We recently had a Focused Ion Beam (FIB) microscopy system installed in our
lab - which I've just started to play around with. FIBs are used now
fairly widely in the semiconductor industry to modify prototype chips - you
can etch or deposit metal/insulator at the 100nm scale. Check out
fibics.com for some more info; no relation to me.
I wondered if anyone had any neat ideas of what to do with it?
Both out of interest, and for a demo for some highschool students who will
be here on a Nanotechnology course. I de-capped a ceramic 7401 Quad NAND
and a 7405 Hex Inverter - with the idea of modifying the
functions. However, I can't think of too much to do with either - except
maybe trying to separate the input transistor emitter on each hex inverter
to make it function as a NAND.
Unfortunately these were the only relatively simple chips I had in ceramic
packages - I thought turning a 7409 AND into a 7401 equivalent NAND would
be neat for the students to see - and at a scale they could easily work
with/understand.
Does anyone have any 7409 or 7408, or, a similar ECL, DTL, etc AND in
ceramic packages they'd like to give up?
Control of the system is fully automated; centered around a IBM PowerPC
RS6000 43P running AIX....
T.H.x.
Devon