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Revision as of 13:40, 18 June 2018

This is a timeline of silicon.

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Time period Development summary
1950s Silicon becomes the industry’s preferred material in the transistor industry, and Texas Instruments the dominant semiconductor vendor.[1]

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Year Event type Details Country/region
1787 Antoine Lavoisier first identifies silicon.[2]
1811 Joseph Gay Lussac and Louis Jacques Thénard react silicon tetrachloride with potassium metal and produce some very impure form of silicon.[3][2]
1824 Swedish chemist Jöns Jacob Berzelius discovers silicon by heating chips of potassium in a silica container and then carefully washing away the residual by-products.[4]
1854 French chemist Henri Étienne Sainte-Claire Deville first prepares crystaline silicon, the second allotropic form of the element.[5][6][7][8]
1857 Henri Étienne Sainte-Claire Deville and German chemist Friedrich Wöhler discover silicon nitride.[9][10][11]
1893 Silicon carbide (SiC) starts being produced in powder form for use as an abrasive.[12]
1907 Electroluminescence is first discovered using silicon carbide light emitting diodes (LEDs).[12]
1948 – 1952 American Carborundum Company applies for several patents on the manufacture and application of silicon nitride.[9]
1954 American engineer Gordon Kidd Teal develops a working silicon transistor.[13] United States
1954 – 1955 The first working silicon transistor is developed at Bell Labs by Morris Tanenbaum.[14][1] United States
1955 American technology company Texas Instruments creates the first commercial, mass-produced silicon transistor.[14] United States
1958 Silicon transistors replace germanium transistors, which break down at high temperatures.[15]
1958 A double-diffused silicon mesa transistor is introduced.[1]

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[1], [2] [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10], [11],

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References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Who Invented the Transistor?". computerhistory.org. Retrieved 18 June 2018. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 Chemical Elements. 
  3. "Silicon". rsc.org. Retrieved 18 June 2018. 
  4. "The Element Silicon". education.jlab.org. Retrieved 18 June 2018. 
  5. Haynes, William M. CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, 93rd Edition. 
  6. Berger, Lev I. Semiconductor Materials. 
  7. Enghag, Per. Encyclopedia of the Elements: Technical Data - History - Processing - Applications. 
  8. Fantasy & Science Fiction, Volume 63, Issues 374-379. 
  9. 9.0 9.1 Carter, C. Barry; Norton, M. Grant. Ceramic Materials: Science and Engineering. 
  10. Keen, Robin. The life and works of Friedrich Wöhler (1800-1882). 
  11. Lange, Horst; Wötting, Gerhard; Winter, Gerhard. "Silicon Nitride—From Powder Synthesis to Ceramic Materials". 
  12. 12.0 12.1 Miron, Rich. "Silicon Carbide (SiC): History and Applications". digikey.com. Retrieved 18 June 2018. 
  13. "The First Silicon Transistor". pbs.org. Retrieved 18 June 2018. 
  14. 14.0 14.1 Anthony, Sebastian. "The genesis of the transistor, the single greatest discovery in the last 100 years". extremetech.com. Retrieved 18 June 2018. 
  15. "Evolution of the Transistor". pbs.org. Retrieved 18 June 2018.