Industrial Visit To Semiconductor Laboratory (SCL), Mohali

An Industrial visit was organised for the students of Electronics and Communication Department on 16^th October, 2019 to Semiconductor Laboratory, Mohali.

The visit was organised under the able guidance of Prof. Neelam Sharma- Direcctor MAIT, Prof Sunil Kumar - HOD ECE and the faculty Mr. S.K.Kundu, Dr. Nitin Sharma, Dr. Praween Kumar, Dr. Divya Goyal and Ms. Anamika Jain. It was an intensely informative and enriching educational visit to the Semi-conductor Laboratory at the Space Centre, ISRO at Mohali. At SCL, everyone was guided to a seminar hall wherein an enthralling interactive session with a senior scientist was conducted. The session turned out to be absolutely fun as well as a journey through the field of semiconductor devices -their importance in modern day scenario, their fabrication, their packaging their role in space explorations etc. The session was followed by a brisk question answer round.

Post lunch, everyone was again guided to the seminar hall for an in depth presentation on VLSI Designing, packaging etc. The technical officers explained the entire process from RTL to wafer fabrication, from photolithography to implantation and finally from testing to packaging. After this mind-boggling session, everyone was taken for a visit to the laboratories, under the guidance of Mr. Abhishek Madan (Alumni -MAIT).

Class 1000 purity of environment was maintained in and around the laboratories. After stringent checks, all were guided to the labs and were shown the working of devices, taking care so as not to disturb the ongoing processes. The group was shown the ionisation lab and diffusion/growth lab of 6 inch wafer. Some students also got the opportunity of visiting the furnace labs, chip layout lab etc., wearing proper protective and contamination-free white suits, gloves, head-covers etc.

This visit was immediately followed by a tea break and a brainstorming session. Following this, the lab visit was resumed again, but this time it was a visit to the packaging department. Everyone was spellbound to see the ICs being packaged and tested in reality. Senior officials from the department helped the students to understand the entire process and showed them ceramic ICs of various sizes, shapes and functionalities. With this, the visit to the Semi-conductor Laboratory (SCL) concluded. It was an educative and fruitful visit, with immense exposure to the real world techniques and ongoing industrial research work benefitting the students of ECE Department.