Lojek B. History of Semiconductor Engineering

New York: Springer, 2007. — xiii, 387 p. — ISBN: 978-3642070648.This book provides a unique account of the history of integrated circuit, the microelectronics industry and the people involved in the development of transistor and integrated circuit. In this richly illustrated account the author argues that the group of inventors was much larger than originally thought. This is a personal recollection providing the first comprehensive behind-the-scenes account of the history of the integrated circuit.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 the integrated circuit.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.
Name Index.