Making an Integrated Circuit

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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 podcast explains how the transistors of an integrated circuit are made.

24/07/2017 · VIDEO

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

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13 sec
24/07/2017 · VIDEO

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

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11 sec
24/07/2017 · VIDEO

A shadow mask then exposes a photographic emulsion

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12 sec
24/07/2017 · VIDEO

Exposed nitride is then etched away

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7 sec
24/07/2017 · VIDEO

Oxygen reacts with the Si to grow more oxide

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12 sec
24/07/2017 · VIDEO

By heating in silane, polycrystal Si is then grown

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4 sec
24/07/2017 · VIDEO

A stripe is exposed in a second photographic emulsion

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10 sec
24/07/2017 · VIDEO

Exposed polycrystal Si is etched away leaving the transistor gate

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9 sec

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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 podcast explains how the transistors of an integrated circuit are made.

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Making an Integrated Circuit

Making an Integrated Circuit

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

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

A shadow mask then exposes a photographic emulsion

Exposed nitride is then etched away

Oxygen reacts with the Si to grow more oxide

By heating in silane, polycrystal Si is then grown

A stripe is exposed in a second photographic emulsion

Exposed polycrystal Si is etched away leaving the transistor gate

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Making an Integrated Circuit

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

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

A shadow mask then exposes a photographic emulsion

Exposed nitride is then etched away

Oxygen reacts with the Si to grow more oxide

By heating in silane, polycrystal Si is then grown

A stripe is exposed in a second photographic emulsion

Exposed polycrystal Si is etched away leaving the transistor gate

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