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My how times have changed....

I keep a photo from the past days when I was working for Micron, of a TEM cross section. I did take a lot of TEM cross sections that summer, but I'm pretty sure it was one of the more skilled tech's who actually took the photo, but

So the electron microscopist in our group and I started talking about the nuances of the photo, and the relative merits of LOCOS (old) versus STI (new), Floating Capacitors (old) versus trench capactitors (even newer)

 

Anyhow so it got me looking again, and thinking, and wondering just how far from the semiconductor industry I have come in all these years.

From patent #4803535, US patent office

 

 

Of course diagrams like this remind me of what happened the first time I was working for Micron Technology, and I was trying to figure out for the life of me, what kind of structures I was looking at. So like any geeky college student I brought out some lecture notes from one of the classes which I'd taken the previous year, and the day which we spent on processing.

As it happened my boss at the time (a PhD) looked at the course notes which I was getting it from, and then looked at it again strangly... Then REALLY looked at it, and said "where'd you get that from"

Apparently he'd given a talk maybe a year ago at a conference, and my prof had either been there, or gotten a hold of the presentation material. And had duplicated the documents and included it into his coursework. After looking again at the documents, there was even a credit at the bottom of the document, which identified the author as none other than... my boss. Duly credited, no plagarism there.

However as a result, I did learn quite a bit

That time at Micron, I was also called a few months after I'd left, because they were concerned about some drawings for the tripod polisher base modifications which one of the tech's at Micron had come up with, it was a very clever idea, and I'd hoped that they'd patented it. Only a couple years later when I looked through the FA lab at Digital Equipment and saw that they had done their own modifications to the polishing jig. So it might have been a company secret I managed to take, while cleaning out the office at the end of the internship.

March 3, 2006