{"id":19866,"date":"2018-06-01T14:46:42","date_gmt":"2018-06-01T14:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=19866"},"modified":"2018-06-01T14:46:42","modified_gmt":"2018-06-01T14:46:42","slug":"schoolboy-makes-silicon-chips-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/headlines\/2018\/06\/01\/schoolboy-makes-silicon-chips-at-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Schoolboy makes silicon chips at home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We normally think of silicon chip fabrication as being a cutting-edge practice, requiring huge investments and hundreds of people.<\/p>\n<p>However, we learned recently of Sam Zeloof, a 17-year-old high school student in the USA, who is making his own chips in his garage.<\/p>\n<p>Using ingenuity and equipment purchased via eBay, including things like an electron microscope he bought for less than the cost of shipping, Sam can fabricate features down to about 2 microns, though he says contamination issues mean 10 microns is the practical limit for functioning devices, because, after all, he\u2019s working in a garage, not a clean room\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/semiconductors\/devices\/the-high-school-student-whos-building-his-own-integrated-circuits.amp.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>more details<\/strong><\/a> on the IEEE Spectrum website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We normally think of silicon chip fabrication as being a cutting-edge practice, requiring huge investments and hundreds of people. However, we learned recently of Sam Zeloof, a 17-year-old high school student in the USA, who is making his own chips in his garage. Using ingenuity and equipment purchased via eBay, including things like an electron [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[274,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-page-news","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}