Electrons and Holes: Much From Little

This chapter contains sections titled:

• A Name for a New Field

• Semiconductors: Key to Solid-State Electronics

• Developments During World War II

• Why Transistors?

• The Three Inventors

• The Minority Movement in Semiconductors

• The Point-Contact Transistor is Invented

• The P-N Junction: Key to the Junction Transistor

• The Junction Transistor

• Achievements of the Junction Transistor

• Changing forms of the Junction Transistor

• Transistors, Et Cetera, on a Chip

• How Integrated Circuits are Made

• The Many Uses of Solid-State Electronics

• For Further Reading

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