To the Digital Age: Research Labs, Start-Up Companies, and the Rise of Mos Technology

by Ross Knox Bassett

Book Overview

The metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) transistor is the fundamental element of digital electronics. The tens of millions of transistors in a typical home--in personal computers, automobiles, appliances, and toys--are almost all derive from MOS transistors. To the Digital Age examines for the first time the history of this remarkable device, which overthrew the previously dominant bipolar transistor and made digital electronics ubiquitous...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801886392
• ISBN13: 9780801886393
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher