This setup is beyond words and the way you organized is outstanding, from safety to experiments.This video will always reminds me days of Shockley an early days of semiconductors
Wow! I both admire and envy this. Thank your parents as many times as possible please. If I got any of this stuff they would complain that I'm wasting money and would hurt myself or burn the house down. Got very little encouragement back then. Still kinda do..... Even though I work for what I have and finished college. Keep up the great work. You're going places. :-)
That vacuum chamber brings back so many memories of my internship at a research facility. We had most of that same equipment. Never thought I'd see it again in someone's garage.
Somebody get this guy a Flux Capacitor and a DeLorean! In all seriousness, genuinely outstanding work. Just read a Wired story about you and I’m a fan. You will go far, please teach others, and help the world with what you learn. I’ll watch for you.
Wow, your lab/shop is really impressive. Way to go! I like some of the improvised mounts and systems and I am personally working on a boom for a stereo microscope and found humorous the vise boom. Never thought of that way. I used to perform audits in Ag, Food and Drugs... so I have this impulse where my only observation is PPE and ventilation. Be safe and keep the work flowing. Way awesome!
ECG book had tens of thousands of different ics in them with diagrams of internal layouts.Use to get them from Randolph and Rice in Louisville and later in Nashville from Randolph and Randolph. Politicians decided to give our technology to Japan to help their economy and thus started the throw away economy. TVs were average 800.in late 1970's and early 80s bought many a 1000 PIV diode for repair of lightening surge voltage at 8 cents each. Use to be many tv repairmen and TVs got fixed, not thrown away! The good old days when there was only 1 kind of electronic solder and you didn't need an oven to control cool down times for ics with different mix solders for right temp mix so you didn't destroy ic or get a cold joint in a short period of time.
Super cool man! I am temporarily working in the clean room for a tool-install for a semiconductor fab. The machines they use are absolutely incredible and the knowledge of the folks that do this stuff is amazing. I love seeing the same machines and processes done in a DIY fashion. Keep it up! Whats your background with this? I assume you have worked in a fab or currently do?
This is all fantastic, but is this really at your _home_? I think you may have crossed the line into having your own Private Research Lab, rather than a "home lab." Regardless, megakudos! And I am _dying_ to see some characteristics of those fets :-)
It does cost a bit, but a lot of equipment can be bought rather cheaply used from old labs, old manufacturer lines, and universities. It is important to have a lot of space to organize everything nicely. A lot of control stuff can be done cheaply these days from scratch using arduinos and rasberrys, and few off the shelf stuff and proper not that hard to write software. Finding a microscope or a high quality vacuum chamber is hard, but all doable.
Hey Sam, it's really great what you're doing here! Would it work to use a CNC or scanning UV laser to expose the photo resist instead of the DLP? People have done that for PCBs, and in fact I'm fixing up to do that myself for PCB solder mask exposure with a scanning focused 405nm UV laser diode and laser printer scanning optics.
I really want to start a Semi Fab business, and the obvious first step for me, is to start at home- then expand from there. I'm a layman and a hobbyist and a big problem I- we, have in my country- and area of the world, is that electronic components are relatively expensive since they need to be imported and you don't always get what you want- you have to sometimes order and wait a few weeks. Our economic supply still rely mostly on Importing. My country is at the start of the Manufacturing phase in our development- having moved out of the almost complete reliance on Agriculture relatively recently, Electronics have become my passion and I see this as a great opportunity to supplement the various industries and also to develop a business. My question is- starting out- at the technical level, what education/knowledge do I need to start a semiconductor fabrication business? I'm thinking, I need a degree/diploma or equivalent in Chemistry, and Electrical Engineering? Is this correct, or are those a bit overkill? Time is always of the essence... What else- apart from the business aspect, is needed? Thank you for your time.
That modified optics looks like it has a roll of tape on it... Is that what you did? Really awesome that you've tried to do this, never thought anyone would go this far.
13:43 i noticed you havent been making any videos lately. is this related? im actually working on putting together a setup based on some of your designs, and i think this stuff is super cool! thanks so much for the videos and the hard work!!
U are the Grate Sam I want to learn some Electronic Skills from u but I m From Pakistan I love Electronics very much But we don't have that much innovation in technology
WOW! its crazy how we take for granted, the tech we use to make IC's and microchips. Not only electrical theory, but chemistry goes into fabrication of microelectronics. Once the knowlege is forgotten, its surely gone.
Wow, I wish I had the space and the time to make a hobby out of chip making. Please continue to share! I feel like you could inspire a lot of people, the whole thing seems to be ver intimidating, but not impossible. I am sure more videos would help educate others and help them feel confident enough to try this!
hello, great video. I am trying to make a photomask by sputtering chrome on a piece of glass or acetate. Next, an conventional artwok acetate sheet featuring the larger layout will to be placed in front of a basic lens setup so UV light passing through it can reach the chromed piece covered by photoresist. will it work for a 25-50micron final imprinted feature ? appreciate any suggestion
No not many have, I have considered it, etching shouldn't be a problem, if anyone has an electron microscope, they can modify it to etch at scales of less than 5 nm, the problem is he heavy machinery needed for sputtering and deposition of conducting material. Also alignment, but you can buy nanometer precision alignment tables.
So cool man.... I just want to what are u going to do in this lab.... I mean how that is going to help u... Please tel me... Im also curious to know Are u only make for youtube....!????
I wonder if this setup would allow me to copy some of the chips off the SGI Tezro. After they went belly up and merged with Rackspace to form new SGI, they stopped making the Tezros, and some of the chips were unique to them so you can't assemble them from parts. Might be possible to copy hard-to-find C64 chips, too.
Kinda late to this but when you mentioned HF, I'm so eager to do a NurdRage style warning/disclaimer. "Warning! This is some crazy ass lethal shit. If you touch hydrofluoric acid YOU WILL DIE! (painfully)"
In fact, I am working on a DC sputtering DIY (already working) and RF sputtering for isolating materials deposition and the sputtering guns. We can exchange some info. Are you a graduate student?
Really great! But i don´t get it at long last.Is this a hobby or part of a professional,commercial(educational?) business? O.K. some people rebuild or restaurate old technics like oldtimer ,planes or so .So why not 70/80ies-electronics one could say. Btw.: A (electronic?)-microscope would be interesting to show the result. Some years ago i decappted someold chips up to mid-90ies mechanically when you still could see the structures. Looks very interesting under a 1000X-microscope
You say that you don't see other people doing this, I say to you whenever you buy a piece of equipment you need to get an extra one and mail it to me. I'd love to be making semi conductors there's a back order of PlayStations for days because of the global shortage of semiconductors. I'm trying to get paid yo
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Very cool! You have built an incredible setup!
Thanks Ben! I appreciate it.
You know you've made great waves when Mr. Krasnow compliments you ^_^
I was just thinking this is the best project Ive come across since your electron microscope!
If you really want to define your structure implement bowlshape magnets
This setup is beyond words and the way you organized is outstanding, from safety to experiments.This video will always reminds me days of Shockley an early days of semiconductors
Wow! I both admire and envy this. Thank your parents as many times as possible please. If I got any of this stuff they would complain that I'm wasting money and would hurt myself or burn the house down. Got very little encouragement back then. Still kinda do..... Even though I work for what I have and finished college. Keep up the great work. You're going places. :-)
+CNe7532294 :)
That vacuum chamber brings back so many memories of my internship at a research facility. We had most of that same equipment. Never thought I'd see it again in someone's garage.
Well now you know where all the old equipment when to!
Somebody get this guy a Flux Capacitor and a DeLorean!
In all seriousness, genuinely outstanding work. Just read a Wired story about you and I’m a fan. You will go far, please teach others, and help the world with what you learn. I’ll watch for you.
Proof that no matter what you do, some bastards will always give a thumbs down. This is simply incredible.
Very nice set-up. I've never seen something like this is someone's workshop. Thanks for showing. This is something every EE should have :D
Would your parents
(Benefactors) be interested into adopting yet another son?
Wow, your lab/shop is really impressive. Way to go!
I like some of the improvised mounts and systems and I am personally working on a boom for a stereo microscope and found humorous the vise boom. Never thought of that way.
I used to perform audits in Ag, Food and Drugs... so I have this impulse where my only observation is PPE and ventilation. Be safe and keep the work flowing. Way awesome!
thanks! working with what you have is definitely part of the fun.
You are better than all my professors . I am sorry that I lost 5 years studying at university
You havent lost anything! You learned what not to do in life: A quite important lesson,not everyone is so lucky!
This is awesome! I've worked in a PCB shop that got it's start in a garage, years later they're still standing.
"It would be cool if other people wanted to get into owning a semi conductor lab."
I'd love too but I have 0 knowledge at all
@@jsmeswagner6104 I have some knowledge but not enough money.
@@sethapex9670 how much does it cost?
@@haythamsaleh9491 Probably a good $50k at bare minimum.
@@sethapex9670 the basic stuff is most likely not more than 3k
ECG book had tens of thousands of different ics in them with diagrams of internal layouts.Use to get them from Randolph and Rice in Louisville and later in Nashville from Randolph and Randolph. Politicians decided to give our technology to Japan to help their economy and thus started the throw away economy. TVs were average 800.in late 1970's and early 80s bought many a 1000 PIV diode for repair of lightening surge voltage at 8 cents each. Use to be many tv repairmen and TVs got fixed, not thrown away! The good old days when there was only 1 kind of electronic solder and you didn't need an oven to control cool down times for ics with different mix solders for right temp mix so you didn't destroy ic or get a cold joint in a short period of time.
Super cool man! I am temporarily working in the clean room for a tool-install for a semiconductor fab.
The machines they use are absolutely incredible and the knowledge of the folks that do this stuff is amazing.
I love seeing the same machines and processes done in a DIY fashion. Keep it up!
Whats your background with this? I assume you have worked in a fab or currently do?
This is all fantastic, but is this really at your _home_? I think you may have crossed the line into having your own Private Research Lab, rather than a "home lab." Regardless, megakudos! And I am _dying_ to see some characteristics of those fets :-)
Thanks! Good point... but it's still in my parents garage so I'll count it as a home lab :) here are the FET characteristics sam.zeloof.xyz/fet/
It does cost a bit, but a lot of equipment can be bought rather cheaply used from old labs, old manufacturer lines, and universities. It is important to have a lot of space to organize everything nicely. A lot of control stuff can be done cheaply these days from scratch using arduinos and rasberrys, and few off the shelf stuff and proper not that hard to write software. Finding a microscope or a high quality vacuum chamber is hard, but all doable.
@@SamZeloof your parents house? I was expecting a secret lair beneath a volcano.
Pretty impressive.
I love your content it gives me motivation for my own projects, I think it's important to know how today's devices work and how to make them
Sam, many thanks for your videos. Can you please post a detailed fabrication and testing of nanowire by using your tube furnace.
:D you are living my dream, just discover your channel now. Wish all the best and lots of fun !
Hey Sam, it's really great what you're doing here! Would it work to use a CNC or scanning UV laser to expose the photo resist instead of the DLP? People have done that for PCBs, and in fact I'm fixing up to do that myself for PCB solder mask exposure with a scanning focused 405nm UV laser diode and laser printer scanning optics.
I am literally speechless to what i'm seeing in this video...absolutely amazing work
wow, you've got like at least 15k+++ $ worth of equipment there at least. Really nice!
that vaccum chamber alone is prolly worth 15k
I really want to start a Semi Fab business, and the obvious first step for me, is to start at home- then expand from there.
I'm a layman and a hobbyist and a big problem I- we, have in my country- and area of the world, is that electronic components are relatively expensive since they need to be imported and you don't always get what you want- you have to sometimes order and wait a few weeks. Our economic supply still rely mostly on Importing.
My country is at the start of the Manufacturing phase in our development- having moved out of the almost complete reliance on Agriculture relatively recently, Electronics have become my passion and I see this as a great opportunity to supplement the various industries and also to develop a business.
My question is- starting out- at the technical level, what education/knowledge do I need to start a semiconductor fabrication business? I'm thinking, I need a degree/diploma or equivalent in Chemistry, and Electrical Engineering? Is this correct, or are those a bit overkill? Time is always of the essence...
What else- apart from the business aspect, is needed?
Thank you for your time.
you need to study VLSI
That modified optics looks like it has a roll of tape on it... Is that what you did? Really awesome that you've tried to do this, never thought anyone would go this far.
13:43 i noticed you havent been making any videos lately. is this related? im actually working on putting together a setup based on some of your designs, and i think this stuff is super cool! thanks so much for the videos and the hard work!!
U are the Grate Sam I want to learn some Electronic Skills from u but I m From Pakistan I love Electronics very much But we don't have that much innovation in technology
WOW! its crazy how we take for granted, the tech we use to make IC's and microchips. Not only electrical theory, but chemistry goes into fabrication of microelectronics. Once the knowlege is forgotten, its surely gone.
Deceptively difficult for sure. And this stuff here is early 70s technology. The processes in modern fabs is truly alien-world like.
Just read on IEEE Spectrum about you. You are incredibly innovative. I hope you go on inventing some cooler stuff to help the humanity.
eBay addiction :D
Where did you get the chamber?
Subscribed. This is my dream come true!
I must get started, now that I know it's possible…
Where are you able to buy small quantities of photoresist?
eBay
Dude should open up his own Workshop or Class and make some money. I don't know where he's located, but I'd fly down there in a heartbeat!
I would attend his classes too! - If I can get a place and some tools, I will definitely open an electronics research group…
You’ve just inspired me to do this Man
So So So Impressive Sam...I am now Subscribed...!!!
You've got an amazing home lab. i'm very jealous
You have the greatest garage ever!!! 😄😄😄😄
I wonder what kind of resolution you could get now with an 8k or perhaps even a 16k+ projector if you are blowing money on this sick setup anyway.
Wow, I wish I had the space and the time to make a hobby out of chip making.
Please continue to share! I feel like you could inspire a lot of people, the whole thing seems to be ver intimidating, but not impossible. I am sure more videos would help educate others and help them feel confident enough to try this!
Hey Sam, great video! Have you ever tried making micro electromechanical systems (MEMS)?
what do your parents do? how did you get your influence to do this ?
how the fuck did you get all that equipment?? lol
@@AlanGuo Yea this is unreal, seems like a millon dollars >_>
As a chemist, I see all this beautiful equipment until the chemical cabinet with no analytical grade chems :(
ghetto lab let's gooo
hello, great video. I am trying to make a photomask by sputtering chrome on a piece of glass or acetate. Next, an conventional artwok acetate sheet featuring the larger layout will to be placed in front of a basic lens setup so UV light passing through it can reach the chromed piece covered by photoresist. will it work for a 25-50micron final imprinted feature ? appreciate any suggestion
That'll work, maybe try taking a darkroom photography enlarger and flipping the lens around.
Can't wait to see updates. Subscribed
Awesome overview, but how much was that vacuum chamber?
Thank you，I don’t know what’s I looking for until finding this video
Thanks for sharing your adventure.
How far way is your lab from creating an actual IC (like a small 4-bit accumulator CPU)?
Fantastic and very motivating. I really loved this. Very creative.. Keep it up
No not many have, I have considered it, etching shouldn't be a problem, if anyone has an electron microscope, they can modify it to etch at scales of less than 5 nm, the problem is he heavy machinery needed for sputtering and deposition of conducting material. Also alignment, but you can buy nanometer precision alignment tables.
Very powerful, Shall I and students come to learn how to fab chip? How much is it please? thanks
'tony stark built it in a cave with a box of scraps.'
Wow! Absolutely amazing
So cool man....
I just want to what are u going to do in this lab.... I mean how that is going to help u...
Please tel me...
Im also curious to know
Are u only make for youtube....!????
What else are you going to do with your life... playing video games after sitting in a cubic office all day?
9:03 what HF used as stain remover !!!
I thought ,it is a Deadly acid
You should have a reference on what fellows like you needs especially chemicals
Have you considered using a 4k monochrome sla printer as the projection source with a double fresnel lenses to bring it down to your lense?
I wonder if this setup would allow me to copy some of the chips off the SGI Tezro. After they went belly up and merged with Rackspace to form new SGI, they stopped making the Tezros, and some of the chips were unique to them so you can't assemble them from parts. Might be possible to copy hard-to-find C64 chips, too.
Wow you are amazing bro .
Respect 👍
Come to india, we can start a semiconductor foundry here .....👍👍
+saurabh ** ok on my way
Beyond amazing.
I dreamed of having stuff this as a kid
My university didn't have what you showed in your lab dude. How crazy are you?
Great job mate!! Looks very promising!!
How much for all of this? Thanks.
Seems like a millon dollars >_
Kinda late to this but when you mentioned HF, I'm so eager to do a NurdRage style warning/disclaimer.
"Warning! This is some crazy ass lethal shit. If you touch hydrofluoric acid YOU WILL DIE! (painfully)"
Dude.....😯,that`s awesome!
How much total floor space you needed in square feet to setup?
Would home fabrication of discrete transistors and diodes be simpler?
Nice 👌one idealistic set up lab... For beginners
I wonder how much would cost all this machinery and chemicals in my country shipped.
Alot
Sam zoolof, can u put out a reading list ?
Where did you go to college?
You're my HERO!
Man, you're awesome!!! ❤️
Never forget about safety. Use Softgle Comfort
Very nice. Excellent home lab
In fact, I am working on a DC sputtering DIY (already working) and RF sputtering for isolating materials deposition and the sputtering guns. We can exchange some info. Are you a graduate student?
Good luck with that, sounds like a good plan. No, I have not gone to college yet
TF???
Which is the photoresist coating you use?
Cool, a dream lab in home.
This might sounds stupid.. but is it possible to make integrated circuit with this setup or building on this?
Duh
I want to visit your lab. It's possible?
you're the man!
Really great! But i don´t get it at long last.Is this a hobby or part of a professional,commercial(educational?) business? O.K. some people rebuild or restaurate old technics like oldtimer ,planes or so .So why not 70/80ies-electronics one could say. Btw.: A (electronic?)-microscope would be interesting to show the result. Some years ago i decappted someold chips up to mid-90ies mechanically when you still could see the structures. Looks very interesting under a 1000X-microscope
Thanks for sharing very cool video.
hay are you in some open-hardware foundry foundation??
Wo much did this cost to make a diy IC?
good work
How much does the lab costs?
What knowledge do i need to make semiconductors?
What's the total cost of the equipment?
it is so clean inthere
i admire you. Could you bom these instrument into excel file?
I'm here to learn how to build semiconductor so i can build a ps5.
This is insane!
this is so cool
You say that you don't see other people doing this, I say to you whenever you buy a piece of equipment you need to get an extra one and mail it to me. I'd love to be making semi conductors there's a back order of PlayStations for days because of the global shortage of semiconductors. I'm trying to get paid yo
Can you please recommend some books
?
Wow!
Its Awesome ✨✨✨✨✨
Gigachad HOLY
Good!