Emission Factor
Single-Si wafer - for electronics (single-Si wafer production)
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Emission factor summary
The activity generating the emissions is single-Si wafer production, for electronics. The Reference Product is single-Si wafer, for electronics. This product represents a blank wafer of pure silicon. It is used in the semiconductor industry as a basis onto which integrated circuits are etched through photolithography. The sc-Silicon columns are sawn into square wafers with a size 156x156 mm2 (0.0243 m2), a thickness of 270 um and weight of 629 g/m2. The Reference Product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary transforming activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.12/cutoff/dataset/1787/documentation
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | Single-Si wafer - for electronics (single-Si wafer production) |
| Sector | Equipment |
| Category | Electronics |
| Source | ecoinvent |
| Source Dataset | Cut-off Cumulative LCIA v3.12 |
| Region | |
Unit Type | |
| Year | 1992 |
| Year Released | 2025 |
| Emission Factor |
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| Scopes | 3.1, 3.2 |
LCA Activity | source_specific |
Supported CO2e Calculation Method | AR5, AR6 |
| Data Versioning |
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API Reference
Activity ID
electronics-type_single_si_wafer_for_electronics_single_si_wafer_production_for_electronics
UUID
3aa931b0-1ed4-417e-b945-5d9a07fa1be2
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