I know it’s a shitpost but silicon dioxide, which is grown on top of the silicon wafer during manufacturing, is one of the most commonly used piezoelectrics. Every clock and oscillating signal in modern electronics is due to ‘vibrating silicon’.
Chemistry is definitely my weak suit, but I think it’s something about how silicon can arrange in an aromatic ring, and then interacting with each other
There’s silobenzine rings, but I think for a fully silicon one, it would need suspended in an acid so they can interact and (literally) vibrate as a group.
But I think in general, you’re talking about on a macro real world level, and I’m talking about some teeny tiny Ant-Man and the Wasp level shit.
Like, 6-8 silicon atoms hooked up together is going to behavior differently than a lump of a compound contraining other elements…
for a fully silicon one, it would need suspended in an acid so they can interact and (literally) vibrate as a group.
I think there’s something more that you’re trying to communicate here but I’m unsure of what it is. Getting silicon, or semiconductors more generally, to “literally vibrate as a group” is the basis of a significant amount of analog electronics, MEMS, NEMS, etc. most notably in RF signal chains and the like. Do you have a link to where this comes from or something?
you’re talking about on a macro real world level
We’re talking at about the same scale of microtubules with 101 nm feature size and 101 um component size. I used the example I did because it scales nicely to real world level where most people will have encountered it and so be somewhat familiar with. The primary differences I see are of dimension (semiconductor manufacturing methods can’t do “true 3d”) and of medium.
lump of a compound contraining other elements
That’s how silicon semiconductors work and how that “semi” part gets controlled.
I know it’s a shitpost but silicon dioxide, which is grown on top of the silicon wafer during manufacturing, is one of the most commonly used piezoelectrics. Every clock and oscillating signal in modern electronics is due to ‘vibrating silicon’.
Chemistry is definitely my weak suit, but I think it’s something about how silicon can arrange in an aromatic ring, and then interacting with each other
There’s silobenzine rings, but I think for a fully silicon one, it would need suspended in an acid so they can interact and (literally) vibrate as a group.
But I think in general, you’re talking about on a macro real world level, and I’m talking about some teeny tiny Ant-Man and the Wasp level shit.
Like, 6-8 silicon atoms hooked up together is going to behavior differently than a lump of a compound contraining other elements…
I think there’s something more that you’re trying to communicate here but I’m unsure of what it is. Getting silicon, or semiconductors more generally, to “literally vibrate as a group” is the basis of a significant amount of analog electronics, MEMS, NEMS, etc. most notably in RF signal chains and the like. Do you have a link to where this comes from or something?
We’re talking at about the same scale of microtubules with 101 nm feature size and 101 um component size. I used the example I did because it scales nicely to real world level where most people will have encountered it and so be somewhat familiar with. The primary differences I see are of dimension (semiconductor manufacturing methods can’t do “true 3d”) and of medium.
That’s how silicon semiconductors work and how that “semi” part gets controlled.