Kilby's integration
I know so very little about the subtleties of circuit design, but I must say that I love this circuit.
Wednesday, June 22, 2005
I know so very little about the subtleties of circuit design, but I must say that I love this circuit.
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Kilby's circuit is part of the "whilrwind history" that I do during the first two lectures of my circuits class. I try to make the students realize that it isn't just a bunch of homework problems -- people actually got Nobel prizes for this stuff. Of course, many of the most important contributors were not given Nobel prizes. Shockley toiled for years trying to build a transistor. Then it was invented by the guys down the hall while he was on vacation. They got the Nobel prize. He was so furious that within six months he invented the transistor that everyone actually used (the bipolar junction transistor), and still use today. I think just about everyone involved with MOS and CMOS technology also missed the Nobel.
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