Simon Sze

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Simon Min Sze ( Chinese  施 敏 , Pinyin Shī Mĭn ; born March 21, 1936 in Nanking , China ) is a Taiwanese electrical engineer and author or co-author of several standard works in the field of semiconductor technology and semiconductor physics .

life and work

Siman M. Sze studied electrical engineering at National Taiwan University and received his Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) degree in 1957 . He then went to the USA for a master’s degree, where he received his Master of Science degree (M.Sc.) from the University of Washington in 1960 and a doctorate (Ph.D.) from Stanford University in 1963 .

Following Sze went to the Bell Telephone Laboratories , and remained there until 1989 as a research assistant ( English member of the technical staff ). During this time Sze was already active as a lecturer / guest lecturer at various universities, for example at the National Chiao Tung University (1968–1969) or at the National Taiwan University (1974–1977). He continued this after a time at Bell Labs with the acceptance of a professorship ( Distinguished Professor ) at the National Chiao Tung University (NCTU, 1990-2006).

Sze is known for his work in the field of semiconductor physics and technology, especially metal-semiconductor contacts and metal-insulator-semiconductor field effect transistors . This includes his collaboration in the discovery of the floating gate transistor by Dawon Kahng (1967). He is also the author and editor of numerous books on this subject, including frequently cited standard works such as Physics of Semiconductor Devices (1st edition, 1967), Semiconductor Devices: Physics and Technology or VLSI Technology . For these achievements he received, among other things, the JJ Ebers Award from the IEEE (1991).

Publication (selection)

  • together with Kwok Kwok Ng : Physics of semiconductor devices . 3. Edition. John Wiley and Sons, 2007, ISBN 0-471-14323-5 .
  • Semiconductor Devices: Physics and Technology . 2nd Edition. John Wiley & Sons, New York 2001, ISBN 0-471-33372-7 .
  • VLSI Technology . 2nd Edition. McGraw-Hill Inc., New York 1988, ISBN 0-07-062735-5 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers: IEEE membership directory . Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers., 1996, ISBN 978-0-7803-9957-0 .
  2. Simon Min Sze: Hot electrons in thin gold films . 1963 (Ph.D. Thesis, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University).
  3. D. Kahng, SM Sze: A floating gate and its application to memory devices . In: The Bell System Technical Journal . tape 46 , no. 6 , 1967, p. 1288-1295 ( PDF ).
  4. ^ Electron Devices Society JJ Ebers Award . IEEE, accessed March 12, 2012.