An Online Microelectronics Device Characterization Laboratory with a Circuit-like User Interface

 We have developed and deployed a new graphical user interface for an online microelectronics characterization laboratory that we call the MIT Microelectronics WebLab (or "WebLab" for short). WebLab allows the characterization of transistors and other microelectronic devices in real time through the Internet. The new graphical interface consists of a Java applet that uses the circuit language of electrical engineering to specify the experiment to be performed. The latest release of WebLab features a new remote management system designed to allow the efficient deployment of the system in multiple subjects with large numbers of students. Since its release in mid 2002, this version of WebLab has been used by nearly 700 students to complete assignments for credit in six different subjects. Index Terms  Internet, microelectronics, online laboratories, WebLab