How to get teens interested in semiconductor physics!

[FotoPlasma]

I can't claim responsibility for this (sadly), and I'm sure some of you have already seen it, but I just felt like it should be mentioned here.

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Have you ever tried to teach your thirteen year old son or daughter the intracacies of semiconductor physics?

Has your fourteen year old expressed absolutely no interest in photolithography, and high energy laser applications in modern technology?

Is the fact that you have five PhD's in more than two engineering fields, but your children just like to play with crayons and eat paste all day getting you down, too?

Have no fear!

The answers to all of your problems are here!

Introducing...

Britney's Guide to Semiconductor Physics!!!

Now you can teach your MTV-watching, Top40-radio-listening children exactly what you've always known and loved, without alienating them too much!

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Anyway, it's really funny. And interesting.

[Melissa Nute]

That is wrong in so many ways...
maybe b/c I doubt she even knows that stuff...

[Adam Y.]

I win. My website is weirder.
http://aspcr.com/index.html
And there is the periodic table of comic book characters:
http://www.uky.edu/Projects/Chemcomics/
Quite odd the above link considering some person had to sort everything out through the old comics.

[K. Skontrianos]

We had a link to Britney's site from our team website, but the school made us take it down. Grrr.

[ChrisH]

Originally posted by Meli W.
That is wrong in so many ways...
maybe b/c I doubt she even knows that stuff...

Well, not all media personalities are idiots. Some of them are pretty tech-savy, even if they don't have to be. So she might really know that stuff. Personally, I doubt it, but stranger things have happened.

There was a well known actress years ago who patented the idea of a radar that skipped frequencies to prevent jamming. Today virtually all military radars use this principle. She also held a couple of other useful patents. Too bad I can't remember her name at the moment. I'll probably think of it in a week or so, when it's too late to edit this post.

Of course the site probably just so guys can long on and drool, but the tracking software will say "semi-conductor physics" so their parents will think they were doing something useful. Maybe something will rub off in spite of themselves.

[SarahB]

Originally posted by ChrisH

There was a well known actress years ago who patented the idea of a radar that skipped frequencies to prevent jamming. Today virtually all military radars use this principle. She also held a couple of other useful patents. Too bad I can't remember her name at the moment. I'll probably think of it in a week or so, when it's too late to edit this post.

That was Hedy Lamarr. The introduction on Britney’s Guide has her whole story, its really quite interesting.

[Adam Y.]

There was a well known actress years ago who patented the idea of a radar that skipped frequencies to prevent jamming. Today virtually all military radars use this principle. She also held a couple of other useful patents. Too bad I can't remember her name at the moment. I'll probably think of it in a week or so, when it's too late to edit this post.

Yup also the first women to pose nude in a movie I believe also.
visit http://www.hedylamarr.com/ for more information on her life and spread spectrum technology. I was quite surprised when I read that in my electronics magazine.