Timeline of silicon
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This is a timeline of silicon.
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| Time period | Development summary | More details |
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| Year | Event type | Details | Country/region |
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| 1811 | Joseph Gay Lussac and Louis Jacques Thénard react silicon tetrachloride with potassium metal and produce some very impure form of silicon.[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.[2] | ||
| 1955 | The first working silicon transistor is developed at Bell Labs by Morris Tanenbaum. |
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References
- ↑ "Silicon". rsc.org. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
- ↑ "The Element Silicon". education.jlab.org. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
