Electronic Materials Management and Simulation Laboratory Improvement

在可预见的未来，电子材料(包括薄膜金属化、半导体和高温超导体)将继续在我国的技术发展中发挥主导作用。达特茅斯大学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获得继续担任领导职务所需的卓越培训。电子材料的测量将首先通过购买椭圆仪来加强，以表征在材料实验室制造的薄膜。第二，现有的电容-电压测量能力将升级为具有成本效益的最先进系统。第三，通过构建具有高灵敏度和光谱能力的光子测量系统，将促进材料光学性质新课程的发展。最后，通过对我们现有的以工作站为基础的计算机实验室北极星计划的试验性改进，材料的电子和机械性能的教学将得到改善。将使用Silicon Graphics工作站开发试点软件，以基于用户提供的固态晶体结构和用户选择的物理模型来显示材料的能带结构或机械应力属性。

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.