Historical survey of early research in semiconductors
Before discussing the growth of the semiconductor industry, which rapidly increased in scale following the invention of a solid state amplifying device, it is useful to review the earliest technical developments leading up to that invention and without which such an event would have been, at least, highly improbable. Apart from an appreciation of the time scale involved, this survey may give some indication of how the accumulation of technical knowledge in this field progressed. A further intention of this approach is to indicate the major factors affecting that growth and, in addition, outline how an industry manufacturing semiconductor devices of a non-amplifying nature came to be established.
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