Timeline of silicon
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| Time period | Development summary |
|---|---|
| Ancient history | The use of silicon in agriculture probably begins in China more than 2000 years ago, with farmers at that time incorporating rice straw along with manure as a fertilizer to enhance plant performance and yield.[1] silicon is familiar to the predynastic Egyptians, who use it for beads and small vases. It is also familiar to the early Chinese, and probably to many others of the ancients.[2] |
| 1950s | Silicon becomes the industry’s preferred material in the transistor industry, and Texas Instruments the dominant semiconductor vendor.[3] |
| 1980s | As a result of research, silicon’s potential to decrease the intensity of many plant diseases is discovered for a large number of plant species.[1] |
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| Year | Event type | Details | Country/region |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1500 BC | Egyptians and Phoenicians manufacture glass containing silica.[2] | Egypt | |
| 1787 | Antoine Lavoisier first identifies silicon.[4] | ||
| 1811 | Joseph Gay Lussac and Louis Jacques Thénard react silicon tetrachloride with potassium metal and produce some very impure form of silicon.[5][4] | ||
| 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.[6] | ||
| 1854 | French chemist Henri Étienne Sainte-Claire Deville first prepares crystaline silicon, the second allotropic form of the element.[7][8][9][10] | ||
| 1857 | Henri Étienne Sainte-Claire Deville and German chemist Friedrich Wöhler discover silicon nitride.[11][12][13] | ||
| 1891 – 1893 | American chemist Edward Goodrich Acheson discovers a method for making an industrial abrasive composed of silicon carbide, which Acheson would patent in 1893 and name it carborundum.[14] | United States | |
| 1893 | Silicon carbide (SiC) starts being produced in powder form for use as an abrasive.[15][16] | United States | |
| 1907 | Electroluminescence is first discovered using silicon carbide light emitting diodes (LEDs).[15] | ||
| 1917 | Agriculture | The potential of silicon to reduce blast on rice is first reported by a plant chemist. This discovery would trigger a cascade of silicon research in Japan.[1] | |
| 1939 | Agriculture | The role of silicon in plant growth and potential disease reduction is first noted for dicots.[1] | |
| 1948 – 1952 | American Carborundum Company applies for several patents on the manufacture and application of silicon nitride.[11] | ||
| 1954 | American engineer Gordon Kidd Teal develops a working silicon transistor.[17] | United States | |
| 1954 – 1955 | The first working silicon transistor is developed at Bell Labs by Morris Tanenbaum.[18][3] | United States | |
| 1955 | American technology company Texas Instruments creates the first commercial, mass-produced silicon transistor.[18] | United States | |
| 1958 | Silicon transistors replace germanium transistors, which break down at high temperatures.[19] | ||
| 1958 | A double-diffused silicon mesa transistor is introduced.[3] |
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "History of Silicon and Plant Disease". link.springer.com. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Silicon". britannica.com. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Who Invented the Transistor?". computerhistory.org. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 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.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 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".
- ↑ Sherwood, Anand. Essentials of Operative Dentistry.
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 Miron, Rich. "Silicon Carbide (SiC): History and Applications". digikey.com. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
- ↑ Cardarelli, François. Materials Handbook: A Concise Desktop Reference.
- ↑ "The First Silicon Transistor". pbs.org. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 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.
