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Hoerni patent notebook (#3)

This volume contains a mix of brief notes on the status of experimental wafers together with extended disclosures of process and design ideas that were used as the basis for patent filings. Specific entries include: "Method of protecting exposed p-n junctions at the surface of silicon transistors by oxide masking techniques" (pp. 3-4) this was his first expression of the planar process – U.S. patent 3025589; "Effect of gold-doping on lifetimes in transistors" (pp. 7-11) – U.S. patent 3108914; “Use of selective control on electron and hole lifetimes in semiconductor devices” (pp. 12-15) – U.S. patent 3184347; “PNP planar transistors” (pp. 17-18); “On the application of the Merck growing technique to device structures;” “Observations on the impact and applications of epitaxial films” (pp. 23-24); “Logic using unipolar transistors” proposes a practical method of implementing the ideas of Walmark at RCA (pp. 26–28).

Item Details

Date
1957-11-07-1960-12-22 (Made)
Type
Document
Catalogue number
102722910
Other identifying number
3 (Document Number)
Organization
Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation (Publisher)
People
Jean A. Hoerni (Author)
Category
Notebooks
Credit line
Gift of Texas Instruments Incorporated
Extent
Approximately 22 dated entries over 30 pages.
Language
English
Dimension
10w x 12h x 16l (in)
25.4w x 30.48h (cm)
Acquisition number
X6464.2012
Archive collection
Fairchild Semiconductor notebooks and technical papers
Archive hierarchy
Fairchild Semiconductor notebooks and technical papers