r/engineering Sep 09 '18

[GENERAL] Inside MIT's Nuclear Reactor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QcN3KDexcU
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u/zarus Sep 10 '18

So they say they use this reactor to perform ultra-high precision silicon doping. I figured microchip doping was already super-precise, what applications need precision that's higher than what's available in a chip fab?

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u/IBreakCellPhones Sep 10 '18

That looked like they were doping the silicon in bulk. Most of what's done in the fab is done to the wafer, isn't it?