In the article "In Photos: Integrating New Microchips at GW," GW Today spotlights the hands-on experience students gain in Professor Gina Adam’s "Micro and Nanofabrication Techniques" course. Thanks to a partnership with the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) Nanotechnology Xcellerator, Adam received semiconductor chips that students could build upon, learning to design and integrate new structures on top of existing ones to explore their functionality and interplay.
Here is an excerpt from the article: " In Adam’s class, students learned the basics of heterogeneous integration by integrating new devices on the existing microchips. First, they used a computer-assisted design (CAD) program to create their own structures aligned to the designs of the existing structures on the microchip (demonstrated above by Dylan Roberts). Then, they learned how to use specialized micro- and nanofabrication tools to make these structures on test wafers and finally integrated on the microchips."
Read the full article on GW Today.