Noyce patent notebook (#8)
This volume contains Noyce’s ideas for semiconductor devices and processes generated during his service as Research Director and subsequently Vice President and General Manager of the Fairchild Semiconductor Division of Fairchild Camera & Instrument Corporation. Key entries are: PNIN Switches - Thyratron design (p. 2); 100 Mcps oscillator design (p. 5); power oscillator - calculations and fringing issues (p. 8); indexing problem – etching (p. 18); parametric amplifier discussion with Watkins & Johnson (p. 19); problem of emitter capacitance – calculations (p. 21); possible HF transistors – negative resistance diodes (p. 34); transit time diode (p. 43); punch through diode – interconnected array of many devices on a single wafer (p. 46); parametric amplifier diode – structure and calculations (p. 49); high-efficiency photovoltaic cell (p. 57); semiconductor scanning device – led to U.S. patent 2959681 (p. 62); methods of isolating multiple devices – his first conception of the ideas that led to U.S. patent 2981877 (p.70); method of device isolation – using Pyrex glass (p.76) Constant current source applied to DVM (p. 78); adaptive machines – led to U.S. patent 3325787 (p. 80); three handwritten pages of calculations headed “Ionization Resistor – Gunn Effect?” are inserted into the rear of the book.
Item Details
- Date
- 1958-02-24-1966-06-06 (Made)
- Type
- Document
- Catalogue number
- 102722911
- Other identifying number
- 8 (Document Number)
- Organization
- Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation (Publisher)
- People
- Noyce, Robert N. (Robert Norton) (Author)
- Category
- Notebooks
- Credit line
- Gift of Texas Instruments Incorporated
- Extent
- Approximately 25 dated entries over 93 pages.
- Language
- English
- Acquisition number
- X6464.2012
- Archive collection
- Fairchild Semiconductor notebooks and technical papers
- Archive hierarchy
- Fairchild Semiconductor notebooks and technical papers