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. ---------- Find us online! Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/MITK12 Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/MITK12Videos http://k12videos.mit.edu ---------- made with love at MIT Creative Commons: CC BY-NC-SA, MIT http://k12videos.mit.edu/terms-and-conditions Hosted & Written by: Jamie Teherani (http://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 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Special thanks to the following for their sponsorship: MIT Microsystems Technology Laboratories (http://www-mtl.mit.edu/) National Science Foundation (http://www.nsf.gov) Center for Energy Efficient Electronics Science (http://www.e3s-center.org)