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antifuse

A programmable chip technology that creates permanent, conductive paths between transistors. In contrast to "blowing fuses" in the fusible link method, which opens a circuit by breaking apart a conductive path, the antifuse method closes the circuit by "growing" a conductive via. Two metal layers sandwich a layer of non-conductive, amorphous silicon. When voltage is applied to this middle layer, the amorphous silicon is turned into polysilicon, which is conductive.


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The antifuse technology creates closed circuits by turning non-conductive silicon into a conductive via.
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