First experimental planar IC
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- Date
- 1960
- Credit Line
- Purchase of the Computer History Museum
- Copyright Owner
- © Fritz Goro/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
- Object ID
- 500004839
The first working experimental planar IC, built in May 1960, used an isolation technique proposed by Jay Last: deep channels were etched from the rear of the silicon wafer and filled with non-conducting epoxy.
