Good day,
didn't want to spam the mailling list with too much personal introduction right away ;) But ofc you should know a little about me if we might be working on a project together!
>how familiar you are with the silicon chip manufacturing process?
Studying electrical engineering i had the chance to go through the whole manufacturing process for 4µm gate length SOI nmos and pmos devices in a guided weekly lab course. It has been about two years since i was active in the lab, but i have some understanding of the general processes: standard clean, dry and wet etching, lithography with positive and negative processes, growing oxide... the bottom line is, i understand most of it but never worked in industry, or using cutting edge tools. And I am 99% sure RWTH's lab does not have a stepper. We used visible/near UV contact lithography in that course.
If I understand correctly, you plan to use double patterning to make 1µm work on a regular projector's pixel grid and a condenser optics?
I guess that is both a very ambitious but at the same time very tempting project. Looking forward to seeing self-made litho steppers pop up in hackspaces ;D
I guess I could best help with electronics and control programming, since that is an area i have some practical experience (microcontrollers as well as desktop). But not nearly as much as most people you'd meet at CCC -- i just think this is a very interesting project and i have some shallow understanding of almost all the puzzle pieces involved.
Best, Noah