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Any experts in silicon reclamation?

Seeking for some advice on mono silicon reclamation process?

  • Given the element makes up over 25% of the earths crust, and is very cheap, why would we ? 

    Mike

  • Practicing sustainability would be good even though we have the element abundantly. 

  • At Motorola we had a facility in East Kilbride and a take-back policy for Power transistors ... they could contain Berlyium for example which can be toxic ..  I'd understood it was a zone refining process  to recover impurities and the process can be repeated to produce high purity  semiconductor - grade wafers.

  • Thank you for sharing. Any idea how they inspect the purity of the semiconductor - grade wafers? Any special tools?