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Description: Semiconductors are in everything from your cell phone to rockets. But what exactly are they, and what makes them so special? Find out from Jamie, a Ph.D. student in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. More information on semiconductors from MIT: pinterest.com/mitk12videos/what-is-a-semiconductor Go behind-the-scenes of this episode: mitk12videos.tumblr.com/post/118782530323/what-is-a-semiconductor ---------- Find us online! Facebook: facebook.com/MITK12 Twitter: twitter.com/MITK12Videos k12videos.mit.edu ---------- made with love at MIT Creative Commons: CC BY-NC-SA, MIT k12videos.mit.edu/terms-and-conditions Hosted & Written by: Jamie Teherani (teherani.weebly.com/) Additional Scripting by: Elizabeth Choe & George Zaidan Executive Producer & Doodles: Elizabeth Choe Director: George Zaidan Camera: Adam Morrell Editor & Motion Graphics: Per Hoel Theme song: Anthony Thomas & Neil Aggarwal Music: "Brittle Rille" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 Special thanks to the following for their sponsorship: MIT Microsystems Technology Laboratories (www-mtl.mit.edu/) National Science Foundation (nsf.gov) Center for Energy Efficient Electronics Science (e3s-center.org)