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| 1948 – 1952 || || American Carborundum Company applies for several patents on the manufacture and application of silicon nitride.<ref name="Ceramic Materials: Science and Engineering"/> || | | 1948 – 1952 || || American Carborundum Company applies for several patents on the manufacture and application of silicon nitride.<ref name="Ceramic Materials: Science and Engineering"/> || | ||
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| − | | 1955 || || American technology company {{w|Texas Instruments}} creates the first commercial, mass-produced silicon transistor.<ref name="The genesis of the transistor, the single greatest discovery in the last 100 years"/> || | + | | 1954 – 1955 || || The first working silicon transistor is developed at {{w|Bell Labs}} by {{w|Morris Tanenbaum}}.<ref name="The genesis of the transistor, the single greatest discovery in the last 100 years">{{cite web |last1=Anthony |first1=Sebastian |title=The genesis of the transistor, the single greatest discovery in the last 100 years |url=https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/175004-the-genesis-of-the-transistor-the-single-greatest-discovery-in-the-last-100-years |website=extremetech.com |accessdate=18 June 2018}}</ref> || {{w|United States}} |
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| + | | 1955 || || American technology company {{w|Texas Instruments}} creates the first commercial, mass-produced silicon transistor.<ref name="The genesis of the transistor, the single greatest discovery in the last 100 years"/> || {{w|United States}} | ||
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| 1958 || || Silicon transistors replace germanium transistors, which break down at high temperatures.<ref>{{cite web |title=Evolution of the Transistor |url=http://www.pbs.org/transistor/background1/events/trnsevolution.html |website=pbs.org |accessdate=18 June 2018}}</ref> || | | 1958 || || Silicon transistors replace germanium transistors, which break down at high temperatures.<ref>{{cite web |title=Evolution of the Transistor |url=http://www.pbs.org/transistor/background1/events/trnsevolution.html |website=pbs.org |accessdate=18 June 2018}}</ref> || | ||
Revision as of 11:36, 18 June 2018
This is a timeline of silicon.
Contents
Big picture
| Time period | Development summary | More details |
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Full timeline
| Year | Event type | Details | Country/region |
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| 1787 | Antoine Lavoisier first identifies silicon.[1] | ||
| 1811 | Joseph Gay Lussac and Louis Jacques Thénard react silicon tetrachloride with potassium metal and produce some very impure form of silicon.[2][1] | ||
| 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.[3] | ||
| 1854 | French chemist Henri Étienne Sainte-Claire Deville first prepares crystaline silicon, the second allotropic form of the element.[4][5][6][7] | ||
| 1857 | Henri Étienne Sainte-Claire Deville and German chemist Friedrich Wöhler discover silicon nitride.[8][9][10] | ||
| 1893 | Silicon carbide (SiC) starts being produced in powder form for use as an abrasive.[11] | ||
| 1907 | Electroluminescence is first discovered using silicon carbide light emitting diodes (LEDs).[11] | ||
| 1948 – 1952 | American Carborundum Company applies for several patents on the manufacture and application of silicon nitride.[8] | ||
| 1954 | American engineer Gordon Kidd Teal develops a working silicon transistor.[12] | United States | |
| 1954 – 1955 | The first working silicon transistor is developed at Bell Labs by Morris Tanenbaum.[13] | United States | |
| 1955 | American technology company Texas Instruments creates the first commercial, mass-produced silicon transistor.[13] | United States | |
| 1958 | Silicon transistors replace germanium transistors, which break down at high temperatures.[14] |
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Chemical Elements.
- ↑ "Silicon". rsc.org. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
- ↑ "The Element Silicon". education.jlab.org. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
- ↑ Haynes, William M. CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, 93rd Edition.
- ↑ Berger, Lev I. Semiconductor Materials.
- ↑ Enghag, Per. Encyclopedia of the Elements: Technical Data - History - Processing - Applications.
- ↑ Fantasy & Science Fiction, Volume 63, Issues 374-379.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Carter, C. Barry; Norton, M. Grant. Ceramic Materials: Science and Engineering.
- ↑ Keen, Robin. The life and works of Friedrich Wöhler (1800-1882).
- ↑ Lange, Horst; Wötting, Gerhard; Winter, Gerhard. "Silicon Nitride—From Powder Synthesis to Ceramic Materials".
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Miron, Rich. "Silicon Carbide (SiC): History and Applications". digikey.com. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
- ↑ "The First Silicon Transistor". pbs.org. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Anthony, Sebastian. "The genesis of the transistor, the single greatest discovery in the last 100 years". extremetech.com. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
- ↑ "Evolution of the Transistor". pbs.org. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
