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Opaque Intel chips?

I wonder why Intel chips are opaque (doped silicon?). Pentium 2, Pentium 4, Core 2, Sandy- / Ivy-Bridge, Haswell and more, all of them are opaque and dark. What typ of silicon is Intel using for his wafers? Just Kaby-Lake has a better transmission (Coffee-Lake not tested).

 

It seems like all modern chips from Global Foundries and TSMC are transparent @ wavelength +1050nm.

 

*removed TIM passivation layers by sanding and lapping the surface

 

*2 sanded and lapped surface

 

*3 blank chip without transistors (old etching failure)

 

t=thickness

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Uploaded on December 28, 2018
Taken on December 28, 2018