Noyce, Robert

The study of electrons trapped in matter (commonly termed solid state ) led eventually to the invention of the transistor in 1947 by Walter Brattain, John Bardeen, and William Shockley at Bell Laboratories, and then to the integrated circuit hy Robert Noyce and Jack Kilby a decade later. Use of these devices dominated the second half of the twentieth century, most notably through computers, with a significant stininlus to development being given by military expenditures. 

Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce invent the integrated circuit. 1335... 

Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce produce the first integrated circuit on a silicon chip. 

In 1958, Jack Kilby" at Texas Instruments and, in 1959, Robert Noyce" at Fairchild Semiconductor independently invented the integrated circuit as a solution to the problem of building electronic circuits with large numbers of components. Instead of making transistors one by one, several transistors could be made with this technique at the same time, on the same piece of semiconductor. In addition to transistors, other electric components such as resistors, capacitors, and diodes could be made by the same process with the same set of materials. ... 

Robert Noyce (1927-1990) is one of the inventors of the integrated circuit or microchip, a set of miniature eiectronic components etched onto a thin piece of siii-con. Mr. Noyce s invention revoiutionized the fieid of eiectronics and is used in aimost aii of today s eiectronic equipment. 

Robert Noyce had the same impact on the digital revolution as Henry Ford had on mass production and Thomas Edison had on the field of electricity. 

Robert Noyce of Fairchild Semiconductor was awarded a U.S. patent in 1961 for a more complex integrated circuit termed the unitary drcuit. 

US electronics engineers Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce (1927-90) develop integrated circuits. 

The first transistor was developed in 1947 by Walter Brattain, John Bardeen, and William Shockley, and this replaced the cumbersome vacuum tube. Bridging the gap between the transistor and the integrated circuit was the planar process, devised in 1957 by Jean Hourni and developed in 1958 by Robert N. Noyce, which provided a means of creating a layered structure on the silicon base of a chip. 

Through various chemical and physical processes, methods were developed to construct small transistor structures on a substrate of pure crystalline silicon. In 1958, American physicist and Nohel laureate Jack KUhy first demonstrated the method by constructing germanium-based transistors as an IG chip, and American physicist Robert Noyce constructed the first silicon-based transistors as an IG chip. The transistor structures were planar bipolar in nature. 

Integrated circuit (Robert Norton Noyce and Jack St. Oair Kilby) The microchip, independently discovered by Noyce and Kilby, proves to be the breakthrough that allows the miniaturization of electronic circuits and paves the way for the digital revolution. 

A group of Shockley s co-workers left Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory in 1958 to set up Fairchild Semiconductors, because Shockley would not allow work to continue on the silicon transistor. The group included Robert Noyce (1927-1990) and Gordon Moore (b.l929). 

To understand the history of microlithography and its importance, and to motivate the various advances relative to polymeric materials used in resists, a brief background and introduction to semiconductor microelectronics and the role of miaolithography in that industry are helpful. Although the invention of the first semicondudor transistor by William Shockley, John Bardeen, and Walter Brattain at Bell Labs in 1947 was an immensely important milestone, as recognized in part by a Nobel Prize awarded to them in 1956, it was really the invention of the first monolithic IC by Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce in 1960 that ushered in what people enjoy today as the era of modem miaoelecttonics. The integrated devices developed by Kilby and Noyce consisted of many solid-state... 

Miniaturization of electronic circuits took another major step forward with Jack Kilby s invention of the integrated circuit in 1958 at Texas Instruments and through the contributions of Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore at Fairchild Semiconductor (later founders of Intel Corporation). Together they developed methods for producing... 

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