The six-inch silicon wafers displayed in MIT.nano's first floor cleanroom window were fabricated as part of virtual and in-person introductions to thin-film deposition, lithography, and etching processes at the micro- and nanoscale. Led by MIT.nano Associate Director for Fab.nano Jorg Scholvin, students in MIT undergraduate classes and high school programs learned about MIT.nano’s capabilities and experienced firsthand how to etch an image onto a silicon wafer. These types of techniques are used in many different micro/nano devices, such as the signal wiring in integrated circuits.
Classes that are memorialized on wafers in the window:
6.152J Spring 2021 & 2022
This class—Micro/Nano Processing Technology—is offered jointly by the departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and Materials Science and Engineering (DMSE). Students work in the cleanroom to build solar cells, followed by a choices of cantilever beams, microfluidic devices, and thin-film transistors. The solar-cell wafers have space to add a small individual image, which we aggregated here into a single wafer for the whole class.
Read about the 2019 6.152J class at MIT News.
NEET Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Spring 2022
Open to all first-year students, the New Engineering Education Transformation (NEET) program is a certificate program administered by the MIT School of Engineering. It is organized into sub-groups that each have a specific technical focus.
IAP 2021 & 2022
MIT's Independent Activities Period takes place every January and is open to all members of the MIT community. Jorg Scholvin leads a hands-on virtual fabrication class, in which participants virtually follow Jorg through MIT.nano's cleanroom. Over the three-hour period, a series of screenshots of the Zoom participants are exposed, developed, and etched on a silicon wafer.
Read about the 2021 class at MIT News. | Watch the 2022 recording.
WTP July 2021
The MIT Women's Technology Program (WTP) is a rigorous four-week summer academic experience to introduce high school students to engineering through hands-on classes, labs, and team-based projects.
EE FPOP Fall 2021
The electrical engineering (EE) freshmen pre-orientation program (FPOP) introduces incoming first years to EE labs and equipment, professors, and the city of Cambridge. Watch a video of the 2021 group photo being etched onto the silicon wafer now hanging in the window of MIT.nano.
3.001 Spring 2021 & 2022
Introduction to Materials Science & Engineering taught by Frances Ross, the Ellen Swallow Richards Professor in Materials Science and Engineering.
2.674 Spring 2022
Micro/Nano Engineering Laboratory taught by Mechanical Engineering Professors Sang-Gook Kim and Nicholas Fang.