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.
Bo Lojek received his Ph.D. in Solid State Physics from Charles University in Prague. He joined the semiconductor industry in the middle of the nineteen sixties and has been working in the industry since then. Currently, he is the Principal Engineer in Atmel Corporation and Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs. He holds over thirty patents, most of them on the nonvolatile memory cell.
From pre-publication reviews "Your book is going to make a major
contribution to semiconductor history. You and I agree that, while
the world loves a hero, semiconductor progress depended on the
efforts and ideas of a large number of people, and that moving
forward depended on contributors going back a few decades in some
cases. Also, as is the case with most inventions, a number of
people with access to the same pool of common knowledge were
working independently at the same time to put it all together and
to make the necessary extensions to the existing technology and who
realized that the time was right for society to accept the new
concepts. Your diligent research points all this out." Dr. Jay
Last, former Shockley Laboratories employee, co-founder of
Fairchild Semiconductor, co-founder of Amelco Semiconductor, and
manager of the Fairchild’s group which design and produced the
world first planar integrated circuit "Bo Lojek presents a
remarkable document of the most important and significant technical
development of our times. He describes in astounding detail the
engineering efforts of modern microelectronics. He concentrates on
the history of silicon semiconductor devices. California’s "Silicon
Valley" is the center of attention, together with its ancestry of
transistor invention at Bell Laboratories. He has collected a
wealth of illustrative documentation, gives incisive insight into
the lives of the main actors and shows the often tragic fates of
the engineers and businessmen. He does not hide his firm believe in
the individual engineer and warns of the retarding influence of
present-day political correctness." Dr. Hans J. Queisser, former
Shockley Semiconductor scientist and retired director of the
Max-Planck-Institute for Solids, Stuttgart "The technical history
of the semiconductor industry rivals the 1849 California Gold Rush
as a period filled with excitement and opportunity. Although I
cannotfirst hand validate its complete accuracy, I enthusiastically
encourage you to read the collected facts, opinions, and views of
an author who was actually part of this amazing period, viewing it
as a successful practicing Engineer during this "gold rush" like
hay-day of the semiconductor industry.
For educators and technologists you will find this collection of
data, facts, and opinions, collected and observed first hand by the
author, fascinating! It is a tough read for others due to the
writing experience of the author and its technical focus." John F.
Gifford, former Fairchild Semiconductor Marketing Manager of Linear
Integrated Circuits, co-founder of Advanced Micro Devices, and
President and Chief Executive Officer of Maxim Integrated Products
"Bo Lojek gets it right! There are few industries as
dynamic as semiconductors and the history of the semiconductor
industry is still unfolding. This book gives history of the people,
places and the technology that resulted in today's semiconductor
industry. I particularly like the inclusion of many technical
pieces in the book." Robert Dobkin, former National Semiconductor
Director of Advanced Circuit Development and co-founder and Chief
Technical Officer of Linear Technology Corporation "This book
contains an enormous amount of important material, much of it
obtained by intense individual research by the author. The author's
viewpoint leads him to different stories and credits from those
generally accepted by the media. This feature may make the book
more interesting reading for some. However, its real value is as
remarkably detailed account of accomplishments that constitutes
semiconductor microelectronics." Dr. Morgan Sparks, Former Bell
Laboratories scientist, designer of the world's first junction
transistor, and retired president of Sandia Laboratories
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