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Opening Remarks & Transistors in the 1950s
Online Presentations | 02 Feb 2023 | Contributor(s):: Mark Lundstrom
Opening Remarks by Mark Lundstrom and recorded message by US Senator Todd Young.
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The Transistor at 75
Series | 02 Feb 2023 | Contributor(s):: Mark Lundstrom, Michael J. Manfra, Muhammad A. Alam, Ekaterina Babintseva
Purdue celebrates the 75th anniversary of the invention of the transistor.
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Birth of the Transistor: Bell Labs, Purdue, and the Second World War
Online Presentations | 02 Feb 2023 | Contributor(s):: Michael J. Manfra
Semiconductors at Purdue in the 1940’s and the invention of the transistor at Bell Labs.
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From Apollo to Apple: How a Purdue Alum, Mohamed Atalla, Started Moore's Law and Transformed the World
Online Presentations | 02 Feb 2023 | Contributor(s):: Muhammad A. Alam
The Silicon MOSFET, a better transistor. Demonstration of the 1960 silicon MOSFET (metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor), the mainstay of today’s electronics, which was co-invented by Purdue alumnus Mohamed M. Atalla at Bell Labs.
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Computers in Space: Transistors in the Age of Apollo
Online Presentations | 02 Feb 2023 | Contributor(s):: Ekaterina Babintseva
The role of transistors in the race to the moon.
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Ekaterina Babintseva
Ekaterina Babintseva is a historian of science and technology working at the intersections of human sciences and computing. She received her PhD in 2020 from the Department of History and Sociology...
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Learning Module: History of MEMS
Teaching Materials | 10 May 2017 | Contributor(s):: Southwest Center for Microsystems Education (SCME)
This learning module provides a timeline of the progression of microtechnology through a series of innovations that starts with the first Point Contact Transistor built in 1947 and ends with the optical network switch in 1999. Activities provide the opportunity to build on this timeline and...
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Learning Module: History of MEMS - Instructor Guides
Teaching Materials | 10 May 2017 | Contributor(s):: Southwest Center for Microsystems Education (SCME)
This learning module provides a timeline of the progression of microtechnology through a series of innovations that starts with the first Point Contact Transistor built in 1947 and ends with the optical network switch in 1999. Activities provide the opportunity to build on this timeline and...
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The History of Semiconductor Heterostructures Research: From Early Double Heterostructure Concept to Modern Quantum Dot Structures
Online Presentations | 11 Jul 2011 | Contributor(s):: Zhores I. Alferov
It would be very difficult today to imagine solid-state physics without semiconductor heterostructures. Semiconductor heterostructures and especially double heterostructures, including quantum wells, quantum wires and quantum dots, currently comprise the object of investigation of two thirds of...
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The Pioneers of Quantum Computing
Online Presentations | 19 Nov 2010 | Contributor(s):: David P. Di Vincenzo
This talk profiles the persons whose insights and visions created the subject of quantum information science. Some famous, some not, they all thought deeply about the puzzles and contradictions that were apparent to the founders of quantum theory. After many years of germination, the confluence...
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Nanoelectronic Modeling Lecture 29: Introduction to the NEMO3D Tool
Online Presentations | 04 Aug 2010 | Contributor(s):: Gerhard Klimeck
This presentation provides a very high level software overview of NEMO3D. The items discussed are:Modeling Agenda and MotivationTight-Binding Motivation and basic formula expressionsTight binding representation of strainSoftware structureNEMO3D algorithm flow NEMO3D parallelization scheme –...
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Nanoelectronic Modeling Lecture 22: NEMO1D - Motivation, History and Key Insights
Online Presentations | 07 Feb 2010 | Contributor(s):: Gerhard Klimeck
The primary objective of the NEMO-1D tool was the quantitative modeling of high performance Resonant Tunneling Diodes (RTDs). The software tool was intended for Engineers (concepts, fast turn-around, interactive) and Scientists (detailed device anaysis). Therefore various degrees of...
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Aug 27 2009
The Transistor: From Shockley, Bardeen, and Brattain to single molecules and atoms
Sven Rogge,Kavli Institute for Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology, The NetherlandsIn this lecture we will review the working principles of transistors and their evolution from the first...
https://nanohub.org/events/details/254
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C.V. Raman and the Impact of Raman Effect in Quantum Physics, Condensed Matter, and Materials Science
Online Presentations | 18 Sep 2008 | Contributor(s):: Anant K. Ramdas
Raman’s momentous discovery in 1928 that the spectral analysis of the light scattered by matter, illuminated with monochromatic light of frequency ωL, reveals new signatures at (ωL ± ωi) , ωi’s being the internal frequencies of the matter [Nature121, 501 (1928); Indian Journal of Physics 2, 387...
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Technology challenges of the 21st Century
Online Presentations | 14 May 2007 | Contributor(s):: Eugene Meieran
The 20th century was a century of remarkable scientific and technical achievement, as recorded in the National Academy of Engineering book, "A Century of Innovation". Three forces ("a perfect storm") combined to make this possible; almost universal availability of electric power to enable many of...
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The Transistor
Teaching Materials | 11 Dec 2006 | Contributor(s):: Victor Hugo Estrada Rivera , Elizabeth Gardner
This is the third contribution from the students in the University of Texas at El Paso Molecular Electronics course given in the fall of 2006.This PowerPoint presentation describes a brief history of how the transistor was developed, how a transistor works and its possible applications. It is at...