Zinc Oxide-Based Thin-Film Transistor Experiments, Episode II is now available for your entertainment. Also, a static page with the current documents and some links to resources for making various types of semiconductors at home has been added. July 1st, 2009: “Zinc Oxide-Based Thin-Film Transistor Experiments, Episode II” has been updated to version 0.2.
It will take me a while to write up a complete description of the experiment, but suffice it to say that I’ve managed to cobble together a working astable multivibrator using two homemade zinc tin oxide thin-film devices as the active components in the circuit. The circuit worked for about 16 hours before the liquid [...]
I have placed a “show and tell” document in the files section of the yahoo group home_transistor that describes the transistor thin film experiments that I’ve been working on of late. Since it is necessary to join the yahoo group in order to download the document from the group, I’ve attached a copy here as [...]
Google “homemade transistor” and you’ll find very little information concerning the actual making of a transistor from scratch. Making a point contact transistor is certainly doable, and there is some information available on the web on specifically how to approach the problem. However, start talking about any other kind of transistor and about all you’ll [...]