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Amateur fabricates functional LEDs in home fab

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A home fabrication project has successfully created functional LEDs, moving beyond simple demonstrations to produce workable chips. This achievement highlights the growing capabilities of amateur semiconductor manufacturing. AI

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Amateur fabricates functional LEDs in home fab

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    📰 Making LEDs in the Home Fab Impressive as it most certainly is when an amateur fabricates a semiconductor, most of the projects we’ve seen are more demonstrat

    📰 Making LEDs in the Home Fab Impressive as it most certainly is when an amateur fabricates a semiconductor, most of the projects we’ve seen are more demonstrations than workable chips. [Dr. Semiconductor], however, is going mu... 📰 Source: Hackaday 🔗 Link: https://hackaday.com/2…

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