John Lewis minor

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John Lewis Moll (born December 21, 1921 in Wauseon , Ohio , † July 19, 2011 in Palo Alto , California ) was an American electrical engineer .

His parents were Mennonites and farmers. He graduated from Ohio State University with a bachelor's degree in physics in 1943 and was at RCA Laboratories in Lancaster in 1944/45 . In 1952 he received his PhD in electrical engineering from Ohio State University. From 1952 to 1958 he led a research group in semiconductor technology at Bell Laboratories . There the advantage of silicon as a semiconductor material was recognized and techniques such as silicon dioxide masking, doping via gas diffusion, semiconductor-metal contacts emerged. From 1958 to 1972 he was a professor at Stanford University . From 1970 he was with Fairchild Semiconductor and 1974 until his retirement in 1996 with Hewlett-Packard .

He is known for the Ebers-Moll equations and the Ebers-Moll transistor model . They are also named after Jewell James Ebers . Ebers and Moll also did pioneering work in the mid-1950s with the development of the thyristor (realization as a pnpn structure in 1956 by Moll).

He was a member of the National Academy of Engineering , the National Academy of Sciences , the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (since 1992) and a Fellow of the IEEE , whose IEEE Edison Medal he received. In 1964 he was a Guggenheim Fellow . In 1971 he received the Ebers Award from the IEEE Electron Devices Society and in 1967 the Howard N. Potts Medal from the Franklin Institute .

Fonts

  • Physics of Semiconductors , McGraw Hill 1964
  • with Kit Man Cham, Soo-Young Oh: Computer Aided design and VLSI device development , Springer 1988

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nick Holonyak The origin of diffused silicon technology at Bell Labs 1954-55 , The Electrochemical Society Interface, Fall 2007, pdf
  2. ↑ JJ Ebers, JL Moll Large signal behavior of junction transistors , Proceedings of the Institute of Radio Engineers, Volume 42, 1954, pp. 1761-1772
  3. ↑ Kirpal: Chronicle of Electrical Engineering - Semiconductors, Transistors, Microelectronics ( Memento of the original from February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , VDE @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.vde.com
personal data
SURNAME Minor, John Lewis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American electrical engineer
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Wauseon , Ohio
DATE OF DEATH July 19, 2011
Place of death Palo Alto , California