During the past year, PEAQS students at Fort Lewis College (FLC), Durango, CO have successfully fabricated functional Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistors (MOSFETs).  MOSFETs are key components in digital and analog circuits, with modern smartphone processors containing around 15 billion of them. Under the direction of Professor Jeff Jessing, a group of engineering students for their senior capstone project fabricated in FLC’s NanoLab the first functional MOSFETs in the greater Four Corners region.  This milestone brings FLC into an exclusive club being the smallest undergraduate-only program in the country that can make transistors completely in-house.  This capability provides educational and research opportunities for our students that can springboard them into graduate school and industry in the fields of semiconductors, quantum, and materials science. The funding from the NSF PREM program was a key component in this effort.

Dr. Jessing with senior seminar undergraduate team that successfully fabricated transistors in house.
Dr. Jessing with senior seminar undergraduate team that successfully fabricated transistors in house.