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GaN grown on silicon: what does the substrate contribute and what does it cost? Why is almost everything still built on silicon rather than germanium or gallium arsenide? What purity does electronic-grade polysilicon need before it can be crystallized? Why did the industry settle on 300mm wafers instead of moving to 450mm? Why does silicon refuse to emit light and what do engineers use instead? Silicon on insulator: what does the buried oxide layer actually solve? Why do epitaxial wafers cost so much more than polished ones? What limits the reuse of reclaimed and recycled wafers? How does a silicon photonics modulator reach 100 Gbps on a CMOS-compatible process? How is a monocrystalline silicon ingot grown and why does the seed crystal matter? Why does silicon photonics need III-V material bonded on top to make a laser? What does an SOI platform give photonic waveguides that bulk silicon cannot? What is the yield problem with III-V lasers bonded onto silicon? What makes float-zone silicon different from Czochralski silicon? How does mechanical strain make electrons move faster through silicon?

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