Artifact Details

Title

Weisenstern patent notebook (#27)

Catalog Number

102723977

Type

Document

Description

This volume contains three entries; two versions of a method for making ohmic contact to silicon with contact geometry control (pp.1-2); method for packaging semiconductor devices (p.3).; and four sheets with hand colored drawings showing this approach are loosely inserted on page 5.

Date

1959-05-19

Author

Weisenstern, Mark

Biographical Notes

Mark Weisenstern joined Fairchild in mid-1959. He was the catalyst for encouraging other Fairchild research employees (David Allison, David James, and Lionel Kattner) to leave Fairchild to co-found Signetics Corporation to develop integrated circuits in 1961.

Publisher

Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation

Identifying Numbers

Document number 27

Extent

Three entries over 3 pages.

Dimensions

12 x 10 inches

Category

Notebooks

Collection Title

Fairchild Semiconductor notebooks and technical papers

Credit

Gift of Texas Instruments Incorporated

Lot Number

X6464.2012