Comment by exabrial
I have a dumb question. Why isn't silicon sold in cubes instead of cylinders?
I have a dumb question. Why isn't silicon sold in cubes instead of cylinders?
Crystalline silicon is produced with the Czochralski process (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czochralski_method), which produces a round ingot. So you'd have to cut away perfectly fine silicon to make something squarish.
no matter how you orient a circle on a plane, it's the same
The silicon ingots have a rotating production process that results in cylinders, not bricks.