75th Anniversary of the Transistor
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Created: 07 Dec 2022
Overview
75th Anniversary of the Transistor
nanoHUB is celebrating the 75th anniversary of the invention of the transistor by John Bardeen, Walter Brattain and William Shockley while at Bell Labs in Murraray Hill, New Jersey!
We have curated a collection of transistor-related nanoHUB resources including courses, simulation tools, presentations, and compact models. Explore the various resources by clicking the tiles below or by clicking on the tag:
Presentations
From Apollo to Apple: How a Purdue Alum, Mohamed Atalla, Started Moore's Law and Transformed the World
Muhammad A. Alam (2022)
Courses
Reliability Physics of Nanotransistors
This course will focus on the physics of reliability of small semiconductor devices.
As a resource: Principles of Semiconductor Devices
As a course: Principles of Semiconductor Devices
This course focuses on basic semiconductor physics.
Simulation Tools
ABACUS - Assembly of Basic Applications for Coordinated Understanding of Semiconductors
The one-stop-shop for teaching semiconductor devices.
MOSFet
Simulates the current-voltage characteristics for bulk, SOI, and double-gate Field Effect Transistors (FETs)
MuGFET
Simulate the nanoscale multigate-FET structures (finFET and nanowire) using drift diffusion approaches
