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  1. 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...

  2. 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...

  3. 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...