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Making an Integrated Circuit

John C. Bean - WeCanFigureThisOut.org

This podcast is drawn from the "Virtual Lab" of WeCanFigureThisOut.org. This Virtual Lab uses 3D virtual reality animations to explain electronics, microelectronics and nanotechnology. This...

Episodes

18 episodes

Let's go inside an Intel 4004 microprocessor to see an individual transistor

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0:13Jul 24, 2017

To make this transistor, first oxide then nitride layers are grown

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0:11Jul 24, 2017

A shadow mask then exposes a photographic emulsion

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0:12Jul 24, 2017

Exposed nitride is then etched away

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0:07Jul 24, 2017

Oxygen reacts with the Si to grow more oxide

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0:12Jul 24, 2017

By heating in silane, polycrystal Si is then grown

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0:04Jul 24, 2017

A stripe is exposed in a second photographic emulsion

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0:10Jul 24, 2017

Exposed polycrystal Si is etched away leaving the transistor gate

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0:09Jul 24, 2017

Phosphorus ions then penetrate thin oxide to create the source and drain

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0:12Jul 24, 2017

Heating in oxygen grows an insulating coat on the gate

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0:06Jul 24, 2017

A third photographic emulsion defines windows above the source and drain

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0:10Jul 24, 2017

Openings are then etched in the exposed oxide

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0:07Jul 24, 2017

Metal is sprayed on to the surface

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0:03Jul 24, 2017

A fourth photographic emulsion is patterned

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0:10Jul 24, 2017

Unwanted metal is etched away completing the transistor

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0:09Jul 24, 2017

And finally, here is the circuit symbol for the transistor

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0:08Jul 24, 2017

This podcast is drawn from the Virtual Lab presentations of WeCanFigureThisOut.org. The copyrighted material of this site was developed under funding from National Science Foundation CCLI, NIRT, MRSEC and NUE programs. This project is led by John C. Bean

This podcast is drawn from the "Virtual Lab" of WeCanFigureThisOut.org. This Virtual Lab uses 3D virtual reality animations to explain elect...

0:33Jul 24, 2017

All of the scenes together

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3:09Jul 24, 2017