Monday, July 17, 2006

I ran into a snag at work today. It turns out my boss wanted me to work on a project that can't work, at least not how she wanted. The MEMS group was having trouble with stress concentrations in membranes, and Cill wanted me to work on a possible solution. She wanted me to selectively boron dope a wafer, then put photoresist over the top so that when the wafer was etched through, a square of doped silicon would be left hanging onto the photoresist. The thought being that photoresist is flexible and wouldn't break as easily as the silicon. Turns out that the crux of the whole process is whether photoresist will hold up in the nasty-ass chemicals we use to etch the wafers. Turns out it won't. Which leaves me back at square one, a week later with nothing of note to show for it.

I came across www.youtube.com today and found some cool videos of Bobby McFerrin, who I havn't heard in a long time. He has a really incredible voice. Nikki and I swapped links for a while, both being suitably impressed. The website is set up so when you find a topic, it'll show you some related videos that you can watch. Somehow we ended up on a rock band playing cellos. I don't really care for rock music, but as it goes, not too bad.

Tomorrow I have a meeting with my boss to discuss things, it should be entertaining.