HPIM0602N-channel FET P-channel FET Gate Gate Input Output Ground VCC/Power
This is an example of a "hand drawn" cmos inverter.
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I started with steam thick oxide on a rectangular piece of wafer. All the oxide cuts were made by carefully placing the etchant (no lithography) Diffusion was done with carefully placed boron and phosphorous doping glass emulsion. The contacts and gate electrode were conductive epoxy. It had some interesting characteristics. Example 12v's pinch off on the p transistor and and n transistor that was slightly on between .0v and .1v gate voltage. I won best of show. I was very proud, because it took me 2yrs to find a simple method to do this. Keep an eye out for more chip fab videos at vimeo.com/jeri CommentsBurning Bus Man says:Absolutely fabulous! You have every reason to
feel proud. Keep on moving forward with your
adventures!
old_computers says:OMG you're completely mad!! :-) Very very
cool.
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Absolutely amazing! I've often wondered whether silicon fabrication has been attempted at home. I've done a VLSI course, and that looks just like a hand-drawn version of what we did in Magic!
Are you tempted by lithography, for some more complex circuits? I did a soft lithography lab which involved a dry-film laminate on glass. There are some photos in my photostream. Lamination, exposure and development all used pretty simple equipment and chemistry which could be replicated at home. The mask was outsourced, though, which is a bit of a cheat! Using real ghetto equipment I've had some good results with photolithographic PCB fabrication. With aerosol photoresist and laser-printed transparencies you could probably get features around 0.2mm.
Anyway, first prize well deserved!
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