Silicon Run I Questions

1. Instead of fiberglass, what is the base material used to make ICs?

2. Silicon is a common element found in ___________.

3. How many electrons are in the silicon atoms outer shell?

4. Adding dopants does what to conductivity?

5. How many types of dopants are there?

6. How long does it take to grow the single crystal?

7. Silicon crystal forms as a symmetric extension of the small single piece of silicon crystal called a _________.

8. What is a wafer?

9. Is a wafer design separated into functional blocks similar to a circuit board? True/False

10. CMOS (Complimentary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) turns an P channel transistor ON when the N channel transistor is turned OFF.
True/False

11. Patterns on chrome plated glass plates are etched by an Electron Beam. True/False

12. The chrome on glass becomes a mask to expose photoresist, similar to a photo-tool in lab. True/False

13. How many masks are typically used to for an IC?

14. What is silicon dioxide?

15. How is silicon dioxide grown?

16. What material is used to transfer the first mask image onto a wafer?

17. How is the image from the mask exposed onto the wafer?

18. What does the Negative resist do when exposed to light?

19. In the video, they used which type resist, Negative or Positive?

20. What does the Positive resist do when exposed and developed?

21. To get an etch without undercutting, what type etching do they use?

22. What type of atoms are used in the plasma etcher?

23. Stenciled Silicon Dioxide layer serves what purpose?

24. Ion implantation is used to do what to a wafer?

25. Diffusing the dopants into the wafer creates what?

26. Between each layer, what material is used to transfer the image?

27. Silicon Dioxide prevents leakage of current. True/False

28. The width of the gate electrodes determine the distance between source and drain and ultimately the speed of the circuit. True/False

29. Polysilicon is made from many separate, tiny crystals of silicon stuck together. True/False
30. What are the hole plugs made from?

31. How many masks are required for each layer of metal applied to the wafer surface?

32. During the last photolithography step, what part of the wafer is etched away?

33. After the silicon run is complete, wafers are __________ ___________ and _____________.

34. Final Question: A MOSFET has three regions; source, gate and drain. Which of three is made of doped poly-silicon? Which two are made of
highly doped silicon?