Semiconductor work was very 'kewl'! I was a maintenance tech on the machines used to manufacture chips. Worked in Diffusion (big hot furnaces), and Ion Implant (big machines that used VERY high voltage levels,and huge magnets). Both areas used dangerous gases. Implant was probably neater from a scientific perspective. Ionizing the gas, extracting the ions, and then 'shooting' them into the silicon wafer surface in a very controlled fashion.

It was quite fun to work on those machines. Even if we had to worry about ionizing radiation and arsenic exposure. One of the gases was a hydride of arsenic. Did ya know that arsenic smells like garlic?

wow...always a learning experience...now I wonder why all the food that da wife cooks taste like garlic and she just upped my insurance policy to over a million...

GASP, EGADS!!

(just kidding....about the million. LOL)

as for that Ion Implant, it kinda reminds me of the new electromag thing they are using in that country, can't remember on the top of my head to find the 10th dimension matter in the universe. I'll have to look it up...

men and their inventions...can only say...WOW...

thanks for sharing!

When I worked in Diffusion, I worked on a PECVD system. Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition. When I went to the manufacturer's training class they gave all of us T-shirts that said "I can maintain the 4th state of matter, plasma". With their logo, of course. Kinda neat.