Welcome to Laser Pointer Forums - discuss green laser pointers, blue laser pointers, and all types of lasers

LPF Donation via Stripe | LPF Donation - Other Methods

Links below open in new window

ArcticMyst Security by Avery

Silicon

Joined
May 4, 2009
Messages
5,443
Points
113
I was over at a friends business and seen this Boule of Silicon sitting in with some scrap metal, so I picked it up
and asked if he knew any thing about it and he only knew it was silicon and offered it to me so I took him up on
it as I didn't have a specimen of silicone yet.


This is a mono crystal of silicon and this is only the bottom end of the crystal it's 3.75" tall and 3.75" wide at it's widest, on the bottom where it was cut from the rest of the crystal, it shatters like glass or flint but is softer.



This is a nice chunk Boule I check about them on you-tube and eBay and found out some very interesting information see here>

Silicon Pulled Single Crystal Test Boule Bottom 140219 003 | eBay

An ingot growing in an oven.


This one explains how the boule is made and then how semi conductor chips are made and how they function.

How chips are made pretty interesting.
 
Last edited:





Joined
Mar 12, 2013
Messages
110
Points
0
Looks like a mini alien spaceship or the mountain from Close Encounters. I'm wondering how a laser beam would react to this.:thinking:
Can you do some test shots?
 

sinner

0
Joined
Oct 27, 2011
Messages
2,565
Points
83
If this is a monocrystal of silicon and it contains a single isotope It is worth a lot of money.
 
Last edited:
Joined
Jul 27, 2007
Messages
3,642
Points
63
*MarioMaster slaps Flaminpyro and Sinner for the use of silicone*

silicon = computer chips
silicone = implants

/grammar nazi


Nice sample of monocrystalline silicon :)
 
Joined
Mar 12, 2013
Messages
110
Points
0
Looks as if the grammer Nazi needs to slap himself, or put his glasses on.:spank:
 
Joined
Jul 27, 2007
Messages
3,642
Points
63
They already fixed it ;)

Got any plans for it? Or just gonna keep it as an element sample?
 





Top