Materials
The most used semiconductor in integrated circuits
What is silicon?
Scanning probe technique that can map height of a sample
atomic force microscopy (AFM)
Lithography technique that circumvents the diffraction limit of light
What is electron beam lithography?
Equation governing evolution of a wavefunction
Schrodinger equation
Acronym for laser
Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
Material used to n-type dope Si?
What is Phosphorous?
tool to image features smaller than the diffraction limit of light
scanning electron microscope
Most conformal thin film deposition technique
Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD)
Strange thing that happens when a wavefunction is measured
Wavefunction collapse
2 terminal device allowing current to flow only one way
diode
2D semimetal material
graphene
tool to image crystal structure
dry etch technique involving confined plasma
inductively coupled plasma etch
most likely value of a given property of a wavefunction to be measured
expectation value
standard 2 bit input gates
NAND, NOR
best metal for integrated circuits
copper
Scanning probe technique based on an unusual quantum behavior
Scanning tunneling microscope
Nanofabrication technique used most importantly in Quantum Cascade Lasers
What is Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE)?
square of wavefunction
probability density function
principle of quantum computing devices currently in industry
superconductivity
property of a material explaining the effect of applying a voltage on the volume of the material
piezoelectricity
tool to measure refractive index of a film
ellipsometer
What is HF?
quantum well with uniform energy level spacing
harmonic oscillator
prediction of scaling for of computer capacity
Moore's Law