silicon-on-sapphire

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silicon-on-sapphire [′sil·ə·kən ȯn ′sa‚fīr]

(electronics)

A semiconductor manufacturing technology in which metal oxide semiconductor devices are constructed in a thin single-crystal silicon film grown on an electrically insulating synthetic sapphire substrate. Abbreviated SOS.

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