Electronic Materials Management and Simulation Laboratory Improvement

电子材料（包括薄膜金属化， 半导体和高温超导体）将 继续在我们国家的技术领域发挥主导作用， 在可预见的未来的发展。 达特茅斯的毕业生 在过去的这些发展中发挥了主导作用。 这些 改进将确保我们的学生有上级培训 需要继续担任领导职务。 测量 电子材料的使用将首先通过购买 椭圆计，以表征薄膜中制造的 材料实验室。 二、现有电容电压 测量能力将升级为具有成本效益， 最先进的系统 第三，开发新课程， 材料的光学性质将通过构造而增强 具有高灵敏度的光子测量系统， 光谱能力。 最后，电子教学 材料的力学性能将得到改善 对现有的工作站计算机进行试验性改进 实验室，北极星计划。 Silicon Graphics工作站 将用于开发飞行员软件，以显示能量带 材料的结构或机械应力特性，基于 用户提供的固态晶体结构和用户选择的 物理模型

Electronic materials (including thin film metallization, semiconductors, and high temperature superconductors) will continue to play a dominant role in our nation's technological development for the foreseeable future. Dartmouth graduates have played leading roles in these developments in the past. These improvements will ensure our students have the superior training needed to continue to command leadership positions. Measurement of electronic materials will be enhanced first by purchase of an ellipso-meter to characterize thin films fabricated in the materials laboratories. Second, existing capacitance-voltage measurement capability will be upgraded to a cost-effective, state-of-the-art system. Third, development of a new course in optical properties of materials will be enhanced by construction of a photon measurement system with high sensitivity and spectrographic capability. Finally, teaching of the electronic and mechanical properties of materials will be improved by a pilot enhancement to our existing workstation-based computer laboratory, Project NORTHSTAR. A Silicon Graphics workstation will be used to develop pilot software to display the energy band structure or mechanical stress properties of a material, based on a user-supplied solid-state crystal structure and user-selected physical models.