The Silicon MOSFET, a better transistor. Demonstration of the 1960 silicon MOSFET (metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor), the mainstay of today’s electronics, which was co-invented by Purdue alumnus Mohamed M. Atalla at Bell Labs.

Professor Alam holds the Jai N. Gupta professorship at Purdue University, where his research focuses on the physics and technology of semiconductor devices. From 1995 to 2003, he worked in the Silicon ULSI group at Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ. Since returning to Purdue in 2004, his group has explored the reliability physics of nanotransistors, limits of nanobiosensors, atom-to-farm modeling of solar cells, and physics/technology of Landau transistors. He is a fellow of IEEE, APS, and AAAS. His awards include the 2006 IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Medal for contributions to device technology for communication systems, the 2015 SRC Technical Excellence Award for fundamental contributions to reliability physics, and the 2018 IEEE EDS Education Award. Prof. Alam enjoys teaching: More than 350,000 students worldwide have learned some aspects of semiconductor devices from his web-enabled courses.

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

• Muhammad A. Alam (2023), "From Apollo to Apple: How a Purdue Alum, Mohamed Atalla, Started Moore's Law and Transformed the World," https://nanohub.org/resources/36843.

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1. Bell Labs
2. history
3. MOSFET
4. NCN Transistor @ 75
5. oxide
6. transistors