The lab develops simple components such as diodes and capacitors, improves their performance, and combines them into later stages that may include a transistor.

“So what you would find in here is something very simple. You might be making a diode, you might be making, uh, a capacitor, which are components of the transistor, and as those evolve and become stronger, better performing, you combine them to make the next stage, which might be the transistor itself.”