Carver Mead on Semiconductors

A history of semiconductors starting from the behavior of electrons to the evolution of system architecture. home

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1799 - Volta Battery [2:53] 1831 - Faraday Induction [4:13] 1833 - Faraday Semiconductors, Wheatstone Bridge [6:16] 1877 - Braun Rectification at Contact [9:11] 1879 - Hall Hall Effect, + and - Conduction [11:00] 1906 - Pickard Silicon Point Contact Detector [14:44] 1907-1911 - Baedeker Controlled Doping of Semiconductor [19:21] 1920s - Home Crystal Sets [24:13] 1925 - Lilienfeld MESFET [28:43] 1928 - Lilienfeld MOSFET [34:15] 1928-1931 - Bloch, Peierls, Wilson, Pauli, Heisenberg Band Picture [36:36] 1939 - WWII began [41:03] 1940-1946 - MIT Rad Lab [41:14] 1941 - Rad Lab [42:41] 1942 - Schottky Barrier Theory & Experiment [45:07] 1948 - Bardeen & Brattain Point-Contact Transistor [48:37] 1948 - Bardeen Metal Semiconductor Contact, Minority Carrier Injection [52:15] 1948 - Shockley Junction Transistor [53:18] 1952 - Jacques Pankove Indium-alloy Transistors [54:48] 1953 - Philco [56:49] 1955 - Derik & Frosch Oxide Masking [59:15] 1956 - Tannenbaum, Thomas & Lee Diffused Silicon Transistor [1:00:35] 1954 - PSI [1:03:06] 1957 - Fairchild [1:05:00] 1959 - Kilby All-Semiconductor Circuit [1:07:02] 1959 - Hoerni Planar Process [1:08:18] 1959 - Noyce Integrated Circuit [1:09:55] 1960 - Kahng & Atalla MOSFET working [1:10:12] 1963 - Wanless CMOS [1:11:19] 1965 - Dennard DRAM (Dynamic Random Access Memory) [1:13:25] 1965 - Mead MESFET working [1:14:15] 1965 - Moore's Law [1:14:59] Summary Slide [1:16:16]