silicon transistor
electronics
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- In transistor: Silicon transistors
During the 1950s, meanwhile, scientists and engineers at Bell Labs and Texas Instruments were developing advanced technologies needed to produce silicon transistors. Because of its higher melting temperature and greater reactivity, silicon was much more difficult to work with than germanium, but it…
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- In John Erik Jonsson
…developed the world’s first commercial silicon transistors. These quickly found use in the world’s first small, inexpensive transistor radios, which were coproduced by Texas Instruments and another firm. The invention of the silicon transistor was a crucial breakthrough in the electronics industry.
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