History of semiconductor engineering / Bo Lojek.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lojek, Bo.

Contributor:

Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Semiconductors--History.

Semiconductors.

Semiconductor industry--History.

Semiconductor industry.

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 387 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Springer, [2007]

Summary:

When basic researchers started working on semiconductors during the late nineteen thirties and on integrated circuits at the end of the nineteen fifties, they did not know that their work would change the lives of future generations. Very few people at that time recognized the significance of, perhaps, the most important invention of the century. Historians have assigned the invention of integrated circuits to Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce. In this book, the author argues that the group of inventors was much larger. This richly illustrated account is a personal recollection of the development of integrated circuits and personalities - such as Russell Ohl, Karl Lark-Horovitz, William Shockley, Carl Frosch, Lincoln Derick, Calvin Fuller, Kurt Lehovec, Jean Hoerni, Sheldon Roberts, Jay Last, Isy Haas, Bob Norman, Dave Allison, Jim Nall, Tom Longo, Bob Widlar, Dave Talbert, Frank Wanlass, and Federico Faggin. Here is the first comprehensive behind-the-scenes account of the history of the integrated circuit, the microelectronics industry and the people closely involved in the development of the transistor and integrated circuit.

Contents:

1 Research Organization: Bell Telephone Laboratories 11

2 Grown Junction and Diffused Transistors 41

3 Shockley Semiconductor Laboratories 67

4 Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation - Subsidiary of Fairchild Camera and Instrument Company 103

5 Driving the Company Out of Business 155

6 Integrated Circuits outside Fairchild Semiconductor 175

7 Linear Integrated Circuits: Pre-Widlar Era Prior to 1963 229

8 Robert J. Widlar - The Genius, The Legend, The Bohemian 247

9 National Semiconductor - A New Type of Semiconductor Company 291

10 The MOS Transistor 317.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9783540342571

3540342575

OCLC:

85833236