Industrial Research in Microcircuitry at RCA: The Early Years, 1953–1963

Author

Ahrons, Richard W.

Author_Institution

Dacon Associates

Volume

34

Issue

1

fYear

2012

Firstpage

60

Lastpage

73

Abstract

RCA had an established research capability and transistor manufacturing facility in place during the early years of the semiconductor industry. Its early microcircuit research-including Torkel Wallmark´s work using the bipolar unijunction transistor in the late 1950s, Paul Weimer´s thin-film transistor, and Steve Hofstein´s metal-oxide silicon transistor-led to RCA´s pioneering effort in the production of complementary (CMOS) silicon integrated circuits in the late 1960s and 1970s.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; MOSFET; integrated circuit manufacture; research and development; semiconductor industry; CMOS silicon integrated circuits; Paul Weimer thin-film transistor; RCA; Steve Hofstein metal-oxide silicon transistor; bipolar unijunction transistor; complementary silicon integrated circuits; microcircuit research; semiconductor industry; transistor manufacturing facility; Companies; Electron tubes; History; Integrated circuits; Manufacturing processes; Packaging; Transistors; Ahrons; Burns; CMOS; Herzog; Hofstein; Johnson; MOS; RCA; Radio Corporation of America; Stanley; UJT; Wallmark; Weimer; history of computing; integrated circuit; memory;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1058-6180

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MAHC.2011.62

Filename

6007123