Microelectronics in the Undergraduate Physics Laboratory

我们建议开发四个微电子学和薄膜光学实验室项目，这些项目将纳入麦卡莱斯特学院高级和大二水平的物理实验室。目前，我们的学生很难将教科书中遇到的理论物理与微电子和材料科学等令人兴奋的技术领域联系起来。我们寻求开发的实验室将为基于研究的静电学、现代物理学和固态物理学的探索提供背景，并介绍半导体器件制造的原理。学生将制作工作中的半导体器件，如肖特基二极管和场效应晶体管，并学习描述它们的基本物理学。学生们还将探索电介质薄膜和金属薄膜的光学性质。这个项目的总成本为50,250美元。我们向国家科学基金会申请25,125美元。

We propose to develop four laboratory projects in microelectronics and thin film optics which will be incorporated into the advanced and sophomore level physics laboratories at McAlester College. Currently, our students have difficulty making the connection between the theoretical physics encountered in textbooks and the exciting technological fields of microelectronics and materials science. The labs we seek to develop will provide a context for research based exploration of electrostatics, modern physics and solid-state physics, and provide an introduction to the principles of semiconductor device fabrication. Students will fabricate working semiconductor devices, such as Schottky diodes and Field Effect transistors and investigate the basic physics which describes them. Students will also explore the optical properties of thin dielectric and metal films. The total cost of this project is $50,250. We are requesting $25,125 from the National Science Foundation.