Electronic Collection (page 18)

Technician inspecting silicon wafers
Technician wearing clean room clothing making visual inspection of silicon wafers for possible defects using a black ray lamp

Connections being made to microchip
Microprocessor manufacture. A machine placing connections from a microprocessor to surrounding circuit parts. The connections are thin gold wires

SEM of human nerve cells
False-colour scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of human nerve cells growing on the surface of an integrated circuit (silicon chip)

Silicon wafers and chips. View of two processed silicon wafers (upper right and lower left). The wafers contain dozens of identical microcircuits, which appear as squares

Coloured SEM of a single-electron transistor
Single-electron transistor. Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of a single-electron transistor. Like the larger transistors it is designed to replace, it has three parts

DEUCE computer, 1956
DEUCE computer. Operator using the Digital Electronic Universal Computing Engine (DEUCE) computer. This was a commercial version of the Pilot ACE (Automatic Computing Engine) design

Differential analyser, 1954
Differential analyser. This part of the differential analyser equipment is called a double function table. Differential analysers were used to carry out mathematical calculations

Pilot ACE computer, 1952
Pilot ACE computer. Controller operating the Automatic Computing Engine (ACE) pilot model. This was a preliminary version of the full ACE design

Early computers, 1952
Early computers. Clockwise from upper left, these are: the Frieden STW-10, the Marchant Fa-10, the Brinsviga 20, the Monroe Ca-10, and the Facit LX

Electronic simulator, 1954
Electronic simulator. This is the enlarged version of this machine, which was an early form of computing hardware used to carry out simulations

Psion II Organiser. This electronic handheld device is an early example of a digital personal assistant. It was manufactured by the British company Psion, and was first launched in 1986

Micromechanical accelerometer. This tiny acceleration sensor is used in automatic car stability control systems. These systems can sense lateral (sideways)

Loading of silicon wafers into high temp. furnace

Silicon chip autobonding
Technician using a light microscope in the autobonding stage of fabrication of integrated circuits (silicon chips). Autobonding refers to the attachment of wire leads from pads around the rectangular

Autobonding stage on silicon chip
Technician using tweezers to position the wire leads used in the autobonding stage of fabrication of integrated circuits (silicon chips)

Fabrication of integrated circuit wafers
Visual inspection of a photomask used in the fabrication of integrated circuit wafers at Seagate Microelectronics Ltd, Livingston, Scotland

Visual inspection of photomask

Credit card smart card
Smart card. Gold contract strip on the face of a credit card. A microchip is embedded beneath the gold pad on which account identification information is stored

Computer memory chip. This is a 144 pin SDRAM (synchronous dynamic random access memory) chip

LM of a wafer of integrated circuits
Light micrograph of a wafer of 16K 4116 memory integrated circuits (silicon chips), showing the junction between four of the chips

Wafter of silicon chips
A wafer of Logic Array semi-customised integrated circuits (silicon chips). The two isolated blue- grey areas are test connectors used for quality control

Lm of a wafer
Light micrograph of a wafer, showing the junction (green cross) between four 16K 4116 memory integ- rated circuits (silicon chips)

Silicon chip wafer
" Silicon Sunrise" : macrophotograph of a Logic Array semi-customised integrated circuit wafer, illuminated by coloured lighting

A charged CCD infront of printed circuit board
A charge-coupled device (CCD), a type of integrat- ed circuit or " silicon chip", is held in front of a printed circuit board

LM of part of the surface of a silicon chip
Light micrograph of part of the surface of a 16K 4116 memory integrated circuit (silicon chip), a typical memory chip used, for instance, in comp- uters

Measuring electric voltage. Circuit diagram showing the arrangement of equipment used to measure the voltage (potential difference) in an electrical circuit

Measuring electric current. Circuit diagram showing the arrangement of equipment used to measure electric current flowing through a component. The components are represented by standard symbols

Sperm fertilising egg held by a skeleton. This could represent the potential for humans to engineer and design babies in their own likeness through future developments in medical science

Heat sink plate (metal, centre) on a radio tuner and amplifier circuit board. This is a protective device that absorbs and dissipates excess heat generated by the components of the circuit board

Rheostat controlling current
Rheostat varying current in a circuit. A Rheostat (lower right), also known as a variable resistor, has a resistance which can be altered

Diodes. Diodes are electronic components which allow current to pass in only one direction

Circuit boards. View of a printed circuit board used in electronic car keys attached to the sheet on which it was manufactured. The gold paths seen here link electronic components on the boards

View of a circuit board from a Macintosh computer
Circuit board. View of a circuit board with electronic components attached to it. Circuit boards connect components, including microchips (green rectangles), transistors, diodes, resistors

Computer artwork of personal computer motherboard
Motherboard. Computer artwork of the main circuit board (motherboard) of a personal computer (PC). Motherboard components include transistors, diodes, resistors, capacitors and inductors

Computer artwork representing a circuit board
Circuit board. Computer artwork representing a circuit board. Circuit boards are used to provide connections between individual electrical components, such as transistors and microchips

Computer artwork representing a circuit b
Circuit board. Computer artwork representing a circuit board. Circuit boards are used to provide connections between individual electrical components, such as transistors and microchips

Electronic circuit board from a computer
Circuit board. Microchips (black) attached to an electronic circuit board from a computer. The microchips are connected by electrical pathways embedded in the board

Close-up of an electronic circuit board
Circuit board. Close-up view of an electronic circuit board, showing resistors (centre), a Light Emitting Diode (LED, centre right) and a capacitor (red, centre left)

Bridge rectifier. This electronic device is an array of diodes used to convert alternating current (AC) to direct current (DC)

Thermistor held in fingers. A thermistor is an electrical device whose resistance changes with temperature. Because of the known dependence of resistance on temperature

Resistors. These components impede the flow of electrical current around a circuit

Elihu Thomson (1853-1937), American engineer
Elihu Thomson (1853-1937), American electrical engineer. He moved from England to the USA when young. After graduating, he taught chemistry and physics

Camera settings dial, which is rotated to select the desired operating mode

Digital camera and memory card

Screen on a digital camera
Digital camera. Close-up of the screen of a digital camera showing a picture of cyclists

Vladimir Zworykin, Russian engineer
Vladimir Zworykin (1889-1982), Russian engineer. Zworykin is famous for his development of a combined photoelectric cell and thermionic valve (seen here)

Dr Joseph Jacobson
Joseph Jacobson. Portrait of Dr Joseph Jacobson, one of the developers of electronic ink. Paper coated in this ink can have text downloaded onto it electronically

Elepter Andronikashvili, Soviet physicist
Elepter Luarsabovich Andronikashvili (1910-1989), Soviet physicist, in a laboratory. Andronikashvili, a member of the USSR Academy of Sciences

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