Watch our student making a transistor in the clean room here!
In our teaching laboratories, physics students are able to use UNC state of the art microfabrication equipment to pursue their individual research projects. They learn to manage time and resources, and apply physics knowledge to achieve a scientific/technological goal. In the process, they experience the freedom and constraints of real hands-on physics research as it is carried out in professional research settings while making connections between real-world problems and their prior mathematical, theoretical, and introductory lab training.