10 Dec
2014
10 Dec
'14
4:25 p.m.
On 12/10/2014 04:05 PM, Kyle Owen wrote:
True, the FET was patented in 1925, and it wasn't
until the 1990s that it
was proven to have been built. Amazing, considering an overall lack of
knowledge of semiconductors; things like sodium and potassium really screw
with silicon during fabrication. But surely he means he was born in 1934
and is celebrating his 80th. :)
And in spite of Brattain, Bardeen and Shockley, what's the ratio of
bipolar junction transistors to FETs in that disruptive device of today,
the mobile phone?
And yet nobody seems to know about Lilienfeld. He's about as obscure as
that other computing pioneer Atansasoff in the popular mind.
--Chuck