History of Semiconductor Engineering

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, perha...

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Main Author: Lojek, Bo. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2007.
Edition:1st ed. 2007.
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-34258-8
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue
  • Research Organization: Bell Telephone Laboratories
  • Grown Junction and Diffused Transistors
  • Shockley Semiconductor Laboratories
  • Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation — Subsidiary of Fairchild Camera and Instrument Company
  • Driving the Company Out of Business
  • Integrated Circuits outside Fairchild Semiconductor
  • Linear Integrated Circuits: Pre-Widlar Era Prior to 1963
  • Robert J. Widlar — The Genius, The Legend, The Bohemian
  • National Semiconductor — A New Type of Semiconductor Company
  • The MOS Transistor
  • Epilogue.