Undergraduate Research Opportunities in Manufacturing Engineering

Microelectronics Manufacturing
Dan Cole, Associate Professor
http://www.bu.edu/simulation/research.html
dccole@bu.edu

Simulation of Physical Processes in Micro and Nano-Electronics

This research work involves techniques for simulating different physical processes that occur in micro and nano-electronics. A key motivating factor is that experimentation is generally very expensive. Consequently, if simulation exists that is sufficiently accurate, fast, and easy to use, then it can save considerable expense for developing technologies, improving existing ones, and making current technologies more manufacturable. Students with good programming skills and physical insight will find a considerable range of projects that are available.

As an example, an undergraduate recently worked to help develop the java-based simulations of tracking charged particles acted upon by electromagnetic fields. For a second example, an undergraduate (Summer 2006) simulated the stabilization and ionization of what are called Rydberg atoms. A key goal here is to learn, by simulating, how to gain control over chemical reactions using applied electromagnetic fields.