yup. Czochralski method for growing high purity silicon boules (ingots). It is a fascinating process. I also like the epitaxial growth process that works similarly to how snowflakes grow from a seed crystal and arrange themselves in the crystals lattice as more atoms are vapor deposited onto the substrate. The physics that goes into electronics technology is so fucking amazing.

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You tell a good story. I did not know that.

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Crazy how we tricked these rocks into thinking

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We did it by putting lightning inside those rocks.

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Nah, the magic smoke is what we put inside to make it work.

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Now make it do pixie magic.

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I used to take home pieces of wafers that had broken between the polishing process and the oxidation process and use them as front reflective mirrors for my home laser light show. They weighed very little because they were so thin, and I could glue them to motor shafts and speaker coils and shit like that.

Parts of the wafer processing path that I've built capital equipment for: Oxidation, dicing, packaging, and probe testing. Started out die-pressing lead frames at Plessey Microscience, then I made high pressure oxidation and doping chambers, made a hydraulic scoring machine and a fracturing machine, then I got into making automated Probers. After about ten years of that I left the Capital Equipment sector.

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Plessey

One of the elder gods. Very nice.

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Niggers killed Plessey's Mountain View operation on Ortega Drive, by the way. After I'd left there I still had friends working there, and they told me as it unfolded, how a small group of niggers from one of the manufacturing floors started a serious union organizing drive. A couple of weeks after the niggers had held their little meeting, Plessey announced that they were closing that site and moving its operations to an overseas plant.

Niggers have done untold damage to our economy with their lazy greedy niggershines.