Illinois ECE Saturday Engineering for Everyone

Saturday, May 2, 2026

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  Crystal Clear: The Hidden Materials Behind Solar Panels, Smartphones, and AI

  11:00 am - 12:00 pm

  ECEB 1015

  Natural crystals, with their perfectly repeating arrangements of atoms, lie at the very heart of modern technology. Lee will talk about how crystal growth techniques unleashed innovations such as transistors, microchips, lasers, and Nick Holonyak’s invention of the LED.

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