Semiconductors Memes

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When Your Bands Don't Band Together
Physics Science Materials
11 days ago 3.4K views 0 shares
When Your Bands Don't Band Together
The ultimate physics pickup line fail! While she's into Radiohead (the actual band), our science nerd is flexing his spectroscopy knowledge with "CB, VB" - conduction band and valence band, the energy levels in semiconductors that determine their electrical properties. It's like trying to impress someone who loves The Beatles by talking about coleopteran insects. The title is a Radiohead "Creep" lyric, which is exactly how this conversation is going. Quantum mechanics and music - two ships passing in the night!

Sänks For Se Kwästschen
Engineering Tech Physics Materials
1 month ago 6.9K views 0 shares
Sänks For Se Kwästschen
German engineering stereotypes meet semiconductor physics in this masterpiece. The meme captures that moment at every tech conference when someone with a thick German accent explains how they've miniaturized transistors by another few nanometers, and everyone in the room gets inexplicably excited. Because nothing says "scientific breakthrough" like making already microscopic components even smaller. The semiconductor industry's entire existence is basically "make small thing smaller," and somehow we're all impressed every single time. Revolutionary.

The Electronic Band Structure Of Attraction
Biology Evolution Psychology Physics
1 month ago 16.4K views 0 shares
The Electronic Band Structure Of Attraction
Someone's been cross-breeding semiconductor physics with evolutionary psychology. The graph shows how facial masculinity creates distinct "energy bands" for potential relationships - just like electrons in materials. Highly masculine faces get friendzoned or become enemies (the forbidden gap), while the "conduction band" for sexual interest peaks at the short-term mate region. Meanwhile, the least masculine faces get relegated to friendship status. Guess we're all just particles in the quantum dating field, bouncing between valence states of attraction.

Silicon Valley Hierarchy
Engineering Materials Physics Tech
1 month ago 11.5K views 0 shares
Silicon Valley Hierarchy
Semiconductor humor at its finest. Germanium was the original semiconductor material used in early transistors, doing the job adequately. Then silicon came along with better electrical properties, higher temperature tolerance, and cheaper manufacturing costs—essentially doing "exactly what I do, but better." Just like how my lab partner claims to have "improved" my experimental design after changing one variable and getting marginally better results. The semiconductor hierarchy is brutal.