75th Anniversary of the Transistor

Arokia Nathan, PhD, formerly the Professor of Photonic Systems and Displays at the University of Cambridge, is currently a Bye Fellow and Graduate Tutor at Darwin College, Cambridge. Samar K. Saha, PhD, is an internationally recognized expert on IC device architecture, process and device simulation, and device modeling within the industry and academia. Ravi M. Todi, PhD, is well known in the semiconductor industry as a technical and business leader and currently serves as IEEE EDS President.

• About the Editors xiiiPreface xv1 The First Quantum Electron Device 1Leo Esaki2 IEEE Electron Devices Society: A Brief History 3Samar K. Saha3 Did Sir J.C. Bose Anticipate the Existence of p- and n- Type Semiconductors in His Coherer/Detector Experiments? 17Prasanta Kumar Basu4 The Point-Contact Transistor: A Revolution Begins 29John M. Dallesasse and Robert B. Kaufman5 On the Shockley Diode Equation and Analytic Models for Modern Bipolar Transistors 43Tak H. Ning6 Junction-Less Field Effect Transistors: The First Transistor to be Conceptualized 51Mamidala Jagadesh Kumar and Shubham Sahay7 The First MOSFET Design by J. Lilienfeld and its Long Journey to Implementation 65Hiroshi Iwai8 The Invention of the Self-Aligned Silicon Gate Process 89Robert E. Kerwin9 The Application of Ion Implantation to Device Fabrication: The Early Days 95Alfred U. MacRae10 Evolution of the MOSFET: From Microns to Nanometers 101Yuan Taur11 The SOI Transistor 115Sorin Cristoloveanu12 FinFET: The 3D Thin-Body Transistor 135Chenming Hu13 Historical Perspective of the Development of the FinFET and Process Architecture 145Digh Hisamoto14 The Origin of the Tunnel FET 155Gehan A. J. Amaratunga15 Floating-Gate Memory: A Prime Technology Driver of the Digital Age 163Simon M. Sze16 Development of ETOX NOR Flash Memory 179Stefan K. Lai17 History of MOS Memory Evolution on DRAM and SRAM 187Mitsumasa Koyanagi18 Silicon- Germanium Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors: A Retrospective 215Subramanian S. Iyer and John D. Cressler19 The 25-Year Disruptive Path of InP/GaAsSb Double Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors 239Colombo R. Bolognesi20 The High Electron Mobility Transistor: 40 Years of Excitement and Surprises 253Jesús A. del Alamo21 The Thin Film Transistor and Emergence of Large Area, Flexible Electronics and Beyond 263Yue Kuo, Jin Jang, and Arokia Nathan22 Imaging Inventions: Charge-Coupled Devices 273Michael F. Tompsett23 The Invention and Development of CMOS Image Sensors: A Camera in Every Pocket 281Eric R. Fossum24 From Transistors to Microsensors: A Memoir 293Henry Baltes25 Creation of the Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor 299B. Jayant Baliga26 The History of Noise in Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistors 309Renuka P. Jindal27 A Miraculously Reliable Transistor: A Short History 323Muhammad Ashraful Alam and Ahmed Ehteshamul Islam28 Technology Computer-Aided Design: A Key Component of Microelectronics’ Development 337Siegfried Selberherr and Viktor Sverdlov29 Early Integrated Circuits 349Willy Sansen30 A Path to the One-Chip Mixed-Signal SoC for Digital Video Systems 355Akira Matsuzawa31 Historical Perspective of the Nonvolatile Memory and Emerging Computing Paradigms 369Ming Liu32 CMOS Enabling Quantum Computing 379Edoardo Charbon33 Materials and Interfaces: How They Contributed to Transistor Development 387Bruce Gnade34 The Magic of MOSFET Manufacturing 393Kelin J. Kuhn35 Materials Innovation: Key to Past and Future Transistor Scaling 403Tsu-Jae King Liu and Lars Prospero Tatum36 Germanium: Back to the Future 415Krishna C. SaraswatIndex 431