With William Shockley's difficult managerial style, working at Shockley Semiconductor became increasingly difficult for the researchers there. In May of 1957, just over a year after the company ...

When Gordon Moore began working at Shockley Semiconductor in 1956, he barely knew what a semiconductor was. Within ten years he was well on his way to being one of the greatest visionaries of the ...

A member of the so-called “Traitorous Eight” who left Shockley Semiconductor in 1957 to form Fairchild Semiconductor, he and his cohort laid the seeds for what became Silicon Valley and the ...

In 1956, Shockley left Bell and founded his own company — Shockley Semiconductor Labs. It was the first company to make transistors out of silicon and not germanium. The company was founded in ...

In a timely turn of events, around 1965, the semiconductor era was born in the valley. This region south of San Francisco became a center of our tech universe, led by Shockley Semiconductor labs ...

The designer is revealed as the legendary [Bob Pease], and the transistors take us back to the semiconductor physicist ... the famous eight defectors from Shockley Semiconductor in the 1950s ...

At Bell Labs, a young, brilliant theoretician, Bill Shockley, was selected to lead a team researching the potential of semiconductor materials. Shockley drafted Walter Brattain, an experimental ...

When MIT declined to tenure him, Noyce decamped, first to Philadelphia, then to the Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory, in Mountain View, California. Silicon leadership went with him – to ...

In this module, we explore carrier dynamics. Topics include Electronic transitions in semiconductor, Radiative transition, Direct and indirect bandgap semiconductors, Roosbroeck-Shockley relationship, ...