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Question 1

Which of the following is a semiconductor?

halogens

silicon

polytetrafluoroethylene

Zubin Mehta

Question 2

What company did Gordon Moore help to found? Choose any correct answer.

Question 3

Which of the following is an illustration of one of the many forms of Moore's Law?

The size of your laptop computer grows every year.

The use of the word 'nanometer' becomes more frequent every year.

The number of input ports on your computer doubles every 2 years.

The heat generated by integrated circuits rises as the circuit density goes up.

Question 4

An electrical current is a flow of:

karma

water

vibrations

electrons

Question 5

When current flows in a material, heat is generated because of the material's resistance. Which of the following does NOT contribute to a wire's resistance?

Collisions of electrons with vibrations of the atomic lattice

Collisions of electrons with each other

Collisions of electrons with voltage

Collisions of electrons with crystal defects

Question 6

Who is generally credited with the invention of the integrated circuit, in 1958?

Jack Kilby

Gordon Moore

William Shockley

John Bardeen

Question 7

Which of the following is the basic tool used by the electronics manufacturing industry for defining the layout of circuit elements?

bottom's up chemistry

spin-coating

photolithography

epitaxy

Question 8

Which of these techniques gives us the ability to deposit layers of material on a substrate, essentially one atomic layer at a time?

molecular beam epitaxy

reactive ion etching

spin coating

laser ablation

Question 9

What is the "wiring problem", as discussed in our lectures?

Nanometer-sized circuits generate too much heat to allow them to be hooked to conventional wires.

Connecting nanometer-sized objects together can change their properties.

The connections to a nano-sized object are usually not nano-sized.

Nano-sized wires break easily.

Question 10

What is the basic function of the gate of a transistor?

It sits between the source and the drain.

It acts like a valve, controlling the flow of current between source and drain.

It turns off the flow of current.

It generates heat in the transistor.

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