General Links

• Solid State Technology- an online journal
• EE Times- an online journal
• Semiconductor Subway- links to semiconductor companies & organizations

General Semiconductor Processing

• Intel Museum’s Site on How Chips are Made & How a Transistor Works 

• Infrastructure’s Semiconductor Manufacturing Tutorial 

• The Virtual Cleanroom Tour   

• Case Technologies Links to Over 50 Semiconductor Tutorials 

• CVD tutorial

• Another CVD tutorial

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  Other Sectors That Deposit Thin Films

• IBM’s How a Hard Drive Works (cool videos)

Gas Kinetics

• Interactive Tutorial on Thermo including Maxwell-Distribution

• Java Applet showing how gas collisions give the Maxwell speed distribution

• Tutorial on kinetic molecular theory of gases

• Statistical Mechanics Derivation of the Maxwell-Boltzmann Function

Crystal Structure

• Tutorial on crystal structure

• Definition of lattice and basis

Materials Characterization Sites

• Charles Evans: What is surface techniques?

• Tutorial on Surface Analysis Techniques

• Accurel's Company Site: Click on any of their services.  They have brief 'What is' pages for each analysis technique.

Semiconductors Physics/Transistors

• Lucent Technologies: The Invention of the Transistor 
• PBS’s Tutorial on the Transistor 
• Brittany Spear's Guide to Semiconductor Physics - believe it or not there is real info on this site...
• Semiconductor Materials and Devices - excellent animations of crystal structure, semiconductor band gaps, and pn junction (shows leakage, generation, etc...)
• Interactive Tutorial on Electricity, Magnetism, and Transistors
• Semiconductor & Electron Fundamentals- good diagrams, includes solved problems and sample questions

• American Microsemiconductor Transistor Tutorials

Materials Engineering Links

• SJSU's Microelectronics Program
• SJSU's World of Materials

• The MATTER project homepage

• Careers in Materials Science and Engineering

• Materials Research Society Materials Links

• Materials Science & Polymer Science Learning Centers

San Jose State University
Materials Engineering 270
Methods of Thin Film Deposition
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